One senior diplomat says it would be wrong to wrest the carrot and stick away from the commission, which has both political independence and the trust of EU members unlike the Bulgarian government.
But where nonmilitary means were concerned, Bush and his people were lagging behind a loss of faith in the carrot and stick approach that had been appearing within the American foreign policy establishment even before the publication of the new NIE.
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Now as one who has long since rejected the faith in diplomacy and sanctions, I never thought I would live to see the day when most members of the foreign policy establishment would come to admit that the carrot and stick approach would not and could not succeed in preventing Iran from getting the bomb.
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Many other Yorkshire council leaders I spoke to in the run-up to the "budget season" told me they were reluctantly accepting the "carrot and stick" deal from the Communities Secretary.
But at the very least it will finally put the "stick" in the proverbial carrot-and-stick metaphor for taming Pyongyang.
The Ecuadorean government will use expropriation and extended operating contracts as the stick and carrot to try to coerce foreign firms into signing service contracts.
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Beijing will require a deft handling of the carrot-and-stick approach in the hope that internal economic liberalization will create forces for eventual democratic political reform.
Richardson, reelected with 69% of the vote, says he aims to reduce the share of his state's population that is without health insurance by using the carrot-and-stick approach Massachusetts took this year under Romney.
The Obama administration and Congress established a carrot and stick approach to moving doctors and hospitals into the 21st Century of a paperless society.
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In Spain, the pilots are getting less carrot and more stick, wielded by the expert hands of Xabier de Irala, Iberia's chairman.
This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.
ASEAN's carrot and the West's stick that brought this brief but so far vain moment of hope.
It prefers to stress the help it would give to the jobless in finding them work they would want to have, rather than the cost savings, and to emphasise the carrot in its workfare scheme, not the stick.
For the meantime, the government's canny use of the carrot (the merits and rewards of 'Asian family values') and the stick (draconian judgements against those who fail to care for their parents) seems to be working.
To isolate secessionists and improve the party's image, he carried out a classic carrot-and-stick policy - crushing separatists while promoting economic development.
There is also no indication that negotiation and incentives can influence Cuba, which has ignored such "carrot and stick" approaches in the past.
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Indeed, Iran's carrot and stick approach to powers like the US and France form a fourth circle of ties.
Like MP3.com (MPPP), Napster could be molded, with a skinny carrot and large legal stick, to suit the labels' needs.
Such a plan also gives parents an unobtrusive way to check on their student's academic progress throughout the year--and a carrot is more effective than a stick when urging better performance.
Further insurance to ensure that greenhouse gas reductions from biofuels are significant can come from giving incentives ("the carrot") to developing countries to reduce deforestation and providing a stick of banning biofuel (and maybe all agricultural exports) from countries that don't meet deforestation reduction targets.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
And so, if -- why -- I mean, why not use a carrot and stick approach if we were so concerned about the democratic -- the lack of democratic reform in Egypt?
The exploratory visit came after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in September that America would move away from the Bush administration's tough-talk strategy to one that appears more carrot and stick.
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One opportunity would be if the United States uses its designation of al-Nusra as both a stick and carrot, cajoling and encouraging it to enter into mainstream politics when (or if) the Assad regime falls.
They can range in size from a lima bean to a carrot stick and have a rubbery consistency, causing a squeaking sensation on the teeth when chewed fresh from the factory.
Along with that carrot, the states are hoping for a stick: authority from Congress to force catalog and Internet merchants without physical presence in their states to sign up to collect simplified taxes.
Successive U.S. administrations have assumed that the problem with the Khomeinist regime lies in its behavior, which they hoped to modify through traditional carrot-and-stick diplomacy.
Along with the stick, the states used a carrot: In 2002 they formed the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) to make it easier for merchants to collect taxes for all 9, 600 U.S. sales tax jurisdictions.
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