"divert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The auto industry has steadily resisted government-mandated increases in fuel economy, with some carmakers arguing that such requirements would divert investment from fuel-cell research.
- The effect, however, was to divert investment from multifamily housing and home construction or renovation in the inner cities, speeding a middle-class exodus to the suburbs and into common-interest housing.
- The worry is that the agreement will divert investment and jobs from the United States to Mexico as American manufacturers are drawn to magnet of low Mexican wages.
- The report said that Western protectionism as well as African and Latin American debt troubles would also divert investment to the West and stifle growth in poorer regions.
- Nationally, new stadiums hurt the economy by diverting investment from more productive enterprises.
- You restate the common economic belief that deficits "bring high interest rates and divert investment from its most productive uses."
- The government's encouragement of industrial growth diverted investment from agriculture, and agricultural production fell dramatically.
- Corruption also generates economic distortions in the public sector by diverting public investment into capital projects where bribes and kickbacks are more plentiful.
- And that brings me to the second reason why the stability of the currency is so important: inflation diverts investment, sends it in the wrong directions - unproductive directions.
- And he proposed diverting some of the gasoline tax from its present purpose, reducing the deficit, to a new function, making payments on state and municipal bonds that finance public investment.
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