Sentences with phrase «more than our nation»

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

«Beer is more than our nation's favorite adult drink — it is a powerhouse in job creation, commercial activity and tax revenue.»

The U.S. has enormous power, more than any nation has ever had before — probably more than it is good for any nation to have.

The apostles were martyred and Jesus didn't fight back when he was captured, but because of their determination and peace they conquered more than nations.

With close to a $ 10.5 trillion economy, the unrealized gain for 2002 alone would have amounted to $ 450 billion, or more than the nation's total annual expenditure on K - 12 public education.

«Other nations just value their children, value lives, more than our nation does.

More than our nation's capital, the ACT is the repository of our national treasures.

This is more than any nation known to pv magazine staff, including Honduras, which last year became the first non-island nation to generate more than 10 % of its power with solar.

Not exact matches

HOW is it possible for 11 nations that, on a combined basis, command very little more than 15 pert cent of the world's capitalisation, hold the rest of the world to ransom?

Network, learn and be inspired: CEO.org is hosting their annual National Conference where more than 1,500 students from around the nation will come to «network, learn and be inspired to pursue their entrepreneurial pursuits.»

The IMF forecast issued this week for the Middle East projects that energy - importing nations including Egypt will grow more strongly in the years ahead than energy exporters including Saudi Arabia, though both will experience GDP growth.

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

The nation's biggest labour market has more people working at low wages than any other big economic engine of Canada (Quebec, B.C., Alberta)

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

Viral Nation has cultivated a stable of more than a thousand social - media stars, and cut deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for major brands.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

Australia was one of 11 nations that signed on to the successor to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal in Chile last night, just more than a year after the United States pulled out of the original deal.

Since then, their Toronto - based startup, Viral Nation, has evolved into one of the largest social - media marketing firms in the world, on track to generate more than $ 15 million (U.S.) in 2018 sales, according to the founders.

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Fast - forward 15 years, and Alibaba drives 80 percent of China's online sales and accounts for more than half of the nation's parcel deliveries, yielding profits that exceed those of Amazon and eBay combined.

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

«The country, now more than ever, is looking for innovations that can improve care and increase efficiencies,» says Robert Grajewski, president of Edison Nation Medical.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

A survey of the 1997 Inc. 500 revealed that casual or «business casual» dress is standard at more than one - third of the nation's fastest - growing privately held companies.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

In 2012, the city filed for bankruptcy and had the nation's highest foreclosure rate at more than four times the US average, according to RealtyTrac.

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

But while 2014 predictions bode well for host nation Russia's performance — forecast to achieve a total haul of 25 medals, 10 more than their total in the last winter games in 2010 — the same can not be said for the U.K. team.

Last year, it installed more wind capacity than any other nation — an astounding 16.5 gigawatts.

Organized by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (MBRCGI), the UAE Innovation Month seeks to foster innovation with more than 1,000 activities across the nation from February 1 - 28, 2018.

Those lacking paid work are not just impoverished; they lose the skills and will to work, a loss to the nation in more than economic vitality.

Gore, who formerly served as the entrepreneur - in - residence for the United Nations Foundation, boiled it down even further: «More than skillsets, I worry about time.

But that was a more shrewd than conciliatory strategy on the government's part: Today marks the 86th birthday of the nation's much adored monarch, King Bhumibol, an occasion that calls for sober celebration and peace.

The point is that the nation has received zero value from trillions in quantitative easing, and so if even 10 % of the 130 million households do something useful with their $ 10,000 in cash then that would be one heck of a lot more than we've gotten from the trillions thrown down the rathole of a venal, corrupted, insolvent banking sector.

We also contacted Allete, a company whose Minnesota Power (MP) utility serves more than 140,000 state residents and «some of the nation's largest industrial customers.»

Over the course of Sarnova's 10 - year partnership with Water Street, the company doubled its customer base to serve more than 30,000 of the nation's hospitals, surgical centers and EMS providers.

As Fortune reported last week, the nation now has more breweries than ever before: 4,144 in 2015, exceeding a historic high set in 1873.

The tribe, which says it is prepared to seek damages against the companies in state court, notes in its suit that from 2003 to 2014, more than 350 deaths related to opioids occurred in the Cherokee Nation.

Great weather and Hollywood are two of L.A.'s biggest draws, but for entrepreneurs in the nation's second largest city, there's more than meets the eye.

Today, as the nation's leading private coaching company, CoachUp has more than 14,000 coaches and 200,000 athletes across 25 sports.

But Japan is also more dependent on energy imports than any other industrialized nation.

The exercise comprised of more than 31,000 troops hailing from 24 different nations, including the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Nevertheless, Canada is a nation of homeowners — nearly 70 per cent of households own their dwelling (in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, around 120,000 owners possess more than one residential property.)

The immigration crisis on the U.S. border isn't just about money — far from it — but it does force the nation to consider an critical economic question: Do undocumented immigrants ultimately contribute more to the U.S. economy than they take out?

Trade has grown sharply between the three nations who are parties to NAFTA but that increase of trade activity has resulted in rising trade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S. imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading partners.

Among 32 OECD nations, Canada fell from 14th most equal to 22nd since the mid-1990s (a more rapid decline than even the U.S.).

He noted that the more a state spends, the worse its health outcomes are; the U.S, which spends 18 % of its GDP and more than any other nation, has similarly poor results.