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It is a test of wills and it will be won or lost in the court of global public opinion.
Banks must now produce “living wills” showing how they can be wound down without the authorities’ support.
It does not at the moment seem likely that NATO can count on winning this battle of wills by only a continuation of the bombing.
Consumed with their test of wills, they are unable to make well-informed and nuanced decisions in their dealings with outsiders.
They must also prepare what are colloquially known as “living wills,” which explain how they would be wound down in a crisis – ideally without taxpayer support.
In the US, officials hold out hope that the largest financial firms will eventually be forced to comply with a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation requiring that they draw up credible “living wills.”
Or is it within the power of wise people to bring this about by their wills and by joining forces, without the need for any appalling impulse from the outside?
But, beyond such a scorecard, the will to overcome the stagnation trap must be more than a sum of national wills.
Sanctions BlowbackBERLIN – With the crisis in Ukraine intensifying, the United States and the European Union are locked in a battle of wills – and sanctions – with Russia.
The new legislation takes important steps in this direction, calling for additional capital and other charges on firms in proportion to their systemic risks, requiring systemically important firms to prepare “living wills” so that they can be easily wound up, and introducing a special resolution framework if they do fail.
With twenty-two players with their own wills and skills, with various movements of confrontation and cooperation, the number of possible combinations is increased almost ad infinitum.
Otherwise, as Maxine Waters, the Chairwoman of the US House Committee on Financial Services, has warned, governments may as well start drafting their own living wills.
The US government’s agenda now includes lowering capital requirements, weakening stress testing and “living wills” for banks, and allowing more proprietary trading and unregulated derivatives dealing.
Unless China’s leaders break the cycle, an escalating battle of wills with the US could erupt into direct conflict.
But in her thoughts she treated Julien rather as an inferior being who can be made to love one when one wills.
"'Tis as God wills."
Here knights eat and sleep, and die in their beds, and make their wills before dying, and a great deal more of which there is nothing in all the other books.
I am, therefore, in a measure constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that are the accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite blessings that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very narrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet says, that—It is by rugged paths like these they goThat scale the heights of immortality,Unreached by those that falter here below."
His fees, upon entering and leaving the jail, are reduced in amount, and he becomes entitled to a share of some small quantities of food: to provide which, a few charitable persons have, from time to time, left trifling legacies in their wills.
And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruitful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that although there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was probable they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
Have you no sense to devise a system which will make you independent of all efforts, and all wills, but your own?
Most assuredly, I have no right to detain you, or any strangers, against your wills; this is an act of tyranny to which our manners and our laws are equally repugnant.
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