Sentences with phrase «of economic revolution»

We are in the midst of an economic revolution that is the most important event in economic history since trade routes opened from Europe to Asia.

He acknowledges the motivations and successes of the economic revolution of the 1980s but suggests it did little to foster a sense of social responsibility - creating a new age of «me first» individualism.

Not exact matches

To put that a different way, by this one measure more innovation is occurring right now than during the post-Civil War portion of the Industrial Revolution and the post-WWII economic boom.

Gareth Redmond - King, head of climate and energy at WWF, called the first coal - free working day «a significant milestone in our march towards the green economic revolution».

In fact, the land of the Osoyoos band in the Okanagan Valley straddles this country's only true desert — hardly an auspicious starting point for an aboriginal economic revolution.

My dream, and I believe it is a rational possibility if not assured, is that as the ecology of our situation increases to exert pressure on us, that there will be a rapid emergent adaptation of behaviors effecting an «ecocultural» revolution in our socio - economic structures.

I wrote my thesis on the philosophy of history with the central argument that Industrial Civilization would collapse and either be replaced by a new emergent socio - economic revolution an order of magnitude higher than industrialization and agriculture combined, or we would go back to the stone age or extinct.

In a real way, Querétaro has become ground zero for a Mexican economic revolution, one that's helping shift the country's fortunes and providing ways for Canadian companies like Bombardier to compete with Asia and the rest of Latin America.

In the same essay, Drucker noted: «The railroad was the truly revolutionary element of the Industrial Revolution, for not only did it create a new economic dimension but also it rapidly changed what I would call the mental geography.

A recent article in The New York Times joined the naysayers by featuring a group of economists dismissing the big data wave as no match for the Internet or gasoline engine in terms of innovations that have defined economic revolutions.

Many politicians have described Rafsanjani as «a pillar of the revolution», while his pragmatic economic and foreign policies have always appealed to many Iranians.

The transition from a radical regime guided by a utopian ideology to a pragmatic one with a laser - like focus on maintaining power by delivering superior economic performance is one of the main drivers for how China has managed to engineer an economic revolution since the late 1970s.

After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

China and India, the two biggest emerging markets, are experiencing economic acceleration 10 times that of Europe's industrial revolution — on 100 times the scale.

CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao has recently been in the news, having agreed to support both Uganda's economic transformation and Togo's «4th industrial revolution.»

«There have been many discussions on the impact of fake news and the digital revolution on the media industry,» Ms. Joly said in a recent interview from Switzerland, where she attended the World Economic Forum.

In Startup Rising, he marries his own observations with the predictions of these giants to offer a surprising and timely look at the second stealth revolution in the Middle East — one that promises to reinvent it as a center of innovation and economic opportunity.

While his economic strategy was by no means so one - sided and simplistic as was commonly believed in the 1960s and»70s and although he still proclaimed industrialization and a «technical revolution» as his goals, Mao displayed continuing anxiety regarding the corrupting influence of the fruits of technical progress and an acute nostalgia for the perceived purity and egalitarianism that had marked the moral and political world of the Jinggang Mountains and Yan» an eras.

When it comes to today's economic revolution, a very small and very lucky and very smart group of people is already benefiting -LRB-...)

Some of this wealth was based on real economic gains, like those from the computer revolution.

Through the 1950s, however, all Christians of whatever stripe held to what Wilcox calls «the ideology of familism» that invested marriage, childbearing, and the household with sacredness, and in which, at least since the Industrial Revolution, men were the chief economic providers while the domestic sphere and the welfare of the children were chiefly the domain of women.

At the same time, the NCC calls for the unification of North and South Korea, without reference to the oppression, including religious oppression, in the North, and condemns sanctions against Cuba, which it blames for the economic disappointments of Fidel's revolution.

Sojourns in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and the global South convinced him that free markets are the only viable mechanism of economic development, as he explained in The Capitalist Revolution.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

European Community leaders leave little doubt as to the importance of the communications revolution on an economic and social level.

