Sentences with phrase «worst political crisis»

With nearly 1300 killed and hundreds of thousands displaced, the 2007 - 08 post-election violence amounted to Kenya's worst political crisis since independence.

Honduras sank deeper into Central America's worst political crisis in years on Sept. 21, when deposed president Manuel Zelaya (run off by a coup on June 28) sneaked back into the country and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy.

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These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

Thousands of protesters poured onto the streets of major cities on Sunday to demand the removal of President Dilma Rousseff amid Brazil's worst political and economic crisis in a generation.Polls show more than half of Brazilians favour the impeachment of Rousseff.

The Nielsen report attributed waning confidence to brewing worries over Malaysia's economic outlook, a near 20 percent drop in the value of the Malaysian ringgit year - to - date and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.9 percent on - year over the April - June period amid uncertainties in global growth, persistent weakness in oil prices and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

The refugee crisis that has struck Europe is the worst the continent has seen since the Second World War, and with it has come the resurgence of political parties that have not enjoyed this kind of support since 1945.

The nimbleness that helped China steer around the worst of the global crisis is confronting political paralysis of the kind more often seen in Japan, Europe and the U.S..

Donald Trump's recent immigration executive orders unleashed the worst political humanitarian crisis in recent US history.

The outline is now pretty clear of what the origin of the worst economic crisis since 1931 is, as well as who are the main political culprits.

Affleck also stars in this exciting and tense, white knuckle political thriller as a CIA exfiltration expert who comes up with the best «bad idea» right out of Hollywood (no kidding) to rescue 6 Americans who found refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in which 52 Americans were held captive.

Now, realize that though I talk about the US, most of the rest of the developed world is in worse shape as the demographic crisis affects pensions and elderly healthcare globally — they had even fewer kids than in the US, which is close to replacement rate, and so the ratio of workers to those supported will fall even more than in the US, setting up many nasty political fights — all the more nasty, because the governments are much more heavily involved already.

The works in Disco Angola are all dated from 1974 or 1975, a pivotal moment in the history of global political economy: the Bretton Woods monetary regime had collapsed, the 1973 oil crisis was just abating, global markets were enduring the worst crash since the great Depression and the rapprochement between the US and the Soviet Union was breaking down.

Might debt and bad financial institutions create a political crisis serious enough to threaten the legitimacy of the regime?

In the spirit of Tetlock, I'll put a number on it and say a 80 % probability of a bad recession or some other internal crisis within 20 years that is bad enough to be considered «the worst domestic crisis for the leadership since Tiananmen and a prelude to major political change» and which results in either a Tiananmen - style clampdown or big political change.

Zuckerberg is trying to steer Facebook through one of its worst public crises, after revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that worked on President Donald Trump's election campaign, obtained the private data of some 50 million Facebook users.