Sentences with phrase «wars spending since»

(That would bring Star Wars spending since 1985 to a total of $ 80 billion.)

Not exact matches

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

This is no small matter to a country that already has spent literally trillions of dollars - and suffered the loss of nearly 7,000 military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq - since former Republican President George W. Bush launched the war on terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

In June, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne readied skeptical Britons for the deepest hack to public spending since the Second World War by painting an almost utopian picture of the Canadian experience.

According to this logic, even the $ 5.6 trillion we've spent on wars in the Middle East since 2001 is great for the economy.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

This week the United States Treasury began selling $ 100 billion in new bonds to begin financing of what is the biggest federal spending program since World War II.

The Wall Street Journal pegs the total cost of his platform, which includes sharp increases in Social Security and Medicare, plus free tuition, at $ 18 trillion over 10 years, the biggest increase in public spending since the Second World War.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

On this point there are parallels to America's exorbitant spending on national security since the inception of George W. Bush's «global war on terrorism» in 2001.1

An intensive seven - month investigation by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele reveals some of the negative aspects of past efforts.12 More than $ 172 billion has been spent since World War II in overseas assistance.

Martin also asks some telling questions about Rahner's remarkably optimistic vision of human nature — an optimism all the more astonishing since, as Martin notes, he spent almost his entire priestly life (1932 — 84) first under Nazi rule and then, after the Second World War, with half of Germany under Soviet Communism.

Since the initiation of President Lyndon B Johnson's War on Poverty in 1964, the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars trying to lift low - income Americans out of poverty.

The last hour has seen the political and constitutional reform committee issue a report complaining that the government's ignoring its recommendations about going to war; Labour have put out a line on the strikes, saying they're «usually a sign of failure»; and the Institute for Government is telling us that Whitehall is leading the way in headcount reductions, with an overall reduction of 8.4 % since the comprehensive spending review in October last year.

Since government spending into the sector increases during war - time, profits in the industry typically do as well.

That is now changing, with the longest period of low or no - growth in public spending since the Second World War.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently described, the Conservatives» plans for public spending from this year onwards would make it the «tightest five - year period since (at least) World War Two» whilst Liberal Democrat and Labour plans would see the «tightest four - year period since April 1976».

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

The top line is this: the Conservative manifesto implies the largest sustained cut to departmental public spending since the second world war.

The IFS said that the Conservative plans to get rid of «the bulk» of the deficit over the course of the next parliament will involve the biggest spending cuts since the second world war, while Labour and Lib Dem plans will result in deeper cuts that at any time since the 1970s.

Let's be clear about what we inherited: an economy built on the worst deficit since the Second World War: the most leveraged banks; the most indebted households; one of the biggest housing booms; and unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration.

Nearly 500,000 public sector jobs will be slashed over the next four years as the government tries to clear its deficit with its biggest round of spending cuts since World War II.

The Chancellor George Osborne took the despatch box in the House of Commons to deliver the biggest round of spending cuts since World War II.

Democrat Brian Moran, the former House delegate from Alexandria, raised roughly $ 755,000 since June and rustled up more than $ 2 million over the course of the year, but his campaign spent much of that war chest building their operation and finished 2008 with about $ 770,000 on hand.

In Kandahar, Gordon Brown became the first prime minister, it is thought since Churchill, to spend the night in a theatre of war: bedding down with troops in «basic quarters» to demonstrate empathy for their day to day lives.

Despite spending more than $ 211,000 since 2015, Rice's district attorney committee still has $ 1,636,490 in the bank — the largest war chest of any potential candidate for Schneiderman's relinquished post other than state Sen. Michael Gianaris of Queens.

The instructions will come in a letter from Treasury Chief Secretary Danny Alexander, in the latest step in preparing for what is set to be the toughest spending review since the end of the Second World War.

Most footage of the war was shot in black and white, but the filmmakers spent two years on a world - wide search of any existing color film that might exist and what they found was that much of it was practically pristine since it had never been seen before.

Director Paul Verhoeven hasn't made a feature length film since 2006's World War II thriller «Black Book,» and you can tell the Dutch provocateur spent the past decade itching to get back to work.

Since the War on Poverty, the average gap in per - pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.

Since 1929, per - pupil spending has declined only four times and significantly only twice, once during the Great Depression and once in the midst of World War II.

In the 50 years since the War on Poverty began, school spending has skyrocketed, but so have disparities in how much states dedicate to K - 12 education.

The country has spent a lot of resources to fight the war since 1973 but in vain.

Credit innovations since World War II have helped fund the rise in the U.S. standard of living by providing financing for home mortgages, credit card spending and education costs.

Of course we are now approaching debt levels we haven't seen since WWII from the combined efforts of two concurrent wars and bailing out every industry that can afford to hire a lobbyist, and overuse of the old politician's trick of buying votes by spending people's own money on them and pretending to be magnanimous.

i agree but this bill should have gotten passed I mean the state wastes money carelessly on war but they can't spend money on a bill that can at least attempt at preventing animal cruelty since its a huge issue.

I will not spend time quoting you facts and figures which illustrate how the global tourism industry has grown since the end of the Second World War, because that we all know.

Topping it all is an astronomical figure — more than 1.4 billion hours — totalling the amount of time players have put into Guild Wars 2 since launch, nearly the same time modern humans have spent walking the earth.

We've spent ten times that hundred billion on wars since 9/11.

I hope nobody spends money on a book from a person disseminating to be participant in a war and having shown a corresponding, depressing record of behaviour at least since 2003.

At the time, I spent no time on Syria etc and didn't realize just how discouraging US policy has been since end of Cold War.

With exhibits showing Pine Bluff's history since the 1830s and a Civil War cannon ball from the Battle of Pine Bluff, you could spend days here.