Sentences with phrase «competition among nations»

With good long - term funding prospects and attractive salaries, Germany has become a major contender in the global competition among nations to draw in top talent.

Competition among nations to attract investment, a central element in the global economy, works against the environment.

The very finiteness of the earth and its resources means that there is increasing competition among nations and international corporates for possession.

Not exact matches

The shift of focus from competition for power among nations to increasing the availability of goods and services desired by the world's people was something Christians should celebrate.

Sometimes these are reminiscent of the tensions to be found in the relations of states and provinces to nation as a whole, sometimes to the more acerbic dissensions among the branches of the armed forces, all equally pledged to the defense of the country; sometimes they seem very similar to the tensions found among Roman Catholic religious orders; sometimes they seem like economic competition.

The competition for natural resources that is presumed to exist among the nations of the world is an illusion.

General Electric Co. will move its corporate headquarters from Connecticut to Boston this summer, ending a fierce competition among states to lure one of the nation's largest companies.

Over the last two centuries, peaceful economic competition among industrialized nations has further reduced war's frequency and lethality, Gat holds.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

The democratic - populist current was largely submerged, as the interests of parents of current students trumped the interests of the community or the nation as a whole and as competition among schools overrode any willingness to share ideas or to move in untried directions.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

Junge says Perpich was greatly troubled by A Nation at Risk, and thought increasing competition among schools would be a constructive response.

There may be some competition brewing along the North Sea among nations striving to attain bus dominance.

Even if real, new adaptation money ever shows up, this guarantees intense competition for it among nations with differing levels of confidence in the source of their climate - related injuries, as described here and here.

If developed countries were to be subject to limitations on GHGs then there would be competition among developing countries to lower embedded emissions in their products as buying nations demanded lower emissions.