Sentences with phrase «economic threats over»

Without Russia it would have died, but Putin signed because of economic threats over his membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO).

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While there is no doubt that information and communication technologies (think Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and Microsoft (MSFT) products) have unlocked tremendous economic value for businesses and countries all over the map, there is a threat looming above that otherwise idyllic dreamscape.

AI critics have warned about the threat to the job market, and according to a recent report from the World Economic Forum, over five million jobs could be wiped out globally in the next five years due to the rise of robots.

The full Senate was briefed Wednesday on the threat posed by North Korea, and the Trump administration is emphasizing that the president's approach prioritizes diplomacy and economic pressure over military options.

Unable to come up with any agreement in Seoul on resolving conflicts over currency and trade, the G20 created its own mantra: «Persistent global imbalances pose a threat to economic stability.»

During the 1960s, however, professed progressives concluded that the principal threat to individual freedom was not the state, big business, or economic privation, but traditional customs and social mores that claimed authority over people's lives and actions.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

WHEREAS, this pay differential shortchanges women and their families by thousands of dollars a year, and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime, presenting a lifelong threat to those families» economic security and reducing their earnings through Social Security and other post retirement plans; and

Environmental groups warned the simmering threat of diminished revenue may erode the shaky alliance they have forged with local governments over the past decade, allowing them to find common ground on issues like clean water infrastructure and economic development initiatives.

Liberalization of economic policies world - over, and various intergovernmental negotiations to open trades between different countries, have resulted in globalization, which, in my opinion, offers both tremendous opportunities, but also a few threats.

In fact, the current situation is analogous to the beginning of the furious debate over tort reform in the early 1990's, when business leaders were finally energized and organized to take on and win a protracted battle against a threat that had seriously jeopardized the state's economic viability.

The current situation is analogous to the beginning of the furious battle over tort reform in the early 1990's, when Texas business leaders were finally energized and organized to take on and win a protracted battle against a threat that had seriously jeopardized the State's economic viability.

Rather, reserves are going unutilized because of a profound lack of confidence on the part of economic actors bred by anti-growth policies promoted by the Obama administration (particularly healthcare reform) and the threat of significantly higher taxes (as much as US$ 6 trillion over the next 10 years if current plans aren't altered.)

This analytical report underlines that Marshlands area in Iraq is currently subject to a series of threats, including upstream water management, climate change, competition over land and resources, economic development and demographic pressure.

Based on data from the European Social Survey for Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and Switzerland, three different sets of explanations are tested: (1) hypotheses stressing economic determinants, that is, the fear of wage pressure and competition over welfare benefits; (2) hypotheses emphasizing cultural determinants, that is, the perception of immigration as a threat to national identity; and (3) hypotheses focusing on social alienation, that is, dissatisfaction with the way the country's democracy works and the nonintegration into intermediary networks (trade unions).

The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.

«While conventional D.C. wisdom is focused on the manufactured crisis of the «fiscal cliff,» the truth is that the most urgent threat to our national safety and economic well - being is the climate cliff that we are already beginning to tumble over,» Brad Johnson, campaign manager of ClimateSilence.org, said in a response.

While there is little controversy over EPR for hazardous items which have no economic value and pose threats to public health and the environment, there is grave concern about EPR... Read More

Much hand - wringing is occurring over how our economic apparatus will handle this surging demographic threat, but there is also a broader social component emerging.

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