And we shall see that the transformation of the earth, its new creation, is not solely a reorganization of its social and technical aspects nor just the institution of new political and economic relationships among people; it is also a profound spiritual metamorphosis of mankind, a revolution.

Whether the rhetoric is «building the revolution» or «creating an economic miracle,» the reality is the violation of personal, civil and political rights in the name of a worthy social purpose.

The first wave of this revolution — inaugurated by early - modern thinkers dating back to the Renaissance — insisted that man should seek the mastery of nature by employing natural science and a transformed economic system supportive of such an undertaking.

The greatest threat to traditional marriage came with the Industrial Revolution which made the collective workplace rather than the family farm or cottage industry the means of economic support.

Marx and Engels maintain that the religious revolution which goes by the name of Protestant Reformation was actually a reflection of underlying economic forces.

The scientific and technical revolution of the past several centuries has reduced the functional time - space within which the several races, cultures, ideologies, religions and economic systems of mankind live to the dimension of a village.

As United States low - intensity - conflict strategy succeeds in making life miserable for all Nicaraguans the press can be expected to report on economic hardship as evidence of the failure of the revolution without describing such hardship as the intent and result of United States policy.

Canadians at one point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British political leaders learned from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

Among Catholics, sustained and sophisticated reflection on social, economic, and political problems stretches back to the time of the French Revolution, when on the night of August 4, 1789, the National Assembly simply abolished the existing order.

This witness and theology also played a significant part in the social, legal, cultural, and economic incorporation of the negative image of Jews and Judaism into the fabric of Christian culture from the time of the first anti-Jewish legislation at the Council of Elvira (306) until the time of the French Revolution (in the West)(see many of the above, especially FF).

The pope's encyclical, putting the issue of work in a modern context, states, «We are on the eve of new developments in technological, economic and political conditions... which will influence the world of work and production no less than the industrial revolution of the last century.»

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

The message echoed that of Francis's landmark 2015 encyclical Laudato Sii (Praise Be), where Latin America's first pope called for a cultural revolution to correct a «structurally perverse» economic system in which the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an «immense pile of filth».

The Cuban revolution impresses many Latin American Christians much more by its achievements in liberating the masses from economic oppression than by its suppression of political dissent of discouragement of Christianity.

But Hayek's liberty - defending politics, if not the particulars of his economic theories, grew to prominence with the rise of Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and the Reagan Revolution.

Such a revolution is possible when there develops an economic crisis so severe that it can be solved only through a complete reconstitution of society by a self - conscious challenging class.

Unlike all previous social revolutions, the communist revolution abolishes the class conflict at the heart of the economic substructure and thereby obviates future revolutions.

Ed Matthew, Director of Energy Bill Revolution said: «Making energy efficiency an infrastructure priority would unlock public capital to make all homes highly energy efficient, generating high levels of economic growth.

Hardly surprising given the blood letting of the First World War and the revolutions from left and right followed by the economic recession and widespread unemployment.

«What is often forgotten in rooting all of Egypt's contemporary ills to the July Revolution is the systematic undoing of most of its economic, social, and foreign policy programs soon after Nasser's death.»

Aregbesola also issued a «wake - up call» to Nigerians to prepare for an impending economic revolution, which wind is blowing across the world in the form of recession and the ongoing global efforts to discover a «new world economic order without crude oil,» urging the people to be prepared both intellectually and spiritually so as to be able to stand up to the new development.

The Progressives that wanted the radical change in voting, and who wanted moral and economic control of all Americans to bring about the great social revolution?

The responsibility for the crisis is identified in turn with Berlusconi and his failure to deliver on the liberal revolution he repeatedly promised; with the Democratic Party which many saw as hopeless during the long years in opposition; and finally, with Mario Monti, whose technocratic government some perceive as the product of the economic establishment which created the crisis and is now passing the costs on to the middle class.

In both oil and gas the economic stakes are high in the endgame of Libya's revolution.