The very low levels of interest rates also provided some counterweight to the various factors that were having an adverse effect on economic activity .

Global warming is already affecting people.

Economic uncertainty is also dramatically affecting Brazilian politics.

So the problematic food system is affecting both hunger and obesity.

MANILA As the slowdown in the world s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected.

America s current tax system adversely affects the US economy in several ways.

But her degree of power, her management style, her omnipresence and her high visibility are eroding his authority.

American ideas continue to affect the policy debate worldwide.

In addition , the stock prices of export oriented firms were adversely affected by the strengthening of the Japanese yen vis à vis the US dollar .

Recognizing also that late payments of assessed contributions adversely affect the financial situation of the Organization,

It s a diverse and growing movement and more and more people are finding out what climate change is and how it s affecting them and affecting others in different contexts.

In terms of investment, the International Monetary Fund predicts that a disruption in China s investment boom will adversely affect its trading partners.

How does this help us figure out some of the problems that are affecting us these days?

The sectarianism plaguing the Sunni belt is affecting even the relatively stable oil sheikdoms of the Gulf, where a schism within the Gulf Cooperation Council is spurring new tensions and proxy competition among its members.

Increasingly complex majority minority dynamics are shaping the democratization prospects of a number of countries, and could influence democracy s durability as a system of government.

Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

In one of the biggest states in India, Madhya Pradesh, pollution even seems to be affecting the weather.

Needless to say, China s unfolding slowdown even under the soft landing scenario that I still believe is most credible is taking a major toll on the largest source of America s export revival.

The sandstorm is also affecting neighbouring Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, where visibility has dropped as gusts blow sand and dirt into the sky.

Otherwise, its oil output will stagnate or even fall, hitting the ruble and living standards hard.

They have to deal with things like toxins and pharmaceuticals that are flushed out into the ocean, and maybe even affecting their reproduction.

Markileide Oliveira's blog and photos show how the drought is affecting the mobility of the population of Xique Xique, a town located in Bahia that depends on a portion of the Old Frank

Indeed, from the Bank of Japan s dramatic policy U turn to the Bank of Mexico s surprise interest rate cuts, the Fed s approach is affecting central banks in a growing number of countries.

Only small concessions have been made to scaling back government intervention, affecting powers that are either irrelevant or never actually existed.

As floods and torrential rains keep plaguing many regions of Madagascar, a few citizen initiatives have taken it upon themselves to provide relief to those displaced by the disaster.

Benar bahwa kemiskinan energi adalah masalah besar yang dialami oleh 1,2 miliar penduduk di dunia.

If you talk to faculty, they may say, Ugh. Yeah, well, they're playing video games, and they're gambling online all night long, and they're playing World of Warcraft, and that's affecting their academic achievement.

Illiteracy today still afflicts 20 of the world s population, but that is down sharply from an estimated 70 in 1900.

There are several peace efforts now underway to promote national reconciliation, but local wars continue across the country.

AINARDI (CG). (FR) Mr President, after other colleagues, I would like to draw attention to a problem . which illustrates the grave consequences of the process of unification annexation, as it is being conducted I want to talk about the problem of agriculture.

He sticks to the script, telling a story of taking aggressive and definitive action against an economic malaise that has plagued Japan for decades.

Since YouTube claimed it would be impossible to prevent the republications of the video, the court decided to block the website in Brazil, which affected millions of people.

And, as Mexico reforms its energy sector, the range of pressures on Asian manufacturing will expand Mexico is already benefitting from cost pressures in China.

It turned to China, which had been much in the news in recent weeks. China was reducing its global imports, potentially reducing demand for exports from the US.

The weaker international environment adversely affected external demand in the euro area and hampered business investment . The heightened uncertainty also had the potential to affect consumption growth .

The previously strong impact of the interest rate constellation on monetary dynamics , while still affecting the pace of underlying money growth , appears to be gradually waning .

14. Notes with deep concern the severity of the humanitarian crisis that still affects the country and the existence of millions of Afghan internally displaced persons and refugees

Whatever political horrors may be afflicting the world, there is something for many of us to smile about a clean, healthy, and pain free set of pearly whites.

To understand why economic recovery (if not that of the stock market) has remained so weak since 2009, we need to identify which stories have been affecting popular psychology.

I was reading headlines about the recession just like anyone else, and I started to notice a distinct pattern that the recession was affecting men much more deeply than it was affecting women.

Actions and events often are intertwined, and what happens on one level affecting individuals, states, economic sectors, and companies of all sizes may have repercussions on others.

Doc. B3 1751 90 by Mr McCartin and others on behalf of the Group of the European People's Party, on the continuing dreadful situation of children in Romanian orphanages

In addition , other respondents were concerned that including remuneration for employees , other than executives , within the scope of supervisory review might impact adversely on collective agreements that banks and investment firms have in place for non management employees .

As the global economy has continued to slide, falling demand and lost jobs are hitting businesses, families and communities throughout the EU.

And it isn't something that isn't just affecting our world, but it starts to go up because I think we can start correcting our footprint and bring it down but there's a growing footprint that's happening in Asia, and is growing at a rapid, rapid rate, and so I don't think we can equalize it. So ultimately the strategy, I think, here is that we have to be very concerned about their evolution, because it is going to be connected to our evolution as well.