Sentences with phrase «large number of nations»

(A large number of nations still need to ratify it.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

While this dwarfs the number of turbines in other countries, the energy demand of such a large nation is significantly higher.

Following conventional supply - demand logic, you might expect that on a weekend where large numbers of people clog the nation's highways, prices would indeed rise.

These were bold moves by the nation's largest pharmacy, which ranks as number seven on the Fortune 500 with revenues of $ 177 billion.

The deal, if approved, would create the nation's largest insurer in terms of enrollment, and reduce the number of large health insurers from five to three.

Immigration advocacy groups have said that ending the program would be a coldhearted step that would yield no benefit to the nation while endangering large numbers of young people raised in the United States who are seeking to work and pay taxes.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

The country has a large number of geothermal and hydroelectric power plants, which provide a massive electricity surplus to the island nation.

In total, 193,009 single family homes and condos were flipped, helping the number of investors to hit a nine - year high, according to new data from ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation's largest fused...

INDODAX Indonesia Digital Asset Exchange, or INDODAX — the largest Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange — is set to bypass the nation's century - old stock exchange in the number of users.

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

The United States» large number of churchgoers makes it unique among industrialized nations.

Concerned that large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, especially Jewish immigrants, were «polluting» the nation, anti-immigrant spokesmen like attorney Madison Grant asserted the whiteness of Jesus to justify calls for exclusionary legislation.

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

Within the new nation itself there were large numbers of those who were dissatisfied with their lot on the Atlantic coast.

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

But followers of the real JC must admit that, until recently, neither the Christian Church nor our nation's major political parties have been able to attract large numbers of young adults.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The large number of churches of eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America, have brought with them into the Council the hopes, the aspirations, and struggles of their peoples, races and nations.

We are a large nation; there are large numbers of very literate (historically, linguistically, mathematically, scientifically) people; there are also very large numbers or essentially semi-literate numbskulls.

Large numbers of people from other nations can not then be brought into any country without placing great strains on its own people and institutions.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

As an increased number of Australian businesses are looking to go the solar energy route, property developer Stockland recently partnered with Canada Solar to install the nation's largest si...

The Wildcats sit sixth in the nation in scoring with 41.8 points per game, thanks in large part to Tate's video - game numbers at the head of a multi-pronged rushing attack that also featured backs J.J. Taylor, Nick Wilson and Zach Green.

This is currently the largest number of Athletic Trainers (ATs) of any state in the nation.

The nation's largest professional organization for lactation professionals, the International Lactation Consultant Association, has become so alarmed by growing numbers of parents using Ezzo's «infant management program» with poor results that, at its recent international conference in July, the group offered a presentation to a standing - room - only audience on how to deal with «rigid approaches to care giving» in the clients that they see.

This doesn't begin to account for the large number of Catholic Majority countries that will have their citizens petition their governments hard to rally (The United States is one of the few Christian Majority Nations with a Catholic Minority... the rest are usually reversed).

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

A large number of New Yorkers believe doctors are to blame for the opioid epidemic gripping their communities and nation, according to a new Siena College poll.

Of course, this is entirely a dream world and has little to do with what communism actually is, yet a large number of youths in capitalist nations have somehow come to the conclusion that communism is preferablOf course, this is entirely a dream world and has little to do with what communism actually is, yet a large number of youths in capitalist nations have somehow come to the conclusion that communism is preferablof youths in capitalist nations have somehow come to the conclusion that communism is preferable.

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

A large number of New Yorkers believe doctors are to blame for the opioid epidemic gripping their communities and nation, according to a Siena College poll released Sunday.

The nation's largest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, will soon limit the number and strength of opioid drugs prescribed to first - time users as part of a wide - ranging effort to curb an epidemic affecting millions of Americans.

No modern nation with a significant urban population has attained prosperity without an industrial base capable of employing larger numbers of people and of manufacturing goods for domestic consumption and export.

Also participating were the Green Party and its gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, delegations from several colleges, environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, indigenous dancers in traditional garb and headgear, a number of out - of - state liberal organizations, activists from several foreign nations and a large complement of radical socialist and communist parties — all marching to the usual protest accompaniment of acoustic guitars, drums, horns and whistles.

In 2015 a different political party won the largest number of seats in each nation of the UK for the first time.

Still, faced with large numbers of immigrants from poorer countries, immigration officials in richer nations have increasingly been turning to X-rays as a «scientific» way to resolve age disputes.

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans also has to juggle an immense number of stakeholders and their needs when managing the Fraser sockeye: coastal fisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries in Canada.

The models predict that the number of people will be smaller in a richer world, as a larger number of developed nations result in lower birth rates.

A lack of high - tech talent, these critics warn, so threatens the nation's continued competitiveness that the U.S. must drastically upgrade its K - 12 science and math education and import large numbers of technically trained foreigners by promptly raising the current limit on the number of skilled foreigners allowed to enter the country to work in private industry.

Nations with the largest number of «gap species» or species whose range lie entirely outside of protected areas include the U.S., Canada, and Brazil.

Large numbers of overseas students make higher education the nation's third - largest export sector.

The panel also called for expanding the number of visas available for highly skilled technical workers, «to provide the nation and the DOD with a substantially larger pool of extraordinary talent in areas of need.»

A new study by researchers at Partners HealthCare, one of the nation's largest Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), shows that physician turnover and low numbers of enrolled patients play a key role in an ACO's ability to meet its financial targets.

The model is also expected to have the ability to be replicated in other healthcare centers across the nation, leading to large numbers of individuals with disabilities finding jobs.

Highly skilled clinical teams achieve some of the nation's best results for heart transplant recipients and care for a large number of patients who are considered high - risk, including patients who require a second transplant.

Ukraine, for example, has a large number of Criman Tatars, who have Asian descent as a nation.