Sentences with phrase «many other states in the union»

When Mitt Romney outlined his proposal for reforming healthcare to the Florida Medical Association today, he seemed to be saying that Massachusetts's path to healthcare reform was a good route to follow — unless you were any other state in the union.

In 2013 the state generated more energy from the wind than any other state in the union — an amount equivalent to about half of Alberta's total power supply.

They also spend more on teacher salaries than any other state in the union.

The fact is that New York spends more on education per student than any other state in the union — an average $ 18,126 each, according to the latest federal data.

North Carolina is the only other state in the union to try 16 and 17 - year - olds as adults.

Florida is an interesting place to explore this issue, because students there have been improving at a faster rate than any other state in the union, according to Matt Ladner at the Goldwater Institute.

Assuming it's true — state officials seemed to waffle, fiddle, and redefine when asked tough questions by reporters — this would go a long way toward explaining why Texas has for years had a rate of special - ed placements below just about every other state in the union, and far below a handful of jurisdictions (such as Massachusetts) that are pushing 20 percent.

Same as every other state in the Union, same with every other nation on Earth.

In Alabama, unlike any other State in the Union, the trial judge has unbridled discretion to sentence the defendant to death — even though a jury has determined that death is an inappropriate penalty, and even though no basis exists for believing that any other reasonable, properly instructed jury would impose a death sentence.

Kansas requires liability plans, as does almost every other state in the union.

Alaska -LRB--22.5 %), Arizona -LRB--2 %), Minnesota -LRB--15.1 %) and North Dakota -LRB--9.8 %) all saw premiums for their lowest - priced silver plans go down, setting them apart from every other state in the union.

Utah is similar to every other state in the Union in that it requires its motorists to carry a minimum amount of car insurance in order to drive legally.

The state capital is Montpelier, VT and no other state in the Union has a capital city with a population as small as this one.

Of course, every state has its own laws and requirements, but when shopping for a new policy, examining an existing one, or comparing auto insurance quotes, Hawaii is much like the other states in the union.

Why the top ten ranking for home insurance, when Arkansans pay less for auto insurance than all but 14 other states in the Union?

Not exact matches

Just days later, the U.S. president made clear in his State of the Union address that when it came to the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to access natural gas reserves — he was siding with the oil and gas industry.

Continued erosion in manufacturing industries in the United States and other nations, coupled with the rise in service industries in those countries, have changed the workplace, as has the decline in union representation in many industries (these two trends, in fact, are commonly viewed as interrelated).

«The main concern is that an unexpected exit of the U.K. from the EU could lead to similar initiatives in other member states, making Brexit the first step towards the disintegration of the union,» Antonio Barroso, senior vice-president of political risk consultancy, Teneo Intelligence, said in a report this week.

«The Palestinian president was perfectly fine with this idea of not having the United States as the only interlocutor for the peace process, but of having a multilateral framework in which the European Union has a central role that is together with others, including our partners in the Quartet, including the United States,» she added.

It would signal that the United States has no interest in cooperating with other nations on climate change,» said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Then, in March 2014, the Kremlin seized control of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, igniting world - wide outrage and leading the European Union and the United States, among others, to institute a flurry of sanctions.

In a bid to get better benefits, representation and a stand for themselves, Uber drivers are teaming up with the Teamsters Union to form a new App - Based Drivers Association (ABDA), a drivers» group that is found in other stateIn a bid to get better benefits, representation and a stand for themselves, Uber drivers are teaming up with the Teamsters Union to form a new App - Based Drivers Association (ABDA), a drivers» group that is found in other statein other states.

In the face of this escalation in market instability, recent measures by the European Union and its member states, the IMF, and the ECB and other central banks have provided investors with some confidence that the underlying issues are being addressed, and that support mechanisms are in placIn the face of this escalation in market instability, recent measures by the European Union and its member states, the IMF, and the ECB and other central banks have provided investors with some confidence that the underlying issues are being addressed, and that support mechanisms are in placin market instability, recent measures by the European Union and its member states, the IMF, and the ECB and other central banks have provided investors with some confidence that the underlying issues are being addressed, and that support mechanisms are in placin place.

