In Britain wealth is lightly taxed, encouraging the better off to find ways of taking an income from gains in wealth (capital gains tax at 28%) rather than gains in income (higher rate tax at 40% or 45% for those earning more than £150,000) Britain entered the financial crisis in 2007 with comparatively low debts of just over 43% of GDP.
And of course, as the IMF recently noted, the best indicator that a financial crisis isn't far off is a buildup of private debt – so it's not something central banks should be encouraging lightly.
Stuart Murdoch banters lightly with the audience, encouraging us to "have a wee jig" – and getting a gaggle of teens on stage to do just that during The Boy With the Arab Strap.
Using alkaline bicarbonate of soda in these lightly spiced biscuits encourages a chemical reaction that helps them to brown evenly, despite their relatively short cooking time.
Watering lightly and frequently encourages your lawn to grow shallow, weak root systems.
Enjoy the best output of your garden by applying mulch each year, removing old dead flowers on shrubs or lightly pruning to encourage new growth and trimming back trees as required.
Because of the possibility of a campaign of terrorist attacks, serious consideration should be given to allowing or encouraging voluntary self-service cleaning of lightly contaminated rooms by age-appropriate, vaccinated, partially protected (through masks or hoods) reoccupants or owners.
Claire van Kampen, Rylance's wife, directs with a playful and appealing touch, favoring abrupt blackouts as a mode of comedy and encouraging the actors to attack the material lightly.
This means it is surely one of the occurrences whose memory is encouraging China's leaders to tread very lightly in responding to the labor unrest in Foshan.
Cypriot officials created this catastrophe by relying on a lightly regulated banking industry to drive up its growth rate while encouraging foreigners to use the island as a tax haven.
