Sentences with phrase «fourth state of the nation»

President John Mahama will on Thursday, February 25, deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address to Parliament.

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This has been confirmed by the fourth annual State of Independence in America workforce study from MBO Partners, though this transformation of the nation's workforce is going a bit slower than some initial boosters anticipated.

The Cleveland - based company is the nation's fourth largest auto insurer with revenues of $ 23 billion — but Griffith intends to race ahead of its competitors, State Farm, Geico, and Allstate.

State income tax rates in the «Land of 10,000 Lakes» are among the highest in the nation, ranging from 5.35 % to 9.85 %, the fourth - highest top rate in the country.

The second challenge is presented by the emergence of «asymmetrical» or «fourth generation» warfare — conflicts that do not involve nation states (the war on terrorism, for example, involves nonstate entities like al - Qaeda) or involve them in «low - intensity» or clandestine combat (like the U.S. involvement in guerrilla warfare in Central America in the 1980s).

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

These far more contentious words - «a wall of separation between church and state» - lie at the heart of the ongoing debate between those who see America as a «Christian Nation» and those who see it as a secular republic, a debate that is hotter than a Washington Fourth of July.

Even today, Cincinnati boasts more than a dozen craft breweries and the state of Ohio as a whole produced more than one million gallons of craft beer in 2013, the fourth most in the nation, according to the Brewers Association.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Target — the nation's fourth - largest food retailer with nearly 1,800 locations in 49 states — for wielding its immense purchasing power to make a huge improvement in animal welfare by eliminating controversial pig gestation crates from its pork supply States applauds Target — the nation's fourth - largest food retailer with nearly 1,800 locations in 49 states — for wielding its immense purchasing power to make a huge improvement in animal welfare by eliminating controversial pig gestation crates from its pork supply states — for wielding its immense purchasing power to make a huge improvement in animal welfare by eliminating controversial pig gestation crates from its pork supply chain.

«California makes 90 percent of our nation's wine and is the fourth largest producer in the world, so the scale and scope of adoption of sustainable practices are tremendous across the state's wine regions,» said Robert P. (Bobby) Koch, Wine Institute President and CEO.

Figueroa, ranked fourth in the nation, has the better pedigree out - of - state, and is expected to contend for four straight state titles in his career.

McKnight, who is the only coach in California history with more than 1,000 wins and has won 11 CIF state titles, could become the fourth high school coach in the nation to be in the Hall of Fame.

Ranked fourth in the state and 31st in the nation according to MaxPreps, the Troubadours (14 - 3) have won each of the last four meetings in the rivalry.

Fewer than 64 percent of eligible residents are registered to vote in New York state — the fourth - lowest rate in the nation.

Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.

I was honored to mark our nation's independence along with tens of thousands of Bronx families, as we let freedom ring this Fourth of July,» said State Senator Jeff Klein.

Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state - sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption, monumental incompetence, the persecution of opposition figures and their families, the violation of court orders, the intimidation of the National Assembly, the Judiciary and the Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media, the targetting and cold - blooded murder of Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite Muslims, the gradual and incremental Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of the Church and Christian clerics, the covert support for and encouragement of murderous Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on and so forth are now the cornerstone and hallmark of President Buhari's govermmemt.

President John Mahama today [Thursday], January 5, 2017, delivered his Final State of the Nation Address to usher in the end of the life of the sixth Parliament of the fourth Republic, which would officially be dissolved on the midnight of January 6.

Montana is the fourth largest state in the nation and its location within North America exposes the state to a mix of diverse weather systems that originate from the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic, and sometimes subtropical regions.

Existing law requires the governing boards of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the NEW HAVEN — Connecticut students have some of the highest student debt in the nation — fourth highest overall, with the average 2016 state graState University, the Regents of the NEW HAVEN — Connecticut students have some of the highest student debt in the nation — fourth highest overall, with the average 2016 state grastate graduate

For the fourth year, Kentucky led the nation in Summer Reading pledges during the Chief's Summer Reading Challenge, a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers and MetaMetrics.

Alabama's fourth - graders caught up to the rest of the nation in reading scores for the first time in the state's history on the National Assessment of Education Progress, known as The Nation's Report Card, but still trail the nation in math, data released Tuesdaynation in reading scores for the first time in the state's history on the National Assessment of Education Progress, known as The Nation's Report Card, but still trail the nation in math, data released TuesdayNation's Report Card, but still trail the nation in math, data released Tuesdaynation in math, data released Tuesday show.

