Example collocations logo

Domestic in sentence

5631 examples of Domestic in a sentence

The country would then focus on domestic issues such as economic development, improving its public institutions, and raising living standards.
Turkey's success in moving forward as a modern democracy will depend, of course, on many factors, most of them internal to Turkey and having to do with domestic leadership and decisions that political and economic actors will make in Turkey.
History placed Merkel amid raging storms: a series of eurozone crises that drove wedges between Europeans; economic tensions at home that fueled social fragmentation; and the largest migration wave since World War II, which intensified European and domestic anxieties.
Although Merkel’s characteristically dull campaign approach won her a fourth term as chancellor last year, her electoral base has weakened considerably – a trend that has been reinforced by domestic economic failures.
But, unwilling to challenge the domestic political consensus on fiscal austerity, Merkel refused to invest in Germany’s future, say, by repairing decaying infrastructure and upgrading educational opportunities.
Given that diplomatic relations between the two countries had been severed for more than 30 years, and that each country was radioactive in the domestic politics of the other, holding preliminary negotiations in public would have been a non-starter.
Given the Kim regime’s past negotiating tactics, Obama is understandably reluctant to launch any new diplomatic initiative and may well believe that negotiating with North Korea would provide his domestic political opponents with ammunition to ruin his Iran deal.
From China’s perspective, the Trump administration’s Hobbesian vision could prove appealing, provided that its economy continues to grow, and that it avoids serious domestic social or political upheaval.
Brinkmanship of the sort that took place as the Wall went up is usually the product of a politician desperate to shore up his domestic position.
That pace, however, seems too fast for President Khatami’s domestic foes, who are working hard to thwart any opening, as the arrest last week of a key Khatami supporter Teheran’s mayor (and his release following street protests by his supporters), suggests.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Supreme Religious Leader, has final word on domestic and foreign policy, and scorns renewed relations with Washington.
The message here is clear: Europe must hope that the dollar stays strong because, without domestic dynamism, the cheap euro is Europe's only growth ticket.
It took 4 years for the World Wide Web to get 50 million domestic users, and its use is growing 1000% a year.
Much has been made of domestic consumption as a driver of Chinese growth in the future.
But Justin Lin, a former World Bank chief economist, has argued forcefully that investment will and should remain a key growth driver, and that domestic consumption in China’s growth pattern should not be pushed beyond its natural limits into a high-leverage model based on rising consumer debt.
The right target for generating growth is domestic aggregate demand based on the right mix of consumption and high-return investment.
Fiscal reform will determine many things: the components of domestic income and demand that will drive structural change on the supply side, the allocation of income and expenditure across levels of government, and the embedded incentives that this allocation implies.
At the same time, weakened leaders in France and Germany are now squarely focused on domestic problems.
Regardless of how they handle their current difficulties, Europe and America will emerge with high debt, low growth rates, and contentious domestic politics.
Domestic demand-led growth will be a more reliable strategy than export-led growth.
That means that countries with a large domestic market and a prosperous middle class will have an important advantage.
So far, communities in the vicinity of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the victims of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.
Distrust leads to political polarization, widespread anxiety about the future, and uncertainty in domestic affairs and international relations.
Given this, it is worth asking whether the latest slogan adopted by Chinese officials – “Asia for Asians” – is merely nationalist posturing for domestic consumption or a signal of a genuine policy shift.
At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable; after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.
Perhaps it is inevitable for candidates to ignore the real-world constraints of domestic politics or international circumstances as they try to sell themselves to voters.
America’s massive trade deficit is a direct consequence of an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving.
Having previously supported Chinese investment abroad, they are now blocking outbound mergers and acquisitions to keep domestic companies from exporting capital.
In Ukraine, too, a huge boom in 2004-2007 was followed by a contraction amounting to almost 15% GDP in 2009 – a direct result of domestic policies.
They doubt that an alternative development strategy based on boosting domestic demand would succeed.
BackNext