Sentences with phrase «national crisis in»

A national crisis in teacher education: What are the costs?

Confronted with what I thought could be a common problem, I was still unaware that what I was really seeing was a national crisis in mathematics education.

Mr Letwin told the environmental audit committee there had been «an immediate national crisis in the form of less growth and jobs than we needed» that prompted the Budget's growth agenda.

Not exact matches

«A large debt also can compromise a country's national security by constraining military spending in times of international crisis or by limiting its ability to prepare for such a crisis.»

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

The average home price fell by 8.5 % between August 2008 and March 2009, according to the Teranet - National Bank House Price Index, in a decline sparked by the financial crisis.

But the president stopped short of officially labeling the crisis — which claimed the lives of 64,000 Americans in 2016 — a state of national emergency.

After all, the lack of a Canadian national regulator didn't seem to be a significant obstacle in managing the financial crisis of 2008 - 9, and the presence of a national regulator wasn't enough to prevent the U.S. financial meltdown.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's third national security advisor in just over a year, started his new job Monday and already he has his plate full of crises and global tensions to deal with.

In the United States, which opened up its MLS to marketing - only services in 2008 as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit brought on by the Department of Justice, flat - fee brokers today represent about 10 % of the marketplace, and the FSBOs, according to a 2009 National Association of Realtors survey, 11 % (though, it's important to note, the U.S. market has been severely affected by the sub-prime mortgage crisis and had lower commissions in the first placeIn the United States, which opened up its MLS to marketing - only services in 2008 as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit brought on by the Department of Justice, flat - fee brokers today represent about 10 % of the marketplace, and the FSBOs, according to a 2009 National Association of Realtors survey, 11 % (though, it's important to note, the U.S. market has been severely affected by the sub-prime mortgage crisis and had lower commissions in the first placein 2008 as part of a settlement of an antitrust suit brought on by the Department of Justice, flat - fee brokers today represent about 10 % of the marketplace, and the FSBOs, according to a 2009 National Association of Realtors survey, 11 % (though, it's important to note, the U.S. market has been severely affected by the sub-prime mortgage crisis and had lower commissions in the first placein the first place).

Michigan's unemployment rate — while far from its highs during the financial crisis — remained above the national average at 8.4 percent in May.

Fun Fact: Says Niño: «While we don't wear white hats, the collective fixer team have lent a helping hand in everything from national elections, Fortune 50 mergers and acquisitions to global humanitarian crises, Oscar - award winning films and even a couple of U.S. Supreme Court cases.

«The Front National vote was already high in this region, but the migrant crisis and the Calais issue, and now the November 13 attacks, are extremely favorable to that vote,» Pierre Mathiot, a politics professor at Lille's Sciences Po university, recently told The Guardian.

«The most troubling implication for Australian interests is that a future naval or air base in Vanuatu would give China a foothold for operations to coerce Australia, outflank the US and its base on US territory at Guam, and collect intelligence in a regional security crisis,» Rory Medcalf, the head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, wrote in a Lowy Institute report.

The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers» ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis, an occurrence in which investors become unwilling to finance a government's borrowing unless they are compensated with very high interest rates.

«The country is in a social crisis,» said José Ángel Álvarez, the head of a national association, Asonacrip, that has been working with the government on the Petro.

As you've seen before here in Oil & Energy Investor, national oil company PDVSA looms large in this unfolding crisis.

Others say they might be helpful methods of payment, such as in crisis situations where national currencies have collapsed.

Below is a chart showing national debt as a percentage of GDP going back to the founding of the U.S.. Although we've seen periodic spikes in response to national crises, the debt could soar to unprecedented levels within the next 10 years.

That meant an administrator appointed by Ottawa would run the Cree community of 1,800 on James Bay, where a crisis of abysmal housing began drawing national attention in late November.

President Donald Trump was having it both ways over the past week, portraying a «crisis» at the Mexico border that demands the use of National Guard troops while boasting of a huge drop in illegal border crossings there.

Because this was the worst financial crisis in the United States since our Great Depression, conditions within our national economy produced instability, which naturally provoked a reaction from the Federal Reserve.

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisis of 2008.

