Sentences with phrase «as other countries in the world»

Teachers constantly hear how American's education system is broken and not performing at the same level as other countries in the world.

It seems unfair that the United States, as other countries in the World, should have to compete with others elsewhere where very cheap labor is their primary advantage.

Not exact matches

«If you are pulling out of something that pretty much every other country in the world is a part of, then that is not seen as being a leader.

As the world continues to push toward a global market, professionals today must keep in contact with employees and clients in other counties, states, or even countries.

Another layer to this story is the fact no other country in the history of the modern world has accumulated as much debt as fast as China.

And that should have given it the world - topping medal haul — just as the Canadian Olympic Committee predicted — had two other countries not punctured holes in the best - known and, till now, highly reliable medal - forecasting model.

Interest rates are low throughout the developed world, except in countries experiencing fiscal crises, as central banks and other policymakers try to cope with continuing financial strains and weak economic conditions.

Kurds in other countries around the world, such as Lebanon and Germany, are also protesting Turkey's operations in Afrin.

Of all the «lopsided» questions in the survey, this one is easily the most egregious because it completely ignores certain realities, such as the fact that Canada remains one of the only countries in the world where capped home internet plans are the norm (the others being islands: Australia, New Zealand and Iceland).

The other is that, from a Canadian economic point of view, over 40 % of the revenue in cloud technology flows out of our country to other areas of the world — mostly the U.S., but to other countries as well.

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

Like zinc, crude and other commodities, the PGMs were supported the last six months by lower output levels, as labor disputes in South Africa — the world's largest platinum producer and number two largest palladium producing country — disrupted operations.

In the first case, America's trade deficit with the world would remain unchanged as a portion of its deficit with China would simply shift to other countries.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Before long Biznik took on a life of it's own as folks joined from all over the country an even the world, responding to the call for independent business people to show up, collaborate, and work together to help each other stay in business.

However, the recent activity in Korea shouldn't come as a surprise as other countries around the world have begun to adopt blockchain fintech regulations and solutions as well.

One of the big concerns about comparing Puerto Rico to other blackout events — as Rhodium did in the first chart — is that not every country tracks power data as well as others, and some countries are still electrifying (there are still 1.1 billion people around the world who don't have electricity), explained Peter Marsters, a research analyst at Rhodium.

«Regardless of whether we implement the exact same regulation — I would guess it would be somewhat different because we have somewhat different sensibilities in the US, as do other countries — we're committed to rolling out the controls and the affirmative consent, and the special controls around sensitive types of technologies like face recognition that are required in GDPR, we're doing that around the world,» he reiterated.

That power will face scrutiny by the World Trade Organization but, perhaps more significant, could prompt other countries to follow suit in using national security as a reason to wall off their markets.

My view has been that a lot of African countries and a lot of other third world countries, as I have mentioned to you in the past, are facing huge problems, and a lot of these countries might be imploding.

What America is trying to do is push a dual standard on the world, just as it did repeatedly in the 60s and 70s: free trade for other countries, protectionism for the United States alone.

If net capital outflows from the rest of the world to the United States are unchanged (in fact, they would probably rise, as the Mexican contagion spread to other Latin American countries), the automatic consequence would be a bigger U.S. capital account surplus.

As you can see, Japan is one of the top holders of gold, but at 400 percent, its debt - to - GDP ratio is higher than any other country's in the world.

And there could be no doubt of his progressive vision on other fronts as well: South Africa's post-apartheid constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the first country in Africa to do so, and the fifth in the world to legalize same - sex marriage.

Many of these visionaries have migrated their companies located in California and other parts of the world, to join a common dream, to achieve the reconstruction of a country and to lay the foundations for its citizens to see these new technologies as an opportunity to establish service and tourism companies that revolve around the so - called digital golds.

Russia, China, and other Asian countries have figured out that the dollar reserve system is the mechanism of their economic enslavement and have started to prepare their liberation by accumulating gold in a big way before gold is formally reinstated as the world reserve currency or as a big part of that new reserve currency.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

He also described the North American Free Trade Agreement as a disaster and heaped blame on the World Trade Organization for allowing other countries to box in the United States on trade.

That may be an indictment of other countries policies to grow their respective economy, but with China as the second largest economy in the world, the 282 % can't be ignored and must ultimately be reckoned with.

