Even America s vaunted judicial system has failed to constrain obvious abuses.

The weak fiscal position will severely constrain whatever government comes to power.

These activities both damage the PBOC s balance sheet and constrain monetary policy.

Above all, will they be vehicles to promote or, paradoxically, constrain China s interests?

In their minds, these bodies merely impede and constrain realization of the people s will.

By contrast, Iceland s debt has become so large that it is likely to constrain future growth.

This will constrain the ability of central banks to respond to the downside risks to growth.

Moreover, the accord does not rule out all nuclear related research and does not constrain work on missiles.

This means that they will have to limit China s strategic and military options, even if they cannot constrain its ambitions.

It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of history can constrain any leader s drive for change.

As a result, predictions for the United States where household deleveraging continues to constrain economic growth have fallen short only modestly.

Would this justify exempting these firms from existing regulations that constrain their decisions with respect to lending, investment, or capital reserves?

Fortunately, the most significant potential limitations land, water, and nutrients seem unlikely to constrain global output excessively in the foreseeable future.

From a regulator s perspective, this is a powerful argument for requiring higher capital to constrain the risk that banks can take on.

Avoiding that outcome will require US political leaders to constrain the growth of entitlement spending and bolster support for middle income individuals.

It helps to constrain further development and proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons and strengthens political support for the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

If they over constrain the financial sector, risk may migrate outside the regulatory frontier, where it will be harder to measure and monitor.

And even when other factors constrain growth more, they cannot be changed without changing the shape and form of the economy s capital stock.

Green investment which, as the World Bank recently proved using robust economic modeling, does not constrain economic growth is a good place to start.

Such changes, in his opinion, are essential for overall growth and, once started, shape, constrain or support the subsequent economic development of the country.

The first reason is likely to create a long term drag on growth households need to deleverage and save more, which will constrain consumption for years.

The dangers of national secession are much greater in places without overarching entities like the EU and NATO to constrain the situation among the successor states.

But the world's great democracies the US, India, the UK, and others are increasingly adept at not allowing freely expressed opinions to constrain what the government does.

Following the passage of America s Smoot Hawley Tariff in 1930, countries raised trade barriers in a tit for tat frenzy, with no rules to constrain their behavior.

LAHORE Recently, it came to light that the United States was attempting to negotiate with Pakistan a deal to constrain the Pakistanis fast growing nuclear weapons program.

By simultaneously claiming that authority and seeking Congressional authorization to use it, Obama enters a small class of leaders who actively seek to constrain their own power.

So, green shoots of stabilization may be replaced by yellow weeds of stagnation if several medium term factors constrain the global economy s ability to return to sustained growth.

This, in turn, would further erode banks balance sheets and constrain credit creation the sovereign bank doom loop that we have heard so much about in recent years.

Exceptionally high public and private debts constrain a country s options and are indisputably associated with slower growth, which in turn makes it difficult to escape a debt trap.

Clearly, the clerical elite is concerned about the future of its leadership after Khamenei. Should a succession process begin soon, it would significantly constrain Rouhani s room for maneuver.

And turmoil in the Middle East is causing serious economic risks both there and elsewhere as geopolitical risk remains high and thus high oil prices will constrain global growth.

A relationship that started on both sides as essentially a strategic design to constrain a common adversary has evolved over the decades into a pillar of the international system...

The scale of the penalties is now large enough to have a substantial impact on banks balance sheets, delay the restoration of their health, and constrain their lending capacity.

To the extent that we invest across sectors and regions to improve our carbon productivity (GDP per unit of carbon emitted), we will weaken the pollution constrain on global growth.

Depending on size, this might constrain the ambitions of institutions that have plainly been too big to manage, as well as too big to fail, which is the most fearsome combination.

As the IMF argues, if applied across the G 20, a Financial Activities Tax would help constrain the worst features of the financial system and reduce the competitive distortions created by the megabanks.

As a result, Pakistan s judiciary, media, and many civil society organizations are now engaged in attempts not only to keep the soldiers in their barracks, but also to constrain the political establishment s rapacious behavior.

Xinjiang means new frontier, and right now, we are at the edge of a new frontier in delivering sustainable health care solutions to communities where limited resources and infrastructure constrain access to health care.

This is not because a CEO s work effort and negotiation and management skills are ten times more valuable nowadays, but because other corporate stakeholders have become less able to constrain top managers and financiers from capturing more of the value added.

This will constrain the ability of central banks to respond to the downside risks to growth. In advanced economies, however, inflation will become less of a problem for central banks by the end of this year, as slack in product markets reduces firms pricing power and higher unemployment constrains wage growth.

American START negotiators argued with their Russian colleagues for months to exclude legally binding language that might constrain missile defenses or the use of non nuclear warheads on long range ballistic missiles. Although some US officials remain skeptical about these capabilities, they appreciate that Congress might not ratify a START Treaty that included formal limitations on these options.

By simultaneously claiming that authority and seeking Congressional authorization to use it, Obama enters a small class of leaders who actively seek to constrain their own power. That is because he sees his historical legacy as that of a president who ended wars and made them harder to start, instead reinvesting America s resources in its own people.

The main argument is that high leverage contributes powerfully to systemic risk a condition in which asset prices move in a highly correlated way, and distress, when it occurs, spreads quickly. Leverage is also partially caused by misperceptions of risk and mispricing of liquidity. It is desirable to constrain leverage, but not to the point of increasing the cost of capital and investment.