Sentences with phrase «make economic life»

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If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.

«Our economic infrastructure lives in a digital space, which means leveraging big data to streamline financial services to keep information secure, while also well organized and transparent, making it accessible for regulatory bodies,» says Teijeiro.

If we want to break past lackluster economic growth rates and make meaningful change in lives and livelihoods, we need to move beyond incremental innovation (think slightly - better iPhones) toward revolutionary innovation (think new energy systems, next - generation electronics, and cures for Cancer and Alzheimer's).

In return, you are given compensation, in salary, wages and benefits, which in turn allow you to make personal economic decisions, manage your life and support the people you love.

«Whatever success I've had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing, rather than what I know,» Dalio told CNBC Make It while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

The global consulting giant makes its living telling other companies, governments and organizations how to be more innovative, and right now McKinsey is run by a Canadian, Dominic Barton, who also heads Ottawa's Advisory Council on Economic Growth.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

It might make its customers happy, but its growing economic power could make their lives worse in countless other ways when they're not one - click shopping for toilet paper.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

In a recent speech to the St. John's Board of Trade, Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge made a strong case that Canada should concentrate on increasing productivity, so that we can have sustainable economic growth and rising standards of living in the future.

Europe's top economic official has cautioned the U.S. and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about talking down the dollar's exchange rate, which helps U.S. exporters but could make life harder for Europe and other trade partners.

As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

As the world's demand for energy continues to increase, the Business Council is strongly committed to making Canada a global leader in sustainable development through showing that healthy economic growth, high living standards and environmental protection can be mutually supportive.

«It was absurd enough that Hulk Hogan claimed $ 100m for emotional distress and economic damage for a story about a sex life that he'd already made public,» the statement reads.

And if that's the case it makes little economic or ecological sense to spend billions of dollars building new fossil fuel infrastructure and increasing capacity, particularly when that infrastructure has a working life span and expected financial return that well exceeds thirty years.

So long as you support a healthcare system in which people have to make economic decisions over life and death based on what they can afford, you are not pro-life.

Announcing his resignation (below) to the world he said: «I believe we've made great steps, with more people in work than ever before in our history, with reforms to welfare and education, increasing people's life chances, building a bigger and stronger society, keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world and enabling those who love each other to get married whatever their sexuality, but above all restoring Britain's economic strength.»

He made their economic dream of getting rich come true while sacrificing the political dream of many to live in a free society.

If the most important decisions about our lives, especially about our economic lives, are made by people who are not part of our community, then the community is weakened.

That summer I realized that the very ways in which «progress» was being made — e.g., dominant development policies as well as economic programs in the industrialized world — were all part of the total network of processes that were destroying the basis of human life on the planet.

As former Nixon economics adviser Herbert Stein observed, President Bush has made economic growth the acid test by which every other policy is to be judged, believing that such growth will permit progress on other fronts, including raising the standard of living for the poor.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

The CNN debate opened with discussions on economic issues, but later veered toward faith - based matters like the role of religion in candidates» decision making, abortion, gay marriage — and how the United States ought to treat Muslims living within its borders.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

ATR did not make political and economic life accountable, spiritual and moral in conformity to principles of God's governance.

It should be recognized as socially desirable for persons to live on the land and care for the land, and subsidies should be provided to those who do until the economic system can be readjusted to make small units reasonably profitable again.

There were the economic, political, and legal problems of modernity — the aspects of modern life that made necessary the development of «social doctrine.»

It makes all the logical sense in the world that Time, Inc., had to put the movement on its cover and co-opt it, for Time's investment in the «In God we trust» capitalism and institutions of our political - economic - mythical lives is not inconsiderable.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

The resources for life, human and socio - economic and political security are being mobilized among the people who are actively seeking to make peace and security for life and people.

It is incumbent on those of us who are in position to influence the thinking of faithful people to make clear that the neo-liberal economic thought that informs most current top - down development, riding roughshod over communities, and reshaping the lives and thinking of hundreds of millions of people, is based on assumptions that are antithetical to ours.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

Also, let us not forget Justice O'Connor argument from Casey about liberating women from their baby making bodies so they can help boost the GDP: «The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.»

The same spirit in modernization has, along with missions of service to universal humanity making human life richer and fuller, produced also a good deal of power - crusades for conquest which has found expression in technology being used in the service of colonialism and transnational and national economic exploitation, totalitarian statism and destruction of nature.

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

Such privileges are possible only to those who are not driven by economic pressures to spend their time in making a living.

As he says, «Economic activity is part of the life of men, those creatures who are described in the Bible as being made both from «dust from the ground» and a «breath or spirit from God» (Genesis 2:7).»

Our life together is communal, not competitive, and it requires an economic division that enables each person to make a distinctive contribution to our common life.

In time it came to involve art forms of all kinds, (heiroglyphics, drawings and carvings, images, tools, etc.) and for all purposes (ranging from what we would call economic (making a living) to what we could call religious (giving him a sense of meaning in life)-RRB-.

Yet it can not be our only task, for the problem of organizing the technical civilization of the western world upon a new basis of economic and international justice, so that the anarchy and decay that have characterized our life in the past three decades will be arrested and our technical capacities will be made fruitful rather than suicidal, is one which must engage our best resources.

The spiritual struggle of Western man can be interpreted as his search for a way of life which will make possible free personal selfhood in the midst of all the forces, dogmatic, ecclesiastical, economic, social, and technical, which depersonalize him.

As United States low - intensity - conflict strategy succeeds in making life miserable for all Nicaraguans the press can be expected to report on economic hardship as evidence of the failure of the revolution without describing such hardship as the intent and result of United States policy.

At an enrichment workshop one mid-years engineer declared during a session on life - investment planning, «I'm in work I no longer find challenging — trapped by economic necessity and by career decisions I made twenty - five years ago when I was a mere kid.»

Hence nature, love, life, truth, beauty and justice are exploited or made the servants of the high economic good.

Such I take to be the true motivation for Christian concern about social, economic, political, national, and international problems; for example — that the path of life trodden by those who are brothers of God - made - man must be made a fit path for those who are God's brothers as well as God's sons.

Indeed the reasoning inherent in economic decision - making has a chilling, global, coherence not matched by any other systemic element in our common life.

They listed the «occupation» of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians» socio - economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians.