Sentences with phrase «about a dozen countries»

A group of protesters targeted the Shedd Aquarium today as part of a campaign in about a dozen countries to ask that whales and dolphins in captivity be released.

About 300,000 are scattered throughout about a dozen countries worldwide, with the largest population in Germany, says Murad Ismael, executive director of the Yezidi advocacy group YAZDA in Houston, Texas (see graphic).

For example, the Caribbean encompasses about a dozen countries and even more territories, and it's not that simple to visit many islands on the same trip, unless you take a cruise.

I have used my bank card to withdraw cash in probably about a dozen countries and the process is pretty much the same everywhere I go.

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Facebook has been testing alternatives to «like» in about a half - dozen countries, including Ireland, Spain and Japan.

The company sponsors about 40,000 wreaths each year and donates the services of more than a dozen tractor - trailers to deliver the wreaths around the country.

The RCMP devoted more than a dozen investigators to the complex file and interviewed about 200 people in three countries, but Potter dismissed the probe as «flawed, unduly delayed and without merit» in an interview with Halifax business news website allnovascotia.com.

One of the largest banks in the country has a half a dozen applications running on AWS now but is not ready to talk about that publicly

Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and «false news» posed to democracy.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

Regardless of points of view, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is already «pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone...»

Over the course of the next three weeks, I will be running the responses I received from about a dozen men and women from all over the country and from a tapestry of ethnic backgrounds.

Although each country in Central America was required to comply with various provisions of the accord, Cockburn found «about 100 stories on Nicaragua's compliance with the accords; half a dozen on El Salvador's, two on Honduras» and none on Guatemala's.

Today there are about two dozen alligator farms in this country, supplying plenty of alligator meat for Louisianans as well as the rest of us.

Purdue, on the other hand, is one of just about a dozen teams remaining in the country with a 3 - 0 record against the spread.

In FatherWorld, Dr Patrice Engle, who leads the UN's fatherhood programmes, describes how UNICEF has recently created new projects in dozens of countries to support fatherhood because of the latest evidence about its impact on child poverty, breastfeeding and education.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

About three dozen people from across the North Country met in Plattsburgh Friday afternoon to demonstrate their displeasure over Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's refusal to hold a town hall meeting with constituents.

The NRCC has created about two dozen of these new faux news sites targeting Democrats, both challengers and incumbents, and is promoting them across the country with localized Google search ads.

So, as we got to thinking about the best way to cover the dozens (and dozens) of competitive House races in the country this fall — aside from the Friday Line, of course — the idea of borrowing the choose your own adventure model seemed to make sense.

A thought occurred to me about this seat — in dozens of Lab / Con marginals across the country, Labour candidates are telling their electorate, «Forget about Corbyn, vote for me because Corbyn is leading us to the slaughterhouse and his position after the election will be untenable anyway.»

But even up to 1950 we consumed very few calories from beverages and in the last 60 years, we've gone from consuming almost no calories from beverages to a fifth of our caloric intake in the U.S., and about the same in Mexico and about the same in a dozen other countries — in some less and some more — but the point is, all of those calories we consume, but it doesn't affect the food that we take in.

The most notable exception is the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), which coincidentally has the largest MARC program in the country, where majority students from disadvantaged backgrounds typically fill about half a dozen of its 40 slots.

It's the national tree of the United States, Germany, and a dozen other countries — as well as the stuff of corks and fine wine barrels — yet little is known about where the North American oak tree came from.

Archaeologists are left wondering about the effects of the revolution on the dozens of excavations in the country, as well as on the next generation of homegrown researchers.

That strain is 89 percent identical to the current strain that has spread rapidly to about three dozen countries and territories, primarily in the Americas.

As early as 2015, the company's international sales rep told Variety that Televisa sells about a dozen telenovelas annually to 37 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and 24 Middle Eastern and North African territories.

About Blog - Eurasia Daily Monitor draws on the insights and expertise of top regional specialists based in more than a dozen countries to analyze the emerging security realities and long - term trends defining Eurasia and the post-Soviet space.

It will hit about two dozen markets around the country.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Dozens of New York City journalists scrambled to get to City Hall, and educators all over the country twittered and tweeted about what had been predictable — and predicted («Cathie Black will be gone by Easter,» wrote our own Mike Petrilli last December).

The eighth annual Conference on Looping, Multiage, and Best Teaching Practices, held last summer in Indianapolis, drew more than 2,000 participants representing all 50 states, many Canadian provinces, and about a dozen foreign countries.

The handy reference guide «Ofsted Inspection Key Findings Quickbook» provides key information from details published by the education standards» watchdog about dozens of providers across the country.

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

By Stefan Johansson In a previous issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Yong Zhao (2012) urged readers to stop worrying so much about the relatively poor performance of American students on measures such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which compares the mathematics, science, and reading achievement of 15 - year - olds from dozens of countries (OECD, -LSB-...]

Over the past eight years, he has spoken to hundreds of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries about the merits of online learning networks for personal and professional growth.

For instance, each book needs marketing data for each of about a half - dozen countries.

We are excited about traveling across the country in the next few months and speaking to librarians in dozens of states about building a better future for funding libraries through political organizing and action.

We're one of about a dozen bookstores now in the country that have this — the official name is Espresso Book Machine, made by On Demand Books and marketed by Xerox.

About BookBaby: Distributing eBooks in over 170 countries through more than a dozen online retail stores, including Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and more, BookBaby offers a full array of services including eBook conversion, eBook formatting, cover design and distribution, as well as short run book printing.

The portfolio includes more than 2,000 stocks and bonds in more than a dozen countries, all for a low fee of about 0.5 % annually.

Remember, many of the foreign equity ETFs we're talking about here have thousands of holdings in dozens of countries.

Today, Hatch provides about 45,000 dozen eggs per month to food banks in communities across the country.

The driver, who asked not to be named, is one of about a half - dozen non-Amish who haunt these country roads looking for such buildings.

That leads me to my recently concluded vacation to the wine country of Napa Valley, Calif., where I had the opportunity to tour and taste my way through about a dozen wineries over three days.

Often called the «beer and food cart capital of the world», Portland is home to about a dozen different beer festivals and some of the best food carts in the country.

If you are traveling to Belize to enjoy more traditional attractions like the Belize Barrier Reef, the miles of gorgeous beaches or the dozens of Mayan ruins, you might also enjoy learning more about the country's diverse ecology and its abundance of arthropods.

It covers just about everything to see and do, including sightseeing, parks, country drives, day trips, golf courses, lodging, events and attractions, historical points of interest and more, plus dozens of scenic photos.

I think I have been back about a dozen times since that first trip and each time I go I discover something new about this diverse country.