Sentence examples for short-term preoccupations from inspiring English sources

The Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations gathered 19 international leaders from government, business and civil society to address the growing short-term preoccupations of modern politics and business and identify ways of overcoming today's gridlock in key international negotiations.

The short-term preoccupations of politicians--whether they focus on financing their electoral campaigns or enriching themselves at public expense--has generated protests around the world: in Bulgaria, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, and elsewhere.

We can learn to see more deeply, through our fears and self-deceptions; more widely, beyond our self-absorption to a more inclusive capacity for care and concern; and longer term, past our immediate preoccupations and short-term cravings.

A preoccupation with short-term fiscal balance has, for instance, kept tariff rates high.

Turner says that he is uncomfortable with what he believes are arbitrary budget goals — what he called the company's new preoccupation with "short-term fluctuations" in its stock price — saying, "I never ran the company by the numbers".

This preoccupation with short-term doom and gloom tends to blind people to the fact we are living through one of the greatest periods of economic transformation in history, he reasons.

Washingtonʼs current preoccupation with short-term job creation is just one more reason to oppose Net Neutrality.

These include disproportionate CEO salaries, six-figure bonuses and a preoccupation with short-term wealth concentrated to benefit those in management and investors rather than being shared with average employees and citizens for the well-being of society.

But in devising these controls, we need to protect researchers and designers from the narrowing influence of commercial sponsorship, with its preoccupation with short-term returns, and the stultifying effect of the tunnel vision that comes with political agendas.

At the time, when Keynesian preoccupations were with short-term fluctuations in commodity prices, Singer's work attracted controversy.

In return, the Obama administration expects Pakistan to keep up the fight against Islamic militants, though there are worries that the effort will turn out to be a short-term spurt overtaken by Pakistan's preoccupation with its archrival, India.