Sentences with phrase «countries with greater wealth»

Countries with greater wealth and natural resource endowments adapt more efficiently than those with less.

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If a Canadian entrepreneur has an idea with potential to generate great wealth, ownership of this idea will be decided in courts beyond Canada, by foreign judicial and geopolitical systems designed to make another country prosperous.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

Twenty - three years after the end of the racist, repressive apartheid regime, South Africa remains a country with enormous resources and great wealth but also massive inequality and deep poverty.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

Second, please do not offend our intelligence with the slogan that «America is the greatest (and richest) country in the world» as this can be interpreted as patronizing, arrogant and out of line, given USA's world impact and record, and the shadow of local and global violence in the source of its wealth: I noticed that Native Americans were not meaningfully mentioned in your speech, please acknowledge the enormous sacrifices and wounds of indigenous people in the Americas and elsewhere — again, offer them justice, on their terms, not only «inclusion», listen and let them teach you.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

His idly rich father, Kenneth M Clark, who'd inherited his wealth through the family textile business (Clark junior's great - great - grandfather was the inventor of the cotton spool), decorated his splendid pile, the country seat of Sudbourne Hall in Suffolk, with Victorian paintings, the more notable among them by Landseer and Millais.

The USA is blessed with great power and great resources (although you forget that most of your wealth comes from exploiting other countries resources), no one can deny that.

The world does not need another great wealth producing country joining the anti-CO2, cult - science realm, especially with daily revelations that the IPCC has lied and its scientists committed scientific fraud.

It is also worth mentioning that women seemed to care less about wealth and status in countries with greater equality; however, men's preferences for wealth and status did not increase in such cases.