Sentences with phrase «behind other countries»

Although our highway and rail systems are behind other countries, we are assured of future improvements.

Canada is years behind other countries in its promotion and embracing of diversity, which is not just right but makes business sense, particularly in the global economic environment.

Because that's the direction we're heading in if we continue to fall further and further behind other countries in producing fuel - efficient vehicles.

It provides important opportunities for the U.S. to lead on renewable energy technology and jobs, and pulling out could have us instead falling behind other countries, like China.

«Australia is falling behind other countries in climate action.

Still, the UK remains far behind other countries, as both Haszeldine and the BBC's environment correspondent Richard Black note.

I believe the reason United States is lagging behind other countries because our great president decided that iraq and afghanistan were most important issues in the world that needed our taxpaying dollars to be wasted upon.

The UK currently recycles around 50 % of container glass (like bottles and jars) and while this figure has doubled over the last five years it still lags behind other countries.

Although the US is behind other countries in research and in practice in the area of stem cells for humans sue to the FDA, they are becoming quite common in the Veterinary world.

By Edward Nawotka Earlier this month we wondered why the UK was so far behind other countries in e-book adoption.

The only professional mathematician on the Common Core validation committee, Dr. James Milgram, says they lower the bar, fail to prepare high school students for STEM, and will put students two years behind other countries.

Poor results which showed pupils in Wales falling behind other countries have led to the launch of a national numeracy programme.

United States is behind other countries in student achievement in science.

«People talk about their concern that the U.S. is behind other countries in math and science, but we are much further behind the rest of the industrialized world in language learning than we are in math and science,» says the Asia Society's Stewart.

The government has been urged to improve the teaching of statistics and data handling as the UK risks falling behind other countries, a new report claims.

The Japanese announcement has been delayed by bureaucratic squabbling over who should control the budget, but Hidekazu Chayama of the Science and Technology Agency denies that Japan is lagging behind other countries.

Underlying all the recommendations were fears that the U.K. may fall behind other countries in terms of progress in science, partly owing to recent increases in the U.S. science budget: «We will have a brain drain if we don't stay ahead of the game in this country,» says committee member Brian Iddon MP.

Do you think it's a basic lack of analytical thinking that is causing Americans to fall further behind other countries in science literacy, or is it how we're teaching children?

Natural - gas - powered cars play catch - up Though it's home to a wealth of natural gas, the United States is well behind other countries in adopting natural gas vehicles.

Both Cuomo, who's positioned himself as something of a Robert Moses for modern times, and Biden sermonized on the desperate need for modern infrastructure and how the United States is lagging behind other countries.

Whilst the numbers may sound large, the UK lags well behind other countries.

But failing to set the target now risks the UK being left behind other countries as they too move towards a low - carbon future.

Today's confirmation of Gove's drive to abolish the qualification for good is a major step, coming before the impending Cabinet reshuffle, which is driven by a desire to end complaints about «grade inflation» and reverse Britain's educational decline behind other countries» literacy and numeracy rates.

The UK government's use of technology has previously lagged far behind other countries.

Why, Anderson Cooper, are you always behind the other countries and how can you support this on - going debate.

No wonder the U.S. is lagging behind other countries.

In Canada we are far behind other countries in recognizing the power of ESOPs to help people save for retirement while creating better companies.

If there's one drum Canadian universities love to beat on international education, it's that Canada is falling way behind other countries in terms of students gaining international experience during their studies.

As we know, Canada is lagging behind other countries on this issue, and I believe it is time for governments and regulators in Canada to take positive measures as has been done elsewhere.

The US is falling behind other countries like Canada in air travel technology, Gina Chon & Lauren Silva Laughlin write in Breakingviews.

Mr Woods said Australia had lagged behind other countries in the introduction of VSAT technology.

While Colorado and California are looked at as models of the modern marijuana economy, the U.S. lags behind other countries like Canada, which already has a fully - functional nationwide medical program and will launch its nationwide recreational program in the next year.

The U.S., he said, risks falling behind other countries economically if it doesn't make a change.

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This disparity could lead to other countries taking advantage of the latest - and - greatest factory robots to boost their countries» manufacturing industries while the U.S. falls further behind.

The change, meant to address lingering concerns about pilot fatigue, has been welcomed by pilots» unions and others who say safety standards in Canada have fallen behind many other countries around the world.

Even if the feds boosted existing supports, Canada would lag far behind the well - endowed auto industry R&D programs that have been established in other countries, including the U.S, Sweden and South Korea.

The US may have «invented the internet,» but it lags behind several other countries when it comes to internet speed today.

I was surprised to see how behind we are, certainly relative to the U.S., and in fact relative to other countries like Australia.

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

Other countries are solidifying those relationships and Canada can't afford to be left behind, he says.

But within months, Klein realized that this firm was falling way behind those of distributors in other European countries.

«You are the most diverse class in Northeastern's history — in other words, you are Donald Trump's worst nightmare... I think that everything that we've lived and learned tells us that we will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt.

Other countries have lowered their rates, he says, leaving the U.S. behind.

The cattlemen's association said if the government waits until this fall to ratify the deal, domestic beef producers will fall behind their competitors in other TPP countries.

Measured against 65 other countries, Canada places fifth overall in reading, seventh in science and eighth in mathematics, behind China, Korea, Finland and Singapore in the Organization for Co-operation and Economic Development's (OCED) education assessment released in 2010.

Artificial intelligence academics have noted the difficulty of keeping up with other Asian countries: Mitsuru Ishizuka, professor emeritus in AI at the University of Tokyo, noted that Japanese research has fallen behind the work «that is being done in China.»

Canada's exports to China lag behind other developed countries in terms of both growth and absolute value.

Our standard of living lags behind the United States» and other countries.

Private companies and governments of other countries have extended their hand to help Puerto Rico, as the island looks to recover from the ruins left behind by Hurricane Maria.