Sentences with phrase «in a few countries where»

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

Some worry that mining will become concentrated in a few countries where electricity is cheap, such as China, allowing a hostile government to seize control of bitcoin.

Not exact matches

Shkreli's basic modus operandi in the biopharma sphere was to take niche drugs in treatment spaces where U.S. patients have few options (although those medicines may very well have been approved and available in other countries) and bring them to market, after which he'd maintain carte blanche on the products» prices.

It's a huge feat in a country where illiteracy is high and fewer than 10 % of the population has a bank account.

Canada is actually one of the few countries where that's the expectation; in most other jurisdictions, the momentum on both measures is downward.

«In our country, we've come to a place where very few people serve — less than 1 percent — and it's almost created a separate little society where people don't know each other the way they used to,» said Roth - Douquet.

Import penetration from countries that export relatively cheap goods to us remains high compared to where it was 20 years ago, but it has actually come down in the past few years.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

In the few countries including the U.K., Australia, and Canada where the redesign is widely available, 83 percent of App Store reviews (1,941) for the update are negative with one or two stars, according to data provided to TechCrunch by mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower.

A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful telescopes are).

From Reuters: In Germany... one of the few countries where prostitution is legal, and unusually transparent, the industry has responded with an economic stimulus package of its own: modern marketing tools, rebates...

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

The Middle East, north Africa, South and South East Asia are full of non-evolutionist Muslim believers, while Central and Southern Africa, North America, and many countries in South America, the Pacific rim, and a few countries in Europe (Europe is where the most evolutionists / non-religious are found) are mainly Christian.I do not know where Bill gets his facts from.

Few in the world are more aware of the need for peace than the residents of this continent where violence is woven into the fabric of daily life in several countries.

They assume that as long as few U.S. boys return in body bags, the U.S. people will tolerate their government's questionable, illegal, even ghastly policies in third - world countries where nonwhites do the dying.

On a Monday when we're all waking up to a country where the president and NFL players have become sworn enemies in less than a week, one thing that can be said for certain is that very few minds have been changed over this exchange.

Each location is designed similarly — give or take a few thousand square feet — so no matter where patrons are in the facility they can see and feel, if not smell and taste, wine country.

I live in one of the few countries where Almond Roca isn't readily available.

How could he sustain an American's need for control in a country where strikes stopped the mail and public transportation every few weeks, where shops closed unexpectedly and the owners hoarded goods because they couldn't keep up with the 4,000 % inflation?

i don't think Real has the same clout as they did few years ago, there seams to be a bee line to the EPL it fast becoming the top country to be playing in, its where the money is right now,

Courses the likes of the Ritz - Carlton Members Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla, Old Warson Country Club in Rockville, Md and Lakewood Country Club in Dallas Tx are just a few tracks where players will either see their dreams realized or crushed in a matter of hours.

As a result, compared to other countries, like the USA, where it has been practiced for much longer, there are relatively few homeschoolers in our country.

If you live in a part of the country where winter weather shuts stuff down, chances are school will be called on account of snow at least a few times between Thanksgiving and Easter.

But see what happens to these rates in countries where birth is treated as a normal event, where there are fewer interventions, and where women have continuous labor support.

This is one of the few countries in the world where breastfeeding is not considered fashionable after six to twelve months of age.

Here are a few other commonly reported irritants in diets: excessive caffeine (including chocolate); flavorful spices such as garlic, curry, cumin, and cinnamon (interestingly enough, women in countries where spicy foods are a staple don't seem to report these problems on average); highly acidic foods like tomatoes, citrus fruits and their juices; gas producing vegetables like onions, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage, bell peppers, and cucumbers; and very spicy foods.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

If you live outside the US in a country where the drug Domperidone (Motilium) is approved, it may also be used for low supply and seems to have far fewer side effects than Reglan.

This is supported by fewer health problems in countries where rice is a much larger part of the diet, such as in Japan.

