Sentences with phrase «higher than the world»

Similarly, in all but one of the earlier widenings, Australia's inflation rate was higher than the world average, and again on two occasions, we were running a significant budget deficit.

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

During a pilot study in 2009, Fernández found one shop in Huepetuhe where mercury averaged 450 micrograms per cubic meter of air — 22 times higher than the World Health Organization's occupational health standard — with spikes as high as 1,000.

The sediments in these slow - water areas were less than 10 years old in places, and they were releasing arsenic into groundwater at concentrations exceeding 1,000 micrograms per liter, 100 times higher than the World Health Organization considers safe.

This is about three times higher than the world average.

Which is a shame, because the stakes are much higher than the World Series.

A personal Earth Overshoot Day earlier than August 2 means your demand on nature is higher than the world average.

The Cinebench rendering test result doesn't just clobber Intel's Core i9 - 7900X, it's almost 500 points higher than the world record AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X set in February 2017.

Not exact matches

Shell is listed on the London Stock Exchange with a market cap of 193 billion pounds — more than any other listed corporation on the exchange and one of the highest of any company in the world.

«Their economies are actually growing more than other economies, their quality rating is higher, the debt to GDP is much lower than the industrialized world.

The world's «easy oil» has been depleted, Grantham argues, and current high inventory levels will be used up sooner than the market expects — assuming reasonable global GDP growth.

Student - loan debt is a ticking time bomb for our economy: It's higher than ever before, and it may be preventing some of the best and brightest young graduates from making their mark in the world of entrepreneurship.

With the West's infrastructure falling apart, we envy their vast network of high - speed railway lines — more extensive than in the rest of the world combined — never mind the 5,000 kilometres to be laid over the next two years alone.

Flight times between the world's major cities would be drastically reduced, therefore reducing the «convenience premium» — whereby property prices in cities like London are higher than New York because of their proximity to Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the rest of Europe.

In today's cloud - based, mobile - focused, inherently social world, customers demand a higher level of responsiveness than ever before: they expect businesses to provide what they want, when and how they want it.

In this uber - competitive and fast paced business world we have created, the expectations are higher than ever for innovative companies that move with the needs of the consumer.

Asia and Latin America are not risk - free, but «there seems to be sense in buying equities in these regions on similar or lower valuations than their counterparts in the developed world given that dividend growth is likely to be superior, given higher economic growth potential.»

Last year, Rolls - Royce had its second - highest sales numbers ever, delivering more than 4,000 cars to wealthy customers around the world.

When Porras founded El Faro in 1998, he knew he had to offer more than just beans to break into the high - end coffee world.

While that's higher than peers such as Nikon and Canon, which have sales multiples closer to 1, it's still quite low compared to the valuations of other companies in the tech world.

If you live in a first world country, you more than likely have a chance to take advantage of these various high - tech services.

So, in a world with high inequality, poorer people save less than they would in a low - inequality alternative world.

In the real world: Pembina claims actual reclamation costs could be 24 times higher than the funds available in the EPSF — leaving Albertan taxpayers «vulnerable to major financial risks.»

More diversified than Visa (v), Mastercard gets a higher proportion of its revenue from outside the U.S., positioning it to win as consumers around the world switch from cash to electronic payments and from bricks and mortar to e-commerce, says Greg Dunn, comanager of the Thornburg International Growth Fund.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

«The continued growth of small and independent brewers illustrates that additional market opportunities and demand are prevalent, although competition in the sector is certainly growing and the need for brewers to differentiate and produce world class high quality beer is more important than ever.»

The Conservatives could get away with this as long as the Canadian economy fared better than the rest of the world, with relatively low unemployment, relatively high wages and no sign of the housing market crash that doomsayers» predicted.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Thus it's in the capital, Bern, where you'll have a higher probability than most people in the world to get through any crisis.

The only difference is that he happens to jet around the world far more than an average high schooler.

The new U.S. estimate of world shale gas resources at 7,299 trillion cubic feet is 10 percent higher than a previous estimate made in 2011.

Seven years on, their collective real debt is the highest recorded since the 1830s — even higher than the peaks reached to finance the first and second World Wars.

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.

Should world GDP grow anywhere close to the IMF's medium term forecast in the high 3 percent range, oil demand growth will rise by closer to 2 million b / d than 1 million b / d by our reckoning.

«Asset values such as the stock market are at all - time highs, every major industry around the world last year grew by more than 20 percent, volatility is at an historic low.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

Furse noted that money raised from initial public offerings on the LSE and its secondary market AIM, totaling 29 billion pounds ($ 57.4 billion), was the highest in the world and more than that of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq combined.

I was one of the highest - ranked World of Warcraft players in North America, with a gaming blog that had more than 10,000 daily readers.

In fact, this kind of negotiated tax increase might be a far preferable outcome for the world's savers, investors and high - income earners than the increasingly likely alternative: persistent uncertainty over the global financial system or the consummation of that uncertainty in an asset - value - destroying economic downturn.

The company has particularly targeted this campaign at developing countries like India where, according to the World Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the wWorld Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the worldworld.

Rent prices in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area — already among the highest in the world — have risen by more than 8 % in 2015 alone.

Among the IPOs that rank higher than Facebook's, according to Renaissance Capital, are Visa Inc.'s $ 17.9 billion IPO in March 2008, the largest for a U.S. company, and world - topper Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., which raised $ 19.3 billion in July 2010.

Many of the high - growth software companies that have been transforming the tech industry since their founding have been waiting to capitalize until much longer than we've previously seen — although I expect this tide will start to turn by early Q2, and we should see many of these high quality companies reveal their financial strength to the public world.

In particular, she was captivated by the high - tech moguls, some not much older than herself, who had the ability to forge new types of electronic ties that left people better connected to one another and to the world.

So it may come as no surprise that the top five highest - earning elected women serving in governments worldwide, as surveyed by British financial service firm IG Group, coincidentally happen to earn less than their elected male counterparts in an all - gender list of of elected, appointed and lifetime world leaders.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

«Noel Lee is a man who knows sound better than [sic] most anyone in the world; and I know what gamers need to compete at the highest level,» Wendel says.

With operations around the world — three wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe, majority ownership in a joint venture in Japan, and distribution agreements with independent contractors in other nations — Wind River faces corporate tax rates that can be much higher than those for companies that operate only in the United States.