Sentences with phrase «few remaining in this country»

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Canwest's Sunday papers are survived by a few remaining Sunday editions across Canada — most notably the Sunday Star — but the 24 - hour news cycle will undoubtedly continue to force the number down, as sitting with the Sunday paper becomes more of an anachronism, in a country that never fully embraced the idea of a Sunday paper in the first place.

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

His optimism stems from a few things, beyond the potential for BlackBerry 10: RIM continues to add subscribers, the BlackBerry remains the most popular smartphone in a number of big countries, such as Indonesia, and the company is still rolling out new BlackBerry 7 handsets across the globe.

Import penetration from countries that export relatively cheap goods to us remains high compared to where it was 20 years ago, but it has actually come down in the past few years.

Since individuals can freely trade Bitcoin in China, it should remain as one of the few loopholes to move large amounts out of the country.

We are one of few remaining countries in the world which still allows freedom of speech.

His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi).

«The Class - Consciousness Raiser,» June 10, 2007 «It may be that the only people with abiding faith in the power of class divisions in America are the country's few remaining Marxists and Ruby Payne.»

It is indeed important that we do, as the UK remains one of the few countries in the world capable of influencing US politics.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

Over the next few months this country is going to debate the merits of leaving or remaining in the European Union, and I have many colleagues whom I respect greatly on both sides of this argument.

While the numbers are not in Deacon's favor, she is running in one of the few remaining swing districts in the country, said Christopher Faricy, a Syracuse University political science professor.

Development was a key campaign issue in Amherst, where reuse of the former Westwood Country Club remains a pressing consideration for the Town Board and where developers seeking to build on the town's few remaining pockets of green space run up against neighbors who complain about the effects on traffic and quality of life.

Gaga «remains an Upper West Sider at heart» and «social justice activist and a real leader for marriage equality in this country,» Stringer said, grabbing a few headlines that won't hurt with name recognition while being chivalrous in the process.

«Scientific discovery without potential economic return or job creation potential is therefore not being considered by SFI or the Irish government at the moment,» notes physicist Peter Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin, who adds that Ireland remains one of the few European countries not in CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics.

Although few people would argue that cleansing the population of all guns wouldn't go a long way to trimming the firearms fatality rate, the country's 230 million guns, shielded by the Second Amendment, seem likely to remain in circulation for a long time.

Along with a few other members of the foreign community including doctors and missionaries who remained in the city, and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, shock at the appalling behaviour of Germany's Asian ally, and a love for the country and people among whom he had worked for so long, he created a safety zone in which a quarter of a million civilians survived what was later to go down in history as the «Nanking Massacre.»

Few would argue with the notion that public education in America needs to improve to ensure that our country remains prosperous in the coming years...

Notwithstanding a few waiver programs and some clever waivers states managed to secure for themselves, the core of the law remains intact almost 10 years after President George W. Bush, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Congressmen George Miller and John Boehner barnstormed the country to celebrate its overwhelmingly bipartisan passage in the House and Senate.

High school seniors Tam «Tom» Nguyen and Russell Craze are thinking about becoming Roman Catholic priests, and they attend one of the few high schools remaining in the country set up to support that aspiration.

As our country has doubled the amount we spend per pupil in the last few decades, our students» achievement in English, math and science has remained flat, and our poor and minority children continue to lag behind.

A few body - on - frame Japanese SUVs do remain on sale in this country, led by perhaps the granddaddy of them all, the 2016 Toyota Land Cruiser.

Volvo remains one of the few brands still committed to offering station wagons to U.S. customers, and that dedication is on display with the Volvo V60 Cross Country, which becomes the third wagon to wear the «Cross Country» name in the past 17 years.

Although Mini Bulls remain fairly rare in this country — fewer than 200 litters are registered with the AKC each year — MBTCA remains committed to its mission of promoting high standards in breeding practices so that more dog fanciers can fall in love with our mischievous, mighty Minis.

«One of the few remaining boutique hotels in America, the Majestic Hotel in St. Louis is an historic landmark located in one of this country's major business and leisure travel destinations.

The story of SoHo — which was transformed from a bohemian artist's enclave to one of the most expensive zip codes in the country — has remained significant not only because of the now - iconic artworks it helped produce: in just a few decades, the area has become a retail and restaurant capital with upscale homes and hotels.

Tyler Rollins founded his New York gallery over a decade ago, where he presented solo exhibitions of artists from Southeast Asia who did not yet have representation in the U.S. Today, he remains committed to the region, propelling one of few such gallery programs in the country.

Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, surely the world's most famous Armenian - American rock star, sent a message of support for their campaign and promised to donate a song to the cause.One of few significant wooded areas remaining in a country already heavily deforested, the Teghut Forest in northern Armenia is home to many native species, including the Syrian brown bear, the endangered Caucasian gray bear, and the short - toed eagle.

They understand that smaller adverse events suffered by a few can be paid out of the community rating pool and that at the global level, large adverse events in one country can be reinsured with other countries who remain unaffected.

Large differences in national growth rates were observed, with lighting remaining stable or decreasing in only a few countries.

The total fertility rate remains high in many countries not because women want many children but because they are denied these technologies and information, and often even the right to have fewer children.

While healthcare and medicine remain a hot - button political issue and very much a work - in - progress, few can argue that those who need urgent, immediate medical help in this country can't get it.

As an internet search on the phrase «litigation finance» will quickly show — or a glance at a tag on the subject at Overlawyered — third - party financing of lawsuits has become a booming and largely unregulated business in the United States and a few other nations, even as champerty remains unlawful in many other countries.

Nonetheless, bitcoin's use has remained constricted in the U.S. and in quite a few countries abroad.

Accounts are live in UK, Germany, Italy, France and Spain with remaining EU countries coming in the next few weeks.

This is particularly useful in a country where as much as 75 % of the population remains «unbanked» and fewer than 5 % have credit cards.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

[162] The spiritual, cultural and social values in Nyoongar country is significant to the Yarragadee aquifer, Gnangara Mound, Collie groundwater, the Shannon River that is one of the states few remaining wild rivers and many other water landscapes.