Sentences with phrase «on sovereign states»

Natural disaster damage has not been considered in past analyses, but, «assuming that extreme weather events are on the rise in terms of frequency and destruction, how this trend could feed through to our ratings on sovereign states bears consideration,» S&P analysts wrote.

For him, war, famine, and human rights abuses are a consequence of the global order based on sovereign states that Rawls affirms because such a system facilitates and fosters competition and conflict among states.

«Then there's another dimension to this that has to do with the premia that are being charged on sovereign states borrowings.

Under international law as it developed out of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and evolved in the West, obligations may be imposed on a sovereign state only with its consent.

Not exact matches

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

«The United States is deeply concerned about today's escalation of violence over Israel's border and strongly supports Israel's sovereign right to defend itself,» State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Saturday.

Until the wayward states knuckle under, the ECB will hide behind EU rules against monetizing sovereign debt and let rising bond yields keep the pressure on politicians.

September 2003 (188 kb PDF file): Research summaries on sovereign bonds and public debt management and on international trade; country study: Sweden; summaries of new study on deflation and recent book: Sweden's Welfare State; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; visiting scholars at the IMF; titles of recent IMF working papers; list of external publications by IMF staff.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: «President Putin regards the U.S. attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped - up pretext at that,» according to the Russian Tass new agency.

First, the focus is more on sovereign creditworthiness as opposed to the state of private bank balance sheets per se (though in Europe of course the two are intertwined).

However, in August 2011 the long - term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America was downgraded to AA + from AAA by the Standard & Poor's ratings agency, reflecting increasing concerns about the U.S. budget deficit and its future trajectory.

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisis of 2008.

It has come to my attention that some economists claim that our sovereign federal government is more or less powerless to kickstart the economy because of our great dependence on the United States and therefore should do next to nothing: «Mr. Orr and other economists urged Ottawa to ignore pleas to boost stimulus spending further -LSB-...]

Mrs Merkel — or La Signora No in Italy — doused hopes of a break - through on proposals by the «Latin Bloc» leaders of Italy, France, and Spain to deploy the funds (EFSF and ESM) to cap the bond yields of «virtuous» countries vulnerable to contagion, or to recapitalize banks directly to take the strain off sovereign states.

While a extended sovereign position has nonetheless to be set in stone, some states have taken a despotic proceed on the matter.

By Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson, Antonio Guerrero & Gordon Platt REGIONAL ECONOMY ON SOLID GROWTH PATH Asia's regional economy continues to grow steadily, despite the tepid recovery in the United States and sovereign debt issues in Europe.

The nation is not only the third largest by race in the world, but because of the miss of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.

The inability of the Gallicanist state to co-opt Catholicism's social energy exposed a tension inherent in liberal democracy: between the people empowered as a sovereign whole, on one hand, and those partial societies of individuals which diversify the nation, on the other.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

Kerygma properly means a public announcement or declaration, whether by a town crier, or by an auctioneer commending his goods to the public, or by the herald of a sovereign state dispatched on a solemn mission, to present an ultimatum, it may be, or to announce terms of peace.

In international law there has been a remarkable evolution from an exclusive emphasis on sovereign nation - states, to individuals, to non-state social groups (peoples) and to humankind.

On the contrary, he set the economic in a larger order in which the state («the sovereign» in The Wealth of Nations) has a major role including in the economic sphere.

Prohibitions on abortion by sovereign states are not only compatible with the requirements of international human rights instruments but are in fact the most probable interpretation of those requirements.

The Cabinet Manual states that «[t] he point at which the restrictions on financial and other commitments should come to an end depends on circumstances, but may often be either when a new Prime Minister is appointed by the Sovereign or where a government's ability to command the confidence of the Commons has been tested in the House of Commons» (§ 2.30).

He warned about the dangers that ethnic chauvinism posed to the territorial integrity of the Russian state: «I am convinced that the attempts to preach the idea of a «national» or monoethnic Russian state contradict our thousand - year history,» he averred, «this is a shortcut to destroying the Russian people and Russian statehood, and for that matter any viable, sovereign statehood on the planet» (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2014).

