Sentences with phrase «larger than the country»

That's larger than any country in Europe, including Germany.

First, governments must recognize that conventional forms of monitoring for protected areas are not tenable in parks that are larger than some countries.

Today Belize boasts 97 % literacy - larger than any country in the Western Hemisphere.

Then in 2011 sharks sanctuaries came fast and furious: Honduras became the first nation in the Americas to create a shark sanctuary, followed soon after by Chile and the Bahamas; then Tokelau in the Pacific declared a sanctuary in its waters; finally the Marshall islands created the world's largest sanctuary, spanning a total area larger than the country of Mexico.

Not exact matches

In late August, PetroChina, that country's largest oil producer, announced it seeks to boost its overseas production to half its total output (from about a tenth currently) in less than a decade through acquisitions.

Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

Shell — a cash machine that racked up $ 9 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2017; a colossus that employs 90,000 people in more than 70 countries; a corporation that, were it a nation, would have the world's seventh - largest carbon footprint, behind Germany; and the No. 7 company on Fortune's Global 500 list last year, with $ 240 billion in sales — is in an existential squeeze.

As the IMF has reported, we have better synchronization, meaning there are the largest number of countries who are growing now than we've ever seen.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

-- Ankit Somani, co-founder of AllyO, an artificial intelligence recruiting platform founded in 2016 by engineers from Google and MIT that's used by more than 50 large enterprises in more than 10 industries and available in multiple languages and countries

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

«That would be the equivalent of adding a country with an output larger than Germany to the global economy,» Lagarde said at a panel in Brussels on Wednesday, according to prepared remarks.

Less than a week after RHB Bank and AMMB Holdings received the regulatory go - head to start merger talks, the country's second largest lender CIMB Group said it sold a 50 percent stake in its stockbroking unit to China Galaxy Securities.

He pointed out that even de Souza had noted in her judgement that Brazil is the country with the second - largest number of WhatsApp users, out of more than a billion worldwide.

It evolved into the country's largest traffic sign manufacturer, with more than 300 employees working from nine locations in six provinces.

The Society for Human Resource Management http://www.shrm.org SHRM is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management, representing more than 250,000 members in more than 140 countries.

The world's most populous Muslim country and third - largest democracy with 238 million people, it has a per capita income more than double India's, a 90 % adult literacy rate and is energy independent.

With more than 21,000 stores in 66 countries, the world's largest coffee chain already had ample channels for selling new products.

Several large and as - yet uncontained wildfires have burned 1,500 homes and more than 53,000 acres in Napa County, as well as thousands of additional acres in Sonoma County — both of which comprise California's wine country.

Previously, he was CEO of the global Pizza Hut division, the world's largest pizza restaurant company with more than 16,500 restaurants in more than 100 countries outside China.

Over the past decade, Toronto has become the undisputed capital of Canadian innovation, with more than 600 startups, the country's largest cluster of universities and colleges pumping out research, and the deepest venture capital pockets in the land.

Why it's hot: Yogen Fruz has a large global presence with more than 1400 locations in over 46 countries.

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

The company surveyed more than 42,000 employees at tech companies across the country, and divided the list into large and small - to - mid-size winners.

Verizon Wireless is the country's largest cellphone carrier, and keeps growing faster than its competitors, thanks in large part to its vast, fast and highly - rated network.

Travelers are trying to figure out how to deal with new government rules placing an indefinite ban on electronic devices larger than smartphones from the cabins of commercial aircraft flying to both the United States and the United Kingdom from certain countries.

For many years to come, therefore, India will have a much larger group of working - age individuals than any other country on earth.

In January most large public companies adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a system already used in more than 100 countries (notably across the European Union and wide swaths of the Pacific Rim).

The company's successful push into original programming has resulted in it signing up more U.S. subscribers than country's largest cable companies combined.

Nearly 10 years later, he's proven to be more than capable of running the country's largest grocery - store chain.

Once the country's second largest U.S. electronics chain that boasted more than $ 12 billion in revenue, Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 protection in November with the hope of reorganizing and continuing to operate.

Li sees reforms to China's strict immigration policies as a necessary way to create a better environment for entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish in the country, which saw its economy grow larger than expected in 2017.

He has focused on trade relationships where other countries run large surpluses with the U.S., meaning they sell more to U.S. consumers than they buy from American companies.

Today Popeyes is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant chicken concepts with over 2,600 restaurants in the U.S. and 25 other countries around the world and its global footprint will complement RBI's existing portfolio of over 20,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and U.S. territories.

Revenue has grown to about $ 120 million, and it processes about $ 500 million a year in payment transactions, working with more than 15,000 retailers across the country and some of the largest retail brands in the world like Visa, MasterCard and Amazon.

Only five countries in the entire world boast economies larger than that of California — the $ 2.46 trillion juggernaut that represents 14 percent of the total U.S. economy.

More than half the countries with which Canada has free trade agreements are in the Americas, Trudeau said, and the hope is to add a deal with Latin America's largest trading bloc, Mercosur, to that tally.

Compare that to the US, a country about six times as large that has more than 160 times as many gun - related homicides.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

But the cruel irony is that any improvement in demand and output conditions in these three countries will partly leak out and benefit the euro area countries with large trade surpluses because their economies are running on exports rather than domestic demand.

Her family - owned travel empire encompasses over 800 hotels in 67 countries, one of the world's largest travel agencies, and more T.G.I. Friday's than you can shake a chicken finger at.

In 2014, the company grew by $ 700 million to achieve $ 5.8 billion in sales, making it larger than every pizza brand in the country, according to QSR magazine.

Restaurant Brands International Inc. («RBI») is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $ 30 billion in system - wide sales and over 24,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and U.S. territories.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

It's one of the largest telecoms in the world — it operates in more than 170 countries worldwide — and sells mobile, broadband, cable and fixed - line services.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has defended the country's economic policies, repeating that there was more opportunity than risk and vowing that there would be no hard landing for the world's second - largest economy if the government pressed ahead with reforms.

The fact that there are fewer large companies here than in some other countries I've worked in is irrelevant; those companies still want to make sure they can use technology in the best way to grow profits.