Sentences with phrase «times of crisis which»

Let's see which of the paintings from this era of ambivalence and post-trauma could be the most pertinent ones, from today's point of view, and take a quick survey of the most iconic artworks made in our recent history, in times of crisis which we can not fully understand, but we could perhaps compare it to the crisis of our own.

Not exact matches

The Times reported Wednesday that Trump was glancing at a fact sheet about the opioid crisis, which had been billed as the focus of the briefing.

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

In the aftermath of the call, Bombardier stock, which had traded above $ 7 a share as recently as the summer of 2011, dipped below $ 3 for the first time since the depths of the financial crisis.

He comes to the position amid a critical time for the Fed, which is normalizing policy after years of extraordinary accommodation triggered by the financial crisis.

There will always be room for maintaining higher profit margins during prosperous times, which helps companies to maneuver in times of crisis.

The bill raises the asset threshold at which banks must comply with stricter capital and planning requirements, including yearly stress tests and developing «living wills» for an orderly liquidation in times of crisis.

The peg, which was introduced in Sept. 2011, was an attempt to halt the rise of the franc — a traditional haven currency for investors — against the euro at a time when the eurozone debt crisis was at its height.

He's credited with one of the greatest investments of all time in his risky buyout of petrochemicals maker LyondellBasell, which he purchased out of bankruptcy amid the financial crisis for north of $ 2 billion.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

That figure, which comes out to a combined 360 billion euros ($ 401 billion) in bad debt, is more than three times the bank loans that were bad in the U.S. on a percentage basis at the height of the financial crisis.

He was featured in two 60 Minutes segments in December 2008 about the housing crisis (which won an Emmy) and in March 2015 about Lumber Liquidators, has appeared dozens of times on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Fox Business Network, was on the cover of the July 2007 Kiplinger's, has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and has spoken widely on value investing and behavioral finance.

This is also happening at a time when institutional investors are thinking twice about allocating money to hedge funds, which didn't provide much in the way of diversification when the markets tumbled during the financial crisis yet charged famously high fees for their services.

The company has compounded its earnings per share at an annual rate of 15.41 % over the last decade, which is almost unheard of for such a large company over a stretch of time that included one of the worst financial crises my generation will probably ever see.

On our team, we have an immense amount of trust, confidence and respect for each other which helps us manage through any tough times or market crises.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

They usually cite economic uncertainty as a reason for owning gold, which is seen by mainstream investing knowledge as a «safehaven'to protect one's wealth in times of economic crisis.

Today's interest rate decision has traders holding their breath, which, by definition, reminds us all that the central bank is the center of the universe — and has been since the onset of a financial crisis that it completely missed ahead of time.

The problem, of course, is that any solution the disoriented and despairing choose in times of crisis will be to some extent an extremist simplification relative to the bewildering abundance of life in which they must find their reorientation.

Friendship sustains pastors over time and not simply during crises — it is the kind of collegiality that is crucial to the cultivation of self - knowledge, relational intelligence, the capacity to remain dynamically engaged with one's work and the ability to identify and negotiate conflict, all of which are relevant to preventing the dynamics that cause clergy to leave pastoral ministry.

Imagine, then, the young courtier, deeply concerned with the social and political problems of his country, which is faced by a «demise of the crown» at a time of crisis in international affairs; concerned with these problems, but at a level deeper than that of ordinary political discussion.

They herald the re-emergence of the classical crisis of generalised overproduction, the basis of which, as Marx showed better than anyone, is to be found at the level of production relationships which are at the same time the relationships of the distribution of wealth.

Which returns us to the particular crisis of our time: the fact that current ideologies of religious, ethical, cultural and political pluralism do not provide the universalistic principles whereby we can state with clarity and confidence that some things are just plain wrong.

To this mythology belongs the expectation of the end of the world as occurring in time, the expectation which in the contemporary situation of Jesus is the natural expression of his conviction that even in the present man stands in the crisis of decision, that the present is for him the last hour.

