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But the point of a surcharge for extra weight is not to punish a sin, whether it is levied on baggage or on bodies.
Automatic fines would punish any country whose debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds the Maastricht Treaty’s 60% cap or whose budget deficit exceeds the 3%-of-GDP limit.
While Assad has secured the Alawite community’s renewed support, he has done so at the cost of increasing the very real danger that the rebels will punish all Alawites for the regime’s crimes.
China’s decision to punish South Korea for hosting a US missile-defense system greatly diminished its standing among the South Korean public and undermined its ability to influence South Korean policies.
It has also led the way in creating international criminal tribunals that prosecute and punish those who commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
He singled out Georgia and Ukraine not to redeem Russians’ emotional commitment to South Ossetia or Crimea, but to punish those countries for their dangerous liaisons with the West – in particular Georgia’s ambition to join NATO and Ukraine’s desire to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
They would punish fiscally prudent governments, as interest rates would inevitably increase in countries like the Netherlands or Germany.
It is not clear whether these laws will actually punish the crimes or merely reduce the visibility of the numbers: if a crime requires certain difficult-to-prove elements in order to be considered a femicide, a large number of murders will remain on the books as simple homicides, and the authorities will be able to say they have “reduced” the femicide rate.
Harming the decent majority in order to punish a misbehaving minority would be like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer – and breaking the table it is on in the process.
The air campaign was a last resort, an effort to punish those who did not support the peace process.
At the beginning of this year, Putin demonstrated the depths to which he will sink to punish perceived opponents.
By promising to shoot criminals, keep out immigrants, and punish bankers, populist candidates in Latin America – like their counterparts in the United States or Europe – provide simple, if disingenuous, answers to that question.
Hazare fasted to force the government to create a tough new anti-corruption authority, the Lokpal, with sweeping powers to investigate, prosecute, and punish.
Iraq stands as a reminder of America's furious desire to avenge the terrorist attacks of September, 2001 and hurt punish even those unconnected with the perpetrators.
Will it curb my right to speak freely or punish me by throwing me in jail?
But regulators have not taken enough advantage of the authority that they do have to punish errant managers: they can ban these individuals from working in finance.
While this gradualist strategy would not punish existing hoarders, who would find creative ways to recycle their cash in the interim, it is more likely to improve tax compliance and reduce corruption over time, as large-denomination notes are permanently taken out of circulation.
Of course, Israel has the right to defend itself against indiscriminate rocket barrages like that launched from Gaza into its territory, and to punish lawfully those responsible.
But the German public largely wants to punish Greece, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not want to set a precedent for recurring bailouts of the European Union’s weaker members.
But in the end, that advantage, and his usual verbal threats, mattered less than the desire of voters in some cities and regions to punish his regime because of its mismanagement.
The government has also taken over the management and distribution of vital funds for non-governmental organizations, increasing the likelihood that grant-making will be politically motivated to punish NGOs that are critical of official policy.
As for the West, it is fruitless to try to bring Putin and his team back to democracy, where Russia does not belong, or to punish Russia with sanctions, which won’t work.
In particular, the Russian utility giant Gazprom uses increases in gas prices as a means to punish “disobedient” neighbors.
He followed this with government-inspired reprisals and threats to punish anyone who favored the recall.
Experimental economists have found that people will sacrifice their own resources to punish cheaters and free riders, and will do this even to anonymous strangers that they will never again interact with – a behavior dubbed “altruistic punishment.”
And laboratory findings show that people will continue to punish even if they are well aware that doing so is actually making things worse.
The IMF’s demand that the Ukrainian government establish an independent anticorruption court to investigate, prosecute, and punish dishonest public officials remains unfulfilled.
The implication is that we should punish offenders rather than restrict gun circulation.
Yet tragically, in a misguided attempt to thwart the spread of HIV and AIDS, lawmakers in many parts of the world have passed criminal statues that promote ignorance about the disease, punish its victims, and enhance the chances that the virus will infect new victims.
And some women’s rights advocates have supported laws that criminalize transmitting HIV, arguing that these laws would punish men who concealed their HIV-positive status from their sexual partners, including their wives and girlfriends.
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