Sentences with phrase «high global ranking»

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It's a full - time, four - year program delivered on campus, with an impressive global network and high - ranking faculty members.

Australia ranks eighth on a global scale for digital attractiveness thanks to low market costs and risks, but the country is the second highest illegal downloader, an EY report has found.

According to a recent global wealth study by Boston Consulting Group, Canada ranks seventh in global «ultra - high - net - worth» households, meaning those with assets exceeding $ 100 million.

In 2012, these countries had the highest global reputations among the 50 nations ranked.

According to global consulting firm Mercer's 2015 cost of living ranking, Shanghai has the sixth - highest cost of living in the world this year, up four places from last year; Beijing has the seventh - highest, also up four places, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou are at 14th and 15th most expensive, both up a number of places from 2014 — making all those cities more expensive than New York City.

Attendees include high - ranking government ministers from around the world, bootstrapped startups from across Europe and Asia, major Russian state - owned corporations, global conglomerates, universities and researchers, venture capitalists, and a diverse cast of costumed exhibitors — many of whom seem to be channeling the high - heeled, form - fitting fashion stylings of mid-century Pan-Am flight attendants.

Sauder, which is currently the highest ranked school in North America for the international mobility of its graduates, according to the Financial Times, emphasizes the importance of global experience through its course content, as well as the support services it provides to students and graduates seeking work outside of Canada.

Mr. Armitage's experience in a wide range of high ranking diplomatic positions qualifies him to provide valuable insight and expertise in the context of the Company's global operations with substantial governmental interface.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

The Greater Vancouver region places 9th in an overall ranking of 20 global metro regions that assesses their relative attractiveness to both high - end talent and business investment.

Many of the key contributors became high ranking officials in the subsequent Bush administration, including the vice president, secretary of defense, deputy secretary of state, under secreatary of state for global affairs, the president's chief of staff, the president of the World Bank and the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and to the UN (amongst others).

In an assessment of 124 countries threatened by a biosecurity invasion, Australia was classified as «high risk» and ranked 15th for the potential cost of an invasion (US$ 7.8 billion) based upon the likelihood of arrival and establishment of a new pest.87 With the USA and China identified as the biggest threats to global biosecurity due to their existing pests, Australia's high levels of trade with these nations and comparatively pest free status significantly increases the risk.

In fact, research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th out of 17 intervention methods1.

The prospect of another bidder emerging from the ranks of global private equity firms is also high, with US - based giant Carlyle Group known to have quietly sounded out former Coca - Cola Amatil managing director Terry Davis about his appetite for running a privately backed Treasury in the past few weeks.

Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.

Including August, three of the past four months had record high global temperatures for their respective months; the exception was July 2014 which ranked fourth highest for the month.

Granted, while the globally averaged annual temperatures for the years since the record warm year of 1998 have not exceeded the 1998 record, the global temperatures since 1998 have remained high, ranking as the second, third and fourth warmest years of the last 125 years (and quit possibly the last 2,000 + years).

Infectious diseases such as HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis continue to rank high among global mortality factors, especially in developing countries, and systemic inflammation has been identified as a root case of many chronic disorders in the developed world.

England — Rising tennis star Chung Hyeon has risen as the highest - ranked Asian player in the latest global rankings.

Ever since Don Taylor's first Global Sentiment Survey in 2014, video has ranked high among learning professionals across the globe.

U.S. universities continue to dominate the lists of the world's top higher education institutions, with 46 U.S. institutions ranked in the global top 100 (according to Times Higher Educahigher education institutions, with 46 U.S. institutions ranked in the global top 100 (according to Times Higher EducaHigher Education).

Kent Pekel is taking a break from teaching global studies at a Minnesota high school to spend some time with experts on the subject: high - ranking officials of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Nevertheless, there is something to be learned from nations that continually score high in these global education rankings.

The K - 8 public charter school and 2015 Charter School of the Year has provided a global education to its Scottsdale students since it was founded in 2000 and is consistently ranked among the state's highest achieving schools.

The ad begins by citing a recent Wall Street Journal headline that reads, «U.S. High - School Students Slip in Global Rankings,» referring to the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results in which U.S. 15 - year - olds continued to underperform in the subjects of math, science, and reading comprehension relative to their international peers.

We would get rid of our messy, different 50 - state variations of standards, and make our kids smarter by incentivizing them to aspire to a higher bar of achievement, make them all college - ready, enable them to rank higher on international tests, and enable them to better compete in the new global economy.

Take the OECD Test for Schools We've all seen headlines like, «U.S. High - School Students Slip in Global Rankings,» (Wall Street Journal, Dec....

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

That's the verdict of the highest - ranking Australian in the global automotive industry, General Motors global design chief Michel Simcoe.

The next 1 Series is described by a high - ranking official as a distinct turning point for the German car maker, which last year surrendered the global luxury car sales lead to its key rival, Mercedes - Benz, for the second consecutive year.

She was voted 11th, the highest ranked woman, in the Global Intellectuals Poll — a list of the world's top public intellectuals compiled by Prospect Magazine, in conjunction with Foreign Policy Magazine.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

The Viney Shaw Agency enjoys an unusually high success rate obtaining contracts for its clients and we typically rank in the top fifty of all American or British literary agencies according to Publisher's Marketplace (the recognised publishing industry analysis of global English language deals).

It was a little place on Lake Atitlan, a high mountain basin in western Guatemala that Ann and I ranked among the most spectacular settings we'd seen in our global wanderings.

«In fact, highly engaged hotels receive almost four times more page views and are on average 63 % higher in popularity ranking than non-engaged hotels,» said Minesh Shah, senior director, global hotel partnerships, TripAdvisor.

This is the only game mode that awards Gold for wins and losses to buy booster packs, Conquest mode keys, and to discern your global High Command Rank!

Online leaderboards focus on the highest scores set by each player with each leaderboard containing each player's rank; name (PSN ID); and the highest score set by each player for each mission and a total combined score between every mission, while players can compare their positioning on the leaderboards with global players, friends and display your position within any given leaderboard.

Choose between 3 unique 3D worlds where you will get to blast your friends with your energy rocket launcher and compete over power - ups all while soaring through the air and climbing the ranks on the global high scores list.

These cards will offer hundreds of ways to customize your Rise of the Tomb Raider experience and rank higher on the global leaderboards.

You can view all of your personal and fighter records at any time, even compare your high scores and «Global Smash Power» (your global ranking) for each individual gameGlobal Smash Power» (your global ranking) for each individual gameglobal ranking) for each individual game mode.

Granted, while the globally averaged annual temperatures for the years since the record warm year of 1998 have not exceeded the 1998 record, the global temperatures since 1998 have remained high, ranking as the second, third and fourth warmest years of the last 125 years (and quit possibly the last 2,000 + years).

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This also appears to be true on a global scale... the places ranked the best to live year after year tend to be at high latitudes.

Besides China and India, Asia has a number of other countries that rank high in global coal markets, including five of the top coal importers (Japan, China, South Korea, India, and Taiwan).

Global temperature rises and extreme heat rank high on that list, but Hurricanes rank low.

Our withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and our record of having one of the world's highest per - capita GHG emissions gave us the dubious distinction of being the only country in the Centre for Global Development's rankings to have gone down since it first started tracking them in 2003.

Even among wealthy countries, most of which rank high or very high on the human development index (HDI), fighting global warming barely notches above the 10th most concerning issue.

On a scale from 1 - 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is of the highest importance, where would you rank global climate change in terms of its likely impact on human development?

A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes.

Environmental advocates — who now include media commentators and high - ranking politicians — frequently suffer from an unpleasant malady whenever they get talking about global warming.