Sentences with phrase «fifth of american»

Also called a «fifth» in the United States, as it's roughly equivalent to one - fifth of an American gallon.

«One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past year» — up from 17 % in mid-December;

I think it's very interesting that last November, Florida Governor Charles Crist — the governor of the state that produces more sugar cane than any other, and about a fifth of all American sugar — visited Brazil and proposed ending America's tariff on sugar ethanol from that country.

Already, according to Pew, one - fifth of American adults say they have read an e-book in the past year.

Over the last few years, as a fifth of American adults have gotten ereaders, ebooks have transformed the book market and reading landscape.

Here are a few facts about ebook readers... Over a fifth of American adults have read an eBook.

Washington (April 5, 2012)-- One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift - giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.

According to Reuters, one - fifth of American adults read an eBook last year, with the number surely to keep rising over the next few years.

Nearly one - fifth of American children grow up in poverty.

«Can anyone credibly believe that the mediocre overall performance of American students on international tests is unrelated to the fact that one - fifth of American children live in poverty?»

Most of America's landmass is to some degree rural (see Figure 1), and about one - fifth of American students live in rural regions.

If the National Academy of Sciences is saying the only safe intake of trans fats is zero, and about one - fifth of American trans fat intake is coming from animal products, did they recommend that everyone should eat only vegan?

A fifth of Americans plan on returning at least one gift during the holidays.

With house prices representing a larger share of assets for the bottom three fifths of Americans, this helped increase the differences in wealth between the top and the bottom.

But only about 13 percent of the poorest fifth of Americans would see a tax hike.

According to the sociologist Harriet B. Presser, as of 2003, two - fifths of American workers were working non-standard hours — «in the evening, at night, on a rotating shift, or during the weekend» — and she wasn't counting those who bring their work home and do it on their off - hours, or who are self - employed.»

At the present time, over one - fifth of all Americans are between the ages of forty and sixty - five.

One third have bachelor's degrees, compared to one - fifth of all Americans of appropriate age.

Love American style: Web beats sex every time One fifth of Americans spend less time having sex because of the Internet, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults.

«One - fifth of Americans now live in states that have legalized recreational cannabis, and legalization is set to occur for all Canadians in July 2018,» said lead researcher Dr. John Staples, a clinical assistant professor of medicine and scientist at UBC's Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences.

With the rise of ebooks and ereading (one - fifth of Americans have read an ebook, according to Pew), startups keep popping up, trying to take advantage of new trends and blaze new trails of ebook consumption and reading.

Three - fifths of Americans believe children should not be able to get books containing explicit language from school libraries, while half say the same of books with references to violence.

Almost one - fifth of Americans (19 %) have at least one travel credit card, the survey found, but depending on their travel habits, it might not be their best option.

Almost one - fifth of Americans (19 %) have at least one travel credit card, the survey found, but depending on their travel habits, it might not be their best option.

Of these people, in most nations a quarter to half felt «a great deal» of concern about it, substantially higher than just a few years earlier, whereas fewer than a fifth of Americans now expressed strong concern.

A significant majority of uninsured motorists are from the two - fifths of American households with incomes below $ 36,000, the CFA found.

Not exact matches

Some 3.2 million Americans work at least part time for an on - demand service; for about a fifth of them, it's the primary source of income.

Roughly 43 percent of Americans work from home at least some of the time; a fifth of us work from home primarily.

The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers on the costs of employee turnover and found that it costs businesses about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.

With nearly half of all American families seeing one fifth of their spending go to oil, gas, and gasoline, a sustained drop in prices means an immediate and significant stimulus.

«The average American has less than $ 5,000 in a financial account, a quarter to a fifth of what you should have, and those aged 55 to 64 who have retirement savings only carry $ 120,000 — which won't last long in the absence of paychecks,» the survey reports.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Volume for the category climbed 2.2 % in 2014 from the prior year, according to data by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, as American drinkers gave the spirits industry a market share victory over brewers for the fifth straight year.

Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 % increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low raises.

This Fifth Avenue outpost is the most important signal yet of Aritzia's American intentions: to be a key way station for women on their sartorial journey from H&M to Hermes.

Meanwhile, the arrival of American department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom has meant increased competition for shoppers from Rosen's target clientele.

Financial institutions surveyed are: Alaska USA Federal Credit Union, Alliant Credit Union, Ally Bank, America First Credit Union, American Express, Aspiration, Associated Bank, Bank5 Connect, BankDirect, Bank of America, Bank of Internet, Bank of the West, Barclays, BB&T, BBVA Compass, Boeing Employees Credit Union, BMO Harris, Capital One 360, Charles Schwab Bank, Chase, Chime, CIT, Citibank, Citizens Bank, Comerica Bank, Commerce Bank, Connexus Credit Union, Consumers Credit Union, Discover Bank, EverBank, Fidelity, Fifth Third Bank, First Citizens Bank, First National Bank, First Tech Federal Credit Union, GoBank, Golden 1 Credit Union, HSBC Bank USA, Huntington Bank, KeyBank, M&T Bank, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, MetaBank, Navy Federal Credit Union, Pentagon Federal Credit Union, PNC, PurePoint Financial, Qapital, Radius Bank, Regions Bank, Santander Bank, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, Security Service Federal Credit Union, Simple, Star One Credit Union, State Employees» Credit Union of North Carolina, State Farm Bank, Suncoast Credit Union, SunTrust Bank, Synchrony Bank, TCF Bank, TD Bank, Union Bank, UFB Direct, USAA, U.S. Bank, Varo, Wells Fargo, Woodforest National Bank, and Zions Bank.

That's almost one - fifth of the amount of money the GOP would spend to protect Americans from mistreatment by banks in general.)

BlackRock recently released the results of our fifth Global Investor Pulse survey, which queried 4,000 Americans about their financial lives to gauge current investor sentiment and behavior.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

As the Fidel Castro deathwatch reaches its thirty - fifth anniversary, the Cuban - American community in South Florida begins to look at its situation with an uneasy sense of permanence.

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song edited by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, and Diana Schaub ISI, 790 pages, $ 35 Writing early in the fifth century a.d. to bolster the spirits of Christians in chaotic political times, St. Augustine asked: «As for this mortal....

Still, it is worth remembering that there exists in America a very powerful form of command economy: a large and powerful sector of American business (by some estimates up to one - fifth) is effectively removed from the strictures of the market economy since it does most of its business «on command» with the military branches of the American government.

After adjusting for inflation, the per capita expenditures of the lowest - income one fifth of the U.S. population today exceed the per capita income of the median American household in 1955.

In observance of the fifth anniversary of these institutes, the First American Convocation on Church Growth was held last winter; it was attended by more than 400 pastors, spouses and lay workers.

Mean serum cholesterol levels in France for example are almost identical to that of Americans, yet their heart disease risk is but a fifth of what America endures.

American Foods Group, the fifth largest beef processing company in the United States, came to us needing a new process to transfer multiple types of product to bulk or bagged pack - off locations.

Now, American wine is a multi-billion dollar industry with America being the fifth most popular exporter of wine in the world (the countries above still remain the most popular).

QSR unveils its fifth - annual Best Franchise Deals report, a collection of upstart brands building a foundation for robust growth, emerging concepts clamoring for a spot on the national stage, and well - known names seeking deeper inroads into the American consciousness.