Sentences with phrase «more financial power»

And, if retailers do not come around to their way of thinking, they risk everything as the 75 - million strong Millennial generation gains more financial power.

He argued that Milwaukee is home to more financial power than people give the city credit for - but, he says, it's just not being used wisely.

And apparently Wenger sniffed around him before and knows his family a little, so maybe even though we are up against bigger and better teams with more financial power we maybe do have a slim chance.

According to the study that was just recently conducted by the Soccerex Football Finance 100, which ranks the world's top teams based on both their playing and fixed assets, money in the bank, owner potential investment and debt, Arsenal has more financial power than those big clubs:

And while Premier Alison Redford has been cold towards the idea of granting cities more financial power, saying she's «satisfied with the way things are,» her party should not forget that city voters are who they owe for their narrow re-election to government in 2012.

Brown's detailed proposals add to expectations that Lamont will announce next week that Labour will give Holyrood far greater control over income tax rates, cede control over some welfare policies to Holyrood, and devolve more financial powers to local councils.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

While global powers and financial markets have long been accustomed to over-the-top rhetoric from North Korea, the U.S. has traditionally taken a more diplomatic stance.

Proposed board reforms to Canada's deposit - taking institutions and insurance companies under the new guidelines include: appointing directors with relevant financial services experience; more board control over enterprise risk; enhanced director training, self - assessment and external reviews; and certain powers that allow boards to better direct and monitor management.

This one is less about financial services and more about old - fashioned conservation: I'm turning off the power at home to everything except the fridge.

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

«This is even more the case with credit bureaus, which have immense power over our financial lives.»

The US export sector is getting the benefit of a lower dollar; there's a significant fiscal package in the pipeline, which will add more than 1 per cent of GDP to private spending power; and sharp cuts have been made in US official interest rates, with financial markets expecting more to come.

We have seen in our own case how liberalisation of financial markets has led to pressures to liberalise product markets (through ongoing tariff reductions and other forms), to bring more competition in the provision of infrastructures (such as transport, communications and power generation), and to free up the labour market (through, for example, enterprise - based wage bargaining).

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

More than three years before he served as Trump's chief political strategist, Bannon helped launch Cambridge Analytica with the financial backing of the wealthy Mercer family as part of a broader effort to create a populist power base.

Although the authors — Richard L. George, Thomas d'Aquino, Dominic D'Alessandro, Paul Desmarais, Jr., Jacques Lamarre, Gwyn Morgan and Gordon Nixon - are the chief executives respectively of Suncor Energy Inc., the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Manulife Financial, Power Corporation of Canada, SNC - Lavalin Group Inc., EnCana Corporation and RBC Financial Group, my reason for referring to this piece has more to do with each and every one of you.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

In October and November, venture capitalists concentrated more investments on financial services and infrastructure related initiatives such as tools for addressing price volatility, power efficiency and security.

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Even though power and wealth have now become more broadly distributed towards human, financial and technological capital, land ownership remains a key index of one's standing in society.

Powered by ATB Financial, the Network includes more than 30 Alberta - based podcasts covering a wide - range of topics.

Australian Securities and Investment Commission says it needs more powers to combat financial crime

Epiphyte is the leader in providing blockchain - powered FX settlement financial institutions - helping these companies transfer their customer's funds faster, cheaper and more reliably.

Through having more women use their investment power to invest in the types of fund managers, leadership teams, financial returns companies they want to see more of in the world, we believe, it will drive the initial impetus to change the gender - gap in venture capital.

It would be more accurate to view the Federal Reserve as shifting to Wall Street the financial power hitherto concentrated in the hands of the Treasury Secretary in Washington.

This increased concentration leads to a decline in bargaining power and more risk when a key distributor faces financial trouble, such as the recent bankruptcy of Toys «R» US.

By providing financial services that are more convenient and «democratized» than physical money, every person around the world can enjoy the power of banking — all in the palm of their hands.

The second is more along the lines of author Frank Herbert, who explored in his Byzantine * Dune * saga just about every major system of power dynamics from religious / mystical to technological to political to tribal to financial to ecological to physical.

What they have constructed, these past thirty years, is not a globalised economy, but the world archipelago of capitalist islands - large or small - where they have concentrated world scientific and technological capacity (more than 92 % of world R&D expenditure, more than 90 % of patents and of the installed computer capacity...), financial power, symbolic power and media power of the present time.

The developing countries depended on advice, investments, loans, and grants more from former colonial powers than on the international financial institutions.

The equal - regard interpretation of neighbor love fits the needs of the postmodern family faced with a new range of issues around shared authority, more equal financial power, and more nearly equal roles in raising children and meeting each other's needs in the midst of the 80 - hour work week.

In 1914 the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed, however, resting its judgment heavily on the fact that the church had never validated its patronage by any significant financial subsidy (university lawyers pointed out that the church had expended more on the lawsuit than it had contributed to the university before the controversy had arisen) and that during the first three decades of Vanderbilt's existence they had never asserted their supervisory powers.

Their second stint in power has disappointed international business periodicals such as The Economist and the Financial Times as well as much of the English - language press in India, which complains periodically that economic reform in India has more or less stalled since 2004.

They are yearning for a time when white men held the political and financial power because that seems more «Christian» to them.

Shout from the roof tops we demand more from our club (the sleeping giant it is) and let the powers that be know we aren't happy with financial success only and that they need to act in the best interests of the «footballing» future of AFC.

Whilst the more high profile clubs tend to have pulling power in terms of transfers — Champions League football, higher wages and so on — smaller clubs are well aware that they are in control of financial negotiations, particularly if the player in question has an extensive period remaining on their contracts.

Only new people with more ambition and better financial power could transform Arsenal.

More signings seemingly on the way with Wenger and Gazidis talking up our financial fire power.

And I am tired of all the same excuses for why Wenger isn't doing the right things in the transfer market when window by window since our new financial powers we have spent more and more.

«I don't believe so because he belongs to a club which makes more people envious than it makes them pity us, even if we don't have the financial power of Paris and Monaco.»

However, the high - powered former accountant, who worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers prior to becoming a trusted financial fixer for United's unpopular owners, who are focussed on divesting rather than investing in the club in order to increase their personal wealth, is more than just a bean counter.

He says in the area of financial services, «specifically and particularly» - an interesting phrase - he wants to ensure Britain has «more power and control here in the UK».

In return for their support the SNP have said that they want no update for Trident, no financial «austerity», and more powers for Scotland than those in the Smith Commission.

The state, and its namesake city, seem to produce more than their share of men who abuse their political power, whether for financial gain, career advancement, or the mistreatment of women.

That's why we need to give consumers more protection and power in our financial system.

The I.D.C. announced they were forming a ruling coalition with the Senate's Republican conference in December of 2012, an arrangement that gave I.D.C. members more power and financial resources, and gave the G.O.P. the votes needed to retain control of the chamber, which they've held for most of the past 50 years, despite Democrats» overwhelming registration advantage statewide.

Their taxes would go up, but with voting power they likely would be able to encourage more financial support from the US.

According to the WSJ, the new Department of Financial Regulation still would have more power than its predecessor agencies to investigate and punish financial institutions for wrongdoing, and Wall Street executives remain concerned it would operate through an administrative process with fewer checks and balances thaFinancial Regulation still would have more power than its predecessor agencies to investigate and punish financial institutions for wrongdoing, and Wall Street executives remain concerned it would operate through an administrative process with fewer checks and balances thafinancial institutions for wrongdoing, and Wall Street executives remain concerned it would operate through an administrative process with fewer checks and balances than the AG.