Sentences with phrase «bigger than a nation»

Yes, the biggest users of all energy, and fossil fuel energy especially, are the global corporations (bigger than nations), and government, and the rest of business... not the residents of either middle - income US suburbs or farming villages and cities in China.

Not exact matches

The nation's biggest labour market has more people working at low wages than any other big economic engine of Canada (Quebec, B.C., Alberta)

Great weather and Hollywood are two of L.A.'s biggest draws, but for entrepreneurs in the nation's second largest city, there's more than meets the eye.

To explain why this big gap in valuations isn't a sign of over-valuation, the CAPE's critics cite lots of individual issues in these nations that make them riskier bets than the U.S., such as looming Brexit in the U.K. and Germany's uncertainty regarding future leadership.

Plus, he noted, because coal from western states, including Wyoming — by far the nation's top coal producer — is considerably cheaper than Appalachia's, «even if there's a big resurgence in demand, it's not likely to be for Kentucky coal.»

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

As the presidential elections draw near, the nation's debt woes are coming into clearer focus — and Bank of America - Merrill Lynch Global Research warns that the «fiscal cliff» is bigger than most market observers imagine.

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(Gun deaths are a big reason that America has a much higher overall homicide rate than other developed nations.)

(These gun deaths are a big reason America has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.)

As the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decade.

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.

More than 700 stocks fell by the 10 percent daily limit in Shanghai on Tuesday, including PetroChina Co., the nation's biggest company by value.

Getting those customers to link Amazon and groceries could further tie it into the nation's shopping habits and give it a bigger chunk of the more than $ 600 billion U.S. grocery market.

China is also America's biggest creditor, owning more Treasuries than any other nation.

Simple, inexpensive media such as radio, local telephones, and newspapers may suit the needs of a developing nation far better than television, satellites and big - city newspapers.

This trend has been highlighted in a recent study that the emerging global order is spearheaded by a few hundred corporate giants, many of them bigger than most sovereign nations.

Fonterra is New Zealand's biggest company and collects more than 90 per cent of the nation's milk.

Bega shares rose 30 cents to $ 4.75 on Friday, valuing its 1.5 share and $ 2 cash bid at $ 9.13, more than the $ 9 cash per share on offer by the nation's biggest processor, Murray Goulburn.

Created by an act of Parliament, Fonterra is the world's biggest dairy exporter and a virtual monopoly in New Zealand, collecting more than 95 per cent of the nation's milk.

The Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest is back bigger and better than ever, giving independent family or «neighborhood» restaurants and food trucks the chance to win up to $ 80,000 in cash and prizes and bring hometown pride to their own communities.

Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest is back and bigger than ever!

There might be no bigger talent in the nation than the 6» 3», 210 - pound Griffin.

Thanks to scientific management and the courage of those enlightened hunters who, for the sake of improving the herds, could last year bring themselves to shoot does, where legal, as well as bucks, the nation's No. 1 big - game animal, the deer, this year is coursing its nationwide range in healthier and bigger numbers than ever before.

With the start of the new league year now less than a month away, Brad Wells of SB Nation looks ahead at some big names who will hit the open market and examines which teams could be good suitors for their services.

Indeed, everything about Moss — ambition, talent, trouble and talk — leaves the impression that he is bigger than Marshall, that he is the kind of show - time player churned out yearly by Miami or Nebraska, capable of dazzling the nation on Saturday and causing his coach headaches during the week.

We've worked our socks off to get here and we want to prove we're more than capable of matching the bigger nations.»

At least one nation springs a surprise and advances more deeply through the tournament than many expect — with Costa Rica perhaps providing the biggest shock last time around — and Morocco could be that team this year.

As international politics is all about public perception - India actually has more to gain by leaving the commonwealth as commonwealth has less to do with democratic nations and more to do with nations who were formerly colonized by UK and represents a disdained look towards nations which were formerly colonized - It's not a symbol of freedom, it's a symbol of oppression and leaving commonwealth is a symbol that we have outgrown our former colonial masters and we don't need their support anymore as we are a bigger economic power than UK.

@Nebr As international politics is all about public perception - India actually has more to gain by leaving the commonwealth as commonwealth has less to do with democratic nations and more to do with nations who were formerly colonized by UK and represents a disdained look towards nations which were formerly colonized - It's not a symbol of freedom, it's a symbol of oppression and leaving commonwealth is a symbol that we have outgrown our former colonial masters and we don't need their support anymore as we are a bigger economic power than UK.

Yes, big data may well transform the way we do politics in the U.S., but I suspect that the more dystopic predictions, (which at their most extreme involve a nation of drooling automatons spoon - fed information through targeted communications) won't come to pass... if for no other reasons than practical ones.

New York's other ex-mayor, Mike Bloomberg, believes Americans are facing an «epidemic of dishonesty» in the nation's capital that's a bigger threat to democracy than terrorism or Communism.

Odifuo Tawiah added that a disaster will befall the nation this year, bigger than any ever experienced, due to the activities of politicians.

«Haiti's population is about half that of New York City's metro area, yet even a glancing blow from Sandy carried a higher death toll in the Caribbean nation than did the direct hit on the Big Apple,» Kenny wrote.

The Chicago Democratic Party machine is actually the biggest in the nation, even larger than New York City.

Nationally, the drop in unemployment since June 2009 has been bigger than New York's — 3.4 percentage points for the nation as a whole.

And on February 18th, the British paper the Guardian published an article, and let me quote from the article: «The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one - third of their profits if they were held financially accountable a major unpublished study for the United Nations [has] found.»

«Normally, at a big conference like Rio +20, we would have used more than 20 million sheets of paper,» said Magnus Olafsson, who heads a new United Nations» initiative known as PaperSmart.

By 2050, the nation could lose over 155,480 square kilometers of forest — an area bigger than the state of Georgia.

It boasts more Nobel prizes per million people than any other rich nation; it has two home - grown pharmaceutical giants, Roche and Novartis; and it is home to the world's biggest science experiment at CERN.

But coal provides more than half of the electricity used by the U.S., and China builds the equivalent of two 500 - megawatt coal - fired power plants each week, helping keep these nations at the top of the list of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters.

A third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

That suggests to me that something is happening here that's way bigger than the largely made - up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation's fourth - largest city.

And it is so much more detrimental than just bouts of «hanger» and mid-afternoon crashes: it is without a doubt one of the biggest culprits behind our nation's soaring rates of obesity, type II diabetes, and inflammatory disease (since the blood sugar rollercoaster creates systemic inflammation).

But now, a well respected British cardiologist, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, has announced that this is not the case, and he cites the fact that the biggest saturated fat consuming nation in Europe — France — has the lowest incidence of cardiovascular disease than any of the world's other nations!

Whether it's our hero's bantering spy ex-girlfriend (Lupita Nyong» o), his smartass, tech - genius little sister (Letitia Wright), his tougher - than - leather mom (Angela Bassett) or the place guard who is the biggest badass in the whole damn movie (The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira) it takes a nation of women to cover T'Challa's back.

I have to say, this has the potential to be way better than Rogue Nation - perhaps because I was not a big fan of that one, and perhaps because they've polished this one to perfection.

The Clark County school system is the nation's fifth largest, with more than 300,000 students, and the tensions framing the search are familiar when it comes to filling any of these big jobs.

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

The nation's largest state convention for teachers drew more than 30,000 educators to the Atlantic City Convention Center, according to the union, which said it the event's biggest turnout in at least a decade.