Sentence examples for Economic affliction from inspiring English sources

In neighbouring eastern Europe, where the German unions' stiffest competition lies, the average is around $4 an hour.Unfortunately, Germany suffers from another economic affliction, claims Mr Burda.

In the 1930s, as now, in the face of severe economic affliction the temptation was strong to turn inward, to "put our own house in order" and tend to the international neighborhood later.

During his 1981 inaugural address, Ronald Reagan said the United States was "confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions". Eight years later, George H.W. Bush cautioned at his inauguration that "we have a deficit to bring down.

But last week the big number was a bequest, and in a country coping with corporate scandal and economic affliction and about ready to march off to war, there was something marvelously innovatory, out-of-step almost, about someone investing what could be as much as $100 million in Poetry, the magazine, and in poetry, the art.

Soon after South Korea had succumbed to Asia's economic afflictions, its opposition was swept into office.

But they are more virulent than the economic afflictions that sap growth in the north of Italy.

For the last decade, Luton has been a byword for many of Britain's social and economic afflictions, as well as for tensions over immigrant communities.

If the euro zone were to turn Japanese, this would exacerbate its already painful economic afflictions as it struggles to make a meaningful recovery after being mired in a long double-dip recession.

Despite our intuition that we need to do something drastic about global warming, we are in danger of implementing a cure that is more costly than the original affliction: economic analyses clearly show that it will be far more expensive to cut carbon dioxide emissions radically than to pay the costs of adaptation to the increased temperatures.

Once again, sluggish growth in advanced economies, and in particular the unfurling economic and fiscal afflictions in the euro zone, will be the central topic of discussion.

And sleep deprivation is an affliction that crosses economic lines.