Sentences with phrase «lesser international accords»

The onerous advice - and - consent process, which requires 67 senators to approve treaties, does not apply to executive agreements, which are basically lesser international accords.

Not exact matches

Foreign direct investment is less than 1 percent of Saudi Arabian GDP, which is very low compared to most emerging economies, where FDI runs between 2 percent to 3 percent of GDP, according to the Institute of International Finance.

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

According to Chad Bown from the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, NAFTA partners have imposed much less antidumping and countervailing duties on each other than they have on their non-NAFTA trading partners.

According to flight - tracking reports, the chartered 1988 Dassault Falcon 900 took off at 12:51 a.m. from Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport and was near Chicago, less than an hour from its destination, when Ms. Hill witnessed Prince fall unconscious.

It's actually surprising with Arsene Wenger's commitment to the French League's (although lesser so in recent seasons) that a gem like Kante was not scouted on the books by the Gunners, however now according to the growing rumours, Arsenal may have a chance of nabbing the French International after all.

According to Diario Gol, Madrid president Florentino Perez isn't willing to accept much less than $ 80m for the Colombian international, which would represent a $ 20m profit for the La Liga and European champions after signing him for $ 60m from Monaco in 2014.

The Croatia international is being eyed by Diego Simeone's side, and Atletico would even consider accepting less money for Griezmann if they could land someone in exchange, according to Don Balon.

According to Don Balon, the Brazil international is desperate to quit PSG at the end of this season, despite only arriving at the Parc des Princes less than a year ago.

So if according to Transparency International, Nigeria was less corrupt under Jonathan than it is today and according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, Nigeria is more terrorized today than it was under Jonathan, it becomes clear that Bola Tinubu has no factual basis to make the claims he made.»

American diplomats called off President Trump's «working visit» to the UK less than 48 hours after he drew international ire over retweeting the leader of a British far - right group, according to a report.

Less than 10 percent of them have been able to resume their careers — and even fewer return to their fields — according to the Institute of International Education - Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE - SRF).

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

After an 11 - minute training session and encouragement to continue practising mindfulness — which involves focusing on what's happening in the present moment — heavy drinkers drank less over the next week than people who were taught relaxation techniques, according to the study published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.

According to the Institute of International Education (New York City), the number of foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in 2002 - 2003 grew less than 1 percent, following five years in which the annual growth rate was 5 percent.

Plants, in contrast, will be less sensitive to the disappearance of their animal partners, according to an international team led by scientists from Senckenberg.

By spending less than $ 5 per person on essential health care services such as contraception, medication for serious illnesses and nutritional supplements, millions of maternal and child lives could be saved every year, according to a new analysis led by Robert Black, PhD, a professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Use olive oil instead of butter: You'll eat 23 percent less bread and 16 percent fewer calories, according to a 2003 study in the International Journal of Obesity.

According to one amazing research published in the International Journal of Obesity, people who eat a protein - loaded breakfast tend to eat around 30 % fewer calories at lunch than people who eat breakfast with less protein.

In fact, according to research published in the International Journal of Obesity, participants who ate a protein - packed breakfast ate 26 percent fewer calories at lunch than those who ate a calorically identical meal with less protein.

National treatment requires a country to accord nationals of other countries that are members of the same international conventions no less favorable treatment than it accords its own nationals.

According to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, in four of the seven countries that outperform the United States in mathematics, students spend less time in class per week than U.S. students do and also less than the internatiInternational Mathematics and Science Study, in four of the seven countries that outperform the United States in mathematics, students spend less time in class per week than U.S. students do and also less than the internationalinternational average.

That's the rough threshold for reasonable school performance, according to Hattie: Countries that spend less than $ 40,000, which are all poor, tend to have much lower reading scores on the international PISA exam, and their performance correlates strongly with the money they spend.

But less than one - third of these young renters have renters insurance, according to an April 2016 survey for insuranceQuotes.com carried out by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

Nonbanks have less capital to indemnify the government for faulty loans yet they now dominate home - purchase loans backed by the FHA, according to the study by the American Enterprise Institute's International Center on Housing Risk.

Renters who make less than $ 30,000 maintain renters insurance only twenty - five percent of the time, while those making over $ 75,000 have coverage sixty - nine percent of the time according to a study commissioned by Effective Coverage and performed by ORC International.

As world leaders and their top advisers convened in Manhattan for Tuesday's United Nations summit on global warming, there were hints of accord on a few issues that could form the basis for a climate deal in December in Copenhagen — something less that a full - blown treaty but sufficient to avoid total breakdown of an international effort.

According to an international research group investigating Greenland melting that last event led to an accelerated bedrock rise — on top of the existing trend, as the ice sheet grows (slightly) lighter year by year and therefore exerts ever less pressure on the Earth's crust.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

Carbon dioxide emissions savings from wind turbines were 20 per cent less than claimed, leading to the overpayment of renewable energy certificates worth about $ 70 million last year, according to an international analysis of Australia's national electricity market.

Remember that compared to the most commonly used international baseline of cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, the US commitment as put into the Copenhagen accord (contingent upon action in Congress) is effectively less than 5 % below 1990 levels — when 40 % is what is needed.

It's estimated that less than 20 % of China's waste is trashed according to international standards.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

If it's less than $ 5,000, then your firm is spending less per attorney than 83 % of other firms out there, according to a survey released last year by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA).

Less than 40 percent of renters have a renters insurance plan in place, according to a recent survey performed by ORC International on behalf of III.

Less than 4 in 10 renters have a policy versus 95 percent of homeowners who have coverage protection, according to a recent survey performed by ORC International on behalf of the Insurance Information Institute.

Additionally, there may be less coverage or no coverage at all for business property that is away from your home, according to the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI).

But less than one - third of these young renters have renters insurance, according to an April 2016 survey for insuranceQuotes.com carried out by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

Renters who make less than $ 30,000 maintain renters insurance only twenty - five percent of the time, while those making over $ 75,000 have coverage sixty - nine percent of the time according to a study commissioned by Effective Coverage and performed by ORC International.

According to a recent survey by Princeton Research Associates International on behalf of insuranceQuotes.com, less than 26 percent of drivers in any given age group ever ask their auto insurance provider for a discount.

In the past year, Google sold just 2.8 million Pixel phones, accounting for less than 1 percent of the worldwide market, according to the research firm International Data Corp..

According to a four year study conducted by the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, 87 % of female participants and 47 % of male participants of collaborative cases make less than $ 100,000.

Airports handle less than 5 percent of international trade, but carry more of the high - value products, accounting for 35 percent of the value of commodities being shipped, according to JLL.

But with fewer of those assets available for acquisition and with hopes for an improving economy in 2013, this year, pension funds may start looking into smaller markets and slightly less pristine assets, according to K. C. Conway, managing director of market analytics with Colliers International.

At Keller Williams, average brokerage share of gross commission income is considerably less than in the 500 largest brokerages in the country — 16.8 percent at Keller Williams offices compared with 29.2 percent for other companies — according to Dave Jenks, vice president of research and development at Keller Williams Realty International, based in Austin, Texas.