Sentences with phrase «described as a crisis»

The Lancet series has highlighted what can only be described as a crisis in breastfeeding in the UK.

He acknowledged that it's harder to be a critic during a period that Democrats are describing as a crisis.

Over the past five years or so, as the poaching of elephants has swelled to record numbers, environmentalists and researchers have pointed a finger firmly at China's ravenous appetite for ivory as the main cause for what is now widely described as a crisis.

Not exact matches

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

He described it as a win for the president because it boosts Defense Department funding, authorizes more money to fight the opioid crisis and puts more money toward border enforcement.

In the book, Schweizer details what can only be described as insider trading by many members of Congress during the financial crisis.

But while all that red ink set up the necessary conditions, it took the threat of a sovereign debt crisis and the rise of small - c conservatism to generate what John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, has described as a «stampede towards austerity.»

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

Unresolved, these problems will have clear implications for the Canadian economy, a fact Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged when he described the European debt crisis as «the most immediate and imminent threat to the global recovery.»

One could easily describe the 2008 financial crisis as a teachable moment.

Greenspan later described him as «the major policymaker» during that crisis.

This belief is so powerfully embedded in the standard equilibrium models most economists use that, strangely enough, even those of us who described the imbalances in one paragraph and in the very next paragraph insisted that a crisis was unlikely — in China's case because of the government's very high credibility and its role as financial guarantor — were automatically assumed to be predicting an imminent crisis.

The young investors who are looking to enter the market would likely be cheered by investors, who have long argued that millennials should get over what some have described as an aversion to equities — a byproduct of their coming of age and starting their careers during the worst of the financial crisis — and take advantage of a long - term, buy - and - hold strategy that allows them to benefit from compound interest.

There are certainly areas of desperation, including unemployment among minority youth and individuals with disabilities, but at the current unemployment rate of 4.6 %, my impression is that the «jobs crisis» in this country is actually better described as an income crisis, because wages and salaries as a share of total income remain near record lows.

It's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental - health crisis in decades.

Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world's top global thinkers after he was able to accurately describe the current economic crisis that began in 2008, many years prior to it happening.

The outbreak has been described not only as a health crisis, but also as a humanitarian crisis with global dimensions.

And in O'Malley's defense, it must be remembered that he is the pastor of a local church which may aptly be described as an ecclesiastical Chernobyl, the ground zero of the American abuse crisis.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

The country has been described as a failed state in permanent crisis.

According to the NRB, the crisis was chiefly created by what can only be described as misgovernance by the bishops.

The early years of marriage were described in Chapter I as «the second crisis of intimacy.»

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday described the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan as «beyond biblical in terms of its proportion.»

Marshall describes the situation facing the rural Church as nothing less than «a slow burn crisis» and yet there is a striking passion and commitment to rural ministry in the face of significant challenges.

And one result of that is a constitutional crisis created by what is aptly described as the judicial usurpation of politics.

The several aspects of pastoral care for the emotionally disturbed described above set forth some principles and structure for the functioning of community clergy as they become involved with crises in the parish and in the community mental health setting.

David J. Bosch has described the controversies as a crisis «more radical and extensive than anything the Church has ever faced in her history «21 By the early 1970s there were serious misunderstandings between the Evangelicals and the Ecumenicals.

More citizens view what the Surgeon General has described as a «public health crisis» with alarm, recognizing that it needs to be addressed through regulatory standards in several arenas.

He is described as suffering a crisis of vocation, but a better word for it may be the dark night of the soul.

The CBN's research agency, in a study of partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other religious organizations, partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

Judy Moore described the summit as «an opportunity to prevent the world's fastest growing refugee crisis becoming one where refugees face long - term need.»

Wilpon is described «as a micromanager who creates an environment in which the Mets simply whipsaw from one crisis to the next and are too often governed by how their decisions will be publicly perceived.»

The fact that the media, Ian Wright, Thierry Henry and Martin Keown, have gone on record to describe the situation as a crisis highlights how bad things are.

And the specter of canceling or disrupting one of only eight Panthers home games — unlike, in the case of the Baltimore Orioles, canceling one of 81 home contests in the wake of Freddie Gray's tragic killing in 2015 — would be described by some as a civic crisis.

Despite not offering much in terms of a goal threat, he is described as a technically gifted midfielder with an excellent range of passing — perfectly suited to solve United's renowned midfield crisis.

Similarly, the notion of the period of PURPLE crying is useful in a crisis, but should not be presented to parents as a baseline for infant behavior, since colic is diminished or prevented by nurturing parenting behavior (Barr & Geertsma, 2002), and the type of crying described does not represent the majority of infants, especially around the world.

Alibi also described as false, a memo purportedly written by Kachikwu to the President on the fuel crisis, stating that it is diversionary.

It's interesting that Cuomo chose to use the word «disgusting», because it's one that his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, has also employed to described what he alleges is the AG's role in the mortgage crisis when he was serving as HUD secretary.

To take a politician's lead, last week Prime Minister Valls described the migrant situation as «a crisis that endangers the European project.»

Miliband worked closely with the think tank Policy Network on the concept of predistribution as a means to tackle what he described as «the growing crisis in living standards».

State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing parts of midtown and the east side, on Wednesday described the resolution as «more than a little disturbing» in reference to the Senate's response to the MTA's transit crisis and budget woes.

She described the leadership crisis as a «complete shambles» and said it was a «statement of the obvious» that Corbyn had to go.

New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick did not hold back on his feelings about the current state of transportation, which he regarded as a «crisis,» and described traffic congestion in the city as «unbelievably bad.»

In Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, Matthew Carr (2012: 120) describes the immigration - media nexus in the UK as a «mutually reinforcing consensus between governments, the media and the public that invariably depicts immigration as an endless crisis [and undocumented migrants as] dangerous and dehumanised invaders massing outside the nation's borders» (read Inez von Weitershausen's review of the book here).

However, a member of Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu said the problems of the downstream sector that have led to the petrol crisis in the country exposes what he described as «crisis of corporate governance in the petroleum sector.»

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, flayed the statement credited to the former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, that governors should sack civil servants to resolve the irregular salaries payment crisis, describing the call as «absurd».

Seumas Milne was correct to describe Miliband as «the heir to Blair who voted to invade Iraq, out - hawked the Bush administration during the 2008 Georgian crisis and has continued to hanker after the marketisation of public services».

Maloney described Rangel as «a fair leader of the delegation,» a group that bonded over a chaotic, decade - plus stretch that included the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Sandy and the 2008 financial crisis.

Shehu reiterated that the meeting would take place in Accra, after the inauguration of Ghana's President - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo, describing said the meeting as critical to the resolution of the crisis in The Gambia.