Sentences with phrase «turning against the country»

The problem is that translating these abstract, widely accepted economic principles into actual concrete policy basically means turning against the country's exporting class, the very people who have been driving — and profiting handsomely from — China's economic emergence.

Jonathan Albright, research director at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, said the indictment laid bare how effectively Facebook could be turned against the country.

Not exact matches

Hungary was one of the first European countries to turn against foreign ownership of utilities back in 2013 but there are growing signs that borders are springing up again in an industry that has struggled to make international deals pay off.

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account announced that it was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK airport in light of the protests against Donald Trump's executive order that bans immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

We decided to start our list with O'Reilly because his departure from Fox helped set the stage for reports against Harvey Weinstein — which, in turn, helped raise awareness around the #MeToo movement and kick off the reckoning around sexual harassment and assault that continues to this day, in Hollywood, Washington, and around the country.

A trade war is when two countries pursue tit - for - tat protectionism against each other — they take turns blocking the other country's exports with tools like tariffs (border taxes) and quotas (caps on imports).

Just as Western countries impose sanctions on rogue states like North Korea, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has announced her intention to make ordinary British Columbians feel economic pain, so they turn against their leader.

The public unrest that swept across Iran starting in late December began as a protest against poor economic conditions, but it quickly turned into a call for an end to the country's theocratic regime.

The country's healthy trade surpluses and the Plaza Accord in 1985, which sought to weaken the U.S. dollar against the Yen and German Deutsche Mark, caused the Yen currency to appreciate against other currencies, which in turn made foreign capital investments relatively inexpensive for Japanese companies.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

The prices of many of the goods they export came down, the richer countries kept them out of their markets and the terms of trade turned against them.

I learned from my C.I.A. colleagues that the same tactic was employed in Costa Rica in an effort to turn the newspapers and radio and television stations of that country against the Nicaraguan Government.31

We've work too long and too hard making this country a bastion of freedom and tolerance to let a small minority of unrelenting hater - mongers manipulate us and turn us against ourselves and our principles.

Ben, I agree with all you said, especially about turning our country over to some of the «greediest people who have ever walked God's Earth,» instead of a good man, a great man, who has done his best for us for four years against ridiculous odds.

In the country a campaign against the move has started with a national newspaper calling on the decision to be over turned.

Within German - speaking countries there was a strong reaction against turning universities into training grounds for employment.

His two splendid books of memoirs show him to be a brave and decent citizen of his country and his universities, as well as a good «natured raconteur of folly who doesn't mind turning his wit against himself.

What will do so is if he sells BRITSH STATE SECRETS to a foreign power and tries to turn against his own country.

Wenger turned our form back around with a formation change, opting to follow Chelsea and Tottenham in using a 3 -4-2-1 system, and we ended the season with the best form in the country, while winning the FA Cup final against the Premier League winners.

The turning point was in his home country, the first leg against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, De Gea pulled of a number of top quality reflex saves and has since taken this form onto the domestic scene with De Gea proving to be a reassuring presence to a United backline that hasn't conceded a goal in their last six Premier League games.

Failure to do so turns countries against us just when we really need them on side.

«SERAP believes that the right to truth allows Nigerians to gain access to information essential to the fight against corruption and in turn development of democratic institutions as well as provides a form of reparation to victims of grand corruption in the country.»

Chris Cox gave money to Didi Scozofava, the North Country RINO (Republican in Name Only) who took nearly $ 1 million from the Republicans and then turned around and endorsed the DEMOCRAT running against our guy.

After a period of protests, seeking to ensure black people were represented in government and other areas of public life, the revolution against the British occupation and the exploitation of the country's natural resources turns violent.

Our insistence of leaving the customs union turns a country that should be our main ally against us.

Argued forcefully against the country turning its back on the world and delivered a passionate defence of migrants paying taxes for services in Britain.

Wealth creation in China turned negative for the first time since the inception of the Bloomberg index five years ago, with the country's richest losing $ 11bn in 2016 amid a slump in the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 index and a seven per cent decline for the yuan against the dollar.

He turns citizens of the home country into spies against the outsider.

But now that he is ill and out of the country for treatment, political jobbers have turned the issue to unnecessary distraction and political issues instead of assisting in continuing with the fight against corruption so that we can salvage the country.

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the «mood is turning against Tories» and the country can not afford another five years of austerity.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

«In rich countries, people turn against nuclear,» said Shellenberger.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

In late 2014, Grindr responded to security researchers who pointed out that risk by offering an option to turn off the app's distance - measuring feature, and disabling it by default in countries known to have «a history of violence against the gay community».

But this is a changing America, an angry country turning against immigrants and newcomers, where industrialism is threatening the pastoral idyll, the nation is on the brink of entering the first world war, and their own personal tragedy becomes a reflection of a larger transformation.

Fish - out - of - water problems take a backseat when a coup breaks out in the country, turning violent and brutal, especially against Americans, whom the locals blame for their issues.

As intimate as it is epic, the film presents the major turning points in the life of beloved Indian leader, played by Ben Kingsley, whose protest against British rule over his country became internationally renowned.

Screenwriters: Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant Drawing on one of France's most popular screen stars, the incorrigible Dany Boon from the comedy megahit Bienvenue chez les Ch ’ t is, as well as a cast of some of the country's best - known actors, Jeunet turns on the afterburners in this searing piece of romantic filmmaking set against the storm clouds of warring arms dealers.

An exceptional suspense thriller elevated by Fincher's tightly controlled direction and stand - out performances by Jodie Foster — a rare female protagonist for Fincher — as a recently single mother and a preteen Kristin Stewart resourcefully facing off against a trio of indelibly drawn and developed home invaders — a testament to Hollywood veteran David Koepp's underrated screenplay — played by future Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto, and country - singer - turned - actor Dwight Yoakum.

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

The success of the charter school movement in most of the country undercuts the claims leveled by opponents to turn Washington voters against a proposal for change, one which had bipartisan approval of the Legislature and Democratic governor Gary Locke.

It must create a rather perverse satisfaction for conservative parents across the country to watch the teachers union engage in mob rule in Madison and see public opinion turn against them.

The unions against the owners, like it was all through the coal country back around the turn of the century, but in Robbens it was different, and worse.

Samsung has finally been able to score a victory in its court battle against Apple when the Australian federal court over turned the injunction that prevented it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in that country.

Faced with destruction, the nationalists fight back against their enemies, turning the country into a battlefield.In Munich, Erich and Johann Brandt are a pair of impressionable teenagers just trying to get by.

This extraordinary country, torn apart in the 1970s by the infamous Khmer Rouge, which turned against its own people and created the Killing Fields, is re-born as a cultured and...

Back to the country that has been a constant source of fascination and frustration for now nearly the past four years, back to the city that, despite it turning into such a tourist hub, still offers so much more to discover, back to the heat and humidity, back to the constant battle against mosquitoes and back to putting chilies on my food instead of salt and pepper.