For example, governments could build housing stock for everyone who needs a place to live.
The Germans needed some assurance that the spending of various governments could be limited.
For example, governments could move toward less favorable, anti-investment depreciation schedules, which would harm global growth.
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Only 14 became law, many to define whether state or local governments could regulate the procedure.
Voters thought they could get something for nothing and for a very long time, governments could deliver.
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Governments could once force women to take only their husband's nationality, says Maarten Vink of Maastricht University.
Governments could help by, say, encouraging broadcasters whose audiences are dwindling to relinquish more of their bandwidth.
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Governments could do much more to encourage businesses and residents, including slum-dwelling migrants, to settle in less vulnerable areas.
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In the past, Israeli governments could fall without the Knesset necessarily being dissolved.
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All that said, it is possible that under threat of a no vote, eurozone governments could sweeten the rescue package.
France, Germany and other European governments could join a naval force, perhaps under NATO's aegis, to patrol the sea off Gaza.
Local governments could mine the data to understand how to improve road safety, decrease congestion and upgrade transportation infrastructure, says Goddijn.
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In particular, governments could turn to them for credit lines for small and medium companies now threatened by the credit drought.
As Kennedy had in Citizens United, Roberts said that governments could never take steps to equalize opportunities for candidates in electoral contests.
An understanding between the two governments could curb the flow of funds.
The book argues that Western governments could do more to follow China's lead and develop stronger relationships between the state and technology companies.
The old policy was tolerable since local governments could also usually dissuade power companies from disconnecting factories that could not pay their bills.
State and local governments could be forced to cut back on crucial projects, such as those for roads, schools and water and sewer systems.
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Even if the governments could today agree on what to do, haggling over the details, holding referendums and amending constitutions could easily take three years.
This time governments could not inflate their way out of trouble.
Governments could also cut way back on widening and expanding roads to reduce congestion, because the switch to driverless cars would make such a huge difference.
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The third choice would be to try to inflate the way out, by allowing inflation to rise so governments could pay down debts faster (with inflation-devalued currencies).
He assured MPs the bill did not mean devolved governments could arbitrarily change the clocks, stressing that it was merely about having the "right" to do so.
Beijing could issue more debt, and local governments could gradually be allowed to tap the capital markets for more debt financing instead of relying on the center.
Investors would likely tolerate very low dividend-price ratios, in expectation of future growth of GDP, and so governments could probably refinance their debt at much better rates today.
Central banks or governments could not tamper with monetary creation.
If the will of the people called for high double-digit unemployment and economic backwardness, Europe's democratic governments could carry on supplying both quite happily, global market or no.
Western governments could contribute to this process in numerous ways.
It would be naive to think that governments could let integration proceed mainly under its own steam, trusting to technological progress and economic freedom, desirable as that would be.
In addition, each governments could decide which aspects of land use change to include in its emission reports - which it would then compile and submit to the UN.
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