Sentences with phrase «economic trouble at»

Japan is experiencing some serious economic trouble at the moment largely because they are importing so much fossil fuel energy thanks to having their nuclear off line.

Regardless of your opinions of Alisher Usmanov, regardless of the rights and wrongs of his business ethics and regardless of if we would have suffered due to the Russian economic trouble at present this fact tells you all you need to know about what's wrong with our club.

Not exact matches

Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

On the prospect of recession, I'm reasonably well - known as one of the only economists who correctly warned in real - time of oncoming recessions in October 2000 and again in November 2007 — both points where the consensus of economic forecasters indicated no expectation of oncoming trouble at all.

Odd, then, that even at this late stage some are publicly questioning whether the proposed Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) is worth the trouble.

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

The Prime Minister finds himself as politically impotent as at any time in his troubled premiership, at once unable to dominate the economic argument and stripped of moral authority, even around his own cabinet table.

A lot of the government's troubles this month have been laid at the feet of the Budget, and while Conservative supporters are more positive about it than other voters — as we would expect — there are signs that the government's reputation for economic credibility has taken a hit.

Other countries facing economic troubles like Venezuela right now, would still suffer from being a petrostate in a world of $ 50 / barrel crude even if they had no debt at all.

Jim Heaney tells Susan Arbetter of The Capitol Pressroom there's a «corruption coalition» at play in Albany that explains the failure of the state Legislature to reform New York's troubled economic development programs.

He said it was aimed primarily at Upstate New York because of its economic troubles.

Having run into trouble at Princeton for his ties to online gambling and now in debt for thousands, math whiz Richie Furst (Timberlake)-- whose once - promising Wall Street career was killed by the»08 economic crisis — discovers he's been cheated out of his money by an offshore gambling site.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

The truth is, Ruf knows precisely where its most lucrative market resides, and having a physical presence at its heart in these troubled economic times may well turn out to be a lifeline, because Ruf's sales in Germany have all but flatlined.

But it's a number of troubling economic factors at play that can make the prospect of real estate values climbing again seem like a dim hope.

Trump's other economic policies, at least on their face, are no less troubling.

Was there economic or political trouble at the time, or maybe even just the wrong travel partner?

When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks, economic imbalances — involved with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.

This post is truncated by the troubles I'm having getting online in a blacked - out part of the Hudson Valley, but I want at least to start a discussion of the prime question of the moment: What are the political, economic, societal and personal traits that caused one of the world's wealthiest and most sophisticated cities to end up (despite longstanding warnings) with flooded tunnels, subways and neighborhoods and widespread flood - triggered loss of electricity?

In an ideal world you might think that a serious bunch of people who really believed that is was absolutely necessary to make major changes to our current economic structures would at least take the time and trouble to become world experts on their case.

The Spanish government is obviously dealing with lots of economic and social problems at home, and has trouble justifying the money that would need to be spent on the project.

However, with our more troubled economic times firms can freely admit to their true colours,» added Renà © Millman, a senior research analyst at Gartner.

We know a large percentage of lawyers who believe that the economic downtown is at the root of all their troubles — they continue ardently to believe that when the economy rights itself, the practice of law will return to the world they knew before 2008.