Sentences with phrase «most nations of the world»

On the day Donald Trump punished most nations of the world (including his own) with steel and aluminum tariffs, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley made a policy declaration that sounds more Trumpian than any Canadian observer might have imagined possible, especially after she banned B.C. wine over a pipeline tiff and then relented weeks later.

«Amidst the recessions and economic downturn in most nations of the world, our economy has been stabilized, our unity preserved and our democracy enhanced.

The high energy and representation from around the world made me realize that the «future of learning» is on the mind of most nations of the world.

Not exact matches

Australia's big four banks and one insurance company have been ranked within the top 100 most sustainable companies in the world, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia leading the charge for the nation.

Split between two islands, the country of New Zealand has — at 8,700 miles — one of the longest coastlines of any nation, not to mention some of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor at the Reserve Bank of India, speaks about how a potential trade war will impact the world's second most populous nation.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

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And if rates do rise substantially, the U.S. will rival the likes of Italy as one of the world's most debt - ravaged nations.

Exports from Canada to the U.S. could be subjected to a maximum tariff of 3.5 per cent under the World Trade Organization's «most favoured nation» provision, to which Canada would almost certainly respond with its own tariffs on imports from the U.S. «For Canada, under WTO rules, we'd have to put up barriers with the U.S., and the retaliation would be one of the biggest sources of negative impact for us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Canadian companies have been operating in some of the most corrupt countries in the world for decades, but guess how many successful prosecutions there have been under foreign bribery laws in the history of our nation.

For the first time in modern history, some of the most isolated, destitute First Nations communities in Canada have something that the rest of the world wants.

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.

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.

VIENNA, May 3 - The landmark 2015 nuclear deal Iran made with major world powers slashed the scope of Tehran's atomic activities and created what the United Nations nuclear watchdog calls «the world's most robust verification regime.»

That power squarely rests with oil - rich nations that hold most of the world's oil reserves and the Wall Street banks and hedge funds that speculate and make markets in the oil trading game.

Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world - renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations.

Most of the world views China as a nation of copycats and counterfeits.

For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

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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.

Peoples» attention has been distracted into speculation about of how they might get rich in a parallel universe that might exist in theory — if one accepts the narrow - minded assumptions that are being taught — but whose most important real - world consequence is to impose a debt spiral on America and other nations.

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

If Canadians want vibrant, prosperous communities and an excellent standard of living, then we need to become one of the world's most competitive nations to foot the bill.

Late last year, United Nations member Saudi Arabia gave citizenship to one of world's most advanced autonomous robots, Sophia.

This has quickly made technology companies the most valuable in the world, and added great amounts of private and public wealth to their home nations.

In a further statement to the FT, Bitran asserted that Tesla could, in the future, even manufacture battery cathodes in the South American nation, since Chile has some of the world's most affordable solar power.

A cryptocurrency exchange having a hard time in Japan is rather unheard of because Japan is one of the most cryptocurrency friendly nations in the world.

It is comprised of 50 different blue - chip stocks from member nations and usually forms one of the most liquid of the world's major indexes.

And that two of these are not cities, but regions, shows that while the retail giant has clearly made this bidding process for its next headquarters an exercise in trying to extract the most generous tax breaks from municipalities, in a perfect world Amazon would plant «HQ2» in the nation's capital.

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.»

Driving an infrastructure boom across the mainland of the world's most populous nation, China Development Bank raised $ 11.1 billion in pubic bonds for its clients last year, more than any other investment bank in the world.

The nuance of the binary industry makes it a difficult to regulate and hence, most of the world nations have no regulatory framework for the binary options trading.

With just under 500,000 people, Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely - populated nations.

Stocks fell sharply Wednesday morning before stabilizing later in the day after China announced plans for a 25 % tariff on more than 100 products that make up about $ 50 billion a year worth of US exports to the world's most populous nation.

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 lWorld 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 lworld are experiencing growth, they should endeavor to get ready for a downside effect sooner than later.

Although Finland edged Saskatchewan out of first place and Manitoba fell dramatically, Canada's total provincial and territorial ratings held this country's reputation as the world's most mining - friendly nation.

We live in the world's most tolerant nation - regardless of what the religious bigots might believe.

All the others nations in the world must be taught the truth and humble themselves (Genesis 27:29 - 30) * Jeremiah 50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of host:

I want one of the most powerful persons in the world who leads one of the strongest nations in the world to be well - grounded in reality.

During the 1980s, most of the communist and socialist nations of the world were already quietly dropping their failed economic systems and turning to markets, private property, and personal enterprise.

Once we have hundreds of thousands of Christians being bombed in the most densely populated Christian nation in the world the US would step in to aid the Gaza strip and prevent further bombings.

Interesting then that many of the worlds» most prestigious places of higher learning have religious origins, including some of our nation's Ivy League schools.

Most evangelicals probably agree with Reinhold Niebuhr that in a world infested with well - armed Hitlers, Stalins and colonialists, persons and nations that follow the way of the cross get wiped out.

It is funny how the most religious countries in the world with the worst social problems have the highest percentage of religiosity, but more secular nations are prospering.

She is also one of the worlds most wealthiest institutions and has sway with the kings and nations of the earth in the political arena.

Our difficulty in speaking about cross-cultural principles of right and wrong is compounded by the fact that international organizations, from the United Nations to the World Court, are fragile and nearly helpless in many of the most critical areas of conflict.

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

Christian nations have the most per capita of drunk driving deaths in the entire world.

Within that context, of course, [as President] you're called to a very unique task — to be the leader of the free world and the most important political figure in the greatest and most powerful nation on earth.