For starters, in 2001, Argentina unilaterally defaulted on its entire 100 billion debt, an unusual step, rather than negotiating new terms with its creditors. When, in 2005, the government finally got around to negotiating a debt swap, it could almost dictate the terms a 70 haircut.

And it's not just what I dictate that it writes down. Period.

This created a two speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the weight of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead. As the largest creditor, Germany could dictate the terms of assistance, which were punitive and pushed debtor countries towards insolvency.

Generally speaking, the President should organize the work of the Council, not dictate its substance.

Financial problems dictate, however, the success or failure in the implementation of some of these activities.

But if one thinks in terms of universal norms of human rights, what right has Turkey to dictate internal development in another country? After all, nobody accepts Israel's claim to oppose as a matter of principle the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

Since Sub Commission members are independent experts, it would be inappropriate to dictate how they should make their interventions.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science cannot and will not dictate the content and structure of such teaching.

Most governments followed the dictate of the authoritarian leaders to stay away from these different groups, because they were terrorists.

The real objective of the United States is to use its monopoly on nuclear weapons to dominate and dictate to others.

The US does not dictate what happens at the IMF, but it does have a disproportionate influence. Given the Fund s origins in helping to rebuild Europe after World War II, European countries are also very well represented on its executive board and in terms of ownership shares (and thus voting weight on important decisions).

The principles of rights based programming and pro poor approaches dictate that the urban poor should not be left out of national WASH programmes.

This is a serious accusation, given that one of the big attractions of foreign direct investment is local job creation. But Chinese firms say that few local workers have the necessary skills if they do, African governments can dictate some employment terms, including the proportion of local recruits on a project, as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola have done.

In this connection, the Advisory Committee reiterates that, in compliance with the terms of the memorandums of understanding signed with troop contributing countries, troops should be provided with hard wall accommodation after the first six months of deployment, except when the requirements for mobility of units and the operational environment genuinely dictate otherwise (see A 58 759 Add.10, para.

This new methodology recognizes that different meeting bodies may operate on different dynamics and that these factors to a considerable extent dictate their specific documentation needs.

Everybody who is my dad's age, male in the community, is my father by default my uncles, all of them and they dictate what my future is.

We need to avoid situations where a few countries, by virtue of their privileged positions, their wealth or their military might, dictate the agenda for everybody else.

The Committee recommends approval of the resources requested for the expanded role of UNPOS, but is aware that savings may be achieved as events dictate possible movements.

No constant memoranda dictate content. Party officials don't hover over each step of the process, and virtually no cutting of completed products is carried out on Party orders.

I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept.

Similar motives dictate reserve accumulation in other emerging markets. Finally, oil exporters such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seek to set aside wealth during the boom years.

Stabilization might be an objective, but only if the relevant governments can agree on shared threats and how to address them. They could, for example, take the classic balance of power terror approach, by intervening to undermine the more powerful actor in a conflict, force it to the negotiating table, and dictate the terms of any compromise, thereby ensuring that they benefit from the newly created status quo.

They have needs which have to be met efficiently in terms of energy, in terms of cost, in terms of quality.

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If I come up and I dictate to the band that I want to play like this and I want the music to go this way, and I just jump right in ...

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It often happens in the course of programme implementation that priorities may dictate reallocation of resources within the section, including reallocation of unspent balances of funds under the individual projects within a budget section.

They could be creative in terms of education, they may be creative in terms of culture, they may be creative in terms of institutions but a lot of our work is in the field of technological creativity, the innovations, either in terms of contemporary innovations, or in terms of traditional knowledge.

It took three days to dictate it into the general s Dictaphone. I handed the finished project to McNamara, who thanked me, but said nothing further about the matter, either then or at any time thereafter.

America s national interests thus dictate a change of policy. But there is also another powerful rationale for doing so treating fairly those who are poorer and less powerful is the morally right thing to do.

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Yanis Varoufakis, Greece s new finance minister, is a professor of mathematical economics who specializes in game theory. But his negotiating technique unpredictable oscillations between aggressiveness and weakness is the opposite of what game theory would dictate.

Having a virtual monopoly on supply, Russia decided that it could dictate prices. But Ukraine has a virtual monopoly on delivery, so Russia blinked in this standoff as soon as gas supplies to Western Europe dropped.

It is no longer dominated by the Atlantic economies, so those economies should no longer dictate who holds the top jobs at the two Bretton Woods institutions. It is now, the argument goes, another region s turn.

Because customary practices dictate that a man's property traditionally returns to his natal family upon his death, relatives may seize a widow's possessions with no regard to her health, well being, or ability to support herself.

And we were able to cross this line, called the uncanny valley, in terms of artificial intelligence terms.

Similarly, debtors and creditors can rely on credible bankruptcy proceedings to determine their relative shares. With an explicit institutional mechanism in place to dictate the division of pain, there is no need to take to the streets.

At times, my delegation feels, the Secretariat tends to dictate and impose on States, putting on paper rules that restrict countries from presenting their views, indirectly marginalizing them from the process that they should be part of.