Sentences with phrase «creates economic pressure»

This is why it was being discussed in the first place to change the policies for insurance as it creates economic pressure.

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In brief, what happens is this: Central banks put downward pressure on interest rates (by creating new money) in an effort to promote economic growth, but the economy's prospects can not be improved by falsifying the most important price signals.

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

Economic factors often create stress and put pressure on relationships.

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

It's unclear, though, whether there's enough political pressure, especially during an election year, to convince the Republican - controlled Senate to approve the $ 1.25 per hour raise and create a system of automatic future increases tied to other economic changes.

Although there has been political pressure on the state to curtail SUNY Poly's economic development mission, Johnson and Zemsky say these are incredible assets that have been created, especially locally.

«Mandatory insurance for all home - owners would reassign the costs for damage within a framework of solidarity, while the premium rebates would create economic incentive for private mitigation measures to tackle elementary damage such as flooding, severe rainfall and snow pressure,» prompts Prof. Reimund Schwarze from UFZ as food for thought.

Without incorporating PADDD and protected area robustness into systematic conservation planning frameworks when identifying where new sites should be placed, there could be a risk of creating protected area networks with inherent structural vulnerabilities to economic and demographic pressures.

To alleviate this pressure, businesses have to prove real value by making strategic decisions about automation to enhance performance, and they must create efficient operations that respond swiftly to industry and economic changes.

I think of the Confederation, where the economic pressure became so great that an extra-constitutional coup took place to create the Constitution, and implicitly, the fiat Dollar that we live with to this day.

According to hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservations service for over 210,000 hotels around the world, the economic crisis and associated corporate pressure to reduce costs has created a clear trend for increased use of low cost online hotel reservation tools.Especially large corporations that make high numbers of bookings are currently using the present economic situation as a reason to move from planning to use online hotel reservation tools towards actually implementing such projects in - house or at least promoting the use of existing online applications to save costs.

That not only creates budget pressure but tempts developing nations that signed nonbinding statements of intent in Paris not to sacrifice economic growth in pursuit of lower emissions.

Using 24 key social, economic, and environmental indicators, our friend Félix Pharand - Deschênes has created a dashboard that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is reaching critical level.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

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«The Greens opt to pressure democratically elected governments to reject a large body of science in favour of authoritarianism and promote policies which create unemployment and economic contraction.»

Douglas Scott director Jonathan Nolan says: «Budgetary pressures born of the ongoing liberalisation of the legal services market and economic uncertainty mean that law firms are engaged in a balancing act — they want to create opportunity but at a price they are comfortable with.»

Once domestic fiscal resources exceed foreseeable budget needs there is a twofold rationale to create a long - term savings fund: the first is to better accumulate and manage assets and the second is to invest overseas to avert «Dutch Disease» - inflationary and currency pressures that might stifle economic activity.

The economic downturn, fierce competition, pricing pressures and advances in technology have coalesced to create an environment where change is constant and adaptation a must.

[13] Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia summarised the ethical issues which arise as a result of the conflict the billable hours system creates between the economic pressure on a firm to maximise its profit and the ethical pressure on lawyers to work in their client's best interest: «Only a very slight change of focus needs to be made by a lawyer to change from (a) expecting a profitable return from running as well and efficiently as possible a large case in court, to (b) planning how to make as much money as possible from running the same large case in court.»

Nowhere is this more evident than in the healthcare industry, where a climate of increased regulatory and economic pressure, alongside radical technological advances, is creating the demand for new business models and new job descriptions.