Sentences with phrase «larger economic forces»

If the executives are right that the failure of their companies was due to larger economic forces, not their own decisions, this would explain why they didn't express the remorse that Senator Grassley wanted to hear.

The education profession is not immune to larger economic forces, and, just like with all other employers, school districts don't hire as many teachers during recessions.

The administration has placed whatever blame there may be for the homeless problem on larger economic forces and the bad decisions of other politicians.

That this incident has occurred just as the leaders of the two largest economic forces in the world are meeting in Mar - a-Lago is an incredible coincidence of timing.

Not exact matches

There does not seem to be any obvious economic reasons for large job and labour - force losses that would be isolated to these five cities.

Canada certainly has attracted large amounts of FDI recently thanks to its relatively stable economic climate, abundant resources, proximity to the United States and skilled work force.

To rein in credit growth, Beijing must force a sharp deceleration in investment growth, which, because investment growth is a substantial source of economic activity, means laying off a large number of workers employed in investment - related activity.

Moreover, Bitcoin generally can be a powerful force to bring a much larger number of people around the world into the modern economic system.

But she is also being acted on by forces — social, economic, cultural, political — larger than herself.

There began to be the sense that events could be influenced only by large - scale, remote economic or governmental forces, or by extreme political initiatives on the right or on the left.

Paying attention to the larger dynamics of economic and political change in the world system can also help us understand better the contexts and forces to which immediate decisions are subject.

Gradually, during the 1990s, the Security Council began to use Chapter VII much more to impose economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and to deploy large peacekeeping forces and even military attacks in many civil wars.

The United States has benefitted for several decades from the perception in large parts of the region that it has acted as a benign hegemon that has no territorial ambitions and can act as a stabilizing force allowing the serious business of economic development to continue without distraction (Goh, 2008).

According to the complaint, they sought Mr. Percoco's help in reversing a decision by the state's economic development agency that would have forced COR — Mr. Cuomo's largest donor in central New York — to make an expensive labor peace agreement; pushing the state to release payments that it owed to COR; and getting a $ 5,000 raise for Mr. Aiello's son, who worked for Mr. Percoco at the governor's office.

Women without college educations are dramatically less economically dependent upon their husbands than they used to be, while the economic dependence of women with college educations on their husbands remains high because although both men and women with college degrees have seen surging incomes since the 1970s, most women with college degrees experience large income penalties for leaving the work force for a while to raise children, while women without college degrees don't face those kinds of income penalties in their far less skilled jobs.

Because if we can't find an economic force in normal times that drives our system to get larger, and it actually would have to outgrow, it has to grow, you know, faster, faster than the Internet, it has to have some other reason for being or else we'll continue to shrink relative to the incumbent, and so how will we ever have enough scale?

But the economic forces actually drive it to be less redundant because co-location has economic advantages, so you tend to get very highly connected, large nodes that drive most of the traffic.

STANFORD — Despite an economic downturn and new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released last month that show no learning gains in math for American 4th graders, the nation's public schools will likely have more money and a larger and better paid labor force than they had in 2009, according to education researchers James W. Guthrie and Arthur Peng of Vanderbilt University.

This means that universal pre-K can be more easily scaled up to have truly large effects on the overall quality of the labor force of a state or of the nation, and thereby to have truly large effects on overall economic development.

some economic forces are immutable in our system; still, this does not bode well for our culture at large, which is beleaguered enough.

TS: As the world's second largest economy and a major economic driving force in Asia, China continues to be Ascott's key growth market.

Originally rooted in his experience as a displaced Zimbabwean, Halter looks at the mobilisation of large sections of the global population and the underlying economic and political forces that have precipitated these migrations.

Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the rule of law, participatory democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.

The first order human forcings that are negative (e.g., sulphate emissions) and mask some of the CO2 forcing increase the risks of AGW; if they decrease because of Peak Oil, or economic changes, or are eliminated because of other adverse effects they have, the warming impact of the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere will be even larger.

However, the only instances in which this has been employed on a large scale were by Nazi Germany during the latter stages of World War II, when they were surrounded by Allied forces, and by Apartheid South Africa, when they were subject to international economic sanctions.

In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie about the question.

Lately, the health of the global economy has been making news headlines daily and, as a recent article in the Washington Post observes, the larger and more intense economic pressures are forcing many clients and lawyers to seriously reconsider how fees for legal services are billed.

The practice of law does not take place in a vacuum, but in a vast and multifarious Real World full of fellow human beings and of social, economic, political, natural, and cultural tidal forces, and the practice can only gain from the attorney's engagement with that larger context.

Simultaneously, larger political, economic and social forces also impinge on the family culture.

There is strong evidence that shows that universal community - based systems of high quality early childhood education and care are part of the backbone of strong economies: ECEC has short - term, medium - term and long - term economic and social impacts on children, their parents, the labour force, local economies and the larger economy.