Sentences with phrase «national economy moving»

As the gateway to the Asia Pacific, Greater Vancouver's transportation and transit infrastructure is key to keeping our provincial and national economy moving.

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Such a move would hurt their economy, especially before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party in the autumn of this year.

Following the release of National Accounts data, however, which were a good deal stronger than expected and prompted many analysts to conclude that their earlier assessments of a slowing in the economy had been overstated, the exchange rate moved higher against all currencies.

But with the move from national economies to the global one, sweatshops have returned on a large scale.

If we continue to move from a national economy to a global one, then we must either develop much stronger concentrations of international political power or else accept a world governed by naked economic power.

He believes, indeed, that the move from a national to a global economy can still be reversed despite his opponents» insistence that the integration of the global economy is inevitable.

(Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, pp. 126 - 128) Hence, the Porchers should want to move from the current system to one in which a) the habits and beliefs of certain Porcher influenced or protected communities, and b) the hard - fought - for legislative prerogatives and jurisdictions of said communities (vis - a-vis national and state authority — esp.

This ideology asserted the same principles that had supported the move from local to national economies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

During the meeting, Senator Markey highlighted Massachusetts» success in moving forward a clean energy economy while keeping unemployment lower than the national average.

The presence of Chinese nationals in Africa's informal economies — displacing petty traders and artisanal gold miners at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder in places like Congo, Mozambique and Zambia — will continue to be a flashpoint for China - Africa relations, as will the volume of cheap Chinese goods moving through porous borders.

Government plans to get the economic moving again, including the National Loan Guarantee Scheme and the Funding for Lending scheme announced earlier this week, are welcome, Niesr said, but it added: «Having a clear plan for the financial infrastructure the UK economy requires would be far better than this piecemeal approach.»

With immigration and the economy high on the national agenda, the party has shrewdly moved on from being one - trick pony which only appears to talk about the EU.

He said Ghana has moved up five places in the Africa competitive skill which looks among other places at how open economies are to international trade, adding that the national single window initiative is one of the key component that has helped Ghana to achieve this improvement.

A new poll of high - ranking WNY business officials found that executives are much less optimistic than they were a year ago, when a wave of optimism swept across the Buffalo Niagara region as the Buffalo Billion investment program began to move from the idea phase to the construction phase, while the state and national economy slowly gained strength.

Sponsors include 32BJ SEIU, ALIGN New York, Black Lives Matter Greater New York, Center for Popular Democracy, Desis Rising Up & Moving, Labor for Palestine, Make the Road New York, Muslim Democratic Club, National Lawyers Guild Labor and Employment Law Committee, New York Communities for Change, New York Immigration Fund, New York Immigration Coalition, New York Progressive Action Committee, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, New York Worker Center Federation, New York Working Families Party and Strong Economy for All.

Another motion moved by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said privatisation «will jeopardise the contribution Royal Mail makes to the national economy through the universal service obligation».

The Vice President who recently launched the mobile money payments interoperability system in Ghana maintains that, with other electronic payment channels such as the e-bills pay, instant pay and the introduction of the national identification card, the nation's ability to move faster towards a cashless system, stamping out corruption and turning around the fortunes of the economy, is assured.

The ACF argued that selling off national assets to service the economy was completely «unwise» as such move never yielded the desired results in the past.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

The move is an essential step in supporting the national curriculum for computing, helping students develop the knowledge and skillsets needed to address the current digital skills gap in the UK economy.

A modernized teacher workforce is critical when it comes to improving academic achievement, moving toward educational equity, and ensuring the health of the national economy.

In a move some automakers are calling sudden and «draconian,» the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will more than double fines for failing to meet corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) ratings.

It is what keeps the nation moving every day while supporting our economy and national security.»

«President Obama's historic vision for a national high - speed rail system will link 80 percent of Americans in the next 25 years and lay the foundation for an economy that moves people, goods and information more quickly, safely and reliably than anywhere else in the world.

Perhaps he feels that national economy in such instances is better served by bringing back to the soil the plant food exhausted by faulty practices, than by uprooting the farmer and moving him to more fertile soils, to repeat the process of denudation.

Alternatively, closed - end funds trade at a discount or premium to NAV, offering the investor the added potential of moving from discount to premium, as well as identifying discrete sectors or national economies.

The move to an independent DMO grew out of the National Tourism Plan, which was created in 2012 and which called for the creation of a Tourism Authority to revitalise Bermuda's tourism industry, stimulate the economy, create a welcoming environment for hospitality investment and create jobs for Bermudians.

This past February, two prominent New York institutions announced moves within days of each other that respond to the status of the public domain and the political economy of people and goods under the shadow of an accelerating so - called isolationism on the national stage.

The accord is an agreement by 17 American states that span the national political divide to move toward a green economy.

Garvin was so inspired by Lester's call to action that he left his national security consulting work to focus on moving the world to a carbon - free energy economy.

And national environmental policy leaders like Daniel Esty think all that's needed to move the country towards a green economy is a carbon tax.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

«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.»

Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics, and Portfolios (John Wiley & Sons) describes how a combination of high prices, national insecurity and environmental anxiety is causing the world to move away from a politically and economically vulnerable single - source (crude oil) transportation system to a multi-source system which, in addition to providing energy security for every nation, should benefit the global economy and environment - a win - win - win.

While the EU is moving fast toward a greener economy, the USA has so far produced little result on a national scale.

Such words gave some environmental commentators hope that Obama would move eventually on the issue, however many have been urging Obama for years to become a «climate hawk» — not just taking swift and large - scale action to reduce emission, but also fully communicating with the American people about the threats posed by a warming world, including impacts on national security and the economy.

Although under the current economy and national leadership (the President and the Congress) job creation is moving ahead at a snail's pace, the point of diminishing returns in a career remains constant, and so does the need for a professional resume and well thought - out career planning.

«New - home buyers are returning to the market in larger numbers as firming prices, shrinking inventories of homes for sale and improving local economies convince them that now is the time to make their move,» said Rick Judson, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder from Charlotte, N.C.