The state of California has implemented a number measures to close one of the largest and most persistent achievement gaps in the nation, Recently released scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nationwide test for fourth - and eighth - graders in math and reading given every two years, show that California's students are still performing below the... Continue reading California: Moving the Needle on the Achievement Gap

Utah State Board of Education News Release: Nation's Report Card: 2017 Utah Fourth, Eighth Grade Mathematics, Reading Scores Steady

The nation's schools received an upbeat report card in math Thursday, but the bad news continued for California as its fourth - graders lagged behind their peers in 40 states and came out ahead of only those in Mississippi.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth - and eighth - grade math and fourth - grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the «Nation's Report Card.»

During the third year of his administration, the state's fourth and eighth grade students ranked first in the nation in both reading and math — a major achievement.

November 2013, the US Department of Education released the latest results from its National Assessment of Education Progress (i.e. «The Nation's Report Card») and revealed that Tennessee was the only state to post improvements in both math and reading at both fourth and eighth grades, adding a total of 22 points across the four assessments to their scores.

New Haven, Conn. — Connecticut's fourth - and eighth - grade students continue to score higher than their national peers in reading, and have made modest long - term gains in math based on 2017 results from the Nation's Report Card — but our current rate of progress means The Constitution State would need a century to close the achievement gap.

While approximately three - fourths of four year olds in America are involved in some kind of educational program, the United States still ranks only 25th out of the 34 most wealthy and upcoming nations in the world in terms of early childhood education, lagging behind the likes of Portugal and Mexico.

NAEP uses the results of scaling procedures to estimate the performance of groups of students (e.g., of all fourth - grade students in the nation, of female eighth - grade students in a state).

Virginia is one of the nation's 12 highest - performing states in fourth - grade reading.

The state's fourth grade math standards wouldn't have met the standards set by Singapore and the six other top - performing nations in that subject, according to the American Institutes for Research's own analysis of American curricula standards.

In Carmel - Clay, the percentage of low - income fourth - graders passing the reading and math portions of the Hoosier State's ISTEP + exams increased by only 6.3 percent between 2009 and 2011, according to a Dropout Nation analysis of data provided by the Indiana Department of Education, while the percentage of low - income fourth graders in Westfield - Washington passing ISTEP + increased by just 6.5 percent.

The national tests — also known as the Nation's Report Card — are taken every two years by representative samples of fourth - and eighth - grade students in each state and nationwide.

The state has an average credit card debt per household of $ 6,710, the fourth highest in the nation.

A report released by the parent company of HomEquity Bank, the nation's sole provider of reverse mortgages, states that a record number of reverse mortgages (with a rough total worth of $ 67.2 million) were closed in the fourth quater of... Read More

A report released by the parent company of HomEquity Bank, the nation's sole provider of reverse mortgages, states that a record number of reverse mortgages (with a rough total worth of $ 67.2 million) were closed in the fourth quater of 2011.

As the nations of the world prepare to meet next week at the open ended working group of the Montreal Protocol in Bangkok, Thailand, Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to travel to India for the fourth U.S. - India Strategic Dialogue.

In Mexico, for instance, a national family planning program started in the mid-1970s with support from the United States and the United Nations has helped raise contraceptive use from less than one fourth to two thirds of women.

The nation's aggregate carbon emissions now top Japan's, 45 % of the land is degraded, groundwater levels are dropping rapidly... Here are the details: India Now World's Fourth Largest Carbon Emitter India's per capita carbon emissions remain very low — about 1 / 20th of those in the United States and probably actually below what could be extended equitably to everyone on the planet — but multiply those by one billion - plus people and it really adds up.

Average age of the nuclear reactors operating today in north America (top panel), EU nations (second panel), former Soviet states (centre panel), Asia (fourth panel) and other countries (bottom panel).

Based on the fact that 40 percent of all traffic deaths in this state occur in alcohol - related collisions, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) ranks Texas as fourth in the nation as one of the worst states for drinking and driving.

In fact, MADD ranks this state as being the fourth - worst in the nation for the rate of fatal drunk driving accidents.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) reported that in 2007 Kansas drivers paid an average of $ 568 in automobile premiums, making them the fourth least expensive state in the nation for automobile insurance.

There are nearly 40,000 snowmobiles registered in the state of ID, ranking it fourth in the nation in terms of the number of sleds.

The nickname underscores the state's major agricultural industry that supplies the nation with significant percentages of its dairy products, including one - fourth of its cheeses.

From June 2013 to June 2014, the state's population grew by 1.59 percent, meaning the state ranked fourth in the nation in terms of overall population growth.

Florida is the fourth most populous state in the nation, so the plethora of fix and flip opportunities there is not surprising.

Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holidaycommemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and no longer part of the British Empire.