Sentences with phrase «peacetime economic»

School reform heads the list of national priorities as we enter a new century, partake in another presidential - election process, and publicly acknowledge the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the midst of the longest peacetime economic boom in our history.

But as the global fi nancial crisis spread, Ireland became one of its worst victims, with the IMF predicting its GDP would shrink by 13.5 % by 2010, the worst result for any advanced country, and among the worst peacetime economic contractions ever seen.

Not exact matches

Other dimensions of culture it accepts within clear limits (economic production, commerce, the graphic arts, paying taxes for peacetime civil government).

«And by framing this as «war footing,» as a counter-offensive to the assault by Washington on the entire economic structure of the state, will make it easier for him to sell the kind of things that a politician can't sell or perhaps get away with in «peacetime.

Tory eyebrows are likely to be raised by Clegg's declaration that the rich must pay more as Britain copes with an economic downturn that is far deeper than anything he expected when he took a «collective gamble» to form Britain's first peacetime coalition in 70 years.