Sentences with phrase «global example of»

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama said, «Greensburg... is being rebuilt by its residents as a global example of how clean energy can power an entire community — how it can bring jobs and businesses to a place where piles of bricks and rubble once lay.

Dr Birol noted that the petrochemicals and energy cluster in the Port of Rotterdam was a leading global example of how energy efficiency and process integration combined with technology innovation could boost competitiveness.

Global examples of sustainability projects, which offer a positive future for the environment, have been identified by an international group of researchers including Professor Martin Solan from the University of Southampton.

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For example, it is a partner of the conference of the 55 members of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), to share its best practices and communicate its education innovation and skills development needs.

For example, in 2008 they cut interest rates together in response to the deepening global downturn, and in 2011 they helped prevent runaway appreciation of the Japanese yen following a devastating earthquake.

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

She now cites Canada as a rare example of a country trying to do something positive for the global economy.

In the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index last year, for example, Canada placed a close second to Australia, based on the quality of our pension system among a select group of 11 countries.

One example of this research is a 2012 Towers - Watson study of 50 global companies, comparing those with low regard for sustainable engagement strategies versus those with high regard for such.

And if the global economy truly is as screwed as some believe — like Kyle Bass, for example, a Dallas fund manager Lewis encounters who predicted the sub-prime mortgage disaster and who has since bought an isolated ranch with its own water supply and an arsenal of weaponry, betting on severe economic collapse — then you're probably better off saving your nickels.

For example, a study from Global X found that for 87 percent of millennials, also known as Gen Y, their most important expectation of an advisor was protecting their investments during a market downturn.

And at Ford Motor Company, for example, they've found that learning from and taking advantage of an array of perspectives among their global workforce, creates openings to actually increase their customers» satisfaction — showing how speaking with everyone and being more open and connected is good for the customer, too.

Another good example is Johnson & Johnson, a global organization with employees all over the world, who realized that they needed culturally relevant and appropriate content for distance learning and training that would make sense to each specific region of the world in which they do business in order for their employees to truly feel connected.

For example, the partner who runs my global team invests a great amount of time in his people; his door is open to everyone regardless of seniority.

The Montreal - based maker of planes and passenger trains employs more than 60,000 people around the world and is a rare example of a Canadian company with global reach.

I saw a great example of this when I visited the private wealth arm of a global bank.

For example, about eight percent of all global carbon emissions comes from brick manufacturing.

Our hope is that this model provides examples of how collective decision - making may work in other aspects of the global community.

Some examples of high - profile pages that have the blue badge include Rihanna (public figure), Fox News (media outlet) and Coca - Cola (global brand).

Whether or not that happens — and frankly, it's an extreme example of the worst - case scenario for US shale producers — a glut of global oil inventories is already weighing on oil prices.

For example, it claims that Facebook is responsible for 16 % of global smartphone sales.

During a panel centering on issues of privacy and user data at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations about how the companies operate.

A global survey finds examples of operators becoming digital players without digital makeovers.

If, for example, it turns out that 30 years from now we enter a period of global cooling, will we then accuse climate - change activists of greed and unethical behaviour?

Billions of dollars over budget and years late, Boeing's newest airplane was originally supposed to be a shining example of global efficiency.

For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

The incident, which took place on a Dec. 5 and ended with the flight arriving in Incheon 11 minutes late, immediately gained global attention as an example of privilege run amok.

One of the most powerful examples of eye contact is in a video done by activist Jae West and her team at Liberators International, an organization that aims «to coordinate, record and distribute monthly global acts of freedom,» and whose YouTube channel is filled with many daring acts of kindness and awareness - raising.

The best example of «For All» leadership among our list companies was demonstrated at Workday (No. 7) by co-founder & CEO Aneel Bhusri, who asked us to query our global database to establish a benchmark based on the top 10 percent of the best leaders in the world using our new methodology.

For example, I was recently told by a senior business leader of a global technology company — with more than 10,000 staff in China — that the company must now promote the establishment of Communist party committees inside its operations in the country.

These are just a few examples of the slow but inexorable shift of the global political and economic centre, from west to east.

«The Cookie BonBite is one of our yummiest examples of creativity to come out of the innovation kitchen,» said Jill Thomas, vice president of global marketing for Cinnabon.

That some of the forces governing capital flows and asset values are driven not by market - determined expected return but by policy measures directed at, for example, an exchange rate objective means that at least some of what we observe in global capital markets may be attributed to these distortions.

Click on the links below to read examples of opportunities from the previous two Global Opportunity Reports:

For example, at the time of writing, bitcoin is trading at $ 16,950 on Bithumb and $ 16,938 on Coinone, but CoinMarketCap reports the global price of bitcoin as $ 16,744.

«Apollo is an example of «China Speed», demonstrating the rapid pace of China's innovations and development in the global autonomous driving industry,» said Qi Lu, Group President and COO of Baidu, on stage at CES.

For example, Alibaba and Tencent — both on the forefront of the e-commerce wave in China — have risen by 98 % and 111 %, respectively, so far in 2017.2 Companies such as Sina, a global Internet media company, and Baidu, which operates an Internet search engine, have also generated returns this year that are nearly as strong or stronger than those of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, or Google.3 As the world's second - largest economy, China is rapidly evolving from its former status as a noteworthy emerging market to an economic powerhouse on the rise.

A supply curve is an ordered list of all the oil production opportunities globally, sorted by the cost of extraction or, probably better for this example, the potential free - on - board price at a global trading hub — take every oil play in the world and ask what it would cost delivered to the US Gulf Coast as a starting point.

«This is a prime example of a benefit that our global network can offer,» said Scott Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer of WTCA.

John McDonnell, Co-Founder & CEO, Bitnet, said: «Rakuten's global marketplaces are great examples of how digital currencies can impact global commerce.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

For example, he chaired SWIFT's global advisory body for corporates from 2010 to 2016, and most recently launched an innovation center in collaboration with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

«This is an example of Verizon moving up the value - added stack,» notes Alec Ellison, former vice chairman of Jeffries, a global investment banking firm.

Issuers from the Corporate sector represent for example 32 % of the green bond universe vs 18 % in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.

The work of the Basel Committee on capital and liquidity standards, as well as the work of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cross-border resolution, are but a few examples of the hard work that global bodies have been undertaking to address the weaknesses identified through the crisis.

Many investors believe that China is currently under - represented in global equity indices relative to its economic influence (for example, China represents roughly 17 % of global GDP, 11 % of global trade, and 9 % of global consumption but today comprises only a 3.5 % weight in the MSCI ACWI Index).1, 2 Given the size of the China A-shares market, inclusion in global indices is regarded as key to bringing China's overall representation more closely in line.

Let's look at an example, the Templeton Global Bond Fund Class A. To find the load, simply scroll down some and look on the right for this piece of information:

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