Is hard selling being used or contemplated?

Ramming democracy down people s throats is self defeating.

Dictating the direction of the policy discourse is no longer Europe s role.

Imposing controls also spawns uncertainty about a country s policies.

But re imposing capital controls is simply not a fruitful option.

The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.

Blockades, embargoes, sanctions and the imposition of conditions in international relations are relics of the past.

What is worse is when the economic policy response becomes the equivalent of blaming foreigners imposing new forms of trade barriers.

Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

The top management is expected to clearly state their decisions in order to indicate pre cisely to each Department which operational objectives are to be reached, in quantified terms and with defined quality standards.

While the ideals of democracy provide us with the best options for development, the imposition of the experiences of others is not necessarily conducive to it.

Imposing any specific initiative might have an adverse impact on the effectiveness of the painstakingly built and well balanced Monterrey process.

Of course, imposing the same investment conditions in all countries could take away the incentive to invest in the least attractive of them.

Imposing unilateral duties after unilaterally labeling China a currency manipulator would undermine the multilateral system, with little payoff.

We feel particularly sick of Japan's desperate campaign to force its will on other countries by exerting its economic influence.

It does not mean the powerful imposing their will on the weak it means listening to others.

As former President Jacques Chirac said to impose democracy in Arab countries means that you despise their cultural differences.

The same paper goes on to say, We reject this because it would mean the imposition of General Assembly oversight .

The wall imposes a unilateral solution and when completed will lead to the absorption of about 1,000 square kilometres of West Bank territory.

Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy has called criticism of his side's tackling as agenda setting by the NRL's two premiership favourites.

This hope has been consistently disappointed by factors contrary to the norms of coexistence among peoples, such as the United States imposition of an economic and financial embargo against Cuba.

Any policy of intervening in the exchange rate, or imposing import tariffs or capital controls, tends to force other countries to make greater adjustments.

It is not sufficient for India to say that it subscribes to bilateralism, because bilateralism, for India, means the imposition of its hegemony over its smaller neighbours.

Japan apos s forcing of the issue in respect of the nuclear issue concerning our country is a clumsy and desperate attempt to direct the world apos s attention away from its nuclear armaments programme to other issues.

The poverty of our knowledge must become the first basis of moving forward, and not imposition of the framework that works on the basis of mathematical modeling, for which I have enormous respect.

Radicals will remind Palestinians that these two concessions represent a US Israeli imposition and an attempt to force the Palestinians to bow to the realities of occupation and dispossession.

Its deliberate expansion and its imposition of a Jewish culture on the region were intended to erase the population's Arab identity, in blatant violation of the relevant international resolutions.

What is clear is that Hamas and the Palestinians want an end to the 38 year Israeli occupation, and that selling Palestinians the same plans that were sold to the PLO will not work.

Noting that the imposition of arbitrary unilateral laws contradicts the regulations and directions of the World Trade Organization which prohibits the adoption of measures likely to hinder international free trade and shipping

The imposition of peace through unilateral external intervention will only perpetuate situations embodying the Orwellian logic of quot peace is war quot that we see in many parts of the world today.

Blockade and sanction measures and the imposition of conditions in relations between States are vestiges of the past that go against the common will of peoples, the prevailing world wide tendency and the principles of international law.

The first imposed the rule of unanimity within the European Union for any decision regarding foreign policy or the use of armed force for other than humanitarian purposes.

We are convinced that it will do no good to disregard the diversity of approaches to progressive development by imposing another's will on peoples that have chosen their own path of peaceful development based on historical, social and cultural values and traditions.

Doing so would make the Organization truly responsive to the repeatedly articulated demands of the overwhelming majority of our peoples across the world, who have time and again rejected war, intervention and imposition.

That possibility, however, had been ruled out by the withdrawal of ANC from the CODESA negotiations in June 1992, and by the ANC mass action campaign designed to force majority rule.

This assertion of the exclusivism of a minority over the majority runs counter to international public policy and clashes with the aspirations now being expressed by the people of Africa and with the established universal trend at the end of the twentieth century.

The imposition of the citizenship of a foreign country on a people who do not want to be citizens of anything but their own country is clearly contrary to the Universal Declaration and the purpose and spirit of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

The gross irregularities in the negotiating process  which included the imposition of terms, secrecy, exclusion and discrimination have now been compounded by the grave omissions in this document.

Saudi Arabia s imposition of the guardianship system is grounded in the most restrictive interpretation of an ambiguous Quranic verse an interpretation challenged by dozens of Saudi women, including professors and Islamic feminists, who spoke to Human Rights Watch.

To bring pressure to bear and to attempt to impose one's will on others runs counter to the principles governing relations among States, which must be based on mutual respect, constructive dialogue and openness to others.

It remained convinced that such an important decision could not rest in the hands of the political parties alone, and it firmly opposed processes aimed at imposing status options that did not reflect the democratic will of the people.

Perhaps then, through music, art, and literature and not bombs, cluster munitions, and artificial impositions of democracy, the region, at least Hdaib hopes, will progress toward real and substantive openness.

Furthermore, States would be under a duty to prohibit the taking of measures by minorities to impose their particular rules on any person who did not want to be part of the minority concerned and therefore did not want to exercise her or his rights.

In the view of our delegation, such an imposition not only jeopardizes relations between nations but also runs counter to the spirit of the world apos s new era, in which development, equality, justice, peace and democracy should prevail.

8. Imposition of will and interests is, in principle, contrary to the principles enshrined in the Charter since it creates precedents which, violating its principles, have an adverse impact on the significance and role of the United Nations and are therefore detrimental to its reputation.