Sentences with phrase «like united»

For example, countries like the United States, Thailand, India, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Greece and Chile are all producers.

It does make sense, considering that in westernized societies like the United States, the UK and Australia, acne afflicts between 79 % and 95 % of the adolescent population.

Coconut oil was once prevalent in western countries like the United States.

People who take the widely used cancer drug Xeloda may see their fingerprints disappear, which could lead to major headaches when traveling to countries — like the United States — that require fingerprint identification.

The problem may be a spillover from countries like the United Kingdom and Japan, where lagging childhood immunization rates spurred a comeback.

Autoimmune diseases are rampant in developed countries like the United States and can affect any area of the body.

It's a staggering amount of carbon, but so far less than the greenhouse gases emitted by countries like the United States or China.

«You have countries like the United States which are somewhat ambivalent about stem cell research and have sometimes contradictory policies,» said Robert Cooke - Deegan of Duke University's Centre for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy.

After briefly landing in urban slums like the Kibera district in Nairobi, Kenya, their sights may have turned to higher - income countries like the United States.

Now, a new study finds that international trade has likely «shifted» more than 700,000 pollution - related deaths from regions that import goods and services, like the United States and Western Europe, to those that produce them, like China.

Application is an environmental issue in industrialized countries like the United States because of high energy input, increased greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and other adverse effects on ecosystems and human health.

Many returnee and foreign researchers in China hold concurrent posts, shuttling back and forth from countries like the United States and United Kingdom.

Wheeler said he also thinks the equity argument needs to be put to rest, but that countries like the United States need to realize that long - held arguments that China is not doing enough to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions don't hold water.

Flying under the accounting radar Derek Scissors, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, questioned whether looking at the past decades is a useful comparison, particularly for hydro development, since industrialized countries like the United States built their dams decades ago.

Ubik works with international bodies like the United Nations or the European Union, in developing tools and services based in geospatial technologies, a field that is experiencing exponential growth in recent years.

But once established on the frontiers, experts say their versatility, cost and fuel advantages should allow airships to penetrate mature freight markets like the United States.

Many practical obstacles exist to international scientific exchange, even among friendly nations like the United States and Australia.

Industrialized countries like the United States will report on the progress of their emission reduction commitments, while developing countries will report on their mitigation actions — a slight distinction, but an important one.

(1) However, the problem is not limited to Asian countries alone, with data from western countries like the United States showing that the rate has increased markedly in adults in the last 30 years, from 25 % in the early 1970s to 42 % in 2004.

They suggest their observation could indicate that being a parent in a country with a strong welfare system, paid parental leave and high - quality childcare has different implications for parental mental health compared to the situation in a country like the United States.

But a study by a West Virginia University sociology professor finds that women in developed countries — like the United States — are actually more likely to be physically assaulted than women in developing countries.

Japan, like the United States, is heavily dependent on imports of rare earths from China for their widespread use in manufacturing of hybrid cars, electronics, and wind turbines.

When you look at deprivation in these dimensions, you have a better picture of what is really going on with households, especially in developed countries like the United States.»

Germany, like the United States, has no long - term disposal site for high - level radioactive waste.

But someday we could establish an international administrative organization, like the United Nations, to coordinate and manage global scientific collaboration.

Legalizing the trade would further institutionalize India's glaring social inequalities while providing an unfair advantage to rich nations like the United States (see «A Transplant Tourist,» below).

As countries prepare to finalize a climate agreement in Paris this coming December, global leaders like the United States and the European Union are releasing intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), country specific action plans that outline how they intend to reduce global warming emissions.

Despite legislation in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, there are also times when candidates are probed for details about their marital status or whether they are planning to start a family soon, or they are asked other inappropriate questions.

«We're all concerned about job loss,» Specter said, adding that he hopes to work on legislation that can win the backing of industry, environmentalists and labor groups like the United Mine Workers of America.

In a culture that promotes interdependence, like China, access to high - status people should improve mental health, while in a society that prefers independence, like the United States, access to high - status people would be less so.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

The team thought the pattern looked like a United States flag.

Consumer habits in developed countries like the United States often have negative environmental consequences that are felt in far - away places outside our view, he explains.

Krogsgaard Thomsen of Novo Nordisk says, «People may find it awkward to move here from a big country like the United States, but once they settle down they tend to like it.»

But that doesn't mean that such a system would replace a standard network in a well - instrumented country like the United States, Vidale adds.

In temperate regions like the United States, meanwhile, ticks in suburban neighborhoods and domestic livestock living in proximity to humans have posed threats.

This means China can not, like United States, control its large emissions,» Yang said.

Much like the United States, a major potential cause for increased ammonia traces back to reductions in atmospheric acids that would normally remove ammonia from the atmosphere.

Staving off this rainforest destruction — and subsequent revival of forestlands — through conservation efforts like the United Nations» Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program would be a big win for U.S. farmers, ranchers and loggers, according to the report.

The report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early - career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role of the early career researcher and the need for professional development in areas beyond research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the professional development of early - career researchers, in an email to Science Careers.

The governor said debt profile of the state should not get anyone worried because even developed countries like the United States had incurred debts in the region of trillions of dollars.

He seemed baffled that unions like the United Federation of Teachers, which backed him in 2012, were now deserting him this time around.

Major unions like the United Federation of Teachers and the Hotel Trades Council have followed suit.

While some of the most politically powerful unions like the United Federation of Teachers, 1199 SEIU and 32 BJ SEIU calculated that Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Christine Quinn were viable pro-labor choices for mayor, throwing their weight behind them, Mr. Seabrook ignored Mr. Liu's stagnant poll numbers.

The figures have revealed organisations like the United and Cecil Club, Strangers Gallery and the Chelwood Club are focusing their funding on the marginal constituencies the Conservatives believe are vital to securing an overall majority in 2015.

Millions of items are expected to be sent by services like the United States Postal Service, UPS, and Fed Ex.

We have seen policewomen of Muslim descent in institutionally defined and organised countries like the United States decked in hijab, as it is harmless and poses neither threat nor discomfort to their organisation.

It is important because, in Nigeria, it is the government spending that drives the economy unlike in a place like the United States where the private sector, on its own, can drive the economy.

RCC President Cliff Wood says the grant will allow for working together with community resources like the United Way of Rockland & Westchester to help students succeed by helping their families.

However, in most developed democracies like the United States and most parts of Europe, there is often full disclosure on the health statuses of Presidents.