Sentences with phrase «first year in the country»

This is my first year in the country, and I am Learning.

During their first year in the country, the students will be tested only if school officials recommend that they should be, and even then, their scores will be used only for baseline information.

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The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

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.

In the first nine months of the year, venture capitalists poured $ 24 billion into tech startups around the country.

The Kingdom has plans in place to build up to 300 cinemas across the country over the next 12 years, announcing on Wednesday that AMC (amc) signed the first cinema operating license in the country.

The first - generation Moto G, released in several countries last year, sold well for Motorola thanks to its sub - $ 200 price tag (that's $ 200 without a contract).

The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.

A share surge at Country Garden Holdings, China's largest developer by sales, has sent Vice Chairman Yang Huiyan's wealth up by $ 2.1 billion — and that's just in the first four trading days of the year.

Today, Brazil sits at No. 5 in a 2010 UN ranking of countries receiving FDI, and early numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil put the economy on pace to eclipse the previous year with US$ 43 billion in FDI for the first six months of 2011.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in the coal industry in 201in 2017.

He not only founded Todos, a supermarket chain catering to Latino shoppers in the Washington, DC, area, he also became a U.S citizen, 11 years after he first entered the country.

Pakistan started up the 3.5 million tonnes per year Engro Elengy LNG terminal, the country's first LNG import facility, in Port Qasim last March.

This year, America slipped to 14th place (Norway came in first, with other Northern European countries rounding out the top of the list).

Sbarro's first four stand - alone stores will open in the Italian eatery's hometown of Columbus, Ohio, followed by as many as 100 more locations across the country over the next two years.

And throughout his first year in office, Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward the fraying South American country's government.

Users of digital currency bitcoin more than doubled in the Philippines in the first half of last year from a year earlier, Espenilla said, while bitcoin transactions purportedly passing through registered companies in the country range from $ 2 million to $ 3 million per month based on available estimates.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

But four years after graduating from Western University, Cowin was in Australia, opening up that country's first KFC to take advantage of a market underserved by fast - food restaurants.

The current premier is asking supporters to stick with his brand of «21st century socialism» in order to keep the country on track to recover 70 percent of its lost oil production in the first six months of the year.

He also agreed to attend the company's first - ever strategic - planning session later that year, in mid-September, when 10 of the 70 Magellan's employees would journey 40 miles north for an off - site meeting in the wine country around Zaca Lake.

The 7/22 FT reported: «Across countries that use the euro, average debt to gross domestic product reached 92.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, up from 92 per cent in the previous quarter and 91.9 per cent in the same period last year, according to figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency.»

The U.S. and Cuba have agreed to resume commercial flights between the two countries for the first time in more than 50 years.

Age she received her first camera: 13 Year she won a MacArthur Fellowship: 2009 Countries she's worked in: 40 + Number of kidnappings: 2

As the country prepares to be led for the first time in almost 60 years by someone not named Castro, a tectonic shift that could profoundly affect how it is governed, cold war rhetoric has again filled the air.

In just seven days on sale, «25», the first album in four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on SaturdaIn just seven days on sale, «25», the first album in four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on Saturdain four years by the Grammy - winning singer, easily outsold the entire year's figures for country - pop superstar Taylor Swift's hit album «1989», according to official figures released by Nielsen on Saturday.

Phelps took the blocks amid thunderous roars for him and the 30 - year - old Brazilian in the lane to his right, Rio - born Thiago Pereira, who was out to win the home country's first swimming medal of the Games.

Dell soon dropped out of college to build computers full - time and found himself at the helm of one of the fastest - growing companies in the country, with $ 6 million in sales in its first year of business.

Lucas London, Airtasker's UK Country Manager, said: «The traction in terms of tasks / earning opportunities that we've seen in the first two weeks in London is what took us two years to achieve in Australia.»

The first is the physical presence test, which means you have been in a foreign country for 330 days of the year.

Official figures show that economic growth across the 19 - country eurozone slowed down in the first three months of the year

McDonald's first - quarter same - store sales rose 5.4 %, propelled by interest in all - day breakfast, the company's new» McPick 2» value menu that launched earlier this year and new products such as kale bowls and yogurt smoothies being tested in various parts of the country.

«I signed on with the company almost four years ago and it has truly been the experience of a lifetime helping Uber become the fastest growing company of all - time — spanning 75 countries with over 14,000 employees,» Michael wrote in his goodbye letter, first posted on The New York Times.

A climbdown from Ms Lagarde's office is even less likely after the Leftist Syriza government crossed the rubicon and became the first developed country in the IMF's 71 - year - history to default on the world's «lender of last resort» this week.

Abe was the first foreign leader to meet Trump, and the two countries» military alliance has helped to sustain peace in East Asia for the past 60 years.

2015 was also the first year that clean energy investment was higher in developing countries than in developed ones.

In fact, 2015 marked the first year that developing countries saw more money invested in clean energy than developed countries diIn fact, 2015 marked the first year that developing countries saw more money invested in clean energy than developed countries diin clean energy than developed countries did.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime India launched two years ago and CEO Jeff Bezos says more prime members joined there in the first year than any other country.

In the first eight months of this year, auto sales in the country were up close to 5 percent compared to the same eight months in 2016, according to the China Association of Automobile ManufacturerIn the first eight months of this year, auto sales in the country were up close to 5 percent compared to the same eight months in 2016, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturerin the country were up close to 5 percent compared to the same eight months in 2016, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturerin 2016, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

The first happened in a long period starting in the late 1980s in certain cities and finally seeped into every corner of the country twenty years later.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

In most countries (including the US and UK), more than half of newly created enterprises fail within the first five years (business failure statistics according to OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance Report 2016 and Eurostat).

For the first time in several years, firms are expanding their businesses which should increase the country's economic output.

The U.S Treasuries jumped Friday on expectations of a fall in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) for the first quarter of this year, scheduled to be released today by 12:30 GMT amid an otherwise, silent trading session.

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.

France's car market shrank sharply again in June, bringing the decline in registrations of new cars to 11 % for the first half of the year, with the country's auto makers» association warning of only a slight improvement by the end of the year.

The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57 - year - old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz - Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country's single - party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.

Activity in non-Japan Asia remained strong during the first half of 2000, though the pace of growth varied widely across countries; over the past year, growth has been strongest in Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia and weakest in Indonesia (Table 1).