Sentences with phrase «economic collapse placed»

After the contractor's economic collapse placed project completion in jeopardy, Foley Hoag marshaled a team of experts to help bring the project to a close and, through mediation, resolved the contractor's $ 100 million claim for pennies on the dollar.

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This is sad that our system is beset by Republicans that think the best way out of a recession is to eliminate more jobs and take away workers and social protections so they can further the system that caused the economic collapse in the first place.

This growth took place largely in czarist Russia in the midst of a collapsing and oppressive economic and political order.

Paul Cheetham, Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Sciences and co-director of the project, added, «We are looking at the rural elite of late - Roman Britain, living through the economic collapse that took place during this period.

Rover takes place in Australia ten years after a global economic collapse.

«The Big Short» plays spoiler Another reason films such as «Carol» and «Straight Outta» likely couldn't garner enough first place votes is because of the unexpected last minute release of Adam McKay's 2008 economic collapse drama.

There is also a very strong sense of America's drifting towards one of the worst financial breakdowns in recent history, as we know Clinton's repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act was already in place by then, allowing financial deregulations to flourish to the point of a worldwide economic collapse.

That development, one might also recall, led to some really imaginative and cutting allusions to a once - great town trying anything to overcome economic collapse and, in the process, creating Sardine Land — a place no one in town would really want to see and no tourists would go out of their way to visit.

More large - scale emigration of Romanis to the Americas took place in the early 20th century, the majority of them fleeing economic depression and the persecution of the collapsing Austro - Hungarian empire after World War I. Today it is estimated that there are close to 100,000 so called Rom Amerko living in New York.

Though the Buenos Aires I visited in 2011 is different from the Buenos Aires depicted here — the story takes place in 2002, right after the country's economic collapse — I still recognize the city Swann passionately describes.

Arranged thematically from industrial to military sites, from ghosts towns to recreational sites, the book explains through extended captions the story of how each place came to be abandoned; whether it was natural or chemical disaster, war, economic collapse, or changing attitudes and tastes.

Its three - act structure is set in iconic places of the economic crisis that swept the world in 2008: London, whose banking system collapsed; Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, whose economy was wrecked in two weeks by a succession of strategic errors in managing the crisis» effects on the three local banks; and Dubai, a Middle East financial hub.

Lina's Selander films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge, the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.

Apocatopia, a group exhibition at Manchester's Castlefield Gallery, is the latest investigation of economic collapse, and its specific focus — how culture is consumed and the role of money, ritual and desire — is certainly one that artists are well - placed to explore.

McCrea's photographic enquiry into spaces where corporate art collections are hung, took place before the economic collapse.

The number (N) of generations remaining before our society collapses to subsistence or extinction with huge loss of life is dependent on (a function of [f]-RRB- the Population (P) Level in the world multiplied by the Average Standard of Living in the world placing Economic Demands on the Earth's finite non-renewable natural resources (R) economically available to humans.

If this movement was to collapse under its own contradictions and corruptions, and a peaceful pushback could be engineered, then climate action and the green businesses that are driving it are perfectly positioned to build a new economic model that both tackles the environmental crisis and addresses the social challenges that gave rise to the new populists in the first place.

One «justification» put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs and — in places like notionally wind «powered» South Australia — load shedding and blackouts (caused by daily wind power output collapses) is the claim that investment in wind power would create a -LSB-...]

While one can't be blamed for wanting to extract a harsh measure of revenge for the economic collapse guided by the NDP, I'm not sure we want to over ‑ compensate by becoming the first jurisdiction outside of Europe to place power in the hands of the Greens, which leads me to the other opposition party alternatives available to the voters of BC.

While one can't be blamed for wanting to extract a harsh measure of revenge for the economic collapse guided by the NDP, I'm not sure we want to over-compensate by becoming the first jurisdiction outside of Europe to place power in the hands of the Greens, which leads me to the other opposition party alternatives available to the voters of BC.