Sentences with phrase «r&d than those in other countries»

Federal Labor MP Pat Conroy will demand to know why Australian banks have higher returns on equity than those in other countries when he questions bank chief executives attending a Canberra hearing next week.

German expats are also far more likely to speak the local language than those in other countries.

The Algarve, Portugal, is the top retirement option in Western Europe for the retiree on a budget — the cost of living in Portugal is on average 30 percent lower than in any other country on the Continent.

The fact that there are fewer large companies here than in some other countries I've worked in is irrelevant; those companies still want to make sure they can use technology in the best way to grow profits.

In the UK, these gangs are often a degree cuddlier than in other countries.

China's size, population, and lack of regulations have made fake food an even more pervasive problem than in any other country.

But the concern there is that U.S. users are much more valuable than those in other countries.

Measures of inequality in the late 18th century are problematic, but the best scholarly estimates indicate that colonial U.S. had lower Gini coefficients than in other countries with measures of inequality.

In part, because the Australian financial system and economy entered the turbulence in strong shape, it has been considerably less affected than those in other countries, most obviously the United States.

«Upgrades will bring down production costs and increase the recovery rate of sugar, which is lower than in other countries,» she said.

Although poverty often appears less extreme in the United States than in other countries, it is nonetheless real.

Several decades of this sort of inquiry explain why poverty and dependency are better understood in the U.S. than in any other country.

It is necessary to ask what the conditions in India are which make for aggressive communalism more than in other countries.

As for the question of why interreligious dialogue should have had its first major public outing in the United States, and why it has flourished here more than in any other country since, this is slightly more complicated.

He appreciates the fact that his purchase from Ecuador means more money goes toward the hard - working farmers than in other countries.

Brazil's high consumer awareness on the issue, is confirmed by a recent Euromonitor International survey that shows how Brazilians raised more than in any other country the issue of «reducing salt purchased» as a main health concern.

With more Indonesian fans following Arsenal on Facebook than in any other country, we have a significant opportunity to engage further with our supporters through this partnership with Bank Muamalat».

He was one of the many reasons why fascism was easier in Germany than in other countries.

Women in the UK are far less likely to breastfeed their children than in any other country in the world.

Even though the study was conducted in Canada, where attitudes toward midwifery are more accepting than in some other countries, the findings may help to calm an ongoing controversy in the United States and elsewhere.

I have always noticed that naps in the United States are taken much less seriously (and even discouraged) than in other countries around the world.

The Swedish seats have a high seat shell and children are allowed to sit in them longer height wise than in other countries, the «1 - inch rule» does not apply.

In the United States, many medications are much more expensive than in other countries (see for example How the U.S. Pays 3 Times More for Drugs).

But the rise in oil and commodity prices pushed up inflation in the UK more than in other countries, demonstrating the downsides of a policy of deliberate devaluation to which much of the British economic policy establishment remains committed as an article of faith, despite little evidence that it has done much long term good.

It is negotiated more broadly than in other countries but not universally.

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Advocates of gun control contend, rightly — according to the best available data, that the mean ownership of firearms in the U.S. higher than in any other country.

So, in some ways there is still less discretion for political appointments in Poland than in some other countries, going forward.

· Families in Wales pay more for childcare than in any other country in Europe except for Switzerland and many parents on low and middle incomes are forced to choose between paying high childcare costs, reducing their hours or giving up work completely.

In the U.S., prescription opioids are used in larger quantities than in any other country.

China is building hydropower at a record pace that has resulted in more dams — 26,000 — than in any other country.

Ninety - one institutions in the United Kingdom have won the «HR Excellence in Research» label, more than in any other country.

Belief: The quality of healthcare is much lower in the U.S. than in other countries.

Worse still, drugs are cheaper in France than in other countries because of the government's tight price controls.

Thérèse Lecomte, one of the authors of the CREDES report, says the study shows «indisputably» that the use of psychotropic drugs in France is much higher than in other countries.

«This system is more open than in other countries; in France you have more foreign researchers in permanent positions than in Germany, for example,» says Frank Hekking, a Dutch national and physicist at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.

«And it exposes you to the fact that life is different in different countries and tougher in some countries than in other countries.

The US actually has low cancer mortality and rates have fallen more quickly there than in other countries.

Plus our insurance system isn't the greatest so things cost 2 - 3 times more than in other countries.

Building relationships in Slovakia is no different than in any other country.

While things are different in the United States, being a bisexual are not that difficult than in other countries and regions.

The next question is whether U.S. students from low - income families are lower - scoring than those in other countries.

They make an apples - to - apples comparison of the data to determine if students of similar family backgrounds do better in the United States than in other countries.

Of course, an astute observer might also note that Russian life expectancy is considerably lower than in other countries.

The important question to ask is, Do students with similar family background do better in the United States than in other countries?

These federal vouchers trained the «greatest generation» and made it possible for a greater percentage of Americans to continue into higher education than in any other country.

Management practices in UK state schools are better on average than those in other countries.

United States teachers are also more likely to work in isolation than in other countries (Silver, 1998).

But as bookstores continue to disappear — even faster than in other countries, according to Ahn — ebooks are taking hold simply due to their availability.

Currently, there are four major carriers in the United States: T - Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, and while T - Mobile has made efforts to shake up the wireless industry with its Un-Carrier initiatives, wireless service in the United States remains much pricier than in other countries, with subscribers getting less data for more money.