A «country that works for everyone», is a country where the government does not allow private interests to come before the public interest, where access to power is democratic and not something enjoyed only by a privileged few through expensive lobbying, where in fact people can work hard and get on in life whatever the circumstances of their birth.

Beyond a few places where obviously the card reader was by - passed as evidenced in the kind of figures shown as indicated in our reports of the 2015 elections, if we examine critically the credible margin of election results, figures from recent elections and the more recent ones in Kogi and Bayelsa, from those declared, showing a reasonable and realistic reflection of voter turn - out, which are credible, dignified figures, we can say hopefully today that the era of invidious moon - slide and landslide bogus election results are fast becoming a thing of the past in this country.

«There are few countries in the world where you can go, in one generation, from immigrant to parliamentarian.

New York is one of the few states in the country where someone can win the nomination of a party without being a member.

The former president made the call in Kenya where he has been over the past few days for a series of talks and meetings with key individuals in that country's private sector.

Dear Mr High Commissioner, it won't probably occur to you that what you call corruption or SOLI is just a way to survive in a country where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for excountry where the media is not financed by Government or by a Stock Exchange floating shares, but by individuals trying to balance poor revenues from advertising in a Country declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for exCountry declared HIPC until some few months ago and with a very high operating cost (think about the electricity for example).

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

One of the very few places in the country where the Lib Dems actually managed to improve their number of councillors was Poole, which saw the Conservatives lose control.

[38] The Mirror's continued support of the Labour government was in spite of its falling popularity over the previous few months which had been the result of the Winter of Discontent, where the country was crippled by numerous public sector strikes.

Development was a key campaign issue in Amherst, where reuse of the former Westwood Country Club remains a pressing consideration for the Town Board and where developers seeking to build on the town's few remaining pockets of green space run up against neighbors who complain about the effects on traffic and quality of life.

In 2010 the Lib Dems won an overall majority on the borough council and this was one of the few places in the country where the orange vote held up strong at the 2012 local elections when the national party's dalliance with power was alienating supporters almost everywhere elsIn 2010 the Lib Dems won an overall majority on the borough council and this was one of the few places in the country where the orange vote held up strong at the 2012 local elections when the national party's dalliance with power was alienating supporters almost everywhere elsin the country where the orange vote held up strong at the 2012 local elections when the national party's dalliance with power was alienating supporters almost everywhere else.

There are still many countries in Africa where infrastructure and development is limited to the capital and a few urban centres, while the rest of the population lives in squalor without adequate access to essential social services.

«I have only a few, in fact not more than 10,000 of them left in the entire globe where they have been schooling in the US, UK, Asian countries and South Africa — they have graduated and have come home.»

And I believe that when Bawumia finishes with us, that fact will become even clearer; and therefore in means that those of us in the NPP committed to advancing and deepening Ghana's democracy, that has been our historic mission; that we have a huge responsibility to persuade our people in all peace and serenity and in dignity to make a historic choice on the 7th of December, to put away the four years of stagnation and backwardness and usher in a new era where Ghanaian prosperity is not going to be confined to a few people in the oligarchy, but spread through the nation and amongst all the people of our country.»

McCracken has seen a few trends in question types in the countries where he's run this program.

In the Netherlands, heavy rains cause relatively little damage compared to countries in Central Europe, where nature has been reduced and few space for rivers is kept freIn the Netherlands, heavy rains cause relatively little damage compared to countries in Central Europe, where nature has been reduced and few space for rivers is kept frein Central Europe, where nature has been reduced and few space for rivers is kept free.

The largest emissions savings would be in oil and gas exporting countries, where fewer poor people would be affected, and subsidy removal can be aided by currently low oil prices.

In developing or war - ravaged countries where government censuses are few and far between, gathering data for public services or policymaking can be difficult, dangerous or near - impossible.

The United Kingdom, Israel, and Sweden are among the few countries where stem cell isolation from superfluous in - vitro - fertilized embryos is allowed.

However, IBD is rare in parts of the world where helminths are prevalent, and it is surging in more developed countries, where few people now carry the intestinal intruders.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.