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For thousands of South American, Caribbean, and African children rented out as maids and houseboys, there is no recourse when they are overworked, beaten, and raped.
The proposed alternative of separation payments but no recourse to the courts is the right economic answer, or at least it goes in the right direction.
What’s more, because they did not need to tax their citizens to generate revenues, people had little recourse to challenge authoritarianism.
In the absence of a change of heart by our political leaders, the power of prayer may be our only recourse.
If May finds herself unable to muster a parliamentary majority for any version of Brexit, resignation and a general election will not be her only recourse.
In many of these cases, they were right: without recourse to guns and bullets, nothing in their countries would ever have changed.
Economically, easier recourse to temporary contracts gives firms more flexibility in adjusting to changing market conditions.
This enhances the merits of having recourse to the EU’s largely unused AAA credit.
It is also why a free press that reports these problems, congressional hearings that investigate them, and a recent set of Supreme Court decisions that give detainees legal recourse are also so important.
Later, during the first half of the twentieth century, Africa offered the blood of its inhabitants, and then recourse to its territories, to a European continent in the throes of two world wars.
Add to that the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act of 1972, which does not permit the government to seek the return of antiquities exported before India gained its independence in 1947, and, according to Kumar, the Indian government has no recourse to secure the diamond’s return.
Instead of large-scale privatization, it might be better to limit state aid and give competitors legal recourse to seek redress if state aid distorts competition.
The only recourse for dissatisfied patients is to leave the country or go to the courts.
The weak retain no recourse.
Perhaps they may decide that violence is counter-productive and carries its own penalties, and may then follow the Kurdish example of curbing violence, which would help put Iraq together again without recourse to permanent repression.
One cannot exclude recourse to this solution in the future.
Start with the proposal made by Martin Feldstein, who recommends a trade: the government should reduce the value of mortgages when they are sufficiently underwater, with the government and the banks splitting the losses; in exchange, the borrower must agree that the new loan becomes “full recourse.”
Why are Latvia’s people, among the poorest in the Union, expected to pay for something that Europe’s richest people are finding difficult to do?Latvia and other new EU members have little recourse but to challenge the European Commission in court.
What is required is de-politicized fiscal and macroeconomic surveillance, stricter and more binding budgetary rules, smoother recourse to sanctions for breaching them, and close co-ordination of economic policies.
Their only recourse is to push recalcitrant firms off the exchange.
If there is no recourse but to pursue stronger sanctions, the US should coordinate with others, including the European Union and ASEAN, to impose targeted financial and banking measures to ensure that military leaders and their associates cannot evade the impact of what otherwise would be less-effective unilateral sanctions.
It is impossible to understand Trump’s rise without recourse to the popular perception (correct or not) that many American politicians are in the pocket of greedy bankers.
Many repudiate his corruption but, in challenging the post-coup status quo , have no recourse except to use him as a rallying symbol.
The workers are subject to unsafe construction sites, exploitative recruitment agencies, and little recourse to formal justice.
Rich countries are places where investors feel secure in their property rights, the rule of law prevails, private incentives are aligned with social objectives, monetary and fiscal policies are solidly grounded, risks are mediated through social insurance, and citizens have recourse to civil liberties and political representation.
After taking power in 1961, Park Chung Hee's military government moved in a trial-and-error fashion, without recourse to system-wide transformation, experimenting at first with various public investment projects.
With little recourse to legal means, an increasing number of frustrated victims of graft resort to extra-legal measures such as strikes, demonstrations, and sit-ins in order to gain media and public attention.
But they also entail the re-election of representatives and senators, recourse to referendums for constitutional amendments, and independent candidacies.
And it does not undermine social standards, because legal migrants have recourse to trade unions and the law.
Can we not trust the State Department and the intelligence services to make these judgments, without exclusive recourse to the information on country of origin?
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