Sentences with phrase «becoming failed states»

North Korea is using this to increase tensions between the US and China, which it believes will not allow North Korea to be invaded / nuked or to become a failed state due to sanctions.

Particularly galling for Pakistanis must be to see their rival accelerating towards superpower status while Pakistan drops ever closer to becoming a failing state.

Not exact matches

«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

What many of the ensuing media reports failed to mention is that becoming a pharmaceutical distributor or pharmacy entails additional licensure at both the state and national level.

The United States is failing because its leaders (corporate and government) have become corrupt and greedy.

The employer for example, who fails even to try to correct manifest abuses eventually «comes to that state which his negligence deserves, 29 eventually becoming unable even to recognize the foibles and misjudgments of business associates.

Just as he did in Earthly Powers, Burleigh's new book shows how the over-politicized state, having failed to wipe out Christianity, became insanely jealous of it, eventually trying to appropriate its power and even adopting its rituals and rites to produce new, secularized religions, reproducing in reverse the dogmatism they rejected but without any biblical restraints.

... blah, blah, blah.I'm not suggesting the questions, as stated, shld never be asked, but I do have a problem with them becoming «non-negotiable, or in other words, when human constructed traditions become dogma, theology fails to be a pursuit of truth.

Nevertheless, we must be sure that the child's interests come first, as this is stated in our family law: Every child has the right to a family — first of all to his own family, and, failing this, to a family suited to become his own by adoption.

Nevertheless, we must be sure that the child's interest comes first, as this is stated in our family law: every child has the right to a family — first of all to her own family, and, failing this, to a family suited to become her own by adoption, if such is the child's interest.

How many times have we seen our star players leave stating a lack of ambition loosely translated into I want more cash and how did their career develop after that... many failed to produce 2 good seasons after that and became forgotten men.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

It is not a failed state, but as its fragile state worsens, it is sliding down the path of becoming one» (pp.11 - 12).

In short, to the French, Mali threatens to become a new Afghanistan: a failed state, and a haven for terrorists.

Fears of al - Qaeda, anxieties that Yemen might yet become another Somalia (an unstable failed state), and the strength and conservatism of Saudi Arabia's influence, are all factors that point to international support for one of the rival factions opposing Saleh.

Whilst the Arab states and the Palestinian leadership failed to endorse the plan, these too became part of the newly created Jewish State.

The jail complex on Rikers Island has failed to comply with minimum safety standards and has become so dangerous, according to the state Commission on Correction, that it can no longer be permitted to accept inmate transfers from outside New York City.

There doesn't... She has failed over the course of her term — her time in office, and remember, she replaced Hillary Clinton when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State.

In the last year, Uruguay became the first national jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis; the world's first legal, recreational cannabis market opened in Colorado; Colombia and Guatemala took a daring stand at the UN general assembly, telling assembled delegates that the war on drugs had failed; and the Organisation of American States became the first multinational body to raise the prospect of drug treaty reform.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

The United States attorney's office failed until the trial was well underway to turn over to defense lawyers recordings of 9,000 conversations, almost 300 in Yiddish, in phone calls made or received by Moses Stern, a Rockland County developer who became a government informer to try to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

«And worse yet, as a result of Andrew Cuomo's failed economic policies people are fleeing this state — over 1 million people have left since he became governor, DeFrancisco noted.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed that Afghanistan would become a «failed state» if the international community pulled out of the country.

It entered into a nine - year drug war which has claimed 100,000 lives and seen it become a borderline failed state.

(CNN)- New Hampshire's move to become the most recent state to legalize same - sex marriage hit a road bump Wednesday, after the legislature's House of Representatives failed to agree to changes made by the governor.

Finch, who became the first incumbent mayor in Bridgeport history to lose a primary, was reacting to word that his campaign failed to meet a Sept. 2 state deadline to get him on the ballot as a potential minor party candidate.

Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state and failed 2016 Senate candidate who has become an unlikely national Democratic figure, is bringing on Jason Noble, who on Friday announced he was leaving his job as political reporter for the Des Moines Register.

The federal Congress failed to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, an innovative health insurance program that was pioneered by New York State, under Governor Mario Cuomo, before becoming a national program.

As we've noted in this space before, Spitzer wants to bring voters back not to his failed governorship, but his time as the state attorney general, who became reknowned for busting financial impropriety.

Under the leadership of Astorino and his appointees the county jail has become a state of confusion and danger for officers, civilians and prisoners, a local Westchester blog «Independent Democrats «reported, during Astorino's fail bid for the gubernatorial seat.

He credited Cuomo with creating a state tenant protection unit, but said it «has only become necessary because the governor has failed tenants in every way possible.»

Mr. de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, dedicated substantial resources to the State Senate Democrats» failed effort to capture the upper house of the legislature last year — which became fodder for Republican attack ads.

CSEA has long argued that it is unacceptable for New York state to simply close facilities and downsize the state work force while failing to address severe gaps in services or help people in dire need who often become the burden of local taxpayers.

The state legislature failed to take further action; consequently, the governor's proposal became law on February 24, 2012.

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

Faso is just this side of becoming a perennial candidate, having failed to climb into the state comptroller's office in 2002 and into the governor's mansion in 2006.

They failed, because although there were many possible «natural» initial states, none of them seemed to evolve to become as isotropic as our Universe.

Dr Bachmann originally became involved in this area of research through his role as Rule of Law Subject Matter expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) study on hybrid threats facing Europe — diverse issues such as terrorism, organized crime, failed states and how a mass influx of migrants might lead to political instability in certain countries.

Co - writer / director Tom McCarthy's film finds that each of these systems had failed in significant ways when it came to the issue of sex abuse within the Catholic Church (The film's coda, which lists locations in the United States where similar crimes were uncovered, becomes even more infuriating when it moves on to the rest of the world).

The failed attempts at parent - trigger legislation in spring 2014 resemble what happened last year, when bills to create or expand such laws stalled or died in 20 states and only one became law.

According to a law passed in 2015, any district earning marks in the «Fails to Meet Expectations» category two years in a row, becomes eligible for state intervention in the form of an initiative dubbed the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program.

Some of the emails arrived with grammatical and spelling errors, and that became an opening to start joking about the failings of the state's public school system.

Her sons attended Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schools.

«By requiring the Secretary of State to make an academy order in respect of a failing school, the clause will make it automatic that failing schools must become sponsored academies.

And without major changes in how the state and federal government fund these needs, public schools in the state and nationwide are likely to become increasingly more stratified, with older, failing facilities chockablock in low - income and fast - growing school districts.

State education in the UK will continue to fail the children, irrespective of how rigorous Ofsted inspections become.

On the other hand, if the state department is telling the truth that it only recently became aware of the deal, Buffalo K - 12 officials failed to inform the state about it for some reason.

After Blaine's proposed amendment failed to become part of the U.S. Constitution, 36 states passed their own constitutional amendments barring state funding of religious organizations, including religious schools.