Sentences with phrase «country at a time of crisis»

We formed this Coalition in good faith and for the good of the country at a time of crisis.

Not exact matches

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

The contract «particularly important» at a time when Europe has threatened to cut gas imports and reduce its dependence on Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, said Alexander Lukin, a deputy head of the Russian Diplomatic Academy under the country's Foreign Ministry, quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.

It is certainly true that the countries at the centre of the Asian crisis — Thailand, Indonesia and Korea — had rates that were de facto soft fixes — a high degree of stability in the good times, but not any serious institutional defences when they came under pressure.

Imagine, then, the young courtier, deeply concerned with the social and political problems of his country, which is faced by a «demise of the crown» at a time of crisis in international affairs; concerned with these problems, but at a level deeper than that of ordinary political discussion.

Invoking the National Interest is more commonly associated with times of war or major crisis, and the consequent need for the government to rally all the forces and interests within a country behind it: UK Prime Minister Theresa May used it at least twice in her Lancaster House speech of 17 January.

At tribute for slain NYPD Officer Brian Moore, police Commissioner Bill Bratton said: «(W) e're in a crisis at this time, in this country, on issues of race, around effectiveness of policing, around police tactics, probably the most significant I've seen since I joined policing in 1970.&raquAt tribute for slain NYPD Officer Brian Moore, police Commissioner Bill Bratton said: «(W) e're in a crisis at this time, in this country, on issues of race, around effectiveness of policing, around police tactics, probably the most significant I've seen since I joined policing in 1970.&raquat this time, in this country, on issues of race, around effectiveness of policing, around police tactics, probably the most significant I've seen since I joined policing in 1970.»

What on earth is this House doing spending two precious days debating an issue that has no interest outside the Westminster village and for which there is no demand in this country at a time when we are facing a domestic crisis of major proportions?

«We've seen a chancellor and a prime minister playing politics with the Budget at a time when we have one of the most serious financial crises this country's ever faced.»

At that time, the economy was sliding into recession; the Boko Haram insurgent group was carrying out deadly attacks, contrary to Buhari's promise of defeating the sect within a few months of coming into power, and the President was junketing around the world amidst the crises in the country.

But he said it was «necessary for our country that our parties work together at a time of financial crisis».

A research professor of education at New York University, Ravitch recently published a book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools — which argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement, but of the destruction of public schools across the country — that landed in the number 10 spot on the New York Times Best Seller list.

While heavily inspired by social issues, specifically the economic crisis in his home country of Puerto Rico that has unfolded over the past 11 years, the artist claims that the works are a not a direct view of the island, but make subtle references to «our history, specifically in the context of being in the Greater Antilles, being Caribbean, but being part of the United States at the same time.»

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

Moreover, we must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization at a time when our country must simultaneously solve two other worsening crises.

The key to its success was the juxtaposition of the firewood crisis — affecting a third of humanity, but largely below the radar — with the oil crisis — of which the industrial countries were, at a time of quadrupling oil prices, keenly aware.

The NewYork Times: With one week left for the U.N. climate change talks to conclude, developed and developing countries remain at odds on how to solve the crisis being linked to the recent spate of extreme weather events that have claimed lives and destroyed property worth billions of dollar.

In the issue of finding resources to implement sustainable development, we see countries using the economic crisis as an excuse, while at the same time spending 100s of billions of dollars subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable industry in the world.

This plays quite well into the rich country strategy of stalling their own ambition (both in terms of reducing their emissions and in terms of financing adaptation and mitigation in developing countries) and worsening the climate crisis, while at the same time setting up an international treaty to lock in China et al to reduce emissions.

During his time at the bank, Byrne has been involved in some of Europe's biggest country bailouts in the wake of the financial crisis, including Italy, Iceland, Portugal, Malta and Greece.

It would be a retrograde step to remove the specialist position of Social Justice Commissioner, with functions performed by someone experienced in Indigenous life, at a time which I consider is a crisis point for Indigenous people in this country.