Sentences with phrase «of weak government»

But no one can accuse the Coalition of weak government.

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ISIS first came to South Asia in 2014, using the group's substantial funds and weak local governments to co-opt high - ranking members of the Pakistani Taliban and disaffected members of the Afghan Taliban.

According to multiple reports, the president is said to be upset that Spicer and other members of his press team often don't do a good job of communicating his message, or become confused about what the message is, and that makes his government look weak or unsure of what it is doing.

Carsten Nickel, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, argued that May's position in government remained «too weak» to allow her to make any major announcements on Friday.

Government data shows the number of migrant workers rose 0.4 % in 2015, the weakest increase since the global financial crisis in 2009.

In addition to that, the euro area has (a) worsening problems of political instability (Italy without government, unfolding corruption scandals in recession - hit Spain and France), (b) dysfunctional banking systems (weak banks and their impaired lending activities despite ample liquidity supplied by the ECB) and (c) lingering uncertainties about the financial system's credibility (problems with depositor and investor protection).

«It's hard to close the gap due to several reasons, mainly because of China's lack of innovativeness due to its weak intellectual property laws and government - led projects that focus on quantity over quality.»

Japanese government bonds skidded in their worst sell - off in more than three years, despite weaker stocks, accelerating a slide begun in the wake of last Friday's Bank of Japan easing steps that disappointed many investors.

Analysts are currently calling for 140,000 new job's in the government's report this Friday, but the sum of the data in recent days is mixed at best as both ISM reports point to weak hiring, but this morning's data points to better than expected figures.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

On the eve of the U.K. government beginning the official process of leaving the European Union, sterling moved slightly higher against the dollar to trade at $ 1.2557 — mainly driven by a weaker dollar.

And even then, «success» in Somalia meant the establishment of a weak and struggling government in Mogadishu, along with Shabaab's transformation into a virulent insurgency capable of striking beyond Somalia's borders.

The new rules combined with the Italian banking system's structural flows and weak markets globally could test the government's credibility rapidly, especially if a number of banks fail and Italians start pulling their money out in a move of panic.

«What sparked the rally is a perception of a shift in Canadian government policy toward the dollar,» said Michael Malpede, a currency analyst in Chicago with Refco Inc., adding that Mr. Dodge's comments put an end to the widely held perception in the market that Canada supported a weak currency to help its exporters.

By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.

The real issue that was not addressed in the budget is the absence of any economic engine to spur a recovery in growth in 2014 and beyond, The household sector is deep in debt; housing construction has stalled; companies lack confidence and are not investing; the federal and provincial governments are in serious restraint mode; and the export sector is weak and deteriorating.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government reined in new spending in a wait - and - see budget that touts support for ordinary Canadians but hedged its bets in the face of a still weak global economy and unpredictable fallout from the Donald Trump administration.

And for most Pakistanis... the most important problems they struggle with are corruption, weak representative institutions, and poor economic growth; the drone program is only a small part of their overall anger, most of which is directed toward their own governments.

Beijing probably needed to do this for good political reasons — I suspect that there are many who would have strongly opposed a very weak ending for the Hu - Wen period of government — but the longer they keep this up, the worse the overall adjustment will be, and it will be politics that determines how quickly they can return to a real rebalancing of the economy.

In the Conference Board's Index of Business Confidence survey, business leaders cited weak market demand, government policies, a shortage of qualified staff, and the depreciation of the Canadian dollar (which increases the cost of imported technology and machinery) as reasons for not investing.

In addition, economic activity will be constrained by lower levels of government spending than before and a weak banking system.

The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

In 1997, HD Deve Gowda, then head of a weak, eight - month - old coalition government, had assured the world of the reforms road that India had committed itself to — his speech was to be followed within a month by Finance Minister P Chidambaram's pathbreaking «Dream Budget», which set an enduring benchmark for economic reforms and liberalisation.

