What are we doing, self-enforcing amongst ourselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2002] Reference

To be self-enforcing, a pact must meet four conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [North and Weingast, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Persecution made the Jews 'law of brotherhood self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

The problem with self-enforcing agreements is that they do not scale up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchy, the State, and Utopia, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

And you know, a self-enforcing law is a law that simply takes care of itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Business of America] Reference

You seem to be saying that the Constitution is self-enforcing and self-sustaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and the law: about that little thing called “procedure”] Reference

The VAT, being largely self-enforcing, is one of the preferred tax instruments in the EU.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Nordic, the Teutonic - The Austrian Economists] Reference

Cooperation and conflict: evidence on self-enforcing arrangements and heterogeneous groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ardi Casts Doubt on Idea of a Human Killer Instinct] Reference

Dani Rodrik writes, The problem with self-enforcing agreements is that they do not scale up.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: August 2007 Archives] Reference

Shared values resulting from moral dialogue have the advantage of being largely self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changing and Unchanging Values in the World of the Future (Conference)~ Session One] Reference

The legislation out of Congress and the decisions from the Court are not magically self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?] Reference

But, if we are going to rely on self-enforcing incentives, we do not need to insist on debt contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bhagwan Chowdhry: Microequity: A New Model for Financing Microentrepreneurship] Reference

In the absence of a state to enforce the rules, pirates had to develop their own self-enforcing institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [An-arrgh-Chy! « Christopher Colaninno] Reference

"No one wants to be in a position to penalize anyone, but our rules are self-enforcing," Duncan told reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top South Carolina Story: RNC Strips State Of Delegates] Reference

Without a safe way to deal with policy transgressions, a "No Nobodies" policy lacks the teeth to make it self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Fuller: Eight Ways You Can Stop Rankism] Reference

Resolution 242 is not self-enforcing: Israel is not expected to unilaterally withdraw from territories to fulfill its terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The theory was, though, that it would be self-enforcing; if anybody did that, he would lower himself in the esteem of his colleagues.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game] Reference

A new kind of self-enforcing accountability could be introduced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

But more important, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.] Reference

BTW, watch out for "the self-enforcing mechanisms of global" cooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.] Reference

But more importantly, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

"It seems like it's largely going to be a self-enforcing thing," Goodwin said.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Record Article Feed] Reference

The writers of the Maastricht Treaty assumed that the unified currency would be self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

The potential dynamic could resemble the self-enforcing nature of international trade liberalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinio Juris] Reference

Communists are a party except where such a treaty provides within itself for self-enforcing mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference

In vivid contrast, capitalism - real capitalism - is infused with law, most of which is self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Or even worse, under the gauzy internationalism of the New Liberalism with its magically self-enforcing norms?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Editor] Reference

But police insist they should be "self-enforcing" and backed up by traffic-calming measures such as road humps.    From Wordnik.com.  [icHuddersfield] Reference

Libertarians may have perfect freedom to contract, if their agreements are self-enforcing or voluntarily adhered to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interfluidity] Reference

However such an outcome is difficult to achieve as in the context of the game it is not a self-enforcing, rational outcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

The DKP system is an entirely self-enforcing mechanism; yet its effectiveness among gamers who adopt it runs at close to 100%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

Thus, any surviving legal rules, which posses self-enforcing properties as those of the market, would have been negatively selected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Isn't this a self-enforcing burden?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpts: Sandra Day O'Connor] Reference

"It would be self-enforcing," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama To Push Tax On Being 'Too Big To Fail'] Reference

The Constitution is not self-enforcing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government Pirates Are Not Jack Sparrows] Reference

The schedule is pretty much self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Iraq Announcement] Reference

Like rules, guides are rarely self-enforcing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deceptive Environmental Claims: How Should The Federal Trade Commission Clean Up Advertising Pollution?] Reference