We support a negotiated settlement leading to a safe and secure Israel living alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state; based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, Jerusalem as the shared capital of both states, and a just, fair and agreed settlement for refugees.

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on Tuesday alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari was travelling to London to strategize with...

Thus, to appoint a person who is clearly biased against Israel, who believes that a call to destroy a sovereign state should be regarded solely as «political views» and who justifies his legal opinion to bring an Israeli political leader to justice based on mistaken facts, if not on his fertile imagination, is incomprehensible.

The past eight months have demonstrated that the IMF, EU Commission, and ECB believe they are able to impose whatever is in their economic interest and coincides with their economic philosophy on sovereign nation - states regardless of their government, the will of their people or the facts on the ground.

«I feel very bad on their agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra, Igbo suffered during the war, younger men who never knew what war looks like, are the people who have started talking about war by agitation for sovereign state of Biafra,» he said.

First, it is a historical example of a non-European international society not composed of sovereign states or based on the principle of sovereign equality, but based on the principle of adaptable hierarchy and the ranking of powers.

In his famous work Leviathan, first published in 1651, Thomas Hobbes elaborated on the state of nature and man's fallible existence in the absence of order and sovereign control.

In conclusion, «legality» basically means the legality of the existent of a state, but it doesn't really hold much meaning or value on the international stage while recognition means whether other countries accept you as a sovereign nation / state or do they count you as territory of another country.

The group has also claimed responsibility for most attacks on oil pipeline in Niger Delta and says it will destroy more till it gets a sovereign state.

Soldiers from 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha, stormed Okpoko, Ogbaru Region security camp of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, on...

The Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, viewed the action taken by Trump as an «aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made - up up pretext».

We are a separate corporate entity established with an appropriate level of separation from the Nation government, but we offer partners an array of tax efficiencies and other benefits based on the Nation's sovereign status, including federal tax immunity, state income tax exemption, federal capital gains tax exemption, state sales tax exemption and preferential debt financing and government contracting preferences, among others.

They refuse to pay state taxes on goods sold at their sovereign reservations.

The leader of the Movement for the Actuali - sation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, on Tuesday, said the movement is not part of...

Though the declaration of independence of the sovereign state of Ukraine was issued on a cold December day, the country celebrates its...

On December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act of 1973, a law in which the United States «pledged itself, as a sovereign state in the international community, to conserve to the extent practicable the various species of fish or wildlife and plants facing extinction.»

He and his group reasoned that if they blew up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on November 5, 1605, the king and any successors would be killed, allowing Catesby and his conspirators to place Princess Elizabeth on the throne as the new Catholic sovereign.

Investors began to worry this could erode the United States» cherished triple - A sovereign credit rating when Standard and Poors's on May 21 revised its outlook for Britain's triple - A status to negative from stable, blaming higher government debt.

The U.S. government received a wake up call this week when Standard & Poor's revised its credit rating outlook to negative from stable and affirmed its «AAA / A -1 +» sovereign credit ratings on the United States.

External catalysts today could include war breaking out with North Korea, a nuclear device being detonated somewhere, a sovereign debt default, a cyberattack on critical infrastructure in the United States, or something that threatens business and commerce.

Last week though, Mr. Dougherty reported that an association of online lenders claiming to be operated by Native American tribes, The Native American Financial Services Association (NAFA)(which represents just 16 of the 566 federally - recognized Indian tribes in the U.S.) called on banks to resist pressure from the state of New York State to cut them off from the nation's primary payment system, claiming violations of tribal sovereign immustate of New York State to cut them off from the nation's primary payment system, claiming violations of tribal sovereign immuState to cut them off from the nation's primary payment system, claiming violations of tribal sovereign immunity.

Authored by Rep. Steve King of Iowa, the King Amendment is an unprecedented assault on states» sovereign rights to pass laws that protect animals on farms, in puppy mills and elsewhere.