Weak demand across residential, office and retail sectors has been evident since the decline of oil prices at the end of 2014 and continues to impact government spending and general sentiment, says the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Market Overview Q3, 2016.

That suggests that weak domestic demand is becoming an increasingly significant source of disinflationary pressure, adding to the impact from falling world energy prices and the end of a period of administered price rises as governments sought to repair their finances by increasing revenue from sales taxes and charging more for services such as health care.

After a series of weak, scandal - ridden minority governments, Modi appears to be on his way to restoring India's credibility as a dynamic, fast - growing emerging economy.

They confirmed, at that point, a picture of very strong business investment; declining government investment, as earlier fiscal stimulus is unwound; relatively flat dwelling investment; and weak commercial construction.

With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate - bond purchases untouched at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.

And another 2016 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that most of the guns — as many as 70 percent — used in crimes in Mexico, which has strict gun laws, can be traced back to the US, which has generally weaker gun laws.

And the quality of our democratic system will be weaker tomorrow with the loss of these nine opposition MLAs into the government backbenches.

«One of the reasons why economic growth has been weaker in this expansion than others is a lack of government spending now I think that in the short - term negative in the long run I think a move in resources from the government sector to the private sector is positive but it takes a while for that to manifest itself in stronger overall GDP growth».

Despite this, many observers expected tapering to start in September 2013, and the fact it didn't was blamed on weak economic data and the fear of growth being slowed by the oncoming government shutdown and debt ceiling discussion.

Earlier this year the Auditor General slammed the Christy Clark government for its weak oversight of the mining industry, and failure to properly monitor Mount Polley before the disaster.

The Government was able to convince Canadians in the election that making new investments and going into deficit was the right thing to do in an environment of weak economic growth.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Physical demand in the large consumer gold market of India has been weaker than expected because the newly elected government has not yet reduced gold import restrictions despite the trade balance having improved.

While the book has weak points — most notably regarding Isaac Backus, the 18th - century baptist minister and author of the important treatise Government and Liberty Described and Ecclesiastical Tyranny Exposed (1778)-- who appears and then disappears without much clarity on how he fits the argument — it is generally an incisive interpretation.

In a rich country with a weak knowledge of art, this was possibly a laudable goal - though perhaps a little too confident of government's power to legislate things like aesthetics and a little too sure of the nineteenth - century dogmas of man as perfectible and art as universal religion.

Now it's time to recognize this fact and allow all people to be equal and not undermine the calibre of certain castes by calling them weak or underdeveloped and by reserving government jobs for them.

In many countries the role of government was far more to protect its weak citizens than to exploit them.

The poor have reappeared in most countries, and governments have become instruments of the rich and powerful working to advance their interests, rather than seeking justice for the poor and weak.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

They no doubt do not feel so spiritually weak as to require government sponsorship of their faith.

In «China's «Networked Authoritarianism»,» she shows how «strong governments in weak or new democracies are using second - and third - generation Internet controls in ways that contribute to the erosion of democracy and slippage back towards authoritarianism.»

Which leads me to wonder, first, whether Christianity really is so weak in Tennessee that it needs the coercive power of the government to maintain itself, and, second, whether the commitment to limited government of Tennessee's Republicans is so thin that it does not require the state to stay out of our individual decisions concerning where (and whether) to pray, and to whom.

Our American born corporations have decided to take advantage of people of other cultures with weak governments that do not protect their people or environments and finally we land in China.

, sober obedience to the government of the Church, distinction as far as possible between what is ever - valid and what is changeable in her faith and constitution, consideration for those St. Paul calls the weak and for the Church as a whole as well as patience with her human side.

It truly saddens me to know that it was my father's generation that was great and understood you needed to keep religion out of politics and government but my own generation that is weak and has backslid to ignorance.

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

His avoidance of the term «Rohingya» and his encouragement for Ms Suu Kyi's government disappointed activists and human rights groups who have criticised her for what they consider a weak response to the military crackdown.