Sentences with phrase «global competition means»

«Technological advances and increasing global competition means today's children will experience employment challenges their parents didn't face,» said Tom Bulman, Worktree's CEO.

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For universities, this means competition will become increasingly global, expanded beyond the bricks and mortar of their campuses.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

All these factors reinforce the message that to be successful in the face of global competition, British Columbia's gas industry has to remain competitive; it needs to avoid cost - overruns (which means ensuring adequate supplies of trained labor to keep costs under control) and must be able to operate under a royalty regime that is not punitive.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

But our success in sustaining peace after World War II, which involved rebuilding societies in decimated Europe and Japan and promoting global markets, meant our highly monopolized, government - controlled economy eventually had to face competition from abroad.

The global economy will continue to grow, but that doesn't mean that your eLearning business must be lost in the competition.

The U.S. entered the emerging global marketplace without the confidence that had marked our previous decades, meaning that we were more preoccupied with surviving competition than building community.

As a business, we must now continue towards our goal of increasing export, which inevitably means creating a new, and significantly faster, car which is eligible for competition on a number of different global platforms.»

First, that fighting global warming is a team sport, which means companies running data centers may be in competition on a market level, but have to work together on an environmental level if anything is to be accomplished.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

The reason they evince «climate skepticism» in responding to survey items on «belief in» human - caused global warming is that those items aren't measuring what people know; they are measuring «who they are, whose side they are on,» in a mean, illiberal, collective - knowledge - vitiating, individual - reason - effacing cultural status competition.