Sentences with phrase «concentrated in a few hands»

But when wealth is concentrated in a few hands, it gives these hands the power to shape markets to their own advantage.

«The power is concentrated in a few hands.»

A choice between an «irresponsible capitalism» which sees huge gaps between the richest and the poorest, power concentrated in a few hands, and people are just in it for the fast buck whatever the consequences.

In particular making sure that power isn't concentrated in a few hands, but we allow the smallest firms to flourish.

But others will note that costs typically increase in any industry that becomes overly concentrated in a few hands.

Not exact matches

Tightly controlled companies are the unloved children of the public markets, because they concentrate decision - making in the hands of the few to the exclusion of a firm's wider shareholder base.

Economic growth has traditionally meant that everyone is better off, but in Canada the latest surge of growth simply concentrated income gains in the hands of a few, with the richest 1 % taking almost a third of all income growth between 1997 and 2007.

But Bitcoin Unlimited's larger blocks would require more computing power, storage, and network bandwidth to process, which could concentrate mining in fewer hands, making the system both less secure and less democratic.

Statoil, Total, Shell and ConocoPhillips have all recently sold off oil sands stakes for a total of $ 27.3 billion in cash and shares, leaving most operations concentrated in the hands of a few large Canadian firms.

The market shakeout already under way throughout the Asia - Pacific region should concentrate capital in fewer, more experienced hands, easing the rampant competition that has kept asset prices high in recent years.

«There's been an over-focus on buybacks and raising EPS to hit share option targets, and we know that those are concentrated in the hands of the few, and that the few is in the top 1 percent,» said James Montier, a member of the asset allocation team at global investment firm GMO in London, which manages more than $ 100 billion in assets.

That power should not be concentrated in the hands of a few for reasons other than economic stake.

Nationally, we are concentrating wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

The market's tendency to concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands should be countered by redistributive policies.

Control of the media is concentrated in too few hands.

Money will remain concentrated where it is now — in the hands of a few people who are probably disdainful of anything you are doing now.

We can, however, appreciate the passion for justice to ordinary people and opposition to concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.

The objection is that it transfers wealth from the public to the banks and it concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.

It also concentrates power as well as wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The capitalist system concentrates decision - making in a few hands.

The world's wealth is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and those to whom we turn for advice in these matters tell us it is none of their business.

These people are just accomplishing step one of escaping the hold of oppressive religious cults, realizing that organized religions are obvious scams created to concentrate money and power in the hands of a few.

I agree that there have been many attempts to keep scripture out of reach of the laymen and that these attempts have often been a cynical attempt to keep power concentrated in the hands of a few.

They already concentrate far too much power in too few hands.

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

In addition to concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the EartIn addition to concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the Eartin fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the Earth.

They demand nothing short of upper class / caste domination in our society to end and strive for a new order wherein the wealth of nations is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few, but wherein people actively participate in the development and well - being of the nation.

The empirical and historical fact is that the market favors the rich over the poor and tends to concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

The war hastened the process of concentrating the wealth of this country in the hands of the few; it is a process which has been going on at accelerated pace ever since.

Hart claims that ownership of capital is concentrated in the hands of the «very few.»

There were some minor changes in the recipe, mostly due to limitations of my pantry: we do not have frozen apple juice concentrate here so I just finely grated some apples and added a pinch of sugar, let it sit for a few minutes to give the juice time to come out; o) I also used fresh apple juice instead of the water and didn't have any nuts on hand (silly me forgot to check and realized the were all gone when I as in the middle of baking) so I just crumbled some Italian nut cookies on top of all.

Power concentrated in the regime's hands means fewer possibilities for outside scrutiny to stop such illicit flows, especially of Colombian cocaine.

A provocative 2013 book written by French economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty - first Century, condemns the politics of austerity and unbridled capitalism that concentrate wealth in the hands of a few and create persistent inequalities.

But in a brief signed by four prosecutors, Bharara's office said Silver's claims had no basis in facts or the law and it defended the announcement of Silver's Jan. 22 arrest and remarks Bharara made a day later in a law school speech when he joked repeatedly that power in New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate president.

In a brief signed by four prosecutors, Bharara's office said Silver's claims had no basis in facts or the law and it defended the announcement of Silver's Jan. 22 arrest and remarks Bharara made a day later in a law school speech when he joked repeatedly that power in New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate presidenIn a brief signed by four prosecutors, Bharara's office said Silver's claims had no basis in facts or the law and it defended the announcement of Silver's Jan. 22 arrest and remarks Bharara made a day later in a law school speech when he joked repeatedly that power in New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate presidenin facts or the law and it defended the announcement of Silver's Jan. 22 arrest and remarks Bharara made a day later in a law school speech when he joked repeatedly that power in New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate presidenin a law school speech when he joked repeatedly that power in New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate presidenin New York State was «unduly concentrated in the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate presidenin the hands of just a few men» — the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate president.

By concentrating power in the hands of so few, he said, good people are discouraged from running for office because they know they will have little influence on important matters.

Power in New York State, as far as anyone can tell, is concentrated in the hands of just a few men — some would say, just three men.»

There is «too much power concentrated in the hands of a few and it's bad for the economy and bad for democracy.»

Patents — a favored metric for scientific innovation and another source of income for institutions — were also concentrated in the hands of a few: Ten percent of institutions hold 80 % of the NIH - funded patents.

At the moment, voice recognition data sets are mostly concentrated in the hands of a few companies, says Kelly Davis, who leads the Mozilla project.

Requiem for the American Dream Directed and written by Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks and Jared P. Scott (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Anchored by a series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, this definitive documentary of the «Two Americas» is an unvarnished account of how policies have helped concentrate wealth in the hands of a few at expense of everyone else.

Never mind staggering levels of unemployment in the inner cities or a system in which more and more of the nation's wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands; just place the blame on individuals whose characters are deficient.

MI: And I agree that having too much power concentrated in too few hands is not good for the industry or for readers and authors.

While proprietary systems can lead to rapid and targeted innovation (without the need for messy group consensus that is so often the case with open standards), it does leave a considerable amount of power concentrated in the hands of one or very few parties.

As Warren Buffett has noted, «Large amounts of risk, particularly credit risk, have been concentrated in the hands of relatively few derivatives dealers, who in addition trade extensively with one another.

Focus too heavily on dividend stocks, on the other hand, and you may end up with shares of companies concentrated in just a few industries, leaving you vulnerable if those sectors falter.

This was a time when ownership of almost the whole island was concentrated in the hands of a few people.