Sentences with phrase «industrialized nation in the world»

The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide working moms (or dads) with support during the vital first few months of a newborn's life.

In no other industrialized nation in the world are there so many gun deaths as in the United States.

«The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world to not offer paid family leave or sick leave,» said Heastie.

The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national paid leave program, Gillibrand said.

Diane responds after a bit of redirection and explains how we test more than any other industrialized nation in the world, including the top 10 performing nations as per international exams.

Not exact matches

Mindful of the growth in Latin American disposable income and a proliferation of bilateral trade agreements in the mid-1990s, Walker used his experience in the Mexican market to expand into brokering agricultural trade to Third World nations that were newly industrializing.

That's still a «healthy level,» says the report, but it signals that the U.S. will lose ground to developing nations, which are suffering far smaller declines in growth than the industrialized world.

The only difference between someone like Cristina and the Taliban, is one lives in an industrialized Christian nation, and one lives in a third world nation — the presumptuous and arrogant mindset is there though.

Nations are not policies, and America is a largely conservative society, unique in the industrialized world.

Schizophrenia has a more benign course and outcome in the developing world [than in the wealthy, industrialized nations].

Third World nations should be allowed to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

Three guiding ethical principals are suggested, including allowing Third World nations to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs of the industrialized nations.

Now the nation, along with the entire industrialized world, is in the midst of profound shifts in the very structure of the work force itself.

Why do the religious feel the need to spread their lies in schools, attempting to force science education out, and our country's standing even lower among the industrialized nations of the world?

The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's Web site states that breast - feeding within the first hour of birth «is the first and most vital step» toward reducing the nation's neonatal mortality rate — one of the highest in the industrialized wWorld Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's Web site states that breast - feeding within the first hour of birth «is the first and most vital step» toward reducing the nation's neonatal mortality rate — one of the highest in the industrialized worldworld.

In industrialized nations deaths were most likely to result from babies being born too small or too early, while in the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrheIn industrialized nations deaths were most likely to result from babies being born too small or too early, while in the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrhein the developing world about half of newborn deaths were from infection, tetanus and diarrhea.

«Business of Being Born»: «While the United States has perhaps the most advanced health care system in the world, it also has the second - highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation.»

This letter from the International Baby Food Action Network, in partnership with the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative Network of Industrialized Nations (BFHI), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League International (LLLI), World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) makes clear their insistence on clinging to old, discredited claims.

Kathleen Kendall - Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC Public health officials have been sounding the alarm about the «obesity epidemic,» not only in the U.S., but in industrialized nations around the world.

While infectious disease is the burden in poorly nourished children in less developed parts of the world, chronic disease is the scourge of industrialized nations.

And even as growth has slowed in the industrialized nations, the Third World is rushing full tilt into development.

Food is scarce in the developing world, and prices are soaring in industrialized nations.

RAND also found that the U.S. is the world's leading publisher of scientific journals and magazines and that Americans spend nearly twice as much pursuing graduate degrees in the science and related fields as other industrialized nations.

Released last month, the study — written by UNICEF's Innocenti Research Center in Florence, Italy — seeks to give a «big picture» analysis of educational performance in 24 of the world's industrialized nations.

According to the most recent calculations available, the United States stands at the 32nd rank in math among nations in the industrialized world.

The same can be said of all kinds of resources in Africa that have been continuously extracted through exploitative arrangements that, combined with disastrous geopolitics, support comfortable lifestyles in the industrialized nations and poverty and struggle in the developing world.

«We are one of the few — perhaps the only — industrialized, developed nations in the world that do not include a second or third language as part of the curriculum for all school - aged children.

Susan McGee Bailey: Clearly, all our students need strong preparation for the demands of a high - tech, global world, but international data such as those provided by TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) and PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) show U.S. students of both sexes performing in a mediocre fashion in comparison to their counterparts in other industrialized nations.

On the most recent PISA [4] exam, America ranked 32nd in math among participating nations in the industrialized world, [5] despite a significant increase in funding.

Overall the nation's students are still behind much of the rest of the industrialized world in academics.

Unlike the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which measures the performance of foreign stocks in smaller emerging countries, the EAFE Index concentrates on stocks in the larger, more industrialized nations of the world.

On one side are the world's industrialized nations, which largely built their wealth through a century of fossil - fuel combustion; on the other, those seeking a path out of poverty that, for the moment, has to depend on the same energy sources, and in many cases also on clearing forests.

More broadly one could just as easily highlight how though overwhelmingly climate change has been caused by actions of the rich nations of the world (with China and a few other newly - industrialized and highly - deforesting nations added in), it will be the poorest nations of the world which will bear the greatest burden.

Leaders from the «Group of 8» leading industrialized nations — United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia — agreed in L'Aquila last week that developed nations should aim to reduce emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 — a formula that essentially requires the developing world to make a 20 percent cut.

In the political climate engendered by environmentalism and its exploitation some wanted a new world order and believe this is achieved by shutting down the industrialized nations.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

Izrael said the council's statement had been issued after British scientists had said in a statement shortly prior to next week's G8 summit in Scotland that the world's eight leading industrialized nations should take responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries resolve related problems.

However, participation in the Copenhagen Accord still poses an imminent threat to the economic vitality of the industrialized world at a time when the economies of many of those nations are already reeling in the midst of recession.

CEED and its ilk found a receptive message on Capitol Hill, where the Senate unanimously opposed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, making the United States the world's only industrialized nation to ignore the threat of climate change.

This has ALREADY happened in the world of energy research, by the way - and as a result, the U.S. is taking last place in the industrialized nation's rush toward renewables - not that the press will talk that much about it.

The U.S. Congress begins a summer of important debates on the future of American energy policy — debates that the Group of Eight industrialized nations can help shape at their summit in Germany this week by focusing on the devastating impact high energy costs and climate change have on the world's most vulnerable populations.

In a sane world, the news that broke from Paris this week would have led front pages everywhere, as the major industrialized nations, responding to pressure from the poorest and most climate - threatened countries on Earth, voiced support for the goal of limiting warming to an improbable 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than a disastrous two degrees.

«Under the [carbon trading] system, projects that reduce emissions in the developing world produce carbon credits, which companies in industrialized nations can then buy to offset their own emissions.»

the region which will take part in the emissions reduction plan (the United States, or for the more optimistic, the industrialized nations of the world),

And millions die in third - world nations because they aren't allowed to use their fossil fuels to industrialize.

a nation of remarkably productive, often well - paid workers who are becoming increasingly reluctant to pause from their labors and refresh their souls — a nation whose cash - drenched corporate employers typically don't pay for much time off (less than two weeks annually, on average), a nation whose globe - gripping federal government is the only one in the whole industrialized world not to legally require generous periods of paid kick - back - and - hang time — is a nation that's socially screwed up, particularly in comparison with European countries like France, which orders its citizens outside to play for the entire month of August and a few other weeks spread through the year.

The G8 meeting last week — the last get - together of the leaders of the world's major industrialized nations before the United Nations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to Copenations before the United Nations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to CopeNations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to Copenhagen.

The fact that climate change is likely to deal its harshest blows to less developed nations is one of the cruel ironies about this issue — considering that it was largely the rich, industrialized world that emitted the greenhouse gases that caused the problem in the first place.

Remember that the, while GMO ingredients are labeled throughout Europe and in most of the world's industrialized nations, they are not mandated to be labeled in the US — and their makers have lobbied heavily to prevent such labeling, biotech giant Monsanto being the most public of these but not the only one by far.

Biotechnology law is becoming more complex in all industrialized nations of the world.