Billions
in sentence
1138 examples of Billions in a sentence
All countries – both developed and developing – have been losing
billions
of dollars in tax revenues.
Such a move is likely to be effective, given the sheer size of Chinese interventions (hundreds of
billions
of US dollars annually), which could not easily be recycled through offshore banks without exposing the China’s central bank to many other risks.
The online world, after all, has provided enormous opportunities to
billions
of denizens, largely because it has never been governed.
Similarly, when companies with
billions
of users scattered around the world suffer data breaches or choose to pursue profits at the expense of universal human rights, it is not currently clear who can hold them to account.
Big business is spending
billions
of dollars to explore the opportunities that renewables can bring.
To be sure, major central banks have injected dozens of
billions
of dollars of liquidity into the commercial banking sector, and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Canada have lowered their interest rates.
It is obvious that new technology and the integration of
billions
of additional workers into global markets have created opportunities that should mean greater prosperity in the decades ahead than before the crisis.
More broadly, a zero-carbon global economy in 2060 would probably consume 4-5 times as much electricity as today’s 20,000 TW hours, delivering improved transport services, air conditioning, and cleaner heating to
billions
of people.
We will waste hundreds of
billions
of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.
To understand the reach of their power, one must look no further than the
billions
of dollars they spend on elections; their lobbying to gut worker and environmental protections in trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and fossil-fuel corporations’ relentless drive to derail climate-change policy.
Such an outcome would mean that governments could recoup hundreds of
billions
of dollars in tobacco-related health-care costs and force the release of internal industry documents.
And if an app can sell for
billions
of dollars, we must be able to find the resources to provide for those caught in conflict.
Pundits agree this is merely the latest in a string of IMF-led bailouts that squandered
billions
of dollars and failed to save the economies they were meant to help.
Aided by the European Central Bank – which loosened its collateral policy for refinancing credits and increased its tolerance for emergency liquidity assistance and credits under the Agreement on Net Financial Assets – they drew hundreds of
billions
of euros out of the monetary system through so-called Target overdrafts.
Due to its superior infrastructure relative to Senegal, Ghana has attracted many
billions
of dollars more in foreign investment and records much higher trade volumes.
The alternative – to continue spending massively on defense rather than on global education – would condemn the US to the status of a declining imperial state tragically addicted to hundreds of overseas military bases, tens of
billions
of dollars in annual arms sales, and perpetual wars.
For the Trump administration, concerns have focused on issues such as the growing bilateral trade deficit, the displacement of US workers by Indian information-technology professionals, and India’s alleged use of the Paris climate agreement to extract
billions
of dollars in assistance.
They supply 50% of the oxygen we breathe, feed
billions
of people, and provide livelihoods for millions more.
Of the tribes who lack access to power, many are poorer today than at independence, despite the
billions
of dollars spent in their name.
Despite the failure of the 2015 nuclear deal to meet Iranians’ high economic expectations, the authorities continue to spend
billions
of dollars on the likes of Hezbollah, Hamas in Palestine, and the Houthis in Yemen.
And yet they deliver consumer services enjoyed by
billions
of people, create software that supports economy-wide productivity improvements, or develop drugs that can deliver enormous health benefits to hundreds of millions of people.
And airlines will purchase emissions reductions from other economic sectors, thus funneling
billions
of dollars into low-carbon development around the world.
The fact that so many problems persist despite tens of
billions
of dollars of assistance and years of effort is a sad reminder that aid can allow governments to undertake foolish investments that accomplish little, or can easily be siphoned off by corrupt officials.
The same machine that has increased inequality in rich countries has leveled the playing field globally for
billions.
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has already declared that the deal, whereby the EU pays Turkey
billions
of euros to shut down the Turkey-Greece migratory route, is “producing results.”
The key question is whether there are
billions
in debt that suddenly risk default.
Giving emission allowances is like giving away money – potentially hundreds of
billions
of dollars.
Already, investors are rethinking
billions
of dollars in financial commitments.
Even the commitment of the accord to provide amounts approaching $30 billion for the period 2010-2012 for adaptation and mitigation appears paltry next to the hundreds of
billions
of dollars that have been doled out to the banks in the bailouts of 2008-2009.
But such an allocation would implicitly transfer hundreds of
billions
of dollars from rich to poor.
Back
Related words
Dollars
People
Hundreds
Years
World
Which
Their
Would
Global
Countries
Millions
There
Poverty
Could
Spent
Other
Banks
Lives
Euros
Around
