Sentences with phrase «for weak nation»

Part of the sense of urgency, the generals said in interviews last week, stems from the fact that changing climatic conditions will make it harder for weak nation - states to address their citizens» basic needs.

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Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

In today's environment of weak global demand, there has been little appetite among any major economies for the excess production and savings of these major surplus nations, but the absence of capital controls has made the United States the default adjustment for global capital imbalances.

The weak rand will make it more painful for South Africa, which is experiencing the worst drought in a generation and is usually an exporter of agricultural products, to import corn, the nation's staple.

It is not referred to as terrorism, for powerful nations have the weapons to wage war and only the weak have to resort to terrorism.

How shall all nations, strong and weak, participate with power in the decisions in the international political order which affect their very existence and their prospects for security?

In preparation for the new millennium Pope John Paul put it thus: «He is not a weak and ineffective Christ but a Christ who has triumphed throughout twenty centuries and who remains the power of God and the wisdom of God... the Christ of the millennium is the man who has entered into the history of nations, has uplifted cultures by His message, transformed the destinies of peoples and who, in revealing God to man, has revealed all humanity to itself».

All nations that serve as a god to their people will turn on you and spread false witness to you as a immigrant and foreigner possibly a terrorist for you not serving as a proud to be an american but they are weak for he is strong and in his name fear no longer can intimidate you.

health care should be for all especially the poor, the weak, the elderly, and as a great nation, it will be shameful to see that we can not provide health care for our citizen.

Gervinho is no no for the club!playing for cup of nation and returning after that will only leave him weak, not 100 % able to perform especially if we got also another striker from africa chamakh.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

«It is now time for supporters of the union to speak up, to resist any drift towards a Balkanisation of Britain, and to acknowledge Great Britain for the success it has been and is: a model for the world of how nations can not only live side by side, but be stronger together but weaker apart.»

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GFor the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state Gfor the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

For women in Asian nations with weaker health infrastructure, Hanley adds, «The vaccine may be their only hope of prevention.»

A more flexible approach for 2015, championed by the United States, raises risks that many nations will simply set themselves weak goals, hoping others will take up the slack.

Any deal weaker than a treaty for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energies is anathema to poor nations.

Some of the lowest - ranking nations face broader challenges, such as civil unrest, but the low scores for others can be attributed to weak governance, they note.

Yet building the capacity of adults charged with preparing students for the future is the weakest part of our nation's reform strategy.

For every person in our society who feels alienated, unengaged, unloved, whatever the reasons, we as a nation are weaker, and all of us, collectively, are at greater risk.

I believe it is urgent, and if we don't begin to turn around the rates of completion and success for our students of color, then we are a weak nation.»

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

For the 162 programs identified as the weakest in the nation, the common thread was low admission criteria and poor student teaching requirements.

Maryland currently has one of the weakest charter school laws in the nation, which has left parents here with fewer choices for educating their children than in many other states.

It was true that the studies proving the case for patent restoration — for laws that would give pharma additional compensatory patent time — were weak and inconclusive, but the essence of the industry argument struck a nerve with Engman: here again was a case of overregulation hurting the economy of the nation and depriving the consumer of an improved product.

America has always been a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.

I am not arguing for isolationism in investing, but there is a tendency in the bull phase of the credit cycle to assume that nations don't default, and so lending to sovereign credits that are weak becomes the trade of the moment.

But as the tobacco industry shifts its attentions farther south to Africa, Latin America and Asia — betting that weaker governments or corrupt officials will smooth the path for their product to be sold — it has met surprising resistance from individual nations and citizens groups who refuse to allow their countries to be dumping grounds for what has been called the world's largest preventable epidemic.

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But the United States delegation could not exert strong leadership, for the U.S. Senate had barely begun to consider the nation's target for its own future emissions, and if it ever did set rules they would surely be weaker than other nations were demanding.

Once these companies start running the projects, concern for poorer, militarily weaker nations will become secondary, as it is now.

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The app first debuted as a way for those with weak data connections — especially people in developing nations — to still experience Messenger.

That's why they're asking the nation to amend the constitution, because the arguments for keeping marriage to just a man and a woman are too weak.

The country has long been attractive to foreigners — particularly those from the United States and Canada — to purchase vacation or second homes due to the weaker Mexican peso compared with the U.S. dollar, notes Salvador Romero Dominguez, a commercial director for Fonatur, a government agency that constructs a lot of the nation's resort infrastructures.

Despite San Jose's status as one of the nation's weakest office markets, the city's Opus Center has been sold to Equity Office Properties Trust for $ 103 million.