Sentences with phrase «change than other americans»

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One - time presidential candidate Walter Mondale warned Americans that unless things changed, there would be no future for their children other than to sweep the factory floors between Japanese - made computers.

The American Christian debate about just war theory is in a sense nothing other than a debate about America's role in the world, a debate little changed since, say, 1968.

Even so, the twenty - seven speeches collected in We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, edited by E. J. Dionne Jr. and Joy - Ann Reid, are neither better nor worse, for the most part, than any other American politician's speeches: often muddled, consistently unmemorable, and boring.

Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke told The Australian Financial Review that with large assets in California it was in a stronger position than other global rivals even if there were changes in tariffs and other measures that might make it more difficult for exporters selling into the American market.

We also have the same money taking and making American with no love or interest other than financial in AFC, so tell me optimistic ones what has changed and what do you believe will be different this time around?

After years of seeming to be more excited about Arsenal and his other sporting clubs balancing the books than actually managing to win a trophy, the American billionaire may have changed his tune.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

You know you're in trouble when the Hollywood Foreign Press threatens to upstage all of the other voting bodies with its diverse choices, when 90 outsiders have their fingers on the pulse of changing American culture better than thousands of insiders who work in the industry.

No other ethnic or racial group will do more to change the makeup of American schools over the next quarter - century than Hispanics.

This would mean a change of 84 percentage points in the population that is African American, for example, which is larger than the average difference between the most in - boundary neighborhoods with the highest boundary participation rates and others.

Though American charges a late booking fee and relatively hefty change fees, it has pretty reliable availability booking in advance or close - in (except for big holiday seasons like Christmas) and incredibly low off - peak award rates internationally, so your American Airlines miles can be more valuable than those of other domestic carriers.

But American fans are hopeful that changes that come will be better than the ones in other major domestic programs because it's AAdvantage has always been a generous program for frequent flyers.

First class is easier to procure on AA than UA (for AA's partners British Airways and Cathay Pacific do make generous amounts of space available) and AA allows free routing changes as long as origin and destination remain the same, but AA does not allow routing via Europe to go to Asia or stopovers on round - trip travel other than at American gateway hubs.

Starwood points can be hard to come by other than with their credit card, but many people are looking to use their points since Marriott is buying Starwood (I don't expect big changes to Starwood Preferred Guest over the next year, but it could be a really good idea to get the Starwood Preferred Guest ® Credit Card from American Express before the merger closes).

Speaking of Seoul it was nice to be trashing a city other than New York or «generic American City» for a change.

The only theme I can detect behind its organization is that the PMA thinks it has neglected this material, as well as Philadelphia's large African - American community and others who would like to see a more representative selection of art history than it has been presenting — and is determined to change.

I am skeptical that very much will change the minds of Americans other than money.

Other reports showed that Americans are driving more fuel - efficient cars, and that they're driving fewer miles than in previous years due to higher gasoline prices, the recent economic recession and changing generational preferences.

How places like the Royal Society and the American Physical Society can continue to support the IPCC position that there are no extraterrrestrial forcings other than a slight change in the solar constant, is quite beyond me.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

Likewise, the American Natural Gas Alliance ($ 88 million) seems to work mainly on advertising and public - relations efforts to promote fracking or the use of natural gas rather than other fuels, and the group takes no obvious position on Global Warming / Climate Change.

«Because Americans are high resource consumers in a country with a large, rapidly growing population base, the U.S. has a much bigger «per - person» impact on global climate change than any other nation.»

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

Louisianans are less likely than most other Americans to believe in man - made climate change.

For more than a decade, officials in Ecuador's mountainous capital have been studying the effects of global warming on nearby melting glaciers, developing ways of dealing with potential water shortages and even organizing conferences on climate change for leaders of other Latin American cities.

There has been almost no coverage in the American press about the ethical duties of governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals to reduce the threat of climate change other than occasional general assertions by some activists or members of a religious groups referring to climate change as a moral issue.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

Although recent surveys show that people in other countries are generally more concerned about climate change than the US, Americans too have nevertheless come a long way in their awareness of the crisis since the Kyoto days.

In contrast, for some other institutions, confidence has been more sensitive to current events: the percentage of Americans professing a great deal of confidence in military leaders changed more between 2004 and 2006 than the comparable percentage for science leaders changed between 1973 and 2006.

Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher % than other Americans.

The dismissal of scientific findings as a hoax also has a political element; a 2011 study found conservative white males in the US were far more likely than other Americans to deny climate change [6].

That statistic, more than any other, shows how successful the forces of confusion have been: 85 % of Americans, apparently, can console themselves with the thought that a substantial minority of climate scientists doubts anthropogenic climate change.

This Triple Pundit article looks at the contradiction of most Americans supporting the need to address climate change — even at the cost of the economy — while ranking it lower than other concerns.