Sentences with phrase «economic shackles»

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

It's no secret that bigger nations easily derail African leaders by luring them into flashy deals that end up leaving theirs countries in economic shackles.

Now that the economic shackles are coming off today's young urbanites, cities that want to stay vibrant have to figure out how to convince them — and their growing families — to stick around.

Not exact matches

Environmentalists will see a carte blanche handed to planet - destroying extraction industries; self - styled economic realists will see those same industries shackled.

«Business and consumer sentiment is strong, but both must be released from the regulatory and tax shackles constraining economic growth.»

Indonesia started to throw off the shackles of socialism in the mid-1960s when President Suharto assumed power, and the result has been one of the fastest sustained economic growth rates in the world.

But shackling small firms, the drivers of economic growth, with extra expense is not the answer,» said national chairman Carol Undy.

Our goal is to liberate our people from the shackles of oppression and economic seizure brought about by administrative hooliganism and brigandage in the high places.

While it is quite true that some of the shackles on growth are outside of the control of domestic economic policy, such as the continuing eurozone crisis and imported inflation, government does have a role to create the best possible environment for businesses to thrive and grow.

Shackled to the Coalition's economic framework, the core of which is slashing the public sector, Labour's small progressive proposals were drowned out by the overwhelming commitment to austerity.

Developing nations «need economic empowerment, to remove the shackles that lock poverty in; and economic liberalism, to remove the barriers that hold prosperity back,» he said.

«It is no use «liberating» the NHS from top down political control only to shackle it to an unelected economic regulator.»

State Liquor Authority Chairman Dennis Rosen said: «For decades the SLA had outdated rules, regulations and policy directives on the books that have only shackled economic growth and left business men and women frustrated.

He wrote about Brazil as this sleeping giant shackled by inflation, and fifty years later, that's still arguably the biggest economic story playing out in South America.

In a country where someone can purchase a home at a 3.5 - 4 % mortgage rate, it should be possible for students to invest in themselves, their education, and contribute towards their country's prosperity without being shackled to student debt burdens that are not aligned with today's economic realities.

With China and India, and all the developing nations, refusing to participate, the Kyoto treaty would serve to shackle US economic development and do next to nothing to reduce global warming.

Instead, it has simply said that it will reduce its carbon emissions per unit of GDP — because it doesn't want its economic growth shackled to a fixed target.