Sentences with phrase «own economic life»

For 300 years, Lower Manhattan had dominated the city's economic life.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

In the closest thing he attempted at a rhetorical flourish, he asserted that government should be «a benign and silent partner» to Canadians going about their economic lives «and not an overbearing behemoth squeezing them at every turn.»

The law governing the Bank since 1935 says we should «regulate credit and currency in the best interests of the economic life of the nation.»

Infrastructure spending has an economic life that usually lasts 20, 30, 50, years if not longer.

It's as if the Earth now has two moons instead of one and both are growing in size like a cancerous tumor that may threaten the financial tides, oceans and economic life as we have known it for the past half century.

To be fair, there were signs of economic life, however small, with ADP on Thursday reporting 175,000 private - sector jobs created in June, though that drastically overshot the government's June report on Friday of only 80,000 jobs created.

It impacts the entire half of their economic life.»

In the budget, capital is expensed on an accrual basis, i.e. capital costs are amortized over its economic life, usually 20 to 30 years.

It wants a straight, perfectly positioned, well - drilled drain hole right down the identified sweet spot of the reservoir being targeted, one that, when completed, will yield the maximum amount of oil over its economic life at the lowest possible cost.

As a result, the impact of capital spending on the budgetary balance is spread out over its economic life, thereby minimizing its impact on the budget balance.

Economic life reverted to self sufficient agriculture, with complex organization surviving mainly on the monastic estates in the countryside.

In the Budget, capital is amortized over its economic life, whereas the Estimates include the costs of capital acquired in that year.

Capital spending has an economic life that usually lasts 20, 30, or 50 years, if not longer.

These numbers are from the Estimates and are on a cash basis of accounting, whereas in the budget, capital is on an accrual basis of accounting, spreading the costs over the economic life of asset.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

Many countries are living on economic life support systems that are not sustainable economically or politically.

Parliament should have the full cost upfront of the project, along with all future costs to ensure that the capital is properly maintained over its economic life.

Capital acquisitions are amortized over the economic life of the acquisition.

First, let's agree there is a «floor» to economic life in America.

Women need to be able bring their distinctive biological burdens under their conscious control to be free and equal persons in our country's political and economic life.

We should dare to let pure natural rights theory rule American economic life once again.

17 - 26) present a formidable array of statutes governing economic life: mandatory lending, interest - free loans, sabbatical rest and festivals, jubilee releases and land tenure, gleaning restrictions, tithing, debt remission, slave manumission, and the preferential treatment of widows, orphans and strangers.

This is manifested in the economic life as the giant economic corporation, in the political life as the state bureaucracy and modern military organization, in the cultural life as the information and knowledge industry such as the universities and coqunication media.

These same male psychic patterns operate in our economic life — not only in that of the criminal underworld but throughout the corporate - capitalist system.

Consequently, we must take responsibility for those who are in economic distress, reintegrating them into the community's economic life.

Some of them were the «I got mine by working hard,» until the speculators and banks destroyed their nest egg (and their economic lives).

If the most important decisions about our lives, especially about our economic lives, are made by people who are not part of our community, then the community is weakened.

It seems that only in a community that has some control over its own economic life can there be freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.

The United Church of Christ's study paper, Christian Faith and Economic Life (1987), for example, declares that the purpose of the church's political advocacy must be «to achieve the biblical concept of economic justice.»

This concern for the social problems produced by the new economic life in America was clearly expressed by the adoption, in 1908, of the Social Creed of the Churches by the Federal Council.

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

While economics as a descriptive study is not concerned with moral issues, the facts of economic life inescapably point to the moral element in human nature.

Deuteronomy insists that economic life must be organized to ensure the well - being of widows, orphans and immigrants.

If all businessmen were crooks, nothing could save our economic life from ruin.

Many American Christians, though, have a special talent for elevating the blandest and most morally nugatory aspects of social and economic life to the status of positive spiritual goods, essentially laudable, and somehow all of a piece with the teachings of Christ.

The major disaster, which slowed down economic life, was the devastation caused by the Black Death (1347 - 51).

For example, in the racial conflict, how idle it is to talk about «integration of hearts» so long as millions of blacks are not integrated into economic life.

From the ethos of economic life to the chatter of talk radio, our society is busy promoting the appetites and fantasies of the individual more than it is encouraging an investment in the larger aspirations of a community.

The Church can lay down basic principles for the organization of economic life.

England determined to use its colonies to build up its own wealth and security; consequently, it passed a number of laws carefully regulating colonial economic life so that England stood to benefit.

It is a totalitarianlike system designed to control the hearts and minds, the economic life, and the political destiny of people.

The United States has the capacity to disrupt economic life in El Salvador through restrictions of aid and control of access to markets.

The Roman Catholic bishops» and several Protestant denominations» recent papers dealing with the relationship between Christian faith and economic life have begun this work.

But the Church can not offer a concrete model of the economy as it might be today and as in certain circumstances it ought to be, in such a way that to realize this model would be a binding moral duty on those in charge of economic life.

This critique of economic life is based on teaching about human rights.

ATR did not make political and economic life accountable, spiritual and moral in conformity to principles of God's governance.

And while I'm not sure I agree with the Distributist Review «s contention that this tradition «[remains] as vibrant as ever,» it's foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matter.

The way we teach economics contributes to the growing secularization and demoralization of economic life.

He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.