Sentences with phrase «united states efforts»

«The Proclamation notes the serious negative effects that corruption in countries like Nigeria has on the United States efforts to promote security and to strengthen democratic institutions and free market systems and reiterates the importance to the United States and the international community of fighting corruption.»

(The United States pledge translates [6] to approximately 0.8 GtCO2 of effort in 2020, and the China pledge is calculated [7] to amount to approximately 2.5 GtCO2 in 2020, or approximately 3 times the United States effort.

(The US pledge translates [2] to approximately 0.8 GtCO2 of effort in 2020, and the China pledge is calculated [3] to amount to approximately 2.5 GtCO2 in 2020, or approximately 3 times the United States effort)

Not exact matches

Several organizations have emerged as leaders in the effort to help minority entrepreneurs in the United States.

All of their items are produced within the United States, are eco-friendly, and they recycle all of the drawing paper and products in an effort for caring for our planet.

It's unclear if the Trump Administration's efforts would affect cars produced in Canada or Mexico, which are party to the North American Free Trade Agreement along with the United States.

Last year, the United Nations» heritage body expressed concern about the state of the Great Barrier Reef and urged Australia to boost its conservation efforts.

Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama's administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg.

«We can watch very focused efforts to steal American information, to infiltrate the United States with spies — with people who are going to work on behalf of the Chinese government against America,» Pompeo said in an interview.

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

The offering is the latest from Google's Next Billion Users division, an internal effort to make internet services more accessible to people in countries where technology infrastructure is not as fast or affordable as in the United States or Western Europe.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

Didi has also formed an alliance with Lyft in the United States, India's ride service Ola, and Southeast Asian startup Grab in an effort to compete with Uber's global dominance.

The proposal appears to be another prong in a U.S. effort to prevent ZTE and Huawei from gaining significant market share in the United States.

But while Iceland's government has made a concerted effort to ensure pay equity, efforts have stalled in other developed nations, including the United States.

They were all there for a roundtable discussion intended to kick off a new binational effort called the «United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders - Female Entrepreneurs», an awkwardly - named effort with the broad mandate of advancing women in the workplace.

«I call on the president and our nation's military leaders to re-focus their efforts on improving health care and other services for our service members and veterans and ensuring the security, freedom, and prosperity of the United States and its allies.

Brookfield Property's efforts to buy GGP have come as mall owners across the United States are struggling as a result of many retailers losing out to e-commerce firms such as Amazon.com.

Perhaps most important will be whether the agreement will aid or hinder efforts to pass climate - change legislation in the United States.

MÅLOV, Denmark, Nov 21 (Reuters)- Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is stepping up its efforts to treat obesity, seeking to tap into a potentially huge market as prices for its established diabetes drugs come under pressure, particularly in the United States.

MÅLOV, Denmark, Nov 21 - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is stepping up its efforts to treat obesity, seeking to tap into a potentially huge market as its established diabetes drugs come under price pressure, particularly in the United States.

But with the disease still killing a child in Africa every few minutes, those eager to finish the job are worried that the presidency of the United States — a crucial funding source for international malaria control efforts — is now passing to a man whose commitment to global health projects is uncertain.

In that case, the United States would need to lock in its success there if it hopes to make any headway against ISIS forces intact in Syria, against potential Iranian efforts to profit from the group's setbacks, and against the ethnic and religious demons that have long haunted the Iraqi state.

The motivation for such efforts appeared to be the increase in exports of liquefied natural gas from the United States, a challenge to Russian dominance in European markets.

On the elections front, Zuckerberg highlighted efforts to identify misinformation and remove «tens of thousands» of fake accounts sharing content related to elections in France and Germany, as well as a special Senate election in the United States.

The United States, he said, had been aware after efforts during Obama's first term, of the deep personal mistrust between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Video streaming company Netflix Inc. on Wednesday launched its services in 130 countries, covering almost the entire globe except China, as part of efforts to counter slowing growth in the United States.

«Any federal effort to construct a nationalized 5 G network would be a costly and counterproductive distraction from the policies we need to help the United States win the 5 G future,» FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement.

The progress on both deals is a sign that Canada's efforts to diversify its international trade portfolio have paid off in the face of growing uncertainty with its top trading partner, the United States, said Pickerill.

Berg, who works with organizations both in Canada and the United States, say that an employer must make a conscious effort to involve the smaller, satellite offices.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

While complaints about China's abuse of intellectual property rights are not confined to the United States, Trump's global steel and aluminum tariffs announced last week under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 complicate U.S. efforts to recruit allies to put pressure on China.

effort to tackle childhood obesity in the United States.

But unexpectedly tough competitive pressure from Lyft, Uber's chief rival in the United States, has hindered Uber's efforts to become profitable.

Gates» foundation has also focused a considerable amount of money and effort toward K - 12 education in the United States.

It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the effort was for national security surveillance, not for the theft of intellectual property.

Speaking alongside Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, the EU's Donald Tusk said efforts to reduce pollution and combat rising sea levels would now continue without the United States.

So far the wind power giant has focused its efforts with European companies, since the governments of the region do not oppose green energy with the same vigor as they do in the United States.

Be willing to incorporate their business in the United States and establish an independent board of directors for their US based business efforts.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

Walmart bought Asda in 1999 for 6.7 billion pounds — then worth about $ 10.8 billion — as part of an effort to expand beyond the United States.

Southeast BIO Fosters the growth of the life sciences industry in the Southeastern United States through efforts that promote entrepreneurship and bring together companies, investors, universities and support organizations active in the development of the industry

The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.

Hannity described the Cohen raid as «an all - hands - on - deck effort to totally malign and, if possible, impeach the president of the United States.»

This report is the result of a coordinated research effort by the central banks of Canada, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the Bank for International Settlements on the determinants of market liquidity and on how central banks and other public authorities influence these determinants.

Hedge funds are also joining the lending effort to fill the void left by traditional lenders, aiming to prevent a total collapse of economic structure in the United States and around the world.

The United States so far has supplied $ 1.3 billion for Iron Dome and $ 1.7 billion for Israel's other missile defense efforts and has committed to providing $ 500 million annually for the next decade (White House 2016).