Sentences with phrase «more failing states»

The risk is that this will increase hunger and political instability, which could lead to even more failing states.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

Not exact matches

If the United States fails to maintain confidence, then you could see other «sovereign wealth funds with 50 %, or 60 % or 70 % allocation to dollars diversify to no more than 25 %.»

The department, conducting an antitrust review stretching more than a year, so far has failed to persuade any of the states to join a potential lawsuit but has sent them a draft of the complaint, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

John Manly, an attorney who represents more than 100 victims in lawsuits, said Michigan State, USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee «miserably failed children.»

And Representative Rick Mulvaney (R - SC), a choice for White House budget director, recently revealed that he had failed to pay more than $ 15,000 in state and federal payroll taxes for a worker in his household employed between 2000 and 2004.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

And when states fail to increase their per - child payments to keep pace with market rates, parents find themselves armed with a voucher than no one will take: Since the child care providers can make more money accepting a child whose parents can afford to pay market rates, that's what they do.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

The alternative route needed more study on both the state and federal level, she said before the final vote, and it failed to give landowners along that different path the ability to address the commission.

As I stated before, and as you still fail to comprehend, yes, I offer it is both more humble and intellectually honest to accept the limits of what can and can not be known rather than arrogantly confuse one's unsupported, faith - based belief as reflecting actual knowledge.

A recent report from the Children's Society -LCB- The Good Childhood Enquiry: www.childrenssociety.org.uk) stated, «Children, whose parents separate are 50 \ % more likely to fail at school, suffer behavioural difficulties, anxiety or depression.»

It fails to include resources from philosophy, or, more particularly, from that contemporary movement in philosophy called «environmental philosophy,» which, as articulated in a journal such as Environmental Ethics, has a growing number of advocates in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia.2

If more States had adopted the ACA and set up their own sites the Federal site would not have been overloaded which is what Fox and the conservatives are all upset about now since their ideology argument failed so badly, now all they have is «The Websites Broken!

According to studentsfirst.org, in the United States of America today, more than a quarter of students fail to graduate high school in four years.

What he fails to consider is that the United States was engaged in combat in more than 100 countries in August 2001.

I happen to live in Britain where the welfare state, despite its obvious failings and inadequacies (to which reactionaries are always calling attention), has had and still does have as its chief concern the provision to everyone of those absolute necessities that are required if the citizens are to lead better, healthier, and more satisfying lives because they have been delivered from nagging fears and worries about illness and old age and much else that can be so dreadfully threatening to them.

How many times have we seen our star players leave stating a lack of ambition loosely translated into I want more cash and how did their career develop after that... many failed to produce 2 good seasons after that and became forgotten men.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Actually winning cups getting to those finals by beating the best teams in the leagues even though we lost one to the best team in the league this year is more than one fact and what the guy stated in the article is a host of statistical facts and we sniffed the league in 2016 every one but us failed to beat the champions that year twice there is a host of facts that hold up success here an mostly ranting opinions saying yea we won cups and made it to finals so what, we did nt win ecl or epl only 1 team does that and other than Leicester which we were 2nd only city, mu and chelsea have won since we last won so not many clubs do that and totten ham hasnt won a cup since 2008 we have won 5 in 8 seasons and been to 3 other finals

The United States lit up Slovakia for five goals in their qualification playoff game, but the team failed to score more than two goals for the remainder of the tournament.

He ignored my tuition and failed to see the non-sequitor of his argument; he stated that the object of playing football was to win games and that if a team won more games than any others, like Chelsea had, then clearly they were playing «gooder» football than anyone else!

After backing out of a commitment to Ohio State because Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer failed to recognize him on a visit to the school, four - star recruit Bruce Judson has committ... more

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

Some states will fine you $ 100 or more for failing to secure your child in the correct child seat.

More than 400,000 tax filers in New York state went rogue and failed to obtain health insurance in 2015 — and many were required to pay a tax penalty of at least $ 325 under ObamaCare, according to new IRS data.

This isn't the first time Turner has suggested he's more electable than his challengers — attorney Wendy Long, who has never before held elected office; and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been stumping around the state for almost a year, but has failed to generate much excitement, either among the GOP rank - and - file (although they did put him on the ballot at the convention in Rochester earlier this month) or voters.

