Sentences with phrase «country is at the highest level»

The total amount of student loan debt owed in this country is at the highest level yet, nearing $ 1.2 trillion.

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U.S. crude production stands at 9.9 million barrels a day, according to the IEA, which is the country's highest level in almost 50 years.

«The global community will rightly expect the pace — alongside a high level of diligence — to be maintained so that people in affected communities and others living in countries at risk of Ebola can have access to a vaccine as soon as possible.»

Argentina has also increased security operations at the northern port of Rosario, the country's third - largest port that is believed to be a major hub for drug trafficking and has seen high levels of drug - related violence in recent years.

McAfee provides regular insight on global hacking scandals and internet surveillance, and has become a hugely controversial figure following his time in Belize, where he claims to have exposed corruption at the highest level before fleeing the country amid accusations of murder (the Belize government is currently not pursuing any accusations against him).

When debt levels are low, reforms aimed at improving productivity, if they are correctly designed and implemented, can result in the higher productivity and GDP growth that could, in principle, allow a country to «grow» its way out of debt.

As a general rule, countries attempt to keep inflation fixed at a rate of 2 percent as moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnation.

At the time, there were no official statistics comparing foreign debt levels in developed countries, and in their absence there was a tendency for people to assume the worst — that is, to assume that Australia was the highest on the list.

Unemployment in both countries is at historically high levels — over 11 per cent in Germany and over 12 per cent in France.

The meeting will likely focus on the issue of Greece's debt and to conduct negotiations at the highest political level, as Tsipras called for earlier in case the ongoing talks of the country's repayment plan were hindered.

If you are surprised at the level of abuse of children by clergy in a country like the US which has a highly developed police and legal system to handle such crimes, consider how high the abuse probably is in less developed countries like those of South America.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

To speak of something called «Christian America,» as both the advocates and the opponents of this idea are nowadays at high levels of passion wont to do, is by itself evidence of how un-Christian the country has become.

Though the United States was not the heaviest coffee - drinking nation at the time (Nordic countries, Belgium, and Netherlands all had comparable or higher levels of per capita consumption), due to its sheer size, it was already the largest consumer of coffee in the world by 1860, and, by 1920, around half of all coffee produced worldwide was consumed in the US.

I have known Bob for just over 6 years now, first as a customer at the Old Town Farmers» Market and the old Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean food.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

The 26 - year - old scored 18 goals in his debut campaign in England's top flight, and having proved his ability at the highest level in the country, it would certainly be a disappointment if he returns to the Championship.

All are Elite High Level Players who have the ability to demonstrate to you the simplest or most advanced soccer skills at our soccer camps across the country.

More than five years after making his pro debut with Chivas USA (RIP), Delgado, who's now an MLS champion with Toronto FC, finally played for his country at the highest level.

i personally think british players get easily selected for the national team especially strikers a good few months & goals you, re in, in some countries it takes players years at the highest level before getting a look in!!

«We shall have some money to spend but it will have to be more than a bit at this level now because the prices of players are astronomically high, particularly players in this country.

This high level of participation in political affairs is not typical for a country where the declining voting rate in the national elections stands at 65 % (2009).

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

Such cuts also have counteracted and sometimes undermined important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

PLATTSBURGH The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has announced that the North Country Chamber of Commerce has once again been accredited at the highest level of five stars.

He frowned at poor level of ratification of the Treaty by African countries despite the fact that the region is bearing the highest burden of the consequences of the unregulated trade on arms.

Still, the back - and - forth between Miner and Katko only distracts from the issue at hand, which is that Syracuse's children have the highest blood lead levels in the country.

In countries of eastern Europe that have joined the EU more recently, the level has been set slightly higher, at 55 decibels, to allow them to adapt.

China and India have created advisory and policy bodies at the highest levels of government to deal with climate and energy, and they are cooperating with industrial countries to create climate - friendly energy options.

These include a shrinking pool of in - country rail sector experts (which the Obama administration acknowledges is the result of the relatively small investment in passenger rail in recent decades), a lack of money available at the state level for such projects, and the need for safety standards specific to high - speed trains.

Inorganic arsenic is naturally present at high levels in the groundwater of many countries, creating an important public health issue affecting millions of people.

«This is the first formal confirmation at that high level that those countries entered mainstream strategic nuclear war planning,» says Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, which obtained the excerpt from a 2002 U.S. Strategic Command (U.S. STARTCOM) briefing on the new war plan to take effect in 2003.

For example, capacity building to improve our ability to regulate and monitor trade in less well studied species and in countries with higher levels of corruption are essential if we want to prevent trade driven extinctions globally» explained Assistant Professor Roman Carrasco from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, and co-author of the study.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

Levels of influenza - like illness across the country are as high as observed at the peak of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

If the new Common Core assessments set the high school graduation bar at true college readiness — meaning students are on track to take credit bearing courses from day one — the country is likely to learn that scarcely one - third of all students, and many fewer low - income students, are at that level now.

And so, countries... we see New Zealand in reading literacy that were previously achieving at the same level as us, that are now achieving at a higher level than us.

«The track record of top - performing countries, early evidence of positive effects from faithful implementation of high - quality curricula here in the United States, and the persistent evidence that our classrooms are under - challenging our students at every level compel us to put materials that we use to teach at the core of serious education reform.»

The research pointed at Australia's decentralised education system and said increasing the clarity of policies and finding within it needs attention, and added that the country's high education performance can be complemented with further focus on reducing inequities by tackling system - level policies hindering equity in education.

When this is equated to other countries via the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we find (in math, for the high school graduating class of 2009) that sixteen other nations had at least twice as large a fraction of their fifteen - year - olds scoring at that level.

If all students in the United States were performing at the level of high - schoolers in Massachusetts, our country would be at the top of the pack among peer nations.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

This being said, despite our high level of performance in comparison to the other countries, only 4 per cent of Australian students were performing at the top level (which is Level 4) of the ICILS proficiency slevel of performance in comparison to the other countries, only 4 per cent of Australian students were performing at the top level (which is Level 4) of the ICILS proficiency slevel (which is Level 4) of the ICILS proficiency sLevel 4) of the ICILS proficiency scale.

Professor Milgram was the only math content expert on the Validation Committee reviewing the standards, and he concluded that the Common Core standards are, as he told the Texas state legislature, «in large measure a political document that... is written at a very low level and does not adequately reflect our current understanding of why the math programs in the high - achieving countries give dramatically better results.»

It is at the secondary level that they introduce the high stakes exams for students, with Japanese students required to take an entrance exam for upper secondary school and students in both countries required to take tests at the end of upper secondary school that will determine what kind of higher education institution they can enter.

They also impede important state education reform initiatives at a time when producing workers with high - level technical and analytical skills is increasingly important to the country's prosperity.

Below are three charts showing the required testing in the United States and the ten top - performing countries on PISA at the primary and secondary levels, as well as a chart of exams required for those who wish to enter higher education.

If you look at math test scores in other countries, you see that the gender gap at the high end is not a universal phenomenon: In Iceland, Thailand, Indonesia, and the U.K., girls and boys score at about the same levels in the 95th and 99th percentiles: (click chart for larger image)

In short, linking the scores of the Class of 2009 on NAEP 2005 and PISA 2006 provides us with the opportunity to assess from an international vantage point how well the country as well as individual states in the United States are doing at lifting students to high levels of accomplishment.

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.