Sentence examples for intervention to hold from inspiring English sources

The police should not be trusted to tackle racism on their own, according to a senior officer who has called for government intervention to hold forces to account in the fight against discrimination.

Thereafter the yen breached ¥106 to the dollar, its highest point for more than a month (see chart).The scale of the Bank of Japan's intervention to hold down the yen has been staggering.

This first surfaced in the late 1990s when Asian countries, led by China, used intervention to hold down their currencies, both to promote exports and to "self-insure" against future financial crises.

Similarly, central-bank intervention to hold the baht down by buying dollars would also boost the money supply.Moreover, as Brad Setser of Roubini Global Economics points out, Asian central banks are having to buy dollars not just because of their current-account surpluses, but also because foreign investors are moving money into the region.

Mr Fujii has since denied that he favours a stronger currency, and the yen still looks relatively weak by past standards: its real trade-weighted value has fallen by 7% since January and is below its 15-year average.Outside Japan, Asian governments have been forced to step up their intervention to hold down currencies as foreign-capital inflows have surged on optimism about recovery.

The differences between Sir Alan and Mr Lawson undermined the Chancellor's firm exchange rate policy, since the markets could not be confident that Mrs Thatcher would approve the interest rate rise or the intervention needed to hold the exchange rate.

If they raise rates they attract bigger capital inflows, and the extra intervention required to hold down their currency fuels inflation further, defeating the rate rise.The central banks of both China and India have raised banks' reserve requirements several times this year to try to mop up excess liquidity, but they have left interest rates unchanged.

We need to change our frame of reference and intervention strategies to hold the batterers accountable instead of blaming the victim.

The only way to ensure we are on track, that we are reaching the farmers who need it most with sustainable, climate resilient, and appropriate interventions, is to hold ourselves accountable.

Mindfulness-based interventions appear to hold promise in addressing these issues.

It is hard to avoid the impression that the political and military developments now in overdrive stem partly from pressure exerted by the rebel side to trigger an American military intervention – by trying to hold President Obama to an earlier warning to Assad that a use of chemical weapons would alter his calculation.