Sentences with phrase «little country of»

Before heading to Oktoberfest in Munich, I wanted to make a stop in the little country of Luxembourg and check out the Sofitel Luxembourg Le Grand Ducal.

In a relatively short amount of time, coach Abadjiev took this little country of about 7 million people, and began destroying the rest of the world (including the powerful Soviet Union of 140 million) in international competition.

The great little country of England produced Darwinism in the nineteenth century, and the great Churchill's No to Hitler's 1000 year kingdom in the present century, but notable intellectual creativity was, by the two world wars and the Holocaust, substantially, driven to the American side of the Atlantic.11 Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or the University of Chicago, not Oxford or Cambridge, became the centers.

He rocked the charts for social media and SEO analytics for our little country of Belize that day and his «Real - Time» action plan and king of content attitude kept our audience on the edge of their seats.

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The Swiss have often been touted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a standout example of a country with little gun control and a homicide rate near zero.

The pro-European leaders of those countries will have very little political incentive to be soft on Britain, especially since all those countries have anti-EU movements of their own.

The sliver of pop culture we've slid under the media microscope bears little relation to what's sampled by the rest of the country.

The U.K. government's proposed «snooper's charter» is already scaring tech firms around the world with its threat of forcing them to help break encryption in their communications services, but here's a wrinkle that's received little attention until now: It would also force them to give the country's spies a heads - up about upcoming product launches and upgrades.

In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

Solving logistical and cultural issues, of course, will mean little if the country destabilizes.

Indeed, in countries like Spain and Greece, youth unemployment remains above 50 percent and shows little sign of abating despite improvements in the economies of these countries.

AB InBev has made inroads in China's small but fast - growing craft beer market, which analysts say may account for as little as 0.1 % of the country's $ 80 billion a year in beer sales, but which may also be growing at triple - digits in the major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.

In a country where most citizens have little disposable income, potential franchisees should follow the example of franchisees in other tourism centers, like Indonesia, and focus on tourists to bring in the dough.

But Terry Campbell, the new president and CEO of the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA), has little interest in feuding with the country's official opposition.

From little known beach towns (including one in a country not typically known for it's sunbathing weather - the UK) to rebounding heartland cities, it's an intriguing list of places to consider checking out before all your friends do.

«A lot of people in this country are struggling and if they get a little relief in their taxes, they're gonna like that.»

Gathered through interviews with fast - growing companies that have made the Inc. 500 list, the bootstrapping accounts that follow include every part of the country, cover disciplines from weed control to international telephony, and involve businesses with annual sales of as little as $ 2.8 million to as much as $ 280 million.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

A number of media outlets, including several TV networks, have tried to present a united front and argue that penning journalists up is not acceptable conduct in a country where press freedom is enshrined in the Constitution, but so far they have made little progress.

A new report, conducted jointly by Ericsson, Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology in 33 OECD countries, quantifies the isolated impact of broadband speed, showing that doubling the broadband speed for an economy increases GDP by 0.3 %.

And one oddly secretive company wasn't pleased to see its bills detailing the fact that 90 % of its calls went to Iran and Nicaragua, two countries that had little in common other than that they were of great interest to the American intelligence community.

The changes at the Eaton Centre are symbolic of a broader evolution at one of the most popular shopping malls across the country — one that has long been the home of department stores with little flash.

Other gifts include a Christmas tree sent to a couple living in a hotel because their home was destroyed in a tornado, a travel care package sent to a woman with cancer who had to travel across the country every three weeks for treatment, and a package of new toys sent to a little girl whose own were destroyed in a fire.

Meanwhile, projects like earthquake - stricken Haiti — which earned the foundation the scorn of grassroots Haitian activists that accused the foundation of mismanaging millions that did little to alleviate the poverty - stricken country's recovery — blemished the organization's reputation.

As the US was rising to its power and glory during the 19 th Century, we had a horrible civil war, 15 depressions [Yes, with a D.], few human rights, little rule of law, periodic massacres in the streets, etc., etc. yet we still became the most successful country in the 20 th Century.

The little vulgar newsshoprint freebie that started in Montreal back in 1994 now has more than 800 full - time employees in 34 countries making books, films, video, magazines, events and music, all funded through partnerships with some of the globe's biggest brands.

Many shops, restaurants and bank branches refuse to handle cash because of how little consumers use it, with retailers putting up signs to say they don't accept cash payments all over the country.

Which is what makes a little teaser video put together by Upfront Ventures for last week's Upfront Summit — an invite - only gathering of the country's top investors — so fascinating.

The Beefeater - whose job it is to guard the Tower of London - continues and says: «He's a soldier, he serves his country, he deserves to be treated with a little respect.

He wasn't sure what the right answer to that question was, but suggested that shifting more of the burden to other countries would be a start; rather than Americans paying too much, perhaps people in other Western countries are paying too little.

The country's first quarter - century of liberalization was preoccupied with attracting investment; its corporations had little motive (and less capacity) to invest abroad.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

So there are two categories of countries with which the US has a trade deficit: Those that import from the US relatively little compared to their exports to the US — China, Japan, and Germany; and those with which the US has a booming bilateral trade, primarily Canada but also Mexico.

The country's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has taken to his blog repeatedly to criticize the project — and the administration of current Prime Minister Najib Razak — for allegedly selling land, residency and other benefits to relatively affluent mainland Chinese and bringing little economic benefit to locals in return.

«After a recession that was milder than in many parts of the country, we are seeing signs of a modest recovery in New York, but little growth elsewhere in the region and unemployment remains painfully high,» said William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Despite Congress's dawdling, there is little question that America's abundance of guns — the country has by far the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world — is driving its unique gun violence problem.

Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid little attention to the fact that wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result wage shares had fallen.

Still, most literature has focused on each country in isolation — there have been reports on UK equity crowdfunding, articles on Canadian equity crowdfunding, and books on US equity crowdfunding — but very little on equity crowdfunding in totality, and nothing at all on what campaigns from different parts of the world can learn from each other.

These critics say tariffs will raise prices and invite foreign countries» retaliation while doing little or nothing to bring back the glory days of bountiful middle - class manufacturing jobs.

Trump railed against China on the campaign trail but has done little in the way of taking firm action against the country since his election.

That little country, about the size of Vermont with the population of San Diego, stole the headlines this weekend with — what else?

Because low - risk investments return roughly 20 % on average in a country with 20 % nominal GDP growth, financial repression means that the benefits of growth are unfairly distributed between savers (who get just the deposit rate, say 3 %), banks, who get the spread between the lending and the deposit rate (say 3.5 %) and the borrower, who gets everything else (13.5 % in this case, assuming he takes little risk — even more if he takes risk).

Since October, Chinese economic policymakers have expressed little interest in tackling the country's mountain of debt, which has accumulated rapidly over the past decade.

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The idea that during the rebalancing process Chinese growth can drop as sharply as it has for every other country that has gone through a similar rebalancing is still hard to accept, even though a little digging would make it clear that analysts underestimated the pace of slowdown during each of the previous cases too.

In addition, a number of studies have showed that even if developed countries did actually cut their agricultural subsidies, it would make little difference to world poverty.

Given the recent pace of domestic credit growth in a number of countries — indeed rapid credit growth is more the rule than the exception today — there is little room for complacency.

Flournoy said President Trump's tough talk about North Korea — which has included deriding Kim Jong Un as «Little Rocket Man» and threatening to rain «fire and fury» down on his country — made it «much more likely now that one side or the other will misread what was intended as a show of commitment or a show of force.»