Mr Obama's State of the Union theme was precisely wrong, in other words; America needs to focus on helping the rest of the world catch up as fast as possible.

The European Union and Canada, among others, have introduced steeper measures in recent months to crack down on cheap flows of steel into their markets, and to stop China from shipping steel through their countries to the United States.

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that aren't recognized as a valid marriage under relevant state law won't be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

Representatives of Iran, the United States and five other nations, plus the European Union pose onstage on April 2, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, during negotiations that would led to the Iran nuclear deal.

Consumers Union works for health reform, food and product safety, financial reform, and other consumer issues in Washington, D.C., the states, and in the marketplace.

Individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are treated as spouses under the applicable state law, will each be treated as a spouse as defined in this policy for state law purposes.

However, individuals in other arrangements, such as civil unions, registered domestic partnerships, or other similar arrangements, that are not recognized as marriage under the relevant state law, will not be treated as married or as spouses as defined in this policy for federal tax purposes.

In these figures, «other lenders» include credit unions, life or general insurance companies, and superannuation funds but, where loan funds are raised directly in the secondary mortgage market through securitisation, only those which are associated with State Government housing schemes are includeIn these figures, «other lenders» include credit unions, life or general insurance companies, and superannuation funds but, where loan funds are raised directly in the secondary mortgage market through securitisation, only those which are associated with State Government housing schemes are includein the secondary mortgage market through securitisation, only those which are associated with State Government housing schemes are included.

May 26 and 27, 2017 at the Palacio de Minería, Calle Tacuba 5 in the Historic Centre of Mexico City «We call on social movements, trade unions, farmers, indigenous nations, migrants, environmentalists, human rights groups and all other interested sectors / organizations from Mexico, United States and Canada to come together to strengthen trinational work in the -LSB-...]

A Canadian agreement will be the template that will be followed when China reaches out to other G7 economies, so it is conscious that whatever terms are reached with Canada will be included in an eventual agreement with the European Union, Japan or the United States.

In any event, the state and national teachers» unions, plus other public - employee unions, predictably poured tons of money into a media blitzkrieg to defeat the measure.

The council also led to a renewal of the liturgy, an affirmation of religious freedom and the primacy of conscience, a rejection of church - state unions, an openness to the truth of other religions (especially Judaism) and a renewed sense that the church's teaching authority resides in all of the faithful, not exclusively in the hierarchy.

This explains why the crisis has spread since 1997, beginning in the emerging countries of Asia which were hit one after the other through a domino effect, and their ailment then being transmitted to the rest of the world, starting with Japan, then the United States, then more recently Europe, Russia and the European Union.

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

The best accounts estimate that some 610,000 died — 360,000 in the service of the Union and 250,000 in the service of the Confederate States of America — with countless thousands of others maimed, dismembered or less severely wounded.

For example, the United States and the European Union, among others, should cooperate in strengthening the Organization of African States so that Africa can deal with more of its own problems.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death far in excess of the numbers of the «victims» of Christianity - So now the history that isn't in your book is factual?

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

and I see it today in South Africa (and in the Soviet Union, Chile and El Salvador, to name only a few other countries) The common factor in the posture of these governments is that the state is placed above criticism: one is disloyal if one criticizes it.

Didn't Gov. Perry suggest that Texas secede from the Union and now he wants taxpayer help from the other 49 states in Texas» time of need!

But others have pointed Out that individualism is not only a feature of the cultural landscape between Boston and Los Angeles; it is reinforced in all advanced industrial societies, even in the Soviet Union, by the state's efforts to supply services and legal guarantees.

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.

Currently, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, and many other countries require producers to obtain special certification based on government - defined standards in order to market food as organic within their borders.

Currently, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and many other countries require producers to obtain special certification in order to market food as organic within their borders.