By the same reasoning, Schaffer also failed to endorse John Brooks, the only Democrat to win a new seat on Long Island last Fall after years of promises by State Democrats that Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket would usher in a new era of Democratic dominance in the suburbs that would hold for a generation or more (in case you missed it, that actually didn't happen).

Maude began and ended quite touchy - feely, but the meat of the piece fairly accurately represented what you might expect a Tory platform on the third sector to look like: we need a «rehabilitation revolution'to tackle unprecedented levels of reoffending, fuelled by addiction, illiteracy and family breakdown; the state consistently fails to get those who have never worked, lone parents, and those on incapacity benefit back to work; charities should be paid by results; and the third sector is means of saving taxpayer money and delivering services more efficiently and effectively.

The United States is failing to seriously address lead poisoning in its low - income communities, a severe public health threat touching more than 535,000 children a year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said Wednesday.

Several senior Democrats cited Cuomo's refusal to defend Clinton against Sanders» continuing attacks on her acceptance of more than $ 600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews after Thursday night's angry debate, as evidence that the state's Democratic establishment had failed to strongly rally to her side.

Amazingly, a Lib Dem MP floundered on BBC News, failing to state that AV is more disproportional than FPTP, even when prompted several times to do so by the interviewer.

The Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce has authorized attorneys to sue the state for failing to provide NYRA with more than $ 30 million in agreed - upon payments as of April 1, 2009, the date Aqueduct's VLTs were supposed to be in place.

The report, issued Monday and made public Thursday, came a week after Thomas was charged by the state Attorney General's Office with stealing nearly $ 13,000 in campaign funds and failing to report on his city financial disclosure forms more than $ 75,000 he received from individuals, companies and his inaugural committee.

Over 2,300 campaign committees filed late disclosure reports, 224 political clubs failed to register with the state, and 346 corporations donated more than the state's annual limit of $ 5,000 without any fines or legal repercussions.

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

«The whole model on which the privatisation was predicated has failed and the government is in such a state over it, the only option it seems to have at the minute is to plough more taxpayers» cash into it.»

The MTA failed to collect more than $ 13 million in fines over two years for public transit - related offenses such as dodging fares, according to an audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

The MTA failed to collect nearly half of the all the fines it should have between 2013 and 2015 — costing the city more than $ 13 million in revenue, a new audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has found.

Spano admitted that he failed to pay more than $ 53,000 in federal and state taxes by not reporting income, including a $ 45,000 commission he received on a real estate deal and rental income from a Yonkers building he owned.

(June 22, 2017, Albany) A coalition of prominent government watchdog groups say Governor Cuomo, Senate Leader Flanagan and Speaker Heastie have completely failed to address the huge problems revealed by last year's alleged rigging of $ 800m in state economic development contracts and that... (read more)

They say the bid rigging charges on state contracts totaling more than $ 780 million dollars show clearly that the state's contracting oversight system has «failed».

State Committeeman Bernard Greene pointedly asked Andersen why the report's attached spreadsheet failed to list «income by source» & «expenses by category,» adding that he received «more information from the FEC & the OCPF» about the line items in question «than what I've gotten from you.»

Instead, a quick glance at the 244 pages shows much more about his early life steeped in Tennessee politics, his quick ascent in the Democratic party and his failed 2006 bid for Senate in the Volunteer State versus Bob Corker.

As expected, the New York State AFL - CIO has set their sights on three more Senators who they believe have failed to protect the interests of the 2.5 million member labor group.

Mr Silver fails to understand that state revenues were down last year because we all are making less, yet he wants to spend more then the year before.

The revised plan, which would be included in the state budget, would also give districts more time to turn around what Cuomo calls «failing» schools or districts before a state - appointed «receiver» could seize broad authority over them.

The New York State Association of Towns said Cuomo's plan comes as the state has failed to study the effects of its property tax program okayed in 2011 or a more recent tax freeze program that includes rebate checks for eligible residState Association of Towns said Cuomo's plan comes as the state has failed to study the effects of its property tax program okayed in 2011 or a more recent tax freeze program that includes rebate checks for eligible residstate has failed to study the effects of its property tax program okayed in 2011 or a more recent tax freeze program that includes rebate checks for eligible residents.

ALBANY — John DeFrancisco might have failed in his attempt to win the title of president pro tempore of the New York State Senate this year, but he did succeed in eliciting more laughs in floor debates than any other legislator in 2015.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.