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Those who had preached fiscal restraint when it came to small welfare programs for the poor now clamored for the world’s largest welfare program.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad knows that, without Khamenei’s restraint, the clerics would use their political networks among conservatives like the Larijani brothers to limit the president further.
Having demonstrated remarkable restraint in 1989, Russian leaders expected to be embraced by the West.
Beyond that, any official action would require more policy restraint by developed-country governments than by their emerging-market counterparts.
Another view focuses on OPEC countries’ oil-supply restraint, claiming that it is helping to support oil prices and thus high-cost producers in North America.
Politicians did not understand that expanding social insurance was the inevitable price of wage restraint, while union leaders did not understand that if corporatist social democracy did not restrain inflation, political power would shift to the right and high unemployment would be used to restrain it.
Nonetheless, they have shown great restraint in northern Iraq since Saddam’s fall, contenting themselves with building up their autonomous province both economically and politically – to the point that it is independent in all but name, with a strong and experienced army in the Peshmerga militia.
He may not have fully understood what was happening before his eyes and the forces that he had unleashed, but his restraint constitutes true greatness.
China admitted to no deaths among the Tibetan protesters, claiming that its security forces had exercised restraint and had not even fired a single shot.
World leaders have called on China to exercise restraint and begin a dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
Maintaining peace is mostly a matter of restraint or constraint.
Though some surveys suggest that Germany’s culture of restraint is not as entrenched as many believe, a new poll conducted for the Munich Security Report finds that only 34% of Germans think that their country should become more engaged in international crises.
So foreign-policy restraint has gone out the window, and Xi has enabled the Communist Party of China to reassert its control over the economy.
Recognizing this, reform leaders urge restraint on their supporters.
Wage restraint and productivity gains have improved competitiveness, thereby boosting exports.
But the mechanism turned out to be ineffective: the absence of effective enforcement encouraged overstretched countries to renege on promises to exercise fiscal restraint, while condemning the eurozone to permanent instability.
Russia, a country of only 143 million people that lacks a modern economy, should be offered the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of international integration, but only if it acts with restraint.
The same is true for the most recent eurozone member, Estonia, whose rigorous wage restraint ensured competitiveness in the single market in a short period of time.
In economies with a recent record of fiscal restraint, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the private sector has been borrowing hand over fist.
I believe it is critical that the US set a very high international standard for nuclear restraint.
In 1979, Federal Reserve Chair Paul A. Volcker told the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress that the United States faced “unpleasant economic circumstances,” and had a “need for hard decisions, for restraint, and even for sacrifice.”
India’s government, which has reacted to previous terrorist outrages with calm and restraint, has no choice this time but to respond decisively.
Merely urging the Chinese government to exercise the “utmost restraint” in dealing with the Tibetan people, as governments around the world are doing, is far too weak a response.
Obama the PragmatistCAMBRIDGE – Last month, in his address to the graduating cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point, President Barack Obama stated that some of America’s most costly mistakes since World War II were the result not of restraint, but of a “willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences.”
But restraint is not isolationism.
The tribal feelings of Germans were considered, for obvious reasons, to be particularly toxic after Hitler’s Reich, which is why German flag-waving, until recently, was exercised with a slight air of shame-faced restraint that was entirely absent in surrounding countries.
And, given China’s need for external stability to pursue economic development, its leaders have acted with considerable restraint.
These same Republicans also argued for government spending restraint while blocking the institutional changes to Congressional procedures needed to make spending restraint possible.
There is thus a case for regular diplomatic meetings, cultural and academic exchanges, and visits to Russia by congressional delegations – not as a favor, but as a means to make clear that many Americans are open to a more normal relationship with Russia if it acts with greater restraint.
The US and its partners have a large stake in greater Russian restraint while Putin remains in power – and in a Russia characterized by other than Putinism after he is gone.
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