Sentences with phrase «larger than the nation»

In contract negotiations, Third World governments often deal with corporations whose incomes are larger than that nation's gross national product.

This was the only visible Protestant organization larger than the nation, the only group claiming a loyalty above and beyond the nation.

But as the granddaddy of the major social networks, Facebook boasts more than 2.2 billion users — nearly 30 percent of the world's population, a community vastly larger than any nation.

Not exact matches

When that happens, the demographic pinch is likely to force China's economy to switch from low - cost exporter to advanced welfare state faster than any large nation has ever done before.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

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.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

Since then, their Toronto - based startup, Viral Nation, has evolved into one of the largest social - media marketing firms in the world, on track to generate more than $ 15 million (U.S.) in 2018 sales, according to the founders.

We also contacted Allete, a company whose Minnesota Power (MP) utility serves more than 140,000 state residents and «some of the nation's largest industrial customers.»

Great weather and Hollywood are two of L.A.'s biggest draws, but for entrepreneurs in the nation's second largest city, there's more than meets the eye.

Citigroup Inc., the nation's fourth - largest bank, said in March it plans to prohibit retail chains that are its customers from offering bump stocks or selling guns to anyone who hasn't passed a background check or is younger than 21.

While meal kits represent less than 1 % of total food and beverage retail sales in the U.S., the nation's largest food manufacturers are paying attention to how this new subcategory can change how people buy their food.

The move marks the first time in more than five years that Verizon, the nation's largest carrier in terms of total subscribers, will have an unlimited offering.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

Top American schools are also welcoming first years from a larger segment of nations than ever.

(NB: Some entries, like Macau, Jersey, Hong Kong and Gibraltar, are semi-autonomous regions of larger states rather than nations in their own right.)

«This is the only chance we will have to make history right,» says Charlie Okeese, a counsellor and former chief of the Fort Hope First Nation, a community larger than Marten Falls but farther away from the prime mining targets.

All told, the nation's five largest banks are now worth nearly $ 1 trillion, which is slightly less than the GDP of Mexico, the world's 15th largest economy.

Both companies said they are accelerating shale drilling in the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico, the largest U.S. oilfield, helping to lift the nation's output so far this year to more than 10 million barrels per day, a new record.

Simon Property Group, the nation's largest mall operator, essentially invented the department - store anchor model, and did more than any other company to popularize it.

His last job there entailed running the bank's more than 5,000 branches, then the largest network in the nation.

As the nation's single largest employer, with more than 1.5 million workers, acquiring an insurer could ostensibly help Walmart bring down health costs for its own workforce.

In less than seven years, Kimbrell has built the largest asbestos - consulting company in the nation.

More than 80 nations have such banks, with China's by far the largest.

Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is the nation's largest military officers» association with more than 350,000 members from every branch of uniformed service, including active duty, retired, National Guard, Reserve, and former officers and their families and survivors.

Pure Barre is the largest, most established barre franchise in the nation, with more than 460 studios throughout the U.S. and Canada, and more studios opening each month.

JULY 2012: Mitchell Anderson, as part of a larger project in collaboration with Tides Canada reporting on Canada's transition to cleaner energy, travels to Norway and a files widely read stories on how that nation has gained far more wealth from its oil reserves than has Alberta.

With more than $ 315 billion under management, CSIM is one of the nation's largest asset management companies, the third largest provider of index mutual funds and the fifth largest provider of ETFs.

Others, such as Suncorp Bank, the nation's fifth largest mortgage lender, are circulating a confidential list of 39 Brisbane postcodes covering more than 100 city and metropolitan suburbs where the new lending restrictions will apply from next Monday.

At the same time, capital flows have grown to become several times larger than trade flows, with merchandise trade only accounting for just over 1 percent of daily foreign - exchange trading volume, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

With more than $ 280 billion under management, CSIM is one of the nation's largest asset management companies, the third - largest provider of retail index funds, and a top 10 provider of exchange - traded funds (ETFs) and money market funds.3 Aguilar joined CSIM in 2011 and is responsible for equity and asset allocation mutual funds, ETFs, and separately managed accounts.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

Min Investment: $ 11,025 Sears Holding Corp. is the nation's largest provider of home services with more than 13 million service and installation calls made annually.

P&G is already the nation's largest television advertiser, while Gillette spends almost $ 1 billion a year on ads, primarily targeting men rather than P&G's traditional female customer.

Like Egypt, it is a large Muslim nation and home to extremist groups like Jemaah Islamiyah that is more shadowy and violent than Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

The administration reiterated the president's intention to pursue new trade deals in talks with individual nations rather than large groups.

Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can't find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation.

We are a far larger nation with far greater resources than any of those you're describing.

(WWM) Less than a week after Niger's president marched alongside dozens of world leaders in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Muslim protests in Niger have claimed the lives of 10 people and destroyed more than 70 Christian churches in the desert nation's two largest cities.

The East African nation, which with 36 million Orthodox Christians make it the world's second - largest Orthodox population are also more likely than Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe to wear religious symbols (93 per cent vs 64 per cent), to say they believe in God with absolute certainty (89 per cent vs 56 per cent), and to tithe (57 per cent vs 14 per cent).

There is a much stronger sense of community in countries that have a large indigeneous population and a deeper shared sense of belonging to the natural order than there is in Western nations that have experienced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

If 5 % of everything is complete crap, wouldn't the largest religion in the world have a lot more individuals that are bad for the group's PR than our own nation?

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).

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

First, in economic terms, many of them are larger than most nations.

The new nation which arose to the north of the United States, in British North America, while much smaller in population than its neighbor, had a larger percentage which claimed a church connection.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

In response, Nigeria's largest confederation of Christian churches is, for the first time, jointly endorsing a commitment to revive churches in the West African nation's north before they collapse from a decade of violence that has killed thousands of Christians and driven away more than 1 million.