Sentences with phrase «low end of countries»

The United States remains on the low end of countries using energy powered by wind.

Not exact matches

Yet both are expensive and sometimes out of reach for countries on the lower end of the economic development scale.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

African and Middle Eastern nations dominated the lower end of the list, with Yemen, Guinea, and Togo named the least innovative countries in the world.

Benchmark crude futures contracts have in the past week wiped out the gains made since the end of September when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said it would agree to cut oil production to shore up persistently low prices.

The country's economic success, which may be the most important global event since the end of the cold war, was buoyed by a combination of low wages, cheap credit and strong demand for exports.

This initiated a further decline in 10 - year government bond yields, which fell to all - time lows for nine large euro area countries including France, Ireland and Spain by 26 November, the end of the period under review (Graph 5, right - hand panel).

The latter initiative is perhaps the most important, as technological innovation is so central to the country's goal to transition from low - end, labour - intensive manufacturing to a high - tech, productivity - led, consumption - based economy — and such a rich source of opportunities for investors.

The chart above shows that the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that commercial crude oil inventories at OECD countries could hit their lowest in two years by the end of 2017, coinciding with a sharp drop in U.S. inventories.

These involve the investor borrowing at the short end of the yield curve, particularly in those countries where rates have been very low, such as the United States, Japan and Switzerland, and investing either further out along the yield curve or in countries where interest rates have been relatively high, such as Australia and the United Kingdom.

This is more or less true all over the country, and can even be seen among families on the lower end of the income scale.

In addition, the country's low - end manufacturing has become less competitive because of increased protectionism around the world and weakening global demand.

Interest rates remain low across the yield curve; credit is freely available and is growing at a solid pace; and the exchange rate is near the low end of historical experience against most countries.

With a score of 18 points, Denmark is at the very low end of this dimension compared to other countries.

I'm just saying that at the lower end of the scale, greed has no bearing on the price of bread unless you're the oil companies driving up the prices of everything in the country.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

A company focused on importing wines and beverages, Wajiu.com imported 4.3 million litres of wines, making it the country's fourth largest wine importer by volume, although the majority being lower - end, easy - drinking wines.

The Lancet's latest breastfeeding series was launched at the end of the month, suggesting that the lives of 823,000 babies could be saved around the world every year through improved breastfeeding rates (this estimate is for 75 low - income and middle - income countries countries in the Countdown to 2015 data project).

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

In studies of social capital — or the capacity for social cooperation and trust — Greece comes out at the low end for a European country.

When devising taxation schemes, the people at the lower end of the income bracket in our country should be shielded from a burden that's too high.

The historical defeat of Dilma Rousseff on 17 April, when more than two - thirds of Brazil's lower House of Congress voted to oust the country's first female president, is not the end of the debate about whether she committed a crime that would constitutionally justify her impeachment.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

But the task force members say they are encouraged by the governor's public commitment to the idea of being the first state in the country to end its epidemic, a move being closely watched by other states like Washington and Minnesota, where similar plans to lower new AIDS infections have recently been announced.

U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed to a Trump administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October, but this isn't the court's last word on the matter.

A Birdlife International report on the illegal killing of birds in Northern and Central Europe and the Caucasus shows the UK at the lowest end of the scale along with countries such as Luxemburg and Switzerland.

They could also set up a «repayment mechanism, where imports to the UK paid whichever was the higher of the UK's or the EU's tariff rates and traders claimed a refund for the difference between the two rates when the goods were sold to an end user in the country charging lower tariffs».

Leaving aside both the desirability of your stated goal («to close the wealth gap» - but if you recall, every country that vigorously tried, ended up with near - universal low standard of living.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Where the Lower 48 will end up on the year is much harder to tell, as El Niño tends to bring warmer conditions to the northern tier of the country, but cooler to the southern portions.

