Sentences with phrase «big political crisis»

But there is a danger in responding to a big political crisis with too much ambition, if it is not focused.

TOKYO (Reuters)-- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing his biggest political crisis since taking office more than five years ago, as suspicions swirl about a land sale to a school operator...

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In its biggest crisis ever, Facebook is under fire over its handling of personal data following reports that political research firm Cambridge Analytica wrongly gained access to personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

-LRB-...) Italy's political chaos, which inflamed the euro - zone crisis two years ago, could be the biggest test so far of Europe's defenses against a revival of the financial panic that has afflicted the region in recent years.

«But we also have to remember that beyond the political process, Kenya has also been facing a much bigger crisis.

The biggest political development this weekend is the sudden collapse of domestic political consensus over how Britain should handle the crisis in Crimea.

To better understand what's going on it's important to step back and look at the big meta - narratives of the crisis response and their political fallout.

In the hangover of political crisis, Britain will have the chance to engage some of the big questions.

The political crisis created by the MPs» expenses scandal, the shock of the financial and economic crisis and the erosion of trust in big government has created the conditions for an unexpected revolution.

It is a great shame that it is now trying to use the present economic crisis to take cheap political shots at the idea of the big society itself.

Colin Hay, professor of political analysis at the University of Sheffield, suggested the opposition's big problem was breaking free of the «crisis discourse» now firmly entrenched by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in government.

I want us to work together in tackling our country's big and urgent problems - the debt crisis, our deep social problems and our broken political system.»

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

One reason is that the modern political environment has become increasingly polarized, and conservative Republicans — propelled by Tea Party devotees, the fiscal crisis, and big gains in the 2010 election — have taken on the unions like never before.

And that only occurs once in a while, often under extraordinary political or historical circumstances, usually when the country faces a big challenge, crisis, or widespread injustice.

She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher shortages, the widening attainment gap, the school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.

As much as there was a political side to materiality, the imagination and the queer, to a confused art student these tendencies seemed to be removed from bigger issues which led to the economic crisis at the beginning of the new millennium.

The big picture is that the climate obsessed are projecting their inner anxieties and sadly often their political prejudice onto the blank canvas of weather / cliamte and declaring a crisis that does not exist.

he Paris Agreement marked the biggest political milestone to combat climate change since scientists first introduced us in the late 1980s to perhaps humanity's greatest existential crisis.

In the spirit of Tetlock, I'll put a number on it and say a 80 % probability of a bad recession or some other internal crisis within 20 years that is bad enough to be considered «the worst domestic crisis for the leadership since Tiananmen and a prelude to major political change» and which results in either a Tiananmen - style clampdown or big political change.

Some of the contributing causes of the current housing crisis — lack of housing supply, government inaction, greed, foreign ownership, the fact that some of the biggest donors to political parties are real estate developers, loopholes in rent control, the arrival of Airbnb — have previously been documented in the media.