But at the very least it will finally put the "stick" in the proverbial carrot-and-stick metaphor for taming Pyongyang.
Only bilateral diplomacy and carrot-and-stick sanctions have any hope of preventing further proliferation North Korea being a case in point.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
To isolate secessionists and improve the party's image, he carried out a classic carrot-and-stick policy - crushing separatists while promoting economic development.
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.
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.
Such carrot-and-stick messaging resonates with publics that also distrust profligate governments.
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"This is the first time the focus has been on education and awareness and redirection to legal and authorized services and not on punitive measures or a carrot-and-stick approach, " she said.
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.
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?
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.
We still have a top-down, more-stick-and-less-carrot approach.
They escalate from doing nothing to providing information to enable choice to carrot-type incentives to stick-type incentives to restricting choice and then eliminating choice.
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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.
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.
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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Persuading more drivers to leave their car behind will require a shrewd mix of carrot and stick, such as high parking fees, free out-of-town parking and inner-city pedestrian areas.
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.
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