Sentences with phrase «level than the world»

People know each other on a separate and private level than the world at large.

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That more accessible level of investment is also why there were more than 9,000 franchises across the world at the start of 2017.

The world's «easy oil» has been depleted, Grantham argues, and current high inventory levels will be used up sooner than the market expects — assuming reasonable global GDP growth.

Beijing and the World Bank officially claim China's government debt remains very manageable, at less than 20 % of GDP — far below levels in the industrial world — but the truth is, local governments are piling on new debt at a staggering World Bank officially claim China's government debt remains very manageable, at less than 20 % of GDP — far below levels in the industrial world — but the truth is, local governments are piling on new debt at a staggering world — but the truth is, local governments are piling on new debt at a staggering pace.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

In today's cloud - based, mobile - focused, inherently social world, customers demand a higher level of responsiveness than ever before: they expect businesses to provide what they want, when and how they want it.

The World Trade Organization cut its forecast for global trade growth this year by more than a third on Tuesday, reflecting a slowdown in China and falling levels of imports into the United States.

«It's more difficult being an entrepreneur in the U.S. than in other parts of the world,» says Thomas White, president of the Westby, Wisconsin - based C - Suite Network, an online network for C - level execs.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

«Gas prices are currently at the lowest levels in more than a decade, thanks to a glut of supplies around the world,» said Julie Hall, AAA spokeswoman.

At the end of World War II, researchers starved 36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low - fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was 600 to 1,500 calories fewer than their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 2 - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said its insulin degludec had shown 43 percent lower rates of night - time low blood sugar levels than glargine from rival drugmaker Sanofi.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

«Noel Lee is a man who knows sound better than [sic] most anyone in the world; and I know what gamers need to compete at the highest level,» Wendel says.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

That's still a «healthy level,» says the report, but it signals that the U.S. will lose ground to developing nations, which are suffering far smaller declines in growth than the industrialized world.

After three days of interacting with these experts, hours of exploring challenges at a deeper level than you'll find in today's financial media, and debating with fellow attendees from around the world, you'll be more prepared than ever to safeguard the future of your family and your wealth.

Why can't they increase their consumption and investment levels rather than relying on the U.S. economy to buy their consumer goods and capital goods for surplus dollars that have no better use than to accumulate in the world's central banking system as excess reserves?

Over all, China has been increasingly active in the American start - up world, participating in investment rounds worth $ 9.9 billion in 2015, according to data from the research firm CB Insights, more than four times the level the year before.

At that level, there are more active rigs in the United States than the rest of the world.

Fueling the company's stronger - than - expected results was an increase in oil and gas activity levels around the world.

World oil demand will rise less than previously thought in 2014, due to a lower outlook for the global economy and demand growth in the second quarter falling to its lowest level in more than two years, the West's energy watchdog said Tuesday.

I have worked for some of the biggest and best known companies in the world and the level of waste and incompetence is really not that different than government especially in countries like ours where the public services are pretty good.

-LRB-...) According to Thomson Reuters data, companies around the world held almost $ 7 trillion of cash and equivalents on their balance sheets at the end of 2013 — more than twice the level of 10 years ago.

Japan, with its debt level at more than 220 % of GDP, is the latest entrant into the world of negative interest bonds.

All over the world, Blacks consistently score lower on IQ test than Whites or Asians regardless of income level, education, national origin, etc..

We know on some level that there are people different than us in the world, but it's not until our territory is invaded some way (personal, regional or national) that something inside us awakes and says, «Danger!»

In one act she has done more to raise my level of admiration for a religion than all of the evangelists running all over the world telling everyone how theirs is the right religion.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

In my own journey, I have been led from supernatural theism to seeing God as the encompassing Spirit, from seeing God as another being out there, to seeing God, or the Sacred, or the Spirit (terms which I use synonymously and interchangeably) as a nonmaterial layer or level of reality all around us, more real than the world of our ordinary, visible experience.

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

My conclusion here will be that if there were a God and if he were viewed as having the power to influence events at this level at all, then we would have to conclude that the world ought to be a very different place than it in fact is.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published very robust research involving more than 140 countries around the world which demonstrates that countries with extreme levels of inequality (1) tend to experience much slower rates of economic growth; and (2) are far more susceptible to the kind of severe financial / banking / credit crisis that America just went through five years ago.

Thus the Old Testament is not to be read as an odd collection of curious stories and ideas from a remote and primitive world, any more than it should be taken, on all its levels indiscriminately, as a definitive statement of unchanging truth.

Myths are expressed in symbols and images that reach us less at the surface, cognitive level, than at the level of our inner fantasy world.

Bishops hold the rank of sovereign princes, and the temporal and spiritual power of the first bishop of Christendom renders him somehow the arbiter of kings («arbiter of kings» means that the pope was higher than the Emperor, and thus the actual temporal ruler of the whole world) and the fourth person of the Divinity («person of Divinity» means that the pope really presumes to be on a level with God).

In general the basic way in which God acts on the human level is through ethical persuasion; it is by the worthiness, the attractiveness, the importance of specific ethical ends envisioned that God lures us on to actualize a world better than what we have known.

And they are bound to be with us if our perspective is time - bound and world - bound; it is only by relationship to, and trust in, some Reality bigger and other than the world, yet working in and through the processes of time and history, that we can be raised above the level of immediacy into the sphere of ultimacy — and it is in that sphere alone, so far as I can see, that man can achieve any peace of mind.

This, coincidentally, would remove a major criticism leveled against Whitehead: that his is essentially a descriptive rather than an explanatory metaphysics, adducing principles that apply (in contemporary modal jargon) to this actual, rather than generally to any possible, world.

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

It is essential for the development of science that the Catholic beliefs about the material world mentioned above are firmly held, even though it is at a deep psychological level where they are implicit rather than explicit.

So what is first required is a distinction, right on the level of the «life world,» between genuine entities and «things,» rather than a reversion to microcosmic event - units.

It is to suggest that the brute realities of our increasingly interdependent world force us to consider religion at more than an individual, community, or national level.

But it must always be remembered that God acts in his world persuasively for the most part, and chiefly so on the human level, rather than coercively or by violent force.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Setting aside the fact that there is no more evidence for a god, heaven, or hell than there is for extraterrestrial life, unicorns, or a race of mole people who seek to destroy the surface world, you have to recognize that religions, at a fundamental level, punish those who deny their faith, be it in this life or the next.

The third conclusion was that if the people of the world wish to achieve an ecologically sustainable future, rather than pursuing the delusion that present levels of growth can be continued indefinitely, the chances of achieving that goal will be improved by starting sooner rather than later.

Although contraception is on a different level of moral gravity than abortion, its widespread acceptance in the western Catholic world has no less devastating effects.

I don't want to push this suggestion too far because occasions in the world that seem to occur relatively slowly, like human experiences, also seem to be more inclusive than rapidly occurring events at the atomic level.