Sentences with phrase «united states fact»

Trafficking of Persons with Disabilities in the United States Fact Sheet (The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center, 2016)

FACT: 60 % of the Ten Commandments are NOT LAWS in the United States FACT: The adultery commandment is ignored by MILLIONS of Christians who commit it by divorcing and remarrying

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In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United States.

The facts: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently 50,800 coal mining jobs in the United States — only 800 of which have been added since January, when Trump took office.

Buried in statistics released by the Energy Information Administration this week indicating the United States is exporting more crude oil than it has in 15 years is a still more startling fact: «Almost all of the crude oil exported from the United States has been delivered to Canada.»

In fact, the same is true of most major equity markets around the world, with the notable exception of the United States.

Despite the facts that his software company, Regpack, is growing fast, has hired 19 Americans, and has raised $ 1.5 million in financing, the stack of paper sitting on his desk is a daily visual reminder that, on some level, none of that matters to the United States government.

The notion that China's headed for superpower status at the expense of the United States has been repeated so often that many in the West now take it as an undisputable fact.

Further evidence comes from the interesting fact that the parchment version of the Declaration of Independence that is on display and kept in the United States National Archives wasn't actually written until July 19th; this being a copy of the approved text that was announced to the world on July 4th, with about 150 - 200 copies being made on paper and distributed on that date (26 of which are still around today, thus pre-dating what is now generally thought of as the «original»).

More important than proximity, however, is the fact that it's easier for wealthy people to jump the queue in the United States.

Continued erosion in manufacturing industries in the United States and other nations, coupled with the rise in service industries in those countries, have changed the workplace, as has the decline in union representation in many industries (these two trends, in fact, are commonly viewed as interrelated).

When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been doing very well.

That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.

Aaron Lamstein was totally up - front about the fact that he can't vouch for every condition under which workers manufacture his products, since the factories he uses are spread out across the United States, nor can he claim that all the components that accompany WorldWise's goods are recycled or organic.

It's the only official store in town, in fact, if «town» is the United States.

It was only after a number of trips to the United States that I figured out that he hadn't been at all negative — in fact, the opposite!

This is one of those facts that makes you stop and check a calendar — but yes, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company in the United States was the grandson of a slave.

But the fact that China has lost more manufacturing jobs than the U.S. over the past 20 years is a strong indication that playing hardball with the Chinese isn't going to do anything to increase employment in the United States.

More fun facts about the super-rich: The United States is «the billionaire capital of the world,» the report says, with 515 citizens with net worth that exceeds $ 2 billion.

Nuevo Laredo is a very important passageway in the state of Tamaulipas for drugs heading to the United States because of its connection to routes leading to northeastern US cities, and also because of the fact that US customs does not have the capacity to verify every shipping container that passes through.

In fact, it's almost the same size as mainland United States.

I greatly appreciate the fact that we've been able to cut our payroll of the United States.

In fact, exports to the United States have increased in each of the past five years, growing by 11.6 % in 2014 alone.

But whatever you blame, one fact remains: barring a congressional deal between now and year - end, the United States will undergo a massive, deliberate fiscal contraction beginning Jan. 1, 2013.

The United States remains an immigrant nation, in spirit as well as in fact.

«I know that part of the challenge that folks across the Lower Mainland and B.C. are facing right now is related to the fact that we are connected so closely to the U.S. market and to what happens in the United States,» Trudeau said as the price of gas exceeded $ 1.60 a litre in the Vancouver area.

Analysts seem certain of this fact, with Forrester research predicting the mobile payments market will swell to $ 192 billion by 2019 in the United States alone, up from $ 52 billion last year.

Still, the United States market seems to be seeing particularly intense upheaval, despite the fact that Nike executives were bullish about the market's growth potential and their belief that the Nike brand remains strong in consumers» minds.

In fact, in the border between the Yukon territory and Alaska and the Beaufort Sea, there is an area of dispute between Canada and United States where we have counterclaims on parts of the exclusive economic zone on the offshore there.

In fact, our economy depends on us throwing the door to the United States wide open to any entrepreneur who wants to start a company here.

«Because of the rapidly growing levels of oil production in the United States and the fact that we've virtually nowhere else to sell our oil than the U.S. market, Alberta is getting just over $ 50 a barrel for our oil,» Redford said.

In fact, Canada is the second - largest mortgage - default insurance market in the world, after the United States.

While it's true that manufacturing employment in the United States has been on the decline for decades, and that this trend has cause real economic suffering in parts of America, the simple fact is that too few Americans are employed in manufacturing for it to be an issue that really animates the electorate.

Moss was stunned — the bad news was made worse by the fact that he and Jennifer were living in the United States, without access to Canada's universal health - care system.

Are there any facts to support a charge that Jews have monopolized or are monopolizing economic opportunity in the United States?

Doubling down on his stance, he said the fact that the United States has historically had a tighter inflation range and broader unemployment range than that of the euro zone, Britain and Sweden suggests the Fed could have been even more stimulative over the past five years.

But the further facts are, first, that that increase is attributable to a temporary unbalance between Jewish birth rate and Jewish death rate in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, second, that that unbalance has largely corrected itself, and, third, that the gates of immigration into the United States are now closed.

«I think the perspective from the United States supported by the facts that we have are conclusive: that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and executed by Syrian regime forces, and we're quite confident of that,» Tillerson said.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people.

Now that the United States is less dependent on Saudi petroleum, thanks to fracking and new oil discoveries, the fact that OPEC is not identified as a top priority anymore indicates that interest in the organization has declined.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,» the White House said in a statement.

In fact, in the United States, federal law requires that at least once every year you can have access to your personal score for free.

These facts are at odds with the prevailing view that spendthrift U.S. consumers and governments are pulling those savings into the United States.

In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

In fact, according to IBISWorld's Public Storage & Warehousing market research report published in April 2016, the warehousing and storage industry in United States is valued at $ 22 billion, employing more than 600,000 people.

U.S. residents do in fact earn more on their assets than they pay on their liabilities, and U.S. firms operating abroad earn a higher rate of return than do foreign firms operating in the United States.

Warren Buffett, probably the world's most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United States, at the right time (1930).

The fact that the United States is now in the fifth consecutive year of expansion and that unemployment is now at 4.4 percent doesn't seem to have made trade any more popular.

In fact, a Gallup poll conducted in 2016 found that the most important challenge facing small business retailers in the United States was economic issues.