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The European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency plan to introduce strict regulations of PNV sales and use, based on drug legislation, even though the devices are neither tobacco nor medical products.
So, let us be grateful for strict debt ceilings, for they can help to nip disaster in the bud – even if bumping up against them can leave politicians slightly bruised.
Under Euro rules, governments must observe strict limits on their budget deficits and public debt.
Within the strict domain of moral psychology, they do.
But their purpose will be lost if pursuing them weakens the very identity of Europe’s universities, many of which are used to functioning in a world of state patronage and strict regulation.
Indeed, there are widespread reports of Christians fleeing the country as a result of threats being made to their women for not adhering to strict Islamic dress codes.
-- the traditional pillars of morality cannot do their job alone and must be supported by strict laws.
In the advanced economies at the core of the recent financial crisis, the rules, implicit or explicit, of strict inflation-targeting regimes led monetary authorities to stay put while a massive pyramid of debt was built on a base of overvalued collateral.
But that risk only underscores the need for clear and strict legislation.
Indeed, even Russia – whose military intervention in Ukraine has led the West to impose strict economic sanctions – offers annual yield of less than 6% on ten-year bonds.
After consulting the IMF, the government has pushed insolvent banks to merge or face bankruptcy, allowed for the first big layoffs of workers, and "downsized" the bureaucracy through a strict reorganization.
It is because the Saudi royal family derives its legitimacy from a strict form of Sunni Islam and doubts the loyalty of its Shia population that the Kingdom has turned on Hezbollah.
It is telling, for example, that Simon Johnson, the IMF’s chief economist during 2007-2008, has turned into one of the most ardent supporters of strict controls on domestic and international finance.
The ECB has stated that it would initiate OMT when needed, and under strict conditions.
Xi believes that a government’s legitimacy is mainly a function of consistently delivered values, together with economic and social progress, with strict commitment to the public interest taking precedence over the form of governance.
Third, there is the difference between those who adhere to the tradition of political Islam and those who uphold the strict secularism that came with the republic.
To attract that support, some steps towards freedom of the press have been taken, but censorship remains strict.
Their sound financial systems, strong fiscal frameworks, low public debt, and strict adherence to inflation targets give them credibility.
For the past six years, a global effort (called DOTS-Plus) to treat people with MDR-TB under strict conditions has been underway, reaching thousands with previously untreatable TB.
Even after signing the deal, President Barack Obama kept in place some strict economic sanctions, affecting, in particular, Iran’s financial sector.
Borrowers, in turn, use these foreign loans to increase their accumulation of private assets held abroad, even as strict budget discipline and free capital movement - implemented in line with IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs - have led to skyrocketing interest rates.
When pay is driven by strict adherence to targets set 12 months before, CEOs look back, instead of focusing on the present and on what comes next.
A couple of years ago, the world seemed to be stepping up to the challenge with innovative governance models in a range of areas that rested heavily on soft or non-binding mechanisms, rather than the strict rules of the past.
So he decided unilaterally to withdraw the US from the deal and re-impose strict economic sanctions on Iran.
In January 2010, despite strict “administrative control” of financial credit lines (the PBC actually imposed credit ceilings on commercial banks), bank lending grew at an annual rate of 29%, on top of already strong expansion in the same period a year earlier.
The compact sets a strict ceiling for a country’s structural budget deficit and stipulates that public-debt ratios in excess of 60% of GDP must be reduced yearly by one-twentieth of the difference between the current ratio and the target.
Of course, the US was not always so strict.
If Bush is to stand for freeing trade here, he will need pressure from Brazil because US farm lobbies are gearing up to keep Latin America's agricultural exports under the same strict controls they have faced for years.
Japan has relatively strict laws protecting animals’ welfare.
Soon after, the New York State Assembly passed a strict bill on medical marijuana, which the State Senate has yet to vote on.
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