Sentences with phrase «major economic forces»

The company is seen by many as a tax - avoiding bogeyman that is destroying not only publishers and wholesalers but independent bookstores in particular and Main Street in general, and while there are major economic forces at work here that would probably lead to the same conclusion without Amazon at the head of march, Amazon has to realize that it should do everything possible to avoid being seen as the online version of Walmart.

The Vancouver Board of Trade remains hopeful that the disruption can be solved swiftly, so that Port Metro Vancouver can resume its role as a major economic force that strengthens Canada's economy.

If HMF is becoming a major economic force in the Alberta energy sector, it would certainly have an impact on the economics of the other Alberta CCS projects.

The plan drew criticism from several members of Congress, particularly those representing districts where NASA is a major economic force, and left many experts concerned that exploration would be hamstrung without the kinds of definite goals on which Constellation had been built — notably returning humans to the moon by 2020.

On the contrary, they outnumber their elder generations, and they've gone from punchline to major economic force in the blink of an eye.

Major venture capital companies are pouring in money, and the industry is well on its way to becoming a major economic force.»

January 5, 2016 Corporate Real Estate Opportunities Grow as ASEAN Becomes a Unified Economic Market, According to CoreNet Global Report Southeast Asia emerges as a major economic force and a driver of global growth accelerating the region's potential for corporate real estate, according a new report from CoreNet Global, the global association for corporate real estate (CRE) and workplace professionals, service providers and economic developers.

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Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn, drive major changes in thinking about fiscal and monetary policy.

Instead of freeing industrial capitalism from landlords, natural resource owners and monopolists, Western banks and bondholders joined forces with them, seeing them as major customers for as much interest - bearing credit as would absorb the economic rent that governments would refrain from taxing.

However,» caste is now seen as the major socio - economic formative force in shaping and understanding the history of Dalits.

Or will the forces pushing for «victory» and economic domination continue to make imperialism — that second major root of totalitarianism — a policy of our government?

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said November 30th 2011 would become known as the day when the trade union movement re-established itself as a major force fighting to protect economic and social advances since the Second World War.

In summary, if UKIP moved their economic policy to the left, not too far to the left as I mentioned before, just away from the supply side tosh, they could become a major electoral force and convert those 15 to 17 per cent poll numbers into actual votes on the ground.

Magazine and website explore key drivers of global trends, the cutting - edge science and the major demographic and economic forces poised to alter the health landscape

The Task Force is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and consists of the heads of major executive branch departments, agencies, and offices including the NIH, the NCI, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Health, the National Economic Council, and others.

Yet another study pointed out a more subtle problem with the idea that growth in human capital is a major force behind economic growth.

Still, the economic downswing of 2008 forced many people to fall several years behind on payments for major debts like mortgages.

Prior to the economic downturn, the major force responsible for sowing the seeds of market decay was a flourishing activity of subprime lending.

Since the end of the Korean War, the country of South Korea has been continually progressing towards its current status as a global economic force and major player in the worlds of technology and culture.

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.

The major players in world economics can easily force all others to sign whatever they choose by using the threat of economic isolation.

Political and economic forces affecting energy use and fuel choice make it unlikely that the CO2 issue will have a major impact on energy policies until convincing observations of the global warming are in hand.

Peer pressure, eco-activist harassment, politically correct posturing, and shared ideologies about fossil fuels, forced economic transformations and wealth redistribution via energy policies also play a major role, especially on campuses.

In spite of difficult and unique obstacles, this industry has positioned itself to once again become a major global economic force.

Climate alarmists are calling for the forced restructuring of the global energy system and major pieces of the global economic system.

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The major driving forces on conflict were rapid population growth, reduced or negative economic growth and instability of political regimes.

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

WEO - 2017, the International Energy Agency's flagship publication, finds that over the next two decades the global energy system is being reshaped by four major forces: the United States is set to become the undisputed global oil and gas leader; renewables are being deployed rapidly thanks to falling costs; the share of electricity in the energy mix is growing; and China's new economic strategy takes it on a cleaner growth mode, with implications for global energy markets.

Beck said that while big firms historically have been able to leverage their longstanding relationships with major companies to earn additional business, economic pressures have forced companies to realize they can achieve the same quality of service at a cheaper price from smaller firms.

The majority of my peers applied to law school in 2009 as a shelter from strange economic forces which their History and Political Science majors hadn't prepared them to understand.

The temporary workforce is a major driver in the gig economy, a growing economic force which accounted for 30 % of new jobs and created income sources for 2.1 million people in the U.S. between 2010 and 2014.

Looking at a broad swath of history, I see three major forces that can make financial systems safer: people being scared by recent events, solid economic growth and reduced debt in comparison to the value of equity.