Sentences with phrase «great economic challenges»

I grew up in the far North of British Columbia (Cassiar - which no longer exists, so I can honestly say I am from no where; and, Stewart, which is a small resource town that continues to persist despite great economic challenges) and White Horse, Yukon.

«They wanted to destroy the innocent lives of people praying, at a time we are facing great economic challenges,» he said.

The financial crisis of 2007 - 09 was undoubtedly one of the greatest economic challenges of the last hundred years, and it is therefore interesting to read this account of how the key decisions were made - though it is only fair to say that there is not a lot of new information or revelations here.

Finally, a Washington Post columnist says although black America is facing its greatest economic challenge since Reconstruction, they still celebrate President Obama.

Not exact matches

It is possible many of our challenges are at least as much social as they are economic — related to a lack of community and connection to something greater than ourselves.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

The report was developed over the past year, after the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 revealed that affordability is one of the biggest challenges facing our region's economy.

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Having been «trained» by greats like Ben Graham and David Dodd, he still challenges the modern economic paradymns of share trading and investment.

China's greatest challenge is to remain free of these financial and real estate dynamics that have plunged the Western and post-Soviet economies into debt and created a rentier over-class receiving income simply for ownership privileges, not for playing a productive economic role.

These demands, however, do not challenge the existing international system and its assumptions: they want a greater share in the global economic pie.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

The global system — economic, regulatory, and philanthropic — operates at a great distance from any form of natural solidarity capable of challenging its power.

Perhaps the greatest achievement for the hotel was the completion of its 2007 expansion, just as the area was starting to face one of the most challenging economic climates ever.The $ 400 million project converted most of the property to a Tuscan - themed resort.

In 2015, the enthusiastic responses and turnout of 56 supply chain attendees representing 48 restaurant concepts illustrated the continued need and great appetite for establishing relationships and partnerships to help address key topics surrounding today's challenging economic and competitive environment.

This report highlights the importance of increasing social mobility and how the construction industry can work to promote greater equality of opportunity for all, particularly in a challenging social and economic environment.

This presents a challenge for those who want to see employee ownership as a more widespread ownership model, or who see it as an ownership model that promotes greater social solidarity and economic equality.

Mr. Doughan said Ghana, after 60 years of independence has failed in its economic management as unemployment continues to be a great challenge facing the country in spite of its enormous wealth.

In a real way, the grant can be seen as a vote of confidence in the greater Utica metropolitan area which has had more than its share of economic challenges over the years.»

«Particularly during a time of great economic distress, working men and women need a Senator who intuitively understands the very real challenges they face in their daily lives.

The company is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society — to create new, sustainable energy solutions for the future and developing an energy system that underpins economic prosperity in the 21st century.

This event, with its line up of experts from business and academia offers a great opportunity to understand and discuss the challenges of doing innovation in China and India as well as the long - term economic consequences of these trends.

Our greatest challenge and goal in the APC is to work for the attainment of the well - being of all Ghanaians irrespective of their social, economic or birth status, by winning or making a serious impact in the upcoming November General elections in 2016.

«May we remind Mr. President that even in the darkest period of our economic challenges, successive administrations made efforts in steadying the economy, while always reassuring our citizens and the international community of the strength and economic potentials of our great nation.

But the greater challenge will be crafting policies that fundamentally change our long - term economic prospects.

«We have overcome many of the challenges — the worst national economic crisis since the Great Depression hit us, we have overcome many of the financial crises that the state has hit us with; in many ways Ulster County has become a model county from a fiscal perspective and from so many more,» Hein said.

Ulster County has great opportunities and challenges facing it on sometimes overlapping issues like public health, infrastructure, economic development, job creation and environmental conservation.

Long Island and the Greater New York metropolitan area continue to reap the benefits of the stimulus package so that we can continue to move forward during these challenging economic times.»

The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, today assumed office with a charge to all staff of the Commission to brace up for fresh and greater challenges in the arduous task of combating corruption.

The greatest challenges facing carbon capture and storage are not technical but political, economic and legal

With performances multiplied by 100 in terms of brilliance and coherence, EBS will lead the way in pushing back the boundaries of scientific exploration of matter, and contribute to answering the great technological, economic, societal and environmental challenges confronting our society.

Brain illness, comprising neurological disorders, mental illness and addiction, is considered the major health challenge in the 21st century with a socio - economic cost greater than cancer and cardiovascular disease combined.

The winner of the election will face challenges at the interface of science and diplomacy related to health, economic growth, and climate change and the environment that will play an ever - greater role.

As obesity predictions continue to climb (estimated at 42 — 51 % by 2030), where one in every six dollars will be spent on obesity - related issues, it will become one of our greatest economic and health challenges over the next 20 years (1, 5).

I also suspect while most teachers want the children they teach to have economic opportunity, saying that your helped create more lawyers or engineers is not always the greatest motivation to do a challenging job.

Michael Hoenigmann, chairman at API, says: «Physical inactivity is one of the greatest health, societal and economic challenges of the 21st century so it is vital that we tackle it from children's earliest years — but there are many local communities where children have no safe places to play apart from at school.

Great teachers stand at the summit of one of the hardest, most challenging, and most consequential professions for our children and the country's future economic prosperity.

Many of our major challenges, from race relations to greater economic growth to our global standing, connect to education.

Worse yet, we apply the greatest pressure to districts with the greatest challenges, plagued with economic disadvantages and generational poverty.

And if the strike is over evaluation, it becomes more and more challenging to secure a 16 - percent raise in tough economic times, and then say one doesn't believe in greater accountability for those educators serving in the system and demanding those raises.

But all of this reflects a fundamental recognition: Americans can still build great things not just in spite of enormous economic challenges, but as the means of overcoming them.

Ultimately, everything we do reflects a fundamental recognition: Americans can still build great things not just in spite of enormous economic challenges, but as the means of overcoming them.

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely...

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

This will prove politically difficult, and perhaps prove to be a greater challenge to the constitution than anything previous, because the economic demands are far greater than what the US taxpayer has been willing to bear.

Greater Vancouver Board of Trade economic scorecard gives region a «B», but serious competitive challenges remain

Rath: Reducing costs is an everyday focus, and in challenging economic times such as these, we have put a spotlight on supply - chain management efforts to try and squeeze even greater efficiency out of the supply chain.

The current challenges of these two great museums will resolve themselves over time, but the fundamental issues raised underscore some critical economic issues facing many U.S. art museums.

Our world's energy challenges, as any loyal Dot Earth reader already knows, are intimately intertwined with our great environmental, economic, health, and social challenges.