It has wide and impressive, if potholed, avenues, imposing, down-at-heels French colonial mansions, most of themoverrun by a tangle of vegetation, and a long, unpaved waterfront promenade along the Mekong River where Laotians and foreigners gather at sunset to drink beer and play cards.
If lawmakers see the debt ceiling as real, they will exercise less judgment in the ordinary budget process, on the reckless belief that fiscal restraint can somehow be imposed down the road.
It's not old, big-style government imposing top-down, heavy-handed intervention.
Property prices have fallen in many cities since Beijing sought to cool a red-hot market in 2010 by imposing higher down-payment requirements, among other measures.
She once described her physical presence as "a strange combination of being very imposing and down-to-earth," an accurate assessment of the seemingly contradictory image she projected.
Because everyone is different, politicians ought to give us more space to pursue our own dreams, rather than try and make us feel better by imposing top-down visions of society.
Governments and port authorities could facilitate in this respect by working more demand-driven in terms of unburdening and creating more institutional support, instead of imposing top-down rules and regulations to try to govern the ecosystem, which in itself can be considered a contradiction in terms.
The report does the smart thing in modern progressive policymaking, focusing on how to use government to create a market that will allow entrepreneurs and consumers to find their own solutions, rather than imposing top-down measures that end up being inflexible and oppressive.
We found that rule-based associations were represented in the left AG and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex – the latter potentially imposing top-down control on rule-based retrieval mechanisms (Reverberi et al., 2012).
It gives countries too much latitude to make whatever commitments they want, relatively unconstrained by a common set of rules imposed "top down" by the agreement.
The Belgian nuclear phase-out law imposes closing down in the 2015 2025 period seven nuclear power plants (NPPs) producing more than 50% of the domestic electricity.
