Sentences with phrase «lower than other nations»

This is why our test scores are lower than other nations, keeping people ignorant with their noses in a bible.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

Not exact matches

The nation's biggest labour market has more people working at low wages than any other big economic engine of Canada (Quebec, B.C., Alberta)

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

The concentration of income at the top is a key reason that the United States, for all its economic achievements, has more poverty and lower life expectancy than any other major advanced nation.

Nation's Restaurant News awarded the chain «Best Healthy Choice Menu Selection for 2004,» based on more than 30 new low - carb dishes added to the menu, including low - carb cheesecake, burgers in high - fiber tortilla wraps, and other low - carb stand - ins such as Creamy Mashed Cauliflower.

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

It was never made explicit, but Chinese investment in Britain was considerably lower than into other European nations.

The state also has the lowest percentage of contributions from ordinary residents than any other state in the nation.

New York State is already the No. 1 donor state in the nation, meaning we give the federal government more money than we get back, and we get back a lower percentage than any other state.

In India, where people eat more dairy in the form of yogurt, other researchers have documented higher rates of breast cancer but still lower than those of Western nations.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

But now, a well respected British cardiologist, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, has announced that this is not the case, and he cites the fact that the biggest saturated fat consuming nation in Europe — France — has the lowest incidence of cardiovascular disease than any of the world's other nations!

According to researchers at SafeWise and HighSpeedInternet.com, San Antonio is the safest city in the nation for online dating, with significantly less cybercrime and lower STD rates than 56 other cities in the study.

Fifteen - year - old U.S. students ranked lower, on average, than their peers in 16 other countries, including those in Finland, Canada, Japan, the Czech Republic, and Ireland, out of 30 total industrialized nations, on the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

Although India's HIV rate is much lower than other developing nations, some 5.7 million people still reportedly carry the virus.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Admissions standards for U.S. teacher colleges are significantly lower than in other nations considered to be education leaders.

While millennials in the U.S. have attended more years of school than previous generations, their skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving are lower than those of previous generations and of their peers in other nations.

Individuals and nations have a comparative advantage in the production of goods or services if they can produce a product at a lower opportunity cost than other individuals or nations.

In fact, Boston ranks number 67 in the nation in enrollment, and its student poverty rates — 73 percent — are lower than in many other urban districts (Chicago's is 85 percent).

The link between low income and low academic attainment is greater in the UK than almost any other developed nation.

TFA trains more teachers for low - income communities than any other organization or institution in the nation.

The agreements included a «most favored nation» clause, requiring that if other retailers sold e-books for a lower price than Apple, the publisher would have to cut their price to Apple to allow the company to match the lower price.

It also ethically dubious for the US to insist that it can demand that other nations must agree to make reductions in their manufacturing sectors consistent with US reductions in the US manufacturing sector given that almost all nations in the world have lower total and per capita GHG emissions than the United States.

Alabama offers lower premiums than 39 other states in the nation.

In fact, Mississippi has a lower number of burglaries than most other states in the nation.

It is lower than 39 other states in the nation and can be made even lower.

Your risk for auto theft is significantly lower in Beaufort than in most other cities in the nation.

Another great thing about renting in this city is that you can expect lower commuting times than any other city in the nation.

In one of the most developed countries in the world, it is shameful that Indigenous people have a life expectancy that is much lower than that of other Australians, and even that of people in some developing nations.

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more -LSB-...]

But America has higher proportions of poor and low - income children than other developed nations, and poverty explains more differences in parenting practices than family structure.

The Arlington, Va. - based landlord also said it raised more than $ 1 billion in new capital but warned of other factors across the nation that might affect growth, including a lower projected occupancy rate in the last three months of 2016.