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On the other hand, with the help of the military-industrial KGB complex – the “ siloviki ” – he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power, while strengthening the state’s ability to violate citizens’ constitutional rights.
Governments could meet their financing needs within agreed limits at very low cost during this emergency period, and the ECB would not violate Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty.
The Real Abortion TragedyMELBOURNE – In the Dominican Republic last month, a pregnant teenager suffering from leukemia had her chemotherapy delayed, because doctors feared that the treatment could terminate her pregnancy and therefore violate the nation’s strict anti-abortion law.
And China’s recent land reclamation efforts violate several international environmental conventions, most notably the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Countries that managed to leverage globalization, such as China and Vietnam, employed a mixed strategy of export promotion and a variety of policies that violate current trade rules.
On one hand, it is important to resist Putin’s challenge to the fundamental principle that states should not use force to violate one another’s territorial integrity.
Hathaway and Shapiro take their intellectual cue from the ancient Icelandic tradition of banishment or ostracism of those who violate social norms.
It is to deliver a form of decentralized punishment that makes it very costly for dictatorial regimes to violate other people’s rights with impunity and to create pliant cadres of henchmen who “only follow orders,” as if that exempted them from moral responsibility.
Inaction would ignite fires throughout the Middle East, and would violate the international community’s now-accepted responsibility to protect, through timely and decisive collective action, populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Trade often trumps human rights and governments, especially in Europe, are often loath to jeopardize lucrative contacts when governments that violate human rights retaliate at being criticized.
Should a country violate the fiscal compact, it would wholly or partly forfeit its reward and be obliged to pay interest on the debt owned by the SPV.
China should make it clear that, were North Korea to violate the deal, it would immediately lose all of the protection and support it receives.
While America’s “war on terror” demands a stronger emphasis on security, the NSA’s activities expose an alarming willingness to violate the privacy of millions of individuals – including in allied countries, whose constitutions and sovereignty have also been breached.
As long as compromises do not violate individual rights, citizens in democracies accept them as necessary for the sake of functioning governance.
Orthodoxy rules out providing ECB support to a particular country, because this would violate the separation between monetary and fiscal policy: The authority to commit public resources to the benefit of a particular country belongs exclusively to parliaments, not the central bank.
The US strategic is committed to an “international order based on rights and responsibilities,” including a “broader voice – and greater responsibilities” for emerging powers, and the imposition of real consequences on countries that violate their international obligations.
Now, as then, a change of boundaries without the consent of all concerned parties would not only violate international law, but could also lead to violence.
Over the past few decades, China’s growth has appeared to violate certain fundamental laws of economics.
Public health workers argue that therapy should be imposed upon patients who are at risk of failing to complete it – a policy that others claim would violate individual liberty.
The US did file a complaint with the World Trade Organization earlier this year after an extensive investigation confirmed that the Chinese violate their WTO obligations by requiring foreign firms that do business in China to have a domestic partner and to transfer technology to that firm.
It is also clear that the decisions to violate international law, despite the risk of economic isolation, were made in an ad hoc fashion by Putin’s innermost circle.
For example, the PiS’s promises to reintroduce the death penalty and return Poland to its conservative Christian roots violate EU and Council of Europe standards.
And those running for public office under the M5S banner must sign a contract promising to pay fines if they violate party principles.
Maximizing shareholder value over a particular time period may satisfy the interests of some shareholders but violate the interests of others.
But the US stands to lose a case brought against the Trump administration’s recently imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, because they most likely violate WTO rules.
Each individual must be free to make that decision, which is why anti-blasphemy laws violate universal human rights.
Anti-blasphemy laws not only violate that principle; they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.
It also seemed to violate earlier agreements to cooperate with other nations through the G-20, the Financial Stability Board, and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Electorally competitive countries are not necessarily democratic: some do not fully control the state's territory; others violate both their constitutions and human rights.
There are many balancing acts to be mastered: a government that is too powerful might violate citizens’ rights, but a government that is too weak would be unable to undertake the collective action needed to create a prosperous and inclusive society – or to prevent powerful private actors from preying on the weak and defenseless.
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