The strengthening of budgetary surveillance by the European authorities, the balanced budget amendment, and the inclusion of automatic, treaty-prescribed sanctions for transgression, could condemn Ireland and other eurozone countries to lengthy periods of economic stagnation.
In all these cases, avoidance of the sanctions involved in transgression constitutes a decisive reason to conform, independently of what others do.
This has sowed confusion among regional authorities and employers on how to implement the sanctions and punish transgressions, and given some hope that they can dodge the system.
Hanson-Young said standards in parliament were now demonstrably out of step with those in other Australian workplaces, and a permissive culture of self-regulation meant there weren't meaningful sanctions to deter transgressions.
For example, a case study of plaintiffs' lawyers artificially inflating silicosis cases fails to mention that this was a highly unusual instance for which the offending lawyers were issued sanctions for their transgressions.
"The constituents of Llanelli who contacted me over the last few days have been bemused that we limit the sanctions depending on the transgression," he said.
When it comes to Israel's abuses, governments around the world have offered nothing but lip service; while dozens of countries face US, EU or UN sanctions for far lesser transgressions, it has taken years for EU governments to even discuss timid steps such as labelling goods from illegal Israeli settlements, let alone actually banning them.
For other interventions, social construction of hegemonic masculinity and subordinate masculinities and femininities can be made visible through exercises that both 'reveal' how men and women receive messages, and from whom, about what is expected of them as men and women, and how behaviour is rewarded and transgressions sanctioned.
Even Gloria Steinem has misgivings about how certain forms of sexual transgression have been sanctioned or stigmatized.
In print, his parents agonised over the correct sanctions to impose for his regular transgressions of the family rules.
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