Sentences with phrase «came to our country at»

«I came to this country at 17.

Permanent protections for Dreamers, those without legal status who came to the country at a young age, will have a profound impact on their lives while having an equally important impact on the national and local economies.

Not exact matches

With these and other changes afoot, it's worth taking a look at current global rankings to see how China, the US, and other countries stack up when it comes to air quality, total energy use, and renewable contributions to power production.

Here's a crazy idea when it comes to wireless roaming: how about Canadians being able to use their one and only cellphones with the same single numbers in whatever countries they want at a reasonable cost without having to jump through all kinds of hoops?

I need to leave the country at the end of the month, and this is coming at a stage exactly when the company is growing.»

As of 2014, in terms of total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP and measured per capita, Norway came in at No. 2 out of 35 countries ($ 37,682 USD), Denmark at No. 3 ($ 30,630 USD), and Iceland came in at No. 9 ($ 20,418 USD), according to the OECD.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that the streaming - video provider is now in more than 160 countries worldwide, with more to come.

«It is just not acceptable to ever think that it should be commonplace in our country for people to send their kids to school in the morning and not know if they're going to come home at the end of the day,» Deutch said.

Greece's bailout expires at the end of the month, at which a $ 1.6 billion payment to the IMF will come due, and European leaders are scrambling to avoid a Greek default amid accelerating bank withdrawals in the troubled country.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

Instead of welcoming foreign talent with open arms, Canada makes it exceedingly difficult for them to come to or stay in this country, even at a time when the thriving technology sector is in dire need of skilled knowledge workers.

An international UN coalition of 16 countries came to the South's aid with the U.S. at the lead — Americans constituted 90 percent of the troops.

The night after they obtained a guilty verdict against one defendant, in 2011, prosecutors and their staff spent a total of $ 763.80 for dinner at a country club (divided by the 18 individuals present, that comes out to $ 42.39 each).

Indeed, Mattel's move comes at a time when the U.S. administration has taken steps that are seen as hostile to Muslim people, not least banning visitors from Muslim - majority countries.

The United Kingdom, which held the top spot in the ranking from 2013 to 2015 (including twice tying Germany), came in third place along with Finland, France, Italy, and Spain, with 175 countries at passport holders» fingertips.

At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has as much at stake when it comes to immigration reforAt the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has as much at stake when it comes to immigration reforat stake when it comes to immigration reform.

He said those countries are hurting from a budgetary standpoint and will «grasp at any straw to argue that there is a cut coming.»

The attacks come from all over, but some countries excel at a particular type of hacking, according to Symantec's recently released annual Internet Security Threat Report.

«Here it is: If you are a foreign national or citizen of one of these seven countries that were first identified by President Obama in 2015, then you can not come to the United States at this moment.»

«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.

In Zimbabwe, a country where hyperinflation led to $ 1 being worth 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars, the relative security of cryptocurrency already came at a premium.

There's an obvious public relations benefit to going green, especially at a time when the U.S. government has come under fire for reversing many of the country's commitments to clean energy.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

«Canada has taken a step back to say they can not sign TPP 11 right away, but there are expectations that if the remaining 10 countries move ahead Canada will eventually come back,» said Junichi Sugawara, senior research officer at Mizuho Research Institute.

In developed markets the new demand is coming from the same sort of young, adventurous consumers who are packing whiskey bars in the U.S. «The taste profile of bourbon, which is sweeter because of the mash bill, has been really interesting to consumers in other countries,» says Chris Bauder, the general manager for whiskeys at Beam Inc..

THE forthcoming Australian Gold Conference comes at a crucial time in the history of the industry, which has seen gold production escalate in this country from twenty tonnes in 1980 to about 300 tonnes.

A transition to a low - carbon economy is now inevitable, but this transition comes at a cost, and many of the countries and companies under the greatest threat from climate change lack the means to pay for it.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

The RBA uses the operating technique which has come universal in countries with deregulated financial markets: the Bank can influence liquidity in the payments clearing system, and is allows us to shift interest rates at the very short end of the yield curve.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Lastly, Harper simply has no answer at all when it comes to promoting new long term economic growth in Canada and his laissez - faire ideology means that we are falling further and further behind those countries that are actually using the power and organizing capacity of the state to create sustained, modernizing economic growth.

Firouzabadi said Iran's central bank, like that of many other nations, has not come to a stable and defined stance on Bitcoin, noting that many countries look at it as a potentially dangerous option in light of its violent price fluctuations and investment risk.

In light of President Trump's attack on immigrants, Uber also disclosed that 15 percent of its employees in the U.S. have a work visa and come from 71 different countries, saying that no matter where anyone comes from, Uber wants you to know that you have a place at the company.

His comments came days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a speech that «China's offer always comes at a price» and cautioned Latin American countries against reliance on «new imperial powers that seek only to benefit their own people.»

«We continue to reduce taxes for Canadians, but at the same time, unbelievably, the NDP is promoting cheap products coming in from other countries.

Right now, the two main options the administration is considering are across - the - board tariffs that would tax all steel coming into the US at prohibitively high rates, and quotas that would allow at least some steel to be imported from countries each year until they cross a certain threshold, after which tariffs are induced.

While inflation may be the easiest political way out of our country's financial mess, it will come at a significant cost to investors.

By placing highly - qualified female students with internship opportunities at the country's top space companies, the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program is playing an important role within the space industry: fostering a diverse workforce that will help ensure continued progress in the years to come.

It also found oil inventories are beginning to top off in OECD countries, with growth coming in at its slowest rate since the final quarter of 2014.

Washington's inability to come to an agreement on the debt limit has many Americans asking how the country arrived at this point.

Paying a basic income to everyone in a country would come at a whopping bill that would have to be paid for somehow.

Since coming to power at the end of 2015, a minority socialist Portuguese government has overcome initial skepticism among market participants and successfully introduced measures to reduce its budget deficit and reform the country's banking system, providing greater stability for investors.

Given that the pipeline is anticipated to create about $ 4 billion per year in profits to the Enbridge shareholders and oil sands producers, these are odious profits that come at the expense of people in other countries and into the future.

Such exports hit a peak of 874,260 barrels in total in July, before falling back to 346,921 in August... The re-exports have become a relief valve for both countries by reducing some congestion of supplies within the U.S. «We've got so much rail capacity now and pipe capacity is really starting to come on line, especially heading down to the U.S. Gulf,» said Martin King, analyst at FirstEnergy Capital Corp. «One way or another, the market's figured out a way to get Canadian crude to a country other than the U.S.» Tidal Energy Marketing Inc., a unit of Enbridge Inc., is one company that has shipped Canadian crude from the Gulf Coast, sending a cargo to Spain in May.

The uptick comes at a time when companies from these fast - developing countries need capital to grow and are turning to depositary receipts to tap into the deeper capital markets in the developed world.

It's at the Druid Hills Country Club and you're invited to come (I just found out).

they come into this country and the one thing they could do is at least learn how to use a language that is spoken in the country they move to that gives them freedom to do whatever THEY want to do!!

nothing at all.Fascism will come to this country wrapped in a flag, carring a cross

Basically, in line with lotteries in other countries, in Britain the poorest social groups spend much higher relative amounts, making it highly regressive, which is significant when we come to look at the services that the lottery is starting to pay for.