Dressing in winter for Florida could be very tricky as when rest of the country is under snow or cold weather, people in Florida on some days could start their day with low 40's and end up with pleasant high 70's in afternoon in a single day.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 3 - Where I Live 1, covering countries, local area, houses, rooms, furniture and home activities.

In summary, although teachers in the U.S. are more likely to be drawn from the lower end of the academic achievement distribution than are teachers in selected high - performing countries, the picture is a bit more nuanced than the rhetoric suggests, and as we illustrate, it has in fact changed over time in an encouraging direction.

The end result of widespread low - quality high - school education in the U.S. compared to the secondary education in equally economically advanced countries is that a greater proportion of adults in the United States are woefully underprepared for today's jobs.

Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 9 - Around the world, covering countries, directions, languages, air travel and holidays.

An estimate of 9 % to 50 % of the labor forces of developed countries are susceptible to automation in the coming decades, but even at the 9 % low end of the estimates, this can cause significant social unrest — not to mention the 50 % nightmare possibility.

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The demise of the once - stately brick building is indicative of what's happening in cities across the country: enrollment down to 250, walls and infrastructure well past their years, student test scores on the low end in a city where the norm is nothing to cheer about.

Unfortunately, this does not happen for many of the country's low - income students because, given the prevalent approach to public schooling, they are more likely to end up in low resource and lower quality schools.

The Fund's investment team continues to believe that the current period of accommodative monetary policy by developed country central banks will eventually need to end, resulting in rising interest rates from current record low levels.

Consumers» shopping habits are becoming increasingly polarized between high and low ends of the retail spectrum as the disparity between the economic situation of this country's «haves» and «have - nots» grows larger.

Not only do you get tropical weather, gorgeous scenery, a never - ending list of things to do and see, friendly locals, delicious food and ease of travel to neighboring countries with Bangkok as your hub, you'll also experience a laid - back lifestyle, a light work load, and a super low cost of living coupled with a relatively high income.

Prices are quite low in general — you can go from the north end of the country to the south for about $ US20 — but services vary widely as well.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 The Art of Creating, Halcyon Gallery, London 2014 Halcyon New Contemporaries Spring 2014, Halcyon Gallery, London 2012 Ugly, Broke, Sober, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York 2012 Group Show, Patricia Low Contemporary, St Moritz, Switzerland 2010 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland 2010 June Gloom, Country Club, Los Angeles, California 2009 Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London 2005 New York's Finest, Canada Gallery, New York 2004 Grotto II, Jessica Murray Projects, New York 2004 Hello Chelsea, Bellwether Gallery, New York 2003 Recession 2003, $ 99 show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York 2003 Launched, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York 2002 Proper Villains, Space Untitled, New Haven, Connecticut 2002 End of the Rainbow, Bellwether Gallery, New York 2002 Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, New York 2002 The Accelerated Grimace, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York 2002 Building Anxiety, Ten in One Gallery, New York 2001 John Bauer and Diana Puntar, Bellwether Gallery, New York 2001 Flat File, Bellwether Gallery, New York 1998 Winterland, The Lobby Gallery at Deutsche Bank, New York 1998 Summer Bonanza, Clementine Gallery, New York 1998 The Art Exchange Show, De Chiara / Stewart Gallery, New York

Dance to the End of Love was made out of low resolution footage made mainly with mobile phones in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Saudi - Arabia and Oman, and showing male bodybuilders, men driving cars and riding motorcycles, singing and dancing, but when included within this 4 - channel - video, this unique piece becomes a symphony in 5 movements about the loneliness of the oppressed, about hundreds of thousands crushed and forgotten in their home countries, who choose to use their computer screens as sites to live out their collective, heroic dreams.

Even if poor and rich countries agree, magically, to meet in the middle — at, say, 10 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year (about Europe's emissions rate)-- that produces a world well on the way to centuries of warming and coastal retreats, even at the low end of estimates of carbon dioxide's heat - trapping power.

With particularly low scores for biodiversity / habitat and air pollution, the country came in 77th out of 163 nations on a list led by Iceland and ending with Sierra Leone.