NIP National Implementation Plan

Developing strict legal measures to nip the danger in the bud.

Ongoing NIP processes and GEF support regional projects provide some opportunities in this regard.

At a Doha conference, Arab Gulf states have pledged to nip human trafficking in the bud.

This put human rights funding into the National Indicative Program (NIP), which encompasses 17 countries ten in the south and seven in Eastern Europe.

The narrow aim should be to nip terrorism in the bud, and the broader aim should be to open a dialogue with the Muslim community.

They have embarked on the normalization path by hiking official interest rates in order to nip inflation in the bud, thereby preventing price volatility from choking off future economic growth.

Finally, Hu, Wen, and the rest of the top leadership have turned themselves into superb firefighters with an uncanny ability to, in Party parlance, nip the seeds of opposition before they sprout.

The West, after all, never put irresistible pressure on any Arab regime to undertake reforms, and deserted its autocratic clients in Tunisia and Egypt only when they failed to nip the revolutionary bud. The lesson is that the West will coexist with tyranny, provided that it is swiftly and efficiently repressive.