Sentences with phrase «economic clout of»

Ethical Traveler is a nonprofit organization seeking to use the economic clout of tourism to protect human rights and the environment.

Not exact matches

Such gangs are believed to not have the economic and political clout to expand beyond local drug sales and trafficking, and the State Department reports that they «do not yet appear to be a formal part of the transnational drug logistics chain.»

If retirement income is to fall, then, it will take an epic reversal of economic trend lines that have been in place for decades (not to mention a reversal of the growing political clout of the senior vote).

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

The story ignited a firestorm among top creators and their legions of fans, illustrating that, even as old media mainstays may chuckle at a new wave of digital influencers, their budding economic and cultural clout has become no laughing matter.

Although all the unions in Canada put together would not match the financial size of any one of the country's 150 largest corporations, the Rand formula does provide unions with stable funding to exercise a modicum of political and economic clout in their encounters with companies and governments.

To illustrate the level of influence and economic clout that property shows have, the International Property Show has triggered transactions of more than US$ 40billion between 2006 and 2015, organisers say.

The TPP was one of former president Barack Obama's signature efforts, part of a broader strategy to increase American clout in Asia and provide a check on China's economic and military ambitions.

As noted in the recent 2016 State of Women - Owned Businesses Report — and in our previous blogpost — women - owned firms are continuing to grow in number and economic clout at rates well above the national average.

It is like the Heritage Foundationâ $ ™ s Index of Economic Freedom and the Cato / Fraser Instituteâ $ ™ s Economic Freedom of the World Report, but supported by the World Bankâ $ ™ s credibility and clout.

In consequence the new middle class has cultural clout enormously larger than one might expect from its relatively modest numbers and financial resources (the latter are considerable, but still modest when compared to the economic might of the business community).

Saudi Arabia has the most economic and political clout, but the Emirates - principally Dubai and Abu Dhabi alongside Qatar and Bahrain - have first - class connectivity and aspire to become global cities to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.

(Which, incidentally, is another theme that reappears throughout European history...) But still, in the new North vs. South Europe France could represent the crucial swing vote, and throw some political clout behind the interests of the South, preventing Germany from fully setting the economic agenda for the continent.

They hold several key advantages over the UK, in terms of the timetable, the consequences of failure, negotiating capacity, and economic clout.

American women stayed home from work, zipped up their wallets, wore red and joined rallies across the country to demonstrate their economic clout as part of International Women's Day events around the globe.

He has argued that states like New York will always come out on the short end of such trade deals, losing jobs and economic clout.

But during the Erie County cultural funding crisis of 2011, the arts community banded together to assert their collective clout and made arguments about the importance of arts funding as an economic driver for the region.

Jacqui Patterson, director of the Environment and Climate Change Justice Program at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, said impacts of climate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industries close.

By taking away economic clout from politically connected firms, street protests could shift the balance of power in countries that have few checks on government influence.

He forgets the powerful role that western and U.S. militarism and economic clout have played in world affairs and in the domination and subjugation of many of the world's peoples and material resources over recent centuries.

Obviously, touchscreen manufacturers have been caught off guard while Apple, making good use of its superior economic clout, contracted for most of the touch panels that manufacturers were able to produce, leaving precious little for all the others to purchase.

From this point, taxes on imported and exported goods were paid, and the city's ports, where countless goods changed hands, were serviced and maintained, effectively becoming a major seat of the young nation's quickly growing economic clout and international interests.

It is not just about economic clout, as we are seeing in the current attempts by the Chinese to militarize and annex the entirety of the South China sea.

We are just as much concerned with inequities in Appalachia, for example, where white people are basically dumped on because of lack of economic and political clout and lack of having a voice to say «no.»