Sentences with phrase «as this country falls»

My next customer, Mrs. Janssen, is just a short ride away in a large blue house where she used to live with her husband and three sons, until one son moved to London, one son moved to America, and one son, the baby of the family, moved to the Dutch front lines, where two thousand Dutch servicemen were killed when they tried but failed to protect our borders as the country fell in five days» time.

River cruises along Egypt's Nile, hard hit during years of up - and - down bookings to the country, are making a solid comeback as the country falls back into favor with travelers....

In these dark times, the writer has often turned to art, when his mental health allows, seeking comfort as this country falls to pieces.

«I felt a strong pang of guilt as a Venezuelan to be standing here, motionless as the country falls apart,» Ortega said.

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And as the gap between rich and poor widens, absolute poverty in these countries tends to fall — which is exactly what we're seeing in Canada.

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

Since the fall, we've seen a calculated effort by the US and its allies to vilify and isolate Iran — as if that country's mullahs didn't do a good enough job of that on their own.

While cities shouldn't change based solely on Amazon's wishes, many saw the experience as a way to benchmark themselves against other similar - sized cities around the country and see where they might be falling short.

The Greek government has seen a sharp fall in its popularity as it implements the controversial reforms under the country's bailout program.

The Italian crisis — the country's powerful political leader, the comedian Beppe Grillo, would probably call it «commedia dell «arte» — offers plenty of interesting trading opportunities as long as you don't fall for the incongruous idea that this is the end of the euro area.

But there is no escapting the fact the country's consumers are not happy campers: Market researcher Nielsen found that consumer confidence in Malaysia fell to 78 points over the July - September period, down 11 percentage points on the quarter, marking a record low since the survey began in 2005, as well as Southeast Asia's worst reading for the quarter.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has predicted a «summer of hell» for commuters as scheduled repairs force a partial shutdown of the busiest passenger train hub in the country from July 10 through Sept. 1, or longer if work falls behind schedule.

Also this fall, these pilot sites, as well as the Stop itself, will officially become part of Community Food Centres Canada, the organization that's driving the development of such centres across the country.

Meanwhile, global oil stockpiles in developed countries could actually fall below the five - year average — the level OPEC is targeting — as inventories approach normal levels, oil demand potentially outstrips Goldman's estimate and OPEC possibly cuts output too deeply.

Population growth rates have fallen in Western Australia and across the country as a whole, with WA experiencing a sharp drop in overseas migration and a net loss of people through interstate movements.

As the country continues to recover, stress levels continue to fall, the hiring outlook improves a little, workload improves a little and overall job stress improves a little,» Lee said.

Uber drivers in the richest countries also generally fall into this category but, as owners rather than employees, they are relatively better off than those in countries like Pakistan and India.

Even non-EU countries, such as Serbia and Macedonia, could soon fall under the EU's «protective» umbrella - but only «if requested.»

While a weak sterling is being keenly watched as the driver of higher prices within the country, Ben Brettell from Hargreaves Lansdown says its effect should fall out of the numbers reasonably soon and we should watch for more permanent trends.

No country has fallen as far or as fast as Sweden.

Thanks to falling technology costs — which dropped 58 per cent between 2010 and 2015 — solar is emerging as the leading source of new electricity in countries around the world.

In that event, even as China's trade surplus with the U.S. fell, America's deficit with other countries would rise by even more, increasing its overall trade deficit, underpinned this time either by rising debt or rising unemployment.

In European countries hit hardest by recent financial crises, such as Greece and Portugal, incomes have of course fallen sharply in recent years.

Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid little attention to the fact that wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result wage shares had fallen.

Smartphone sales fell 3 percent in the March quarter compared with a year earlier, as consumers in developed countries such as the U.S. and China balk at upgrading to more expense phones.

Equity markets fell as investors shifted to the relative safety of bonds issued by the major countries — even though S&P had announced a downgrade of the US sovereign credit rating.

An economist who correctly predicted the fall in oil price this year has told CNBC that the U.S. government could look to bail out its energy sector in 2015 as the commodity's low price starts hitting the country's economy.

A country that persistently runs higher inflation than its trading partners will see its currency fall as its purchasing power declines.

Turkey's main stock market fell the most in more than a year Monday as investors dumped the country's currency amid an escalating political standoff following the arrest of a Turkish national at the U.S. consulate in Instanbul.

The measures could fall particularly hard on South Korea, which was named as one of the countries that would face a 53 percent tariff on its steel exports, along with China, Brazil, India, Russia, Turkey and six others, under one potential scenario in the report.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Aside from the annual conference, we hold a large Fall ESOP Forum meeting, plus smaller in - person seminars that are held across the country, such as Is an ESOP Right for You?

Carbon taxes are a lot more complicated to implement and can create perverse incentives for nonparticipating countries to burn more carbon — because fuel prices fall as demand goes down.

Yet the proposal drew swift pushback from within the South Korean government - the president's office, in particular, said no move is «finalized» as of yet - as well as cryptocurrency supporters and traders in the country who cried foul as the statements sparked a fall in cryptocurrency prices.

In most countries it now falling about twice as fast as during the early 2000s and 1990s.

Secondly, there has been a collapse of demand in the commodity producing countries such as Russia and Brazil, due to their weakening terms of trade (the fall in their export prices relative to their import prices).

With interest rates on low - risk investments falling to low levels in many countries, investors have sought to maintain yields by moving into higher - risk assets such as corporate debt and emerging market debt.

Since the last round of official interest rate increases around the world over May and June, market interest rates in many countries have fallen as earlier inflationary fears have subsided.

Historically, the analysis that's been done empirically by academics has focused on the countries that have fallen into a restructuring or a default as a result of this ratio that you and I are discussing.

Zambia is among the African countries hardest hit as China's economy slows and commodities prices fall.

If Korean demand for base metals falls, Australia will still probably sell the same amount of base metals worldwide as before, but with more sales to countries other than Korea.

World stock markets fell Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei closing at a three - month low, as political turmoil in Greece pushed the debt - crippled country closer to financial disaster.

Mortgage insurance fees for the country's most popular government - backed loan program will not fall as expected on January 27, 2017.

SUPERVALU shares actually jumped on the Blackwells initiative, but then gave up those gains as industry stocks fell on the news that Amazon.com planned to offer free two - hour delivery from Whole Foods available across the country to Prime members by the end of the year.

In the years immediately following these problems, credit outstanding grew more slowly than nominal GDP and, in a number of countries, fell in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980s.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

China — a low - cost maker of goods — is falling behind in the global manufacturing race as rising wages and energy costs put pressure on the Asian country, synonymous with making super cheap stuff.

Because of Saudi Arabia's status as a regional political leader and an exporter of over 15 percent of the world's oil, the country's Gulf neighbors — Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — tend to fall in line with the kingdom's geopolitical arguments.

Russian bond yields and the cost of insuring the country against default rose on Wednesday, as investors fretted over intensifying sanctions, the prospect of a recession and falling oil prices.

Venezuela's reserves, which are mostly made up of gold, have fallen sharply this year as the country needs cash to pay off debt and tries to maintain its social welfare programs.