Others say they can be helpful methods of payment, such as in crisis situations where national currencies have collapsed.

Community activists and addiction specialists have said awareness about naloxone has been difficult to raise amid a national crisis that killed 42,000 Americans in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As of 2018, the national student debt crisis has reached epic proportions; an estimated 44 million borrowers owe a collective $ 1.48 trillion in student loans.

Does it take fear of a refugee crisis for Mr. Trump to make the disaster as much of a front burner issue as a perceived lack of patriotism by some of the 1,700 or so players in the National Football League?

In Europe, the market's development has been hampered by a hodgepodge of national bankruptcy laws, and investor sentiment that has not fully recovered from the sovereign debt crises early this decade, according to Oh.

Pending federal legislation, spurred in part by the abuse crisis at USA Gymnastics, would require anyone working under the jurisdiction of a national governing body to report suspected abuse or face a fine and possible imprisonment.

FinFair co-founder, Dara Albright, introduces a new breed of retail alternatives and discusses the integral role they will play in thwarting a looming national retirement crisis.

According to W. Bradford Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the gender imbalance of the job losses in this recession is particularly noteworthy, and — when combined with the depth and duration of the jobs crisis — poses «a profound challenge to marriage,» especially in lower - income communities.

Panel - Energy Crisis At the 2017 Business Summit, Malcolm Turnbull declared a national energy crisis, hauling in LNG exporters to demand they meet threatened domestic gas supply shortfalls.

> Panel: Energy Crisis At the 2017 Business Summit, Malcolm Turnbull declared a national energy crisis, hauling in LNG exporters to demand they meet threatened domestic gas supply shortfalls.

Moreover, disjointed discretionary regulatory actions are likely to make things worse when the next crisis strikes: domestically - focused regulators are likely to attempt to protect their own national banking system, preventing domestic subsidiaries from transferring much - needed liquidity to their parents abroad, resulting in a weakened international financial system.

The continued efforts by the ECB, BOJ and Swiss National Bank to keep their overnight rates at crisis - era levels is increasing concerns around the globe that central bankers in general do not have an exit strategy.

Fast forward to today when as Yra Harris writes in his latest Notes from the Underground, the realization that central bankers are on the verge of panic is that much closer, because as the veteran trader and strategist writes, «the continued efforts by the ECB, BOJ and Swiss National Bank to keep their overnight rates at crisis - era levels is increasing concerns around the globe that central bankers in general do not have an exit strategy.»

The outbreak of the eurozone crisis has led to a large increase in news coverage, but in a mostly biased way where the national viewpoint has become even more extreme.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

The speed at which the recent financial crisis spread to all corners of the globe shows how porous and interlinked national economies and markets are, and, in an integrated world, we need uniform regulation that creates a level playing field across economies and markets.

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

Now wait for it: Unreal Stupidity and Redundant Retard will post some crap about this being a «national crisis» in which the government would be justified in overturning all rights to privacy under HIPAA, just like he did the last time he posted this moronic dreck.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

In Old Testament times the problem of subsistence was frequently so difficult and national calamities fell with such repeated dreadfulness that much of the supplication recorded was motived by crisis and was aimed at material recovery.

In all these cities, despite a national recession and a severe steel crisis in their region, changes in the property tax structure produced results that were nothing short of startlinIn all these cities, despite a national recession and a severe steel crisis in their region, changes in the property tax structure produced results that were nothing short of startlinin their region, changes in the property tax structure produced results that were nothing short of startlinin the property tax structure produced results that were nothing short of startling.

Add to this picture a national political system in the midst of violent internal crisis and the unyielding pressures exercised by global neo-capitalism.

Father James Oyet of the South Sudanese Council of Churches, who organised the National Day of Prayer added: «In spite of all the thunderstorms of life, the food crisis, the economic crisis, we want to thank God.

«This amalgam propagated by national and international media has given a religious connotation to a crisis that is in its core political and military.»

Rep. Chris Smith, R - N.J., sponsor of the bill, said after its passage, «From China and Vietnam to Syria and Nigeria, we are witnessing a tragic, global crisis in religious persecution, violence and terrorism, with dire consequences for religious believers and for US national security.