Sentences with phrase «most nation states»

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Most of the cyberattacks will come this week from nation - states or protesters, the official charged with protecting the network says.

California topped the nation in small business filings for reorganization or liquidation: The state's metro areas claimed four of the top five slots on the most - filings list.

The big question on most Americans» minds Tuesday was whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would be the nation's next president, but voters in nine states also had a big decision to make regarding marijuana legalization.

The nation's most tax - friendly states for business owners include Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming.

I don't believe it's a coincidence that Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than all but one state and the 10th most Fortune 500 companies in the nation.

In a modest way, the slogan captured the libertarian idea that a powerful company, like a nation - state, is most virtuous when it governs least — even if that means tolerating hate speech.

California's Congressional delegation, the largest and most influential in the nation, is undergoing a major upheaval, the result of reapportionment and retirements, threatening the state's influence in Washington next year and forcing members to scramble to withstand what is emerging as a generational wave.

Venture capital investment continues to pour into these states — California alone accounted for $ 78.4 billion of investment over the past three years, or 56 percent of all VC investment in the nation, according to the most recent Moneytree report.

In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

A heavy union presence tends to work against states in our Workforce category, and Census figures show New Jersey remains among the most unionized states in the nation.

Even in the worst of times, Georgia performs relatively well in our rankings due to advantages that were in place well before the governor took office: a top - notch infrastructure with the world's busiest airport and one of the nation's most important ports, as well as a large workforce in a right - to - work state.

«In Utah, we take very seriously our goal to lead the nation as the best performing economy and our reputation as the most business - friendly state.

Israel has more venture capital investments per capita than any nation on earth, including the United States, and boasts the most non-U.S. companies listed on the Nasdaq after China.

Last year Site Selection magazine named Georgia the best for business and, more recently, tapped our state as the most competitive in the nation.

Global connections and a strong international relationship are among the things that make Washington a great state for business and help us maintain one of the most vibrant economies in the nation.

The State Department's long - awaited environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline leaves President Barack Obama with no real scientific reason to reject the nation's most fiercely debated energy project.

The Moon Treaty, finalized in 1979, declared that any resources from space should be shared among all nations, but most countries, including the United States, never signed or ratified it.

Thai officials are pushing for Australia, Canada and the United States to give refuge to 2,700 Burmese dissident students — most of whom are in a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camp outside Bangkok.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

It is worth noting that the 12 states holding contests, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, were not only less affected by the housing crisis, but have stronger housing markets today than most other states in the nation.

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

The West Coast continues to be the most expensive market for gasoline, including the only six states in the nation where drivers are paying more than $ 2.50 on average: California ($ 2.85), Hawaii ($ 2.82), Washington ($ 2.67), Alaska ($ 2.65), Nevada ($ 2.55) and Oregon ($ 2.53).

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

But bitcoin, the most famous of the cybermonies, carries a reputation for instability, wild fluctuation, and illicit business; some fear it has the power to eliminate jobs and to upend the concept of a nation - state.

The United States was by far the most powerful nation after the war and held far more gold than anyone else as well.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

New Jersey is one of the top five smallest states in size but ranks as the number 11th most populous state in the nation.

«Investing in food producing farmland in the tax - friendly nation of the Republic of Vanuatu with our cluster concept in agriculture Malekula farm lets offers an investment that is out of reach from being diminished by most currency meltdowns and loss of value by state and local government seizure and also provides a cash return.

However, like many other states, New Jersey is still recovering from the most recent economic troubles facing the nation.

In addition to having some of the best seafood and colleges in the country, the state is close to many of the nation's biggest cities and has some of the most beautiful landscapes around.

It is also one of the nation's top 10 most populous states, currently coming in at ninth.

However, Tennessee, like most states in the country, was badly hit by the nation's most recent economic woes, and residents are carrying far more debt than they would like as a result.

Addressing the media on the sidelines of the on - going Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group in Washington DC, United States of America, yesterday, Lagarde warned that while most of the nations around the world are experiencing growth, they should endeavor to get ready for a downside effect sooner than later.

,» which ranks the nation, states and 40 most - populated metros by employment and revenue numbers.

The bank has physical locations in most states throughout the nation.

Surprisingly, or not surprisingly, cowboy nation is proof to live up to the Wild West history, with Texas and Montana charity some of the most loose positions on cryptocurrency in all of the United States.

From lighthouses and lobster to Blue Hills ocean views and Acadia National Park, the most Northeastern state in the nation is a gold mine of outdoor adventure, scenic landscapes and unique history.

Nations like China and the U.K. have been somewhat more lenient on this issue than the United States (the U.K. paved the way for three - parent babies to combat devastating genetic disorders back in 2016), but most things involving even a whiff of genetic engineering still come with a fair bit of bioethical controversy.

And here I thought it was when John Adams said, «The United States is in no way a Christian Nation» that made the most supportive evidence of the distinct line between church and state in this country.

The Center has made a real difference, most notably through the work of its senior fellow (and former president) George Weigel, in stimulating valuable thinking about the nation - state, war, and peace that is both strategically sound and theologically informed.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

The most Christian among the industrial nations, the United States, evinces the greatest sympathy for Israel as well as the greatest security for its own Jewish population.

(CNN)- As a resident of the most Catholic state in the nation (Massachusetts), I have watched for more than a decade as the Roman Catholic Church responded to charges of priestly pedophilia with a troubling combination of procrastination and obfuscation.

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

«In so ruling, the Administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty,» the letter continued and was read at all English and Spanish language Masses, the diocese said in a statement.

As a matter of fact as you look through the Bible you will see most signs and wonders were given at specific times; given to the nation of Israel and given when Israel was in a backslidden state.

The author argues that the United States ought to accept the provision for an International Criminal Court, as worked out in Rome in the summer of 1998 and agreed to by most of the nations participating in the discussions.

Even if this does not happen, even if the United States continues on as the greatest and richest and most powerful nation in the world for many generations to come, are you making preparations now to hold the fort for future Christian generations?

These beliefs and values interacted with early capitalism and the emergence of the nation - state to give us the Western marriage system that Laslett describes and most of us assume.