Sentences with phrase «better than the nation»

Select reasons why the housing sector helped the New York - New Jersey region fare better than the nation during the recent downturn include:

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great Recession, and the number of jobs grew by about 200,000 a month.

Regional home sales, which are trending upward or showing signs of stabilization, appear better than the nation, though risks remain.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great...

All of the accords still require approval from Argentina's Congress, which also needs to repeal a law that currently prevents the country from proposing terms to the holdouts that are better than those the nation offered creditors in earlier restructurings.

The percentage of students testing in the bottom quarter of the ITBS has dropped from 32 percent to 24.4 — better than the nation as a whole, according to CPS officials.

By 2003 the dropout rate had fallen to 13 percent, the percentage of students meeting national norms was up to 41, and the percentage of students testing in the bottom quartile was down to about 24 - better than the nation as a whole.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

Education did significantly better than the nation as a whole with just a three percent decrease in total school personnel compared to a nine percent increase in the national unemployment rate.

The good news is the state's job growth was up 1.9 percent over the past year, better than the nation as a whole.

Property markets that have strong energy or technology sectors have fared vastly better than the nation as a whole.

This weathered the 2008 crash much better than the nation on average.

Not exact matches

But we have got to get together as a nation, do better than we are doing to educate these kids because it's getting worse and worse and worse.

Western Australia is the only state in the nation expecting better Christmas trading than last year, according to a report released today.

Though America navigated the post-2008 global financial crisis era better than many nations, our stagnant employment market is a sign of our enduring problems.

But one nation seems to be getting out in front of that challenge better than most — and that's China.

As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

He said his administration is just getting started and «will work tirelessly to make good on our promise to the working people who built our Nation and deliver historic tax cuts and reforms — the rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before.»

But while 2014 predictions bode well for host nation Russia's performance — forecast to achieve a total haul of 25 medals, 10 more than their total in the last winter games in 2010 — the same can not be said for the U.K. team.

First, Canada is well behind peer nations in adopting anti-spam mechanisms — more than a decade, given that many jurisdictions adopted legislation in 2003 or 2004.

That's still rapid growth — far better than any developed nation — but because it's such an integral part of the world's importing and exporting ecosystem, even the slightest economic pullback will have some eff ect on the rest of the world.

But while that growth is comparable to the rates of most other cities in developed nations (and better than some), it's far below the rates at which cities are growing in China, Brazil and India.

Nothing could be better for the United States than for our government to renege on the Iran deal while the EU continues to respect and enforce it among its own nations.

On today's episode, I talk to Tom Webster, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Edison Research, the organization behind exit polling for national elections in the U.S.. For more than two decades, Tom has conducted political polling for some of the most contentious elections in U.S. history, as well as market research for some of the top companies across the nation.

Certainly, there are signs of renewed uncertainty — or at least of an approaching bear market — but it's a far better, more hopeful economy than what the nation faced in 2008 - 2009 when unemployment was growing like an epidemic and no one knew exactly where the bottom might be found.

The finance sector on Friday launched the first - quarter 2012 earnings season with unexpectedly good results from some of the nation's big banks, as JPMorgan Chase reported better - than - expected earnings per share, and Wells Fargo posted a 13 % rise in net income.

The Labor Department also said that the nation's employers added 120,000 jobs in November and that job growth for the previous two months was better than initially reported.

Second, Maine has better solar irradiation than Germany, which until a few years ago had the most solar deployed of any nation on Earth.

Since then, other nations have adopted, unfortunately, our playbook and ran it even better than we did.

Expected rate increases will vary wildly across the nation, analysts warned, but said states that promote their markets or take steps to regulate prices down would fare better than others.

A major reason why Iceland's economy has faired far better than other hard - hit nations is that its property prices have not fallen much, unlike Spain and Ireland, whose property prices have dropped by nearly 30 % and 50 %, respectively.

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

Across the nation, more women are attending college than men, and according to a CNBC article and research from the Institute of Family Studies, 2015 marked the first time in history that wives were better educated than their husbands.

«I hope the Brits have better luck than Canadians in convincing Mark Carney to address concerns raised about the absence of women from that nation's bank notes,» said author and historian Merna Forster, one of the Canadian activists.

This is about as condescending and arrogant as Mitt Romney at Liberty University saying: «there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.»

Better a smoking ruin of ash and stone than to deface our nations cathedral by uniting qu eers as if they were deserving people.

Most people want to believe that this nation is nothing more than the product of good ol hard work and determination.

That is rather better than using those Powers and Wealths to Revolt them Nations against each other Intentionally or Unintentionally!?

Some observers have asked whether, for certain aspiring nations, China's political economy now serves as a better model than does democratic capitalism.

We always lament that we can not get the nations best and brightest to run for political office... surely there are Americans more qualified than Obama, more intelligent than GW Bush.

After so many wars, I think it is more up to the Arab nations to try and be the good guys than make Israel bend over backwards to them.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

Nevertheless, even if nations do not always act in the best interests of their people, they are far more amenable to influence from the public than are transnational corporations.

There can be no better work for us than — in our own way, in our own place — to testify to the fact that God rules the world; nations do not.

hi, listen america when it is about islam, than i am or was your judge maker president maker economy maker force maker etc well there is no happiness in it, founder type law maker but you people do not deserve to be good, don't worry i play worldwide france swiss russ eng uk pol etc any where you want me to come i will be there, i learn to hate my self in usa because i am muslim and the next is infidels nation

The U.S. has enormous power, more than any nation has ever had before — probably more than it is good for any nation to have.

It is important to know that in developing nations, where many women are living on less than $ 1 or $ 2 per day, the systemic challenges of extreme poverty create obstacles for good health, especially among women and children.

A United Nations Peace Keeping Force to monitor a cease - fire is better than a civil war, but the members of that U.N. Force may have to shoot in self - defense.

Fidesz in Hungary is more threatening than the Saudi monarchy, even though the latter is far less liberal, because Fidesz represents a retrogression — a deliberate rejection of liberalism by a nation that was previously a member in good standing of the liberal order.

You know a nation that probably does a MUCH better job of this than we do?