Sentences with phrase «even as the country»

The share of Americans in collections has remained relatively constant, even as the country as a whole has whittled down the size of its credit card debt since the official end of the Great Recession in the middle of 2009.

The latter reinforced the south of the country with 3,200 additional troops, even as countries such as Canada begin to threaten a withdrawal of their forces.

Even as a country, we believe we must show power.

The article discusses how Chinese state enterprises continue to build coal - fired plants throughout Asia, even as that country has pledged to stop the growth of its own...

Even as the country reels from the threat of nuclear disaster, this president still takes a sightseeing tour of the Lincoln Memorial with his helicopter entourage.

Gifted children, in our view, have generally been short - changed in recent years by American public education, even as the country has awakened to their potential contributions to our economic competitiveness and technological edge.

Social mobility has been a longstanding part of our American ideology, even as the country becomes increasingly stratified.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

Even as the country gains a reputation as a prime vacation spot, it's still a small country.

The deal came as Peabody pursues coal projects in Mongolia and Australia that are likewise designed to serve unbridled demand in China, the world's largest energy user whose top energy source is likely to remain coal, even as the country expands its new energy industries.

Even as countries like Britain — suffering through the coldest December on record — deal with low temperatures and unusual snow, the Arctic has kept on warming, with Greenland and Arctic Canada experiencing the hottest year on record.

By the 1960s, the era of the company town in America was fading, even as countries like China picked up the notion.

The move comes even as the country continues to come down hard on cryptocurrency trading operations within the nation.

A general move away from China has generally occurred, even as the country has begun to tighten its grip on the cryptocurrency market.

Even as the country was riding out a recession, sales of existing single - family homes set a new record of 5.25 million in 2001, up 2.7 percent from 2000, and edging past the previous record of 5.21 million set in 1999.

More households are feeling the strain in their personal financial situations and losing confidence in the housing market, even as the country sees solid job growth and record gains in the stock market, according to the National Association of REALTORS ®» fourth - quarter Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey, based on more than 2,700 respondents.

Not exact matches

Jackie escaped Washington as often as she could to travel to the Kennedy's home in Virginia horse country, even when the president wanted her at the White House.

As the world continues to push toward a global market, professionals today must keep in contact with employees and clients in other counties, states, or even countries.

Liu and his partners, like most Canadian companies operating in the health - care space, see their home country as a big opportunity, but they also have eyes on the broader U.S. market, where the pressure for hospitals to smarten up is even greater.

The car share company, which operates in 63 countries and 300 cities, is currently the most valuable privately held startup, worth a staggering $ 52 billion, and its valuation could notch even higher as it is reportedly seeking a new round of financing, reportedly worth $ 1 billion.

Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are also involved in the war, but even as terrorist groups» grip on certain areas of the country fades, the war between the rebels and Assad doesn't seem likely to stop anytime soon.

«Then, as now, the system was rudderless, unstable, and insecure — which persuaded countries to protect their own national interests, even at the expense of the collective good.»

In some places, like Tokyo, it's easy to rent a portable Wi - Fi hotspot to use all around the country — you can even pick them up from the airport — but this isn't as easy everywhere, and if there are any issues picking up the hotspot at the start of your trip, you're out of luck.

There could even be job losses in the sector, as well as lower wages for bankers — bad news in a country where the financial sector was the largest single contributor to GDP in 2010, accounting for 195,000 skilled jobs.

Sad to say, exporters need to protect themselves against currency risks as well as credit risks — even when their customers are in countries that seem safe.

In many countries where you'd think the opportunity would be good (in Europe, for instance), entrepreneurs have found that the infrastructure wasn't as well developed and clear as it is in the U.S.. For example, angel networks aren't as well organized or even that easy to find, and venture capital firms are almost nonexistent.

Dalio explained that a so - called capital war, when a country uses its asset holdings such as bonds to inflict pain on its adversary, could be even worse than a trade war.

Even as national governments accept that the current taxation system needs to be altered, the path forward is fraught with difficulties, with some countries warning that a new levy could discourage digital use and push customers to products outside of Europe.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

That means companies in the U.S. have to say that they respect EU - grade privacy rules, even if their country as a whole does not.

Between 700 and 900 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, and the rate has risen even as it has declined in other wealthy countries.

Further rises in the cost of basic inputs such as energy have since driven consumer inflation up, even though the country has the same weak wage dynamics as those seen elsewhere in the developed world.

It's even harder to build one as an immigrant, with limited resources and connections in a new country, but the results Nuvakhov and Levy have achieved are exceptional.

In checks on the financial strength of the country's four main banks - National Bank of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - the ECB determined that even if the economy performs as forecast, the banks would need almost 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.8 billion) and more than 14 billion if it performs worse than expected, in a so - called «adverse scenario».

Canadians aren't alone in this regard: In the U.S., companies such as Motorola and Charles Schwab have experimented with forced holidays, and even the government of Japan — a country with a word, karoshi, to describe sudden death caused by occupational exhaustion — is mulling mandatory time off.

He took a hardline, protectionist stance, even going as far to say on the trail that TPP amounted to «the rape of our country.»

«I personally have worked very hard, but it is now evident to me — evident to Canada — that the European Union is incapable of reaching an agreement, even with a country with European values such as Canada, even with a country as nice and as patient as Canada,» a statement from Freeland read.

Even as it's grown into a US$ 6 - billion juggernaut operating in 50 countries, McKinsey has remained the embodiment of the august institution where things are done just so, and always have been.

But here's the good news: Even though you may want to maintain your Medicare coverage as a fallback if you retire overseas, you'll find many countries offer residents a government - sponsored health coverage plan.

The result is that what one person can access online in one country or even through a given provider may not be the same as someone in another part of the world.

The tendency to hire from within is even more pronounced in small industries, she says, where it is frowned upon to poach employees from competitors, and in countries like Japan, where «leaving a job is culturally seen as treachery.»

«Although the Government points to the fact that Congress and the Executive identified the seven countries named in the Executive Order as countries of concern in 2015 and 2016, the Government has not offered any evidence or even an explanation of how the national security concerns that justified those designations, which triggered visa requirements, can be extrapolated to justify an urgent need for the Executive Order to be immediately reinstated,» the judges wrote.

New carriers such as Wind, Mobilicity and even Verizon or any other foreign entity that may or may not enter the country in the upcoming spectrum auction face the same big disadvantages.

«It is now evident to me — evident to Canada — that the European Union is incapable of reaching an agreement, even with a country with European values such as Canada, even with a country as nice and as patient as Canada,» she said in French, her voice breaking.

China's automakers have struggled to establish themselves in countries such as Brazil even after building local plants.

Over the past century these instruments have destroyed the purchasing power of investors in many countries, even as these holders continued to receive timely payments of interest and principal.

They're even nearing wages found in lower - income European countries such as Greece and Portugal.

Getting a job at a major tech or finance firm, even as a summer intern, often means surpassing much of the rest of the country financially.

(California's legal adult - use cannabis market could even be bigger than the one that may be coming in Canada, as the state actually has more residents than that entire country.)

Cannabis sales are still illegal on the federal level, and the Trump administration has played coy about its plans for the burgeoning marijuana industry, even as the man the president hand - picked to be the country's law enforcement officer has made it no secret that he despises the drug.