It is correct to try and wean motorists away from their cars, and to finance much-needed improvements in public transport.
The tenacious former Conservative leader also said he has had a stay in a psychiatric hospital in an attempt to wean himself away from alcohol.
Icahn, the owner, wants to position the company into a positive cash flow position and attempt to wean it away from its addiction to debt financing.
They hope he will engage with them, for example, in diplomatic rather than military methods to wean Iran away from the development of a nuclear weapons program.
Regardless, I think the strategy here is to provide Chinese consumers with a new product intended to wean them away from foreign cars and make them more accepting of Chinese brands.
The government said in February that it would issue inflation-indexed bonds to wean away small investors from buying unproductive assets such as gold.
These bonds are meant to wean away small investors from buying unproductive assets such as gold that have contributed to the country's record-high current account deficit.
Pollution levels in the country have been rising alarmingly in recent years, and the government is seeking to wean the public away from its dependence on the car.
At a Pioneer Institute event two years ago, Jonathan Gruber went as far as to say that the explicit purpose of the tax was meant to wean the country away from employer based insurance.
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Imperial Germany in 1889 enacted the first pension plan, financed by equal contributions from employers and employees, largely because Chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw it as a method to wean the masses away from socialism.
Gen Musharraf said the Pakistani government's aim in the country's tribal border areas was to "wean the people away" from supporting the Taleban, pointing out that while al-Qaeda was mainly comprised of "foreigners", the Taleban's support was more locally based.
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