While other countries have faced significant turbulence, our financial system has consistently been ranked as the soundest in the world.»

As we showed last year, average retirement income in the United States is among the highest in the world — higher than all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries other than Luxembourg (more recent estimates from Andrew Biggs find that Norway also has higher income).

Adding to the concerns are other economic problems including a high unemployment rate of over 25 %, the recent demise of the country's VBS Mutual Bank amid a «severe liquidity crisis,» as well as the highest rate of economic crime (77 %) in the world, according to PwC's biennial Global Economic Crime Survey.

Yes our quality of life is still quite good relative to SOME other countries... that not really what people are thinking though when they use the term «3rd world country» — they are talking about the trending that they see — and the media reflects a perception out there that things are trending in a negative direction... look, if you read my original posts, you will see that they have much less to do with our economy as they have to do with WHY we are involved in the middle east and the SOCIAL impact of that.

I believe we have done a fair job of using reason as leaders from other countries routinely tour and study at our judicial centers in awe of the most fair and honest approach to justice the world has ever known.

«So this Easter, as we pray for the friends and families of all those who've lost loved ones in Brussels, let us also draw hope and inspiration from the values we share and all those who, inspired by those values, seek to help others in our country and around the world.»

The LDS Church is growing in Africa as well as in other countries throughout the world.

Unfortunately if you read their own authors works, you see they are angry because their tactics haven't work as well in the «Muslim world» as it had in other countries & religious groups.

Of course, if Israel were the only country in the world where we send either 1) direct aid and / or 2) provide a military presence and which had free universal health care and / or free or low cost secondary education, you might actually be making a point about there being something unique in the US / Israeli relationship, as opposed to, the $ 100s of billions we're sending around the world to hundreds of other countries which provide the same benefits.

Your pope is giving people AIDS by not allowing contraception to be used in 3rd world countries and then those people move to other countries as refugee's (not all but some) and like any disease that potentially goes undetected, this too shall spread.

The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.

In the Netherlands as in the other countries of Europe and North America, law and policy in the decades following the Second World War moved steadily away from the teaching of the Gospel and the magisterium of the Church on matters of marriage, family and lifIn the Netherlands as in the other countries of Europe and North America, law and policy in the decades following the Second World War moved steadily away from the teaching of the Gospel and the magisterium of the Church on matters of marriage, family and lifin the other countries of Europe and North America, law and policy in the decades following the Second World War moved steadily away from the teaching of the Gospel and the magisterium of the Church on matters of marriage, family and lifin the decades following the Second World War moved steadily away from the teaching of the Gospel and the magisterium of the Church on matters of marriage, family and life.

But I found myself now in a place were I found the Jesus that I always preached to other people for about 15 years including 8 1/2 years in as a missionary in a Third World Country with my wife and three children (two of them born overseas), the Jesus that speaks to you, the Jesus that wants to make you happy and give you hope, the Jesus that saved me and I knew but not to this level of intimacy.

Any attempt to stop the research entirely (in other countries as well as in the United States) would not only be unrealistic, it would be contrary to basic commitments of the Christian faith - ab6ut God and the world.

With other feminists, I believe that we must consider the likelihood a) that countries with less stringent guidelines for ova donation will proceed more efficiently with research; b) that countries in the one - third world will likely benefit from research using ill - gotten gametes; and c) that advocates for ESCR will argue that, for the sake of justice, the U.S. needs to implement more liberal guidelines for gamete procurement so as to avoid the injustice inherent in situation b).

It carries on mission work in most of the countries of the world, has hospitals, colleges, and other schools in many lands, and has done much for the amelioration of human suffering as well as for the propagation of its faith.

Sometimes we go so far as to kill those whom we view as threats to our selfish freedom, even going so far as to make public calls from the pulpits in our country to call for the obliteration and destruction of whole groups of people in other parts of the world because we view them as a threat to our way of life.

Since the special events held in 1993 in India, Britain, Japan, the USA and some other countries to mark the centenary of the World's Parliament of Religions there has been growing emphasis on the practical work that people of different faiths can do together to address the critical issues of today, such as violence, poverty and pollution.

As IRRI and its partners continue to evaluate Golden Rice in compliance with biotechnology regulations in place here in the Philippines and other countries where we work, we're grateful for this and all other statements of support that we continue to receive from around the world.

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