Sentences with phrase «by economic forces»

Change will be driven more by economic forces brought not just from women leaving law firms but from clients, younger male lawyers, increasing global competition, rising costs in both housing and commercial space, technology — and a host of other societal and business factors that we can not even imagine.

I had a passing thought that these changes might reflect the broader prospect that — when pushed by economic forces, at least — human behavior can shift in ways that can consume resources more parsimoniously even as life improves.

People today do move from one place to another prompted by their preference and by economic forces.

The benefits of the tax cuts could also be limited by economic forces beyond Trump's immediate control.

Not exact matches

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.

He claimed that the deficit would be tamed mainly by the force of economic growth alone and, «if necessary,» restraint in the growth of government program spending.

Such problems are not limited to the Air Force, and some have called for the reinstatement of the draft to address the personnel, financial, and economic issues created by an all - volunteer fForce, and some have called for the reinstatement of the draft to address the personnel, financial, and economic issues created by an all - volunteer forceforce.

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.

The credit boom has been fueled by strong economic growth, a robust property market and a crackdown on riskier shadow lending, which has forced banks to shift some loans back onto their balance sheets.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

Of course, Robert's choices are limited by the era's social, economic and political forces.

In order to protect Canadians from any unsound economic contamination, all economists, world financial experts and politicians are to be forced behind miles of wire fencing in downtown Toronto and separated by battalions of policemen.

His top economic advisor, Gary Cohn, a well - respected and more centrist pro-trade force within the administration duly resigned and took his turn walking through the entrance to the White House which has seemingly been replaced by revolving doors.

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

A strengthened and more independent Parliamentary Budget Office would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would force the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would promote a straightforward and more understandable and open budget process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan, it would provide research to all political parties.

The trading prices of the Franklin LibertyShares ETF shares in the secondary market generally differ from the Fund's daily NAV and are affected by market forces such as supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors.

The trading prices of the Franklin LibertyShares ETF units in the secondary market generally differ from the ETF's daily NAV and are affected by market forces such as supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors.

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

Countries can force up economic growth rates (actual the growth rate of economic activity) simply by mobilizing savings and forcing up investment rates, but ultimately their inability to absorb continuously the higher levels of capital mean that they can not push real wealth per capita beyond some fairly hard constraint represented by their institutional inability to absorb investment.

A strengthened (more resources), and more independent (report to Parliament) PBO would promote greater understanding of complex budget issues; it would strengthen credibility by encouraging simplification and forcing the government to defend its economic and budget forecasts; it would improve the budget process by promoting a straightforward and more understandable and open process; it would promote accountability by commenting on the government's projections and analysis; finally, by being nonpartisan it would provide analysis and research to all political parties.

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 automobile industry in particular was severely impacted by the poor economic conditions and several vehicle manufacturing companies, including General Motors and Chrysler, were forced to file for bankruptcy.

According to the «Austrian school», one of the most basic flaws in the QTM and in many other economic theories is the treatment of the economy as an amorphous blob that shifts one way or the other in response to stimuli provided by the government, the central bank, or a vague and unpredictable force called «animal spirits».

Surprisingly, only 40 % of respondents are familiar with recent trade deals such as the Canada - EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which will open up a market of more than 500 million customers by reducing 98 % of tariffs when it comes into force later this year.

In contrast, the economic and financial situation in Indonesia has continued to slip, with the forces set in train by the initial collapse of the exchange rate last December / January proving very destructive in terms of both the political and economic structure.

But she is also being acted on by forces — social, economic, cultural, political — larger than herself.

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

For the past 150 years Latin America has been controlled by economic oligarchies and military forces.

«Is the church a genuinely creative source of human welfare, or does it merely share in and decorate the goods created by economic and other secular forces?»

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

The feudal aristocracies of the Middle Ages were one by one overturned by the forces of modern political, economic, and religious life.

But to mistake the great range of social and economic problems experienced by human populations for problems driven or created by demographic forces is a profound error.

Marx and Engels maintain that the religious revolution which goes by the name of Protestant Reformation was actually a reflection of underlying economic forces.

As much as American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginations.

force nor simply be economic gain or the state of civic development but by a higher concept of equiality and solidarity... «28.

Governance efforts themselves are pulled apart by these transnational economic forces as the latter exercise political as well as economic power.

Science is also a part of the social order, influenced by practical needs, economic forces, and intellectual assumptions.

If the barbarian hordes could by economic necessity be forced into the government schools, teachers with the proper training might lure them from their native superstitions and win them to the American faith.

Social movements, networks of associations and analysts are given a voice to show the evolution of the economic system, the potential for action and the strategies of social forces and to formulate proposals and alternatives to the dominant system, supported by these movements.

That this is no longer true is due not to social and economic forces but to the blockbusting and white flight fostered by realtors and bankers that set blacks and Jews at each others» throats.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

There began to be the sense that events could be influenced only by large - scale, remote economic or governmental forces, or by extreme political initiatives on the right or on the left.

Conventional explanations of that election exaggerated the role of short - term economic forces, ignoring the contexts in which such factors were interpreted by voters.

In short, they will develop a relatively self - reliant economy and protect it from erosion by global economic forces.

Through a complex set of forces which can not here be traced, 8 Calvinism by way of Puritanism gave an undergirding to both political democracy and economic individualism.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

Economic expansion in this core was associated with two other dominant trends: growth in population (the so - called demographic transition, which both facilitated, and was facilitated by, industrialization) and the geographic inclusion of previously isolated, local, and ethnic sectors of the population into the commercial and industrial labor force.