Sentences with phrase «in global proportion»

First recognized in 1978, two years later, it spread in global proportion.

Not exact matches

In our global economy, the GDPR affects a sizable proportion of all online businesses.

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

It is the view of this magazine that you should structure your global equity investments roughly in proportion with market capitalization, and so the table below can be used as a rough guide to breaking foreign asset allocation.

A lot of that has to do with the masterly media and marketing game she's been playing, pivoting from niche entertainer to unlikely global household name in a sort of product launch (or product relaunch) of blockbuster proportions.

This conclusion is especially poignant in light of the past century, when violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of abortion.

Oxfam are urging Australia's political parties to commit to a major increase in our foreign aid budget and the proportion of it that goes to working with small - scale producers, women especially, to tackle food insecurity in the global south.

According to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) the proportion of stillbirths in Namibia was 8 per 1 000 total births in 2014 — one of the lowest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa and below the global target of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030 set in the Every Newborn Action Plan endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2014.

The prime minister has realised that «Islamic finance is growing 50 % faster than traditional banking and when global Islamic investments are set to grow to # 1.3 trillion by 2014, we want to make sure a big proportion of that new investment is made here in Britain».

Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health.

«It was an event of global proportions,» says Liz Truswell, a paleontologist at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in pollen studies.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.»

SDGs are being developed to extend public health goals that were not achieved by the original Millennium Development Goals set by the UN in 2000, including cutting the proportion of the global population without access to safe sanitation in half by 2015.

Though arsenic contamination is deemed a health risk of global proportions by the World Health Organization, the magnitude of that risk is poorly known in many parts of the world.

However, the research team also mapped the proportion of global agricultural production reinvested in environmental incentives, and compared it to the proportion gifted to the industry through government subsidies.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

Ultimately, he wants the United States to retake a pre-eminent place in the global education arena by boasting the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.

The latest TES Teacher Recruitment Index from TES Global shows that schools filled a higher proportion of vacant posts during the Easter 2016 period than in any Easter period since 2012.

A global Jeep design for a rapidly growing global brand From the start, Jeep designers knew the Renegade would need to deliver best - in - class off - road capability with city - sized proportions that exuded the brand's rugged style while at the same time enhancing versatility, maneuverability and style.

Bold and powerful forms and proportions are, upon closer inspection, contrasted with aspects of traditional Japanese craftsmanship expressed in a contemporary way,» said Alfonso Albaisa, senior vice president of global design at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. «The exterior's combination of western and eastern concepts continues inside the Xmotion, where advanced connectivity and autonomous technologies mix with modern Japanese digital art and cultural craftsmanship.

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

Though the India - spec version will stay under four metres in length to avail the government's concessions, the proportions might be increased for the Korean manufacturer's other global markets.

Designed at Kia's studios in Frankfurt and Irvine, Calif., the all - new Optima is longer, wider and lower than the vehicle it replaces and is based on an all - new midsize platform that allowed for distinctive dimensions and proportions in the segment1 while also providing a unique canvas for Kia's global design team to pen a vehicle that stands apart from everything else in the segment.

Designed at Kia's studios in Frankfurt and Irvine, California, the all - new Optima is longer, wider and lower than the vehicle it replaces and is based on an all - new midsize platform that allowed for distinctive dimensions and proportions while also providing a unique canvas for Kia's global design team to pen a vehicle that stands apart from everything else in its segment.

Although the last Ebola outbreak was far from pandemic proportions (a global disease outbreak), the panic - level reactions in the western media to this currently West - African based epidemic gave many the impression that we were facing a crisis on the level of Spanish flu.

The relative value of all US assets will be a smaller proportion of global assets, though it will still likely be the largest share in the world.

XTrade is one of the Cypriot brokers who managed to rise to global proportions in their year - long career, and they made a name in the industry which stands for safe trading, professionalism, and technological advancement.

The effects, on a global proportion, are leading to a decline in certain species of very colorful fish.

As a newly graduated Strategist, you find yourself involved in a plot of global proportions.

Set in New York City's Times Square, the intimate one - person opera is scaled to dramatic proportions within this most public of settings, giving a candid and global voice to the social and cultural trauma of South African racial politics and migrant labor; a woman's anguish explodes on the streets of New York as an operatic monument to lamentation.

One of their strategies is to take legitimate peer - reviewed work out of context, blow it all out of proportion, or misrepresent it most falsely, to give the impression that it overthrows the reality of global warming when in fact such was never the intent or conclusion of the authors.

But a strong signal is found in proportions of both weaker and stronger hurricanes: the proportion of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has increased at a rate of ~ 25 — 30 % per °C of global warming after accounting for analysis and observing system changes.

The proportion of Americans in the «alarmed» segment increased by five percentage points over the past year, and is now comparable to proportion found in the fall of 2008, when the segments were first identified and global warming concern was at a high point nationally.

I quote: `'» Our surveys reveal a small decline in the proportion of people who believe global warming has been happening, from 84 percent in 2007 to 74 percent today,» Krosnick said.

OK, so are we not only looking for areas of ice retreat (which is obvious), but also getting a handle on the proportion of global ice that is in the I'm - Busy - doing - the - Absorbing - Latent - Heat - of - Fusion - Thing state?

 The survey also points to a decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity.

The net change over land accounts for 24 % of the global mean increase in precipitation, a little less than the areal proportion of land (29 %).

True that the number of plants will be in the thousands to provide a large proportion of global electricity supply.

The global mitigation requirement is divided into national obligations wedges that show the shares of the global mitigation requirement that would be borne by particular nations (or groupings of nations) in proportion to their share of the total global RCI.

Despite global population growth and economic crisis, absolute poverty — the proportion of people living on less than $ 1.25 a day — is falling in every region of the world.

Applying the GDRs framework, national emission reduction obligations are defined as shares of the global mitigation requirement, which is allocated among countries in proportion to their RCI.

This can effectively give investors a sense of what proportion of the company's investment plans may fail to deliver an acceptable return in the scenario of a world limited to 2 °C global warming outcome (i.e. which project capex is within budget and which is «unneeded»).

One hypothesis about global warming is that it is the result largely of increases in CO2 and H2O in some proportion as yet undetermined.

Since the proportions in Australia deeply concerned about the possibly catastrophic effects of anthropogenic global warming (however much warming there actually is) are probably about the same as in the USA, how is it that President Trump can ignore something in his country that no one in ours seems to be able to do?

Most energy experts see coal making up a shrinking proportion of global energy production in the coming decades.

Global SLR may be entirely irrelevant in areas of rapid or major subsidence or regions experiencing sea surface height increases out of proportion to Global SLR.

The European bloc also suggested that two - thirds reduction of energy sector emissions — which account for the highest proportion of global emissions — in developing countries should be on its own through domestic financing and private investment.

«since 1975 there has been a substantial and observable regional and global increase in the proportion of Cat 4 — 5 hurricanes»

Despite attention on global warming, «fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980» and «SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country.»