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The choices: To remain secular, Turkey may have to become undemocratic; to remain democratic, it may have to give up its strictly secular foundation.
So has democratic politics around the world reached the point where voters judge politicians, male or female, strictly on their merits?
China’s insolent prosperity, even if it is far from being distributed equally, China’s relative political stability, even if the regime’s opening remains strictly limited, are undeniable and deserving of respect.
The scale of premium rates would need to be transparent but the actual cost of access for individual members would remain strictly confidential (as in any insurance contract).
In addition to capricious laws such as those criminalizing Internet telephony, many poor countries strictly control the number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that can operate.
Going strictly by the numbers, this does not seem to be the case.
Strictly speaking, zero rates are observed only for nominal, medium-term debt that is perceived to be riskless.
If party lines are strictly maintained, US presidents may be unable to pass any legislation at all, or to make any judicial or other senior appointments.
But these explanations may all be irrelevant, because they focus strictly on how the campaign was conducted.
A system built on a strictly limited mandate could be both more efficient and less controversial than some single, all-encompassing financial regulator.
This suggests that markets could potentially become extremely fragmented, such that consumers’ choices will be strictly limited to the offerings that have been selected according to their data profiles.
France and Germany will soon have a common army – they already have a common currency – yet the survival of national teams channels, within a strictly limited framework, lingering rivalry between the two countries.
Having achieved this, EU leaders have no further reason to impose austerity on Greece or strictly enforce the terms of the latest bailout.
If budget targets were strictly enforced by bailout monitors, which seems unlikely, this improvement in conditions for private borrowers could easily compensate for any modest tightening of fiscal policy.
The ECB would then instruct the banks to maintain their credit lines and loan portfolios while strictly monitoring the risks they take for their own account.
Tocqueville saw this strictly ordered world being replaced by democracy and formal social equality, in which everyone would be equally free, but would also be equally at the mercy of society.
We cannot base our actions solely on commercial will, because that limits us to operating strictly at the whims of international markets.
The corporate world – indeed, the formal workplace more generally – can no longer be strictly separated from the informal world in which work and leisure have become blurred.
These wars are creating a new kind of threat to Israel, for they add to the conflicts’ strictly military dimension the domains of diplomacy, regional politics, legitimacy, and international law, in which Israel does not have the upper hand.
But (there is always a “but”) if any of these measures are to work, they must be enforced as widely, consistently, and strictly as possible.
However, it is of critical importance that the treatment of terrorists and those suspected of terrorist acts remains strictly within the rule of law.
For example, aid financiers should require that security forces hired to oversee a project, or who respond to project-related protests, are properly trained and strictly observe international standards on managing public assemblies.
Firms might be induced to move some production back to the US, if it is strictly aimed at US consumers.
From a strictly economic point of view, this represents an attractive alternative to tariffs for the exporting country.
General Electric, for example, is cutting down the functions provided by its medical equipment to only what is strictly useful in order to supply remote rural clinics across the developing world.
In exchange for greater flexibility on public and social spending, fiscal rules should be applied more strictly to all remaining expenditures, and should include the use of sanctions when necessary.
(True, other important initiatives have been the peace process and the expansion of the road network, though these are not, strictly speaking, economic policies).
Meanwhile, the Stability and Growth Pact should be strictly enforced, which implies using and strengthening the available sanctions.
In strictly economic terms, the political character of one’s trading partners should not matter.
A strictly technocratic fix would also fail.
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