Sentences with phrase «economic force for»

«That's a huge, huge potential economic force for any state or any city that attracts relocating boomers,» he said.

«However, as we move toward these cheaper materials there is no longer a strong economic force for recycling.

It suggests that «global imbalances» were the most discussed risk; that changes in household saving and borrowing had been recognised; and that there was a sense of the emergence of China as an important economic force for the Australian and global economies.

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There does not seem to be any obvious economic reasons for large job and labour - force losses that would be isolated to these five cities.

Though some analysts have worried that the intransigence of European lenders would force Greece into Russia's sphere of influence, it's not clear just what Russia could do for the Greeks, given Russia's own economic troubles amid low oil prices and Western sanctions.

Yet for all the talk of China's economic might, skeptics are gathering force.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

As a vice presidential nominee during Senator Bob Dole's unsuccessful run for president in 1996, Kemp had served in a sub-cabinet position under George H.W. Bush as chairman of the Economic Empowerment Task Force.

Porter tends to agree but expects the realities of the U.K.'s economic situation will force the country's monetary policy to stay the course — in other words, «very loose» and «for quite a long period of time.»

Such problems are not limited to the Air Force, and some have called for the reinstatement of the draft to address the personnel, financial, and economic issues created by an all - volunteer fForce, and some have called for the reinstatement of the draft to address the personnel, financial, and economic issues created by an all - volunteer forceforce.

Bizarrely, the authors ultimately abandoned support for the notion because of feminist concerns that joint filing would force wives to reveal their full incomes to their husbands and threaten the «economic autonomy of married women.»

To fully realize the economic benefits of having more women in the labor force, Japan needs to provide incentives for women to seek out more full - time work in high growth areas, he said.

Below we offer a look at what the financial reform law has meant for small banks, along with some of the other economic and market forces that are contributing to industry consolidation.

Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

The environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.»

As one of Michigan's leading corporate citizens, DTE Energy is a force for growth and prosperity in the 450 Michigan communities it serves in a variety of ways, including philanthropy, volunteerism and economic progress.

Global economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply chains.

The recent UK election is the latest signal that last year's «populist» political turns now face sturdy opposition, with implications for economic and market forces.

The concerted weakening in commodity prices already suggests a global force to this economic downturn, while further weakness in the U.S. dollar would suggest that demand for U.S. goods and securities was softening even more sharply than internationally.

Instead, the Committee has been forced to use the economic forecasts from the Bank of Canada, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the backdrop for its economic forecasts from the Bank of Canada, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the backdrop for its Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the backdrop for its reports.

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

Just like the sharing economy has proven to be an enormous economic force, we have empowered home energy customers to get paid for sharing their energy when other people on the grid need it most.

Achieving the goals that Springfield has set for itself is, of course, much easier in a robust economy, and the economic outlook I will share today is consistent with an economy that will require even more workers in the labor force.

The automobile industry in particular was severely impacted by the poor economic conditions and several vehicle manufacturing companies, including General Motors and Chrysler, were forced to file for bankruptcy.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

Based on this current pattern, it won't take long for inflationary forces to rule the global economic landscape.

Needless to say, unanticipated economic weakness could force a downward adjustment in expectations for future earnings and is inconsistent with highly valued financial assets.

Instead of freeing industrial capitalism from landlords, natural resource owners and monopolists, Western banks and bondholders joined forces with them, seeing them as major customers for as much interest - bearing credit as would absorb the economic rent that governments would refrain from taxing.

Its goals are to create strong financial returns for its corporate Limited Partners, be a force multiplier for Greater Cincinnati's economic development efforts and to build an Active Network of investors that Cincinnati startups can utilize.

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Economic growth depends largely on the size of the population in the labor force, making the steady wave of baby boomer retirees cause for concern.

For those who understand the tremendous financial and geopolitical forces that today are vying not so much for supremacy as they were previously, but for survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and economic distreFor those who understand the tremendous financial and geopolitical forces that today are vying not so much for supremacy as they were previously, but for survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and economic distrefor supremacy as they were previously, but for survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and economic distrefor survival; gold remains as it always has been — a store of value in times of monetary chaos and economic distress.

Rao, also a fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, spoke of India's current economic growth and the geo - political forces that make India an influential global «swing power.»

With his backing, the policy chief will be able to resist his critics into 2016 before the worsening economic slump eventually forces him to capitulate, according to Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of America Corp. «They could probably hold out for at least six months, maybe even a year,» said Ayodele Salami, chief -LSB-...]

Economic growth in Alberta remains positive, even when one accounts for every conceivable indirect outside force on the price of Canadian oil, no matter how tenuous the connection is: potential new Iranian supply, single - industry OPEC nations being forced to reduce output, Greece leaving the Eurozone, Donald Trump surging in the polls, Tom Brady facing suspension, etc..

Falling wages during the recession forced youth stuck in the margins of this economic crisis to sell their bodies for as little as the cost of a sandwich.

The Portland Oregonian reported that United Methodist leaders abandoned an attempt to gather signatures for a referendum on video poker because the proposed initiative could have forced tribes to give up their lucrative video games, and the tribes claimed that this was unfair to Native Americans struggling for economic growth.

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

In this picture man is no longer seen as subject to ineluctable economic forces, but as himself responsible for deliberately organizing his life - in - relation according to the requirements of social justice.

Some of my friends are sympathetic to the pro-life movement's ideal of a world where mother and child are both offered love and support, a world less subject to the cultural and economic forces that can make motherhood unthinkable for women in unplanned pregnancies.

These tactics include the nondisbursement for the last six months of U.S. economic assistance to Costa Rica, the failure to appoint a new U.S. ambassador, a campaign to force the resignation of a liberal Arias advisor, maneuvers to block international bank loans to Costa Rica and restrictions on Costa Rican exports to the U.S. 30

International economic enti / ties like the World Bank and IMF originally conceived to be non-partisan forces for good have been co-opted into profit engines for the corporate regime — a empire that is nearly nameless, conscionseless, leaderless yet ubiquitous.

For the past 150 years Latin America has been controlled by economic oligarchies and military forces.

But to mistake the great range of social and economic problems experienced by human populations for problems driven or created by demographic forces is a profound error.

Through the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas it is forcing on the whole of Latin America an economic system that gives free reign to corporations to expand their quest for short - term profits at whatever cost to the people and resources of these countries.

For example, as economists are forced to recognize that there are costs associated with exhausting resources and polluting the environment, it is possible to tackle these new questions in terms of the existing economic paradigm.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

So that in line with, and gradually replacing, the thrust from behind or below, we see the appearance of a force of attraction coming from above which shows itself to be organically indispensable for the continuance of the sequence, indispensable for the maintenance of the evolutionary impetus, and also indispensable for the creation of an atmosphere enveloping Mankind in the process of totalization, of psychic warmth and kindness without which Man's economic - technological grip upon the World can only crush souls together, without causing them to fuse and unite... The «pull» after the «push», as the English would say.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.