In addition, there are many areas of the human situation besides the impact of science and technology which are examined, for science-fiction dystopias often extrapolate political, social, economic tendencies only indirectly related to science and technology.

The Office of Business Economics ( OBE ) of the U.S. Department of Commerce provides basic measures of the national economy and current analysis of short-run changes in the economic situation and business outlook.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

The ongoing grave economic situation largely prevents any government support for social institutions.

Hotels did not get that many in 2009, mostly due to the economic situation in the United States, and partially because of scares of drug-related violence.

The goal is to overcome the business crisis situation of the debtor in order to allow the continuation of the producer, the employment of workers and the interests of creditors, leading, thus, to preserving company, its corporate function and develop economic activity.

This situation can have important corporate, social, economic, and legal consequences, and has been the subject of significant research.

The changes in economic situation also had the effect of altering the balance of availability and quality of musicians.

Only in the 18th century did a steady economic and demographic growth begin, an effect of the reforms by Spain's Bourbon dynasty and a more stable situation along the frontier.

Britain also benefited from the American Marshall Aid program in 1948, and the economic situation improved significantly.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

The use of the term is often found on websites and in books and articles by critics of the current economic situation in a particular country, especially the United States.

In recent years dependency theory has been used to examine the situation of the Maritimes, and while it rejects most traditional economic models it does correspond with the evidence.

Increases and decreases in prices inform entrepreneurs about the general economic situation, to which they must adjust their own plans.

The private banks give input to the government officials about their economic situation and these government officials use this input in Federal Reserve policy decisions.

In the 19th century, Marx described feudalism as the economic situation coming before the rise of capitalism.

Conditions signed in the peace treaty were intended to compromise Carthage's economic situation and prevent the city's recovery.

Throughout its long history, Fuerteventura has suffered from a population decline due to the economic situation and the climate, which have made it into a desert island.

Vacillating between support for the Soviet Union and ( by the late 1970s ) the United States, Guinea's economic situation became as unpredictable as its diplomatic line.

Revenue from bauxite mining is expected to fall significantly in 2010 due mainly to the world economic situation.

The economic situation remained extremely bad throughout the 1930s.

The Parliament of Scotland of 1695 enacted proposals that might help the desperate economic situation, including setting up the Bank of Scotland.

After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.

After World War II, Scotland's economic situation became progressively worse due to overseas competition, inefficient industry, and industrial disputes.

As a result, popular discontent with social and economic conditions persisted.

In the later Middle Ages, areas of incomplete or non-existent manorialization persisted while the manorial economy underwent substantial development with changing economic conditions.

Despite the economic crisis, Laissez-faire persisted as the guiding economic principle of Conservative Party ideology.

However, in the same decade, many economic problems persisted.

The Panic of 1873 had led to an economic depression that persisted through much of the decade.

This set the stage for economic development that has persisted to this day.

The economic effects persisted, in part, because of farmers ' failure to switch to more appropriate crops for highly eroded areas.

A strong economic division between later Scandinavian immigrant farmers and the earlier English and Scottish war veterans who retained control of the principal businesses of the city center, the banks, and the increasingly important Otter Tail Power Company persisted for decades until several generations of ethnic intermarriage and continuing inward and outward migration largely erased the initially strong divisions of class and power along ethnic lines.

Although children from a variety of economic backgrounds could obtain an education, class differences persisted among students, particularly in terms of school choice and social ties.

The Depression was hard on many of the village's economic concerns, but the knife makers persisted.

Fascination with the outback has persisted in the arts in Australia and agriculture has been an important economic sector, despite the nation becoming increasingly urbanised during the 20th century.

The U. S .' s desire to expand its territory continued unabated and Mexico's economic problems persisted, leading to the controversial Gadsden Purchase in 1854 and William Walker's Republic of Lower California filibustering incident in that same year.

A similar article in Ebony, written in 1999 highlighted conflicting opinions about the " blue-eyed " influence ; however the source of contention was not about the artistic merit of blue-eyed soul, but rather the economic inequality that persisted in American life and within the music industry.

The economic problems that began under Brezhnev persisted into the short administrations of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko both of whom instituted reform policies but whether the economic situation improved as a result is disputed.

During the next years, the economic problems left over from the Military Government persisted, worsened by an occurrence of the " El Niño " weather phenomenon in 1982 – 83, which caused widespread flooding in some parts of the country, severe droughts in others, and sharply reduced the schools of ocean fish that are one of the country's major resources.

Change has been more evolutionary than revolutionary and these strategic behaviours have persisted throughout its history, being the product of Australian society's democratic political tradition and Judaeo-Christian Anglo-European heritage, as well its associated values, beliefs and economic, political and religious ideology.

Yet, agriculture is the predominant economic activity in the civil parish, a function that has persisted on a subsistence basis since the settlement of Madeira.

Yet, the matrilineal relationship persisted for some time more, especially on economic and ecclesiastical spheres.

According to Ernest Mandel, the law of value, as a law of exchange, did influence non-capitalist societies to some extent, inasmuch as exchange and trade persisted, but because the state directed the bulk of economic resources, the law of value no longer ruled or dominated resource allocation.

Subsequently, as the club's dreadful economic situation persisted – which led to a two-year suspension from all activity by the Portuguese Football Federation – it folded, remaining active in youth competitions.