But ultimately, in the West, governments and religious authorities deemed some amount of interest permissible.
Back in the 1960s, the Kennedy Administration deemed deferral an unwarranted interest-free loan from the Treasury and proposed taxing all international income as earned.
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India had become steadily more difficult for Britain to rule and without India, British hegemony in the Middle East, deemed a core national interest until the disaster of Suez in 1956, was increasingly unsustainable.
Where disclosure is deemed to serve the public interest better than withholding the information, the exemption can be overridden.
Since monetary policy operates with a considerable lag, those pressures might be deemed sufficient justification for higher interest rates now.
The original legal challenge failed because Mr McGinty, from Saltcoats, who lives near where the coal plant would be built, was not deemed to have a sufficient interest in the case.
The hill is deemed a Site of Special Scientific Interest for chalk land vegetation and the public are no longer allowed to walk on to it.
The location of an inquest will be able to be moved from a coroner's own district if it is deemed to be in the best interest of bereaved families and witnesses.
Theft would make her immoral, and thus if she were caught and imprisoned she could not pursue what she has deemed to be in her self interest (before she went to prison).
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The very organization responsible for running federal environmental policy has deemed the biodiesel mandate a public-interest failure.
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Further, the California usury law is one of the strictest of its kind in the nation, with any annual interest rate exceeding 10% deemed usurious.
The so-called "Luxembourg Compromise" allows a member state to block a majority decision being taken if an issue is deemed to seriously affect "a very important national interest".
Perhaps most impressive of all, Price acquired art that avant-garde painters deemed avant-garde, even when there was little mainstream interest in it.
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Instead they have called on shareholders to take a closer interest in executive pay - and to protest when executive rewards are deemed to be excessive.
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Both women were deemed to have given uncertain performances in their confirmation hearings and they have been accused of conflicts of interest.
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