Sentences with phrase «struggling national economies»

It is also far too convenient to suggest that, on top of all other duties, teachers should contribute more to struggling national economies by creating innovators, active citizens and a skilled labour force to emerging new occupations.

The Western Cape's drought and a struggling national economy means that many Cape Town buyers might soon be shifting their focus to other cities.

The Western Cape's drought and a struggling national economy means that...

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Its economy, which has struggled in recent years, is finally revving up again, outpacing the national recovery.

And the church must be prepared to stand by the people when they struggle for an economy that gives priority to eco-justice and social justice rather than economic growth through trans - national high technology.

National Chairman of the NDC, Mr Kofi Portuphy at a press conference on Thursday said crime was being committed with «brazen bravado across the length and breadth of the country and that the state of insecurity has given rise to fear filled anxiety among innocent Ghanaians who are struggling under excruciating and suffocating economy.»

«At a time when the government is facing a record deficit and New York is still struggling to get its economy back on track, Sen. Gillibrand's vote tonight is stunning,» National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh said in a statement released after the Senate vote had concluded.

Maintaining access to public libraries is particularly needed by residents facing the challenges of coping with a struggling local and national economy who have increasingly turned to their public libraries for assistance, resulting in large increases in projected 2010 library use: visits rising 12 %, circulation rising 12 %, and public access computer use rising 92 % across the System vs. 2007 pre-recessionary levels.

«Professor Wolf attacks national pay systems that ignore local differences, handicap struggling regional economies, and make it impossible for public sector managers and institutions to cope sensibly with our fiscal crisis.»

But despite that legacy of innovation, like most American cities, New York struggled in the face of fundamental changes to the national economy.

While the economy struggles to overcome the drag of rising gas prices, a group of AAAS S&T Policy Fellows from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) traveled to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado in March, to see how DOE's investments in scientific research and development are easing the country's dependence on foreign sources of energy.

«Maine has really had a struggle making the transition from a natural resource - based economy to whatever this new economy is,» said Bowen, who now directs innovation initiatives for the Council of Chief State School Officers, a national association for state superintendents.

Today, homebuyers struggle to accept long - term debt that could cause significant hardship if the local, or national, economy weakens even more.

«A national carbon tax would devastate an already struggling American economy, force the cost of gas at the pump to jump even higher, and kill millions more jobs here at home,» Scalise said.

For Canada, future projects sidelined or scaled back will act as a drag on the national economy, which has for years benefited from heavy spending in the energy sector while other sectors such as manufacturing struggled.

Venezuela's president's plan to launch a national cryptocurrency to boost the countries struggling economy quickly became a source of amusement for the Bitcoin community as it is unlikely that this venture can succeed in a mismanaged country like Venezuela.

Knowledge of distressed property transactions is a skill that certainly gains prominence when the national economy is struggling (as it has been), but holds value at all times.