Sentences with phrase «majority of the nations»

According to Max Eastman, the editor of the socialist magazine The Masses, the strike proved how dangerous the AP was, not only because it determined what was printed in a majority of the nation's newspapers, but also because it feigned objectivity so fervently.

Questions about the investigation have been raised because a majority of the nation's transport ministry's investigators previously worked at Korean Air, South Korea's largest air carrier, the AP reports.

Like the majority of the nation, Oklahoma has a progressive state income tax system with six tax brackets depending on income level and filing status.

According to Ten - X's fall 2017 Top Single - Family Housing Markets Report, that's where the majority of the nation's strongest markets lie.

As far as how bitcoin is perceived in the financial world, the majority of nations that have drafted rules and regulations view bitcoin as a financial instrument similar to gold or stocks.

San Francisco (Dec. 19, 2005)-- Glass, Lewis & Co., a leading investment research and proxy advisory firm, today announced that a majority of the nation's top institutional investors subscribe to the Glass Lewis proxy research service.

San Francisco (Dec. 19, 2005)-- Glass, Lewis & Co., a leading investment research and proxy advisory firm, today announced that a majority of the nation's top institutional investors subscribe to the Glass Lewis proxy -LSB-...]

Though I think it's in error to say that Jesus would be either a Dem or Repub... I think he would be for the concept of the people as a unit having health care that is assisted by the majority of a nation.

Nor do the majority of the nation's jocks have a three - semester cumulative average of 3.78 as this Jacque does.

The overwhelming majority of the nation's bowlers lack the time, money, stamina or the desire to be stars, yet they have just as much fun.

Leicester and their fans will be pleased to know that they have the backing of the majority of the nation and the support of their closest competitors.

Republicans who control a majority of the nation's statehouses are considering a wide range of abortion legislation that could test the government's legal ability to restrict a woman's right to terminate pregnancy.

[124][125] Tema Harbour is Africa's largest manmade harbour and Takoradi Harbour along with Tema harbour in Ghana handles goods and exports for Ghana, they are also a traffic junctions, where goods are transhipped, the Tema harbour handles the majority of the nation's export cargo and most of the country's chief exports is shipped from Takoradi harbour.

The UK must live up to its international legal and moral obligations, especially when the majority of nation states have renounced the development of their own nuclear weapons.

Despite the spread of such programs, the vast majority of the nation's annual supply of new teachers graduate from more traditional programs that offer less rigorous instruction in science and math.

The success of Climate Matters led to a partnership with Weather Company subsidiary WSI, which distributes our analyses to the majority of the nation's TV weather forecasters.

In the majority of the nations around the world the gays have been furnished with complete rights but of course there is some firm policy next to these people in few nations.

The Fourth Estate, Season 1: In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

For the journalists at The New York Times, the election of Donald Trump presented a once in a generation challenge in how the press would cover a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

While the scale of the dropout crisis remains troubling, it is worth noting that the majority of the nation's largest cities have seen improvements in their graduation rates over this period and that some of those gains have been substantial.

It's not practical to link high school graduation to college readiness — unless we want to deny diplomas to a majority of the nation's twelfth graders.

A poll survey report published in Washington Post «Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the next century.

Driven by escalating concerns that African - American, Latino, American Indian, and some Asian - American students make up the majority of the nation's dropouts every year, the coalition unveiled its «Campaign for High School Equity,» a document that spells out clear policies it believes Congress should pursue to reverse that trend.

The growing black middle class soon joined the exodus, leaving urban schools with the difficult task of educating the majority of the nation's poor and minority students.

How are the higher - education institutions that train the vast majority of our nations teachers working to ensure the successful implementation of the Common Core?

Yes, the majority of our nation's teachers are passionate, professional educators who work daily to find the effective pedagogical formula needed to increase student achievement.

In short, the vast majority of students in the vast majority of nations would not clear the NAEP bar for proficiency in reading, mathematics, or science.

During the first few years, the federal system captured a majority of the nation's lowest performing districts - most of which needed a lot of help through the intervention process called out in the law.

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

In a context where a majority of our nation's students are students of color, but only 18 percent of our teachers are teachers of color, more of these kinds of intentional efforts to create a real pipeline of diverse educators are desperately needed.

It turns out that a number of East Asian countries, which account for the majority of nations with high - average performance, also have the lowest percentage of low - performing students.

SALT LAKE CITY — A majority of the nation's school district superintendents believe the Common Core State Standards are appropriately challenging and will improve education, according to a recent survey.

Eight years in development, including 10 pilot studies, and applying standards based on valid research on effective teaching, the evaluations in the report provide convincing evidence that a large majority of our nation's teacher preparation programs are miserably failing our aspiring teachers and our children.

Administrators who responded viewed the majority of the nation's school facilities as barely adequate, a deterrent to learning, and in immediate and desperate need of repair.

«Students of color are now the majority of our nation's public school system, but our educational system continues to deny too many of these students an equal educational opportunity.

The truth is that for the majority of the nation's new teachers, what they can anticipate in retirement benefits will be worth less than what they contributed to the system while they were in the classroom, even if they stay for decades.»

The majority of our nation's public schools fail to prepare students from low - income families to success in college and life.

Because the vast majority of our nation's students still attend traditional public schools, we believe in finding solutions to empower students in the district context.

The Obama administration and many Democrats have been staunch supporters of charter schools, and equally staunch opponents of vouchers, viewing them as a drain on public schools that serve the majority of the nation's children.

Fannie Mae, the agency that creates rules for the majority of the nation's loans, updated their stance recently.

Whether it's student loans, car loans, credit card debt, home equity lines of credit or something else, the reality is that a majority of our nation is burdened by some form of debt.

During Reagan's time in office, the departments that control a majority of the nation's infrastructure saw significant cutbacks, particularly HUD.

The overwhelming majority of the nations that are attending the talks are willing to commit to exact numbers on emission reduction.

The lawmakers point out that the vast majority of the nation's food supply comes from these conventional, large - scale operations.

The recent Paris Agreement, in which the overwhelming majority of nations pledged to take actions to address greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, was an important step forward.

Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, said she was «inclined» to approve the pipeline and the vast majority of nation's policy experts believed that the pipeline had a near certain chance of approval.

Those nations that cling to whaling do so to the great consternation of the larger majority of nations, and against the objections of hundreds of millions of individuals, in every country, who feel with the deepest conviction that whaling, whatever its viability and justification in past centuries, can not be indulged in this one.

The term distributed generation distinguishes these systems from the large, centralized power plants that provide the vast majority of the nation's power.

Crops have been hit hard this year thanks to the historic, widespread drought gripping a majority of nation.