Sentences with phrase «of economic gravity»

However, «The laws of economic gravity are more powerful than the laws of Congress,» Gerdano said.

What seems to be a bizarre suspension of economic gravity has plain causes — and the situation can not be expected to last.

But such is the power of economic gravity that American presidents and Canadian prime ministers don't necessarily have to get along for commerce to function.

Not exact matches

There's a reason the United Kingdom suffered so dearly during the financial crisis: It allowed its economic centre of gravity to shift to banking.

«Domains have been able to defy economic gravity,» Jackson says, «because so many traditional businesses are moving online to take advantage of the cost savings and global reach.»

Now that it's Canada's economic centre of gravity, Alberta needs to champion national initiatives.

As John Manley, the president and CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives recently told our magazine's annual Leadership Forum, «The world's economic centre of gravity is shifting to Asia.»

Demographic trends and the shift of global economic gravity toward emerging markets pose serious challenges to North American competitiveness; our future standard of living will depend in part on continuous education as well as our ability to recruit and retain talent.

Betting that they can avoid the law of gravity to stay safely at these elevated levels indefinitely doesn't seem wise... The unusually easy global monetary conditions today may be magnifying financial and economic risks.

«In today's geopolitical climate, with the centre of global economic gravity clearly shifting to Asia, ABLAC 2018 is positioned to make substantial contributions to Canada - Asia business relations,» said Stewart Beck, President and CEO of APF Canada.

How do make a teenager understand the gravity of the economic situation without it weighing too heavily on their pretty little shoulders?

It is at once a genuine description of the perils America currently faces with the world's shifting economic poles of gravity (and influence) and a fervent defense of US foreign assistance in reaction to Washington's sequester impasse.

The circumspect wording of the Progress Report issued on 10 November 2015 does scant justice to the gravity of the political and economic situation in the country.

We must engineer the green economy of the future to compensate for the collapse of a discredited economic model dependent on credit binges, gravity defying house prices and increasing consumption.

Studies like this one are instrumental in understanding cultural differences that increasingly arise as the globe's economic centre of gravity shifts towards East Asia.

Touching on everything from socio - economic disparity to governmental corruption to discrimination based on a person's place (or planet) of origin gives the series and its storylines a welcome weightiness that's no easy task considering how frequently they are suspended in zero gravity.

Hanks wants to tap into the zeitgeist of the era — Larry is just another hard working citizen upended in the culture of economic instability and career turmoil — but the script (co-written with Nia Vardalos, who has a way of softening any material to inoffensive mush) lacks any sense of gravity.

Art collective Büro Destruct has released Gravity Lander, a free and addictive game developed for Pro Helvetia's Game Culture program, which is dedicated towards «drawing attention to the social, economic, and aesthetic aspects of computer games and exploring the characteristics of the genre as a new art form».

Yet as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy we will burn them, an economic law as certain as the law of gravity.]

President Obama should forthrightly communicate the scale and gravity of projected climate disruption and its physical, economic, and geopolitical implications for the nation and the world.

And I think that's a big mistake because when you read a lot of economic analyses of climate change, you are struck with a very worrisome sense that the economists don't understand the science, don't appreciate the gravity of the situation.

A decision framework is developed for quantifying the economic value of information (VOI) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission for drought monitoring, with a focus on the potential contributions of groundwater storage and soil moisture measurements from the GRACE data assimilation (GRACE - DA) system.

At some point economic gravity is going to kick in, and even this sector will feel the brunt of it.»