Sentences with phrase «less than other countries»

Though the salary you can expect is likely less than some other countries (often coming at around # 1000 - # 2000 a month), the cost of living is relatively cheap and people can look to save around # 400 a month.

These consistencies extended to overall academic achievement variances, being significantly less than other countries, even with the influx of immigrants to Finland.

The USA grew less than other countries studied in 2012, despite a slight rebound of health care expenditure growth, according to new data released by OECD at the same time as this paper.

our money worth less than the others countries?

Not exact matches

Canada's business community is investing less than other OECD countries in research and development, and in certain sectors, lacks the competitive pressure that would prompt productivity — enhancing innovation.

Despite data from an ABC News poll that indicated only 26 percent of Americans felt they worked too hard, analysts have found that not only do people from the United States work longer hours than individuals in other countries, but they also take less time off and retire later.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

We are disappointed that Canadian employers invest less than virtually any other developed country in training,» Kenney said.

While the U.S. is recycling or composting less than 35 percent of its solid waste, other countries are using new technologies.

In less than seven years, Canada has concluded new free - trade agreements with nine countries and our Government is negotiating further agreements involving more than 60 others.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

Putting all this together, the Australian corporate bond market is relatively small in size and is less well developed than corporate bond markets in a number of other countries.

Those countries with less - developed institutions and financial systems, limited policy credibility, greater foreign currency debt and / or more precarious economic situations are certainly more exposed than others to external shocks.

U.S. Republicans have often argued that buying oil from Canada reduces dependence on the Middle East and other less - than - friendly countries.

«In our country, we've come to a place where very few people serve — less than 1 percent — and it's almost created a separate little society where people don't know each other the way they used to,» said Roth - Douquet.

But initially at least Canada was seen as an additional complication to completion of the TPP, a «difficult» negotiating partner that brought its own baggage (such as a less than robust IPR regime, a traditional antipathy to the interests of the brand - name pharmaceutical manufacturers, a penchant for protecting so - called «cultural industries», and other trade issues that did not align with US interests) that might have resonated with some of the other TPP countries.

In part, because the Australian financial system and economy entered the turbulence in strong shape, it has been considerably less affected than those in other countries, most obviously the United States.

While Bitcoin is legal essentially everywhere, some countries are less friendly towards the digital currency than others.

But it is less a physical territory than a proving ground for an idea — that easing of controls over the renminbi and liberalization of interest rates can be introduced in a discrete area, evaluated and then rolled out to other parts of the country.

And Americans» support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.

In less than a decade, the family company went from selling 8,000 backpacks to selling millions of hats, wallets, backpacks and other accessories in more than 70 countries.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

More mormons outside of the United States than in it... there is a reason why they focus so much in other countries... and prefer the less educated ones.

Although poverty often appears less extreme in the United States than in other countries, it is nonetheless real.

Support for Islamic extremism is not rising among Muslim Americans, who are much less likely to support terrorism than Muslims in many other countries, according to the study by the Pew Research Center in Washington.

In a country where Christianity is and always has been the dominant religion being a Christian requires less courage than any other option.

I've visited other ICOC churches across the country, and noticed those of us numbering less than 300 are most successful in living as a church like you've described.

Sure, let's take away a few more days off, when Americans already have less than half the average time off per year than any other First World country, and on average suffer far more from overwork and stress - related health issues.

How does less than 1 % of this countries» resdients justify a religious holiday for the other 99 %?

We spend less of our income on food than any other country.

Unfortunately Agnostics and Atheists are the most trusted less in this country than any other belief, lack of belief, group in the entire country, running for public office as a non believer is a sure way not to win, so I running as a christian is the only logical approach to public office if you want to actually win

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Older people and the better educated have thought about it more, as have women, while people on the east coast have given it less attention than people in other parts of the country.

Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A large number of computer software companies from the United States are developing software in Bangalore, India, at less than one - fifth of the price in other countries.

In this regard as in many others, the laws of the English colonies in North America were much less harsh than those of the mother country.

«According to a World Bank estimate, the total exports of the Arab world other than fossil fuels amount to less than those of Finland, a country of five million inhabitants,» observed Bernard Lewis.

A 1.5 quart bottle of icecold spring water was just 2.0 Euro, less than what you'd pay retail in a store in any other country.

In terms of animal welfare, halal slaughter of animals within Australia is generally no more or less cruel than any other form of commercial slaughter in this country.

Due to high concentration in the retail trade — over 2,800 businesses in the Netherlands alone — online wine retail has developed less rapidly than in other central European countries.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

It is obvious that we need the water here, more than we need to be selling what precious little we have to other states or other countries, simply because a company like Nestle can provide California water for less than other out - of - state producers.

(And these donuts actually have less sugar than a lot of other sweetened grain items served for breakfast by schools around the country, at least before the frosting and sprinkles are added by the district.)

However, in the US and many other western countries, in particular, mothers are more or less expected to wean their child from their breast no later than one year of age.

«Everyone's always saying, «Oh, the U.S. kids have less homework than kids in other countries.»

Are there any statistics available on the frequency and severity of RAD in children adopted at less than two years old from China or other countries, or domestically?

got to youtube and search for formula for disaster and baby bottle death and see how the formula companies are working their magic in other countries less fortunate than ours!

- Because of packaging, the U.S. wastes less food than other countries.

Women in the UK are far less likely to breastfeed their children than in any other country in the world.