Restraint
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With clearly defined positions, each country could pursue a policy of strategic restraint, avoiding the swaggering displays of force that have sometimes tempted them in the past.
With both sides showing neither
restraint
nor compassion, at least 10,000 civilians – possibly as many as 40,000 – died in the carnage that followed, as a result of indiscriminate army shelling, rebel gunfire, and denial of food and medical supplies.
President Lee’s allies have rallied, rightly, to his cause, but even we recognize that his
restraint
cannot be unending.
Technically, this would amount to the EU agreeing to what is euphemistically called a “voluntary export restraint” (VER).
When one partner (the US) offers to eliminate its tariff in exchange for export restraint, the game is over: this is an offer that is too good to refuse.
But that does not alter my point that the more Paul Krugman talked about the “confidence fairy” – a term he coined after Osborne became Chancellor to ridicule anyone who argued for fiscal
restraint
– the more business confidence recovered in the UK.
In the eurozone, the European Central Bank’s commitment, announced in 2012, to prevent debt levels from becoming unsustainable is politically conditional on fiscal
restraint.
Some say that China’s leaders have no choice but to exercise
restraint.
Morsi was able to rule without restraint, trampling freely on citizens’ fundamental rights, because the military regime that assumed control after Hosni Mubarak’s 2011 ouster scheduled presidential elections before a constitution was adopted.
It took several years for trade union
restraint
to flower into robust competitiveness, but flower it did.
Neo-isolationism is not an option, but
restraint
– based on confidence and wisdom – is.
Real interest rates today are high, more so if we look at the prospect of fiscal
restraint.
Europe is in trouble; massive fiscal problems force fiscal restraint; overpricing of the DM and the Franc spell growth troubles; central banks are late in cutting rates.
Just 50 basis points won't be enough to break a cycle of slack demand, lack of competitiveness, and
restraint.
Assad’s opponents accused the regime of using force against civilians without restraint, while the government pointed to the deaths of soldiers and policeman as evidence of violent jihadists among the protestors.
This is a brutal process – the men are strapped onto
restraint
chairs twice a day and force-fed, in a facility that I witnessed.
Fiscal
restraint
as reflected by low government consumption relative to income growth is also important.
Second, democracy requires institutions of restraint, such as an independent judiciary and media, to uphold fundamental rights like freedom of speech and prevent governments from abusing their power.
Representation without
restraint
– elections without the rule of law – is a recipe for the tyranny of the majority.
In developing countries, it is more often the institutions of
restraint
that are failing.
Effective institutions of
restraint
do not emerge overnight; and it might seem like those in power would never want to create them.
Charisma does not call for
restraint
in words, appearance, or manner.
The leading explanation for Germany’s impressive recent export performance is wage
restraint.
Indeed, if wage
restraint
were the main factor in Germany’s success, it would be hard pressed to outperform French, Italian, British, and Spanish exporters, who compete mainly on price by offshoring production to low-wage countries.
Firms will need to show visible
restraint
when it comes to this year’s bonus round.
Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less
restraint.
Instead of showing the
restraint
and caution one might expect from a responsible press covering matters of life and death, the media flung around baseless accusations of murder and suicide with abandon.
This move could also herald a further deviation from Deng’s trademark foreign-policy
restraint.
Determining the circumstances that might induce such
restraint
– and the conditions that would be needed to sustain it – is crucial to reinvigorating nuclear disarmament efforts.
It is in everybody’s interest that Israel’s government acts with
restraint
regarding West Bank settlement and the status of Jerusalem and its holy sites.
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