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A Euro-Mediterranean monetary system would avoid the discrepancy between euro- and dollar-denominated trade – indeed, eventual expansion of the eurozone should not be
ruled
out.
But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo-Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she
ruled
the roost: she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.
His People’s Action Party, though far less brutal than the Chinese Communist Party, has
ruled
over a de facto one-party state.
America is taking risks with the rule of law, but China has a long way to go before it becomes a country
ruled
by law.
When South Korea was
ruled
by military strongmen, Korean collaboration with Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century was not discussed – partly because some of those strongmen, notably the late Park Chung Hee, had been collaborators themselves.
The answer that we as individuals accept is that we are free because we rule ourselves in common, rather than being
ruled
by some agency that need not take account of us.
But, even if an early general election cannot be
ruled
out completely, it seems implausible that either party will feel it has much to gain from precipitating the collapse of the national government.
America, in fact, needs a value-added tax, which is widely used in Europe, but Obama himself staunchly
ruled
out that kind of tax increase during his election campaign.
A federal judge
ruled
the firing of Cox illegal.
And the Palestinians, whether they are
ruled
by Hamas or not, will not stop fighting Israel, especially in Gaza, where wholesale destruction has left them with nothing much more to lose.
But this can be
ruled
out in today’s Russia, because the instruments to implement it – notably an army that would obey orders to mow people down in the streets – are lacking.
Even when the court had serious reservations – for example, about eurozone membership for Italy and Belgium, where public debt was almost double the Maastricht-dictated maximum of 60% of GDP (Greece had already been excluded from the monetary union’s initial roster) – it
ruled
in Europe’s favor.
Indeed, it
ruled
that German participation in the single currency was consistent with Germany’s constitution – as was the Lisbon Treaty, the EFSF, the ESM, the ECB’s breach of the EU’s no-bailout clause, and German guarantees for other eurozone countries’ debts.
Although it could easily have
ruled
that a treaty or emergency fund was unconstitutional unless further measures were taken, essentially sending its architects back to the drawing table, the court always opted for the more accommodating “yes, but” approach.
The choice is long overdue, as South Korea is a remarkable success story: in one generation, the South Koreans, formerly pummeled by civil war, under constant threat from their Northern communist brethren, long mired in poverty, and
ruled
by military dictators for 40 years, have built the world’s 13th largest economy and Asia’s most vibrant democracy.
Like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in their first few decades of modern growth, China has been
ruled
by a single party.
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for example,
ruled
the country for 71 years, before its defeat in 2000.
Deng explicitly
ruled
out a broader international agenda for China – a dictate that China’s policymakers followed for more than three decades.
For starters, prompt resolution can be
ruled
out (or nearly so) in both cases.
The most the PiS, for its part, can hope for is that some coalition of countries (for example, those
ruled
by Social Democrats) will propose another alternative to Tusk, whom EU member states will elect in order to avoid escalating the conflict with Poland.
Depending on the outcome of the ongoing negotiations between SCAF and Morsi, the size of protests in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, and the degree of pressure from the international community, a deadly confrontation cannot be
ruled
out.
Today, Poland is
ruled
by a coalition of post-Solidarity revanchists, postcommunist provincial trouble-makers, the heirs of pre-WWII chauvinists, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic groups, and the milieu of Radio Maryja, the spokesmen for ethno-clerical fundamentalism.
For them, Poland remained a country
ruled
by the communist security apparatus.
As recently as a few years ago, the Swedish Supreme Court explicitly
ruled
that the same high standard of proof applied to other criminal allegations are to be applied in cases of suspected rape.
This is why the whiff of disintegration is everywhere, not just in depressed Greece or in an Italy now
ruled
by racist populists, but also in a dangerously divided Germany.
A US court recently
ruled
that veterans’ rights have been violated.
A Chinese Spring cannot be
ruled
out.
Cooperation with havens like Liechtenstein or Monaco should be
ruled
out unless they accept that within the common market all citizens must pay taxes where they live, according to the rules of that country.
Working on this assumption and given the case it had to solve, an EHCR panel of seven judges
ruled
against the plaintiffs in February 2006, concluding that the law on special schools is not aimed specifically at Roma and does not apply only to them.
Previously, Egypt had
ruled
in Gaza, while Jordan annexed the West Bank.
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