Sentences with phrase «under the weight of»

One of the most accomplished entertainment moguls Canada has ever minted, who saved the production when it was broke, he is now battling to get the show opening - ready before it collapses under the weight of its cost, or literally kills someone.

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

The deal, which was backed by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, avoided a collapse of the venerable investment bank suffering under the weight of bad mortgage debt.

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

It seems clear that the federal immigration system is crumbling under the weight of its own processes and internal politics.

Suffocating under the weight of declining coal production, West Virginia falls to No. 50 from No. 47 last year.

OUR trading pal Singapore, we can report after a three - day excursion there, isn't about to roll over under the weight of Asia's economic collapse.

Congress remains at an impasse over the future of the Affordable Care Act, while employers and consumers are struggling under the weight of rising medical costs, including the soaring price of prescription drugs.

Or is your workplace straining under the weight of too much «déjà moo» - the weird, eerie feeling you've heard this bull before?

«In our view, China's structural growth deceleration is only half - way through and under the weight of debt and excess capacity, weakening investment demand will remain the main culprit.»

Li said China would also help with the construction of highways, airports and ports and provide financial aid, goods and no - interest loans to the country, which was struggling under the weight of a US$ 1 billion debt — almost equivalent to its annual gross domestic product — in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

No doubt this polarization is widening as the economy shrinks under the weight of its debt overhead.

The sole success story of the Arab Spring is in danger of failing under the weight of market - oriented economic policies.

They are built to last and won't stretch or sag under the weight of your child.

The company that once dominated toy sales in the U.S. has been operating under bankruptcy protection since last fall, when it filed for Chapter 11 under the weight of $ 5 billion in debt.

As Russia continues to suffer under the weight of plunging gas prices, a currency in free - fall, and crippling economic sanctions, the efforts...

The average household is sinking slowly under the weight of debt that grows continuously and will soon become unbearable.

If you're suffering under the weight of unmanageable debt, chances are you've looked into getting help from debt consolidation companies before....

NXP has struggled under the weight of weakened semiconductor demand since about the midpoint of 2015, with the company reporting a comparable sales decline (i.e., not including revenue from its merger with Freescale Semiconductor) of minus 8 % from the prior - year period in the second quarter.

But even the modified baseline must drop sharply to avoid a collapse of the economy under the weight of our national debt.

The platform will take on a different role, solve various problems and be creaking under the weight of the number of different use - cases it supports.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is clearly struggling under the weight of the emerging market slowdown, a strong dollar and the collapse in energy - and natural resource - related activity.

While student loan borrowers may think bankruptcy is an answer to getting out from under the weight of federal or private student loans, rarely is bankruptcy an option to discharge student loan balances.

But some other critics have in a sense taken the other side of this trade, contending that if anything the formula underestimates the potential liability of long - dated options by failing to adequately account for so - called tail risk — the prospect that the markets will collapse under the weight of, say, a giant housing bubble.

The discount retailer files for bankruptcy Sunday under the weight of more than $ 100 million of debt.

In addition, commodities have struggled under the weight of a stronger dollar, a trend likely to continue given long - term global trends such as divergent monetary policies.

(Reuters)- U.S. department store operator Neiman Marcus said on Tuesday it had ended talks regarding a partial or full sale of the company, three months after embarking on a review of strategic alternatives under the weight of a $ 4.8 billion debt load.

Excel and legacy spec systems are failing under the weight of SKU proliferation.

AMP's ambitious growth plans come as the financial giant struggles under the weight of an under - pressure life insurance business.

For the third time this year, Saudi Arabia does not seem motivated to curb production as Iran's oil sector recovers, even as its less financially savvy OPEC comrades crumble politically and economically under the weight of two years of abysmal oil revenues.

Simplifying the tax code is a noble endeavor but we have all experienced the inability of Congress to crush the self - interests that without presidential leadership it attempts fail under the weight of lobbying dollars.

There's the well - known story of younger people struggling under the weight of hefty student loans, which gets factored into debt - to - income ratios when they apply for mortgages.

The grand, opulent, rococo edifice of Hegel's system rested upon so shallow a foundation that it could not fail to collapse under the weight of its own magnificence.

Not unlike the bible, your posts seem coherent until someone actually bothers to read them, at which time they crumble under the weight of contradiction and nonsense.

Even in a song like «Ruby's Arms,» about a tough soldier crumbling under the weight of apocalyptic sadness, there's a sliver of hope.

I can't rightly decide whether I'm the first person, trying really hard to throw a festively plump middle man to the next step, or if I'm the third guy, crumpling under the weight of an unhealthily large system that doesn't work any more.

Part of his conclusion in Christ and Culture was a call to be a responsible self who acts in the present under the weight of his personal history and in connection to an invisible community.

What a rich abundance of grief is here laid bare, like ripened grain bent under the weight of its fruitfulness, merely waiting the time of the harvest, when the thought of the king will thresh out all its seed of sorrow!

Not only must one be ready for both events, one should live under the weight of eternity that both place before the mind.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

The were crushed under the weight of the debt and so it went for them.

Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.

I had reservations about the pagan origins of the festivities, and I was honestly frustrated by the powerlessness I felt under the weight of tradition.

«Everything I saw seemed to be a burden to me; the earth seemed accursed for my sake: all trees, plants, rocks, bills, and vales seemed to be dressed in mourning and groaning, under the weight of the curse, and everything around me seemed to be conspiring my ruin.

Your false idols will burn for all eternity under the weight of the Yggsdrasil.

It lets people borrow and max out their credit cards until people must either declare bankruptcy or live forever under the weight of interest payments and out of control debt.

I am a priest in a church which, like most churches, threatens to collapse under the weight of a perverse notion of a sexuality that is to be neither celebrated nor related to other issues of love and justice.

The truth is, as Silver says, that «Any other species would have collapsed under the weight of its own voracious appetites.»

The pontiff released a statement through Vatican Radio, saying: «The grave decision taken by the Holy See, under the weight of serious pastoral concerns, is for the greater good and unity of the Church of Ciudad del Este and episcopal communion in Paraguay.

It fails in its mission whenever it allows the promissory character of reality to sink under the weight of any past age of allegedly splendid «orthodoxy.»