Sentences with phrase «general collapse of»

Perhaps part of the explanation of the market's vagaries may be attributed to the general collapse of the dot.com sector of the financial markets that may have curbed the enthusiasm of some «new» buyers.

Excavations at Santa Rita have shown that the kingdom thrived into the 13th century, well after the general collapse of the Maya civilization.

After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled - web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy.

One term that has shared in the general collapse of meaning is «freedom» or «liberty.»

It is obvious from even a superficial reading of these human unself - conscious letters that people were being transformed in outlook and character, despite the general collapse of moral values in the pagan world.

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What will collapse in 2014, however, is some of the hype around Silicon Valley in general.

«The collapse of the dot - coms and the general crisis in faith in corporate America have jaundiced the value of stock options,» says Coonradt.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.

Last week, a proposed alliance between China telecom manufacturer Huawei Technologies and U.S. carrier AT&T collapsed after members of the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees dispatched a letter to the Federal Communications Commission citing concerns about «Chinese espionage in general, and Huawei's role in that espionage in particular.»

After the economic collapse of 2008, Washington injected billions of dollars into automakers General Motors and Chrysler as the first step of a quick bankruptcy process.

The naysayers held sway through the general market collapse of late 2008 and early 2009.

Morgan successfully led the American financial community's attempt to avert a general financial collapse following the stock market panic of 1907.

The stock value lost by GE in the past 12 months is twice the amount that vanished when Enron Corp. collapsed in 2001 — and more than the combined market capitalization erased by the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and General Motors during the financial crisis.

His brother, psychiatrist Richard Summers, recalled how in the weeks before Summers came to the White House, he was on a family vacation in Jamaica, barefoot and in a bathing suit, when he began grilling his children, nieces and nephews on what to do about General Motors, which was on the verge of collapse.

At the conclusion of my conference yesterday, I did a number of interviews and then made my way a few miles home, collapsed into my favorite chair, and thought back over the myriad of ideas, the whirlwind of friends, and the just general all - around fabulous time I had experienced over the past four days.

Dent credited the slowing of China and world trade in general to the collapse of industrial and energy commodities.

Now that the traditional view of the resurrection of Jesus has collapsed, as we have shown in Part I, we must reckon with the implications this has for the general resurrection, which Christian believers have long regarded as the Christian hope of personal immortality.

Take General Motors out of Detroit in 1970 and the social structures in that state would be profoundly altered, if not collapse.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Moreover, when it is in travel - mode, the 3 in 1 collapses into a travel bag that will hold all of your infant's general needs like diapers, bottles, toys, and the like.

When BT - once part of the old General Post Office (GPO)- was privatised, we were reliably told by the unions and Labour MPs that the telecoms network would collapse, GPO engineers would no longer be safe up telegraph poles, new competitors would cherry - pick the best part of the business etc etc..

As a result, in places without a Lib Dem MP, their share of the vote is likely to collapse at the next General Election.

The collapse of the arrangement means both parties will lose out in the long term and it raises serious questions about the coalition's ability to survive until the 2015 general election.

(c) To determine the general and specific causes of the collapse of public confidence in the Police and recommend ways of restoring public trust in the Institution;

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The one really interesting thing in the next general election will be seeing if the Lib Dems will drop a substantial number of seats if their vote share collapses, or whether their MPs really are dug in firmly enough to survive.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has gained considerable attention — and praise from liberal groups — for his investigations of the actions of major banks in the run - up to the foreclosure crisis and financial collapse of 2008.

It can be attributed both to his popularity as attorney general and to the spectacular collapses of his would - be competitors.

Nick Clegg has resigned as leadrer of the Liberal Democrats after the party suffered their worst General Election collapse in years.

Acting General Secretary of the Party John Boadu said the party will revive industries in the constituencies that were collapsed under the PNDC.

FTI Consulting's public affairs MD Alex Deane predicted in January that the Conservatives would lose the general election because of a «collapse» in grassroots support.

Earlier this year, Cameron's former chief of staff predicted that the Conservatives will lose the general election because of a «collapse» in grassroots support.

The British National Party, which finished fifth with 1.9 % of the vote for its 338 candidates at the 2010 general election, stood only eight candidates following a collapse in support.

The programs are funded by more than $ 100 million from the settlements that Attorney General Schneiderman negotiated with the nation's largest banks following the collapse of the housing market.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

This regime collapsed within a year, after May reversed her previous public pledges and called a general election (which Jeremy Corbyn's Labour agreed to under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliament Act).

Something similar happened in Ireland, where Peter Sutherland, attorney general in the 1980s and former EU competition commissioner, became non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a non-executive director of Royal Bank of Scotland, until, you know, it collapsed, and we had to share the pain — but not, it goes without saying, his salary.

That deal collapsed amid charges of favoritism and an investigation by the state inspector general.

Support for the coalition has now collapsed from 59 % to 43 %, backing for the Lib Dems from 23 % at the general election to 8 % in some polls, and Nick Clegg has become one of the most hated men in Britain as his party prepares to pay a savage political price in next May's elections — and quite possibly in his lifeline electoral reform referendum as well.

If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve warned that Britain would have to face the «reputational consequences» of such a move, and that it could cause the entire system to collapse.

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: otecfmghana.com File Photo: A broken bridge in Sokoban The chiefs and people of Barekuma, a cocoa farming community in the Atwima Nwabiagya North district of the Ashanti region are appealing to the District Assembly and the Member of Parliament for the area to construct their collapsed bridge on River Offin, which links them to other communities as hundreds of cocoa bags remain locked out.

[25] The same effect may have contributed to the collapse of Fianna Fáil in the 2011 Irish general election.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

A seemingly endless sequence of disappointments and blunders has rattled Mr. Trump's volatile governing coalition, like Mr. Trump's attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions; a vulgar tirade by his new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci; and the collapse of conservative - backed health care legislation.

Contrary to widespread belief, Labour's share of the UK popular vote increased by 1.4 percentage points between the 2010 and 2015 general elections (from 29 to 30.4 per cent), despite the collapse of Labour support in Scotland.

The money Schneiderman wants to hand out comes from the National Mortgage Settlement - a settlement between 49 state attorneys general, the federal government and the five largest banks that contributed to the collapse of the housing market.

In October 1974 Labour won a narrow majority, there was record inflation, high unemployment, massive Conservative Local Election & By Election victories followed by the Winter of Discontent and yet while Labour lost, their total vote was very similar to that of the 1974 General Elections and it was more down to increased turnout for the Conservatives and collapse of the Liberals.