Sentences with phrase «last in the nation»

UVA ranks dead last in the nation in pace — No. 351 overall — and UMBC did well to get the game moving up and down.

«The fact that New York State is the last in the nation to still ban mixed martial arts is something we should be proud of,» Krueger said.

In his speech, Astorino painted the opposite picture, saying the state remains dead last in the nation in many key economic statistics.

In addition, by setting forth several annual increases and taking the historic step of indexing the maximum benefit in the future, we have ensured that never again will our state's benefit fall to its current last in the nation status in terms of wage replacement.

«We in New York are one of the last in nation in voter turnout because our legislature and Governor has refused to pass laws that break down barriers to voting.

«From his delusional declarations about New York's business friendliness (we're ranked last in the nation), to his snarky response about the FBI's investigation into his hiring practices, to his bizarre lecture to a female journalist about sexual harassment that one of his top aides was guilty of, we once again witnessed the arrogance and obfuscation of a Governor whose administration is in crisis,» the state GOP committee said.

In 2010, New York ranked last in the nation for voter turnout, with only 32 percent of the 13.4 million eligible voters actually exercising their constitutional right.

Utah ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending, and Innovations gets the same relative pittance as Salt Lake City's conventional high schools: $ 3,100 per student for operating costs and $ 3,200 for facilities - related costs.

It's an embarrassment that California, the state that led the technology revolution in America, is, according to Digital Learning Now, last in the nation in using technology to transform its education system from its current factory - model roots into a student - centric one.

Arizona ranks second - to - last in the nation for its efforts to improve teacher quality.

Yet sadly, Mississippi is usually ranked last in the nation for academic achievement and the quality of our public schools.

Much has been accomplished to reform our last in the nation education system, but there is still much to do.

Educators in Detroit's public school system face a tough reality: Detroit Public School students are last in the nation among urban students proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and fifty - seven percent of Detroit children under the age of 17 live in poverty.

Reports of Smith's speech say, «He was critical of perennial and generic requests for more school resources and the «same old tired statistic» that Utah ranks last in the nation in per - student education funding.»

Idaho ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending.

California's low - income students rank next to last in the nation in 4th - grade math.

However, we have major challenges, none greater than our last in the nation education system.

CA teachers did support Prop 30, which helped bring California COL adjusted educational spending per pupil from last in the nation to almost last in the nation.

For example, pessimists like to point out that per - pupil spending in Utah is last in the nation to paint the most dire picture possible.

Even if it passes, Utah schools would climb from last in the nation in per - pupil spending all the way up to 49th.

In a Jan. 14 Commentary piece («Dismal outlook for R.I. Latinos demands action») Central Falls Superintendent Victor Capellan shared his thinking on the Annie E. Casey report ranking Rhode Island last in the nation for opportunities for success for Latino children.

Yet it is worth noting that the public - school systems in Montgomery County and the neighboring District of Columbia both spent about $ 15,000 per student in the 2007 - 2008 school year — and while Montgomery County has obviously gotten a respectable return on its investment, D.C. has performed dismally, ranking dead last in the nation on 2007 and 2009 NAEP math and reading scores for fourth graders.

The so - called «Mangan Report,» presented to Illinois Vision 20/20, stated that «Illinois ranks second to last in the nation for state share of public school budget revenue; as a result, significant discrepancies across the state's nearly 900 school districts exist in terms of teacher quality, building infrastructure, and educational materials, such as technology.»

Mississippi students rank among the last in the nation; this is true when comparing Mississippi's poor students to other poor students as well as its non-poor students to other non-poor students.

Oklahoma ranks dead last in the nation in teacher pay.

The 10 - minute documentary spotlights children living on tribal lands who as a whole, are the last in the nation in reading and math proficiency and have -LSB-...]

Right now, Illinois is last in the nation in providing school funding to our neediest students.

After years of being nearly last in the nation for its participation in the federal School Breakfast Program, New Jersey is showing strong improvements.

Utah remains last in the nation in per - pupil spending.

This was our first school shooting in Broward County, but it must be the last in this nation!

Not exact matches

North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

HAVING spent three days at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) confer - ence in Brisbane last week, it is probably appropriate for me to report on the state of the nation, insofar as financial planners are concerned.

Western Australia is the only state in the nation expecting better Christmas trading than last year, according to a report released today.

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.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

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.

Australia was one of 11 nations that signed on to the successor to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal in Chile last night, just more than a year after the United States pulled out of the original deal.

In the last month, there have been mass street protests, and a global network of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, has joined the call for Mr. Najib's resignation.

«I want to compliment the Chinese for the changes they've made in the last three months, they've supported both of the resolutions passed by the United Nations Security Council and I believe they're working hard to enforce the sanctions,» he said.

In all, the pay of the CEOs of the nation's six largest banks — which also includes Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley (ms), and Wells Fargo (wfc)-- rose to $ 123 million last year, with an average of $ 20.5 million for each exec.

Fewer than 100 miles of ocean separate the U.S. and Cuba, but the nations have spent the last five decades in different worlds.

«Imposing tariffs or putting up trade barriers may sound good, but it will hurt our economy and credibility,» said Wendy Cutler, the former acting deputy U.S. Trade Representative who helped lead U.S. negotiations in the 12 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership trade deal last year.

«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Last July, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw and promised to help wean the nation off Russian energy imports.

But while 2014 predictions bode well for host nation Russia's performance — forecast to achieve a total haul of 25 medals, 10 more than their total in the last winter games in 2010 — the same can not be said for the U.K. team.

The nation added 217,000 jobs in May to reach the milestone, though the unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 6.3 % and U.S. employment still needs to catch up with the growth of the population and labor force that has occurred since the recession began.

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump's plan last year, saying a fence built along Israel's border with Egypt has been a «great success» in keeping out migrants, mainly from African nations.