Sentences with phrase «by failed state»

Out of this electroacoustic cloud, a woman's voice announces: «I am an emissary from the future...» The time travelling character from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bathhouse (1930) invites those left behind by failed state capitalism and the neglect of free markets to join her in the commune of the future.

The existential threat so many of us fear is that we might all end up in a kind of global Somalia characterized by failed states, resource scarcity, and chaos.

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

The state government's failed shared services scheme will be completely decommissioned and its managing office shut down by the end of 2013 at a cost of $ 90 million.

The failed $ 6 - billion bid by China Minmetals (another state - owned enterprise) for Noranda, a Canadian copper and zinc miner, in 2004 had similar consequences: Canada did not see another major Chinese bid until this year.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

The Federal Reserve or the FDIC (and in some cases, both) have determined that Bank of America (bac), Bank of New York Mellon (bk), Goldman Sachs (gs), J.P. Morgan (jpm), Morgan Stanley (ms), State Street (stt), and Wells Fargo (wfc) have failed to produce «credible» crisis plans, despite some progress by all the banks.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

The announcement came days after the latest failed missile launch by the isolated state.

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.

It seems likely that many states would simply fail to meet this timeline or meet the timeline only by deploying ineffective policies.»

The most infamous ones include the failed attempt to buy Unocal by Cnooc, a Chinese state - owned energy giant, in 2005, and the aborted deal by Huawei, China's leading telecom equipment maker, to purchase 3Com in 2008.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

Hundreds of banks failed during that period, and to provide a mechanism by which failing banks could be acquired by other banks as a means to continue local banking services, state agencies and legislators expanded bank branching privileges within and sometime among states.

«Because Congress did not have a «strong basis of evidence» upon which to conclude that DoD was a passive participant in pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination — at least not on the evidence produced by DoD and relied on by the district court in this case — the statute fails strict scrutiny,» the decision stated.

Russian officials failed to understand the State Theory of money that is the basis of Modern Monetary Theory: States can create their own money, giving it value by accepting it in payment of taxes.

The result of all this is that fully one third of humanity is situated in countries where «failed state» conditions exist, and increasingly, those voids are being filled by Islamist extremism, with all its book burning, homosexual hanging, and adulteress burying.

Such services, through which a user pays by holding a smartphone close to a specially designed terminal, have failed to catch on in the United States despite the backing of Google Inc (GOOG.O) and other influential players.

On April 1, the Miami Herald editorial, «Nominee to head VA can't be slam dunk,» stated that the Miami VA Healthcare System has failed veterans by «putting those lives in danger» regarding HIV tests and cafeteria food inspections.

Thirty - two states either enacted legislation authorizing payday loans, failed to close loopholes exploited by the industry to make high - cost loans, or deregulated small loan interest rate caps.

ICI General Counsel David Blass told California State Treasurer John Chiang in a Thursday letter that the feasibility study, conducted by Overture Financial LLC, fails to fully consider the range of likely events that could raise the costs and undermine the feasibility of the program.

A former aide to a California legislator sued the state Senate on Thursday, alleging it failed to accommodate her emotional disabilities following what she said was a sexual assault by an Assembly staff member, and instead wrongly fired her for «pre-textual minor» work performance issues.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.»

The state is trying to permanently revoke the home's license, claiming it failed to protect its 150 residents, and Crawford has been hired by the state as an expert witness.

A downgrade on debt issued by the United States would have less severe consequences than a default, which takes places when a government fails to pay its creditors.

I can't be totally certain here, but I suggest that all major state insurance regulators should send Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson some really nice gifts, because had AIG's life companies failed, the state guaranty funds would have been hard pressed to come up with something north of $ 10 billion by surcharging the other insurance companies doing business in each state.

The saga of the failed BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., which was heightened by the potential involvement of a Chinese state - owned enterprise, carries several lessons for Canada as it prepares to deal with a growing number of large, and potentially controversial, acquisitions by state - owned and other enterprises.

Moody's Investors Service announced it would review «for possible downgrade» the credit ratings of five states, including Maryland, that could be hit particularly hard if Congress fails to raise the nation's debt limit by the Aug. 2 deadline and defaults on its financial obligations.

While critics of the deal focus on comparing Canada's tariff phaseout period on vehicles to the longer tariff cut schedule offered by the United States, they fail to acknowledge that the important bilateral concession offered by the United States was the immediate elimination of U.S. duties on auto parts — something that will benefit American assembly plants as well as TPP parts makers.

But a paper by Henrick Bessembinder from Arizona State University has recently found that 58 % of all stocks failed to outperform Treasury Bills over their lifetime in the paper's data set.

The United States regulator of accounting firms said on Thursday that a Big Four firm, Ernst & Young, had been too willing to trust figures supplied by corporate executives instead of evaluating them independently and had failed to improve its procedures even after being told to do so.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

Even the most determined attempts by powerful states to repress and extinguish religion (in Russia, China, Revolutionary France, Albania, and North Korea, for example) have failed.

If I fail to be scandalized by this state of affairs, then I run the risk of moral numbness.

I can see that one can gradually improve one's spiritual state — two steps forward, one step back, with failings followed by confession.

«The clergy could be called to account by the state if they failed to make use of their privileges for the benefit of the poor.»

«When taking vows as elders at Coral Ridge, each individual commits before God to strive for the purity, peace, and unity of the church,» Coral Ridge stated to CT. «We are saddened that these two elders failed in their vows by withholding this information regarding our former senior pastor, which has since caused many families and churches much harm.»

If you fail to give corrective admonition motivated by love, then not only will those in your charge remain uncorrected — you will therefore have failed in your duty to them — but things may drift into a worse state and you will fail even to grasp what has gone awry.

The New York Times: Priest Asks to Be Spared Prison Lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn of Philadelphia, the first senior official in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be convicted of failing to prevent child sex abuse by priests under his supervision, asked on Thursday that he be spared prison, arguing that a lengthy sentence «would be merely cruel and unusual.»

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

«85 What the report fails to acknowledge, of course, is that Protestantism (as well as Catholicism) in the United States achieves this harmony by relinquishing to civil agencies the authority to define God's commands.

The second charge admitted by the company stated that it failed to ensure members of the public were not exposed to risks to their safety arising out of the driving of public service vehicles by Chander.

However, the 2014 World Watch List (see full list below) from Open Doors International — which notes the increased impact of «failed states» and reveals its methodology for the first time — calculates a far lower total for Christian martyrdoms than recent estimates by other groups.

This position has been stated with the greatest clarity and consistency, in my judgment, by Paul M. van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.2 Van Buren argues that the attitudes of contemporary men are in every respect «secular» and that no presentation of the Christian witness can hope to be understandable which fails to reckon with this fact.

(Imagine switching it out in every classroom with the star of David, the crescent and star, the Om...) And it fails to see how others may see it... a distraction, an assertion against their own beliefs that is sanctioned by the state.

I will never consider it rude to state what the logical conclusion should be according to your attempted deduction, to demand a similarly logical deduction in support of any and all seriously made claims by others, to call out the bullshit when someone fails to do so, or to respond to people behaving like idiots, making idiotic statements or trying to argue without sufficient intellectual abilities, by calling them what they are: idiots.

Even counseling failed to reconcile her to her foster parents» values; she ran away and eventually had to be committed to a state girls» school, though the only «crime» she had committed was running away from a life style imposed on her by the courts.

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.