Sentences with phrase «by economic struggles»

«The tradition of investigative journalism» by experienced and well - informed reporters «has been weakened in the [past] decade... by the economic struggles of magazines and newspapers in the wake of the Internet's rise,» she notes.

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2018 will be a defining year for Mexico, a country plagued by corruption, violence in its struggle against gangs and drug cartels, and slow economic growth.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

Brazil has struggled in the past years, bogged down by unfavorable economic conditions including a collapse in growth.

But it's struggling to turn a profit, lacks some advantages of traditional banks and has yet to be tested by an economic slump.

While the two largest Spanish banks — BBVA and Santander — have continued to grow, albeit driven by profitable Latin American operations, small regional savings bank have been struggling in a market characterized by slow economic growth, higher funding costs and unemployment near 21 %.

The hundreds of pages of transcripts from eight meetings and six emergency conference calls held by the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, show Fed officials struggling from the start of 2008 to assess the economic damage of a steep drop in housing prices and then worrying about the implications of their actions to halt the crisis.

At last month's Seoul summit of the G20 — or the G19 +1, as one senior Asian central bank official recently dubbed it — the US was isolated from the other world economic powers by the Federal Reserve's decision to print hundreds of billions of dollars to boost the struggling US economy.

Other economic policies include reducing the regulatory burden for small businesses and northern development; a new $ 75 million venture capital fund to help businesses commercialize new technology developments; a $ 900 million Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and a $ 250 million Automotive Innovation Fund to support these industrial sectors; a $ 1 billion Community Development Trust to support communities and workers in struggling industries; a commitment to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers by 2010; pursuing new trade agreements with emerging markets; as well as a reorganization of federal regional development strategies.

China's economy is struggling, but PNC experts remind U.S. consumers and investors that our money is minimally affected by China's economic conditions.

Led by a feminist Prime Minister who campaigned on a promise of inclusive growth, Canada is well placed to become a global leader in tackling the twin struggles of gender and economic inequality.

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

The method: start by networking innovative experiences and political, social and economic struggles for another «globalisation

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

The first is that they might become, or be made into, palliatives to structural situations caused by the economic system, rather like the St.Vincent de Paul Conferences in the XVIII and XIXth Centuries: fine people but ineffective in the struggle to change social relations.

By similar action, peoples throughout the world struggle to attain their goals in societies dominated by oppressive political and economic systemBy similar action, peoples throughout the world struggle to attain their goals in societies dominated by oppressive political and economic systemby oppressive political and economic systems.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

We started out with the proposition that the ideal of a fraternal organization of society will remain powerless if it is supported by idealists only; that it needs the firm support of a solid class whose economic future is staked on the success of that ideal; and that the industrial working class is consciously or unconsciously committed to the struggle for the realization of that principle.

To use the technical terms of Marxist theory, the struggle for economic power functions as the base of social reality, while literature and poetry, music, and the arts are part of the «superstructure» that is determined by the base.

In so far as people in our culture act in segmentalized roles are defined and required by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

And the church must be prepared to stand by the people when they struggle for an economy that gives priority to eco-justice and social justice rather than economic growth through trans - national high technology.

Now that nearly a century of economic recession has lowered the population by half, the churches struggle hard to stay afloat.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

The economic factors of life in many primitive cultures dictated that those members of the tribe who could not share the burden of the struggle for survival were not carried by the tribe, even as revered, elderly dependents of the society.

Most social hardship is caused by their misguided neoliberal economic policies, but migrants represent convenient scapegoats for low - paid labour and struggling public services.

The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

Whereas, we can take pride in the progress our state and nation have made in reinforcing women's rights over the decades and recognize that we have not yet crossed all thresholds to fulfilling our mission and quest for true equality; today we celebrate the economic, social, and political accomplishments of women, we honor the courageous women who have made extraordinary contributions to their countries and communities, and we pause to remember the struggles waged by generations of women who have led the fight for equality and justice; and

«As our region's businesses, residents and school districts have struggled to cope with burdensome taxes, George Amedore have been slowing our economic recovery by raising them even higher,» Amedore opponent Sara Niccoli said.

