Violate
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That’s what happened in May 2010, when Merkel’s government was forced by the French triumvirate of European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to
violate
the Maastricht Treaty by establishing a rescue fund for Greece’s foreign creditors, primarily French banks.
While proponents admit that a world without nuclear weapons would not be without dangers - especially from governments that might decide to
violate
abolition agreements - these dangers rate far below the perils of living in the world of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation toward which the Indian tests point.
Regimes that systematically
violate
human rights have been quick to seize on every episode of US wrongdoing.
The unsurprising truth is that the company has long prioritized profit over ethics, treasuring the men who bring in the money, however badly they behave – or however flagrantly they
violate
the rights or dignity of their less lucrative colleagues.
But, in any event, emigration restrictions today would
violate
a human right enshrined in current international treaties.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel’s attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that
violate
the stability criteria.
The Court must rule on German plaintiffs’ claim that legislation to establish the ESM would
violate
Germany’s Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
Golubchuk’s doctors thought it best not to prolong his life, but his children, arguing that discontinuing life-support would
violate
their Orthodox Jewish beliefs, obtained a court order compelling the doctors to keep their father alive.
I took the con side of the debate: Google does not
violate
its motto.
The fact that many of China’s policies
violate
WTO rules is plain enough.
One of the main US complaints against China is that the Chinese systematically
violate
intellectual property rights in order to steal technological secrets.
This partly reflected the decision by France, Germany, and Italy in 2003 to
violate
and later “reform” the Maastricht rules, effectively declaring them null and void.
But, just as wars should never be waged by targeting hospitals, so combatants should never
violate
schools.
The world is full of democracies, he argued, that routinely
violate
human rights.
Latin America, where Islam plays no political role, has no shortage of populist strongmen who routinely
violate
civil liberties and political rights.
Yet, if the EU bows to US demands for “voluntary” limitations on its steel exports, it might also
violate
its WTO obligations.
Nearly all European Union countries will
violate
the Stability and Growth Pact’s 3%-of-GDP cap on fiscal deficits in 2009, and some of them will have deficits at or above 10% of GDP, notably Spain (10%), the United Kingdom (14%), and Ireland (16%).
As for the Huawei case, if it turned out that the company did indeed
violate
contractual obligations not to transfer US technology to Iran, then it is only reasonable that there should be consequences.
The so-called Section 301 trade investigation launched by President Donald Trump’s administration last year charged that China’s trade and industrial policies, which provide advantages to specific technology industries,
violate
both US and international trade law.
Likewise, he will not ban Muslim immigrants, because doing so would
violate
bedrock American principles, and would be struck down even by a right-wing Supreme Court.
Their vision, if realized, would
violate
European law; already, it threatens to divide and destroy the EU.
After all, given that the laws and regulations governing business in China are highly complex and, at times, even contradictory, it has been difficult for Chinese entrepreneurs not to
violate
some rule or another.
Governments may be elected in free and fair elections, he wrote, and yet routinely
violate
their citizens’ basic rights.
The second ensures that groups that win electoral contests can assume power and choose policies to their liking – provided these policies do not
violate
the other two sets of rights.
China’s active courtship of countries that
violate
human rights on a massive scale, such as Sudan, North Korea, and Burma, similarly represents a preliminary decapitation of the international human rights regime.
But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that
violate
human rights.
In France, headscarves have been prohibited from public schools since the late 1980's, restrictions maintained despite the European Union’s concerns that Turkey’s curbs on veiling
violate
human rights.
A mechanism that provides for trade discrimination could potentially
violate
the EU’s free-trade principles.
First, because most technology-based monopoly power does not
violate
existing antitrust laws, regulating IT will require new measures to weaken monopolies.
Trump may well understand that what he proposes will
violate
World Trade Organization rules, but he may also know that it will take a long time for the WTO to rule against him.
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