Sentences with phrase «equal economic failure»

Mr. de Boer highlighted two important signals received in 2007: The IPCC report, confirming the reality and impacts of climate change; and the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, which said failure to act would equal economic failure on the scale of two World Wars and the Great Depression combined.

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Indeed, Kimberly A. Moore — a judge on the Federal Circuit court responsible for all patent appeals — once wrote that pervasive venue shopping in patent cases represents a failure of «the promise of equal, consistent and uniform application of justice,» besides creating «economic inefficiency in the legal system.»