Sentences with phrase «handful of countries»

Read about how this couple in their 40's got odd jobs abroad in an eclectic handful of countries:

Bring together the relative handful of countries responsible for the most emissions (past and immediate future), lock them in a room, subject them to Tiny Tim recordings, and don't open the door until they come out with serious commitments that bind participants to deep emissions reductions.

Although the full Conference of the Parties refused to formally adopt the Copenhagen Accord, owing to the hard opposition of a small handful of countries, the next year's meeting in Cancun adopted a fleshed out, 30 - page version of the Accord.

Very few people are fluent, or even competent, in more than a handful of languages, making it difficult for companies to do business in more than a handful of countries.

With crypto mania sweeping the world, a handful of countries have stirred at the possibility of issuing their own virtual currencies based on blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin.

They can only be grown legally in a handful of countries, including India, Turkey and Australia.

The administration, which granted temporary exemptions to a handful of countries in March, said it had reached initial agreements with Argentina, Australia and Brazil that would allow them to avoid the tariffs, at least for now.

For aluminum, he advised a 7.7 percent across - the - board tariff, a 23.6 percent tariff from a handful of countries, or an 86.7 percent quota compared to 2017 exports.

In the long learning curve of Brexit a handful of countries outside the European Union have become shorthand for Britain's options.

Australia is one of literally only a handful of countries that can boast large food surpluses, an abundance of energy and other resources, modern infrastructure, a skilled and educated population, democratic institutions and a hospitable living environment.

Of course, there are also a handful of countries that are more vulnerable to external shocks such as a Fed rate hike — these include countries like Turkey, Venezuela, South Africa and Argentina.

«That decline, which we estimate to be in the range of 2 % to 5 %, is the result of the multiple technology transitions under way; robust competition in China; and near - term headwinds from potential operator consolidation in a handful of countries.»

These companies produce a vast amount of highly subsidized meat and dairy in a handful of countries where these products are already over consumed.

The United States «is the only economically advanced country — and one of just a handful of countries world wide — where employers are not required to provide any paid maternity leave after a woman gives birth.

Also note in passing that a Northern Cypriot passport is mostly worthless, in that it's recognized by only a handful of countries.

The result is that Ghana's industrialization is heavily skewed in spatial terms, which in turn leads to a deep concentration of job opportunities and ancillary business opportunities in just a handful of the country's biggest cities.

But a handful of countries led by Sudan, Bolivia and Venezuela sought to kill the deal.

A handful of countries have enough to immunise just 20 per cent of their populations; the WHO used to hold hundreds of millions of doses but destroyed most when freezer space was in short supply during the 1990s.

The apparent reversal of the Flynn effect in a handful of countries could well be a blip rather than the start of a global trend (see «Brain drain: Are we evolving stupidity?

A handful of countries are putting fish stocks at risk by exploiting the riches of the high seas, but conservationists are working on a scheme to stop them

Some day very soon, scientists and government representatives from the handful of countries that fund the SKA will decide whether the winner is Australia or South Africa.

The results are published as the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, with MDG4 (to reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under - five mortality rate) unlikely to be achieved by more than a handful of countries.

While a handful of countries, such as Australia, have banned or severely restricted meteorite exports — and the occasional illicit rock is «found» somewhere other than where it was actually discovered to skirt local law — the vast majority of specimens on the market are legally sourced, exported and sold or traded.

At the time of Sakharov's release, only a handful of countries pursued serious scientific research, and still fewer permitted scientific study independent of state interests.

Yet it may have had an additional motive: India is among a handful of countries determined to land a human on the moon.

Grulich adds that Australia «compares favorably» to a handful of countries such as Denmark that have reined in HIV infections and effectively eliminated AIDS deaths.

The pharma industry is increasingly international — ingredients from India might be mixed in China, then the product hopscotches across a handful of countries before reaching a pharmacy.

Only a handful of countries saw cases of Ebola before 2013, until Guinea unexpectedly reported an outbreak that led to more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths across West Africa.

I'm nowhere near my husband though, I think there is only a handful of countries he hasn't visited.

Texas, she says, emits more carbon dioxide than any other state and all but a handful of countries.

In most countries, we determined the intended content by looking at the national curriculum (or, in the handful of countries without a national curriculum, by looking at other formal statements of intended content at the regional or local level).

The U.K. nations are among a handful of countries that have made a concentrated push to both expand and improve their early education systems in the last decade and a half, said Rowena Phair, project leader of the education and skills directorate at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

However, in stark contrast, Google Magazines are only available in a handful of countries, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States.

In theory indies can list cheaper on Apple and still get 70 % from Apple sales (Apple also pay 70 % regardless of where the sale happens, unlike Amazon who only pay 70 % for a handful of countries) but of course if they try to do that Amazon sends in the thugs with the MFN clause email and tells them they» l be delisted from KDP for trying to give customers a better price.

Kindle Unlimited is only in a handful of countries, such as the US and select markets in Europe.

Today, the tablet is released for the public and is now available for purchase in a handful of countries.

Samsung began pushing out Android 4.0 to Galaxy S II handset owners in a handful of countries this week.

It has major market share in a handful of countries that Amazon has shown little interest in (France, Canada) and was recently acquired by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, providing much needed financial backing — and an Asian focus to their interests — to the Canadian / Japanese e-book company.

6 Moreover, 15 years ago only a handful of countries were in a position to issue local currency debt, and their average credit rating was BBB +.

A handful of countries on Europe are stuck in a critical debt trap.

Most populations outside a breed's country of origin tend to be established through contacts with one or a handful of country - of - origin breeders.

Whilst most of our lighthouses are now automatically operated, South Africa is one of a handful of countries that still manually mans the odd lighthouse.

People travel Mexico alone ALL THE TIME, and from all over: Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands were just a handful of countries represented at the places I stayed.

And yet, against the odds, after 21 months of quietly being available in just a handful of countries, it has now launched around the world.

What started as a handful of country club favorites has expanded to nearly every sport under the sun.

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland.

It's noteworty that the World Health Organization's «Framework Convention on Tobacco Control» has these two measures at the top of its list of desiderata — and that the U.S., though it has signed the treaty, is one of only a handful of countries not to have ratified it.

The plan, called the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative, is an outgrowth of an international energy partnership created under the administration's Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change, which brought together the handful of countries that are responsible for more than 85 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in a series of meetings this year.