Sentences with phrase «first nation in the world»

In 2009, South Africa became the first African country — and the first nation in the world with a high HIV prevalence — to introduce PCV7 into its routine immunization program.

Although Venezuela was the first nation in the world to eradicate malaria in 1961, malaria cases have risen by 71 % in the country in the first 6 months of 2016, The New York Times reports.

The introduction to your special report on happiness said the UK was to become «the first nation in the world...

TWO years ago, the Maldives became the first nation in the world to open an embassy on a virtual island in Second Life.

Currently, China is constructing 12 electricity transmission corridors for air pollution control, making it the first nation in the world to design transmission to improve air quality.

Litia Malikano Maiava from Tokelau, a small Pacific Island with a population of 1500, gave the audience something to cheer about: «Although we are the smallest island in the world, we are the first nation in the world to rely on 100 % renewables.»

In 2005, Canada became one of the first nations in the world to formally legalize gay marriage.

Not exact matches

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide working moms (or dads) with support during the vital first few months of a newborn's life.

Recent new customers include United Nations International schools and 1 World Trade Center Observatory in New York City, its first corporate security customer.

«The whole world should clearly remember it was the US who first declared war on our country,» he told reporters on Monday in New York, where he had been attending the annual United Nations General Assembly.

For the first time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wfirst time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wFirst Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wants.

The legislation met with little resistance in the Nordic nation that has ranked first in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap standings for nine consecutive years, said Brynhildur Hei?ar - og?

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

The Pacific island nation said it became the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as its legal tender...

While the world has been laser - focused on the woes of the heavily - indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place.

In his first 100 days in office, new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have changed the attitude and outlook of the world's second-most populous natioIn his first 100 days in office, new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have changed the attitude and outlook of the world's second-most populous natioin office, new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have changed the attitude and outlook of the world's second-most populous nation.

Z Nation Lab and WeWork India had organized their first joint initiative for the startup ecosystem building in Mumbai by way of a Startup Pitch Competition which was held at the World Office Expo 2017.

This is the first nation in the history of the world that's an idea — it's not an ethnic group — and these ideas are vital ideas, and we want to share them, and we have shared them with the whole world.

Catholic News Agency: Stanford Law School inaugurates religious liberty clinic Beginning this term, students at Stanford Law School have the opportunity to gain knowledge and real - world experience by participating in the nation's first religious liberty clinic.

Death by violence is higher in the U.S. than ANY other first world nation.

They are a first step in answering the call of the Lord to go into all the world and make disciples: «And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come» (Matthew24: 14).

Why are we polarized into two nations, one living in First World affluence, the other in Third World misery, again unlike any other advanced nation?

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

In this case, we're comparing the US to other first world nations that respect human rights and freedom.

In July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, SwitzerlanIn July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerlanin Lausanne, Switzerland.

If, instead of the prevailing anarchical relationships among nations, there were co-operation in the control of raw materials, agreement on methods of manufacture of such materials, and regulation of the world market, Society would be in a position, for the first time, to constitute itself as such.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Although I in no position to speak authoritatively for God, my own belief [based on my reading of the OT Prophets] is that God is probably a lot more concerned with what goes on in America's [and the rest of the First World's] boardrooms than S / He is with what takes place by non-coercive assent in our Nations» bedrooms.

This chapter looks at one side of the Bible's ambiguity where we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations.

James Wilson told the Pennsylvania ratifying convention that in the six thousand years since the creation, «the United States exhibit to the world the first instance... of a nation... assembling voluntarily, deliberating fully, and deciding calmly concerning the system of government under which they wish that they and their posterity should live.»

This 16 - member body, with representation from First, Second, and Third World nations and led by former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, made its report in November l980.

«26 The problem with this position from the perspective of liberation theology» is that it retains the control of society in the hands of those who have always had control, the powerful individuals and the first - world nations.

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

Consider this myth in terms of the demands of Third World nations to be forgiven part of their crushing debts to First World banks.

In 1956 they organized themselves as the «nonaligned» nations, asserting their independence from both capitalism (the first world) and communism (the second world).

By the 1970s communication also had become a major tool in the first - and second - world nations» attempts to recolonialize the third world.

The nation's defeat in the First World War was a shock and it was followed by severe economic difficulties.

John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.

This Eastern attitude and understanding of religions enables us to appreciate why the first - and second - generation disciples of Max Müller in Asia were such enthusiastic advocates of the World Parliament of Religions and similar endeavors, and why some of them, such as Radhakrishnan and Anesaki, found their way into the International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations, and later into UNESCO.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.&raquIN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.&raquin bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.&raquin which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

illycaffé in 2016 established the first - ever Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award, hosted at the United Nations and dedicated to recognizing the best of the best coffee growers in the world.

For the first time, Indian frozen buffalo meat is legally available in the world's fourth-most populous nation.

This fact was derived from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Commodity Yearbooks which show «Third World» commodity exports by value in the period 1970 — 1998 as being in order of crude oil in first place, Kona in second, followed by sugar, cotton, and others.

From the United Nations General Assembly to the First Green Business Forum to World Water Week and her position as Chair of the Global Water Partnership, she continues to explain the far - reaching implications of food loss and waste to novel groups and to recruit new actors in the fight against food loss and waste.

By the time of his death in 1912, he would be hailed as the father of the South Australian wine industry, having first realised the potential of the now world - renowned region of McLaren Vale and, through his Tintara winery, built his business into one of the nation's largest winemakers.

The United Nations World Tourism Organization held their first Global Conference on Wine Tourism in Georgia in 2016 with fifty countries represented.

There will be no bigger (baseball) story in the nation's capital over the next six months, unless the Washington Nationals can bring World Series baseball back to D.C. for the first time since 1933.

Thomas Mueller scores twice for Joachim Low's side to deliver the Germans» fourth World Cup, and making them the first European nation to win the trophy in South America.