Sentences with phrase «moving global forces»

So far, we've talked about the adjustments that are needed in response to powerful, slow - moving global forces.

Not exact matches

The move caused a global rout in markets, in part because a cheaper renminbi against a stronger U.S. dollar forces down prices on goods from China.

«Boards need to spend a bigger proportion of time looking forward to where global forces are moving their markets,» says Wiseman.

The velocity of the move will be based on the movement of the dollar in conjunction with other major global currencies; A fast move higher in the U.S. dollar will force the price of crude lower quickly (crude is denominated in dollars globally) and force selling by those who need capital.

The corporate headquarters of the new global company will be in Canada but, despite much speculation about the possible tax benefits of such a deal, Behring said taxes weren't a motivating force for the move.

When we look at US Treasury rates, fundamentally we would think they should be moving a bit higher, but again, that global flow into US assets is an offsetting force that we think could continue.

They move us, therefore, toward the global capitalism that is now the dominant force in the world.

We may reasonably say that the global village is, for McLuhan, a positive force in culture that moves us out of modern fragmentation.

The exchange rate of the Swiss franc to other currencies has forced the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) to move its global headquarters, which has a staff of seven, to Germany from the city known as «the Protestant Rome» when Calvin ruled it as a strict theocracy.

Using a mathematical model of the global economy, the World Bank said in a 2006 report that if 14.2 million workers moved from poor to rich countries between 2001 and 2025, raising the rich countries» labour force by 3 per cent, the world's yearly wages would grow by $ 772 billion by 2025.

The move follows the extraordinary success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was the first Star Wars movie to premiere outside the traditional summer blockbuster window and smashed numerous records, including biggest domestic and global debuts of all time as well as the biggest domestic second and third weekends, en route to becoming the highest grossing domestic release of all time with over $ 861.3 million and the third biggest global release ever with $ 1,886.7 billion.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

Furthermore, these skillsets have become increasingly critical as we move from a factory - model labor force to a global, informational and technological labor force.

Driven by ever - more stringent global emissions testing, the new 9A2 engine's move from natural to forced induction is the latest in a series of fundamental changes under the distinctive skin that have included swapping from air - to water - cooling and hydraulic to electric - assist steering.

The surface temperature increase that partially gave rise to concerns about global warming coincided with a move to tethered electronic measuring devices (um, I think that means thermometers) that forced the movement of many stations closer to buildings and developed areas, causing warming that may not have been corrected for.

There are real forces moving in this direction who have not a care at all for global CO2 levels.

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington DC: Earth Policy Institute, 16 August 2006); water and power from Connie Kline, «New Orleans Looks Like Katrina Hit Yesterday; U.S. Needs to Step Up,» Ventura County Star, 6 August 2006; garbage collection from Susan Saulny, «Despite a City's Hopes, an Uneven Repopulation,» New York Times, 30 July 2006; telecommunications from Gary Rivlin, «Patchy Recovery in New Orleans,» New York Times, 5 April 2006; sewer system from «Katrina Recovery Deemed a Mixed Bag,» Associated Press, 15 August 2006.

«Over 100 business leaders worldwide have backed the final recommendations of a global task force set up by the G20 to disclose how companies manage climate - related risk, in a move that could divert trillions of investments away from polluting fossil fuels.»

Global warming can force species to move to higher latitudes and higher altitudes where temperatures are better for their chances of survival.

chris price CHCH NZ — this is exactly right — the arguement on CO2 is irrelevent in regard to Global Warming — it is getting cooler — plants are the best indicators of temperature we have — and yet we have the Professor Snow Barlow (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/vineyards-count-days-to-change-in-flavours-20110724-1hvei.html) saying grape growing areas will be forced to move because it's getting hotter??

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland: An Estimated 250,000 Katrina Evacuees Are Now Climate Refugees,» Eco-Economy Update, 16 August 2006.

However what I do say is that if other factors alter albedo (or any other component of the global energy budget) then the jets will move in response to that other forcing in order to try to move back towards equilibrium between the temperature of the ocean surface and the temperature at the tropopause.

«With millions of people forced to move each year by rapid - onset climate - related hazards and slow - onset environmental degradation, social wellbeing, human rights, economies and even state stability are at risk... at the highest level, climate change is being assessed as a risk to national security and potentially to global stability.»

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It, too has significant transverse structure and is a global transporter of heat as complex currents move water around based on its temperature, salinity / density, wind direction at the surface, heat sources at depth, evaporation, the coriolis force, the shape of the ocean bottom, and freshwater contributions from e.g. rivers and melting ice.

Business leaders at the event, hosted jointly by CDP and the We Mean Business coalition in partnership with the UN Global Compact and CGEM, agreed that with the Paris Agreement now in force, the priority was to move from adoption to speedy implementation.

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshooglobal specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth OvershooGlobal Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day.

Despite some impressive local advances, the global loss of momentum in expanding food production is forcing us to think more seriously about reducing demand by stabilizing population, moving down the food chain, and reducing the use of grain to fuel cars.

, the No Impact Project, and you will join forces with Bill McKibben and 350.org for Moving Planet Day on September 24 — a massive global volunteer day.

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That's according to new global research which reveals that if professionals fail to facilitate their data being stored by search firms, they stand to miss out on crucial career moves and the typical associated salary uplifts when the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force in May 2018.

In a move that's likely to make smartphone consumers in the U.S. unhappy, Blass says the U.S. Moto Z2 Force variant will ship with 4 GB of RAM, while the global model will ship with 6 GB of RAM.