Sentence examples for weakening mining from inspiring English sources

Even Mr Mbeki's government, relatively friendly toward foreign investors, is now considering weakening mining firms' mineral rights—a move that, quite rightly, makes all foreign investors skittish.A final lesson from Zambia's mining disaster: after a long period of misrule, do not expect quick, or guaranteed, recovery.

In two-thirds of the concluded cases, governments either have been ordered to pay the mining corporations or have settled with them, which can require handing over payment and/or weakening mining restrictions.

The sudden loss of cheap child labourers made the already weakened mining industries of Cornwall and West Devon even less profitable, and more than half the mines in the area went out of business in the following decade.

Sadly, as the synaptic connections of his memory weakened, mine only grew stronger.

Ignoring the fact that Republicans have fought on behalf of big mine owners for years to weaken mine safety oversight, Dowd actually had the gall to say that the mine disaster in West Virginia was an example of how "Washington doesn't work".

11 world: allowing more roads and powerline construction on public lands, weakening rules over mining permits, delaying a ban on snowmobiles in national parks, letting developers build on wetlands without replacing them.

The bank has been juggling the contradictory economic trends of weakening growth in mining states such as Western Australia and Queensland and overheated housing markets in other parts of the country.

An analyst with Frost & Sullivan said that lithium costs about five times more to recycle than to mine, weakening its appeal to companies that would otherwise extract the metals and sell them for reuse in other consumer applications.

Lingering on the sidelines of the power dispute is a bipartisan new sanctions bill that would hit Iran's petroleum and mining industries, further weakening an economy already crippled by sanctions.

His resolve was reinforced, and mine weakened, by two other fathers on the trip, who kayaked effortlessly through the rapids with their small children.

The groups complained that the government was intent on weakening laws against the abuses of mountaintop mining.