Sentences with phrase «as nations of the world»

«Travel out of the country offered no relief as nations of the world have been sold the bogus myth of «Christian - South and Muslim - North» that led to the inevitable conclusion

Perhaps seeking to cement its centuries - long reputation as a nation of world - leading engineers, the British government has announced proposals to construct an 18 - mile - long tunnel under the Pennines.

As the nations of the world gathered to begin discussions for the second commitment period of the Protocol, Minister Campbell declared that Kyoto was dead and would not get beyond 2012.

As the nations of the world prepare to meet next week at the open ended working group of the Montreal Protocol in Bangkok, Thailand, Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to travel to India for the fourth U.S. - India Strategic Dialogue.

Not exact matches

Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forWorld War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld's last substantial rain forests.

In the south of France, a consortium of the world's major nations (with the notable exception of Canada) is building a US$ 23 - billion facility known as ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

It's worth a watch as the nation takes steps for its aim to be one of the world's top 25 countries for gender equality by 2012.

«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

Much as been recently written about the startup boom in Tel Aviv, known colloquially as Startup Nation, the city with the highest density of startups in the world.

Antimicrobial resistance is not traditionally the domain of world leaders, and health - related issues — outside of crises such as the Ebola outbreak — are rarely discussed at venues like the United Nations General Assembly.

The nation's leading food and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery store.

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

And if rates do rise substantially, the U.S. will rival the likes of Italy as one of the world's most debt - ravaged nations.

IT»S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast - moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a «war», because it's not; what's going on is simply economics at work, and it's telling a story of changes in the wealth of nations.

It's now touted as one of the few nations in the world that has gone from an aid - based economy to great wealth within a relatively short time.

I had thought of these as the way the developed world intends to bring developing nations out of poverty and address such international challenges as food security and conflict resolution.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.

«If what we as a nation are going to focus on is pulling stuff out of the ground, selling it to the world and then buying back the finished goods, I can tell you from a prosperity perspective which way we're going, and it's not up,» says John Ruffolo, head of the venture capital arm of OMERS.

Even in the worst of times, Georgia performs relatively well in our rankings due to advantages that were in place well before the governor took office: a top - notch infrastructure with the world's busiest airport and one of the nation's most important ports, as well as a large workforce in a right - to - work state.

The United Nations Population Division and Goldman Sachs recently reported that by 2030 China would have about 1.4 billion members of what the World Bank defines as the middle class, compared to 365 million in the U.S. and 414 million in western Europe.

India's GDP is currently valued around $ 2 trillion as of 2014, according to the World Bank, and the Indian government - created policy think tank Niti Aayog projects the nation's economy will hit $ 10 trillion in 2032.

Conspicuously missing from the document, says Adams, is any treatment of how the US will have to adapt to a rapidly rebalancing world, with China a rising superpower, and other nations such as Turkey increasingly playing an independent role.

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

Most of the world views China as a nation of copycats and counterfeits.

For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

The Persian Gulf nation has estimated it could double its global crude sales within six months of international sanctions being lifted as a June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with world powers approaches.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

The nations that had been victorious in World War I demanded reparations from Germany, which could not be paid in German paper currency, as this was of suspect value due to government borrowing.

As the world's biggest trading nation, China already sends huge volumes of goods to countries such as Canada, providing «numerous ways to disguise your drugs,» says John Coyne, a former Australian Federal Police intelligence agent who is now head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy InstitutAs the world's biggest trading nation, China already sends huge volumes of goods to countries such as Canada, providing «numerous ways to disguise your drugs,» says John Coyne, a former Australian Federal Police intelligence agent who is now head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institutas Canada, providing «numerous ways to disguise your drugs,» says John Coyne, a former Australian Federal Police intelligence agent who is now head of border security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Located in the heart of the Nation's Capital, the iconic Mayflower Hotel is proudly listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has enjoyed several U.S. presidents and countless world leaders and dignitaries as guests.

«We are proud to honor 20 Top Corporations for their world - class leadership in partnering with women's business enterprises to sustain innovation in this country and fuel our economic growth,» said Linda Denny, president and CEO of WBENC, the leading authority on and advocate for women's business enterprises (WBEs) as vendors and suppliers to the nation's leading corporations.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

It's no wonder that Vietnam was named as one of the fastest - growing travel destinations in the world by the United Nations World Tourism (UNWT) organization earlier this yeworld by the United Nations World Tourism (UNWT) organization earlier this yeWorld Tourism (UNWT) organization earlier this year.10

Texas, the nation's leading oil producer — one of the world's top producers, in fact — is diversified well enough to not feel the pain as much.

The budding nations growing and expanding through the economic growth such as, China and India will endure the weight of the world this year and every year.

The officials recommended that the nation closely watch factors such as the outlook for supply of U.S. government debt, along with political developments including trade disputes between the world's two biggest economies when deciding whether to cut some Treasury holdings, the people said.

Recognizing our nation's caring spirit, the Aga Khan cites Canada as a role model for the world and has selected Ottawa as the home of a new global centre for pluralism.

This compares with China's current rank as the third largest trading nation in the world, accounting for around 6 per cent of world merchandise trade.

The Aerospace Industries Association, a trade organization for the aerospace and defense industry, recognizes this challenge: the AIA's Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry recommends «that the nation immediately reverse the decline in, and promote the growth of, a scientifically and technologically trained U.S. aerospace workforce,» adding that «the breakdown of America's intellectual and industrial capacity is a threat to national security and our capability to continue as a world leader.»

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It's often said that as long as commerce exist amongst different nations of the world, there will always be business for shipping companies.

In fact, in parts of the world such as many African nations, Facebook is the internet.

Although Finland edged Saskatchewan out of first place and Manitoba fell dramatically, Canada's total provincial and territorial ratings held this country's reputation as the world's most mining - friendly nation.

The uncertainty about what lies ahead for the European Union - the world's largest economic grouping - as well as the subset of nations that use the euro common currency, hit energy stocks hard.

British Columbia must play an important role as Canada and the nations of the world reach for an accord and begin to take decisive action.

The reports of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Center for Transitional Justice (the world's leading non-governmental organization studying political transitions), as well as the U.N. documents on the justice of nations moving from tyranny to democracy, give prominence to judicial punishment among all possible measures for addressing past human - rights violations.