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Monetary policy will have to do much more than it did before 2008 to restrain financial markets’ “irrational exuberance.”
And many trusted that, at the end of the day, the “adults in the room” would restrain Trump and ensure that the administration’s policies didn’t jump the guardrails of orthodoxy.
Indeed, provisions in the TPP would restrain open competition and raise prices for consumers in the US and around the world – anathema to free trade.
In their view, capital punishment serves at least to restrain the homicidal leanings of human beings.
Trump’s mental condition leaves him unable to keep his word, control his animosities, and restrain his actions.
Like the character in the Lewis Carroll book, civil society has to run ever faster to keep up with authoritarian leaders and restrain their despotic tendencies.
Other countries, like Australia, have done a much better job, including by forbidding credit card companies from using contractual provisions to restrain competition, whereas the US Supreme Court, in another of its 5-4 decisions, seemed to turn a blind eye to such provisions’ anti-competitive effects.
Paul Volcker led a determined campaign to restrain double-digit inflation as the US Federal Reserve’s chair in the 1980s, and exerted a powerful influence over US economic policy for decades to follow.
A policy of “offshore balancing,” for example, would have the US empowering partners to advance its interests and restrain hostile actors in their respective regions.
In each of these great democracies, minorities are under attack, as are the conventions that restrain executive power.
A revised agreement would also restrain Iran’s ballistic missile program.
But that will not restrain its champions any more effectively than the Budapest memorandum stopped Russia from invading eastern Ukraine and annexing Crimea.
Many of those exasperated with Trump’s norm-violating, truth-bending, and polarizing presidency had believed that the system would somehow discipline, restrain, or remove him.
For starters, they frequently undermine the fundamental institutions of representative democracy, including the systems of checks and balances that restrain institutional excesses and prevent abuses of power.
Once America’s commitment to defending a liberal global order was restored, Chinese leaders would restrain their bid for international leadership.
But resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not end the civil war in Syria or the slaughter in Yemen, curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, restrain Saudi Arabia’s leaders, or ameliorate the repression and corruption that are commonplace throughout the region.
I feel that it's my duty to be with my husband when he is in trouble, but you wish to hurt me on purpose, you purposely don't want to understand me!''No, this is awful... being a sort of slave!' exclaimed Levin, unable to restrain his annoyance any longer, but immediately conscious that he had dealt a blow to himself.
He stood before her, his eyes glittering terribly under his frowning brows, and pressed his powerful arms to his breast, as if trying with all his might to restrain himself.
You've nothing to learn from me!' said Lvov.'All I know is that I never saw better brought up children than yours,' said Levin, 'and do not wish for better children.'Lvov evidently tried to restrain the expression of his delight, but a radiant smile lit up his face.
'Oh, is he in a bad way?''He keeps on losing and I alone can restrain him.'
I restrain myself, wait, invent occupations for myself, – the English family, writing, reading, but all that is only deception, it is all a kind of morphia.
But when it was stripped and he caught a glimpse of thin, thin little arms and legs saffron-coloured, but with fingers and toes, and even with thumbs distinguishable from the rest; and when he saw how, as though they were soft springs, Mary Vlasevna bent those little arms which stuck up, and encased them in linen garments, he was so filled with pity for that being, and so alarmed lest she should hurt it, that he tried to restrain her hand.
Yet though she knew she was ruining her cause, she could not restrain herself, could not forbear pointing out to him how wrong he was, and could not submit to him.
'You know yourself?' said she, and at the same moment, unable to restrain herself any longer, she burst into tears.
Now, when he was asleep, she loved him so that she could not restrain tears of tenderness while looking at him; but she knew that if he were to wake he would look at her with a cold expression, conscious of his own integrity, and that before telling him of her love she must prove to him that he was to blame toward her.
Soon they could not restrain their voices; these men, soiled by coal, and frozen by the delay, accused the Company of killing half their workers at the bottom, and starving the other half to death.
No doubt it was too early at their age, but they saw and heard so much that one would have to tie them up to restrain them.
"Restrain yourself!"
The girls could not restrain a cry of admiration.
LOCKE, _Travels in FranceOn leaving the Bishop's palace, Mathilde did not hesitate to send a messenger to Madame de Fervaques; the fear of compromising herself did not restrain her for a second.
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