But excessive catches are not even the whole story.

Companies reduce their superfluous employees annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

However, for ongoing work in Russia, they put forward, to put it mildly, excessive conditions.

Do fans tolerate outsize sports incomes because players are role models?

Egyptian public health authorities overreacted and ordered the slaughter of all pigs in the country.

Some have excellent infrastructure at their disposal, while their international competitors may have to contend with constant power cuts.

Extraordinary stock market volatility, both up and down, has continued since.

There are those that revel in what they see as a come uppance for brash Dubai s outsized ambitions.

Some must pay excessive taxes, while others operate out of tax havens.

At worst, the efficiency costs would be minor at best, the tax would discourage excessive short term speculation.

It contained provisions that would have removed excessive presidential powers and given Kenyans a stronger bill of rights.

Such a move would deter excessive investment in productive capacity, and ease the implementation of a more flexible exchange rate regime.

Unless we equalize conditions throughout the country, the already profound regional disparities will worsen.

The lesson of this crisis is that excessive swings need to be dampened with a set of prudential measures.

The defense has said it plans to have Manning plead guilty to lesser offenses and fight other charges as being too extreme.

Moreover, many Socialists fear that excessive public spending may trigger inflation, and that their core constituencies will become its first victims.

The Stability Pact initially sought to force countries that wished to join European Monetary Union to bring their budgets closer into balance and to slash excess debt.

To be sure, over eager military intelligence interrogators, as well as the Bush Administration's high handed attitude toward international law, helped precipitate the crisis.

55 37. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

56 28. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

57 98. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

58 69. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

59 107. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

60 93. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

61 100. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

62 57. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

Today, the real issue for China is not devaluation but de pegging ie, a return to the former managed float regime of foreign exchange that prevailed between 1994 and 1997 which means giving up the de facto fixed rate regime which actually pegs the RMB to the US dollar. Such a break is the only way to prevent over speculation in the RMB, although de pegging may cause some initial devaluation under current market conditions.

Thus, large banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.

For years, the pragmatic answer has been the dollar, and to some extent other national currencies, giving rise to complaints of an inordinate privilege for the US.

What is required is a stronger emphasis on automatic sanctions for fiscal profligacy and excessive debt than is contained in the EU Commission s current proposal for reform.

Such a break is the only way to prevent over speculation in the RMB, although de pegging may cause some initial devaluation under current market conditions.

In his letter, Cannataci worries that the broad scope of the law may lead to undue restrictions to the rights to privacy and freedom of expression in Japan.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted all proposals to provide relief to Spain and Italy from the excessive risk premiums that both countries are now confronting.

Moreover, beyond the housing market, excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate and public sectors occurred in many economies.

The hotly debated question nowadays is whether the transition to higher mandatory reserves would involve excessive short term costs (as banks will likely increase lending spreads and reduce credit volumes). Subjecting banks, some of which are still ailing, to new regulation may lead them to curtail lending even more, thereby further weakening the pace of economic recovery.

The hotly debated question nowadays is whether the transition to higher mandatory reserves would involve excessive short term costs (as banks will likely increase lending spreads and reduce credit volumes).

In fact, excessively constraining rules of origin have proved problematic for some of the EU s previous recognition agreements, such as those governing professional services standards.

Larger firms even those with large debt problems can refinance their excessive liabilities in court or out of court but an unprecedented number of small businesses are going bankrupt.

The Andhra Pradesh administration accused the industry of charging usurious interest rates, urging the gullible poor to over borrow, and then driving some delinquent borrowers to commit suicide.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and others have blamed the financial crisis of 2008 on a global savings glut, which fuelled flows of money from high savings emerging market economies especially in Asia that run chronic balance of payments surpluses. According to this school of thought, excessive savings pushed long term interest rates down to rock bottom levels, leading to asset bubbles in the United States and elsewhere.

According to this school of thought, excessive savings pushed long term interest rates down to rock bottom levels, leading to asset bubbles in the United States and elsewhere.

Second, while monetary policy has limited impact when the problems are excessive debt and insolvency rather than illiquidity, credit easing, rather than just quantitative easing, can be helpful. The European Central Bank should reverse its mistaken decision to hike interest rates.

Second, while monetary policy has limited impact when the problems are excessive debt and insolvency rather than illiquidity, credit easing, rather than just quantitative easing, can be helpful.

And despite Platini being ousted in disgrace from the presidency in 2015, his UEFA successor Aleksander Ceferin is still committed to deterring excessive spending.