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

However, as the lucidity of the communal «I» deepens, it is able to apprehend universes in which this crisis is avoided, at least for a time.

That was the sort of crisis which was at this moment beginning in Gwendolen's small life: she was for the first time feeling the pressure of a vast mysterious movement, for the first time being dislodged from her supremacy in her own world....

In this world, in this time; in ministry responsive to the Word of God and the word of earth; in a nation and a church in which it is as if there were no Sermon on the Mount; in such a time of durable earth crisis, we will not only be called troublers of Israel, we will be in Ahab's sense troublers of Israel.

Hermeneutics arises there a second time: no manifestation of the absolute without the crisis of false testimony, without the decision which distinguishes between sign and idol.

If one is not stuck with Luke 21:25 - 36 on the second Sunday of Advent he is not thereby released from the thundering New Testament words about the signs of the times, the invasive and convulsive power of the kingdom, the perils of drunkenness and stupidity in the midst of crises which are rich in threats of damnation and promises of redemption.

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

(1) The right to marry, which includes the right of your life's partner to be with you in the hospital in times of crisis.

The BBC was an organisation with a Christian ethos in a Christian country which itself had established Christian churches, and whose politicians in times of crisis felt free to call the whole nation to days of prayer!

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

With Jesus as in Judaism, obedience is bound up with the crisis of decision in which man stands; obedience is actual only in the moment of action, and if one wishes to call obedience an intention, he must at the same time hold fast the fact that this obedience presupposes the authority of God.

That's how Mussolini got in, that's how Hitler got in, they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.

Under the pressure of these times — groaning with the sense of impending crisis which will change our life decisively — increasing numbers of us are realizing that secular, technocratic liberalism can hardly name the malaise, much less respond to it.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Franco praises Brydens staff, which has shown it can work together as a team in a time of crisis.

I do nt know why, we have a very small team compared to other bug clubs of our caliber that alone can send a player off once he knows he's not going to play, our squad players mostly get time to play during injury crisis... I could remember a point in time when we loaned Bendtner to Juventus, they already have four strikers then, in which minus Van Persie we have like half or no striker..

Being honest I had completely forgot about some of the losses we had until thinking about it now, which I guess shows that time carries on and you heal, but I'll say the «oh crap» existential crisis now is realizing that the likely window of time where I'm having kids is almost decidedly nailed shut is also proving to be a bit more effecting than I thought it'd be.

Wenger seems to have been eyeing the player for quite some time now and was perhaps hurried into making a move as a result of Arsenal's injury crisis in midfield, which means that the imminent capture of the Egyptian will not really be a panic buy.

... every time she sees a movie in which birth is a crisis or a catastrophe or a comedy of errors in which the mom is a crazed, expletive - hurling woman who is seriously out of control...

Every time I pick up my kids from school only to discover that they've been chowing down on brownies or chocolate - covered Oreos or candy (which seems to happen at least twice a week), I can't help but think: In the midst of an obesity crisis, why are other people being allowed to shovel my kids full of unhealthy food at school?

In addition, the crisis came at a time of extreme volatility in global, European and national politics and has arguably contributed to accelerate some trends which were already starting to appear at the beginning of the century.

She has that stern matronly quality which a part of the British psyche finds attractive, the strong thwack of firm government in times of crisis.

She led an often mutinous cabinet at a time of economic crisis, against a level of personal vitriol to which no other modern leader has been subjected.

But, what has impressed me most of all is Richard Becker's resourcefulness and creativity evidenced by his role while a member of the Cortlandt Town Board in bringing about the innovative Cortlandt Heating Oil Plan (CHOP), which at the height of the economic crisis provided both heating oil discounts as well as conservation tips and energy audits to help local residents afford to heat their homes at a time when many were risking their health by living in homes that were too cold because they couldn't afford the high cost of heating oil.

The dictionary defines crisis as «a time of intense difficulty or danger» which perhaps applies more to Andrew Lansley's tenure as health secretary than to the service he oversees.