In principle, most democratic nations have constitutions that bind the behavior of government officials.
And I think that they will be discussing different options that we can take -- the United States, the United Kingdom, France, other countries, international partners -- to affect the behavior of the Libyan government.
The climate of uncertainty caused by deadlock in Washington is leading to penny-wise, pound foolish behavior at all levels of government, and Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) felt the pain severely in the third quarter.
These include a call for a postponement of the election by 60-90 days, an independent assessment of alleged coercive behavior by the Front government and a tying of Western economic assistance to the correction of any such practices and the holding of a genuinely free and fair election.
What kind of affect will this kind of behavior by the government have on investors?
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But a lesson of the past century is that government can influence the behavior of big corporations, by requiring transparency about their performance and costs, and by enacting rules and limitations to protect the ordinary citizen.
But that tends to be the nature of most of the biggest changes that have been made to the Constitution: affecting the rights and behavior of citizens as opposed to the structure of the government itself.
The soda ban is no different, except that the source of behavior modification is the government rather than industry.
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This surprising change in behavior is due to the proliferation of government programs that dispense licenses to villages, enabling locals, or paying hunters, to cull an allotted number of elephants each year.
That is exactly the kind of thinking and behavior the Japanese government and central bank intended to create by vowing to defeat deflation and reignite the economy through broad-based asset purchases known as quantitative easing.
The law, first passed by Congress in a wave of post-Watergate reforms in 1978, allows a three-judge federal court panel to appoint special counsels to investigate allegations of possible criminal behavior by top government officials.
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Public choice theory explains the incentives and behavior of the tens of thousands of government employees who work in the bowels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Economics and Statistics Administration, and countless other agencies who generate and massage spreadsheets day in and day out.
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In a written response included in the report, the IRS commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division said there was no criminal behavior behind the actions of the agents, but rather inefficient management.
In order to get things done, she needed to influence the behavior of thousands of civil servants in her sprawling government bureaucracy.
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If his papers become public just because the government regulates the activity, how does one limit the intrusiveness of government investigators into our private behavior?
This is not a case of big government trolling the Internet, but of ensuring that the Internet remains free from anticompetitive behavior.
But there is a backstory here that points strongly in the direction of pressing Netanyahu either to change his behavior or his government.
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The promise of America is that government does not seek to regulate your behavior in the bedroom, but to guarantee your right to provide food in the kitchen.
Politicians since at least the Johnson administration have engaged in the technique, and while its etymological origins may be in dispute, the term has since entered wide use, referring to a form of moral suasion, usually by government officials attempting to alter behavior or influence markets.
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The second problem is that people will change behavior as they lose tax benefits, and that will reduce the amount of money government will collect.
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There has to be some understanding that these are profits created by government guarantees and government intervention rather than created by the normal risk-taking behavior of capitalist firms.
For nearly 120 years, the Sherman Antitrust Act has been the main vehicle through which the government and private parties have regulated the so-called anticompetitive behavior of corporate America.
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My suggestion to the next judge who is presented with a billing request like this one, or a poorly drafted complaint, or other evidence of unprofessional behavior, is to approach it the way, say, a government auditor would in Medicare-billing case.
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The government has long used the Code to promote certain types of economic behavior.
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The United States has long had a zero-tolerance policy regarding Government employees and contractor personnel engaging in any form of this criminal behavior.
The White House brief mentioned a long list of government tax incentives, but they are usually tax credits or deductions rewarding a behavior, not an excise tax on inactivities.
The government looks at the evidence and draws up a set of facts that demonstrate fraudulent behavior.
The systems are used mainly to secure sensitive data and comply with government rules, but they also generate lots of personal information on employees' online behavior.
Though some argue that this method would cut welfare abuse, government expenses and eventually taxes, the suggestion raises the uncomfortable possibility of restricting buying behavior for everyone.
But while the American and European allegiance to the fable of Fatah as the anchor of the two-state solution accounts for the indifference of both to Shabaneh's disclosures, what accounts for the Netanyahu government's behavior in this matter?
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