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Significantly, the European Union has thrown its weight behind the tax and urged the IMF to pursue it.
But the French and British, who urged that course in Libya, have made no such proposal for Syria.
In 1918, Keynes urged the cancelation of inter-Allied debts arising from World War I.“We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles,” he wrote.
The US Congress urged the IMF to invoke the scarce-currency clause against “recalcitrant” surplus countries, but its efforts were in vain.
The commission’s roughly 700-page report, completed in only 29 days, urged the government to take swift, far-reaching action.
“We must build a kind of United States of Europe,” urged Britain’s greatest twentieth-century statesman.
New governments are urged to tackle all of these problems immediately and simultaneously, lest they lose “momentum” and begin backsliding.
They urged the US to lift its embargo on Cuba, claiming that it had damaged relations with the rest of the continent, and to do more to combat drug use on its own turf, through education and social work, rather than supplying arms to fight the drug lords in Latin America – a battle that all acknowledged has been an utter failure.
And while the US has long urged China to tilt its growth model toward private consumption, it is uncomfortable with many of the implications of this shift.
On that day, I urged Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri, a Sunni and the political heir of his slain father, to make this their paramount slogan.
He accused the Luxembourg judges of grabbing ever-greater competences at the expense of the member states and urged the Constitutional Court to invalidate several controversial ECJ rulings.
The US, preoccupied with the supposed specter of a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West, saw the AKP's modern, westernized face as an opportunity and urged the EU to admit Turkey.
Recently, the Canadian scholar-politician Michael Ignatieff urged US President Barack Obama to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, despite the near-certainty that Russia would veto the United Nations Security Council resolution needed to legalize such a move.
China’s President Hu Jintao urged progress in the stalled talks so that “the entire Korean peninsula can be denuclearized.”
“Keep Calm and Carry On” – as the British government famously urged its citizens in 1939 – is advice that often lends itself to parody.
For example, rather than sending the police to end a recent teachers’ strike, as his father would have done, Kenyatta urged the strikers to return to work, assuring them that, though the government could not meet all of their salary demands immediately, it was willing to negotiate.
At Tesla, investors are being urged to keep Musk only in his role as CEO, while bringing in an independent board chair.
Moreover, both Liikanen and the ICB favor structured universal banking – legally separate entities with separate capital, management, and so forth – rather than calling for its demise, as urged by those who want to split commercial from investment banking fully.
Back then, there was a debate between those who wanted to contain China’s growing strength increased and those who urged China’s integration into the international system.
The rich should be urged not to flaunt their wealth: extravagance amid much poverty arouses wrath.
Finally, the Nuclear Suppliers Group of 45 countries, urged by the Bush administration to follow the IAEA’s example, did so unconditionally.
And, once we commit to unified global action – as Francis’s sweeping encyclical, Laudato si’, has urged – ending modern slavery becomes possible.
This is why I have long urged policymakers to increase significantly the amount of money invested in research and development of green-energy alternatives.
In the blaze of that great military victory, in which Britain had played a part, many commentators and supporters urged Major to call an election.
Indeed, the United States and Ireland have publicly urged the UK to remain an EU member.
The CEOs of aircraft manufacturer Airbus and major European airlines have urged European leaders to step in.
Nigeria’s President Buhari has urged the international community to crack down on the safe havens where corrupt leaders stash stolen wealth.
By contrast, the IMF urged tighter monetary policy, because it put far less weight on the cost of unemployment, seemingly no weight on the ancillary social benefits of reducing it, and much greater weight on the costs of potential inflation.
More recently, he urged the national government to impose a travel ban on Muslims, as US President Donald Trump has attempted to do.
Similarly, the US has urged both China and Japan to resolve peacefully their dispute over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands.
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