Sentences with phrase «political stagnation»

Not only is the normal political stagnation associated with election season in full effect, but the calendar is not on the side of those who are hoping for action on the Hill.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has revolutionized his country's oil and gas industry, opening it for foreign investors after 75 years and taking strict action against the 20 years of production decline, political stagnation, and a slow, underperforming economy.

The problem I see with Roger's Climate Fix and Hartwell Paper approaches is that he diagnoses the problem correctly: political stagnation is not going to be relieved by more science.

Sanogo developed his own pictorial codes, using abstract and figurative aesthetics and humourhumor to confront issues of political stagnation, ignorance and greed.

Nor is the culture war the sole cause of the public incivility and political stagnation that often seem to show up on the evening news.

Not exact matches

Not only do the political «left» and «right» have almost contradictory prognoses for the problems of stagnation or slow growth, but they also have to appeal to the almost randomly varying desires and priorities of the voters they represent.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

Secular stagnation and the slow growth and financial instability associated with it have political as well as economic consequences.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

In the world of academia, where one might expect alternative political and economic ideas to be formulated and developed, a similar stagnation has occurred.

And, not least, there are profound underlying problems with the political economy which has been built through the existing UK state: the fragility and unevenness of economic growth, employment precarity, long - term wage stagnation and housing market inequality.

«Change» has emotional resonance, particularly in a context of economic stagnation and political exclusion.

He says economic stagnation and political troubles in the Middle East are more pressing issues.

Regardless of your political affiliation, I think we can agree we need to fix the tax code and the regulatory mess in both DC and Albany to get our upstate economy going... People are tired of gridlock, they're tired of stagnation and they're tired of the blame game.»

Anthony King in The British Constitution (2007), for example, considered a line of argument that briefly came to the fore during the turbulent 1970s when adversarial politics and the extremism of party political rides on the «ideological big - dipper» occurred, alleged to have led to economic stagnation, political chaos and a society at odds with itself (270).

My party leaders, standing before you is Peter (The Rock) Ayodele Fayose, the man already destined by God to take Nigeria out of the present political and economic stagnations.

Immigration was the scapegoat and driving force behind Brexit but wage stagnation, economic disparity and distrust of political elites were the causes.

The overcast skies and ominous clouds evoke not so much some picturesque, romantic transcendence as the polluted air of wrongdoing that looms over a people who have had to go about their daily lives through decades of political upheaval, moral corruption, and economic stagnation, crushed beneath a burden of guilt, humiliation and worn out pride.

After many months of patience and impatience, stagnation and revival, the President of the European Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso, and the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, have reached a political agreement, which is an understanding - in - principle of the key elements of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (the CETA).