Sentences with phrase «affluent nations of»

Even among the affluent nations of the western world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting the poorer.

Not exact matches

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

For Tribune Publishing, spun off from Tribune Broadcasting six months ago, San Diego — California's second largest city, and the tenth most affluent metro area in the nation, with a population of 3.2 million — would become Tribune's ninth metro market, and a new twist to C.E.O. Jack Griffin's clustering strategy.

In this way the ideal of equality of opportunity may be furthered, the more favored sections of the nation helping to lift the heavier educational burden of the less affluent sections.

On the whole, those Protestants who favor the national system want to improve the quality and quantity of help to the poor, insuring that in an affluent nation such as ours noone goes hungry, unclothed, or homeless.

This passage will have a different impact and significance for persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain and in the impoverished nations of the Third World than it has for affluent Christians in the West.

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

This means that, instead of aiming at steadily higher levels of consumption, we in the affluent nations may have to cultivate asceticism — a deliberate reduction of the rates at which we use up material things.

Do you agree that if the developing nations are asked to reduce their population growth, the affluent nations should be willing to reduce their rates of consumption?

The means of helping the malnourished could be relatively simple if the affluent nations resolved that the reduction of deprivation is an important goal, and if the governments of developing nations made it an important priority.

Immaculate wine cellars custom - made for affluent households across the nation are what put this Cincinnati company on the map, earning it a prestigious reputation for being the world's foremost designer and manufacturer of custom wine cellars and wine racks — an astounding feat for a business with very modest beginnings, Vice President of Operations Tony Wilke says.

Fast growing economies of China and India, a former powerhouse in Japan, an increasingly affluent South Korea, and the fast - growing Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).61 Each possessing multiple regions and demographics that demand varying tastes, sizes, prices, packaging and branding, as well as differing in standard business practices, routes to market and competitive landscapes.

The restricted availability of premature feeding formulas and supplies, incubators and other equipment in less affluent nations causes premature infants to be more often held and breastfed — hence, they more often survive.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

Others said Paladino's comments reflect a deeper problem in a community consistently ranked as one of the most segregated in the nation, and that has a burgeoning immigrant population both in the city and several affluent suburbs.

Some of those factors seem obvious: Living in destitution in an affluent nation is strongly associated with unhappiness.

The effect of diet on the gluconeogenic capacity of rat - kidney - cortex slices [5] Liver and kidney metabolism during prolonged starvation [6] Unrecognized Pandemic «Subclinical» Diabetes of the Affluent Nations: Causes, Cost and Prevention [7] Carbohydrates and Immune Function [8] Overexpression of glut1 and glut3 in stage I nonsmall cell lung carcinoma is Associated with poor survival [9] The in?uence of diet on the mucin carbohydrates in the chick intestinal tract [10] Rat intestinal mucosal responses to a microbial flora and different diets [12] Chronic Ethanol Induced Impairment of Hepatic Glycosylation Machinery in Rat Is Independent of Dietary Carbohydrate [13] Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease [14] Metabolic Aberrations Associated with Arginine Deficiency [15] Glycerol gluconeogenesis in fasting humans

However, the ultimate factor underlying diseases of civilization is the collision of our ancient genome with the new conditions of life in affluent nations, including the nutritional qualities of recently introduced foods.

Because if the director's previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower - era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B - movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood.

Marcellus Gallio (Richard Burton) a self - centered and brazen centurion is the product of an affluent family in a conquering nation.

The affluent are by far the toughest graders, with only 15 percent of them giving the nation's schools the highest marks.

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

No country has achieved anything like equity on this front, but several nations, often dubbed the «Asian tigers,» get more than 10 percent of their disadvantaged students into the top - scoring levels in math, alongside more than 30 percent of their affluent youngsters.

Here are students in one of the nation's most affluent districts and most successful high schools, yet in Robbins's telling they are on the verge of falling apart.

That's well below the average of 12.6 percent for affluent nations.

(Connecticut also has one of the widest test score gaps in the nation between low - income students and their more affluent peers.)

Really, we don't need to look at economic groups of nations — like the G8 or G20 — to judge how affluent a country is, or is becoming.

Located approximately 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Montecito is situated within the county of Santa Barbara and is one of the nation's most affluent and exclusive areas.

China and India, for example, the world's most populous nations, are increasing their consumption as they become more affluent and their per capita emissions will in time become similar to those of economically developed countries.

In a similar situation, Taubman Centers accuses Simon of derailing its plans to add a new upscale center in New York's Long Island, one of the most affluent areas in the nation.

OK, go ahead and laugh: Take newlyweds with a modest income and little savings for a downpayment, and tell them they can buy a house in one of the most affluent parts of the country — say, in Northern Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.

The acquisition is the company's first in Montgomery County, one of the most affluent counties and strongest office markets in the nation.

As the magazine points out, «The fact is, in many of the nation's most affluent communities, $ 1 million doesn't begin to buy the best.