Sentences with phrase «economic competition»

In the latter half of the twentieth century, when coal was facing strong economic competition from oil and gas, such questions could be easily ignored.

In a setup of global economic competition, the competitiveness of regional economies relies on its ability to attract and retain top talent and creative minds.

Among them is a fear that the American workforce will be ill - equipped to face international economic competition once it turns up again.

It is here that we see another dimension to the policy debate with an emphasis upon balancing the means of delivery — rather than being driven simply by enthusiasm for economic competition.

The Russian energy minister said that sanctions imposed on his country are economic competition measures that impact negatively on its relations with certain countries.

There is an inherent tension in education between its traditional mission of social development and nation building, and the post war development of human capital and international economic competition.

Our book, Endangering Prosperity, shows how the U.S. states compare to the first division countries in economic competition.

«Unfortunately, when there are trade tensions or any type of economic competition between countries, and this isn't specific to Asia or China, but generally — that causes similar tensions with respect to race and ethnicity,» John Yang, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice said.

In terms of economic competition between countries or other environments, there is an advantage to being the place with the best mathematicians.

With an additional step, Pompon says, this yield could be upped to meet «the industrial requirement for economic competition with chemical synthesis.»

Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism.

But the intertwined constraints of diplomacy and international economic competition seem to make firm steps nearly impossible in this arena.

The President will continue to promote fair economic competition, and will make it clear that there can not be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules.

As secretary of state under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hull continued to act out of the conviction that «unhampered trade dovetailed with peace, high tariffs, trade barriers, and unfair economic competition, with war.»

Supposing that one can thrive in the social and economic competition merely through softness, cooperation, empathy and collaboration is, indeed, a pure myth.

• That the governor's economic competition creates the (movie theme) «Hunger Games», meaning «winners and losers»;

Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that a revived NASA — and a revived American innovation — may require a new focus on economic competition.

Over the last two centuries, peaceful economic competition among industrialized nations has further reduced war's frequency and lethality, Gat holds.

Since all of these degenerative diseases are directly caused by hormonal decline, they can be prevented or reversed (at least partially reversed) with the use of bio-identical hormones, representing direct economic competition with the drug industry which sells a drug for each degenerative disease (see above chart).

As the global marketplace makes economic competition and concern about career prospects far more acute, the NCTM's call for a greater concentration on critical thinking is a timely one.

In the school choice debate, it is easy to overlook the institutional and cultural nuances of market - based reform, because economic competition in the United States, at least from a bird's - eye perspective, looks similar across broad swaths of the private sector.

It was an appreciation for the possibility of chaotic, catastrophic consequences of unfettered economic competition (including global wars) that led people to create the Bretton Woods institutions.

How can that happen in a world of intensifying economic competition?

According to the Bloomberg report, fully 7 percent of U.S. coal energy generation is expected to shut down in 2015, spurred by the onset of a key mercury emissions rule and also by tougher economic competition from other energy sources.

We advise clients and prepare economic reports on a wide range of economic competition issues in the context of merger control proceedings, antitrust and market abuse investigations, state aid investigations and antitrust claims for damages.

The statement is particularly notable, coming from the chairman of the country's economic competition regular and a member of South Korea's cryptocurrency task force — an inter-governmental collective tasked to propose a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

Elsewhere, the Bank of Korea (the country's central bank), the Financial Supervisory Service (the financial watchdog) and the Fair Trade Commission (the regulator for economic competition), have all banned their employees from trading cryptocurrencies during work hours, urging them to trade during their off - duty hours instead.

2018-04-08 14:22 Americans mythologize economic competition, but it's actually the opposite of capitalism.

S. James Gates Jr., a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland and self - described policy wonk, shared his thoughts on the future of «big science» and the challenges the nation faces as it responds to increased scientific and economic competition from abroad.

The downward pressure on wages in the United States and Canada will be accompanied by a downward pressure on wages in those regions with which North America is in economic competition.

From a different perspective the nuclear power plants pose a barrier towards economies of scale in renewable energy supply with the two consequences of (a) losing an edge advantage in international economic competition in renewable energy technologies and (b) getting the intertemporal optimization wrong.

The Nash equilibrium, once it is explained, sounds obvious, but by formulating the problem of economic competition in the why that he did, Nash showed that a decentralized decision making process could, in fact, be coherent — giving economics an updated, far more sophisticated version of Adam Smith's great metaphor of the Invisible Hand.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

One way is to frame the benefits differently — economic competition and innovation, national security, improved learning, or more substantial political debate — for different constituencies.

This ideology insists that «everything from the necessities of economic competition to limited resources requires «cramming» future populations in ever smaller spaces.

We often wish we could find a verse that would settle all the complex issues of family life, economic competition and tension, international order, and war.

In this way men of wealth felt they were dealing with the problems of human want which emerged from economic competition.

The early tract and missionary societies enlarged their work of rescuing human wrecks of economic competition, and they began to pay more attention to the immigrant through language classes and employment agencies.

Many sincerely believe that the free market is the mechanism of justice, so that winners in the economic competition have the right to whatever doors their resources may open — including political ones.

Today the political and economic competition between England and Germany that resulted in two wars in the 20th century has faded into partnership in the European Common Market.

There is a kernel of truth in the notion, popularized by laissez - faire, that economic competition is governed by rules outside human control.

Partly it has been a function of imitation, beginning in the nineteenth century with Bismarck's social welfare programs in Germany, and partly it has been prompted by international economic competition, again starting in the nineteenth century, with national governments playing an increasing role in regulating and promoting all forms of economic activity.

When applied to human society they have been used to justify the survival of the fittest, meaning by «fittest,» whoever survives in the military and economic competition.