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For this, governments must deploy both the carrot and the stick.
In turn, the stick is needed to ensure that these incentives do not lock in unproductive and wasteful investments.
The West must stick with Afghanistan until its reconstruction is established.
Arab extremists launched attacks against Israelis civilians, in part to show moderates on both sides that compromise would not stick.
Would it stick to its long-term mission in the face of inevitable attacks?
For the regime to embrace peoples it has excluded, it must agree on inclusiveness--and the tolerance of non-Wahhabi forms of Islam--as a survival strategy and stick to it.
If the world can dispense justice only at the expense of the weak and to the advantage of the strong, it should stick to the older tools of crime prevention: force and negotiation, and leave justice out of it.
Indeed, he described sitting on the back of a motorcycle with a stick to command police forces to suppress the massive demonstrations.
Fortunately, once in office, the Eisenhower administration had the sense to stick with containment in Europe, continuing a policy that is widely credited for winning the Cold War.
Better, then, to stick to the here and now.
The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.
It gave the US a stick with which to tear down the EU's common agricultural policy.
But EU countries have to stick to the commitment that they made in June and strike a deal in time for a gradual entry into force in January 2013.
Conditionality of this sort would be positive, local, and non-punitive; it would serve as a carrot, not a stick.
The Kanjorski Amendment is a very big stick.
Japan's government in particular needs to identify a coherent Asia strategy and stick to it, instead of leaning towards China one minute, and America the next.
But in that effort, India must contend with its neighbor, China, which speaks with a louder voice and carries a larger stick.
When people are fearful, they tend to be more risk-averse and thus more likely to stick with the status quo.
It is, after all, fair to question whether donor countries will stick to these commitments and, indeed, whether conditions in partner countries will permit them to.
There are now serious concerns that the so-called dark greens - the harder-line faction in Taiwan's pro-independence pan-green political camp - will seize this issue as a stick with which to beat President Chen.
On Dodd-Frank, Democrats - including Obama - are apparently of two minds on the extent to which they should stick up for their own reforms.
The public had poked a sharp stick into the eye of metropolitan cynicism and know-all journalism.
Needless to say, the US and Europe should stick to a common approach on the sanctions issue.
The IMF should stick to supporting countries with temporary external-financing problems; a wealthy creditor region that refuses to address its institutional contradictions is not a deserving case.