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When second place confers no benefits, the cost of showing unilateral restraint can grow intolerably high.
The Murdochs are fusing these entities into a single unaccountable power that, as we see in Britain today, lacks any restraint or scruple.
If wars are fought on moral or religious grounds, no basis for restraint exists.
Memory of the war's horrors led to a period of rationalism and restraint in international politics.
But, in choosing restraint over intervention, he has disappointed ordinary Africans and international activists alike.
Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the “new economy” is a new face of the old “industrial policy,” allowing bureaucrats to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers’ choice.
Though the exact details remain to be decided, such steps might include more exchange-rate flexibility in China, and perhaps a promise from the US to show greater commitment to fiscal restraint.
Second, some of the increase in oil prices is apparently due to supply restraint by the members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their friends of convenience (particularly Russia).
Faced with little regulatory restraint, banks overdosed on risky loans.
Because fiscal expansion followed several years of restraint, it was very effective in spurring demand and output growth.
Faced with US President Barack Obama’s reluctance to challenge China’s muscle-flexing and territorial ambitions in Asia – reflected in Japan’s recent split with the US over China’s new Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) – an increasingly desperate Abe was compelled to let both countries know that restraint cannot be one-sided.
By calling for Japanese restraint, the US stoked Japan’s anxiety, without winning any concessions from China.
An effective reform strategy would have to balance the need for budget restraint and macroeconomic stability with growth-enhancing policies.
On October 17, despite pleas for patience and restraint from Iraq and the US, Turkish lawmakers voted 507-19 to authorize Erdogan to order cross-border military strikes into Iraq at any time over the next year.
Iraq’s central government is aware of the risks, as well, and is likely to exercise maximum restraint.
The wave of corporate investment that was supposed to be unleashed by a combination of fiscal restraint (to rein in government debt) and monetary easing (to generate ultra-low interest rates) has never materialized.
Should China cut off those supplies, under the legal fig leaf of “export restraint,” US companies would be unable, at least in the short term, to find alternative sources that could cover all of their needs.
Decoupled economically, the US and China would have far less reason to exercise restraint in their geopolitical competition.
Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.
Why should the opposing forces in Turkey behave with restraint if the moderating prospect of EU membership no longer exists?
Still, Trump’s apparent restraint cannot be expected to last.
Likewise, when it comes to civil wars in the Middle East, Western restraint is usually a better strategy than hasty military intervention driven by domestic fear.
Because there is a growing fear among governments that such benefits will occur only in the future, the commitment to fiscal restraint that marked the run up to the euro’s birth is softening as leaders seek to reconcile the single currency with the urgent need to promote growth and employment.
Trump could give Russia freer rein in Ukraine and Syria in exchange for restraint in Central Europe and the Baltics.
A second factor is restraint on the part of the Shi’ite community.
But otherwise, Putin has shown little restraint in going after his rivals.
Alarmed by a potential conflict between the two archrivals, the Bush administration urged Chen, who won a second term in March, to exercise restraint.
Have all of them engaged in competitive wage restraint?
Furthermore, whether on a bilateral basis, through NATO, or through the EU, France’s insistence on military sovereignty must be reconciled with Germany’s culture of excessive military restraint.
Shareholder democracy simply does not work, but managers’ fear that if the stock price drops too low they will be out on their ears provides a useful restraint.
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