Sentences with phrase «as rich nations»

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

She rightly suspected that wanting and consuming, as rich nations do, don't necessarily lead to happiness.

I understand that as the richest nation in the world we need raw resources, materials and markets, I am all for and, I enjoy it but I think we should go about getting it in a different way then the cold war era tactics.

We can and should do better as the richest nation on earth.

But we as the richest nations are willing to take the lead and we affirm our commitment to do so.»»

Not exact matches

Within a framework of sustainable development — including a cap - and - trade system and thorough environmental assessments — New Democrats would prioritize our own energy security and with it the creation of high - paying, value - added jobs, refining and upgrading our own natural resources right here in Canada — just as other resource - rich developed nations like Norway already have.

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.

Yang, controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $ 25.6 billion as of Jan. 5 to rank as the fifth - richest person in the nation, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Rich nations with older demographics and less immigration, such as Italy and Japan, will soon experience permanent population declines.

As a nation, we have a responsibility to our most vulnerable, and the richest of our citizens and the most profitable of our institutions should give more of their wealth to help those who don't have it.

It could be a tough sell for the president as he fights with saturation coverage of Hurricane Harvey and as Democrats prepare to frame Trump's approach as a giveaway to corporate fat cats and the nation's richest taxpayers.

It's such a travesty that a nation as resource - rich as Venezuela could allow itself to rot from within.

The deal marks a major milestone for Argentina and its new president, Mauricio Macri, restructuring the lion's share of the debt remaining from the default and freeing up the nation to tap international markets for much - needed financing as its commodities - rich economy falters.

Caracas says it hopes to draw investment from oil - rich Middle Eastern countries, Turkey and Western nations, such as the United States.

Norwegian property prices have tripled since the mid-1990s, up nearly 30 % since the Great Recession as the oil - rich nation rode the coattails of the commodities bubble and has benefited from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefited (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

U.S. energy firms are scrambling to finish a slew of pipelines that will unleash rich reserves of shale gas in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio as the nation prepares to Continue Reading

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

At the same time, the report observes that «Canada remains curiously underdeveloped as a Pacific nation, especially given our rich human connections with China and India.»

Norwegian property prices have tripled since the mid-1990s, up nearly 30 % since the Great Recession as the oil - rich nation rode the coattails of the commodities bubble and has benefitted from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefitted (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

Current development can, in fact, be described as the process by which the rich and more powerful reallocate the nation's natural resources in their favor and modern technology is the tool that subserves this process.

Efforts to promote such changes in the guise of human rights are correctly condemned as egregious instances of «cultural imperialism» by which elites of certain rich nations, not least of the United States, attempt to impose their values on the rest of the world.

Another reason for regarding the global economy as unstable is the expanding gulf between rich and poor nations.

The Council wants both sexes to cooperate responsibly in this culture, and men and women of all social classes as well as all nations, whether rich or poor, to have as active a share in it as possible through education, means of communication, tourism and so forth.

For example, the 1999 UNDP Human Development Report records that the gap between the rich and the poor among nations as well as within nations has widened.

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

Under this new arrangement the exploited nations were integrated into the rich nations of the north as providers of raw materials and other products.

John Dos Passos famously wrote of America as «two nations» of rich vs. poor; in the new version those two nations are made up of blue - state modernists vs. red - state traditionalists.

The fact is that people in countries whose wealth has greatly increased have not become happier as their nations have grown richer.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

Frank Rich of the Times witnessed the thirty - five thousand Promise Keepers gathered at Shea Stadium and did his homework by reading the Nation, which featured PK as its hysteria of the week.

H.Res.253, America's Spiritual Heritage Resolution, affirms the rich spiritual and diverse religious history of our nation's founding and subsequent history, and designates the first week in May as America's Spiritual Heritage Week.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

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This unearthing would see the beginning of a new industry — super phosphate and Australia's development as a rich farming nation.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

According to a TU report, the actual ownership of Momentive is fairly complicated — a corporate web that includes six billionaires on the Forbes magazine list of the nation's 400 richest people, including Stephen Schwarzman, founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, who was tapped by President - elect Donald Trump to serve as his chief job creation adviser.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

Taxing the rich in the hope of freeing up the economic resources of the workers and the middle - classes — so they can afford to inject money back into the economy, the thinking goes — makes sense as a One Nation philosophy.

«New York has a rich heritage and has served as the location of significant events that are important to this nation's history,» Governor Cuomo said.

As both nations want it equally badly, both nations nuclear powered and the state is a rich source of water & strategic advantage, there is a stalemate.

As a major oil producer, involving the private sector — and I am aware that Dangote is building some refineries and tank storage capacities — it should be possible to process Nigerian oil locally into finished petroleum products and export them to West Africa and the rest of Africa without us having to import petroleum products from outside.Speaking as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused abouAs a major oil producer, involving the private sector — and I am aware that Dangote is building some refineries and tank storage capacities — it should be possible to process Nigerian oil locally into finished petroleum products and export them to West Africa and the rest of Africa without us having to import petroleum products from outside.Speaking as a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused abouas a former leader of an African country, I can tell you that our quest to build our countries into industralised economies that can begin refining our own raw materials and manufacturing what we need, is not a development paradigm that the rich nations are enthused about.

Mulgrew and other speakers denounced the mounting disparity in income between rich and poor in the nation that has angered many middle - class voters as the battles over state budgets and the attack on union benefits have unfolded across the country.

Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a «scientific» way to resolve age disputes.

Some environmental groups have called on rich nations to assess how much carbon the world can continue to emit while still having a shot of keeping temperatures below 2 C above preindustrial levels, and then make the case for using up whatever it cites as a «fair share» of those gigatons.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»