By Sean Ryan Business parks, tax breaks and other tried - and - true perks just aren't enough anymore, say economic development officials struggling for new ways to attract and retain companies.

«I don't need to tell you that economic justice and equal opportunity have gone the way of checkered cabs and 50 - cent slices,» he said, arguing that the «rich keep getting filthy rich,» while others struggle to get by in the city.

Trump, who is reportedly struggling with the fact that his image as a consummate dealmaker (back when he was just a real estate mogul and reality TV star, and not the president) might be tarnished by a health care reform failure, will hold a National Economic Council meeting this morning.

And economic struggles in the Upstate region give Democrats hope in this district where registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by 40,000.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) had earlier observed that The Gambia's president - elect Adama Barrow will struggle to govern, if embattled President Yahya Jammeh is forcefully ejected by military assembled by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

The Big Short examines the 2008 economic collapse, and how it was spurred by predatory financial institutions taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams of succeeding in America, from the point of view of the banks that caused the catastrophe; The Florida Project shows us the swampy, brightly - colored, half - decayed Florida landscape briefly glimpsed in The Big Short, and centers on the very people who are struggling the most financially as a result of the greed of others and the desire to achieve the vaunted American Dream.

More specifically, I will explore the ways in which Hasköy and Güzeltepe youth's struggle against social and economic exclusion is shaped by a sense of urgency — sometimes at the expense of their future — as exemplified in the reaction of the young man who finds an alternative way to enter the mall at the expense of his body.

I can assure you that my generation has only recently woken up — probably rudely shaken to reality by the fact that our struggles to plan for a carefree «after work» life, has not and will not materialize, and most of us finding that the efforts to ensure a good pension plan, has largely been based on illusions, dished out by the insurance companies, which ultimately are not much better than the banks that have brought on the economic demise, but for their part will still continue their self - enriching bonus system.

The report is one of a series that the Brookings team has conducted on the impact of changes in mainstream news media over the past five years, where general reporting on local and statewide education issues has fallen dramatically as print media has struggled in the current economic climate and changes brought on by the internet.

Booksellers, hobbled by the economic crisis, are struggling to lure readers.

Tested by years of economic struggles, Malaysian publisher Arief Hakim watches for signs of benefit in change.

Americans are struggling with the current economic crisis that was brought on by careless mortgage lending.

Brazil has struggled in the past years, bogged down by unfavourable economic conditions including a collapse in growth.

A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 50 % of Americans would struggle to come up with $ 2,000 in a pinch.

As the economic recovery struggles to gain traction and many Americans find themselves drowning in overwhelming debts, it's far more common for consumers to consider more creative borrowing options just to get by.

Fix OK proposes an effective economic model designed to reduce the homeless pet population by saving innocent lives while also reducing the burden on taxpayers struggling to financially to pick up the tab for irresponsible pet owners.

Current difficulties with «making a living» from one's art is purely due to the downturn in global economic downturn and I, as a single example, am struggling to keep my head above water until the art market picks up again — to drop my prices by up to 99 % just to get more sales, would be total artistic suicide!

The dreams of Art et Liberté were often concerned with social inequality, economic exploitation and struggling bodies — dreams troubled by the reality of Egypt under British colonial rule and a fascist fervour sweeping Europe,

Featuring long takes of the weathered modules surrounded by the encroaching jungle, and environmental recordings layered with a composition by electronic musician Karl Fousek, Hartt's piece offers a study of this unrealized experimental project — and the optimism from which it was conceived — recontextualized within the political and economic struggles of contemporary Puerto Rico.

The football pitch becomes a site for the struggle for economic survival, played out by the African football player for both himself and his team.