Sentences with phrase «inflicted economic»

Such marketplace manipulation represents a recipe for unintended consequences and self - inflicted economic damage.

Their appearance is a clear sign of Kazakhstani discontent with the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia - led trade group that was supposed to promote mutual growth but which critics say has so far only inflicted economic pain on Astana.

On one hand, restricting trade flow through the strait could be a way to inflict economic pain on a rival.

The comptroller's office defines BDS as «actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with the State of Israel; this includes deliberate efforts to weaken the economy of Israel.»

I believe that to risk losing our trade advantages with the colossal market on our doorstep is to inflict economic self - harm on the British people.

«Inflicting economic harm, I think, is part of the strategy.

Their crimes start with tax evasion, theft of hundreds of billions of dollars, inflicting economic damage on the order of trillions of dollars, include an attempt to murder millions of Americans by shutting down the national energy infrastructure, and possibly include high treason.

The possibility exists for the purchaser to apply to the court to enforce the covenant (if one exists) so as to stop the vendor from inflicting economic harm on the purchaser.

More credibly than inflicting economic pain on B.C., constitutionally speaking, Notley also suggested Alberta is prepared to invest in the deal.

Not exact matches

While proponents downplay the impact of their respective laws, economic experts say they are likely to inflict far - ranging damage in those states, not only on LGBT customers and residents, but also on companies that operate there or are considering doing so.

Moreover, they note, Xi knows he has a host of measures at his disposal for inflicting substantial economic and political pain on Trump.

The products they pick will be designed to inflict as much political and economic damage as possible.

His successor, Guy Giorno, gave the government a more sharply partisan edge and maintained firm control as the government weathered the partly self - inflicted coalition crisis, the global economic upheaval of 2008 - 09, and the massive spending stimulus that followed.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

This gift of theological freedom comes at a high price, because human beings can use it to violate the social, political, and economic freedom of other human beings, inflict great suffering on other animals, and destroy the planet in general.

We deplore the hostility in Ukraine that has already caused many victims, inflicted innumerable wounds on peaceful inhabitants and thrown society into a deep economic and humanitarian crisis.

Certainly, with bilateral trade totalling almost 6 billion US dollars last year, China is aware that it can inflict massive economic damage upon its neighbour.

The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

The survival strategy became necessary when revenue projections of the State got distorted as a result of the economic terrorism inflicted on the nation by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan which led to consequences, some of which the country is still grappling with today and may have to grapple with for a long time.

He noted that indiscriminate killings and unending economic hardship inflicted on the people had become unacceptable.

And international events such as the Greek economic crisis could still inflict serious damage on other European economies, including Britain's, as he acknowledged in his Budget speech.

As we enter the run - up to the 2018 midterm elections, Trumpism is weakening under its own self - inflicted wounds, the ambivalent legitimacy of Trump's election by a popular minority due to the eccentricities of the Electoral College, and a spreading realization that behind the economic populism of his campaign rhetoric is the most reactionary Republican economic and social policy agenda since the late nineteenth - century era of Social Darwinism and Jim Crow.

For instance, more accurate data could be used to gauge the effect of wealth on violence, or the severity of the economic damage inflicted by violent conflict.

Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,» said Alan Magill, MD, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which publishes the journal.

We've stood by as two generations of African American and Hispanic men have faced mass incarceration and the economic, social, political, and racial costs that it inflicts.

Such caution combines with the complexity and interdependence in the economic area to produce a more collaborative and moderate system, in which negotiation tends to displace confrontation as a style of interaction, at least among actors with the capacity to inflict system - wide as distinct from regional destruction.

But because worries about global economic growth, inflation and the threat of central bank rate hikes are one catalyst for the climb of bond yields, some analysts worry that the move higher may prove sustained and inflict damage to the world's biggest economy.

It was also clear that the next large earthquake to strike near the Valley would cause significantly greater loss of life, structural damage, and economic hardship than past earthquakes had inflicted.

We are at serious risk of inflicting severe economic damage on ourselves and future generations on a quest that is quixotic at best.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

These species have spread rapidly throughout the basin and have already inflicted significant ecological and economic harm.

«The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.»

Gore did not realize that the economic loss data he was looking at had not been adjusted («normalized») to take into account changes in socio - economic factors — notably population, wealth, and the consumer price index — that massively affect how much damage a particular weather event inflicts.

«We're going to look back on the direction of foreign and economic policies of the Trump administration as a parade of self - inflicted wounds.»

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

Evidently his mortal sin against the Climate Cult was pointing out that human - caused climate change is not inflicting greater economic damage due to extreme weather, an empirical truth that cuts against one of the most sacred dogmas of politicized science.

Exxon Mobil and the Oil Industry Took a Big Hit In addition to displacing over a million people and inflicting catastrophic damage and destruction to all economic sectors in the region, Hurricane Harvey had a crippling effect on the US oil industry that continues today.

The comparison of the «cost of mitigation faced by a current generation» with «that current generation's estimate of the future economic damage it is inflicting on a future generation» in not a «reasonable thing to do».

«The American president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that the failure to protect the climate inflicts on his country and the world through natural catastrophes like Katrina,» Germany's environmental minister, Jurgen Trittin, wrote in an opinion piece printed Aug. 30 in the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.

I have seen firsthand the damage that patent trolls have inflicted on businesses, and the economic impact they have had on our state and on small businesses across the country.