Sentences with phrase «industrial nations and world»

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Publisher's Weekly called it «a successful exploration of Scotland's disproportionately large impact on the modern world's intellectual and industrial development,» through the work of some of the nation's great thinkers, from Adam Smith to David Hume.

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

South Korea's decision to invest in heavy industry — including shipbuilding, automobiles, steel, and electronics — and to put much of the nation's productivity under the control of large industrial groups, or chaebol, reflected government policies that mimicked Japan's zaibatsu — similar groups that controlled much of its economy through the end of World War II.

The two leaders said they had discussed several pressing international issues, including the Mideast peace process, trade and preparations for a coming summit of the world's leading industrial nations in Northern Ireland.

Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin will chair the Group of 20 (G20)-- a new organization of industrial and emerging nations that will work to improve the world financial system.

Industrial Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs in the nation, Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), U.S. News and World Report, 2016

The Aerospace Industries Association, a trade organization for the aerospace and defense industry, recognizes this challenge: the AIA's Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry recommends «that the nation immediately reverse the decline in, and promote the growth of, a scientifically and technologically trained U.S. aerospace workforce,» adding that «the breakdown of America's intellectual and industrial capacity is a threat to national security and our capability to continue as a world leader.»

As it became clear that the ideas of development advocated by Third World nations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worlnations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the WorlNations to the IMF and the World Bank.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Finance ministers from the EU and the eight leading industrial nations are due to meet later this week, while the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is reconvening at the end of the month to try to reach a deal in the Doha round of talks, which began in 2001.

The U.S. R&D enterprise has contributed enormously to the quality of American life, to the nation's health and security, and to its world leadership in many areas of industrial technology.

The U.S. R&D enterprise contributes enormously to the quality of American life, to the nation's health and security, and to our world leadership in many areas of industrial technology.

His home was among the most industrial and polluted communities in the nation, routinely blasted by burning gases and thick smoke from the refinery, and next to chemical plants, a commercial port frequented by huge diesel ships and a slew of shuttered factories left over from the city's World War II shipbuilding days.

Genzyme, for example, is committed to developing innovative therapies for diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness that have largely disappeared in the industrial nations but affect millions in Third World countries.

The discovery involved ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, which provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development, and ORNL's Titan supercomputer, the nation's most powerful for open science — a one - two punch for illuminating the physical properties of potential drugs that inform new design principles for safer, improved delivery platforms.

Of course, the rest of the world does not consist merely of other industrial nations, and poor countries in the grip of the AIDS crisis want antiretroviral therapies at a price they can afford.

Regrettably at a wasted cost of several trillions of dollars and having left much of the developed world with a deficient energy production system and handed industrial soverienty over to the developing nations.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

The first mini-course reviews the history and politics of American education, asking the question: «Why did a nation that had the finest education system in the world slip to the industrial world average?»

Jaguar Land Rover has signed a letter of intent with the Nation Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP) in Saudi Arabia which is the world's largest producer of aluminum as well as the cheapest, due to high availability of raw material (bauxite) and cheap energy sources.

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Europe is enjoying a fragile peace between its own nations, which lasts up until the First World War, and it is this peace which nurtures the second industrial revolution.

Instead of a World War II influence, the game is inspired by the European industrial revolution and focuses on a war of liberation between two vastly different nations.

HOI players control all aspects of their chosen nation during World War II: army, navy, and air force; diplomacy, espionage, scientific research, industrial output, and domestic politics.

I think it's presumptuous of the Elite Industrial nations to try and impose their will on the developing world in this regard.

-- Does anyone think that the world will suddenly plan and carry out a 6 % or more shrinkage of the world economy, or a 10 % or more shrinkage of the industrial nations» economies?

Since pollution prevention laws in the US and other first world nations resulted in a lowering of such aerosols after the period in question, the steep runup in temperatures during the last 20 years of the 20th century is then explained by the unleashing of heretofore suppressed CO2 emissions, no longer inhibited by industrial aerosols.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences founded by Abraham Lincoln back in the 19th century, all the national academies of all of the major industrial nations around the world have all gone on record as stating clearly that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate through our continued burning of fossil fuels.

Based on the latest science, most of the world's nations agreed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 that industrial nations should cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and the treaty was modified last year to require further reductions in emissions to levels well below those of 1990, over the next 10 to 15 years.

US and Canadian pollution is very different form Old World economies or developing industrial nations.

The overwhelming message of the world scientists, the US National Academy of Sciences, all the national academies of all the industrial nations, all the scientific societies in the US that have weighed in on the matter, all on record as being convinced by the many lines of evidence that human - caused climate change is real, and it's a threat.

However, there is much proof that development of sprawling, unreliable, subsidized, mandated industrial wind factories has been vastly detrimental across the nation and the world.

Most industrial activity and food - growing is located near the coast of these nations — accounting for 56 percent of GDP for the region according to the World Bank.

I think that is a crucial point, because these actions are likely to include measures which involve greater concerted world action, curtailing the freedoms of individuals, companies and nations, and curbing some kinds of industrial activity, potentially risking economic growth.

ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 2.7 quadrillion Btu * (0.7 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 36.4 million metric tons of carbon (0.6 % of world carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 73.2 million Btu (vs. U.S. value of 351.0 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 1.0 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 9,226 Btu / $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.12 metric tons of carbon / thousand $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.17 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Industrial (48.6 %), Transportation (23.7 %), Residential (18.8 %), Commercial (8.8 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (44.8 %), Transportation (32.7 %), Residential (16.2 %), Commercial (6.2 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Natural Gas (45.2 %), Oil (36.3 %), Coal (1.5 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (2000E): Oil (48.1 %), Natural Gas (49.3 %), Coal (2.5 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 393 trillion Btu * (0.5 % decrease from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 5.6 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed June 12, 1992 and ratified on March 11, 1994).

These actions are likely to include measures such as greater concerted world action, curtailing the freedoms of individuals, companies and nations, and curbing some kinds of industrial activity, potentially risking economic growth.

After World War II, rapid gains in life expectancy in developing countries began to narrow the gap between these nations and industrial countries.

In June 2005, the science academies of the world's leading industrial and developing countries signed an unprecedented joint statement, declaring that «the threat of climate change is real and increasing,» and calling on all nations to take «prompt action.»

Worsening climatic and coastal impacts are almost inevitable unless the world's industrial nations significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

Chicago was the nation's second largest city for many years and played a major role in the U.S. economy during the Industrial Revolution and both World War I and II.