Sentences with phrase «american countries other than»

Hispanic students from South American countries other than...

Not exact matches

Not only is Chile's tax system easier to navigate than that of other Latin American countries, says Skinner, its corporate tax rate is the lowest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

But the current reality is this: While the number of U.S. companies owned by women is increasing faster than those of other groups, those companies are responsible for just 6 percent of the country's employees and 4 percent of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.

Ethnic minorities make up 36 percent of the country, and more than 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

Despite data from an ABC News poll that indicated only 26 percent of Americans felt they worked too hard, analysts have found that not only do people from the United States work longer hours than individuals in other countries, but they also take less time off and retire later.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

He has focused on trade relationships where other countries run large surpluses with the U.S., meaning they sell more to U.S. consumers than they buy from American companies.

Canadians may be getting a slightly cheaper ride than Americans, relatively speaking, but they're punching their weight when compared to other countries.

And one oddly secretive company wasn't pleased to see its bills detailing the fact that 90 % of its calls went to Iran and Nicaragua, two countries that had little in common other than that they were of great interest to the American intelligence community.

Those rates are relatively on - par with the rest of the world, yet Americans are ten times more likely to die at the barrel of a gun than people in other rich countries.

As it is, Americans pay vastly more for health insurance than citizens of all other advanced countries in exchange for inferior results.

He wasn't sure what the right answer to that question was, but suggested that shifting more of the burden to other countries would be a start; rather than Americans paying too much, perhaps people in other Western countries are paying too little.

Americans purchased more tickets to games at this tournament than fans from any country other than Brazil.

The First Amendment gives American media organizations greater latitude than they enjoy in most other developed countries.

Americans give more to charity than people in any other country.

And Americans» support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.

Infrastructure issues and weaker foreign investment rates than other Latin American countries have also hurt Brazilian businesses looking to find customers abroad.

He is a typical «ugly american» who buries his head in the sand and proclaims the overblown virtues of our country while failing to see that, yes, other countries do things radically different than us and they also have a phenomenal standard of living.

Support for Islamic extremism is not rising among Muslim Americans, who are much less likely to support terrorism than Muslims in many other countries, according to the study by the Pew Research Center in Washington.

Many Americans assume that because we are the richest country in the world, with real G.D.P per capita higher than that of other major advanced countries, Americans must be better off across the board - that it's not just our rich who are richer than their counterparts abroad, but that the typical American family is much better off than the typical family elsewhere, and that even our poor are well off by foreign standards.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Sure, let's take away a few more days off, when Americans already have less than half the average time off per year than any other First World country, and on average suffer far more from overwork and stress - related health issues.

Rather than pay his taxes like every other American Citizen, Mr. Romney created a legendary tax avoidance scheme to hide his profits from the country that made all of his success possible.

3 / 4th of Americans are Christians and give more to charity world wide than all the other countries combined.

As my American friend observed, this was present under the surface long before the scandals broke, and at the root of it is probably the widespread rejection of Catholic teaching on sexual morality, which emerged later in Ireland than other Catholic countries.

Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else.

On the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.»

There are more professionals in Cuba than in any other Latin American country.

The striking fact is that the Jewish rate is much lower than that of any other religious or ethnic group in the country, with the one exception of Americans of Chinese descent.

Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

Americans are more religious than most other industrialized countries, and it's holding us back, both as a nation and a culture.

as for «branding ourselves a suffering minority»... while its true that religious freedom in America has made life a lot easier here for atheists than in many other countries around the globe, pause to think... 80 % of Americans say they believe in God.

But the reality of US society means many will lose (though not relevant in this case, social mobility aka The American Dream is actually weaker than in some other developed countries).

And that to me meant they could turn on me and my country if they ever deemed my nation a threat to them, American or not, they were not «AMERCIAN» they were «MUSLIM» and that my friend will always remain scary and Muslims in my book are always an friend to be watched carefully more than any other.

You don't hear about other countries problems because Americans don't CARE about any country other than themselves.

With restored diplomacy between our two counties, now more than ever, Guas and other Cuban - Americans are taking the lead to showcase the rich tapestry of a country beyond the cliché of imported cigars and rum.

It's getting easier to find top - notch, handcrafted whiskey, bourbon, vodka, and other spirits made in the U.S. With more than 1,500 craft distillers across the country, the American spirits movement is on the rise, and in Vermont, the industry is booming.

10 different American circuits have hosted F1 races - that's more than any other country (France is next up with seven), and doesn't even include the different layouts that were used.

Our teens are doing much more poorly, in many spheres, than teens in other countries, and indicators of mental illness have been rising among American teens in recent decades.

New analysis from Arizona shows that homebirth triples the neonatal death rate — even in other countries where midwives are far better trained than American non-nurse midwives.

@Communisty: Not really, I only say that the data provided doesn't support the assumption that Americans love their Constitution than any other country loves it's own Constitution.

The data (EDIT: Provided by the OP) also doesn't support that (EDIT: the OP's assertion that) American's love the constitution more than other countries because we do not have a similar line for rate at which another country's constitution is googled by their citizens (What's the trend of Canadians googling the Canadian Constitution?).

«This is not someone who we can trust with any degree of confidence that he's gonna encourage his supporters to do anything other than intimidate, suppress and discourage Americans from all across the country to participate without obstruction.»

Let's see... We're No. 1 in property taxes nationwide; No. 1 in overall taxes; we're ranked as the state with the worst economic outlook in America by the American Legislative Exchange Council; we have the most corrupt state government in America, according to the University of Illinois; we're losing more citizens to other states than any other state; we're 48th in business climate, according to the Tax Foundation; we have the second - highest electric rates in the country; we rank as the worst state in America in which to retire, and the list goes on.

He denies that he has outsourced jobs to other countries and said he instead has created more than 700 jobs for Americans.

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

Could it be that Americans simply eat more junk food and exercise less than people in other developed countries?

They also encounter a more thoughtful objection, which goes something like this: American students are tested so much already — far more often than students in other countries, such as Finland and Singapore, which regularly place well ahead of the U.S. in international evaluations.

Hispanic Americans, on the other hand, have the highest sex ratio of any ethnic group in the country — over 1.5 for people in their twenties — mainly because far more men immigrate than women.