The only help worth giving them has to be based on local knowledge, steady patience, and a sense of our own drastic limits.
Slavery was gradually being abolished in New York, but the black population was hemmed in by Jim Crestrictionstrictionotablytably, drastic limits on voting rights.
HANOI — Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world's largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export.
Under all the scenarios that the I.P.C.C. panel considered, including an implausible one in which the world imposes drastic limits on carbon emissions right now, a "large fraction" of terrestrial and freshwater species face elevated extinction risks.
Beyond the question of what we can predict, then, Hayek has a further and more precise target: however much we can predict, there is a drastic limit to what we can simply decide.[2] No one can decide that people won't respond to perverse incentives unintentionally created by a central plan, in the same way that no one can decide that insects will not become resistant to an insecticide.
If drastic limits on wild fish mean premium prices and luxury status, all the better.
powerful emissions need a heavy power supply which can drastically limit the efficiency of autonomous monitoring systems, thereby causing drastic harm to marine mammals and disturbing their behavior.
No top candidate in either party has broached more drastic remedies, like limiting the use of expensive new technologies, cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals, or forcing people to use health maintenance organizations.
To combat the spread of Ebola, the government implemented drastic measures such as limiting trading hours to 6am until 6pm, quarantining whole districts and enforcing nationwide lockdowns.
Chinese officials have already used less drastic "punishments", such as limiting the number of mainland tourists to Taiwan and hinting at curtailing investments.
