Sentences with phrase «as economic motivations»

The trees told a story of a surge in human - instigated fires during the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by fire suppression after AD 1800, as economic motivations changed.

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North Korea's motivation for creating a cyber-warfare division has to do with economic incentives; Pyongyang needs money, especially as the international community is tightening its grip on the Hermit Kingdom's cash flow over its continued missile tests.

Again, there is little motivation for addressing social, political or economic problems because they are seen as tainted worldly concerns.

He refers to Mao's writings, cites various Happy Workers, and concludes: «There is no doubt that socialist motivations, as opposed to individualist perspectives, have produced an impressive record of social and economic growth during the past two decades.»

Such I take to be the true motivation for Christian concern about social, economic, political, national, and international problems; for example — that the path of life trodden by those who are brothers of God - made - man must be made a fit path for those who are God's brothers as well as God's sons.

Indeed, it is the economic gains expected from free trade that are the chief motivation of those who urge it as universal policy.

Insofar as it is a set of values and beliefs, any religion can be useful to the material survival of the poor, whether it provides the individual with experiences, such as those we have described above, which strengthen the dignity and self - esteem of the poor, or because it creates motivations and proposes new values and a new economic culture which lead to new, more productive economic behavior.

One of the most barbed criticisms of Cameron, made by figures on the right as well as the left, is that his driving motivation as Prime Minister is not serious political or economic reform, but rather simply to be Prime Minister.

The motivation for the MCA arose from citizens and organizations in Montana who have expressed interest in receiving timely and pertinent information about climate change, including information about historical variability, past trends, and projections of future impacts as they relate to topics of economic concern.

Our current economic reality is the evidence we need for financial literacy in schools, and should serve as motivation for our legislators to solve the problem.

Robert Marzano and other prominent researchers have shown that teacher effectiveness far outweighs other factors such as parental involvement, socio - economic status and student motivation in terms of impact on students.

The effectiveness of uniforms will be a subject of continuing research as more schools look for solutions to socio - economic problems of attendance, discipline, bullying, student motivation, family engagement, or economic need.

It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.

A clue to the author's motivation comes on the first page of the article, where he writes, «The switch of world powers first to decreasing the use of fossil fuel and then to carbon - free energy within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol may lead to economic collapse for Russia as a consequence of the reduction and, probably, even loss of the possibility to sell oil and natural gas on the world market.»

Just as slavery meant there was no motivation to invent labor - saving devices or to innovate more efficient products and processes, ignoring carbon limits leads to missed opportunity for economic growth.

As economies have advanced, birth control spread, the economic motivation toward children has decreased rapidly.

Luke McNamara of Fireeye has told media that economic sanctions were presumed to be the dominant motivation behind North Korean engagement with cryptocurrency, stating that the regime «probably sees it as a very low - cost solution to bring in hard cash.»

These included specific learning disabilities (such as with reading, writing, mathematics), low socio - economic status, low motivation, prior achievement difficulties, and even aspects of personality, such as low conscientiousness or high neuroticism.

Miller [64] also explored how women's use of contraceptives fluctuates as their motivation to remain childless changes with their economic, relationship, social, and cultural status.

As we discussed yesterday, this is one of the biggest potential motivations for rates in terms of economic data.