Example collocations logo

Regions in sentence

1860 examples of Regions in a sentence

With different regions and industries desperately trying to opt out of a “hard Brexit” from the European Union, and Scotland even considering independence, whatever ties bind the UK together are being severely strained.
Average disposable household income in the Greater London area is 60% higher than in most other regions of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
McCann argues that London is decoupling from the rest of the country, because few benefits – such as new jobs, industries, or technologies – ever flow out of the capital to other regions.
The UK’s peripheral regions, with their high levels of long-term unemployment, are losing workers.
That convention should start by examining Brexit’s impact on regions.
We should ask, for example, whether it makes sense to repatriate powers and financial transfers from Brussels to Westminster, or if some powers and financing should instead be devolved to the regions and nations.
The convention should also look at the broader case for building a more federal UK, for codifying a new division of powers between London and the regions, and for replacing the unelected House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions.
Agricultural regions already need to become more resilient in the face of increased climate volatility.
And as one region in one part of the world designs a better way to manage its transport, energy needs, water supplies, or food supplies, those successes should quickly become part of the global knowledge base, enabling other regions to benefit rapidly as well.
With free international commerce, small regions have smaller costs in becoming independent.
This means that the first scenario is more realistic: an integrated monetary and economic area with the maximum political independence of the regions.
Trade for much of the Pacific and Atlantic regions will be governed by agreements, thousands of pages in length and replete with complex rules of origin that contradict basic principles of efficiency and the free flow of goods.
The fact that nearly all of the regions in Britain that voted for Brexit received massive EU subsidies supports this interpretation.
To be sure, as welcome as these results may be, we should not allow them to blind us to the message of the first round of balloting, in which the FN finished first in six of the country’s 13 regions.
The creation of the euro without an appropriate fiscal union meant that transfers from surplus to deficit regions would not eliminate or even cushion demand imbalances.
In these water-stressed regions, shortages have already begun to constrain the expansion of energy infrastructure.
Otherwise, we will fail to meet the sustainable-development challenges we face, with devastating consequences, beginning with the world’s most water-stressed regions.
The unemployed workers of Greece, Portugal, and Spain do not move to faster-growing regions of Europe because of differences in language, history, religion, union membership, etc.
All this need not end horribly, but policymakers in most regions have to start pressing hard on the brakes, not the accelerator.
If governments do not embrace unconventional water resources, achieving that goal will be as difficult as getting water from a stone – and the consequences for water-scarce regions will be dire.
Europe must recognize that if it doesn’t take care of its geopolitical interests, sooner or later crises in its neighboring regions will arrive on its doorstep.
The pragmatic explanation for this gigantic strategic project (with an investment volume of about $3 trillion) is the need to develop western China, which has so far benefited little from the coastal regions’ economic success.
Both regions were religiously governed (historians differ about the role and natures of the religions in this context), but science flourished only in one of them.
You invest in a basket of all countries or specific regions, and what you get is referred to as “beta” – the average market return.
In order to overcome this obstacle, China should engage in local experimentation – a tried-and-tested approach that has long guided the country’s reform efforts – beginning in the regions where the SOE debt problem is the most acute.
It is now our collective duty to hold our leaders to account and ensure that they turn promises into action – especially in the world’s most vulnerable regions, such as Africa.
Local bond markets, for example, have been growing in the last decade at a robust rate in some regions.
The consequences were most profound in what were the countries of the Soviet empire, but they extended to other regions as well.
The key reason is that wages in China began rising much faster than in other low-wage Asian economies, and companies within Asia’s production networks are finding it difficult to retain their most talented Chinese staff, particularly in the country’s booming coastal regions.
Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.
BackNext