Sentences with phrase «because economic forces»

But if startups are gravitating to the legal gray zones, it's because economic forces are pulling them in that direction.

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Typically, inflation of one per cent signals economic weakness because there is too little demand to force prices higher.

Of the respondents who are already business owners and live in highly - developed economies, 78 percent said they choose to launch their ventures because they saw opportunities, not because they were forced to by economic necessity.

Odd, because as far as I can tell the Greek movement still involves private ownership of the means of production, freedom of contract and the determination of economic activity by the forces of supply and demand.

Now, particularly because of the rise of Microsoft, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Nordstrom — not to mention the profusion of Microsoft wanna - bes and spin - offs that have recently littered the Northwest landscape — Seattle is an international economic force to be reckoned with.

Bizarrely, the authors ultimately abandoned support for the notion because of feminist concerns that joint filing would force wives to reveal their full incomes to their husbands and threaten the «economic autonomy of married women.»

Potential economic growth is going to slow dramatically over the coming years because of slowing growth in the labor force, due to growing demographic trends, and continued poor productivity performance.

To rein in credit growth, Beijing must force a sharp deceleration in investment growth, which, because investment growth is a substantial source of economic activity, means laying off a large number of workers employed in investment - related activity.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

The central bank is the main driving force in any country because it simply decides the economic path of a country.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

The Portland Oregonian reported that United Methodist leaders abandoned an attempt to gather signatures for a referendum on video poker because the proposed initiative could have forced tribes to give up their lucrative video games, and the tribes claimed that this was unfair to Native Americans struggling for economic growth.

Nevertheless, the clergy's approach disturbed me because it did not try to understand or respond to the position of the antitax forces who thought that new levies would impede economic growth at just the time it was most needed.

Holmes dissented when the Supreme Court overturned economic regulations as violating substantive due process or freedom of contract not because he favored the regulations, but because he thought that the forces which dominated the political branches should be allowed to govern in their own way.

He saw power involved in all life's arenas — personal, economic and political — because contests are never simply between force and force or authority and authority.

Because of its pastoral interest in individuals the Church has found itself forced to take an interest in political and economic measures or institutions.

Wouldn't it be ironic of Velncia and all of these clubs are forced to sell because of the economic crisis and Arsenal, the one team then managed its money, was the team to swoop in for their stars?

Being forced into sex work because of economic necessity and forced prostitution are not the same.

Because we want to believe there is good in the world maybe the Reverend didn't do his homework on Quinn (neither did the media, they missed the fact that Reverend Rice is a Bloomberg appointee for the Housing and Economic Development Task Force) maybe he should speak to his congregation and ask if Quinn is worthy of their endorsement or will he rest easy knowing the congregation will have blind faith in their pastor's political pronouncements?

Clearly vulnerable Democrats would rather exit Congress voluntarily than be forced out by voters because of their support for Obamacare and other disastrous Democrat economic policies,» Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the National Republican Campaign Committee chairman, said in a statement.

Women without college educations are dramatically less economically dependent upon their husbands than they used to be, while the economic dependence of women with college educations on their husbands remains high because although both men and women with college degrees have seen surging incomes since the 1970s, most women with college degrees experience large income penalties for leaving the work force for a while to raise children, while women without college degrees don't face those kinds of income penalties in their far less skilled jobs.

Because if we can't find an economic force in normal times that drives our system to get larger, and it actually would have to outgrow, it has to grow, you know, faster, faster than the Internet, it has to have some other reason for being or else we'll continue to shrink relative to the incumbent, and so how will we ever have enough scale?

But the economic forces actually drive it to be less redundant because co-location has economic advantages, so you tend to get very highly connected, large nodes that drive most of the traffic.

In a way we mathematically benefit from our profound ignorance of the real economic web's detailed structure because it forces us to model the catalytic network as basically random.

To Schindler, it makes good economic sense that he would make more money if Jews were hired as the unpaid work force, because they're obviously cheaper than Poles:

The authors admit that «Local Hollywood» is more difficult to describe than Global Hollywood as a concept; not least because there are different historical, cultural, political and economic forces at work in each location.

The national push for rigorous, measurable standards in elementary and secondary education is no passing fad, because it is being driven by inexorable economic forces that are ratcheting up educational requirements for American workers, concludes a report released last week.

Then playing the poverty card, he asserts, «Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces....»

I picked FEUDAL LAND for my latest teen end times series book, not only because it is the acronym - Forced Economic United Domestic AL liances for the new government in my book (when ours falls apart), but because when I typed * Feudal * in search results all I got were obscure Japanese feudal time period books.

Spreading your savings among many types of investments — stocks versus farmland, for example — cuts overall risk because inherent differences between investments makes their returns subject to totally different economic forces and because investments vary with respect to riskiness.

Because the fund may invest in fewer issuers, it is vulnerable to common economic forces and may result in greater losses and volatility.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

Leading up to the Copenhagen Conference he caused CSIRO to force a leading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change policies.

In fact, red tape can STIMULATE hiring and economic activity because it forces re-tooling and creates jobs in compliance - oriented positions.

None of these will truly benefit the world, because economic growth doesn't exist when a product is manufactured by force, and people are forced to buy that product.

The first order human forcings that are negative (e.g., sulphate emissions) and mask some of the CO2 forcing increase the risks of AGW; if they decrease because of Peak Oil, or economic changes, or are eliminated because of other adverse effects they have, the warming impact of the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere will be even larger.

As the harsh economic climate has forced many into financial straits, far too many drivers have resorted to driving without insurance simply because of their inability to pay for coverage.

In that kind of context, neither party wants to force the termination of an otherwise fruitful economic relationship simply because someone didn't bother to check the fine print of a several year old lease in somebody's desk drawer.

Importantly, however, the technological, social and economic forces bringing about this new state of affairs are largely beyond the profession's control — something lawyers generally don't like to hear, because we like being in control, but that I nonetheless think is indisputable.

In some ways, the economic downturn was a great thing because it forced the big breeders to rethink their strategy and to slow down.

Children with single parents move more frequently than other children do, partly because of economic hardship (which forces parents to seek less expensive accommodation in other areas) and partly because single parents form new romantic attachments (as when a single mother marries and moves in with her new husband).

An eight - year - old girl was forced by her mother to hand unpaid bills to her father when he visited because the mother had falsely told the daughter that the father had not provided any economic means of support to the family.