Sentences with phrase «most of the nation»

For most of the nation's history, Hispanics have played informal, yet largely small roles in advising U.S. presidents.

That sounds reasonable, as the Gulf Coast is home to most of the nation's biggest refineries, many of which can process heavy Canadian crude.

Which sounds nice, but if that were simple to do, most of the nation's therapists would be out of business.

But InsideClimate News recently reported that the leak detection systems used on most of the nation's pipelines rarely detect spills smaller than 1 percent of the pipeline's flow, which for the Keystone XL would be hundreds of thousands of gallons per day.

Since 2005, most of the nation experienced a decline in open credit accounts, due to the recession.

He also cut his earnings per share estimates for most of the nation's largest lenders, including Toronto - Dominion Bank and Bank of Nova Scotia, by 0.9 per cent in 2017 and 1.5 per cent in 2018.

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.

The FTSE 100 itself opened 120 points down, losing 1.6 percent before most of the nation had even arrived at work.

It will likely he much more difficult for most of the nations of Eastern Europe.

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.

Most of the nation, and the world, was in an uproar.

Oh, and the innumerable independent Bible churches, tangled out across the prairie like brambles: Through most of the nation's history, these endless divisions and revisions of Protestantism renounced one another and sermonized against one another.

For example, a major international bank located in New York can keep watch on crops and shipping, the mining of resources, weather developments, and many other aspects of business in most of the nations of the world — daily, hourly — right from their offices in Manhattan.

The Christian community of our time, whether or not formally united, is one of the great organizations and movements in civilization; it is one of the oldest human societies; it has been the teacher of most of the nations now in existence.

Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history.

And over the years most of these nations have succeeded in lowering their total fertility rates.

Let's all just call it what it is: a lack of self control a reward for being at work when most of the nation is not.

Bruce is a popular speaker on college campuses and has delivered presentations on food innovation at most of the nation's top universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT.

While most of the nation's major college teams disappointedly packed away their shattered dreams, the fortunate few made ready to engage in the annual battle for national honors in the NCAA and NIT tournaments.

By the time most of the nation realized, «Holy cow, this team's really elite,» the Buckeyes had already humiliated Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game and vanquished title favorite Alabama in the CFP semifinals.

Most of the nation will be at work during the inauguration, but there is still expected to be a gaudy number of viewers.

But in 2002, while most of the nation marveled at Palmer «Äôs Heisman year, Leinart chafed at having to sit.

The Arena Football League, which kicks off on April 13, has 19 franchises, a minor league that will field 29 teams and a championship game that has been carried live on ABC the last three years, but you'd hardly know it by reading most of the nation's print publications, including SI, or by looking at TV sports news.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

Jan 04,2016... With the holiday jousting over, most of the nation's major - college teams settled down to the serious...

In the years since, the Australian presence on Tour has grown to 19 players, the most of any nation other than the U.S. And these Aussies are better trained than their predecessors, thanks in part to the free coaching and facilities made available to amateurs since 1993 by the Australian Institute of Sport.

There were 35 or 40 of us in the room, and the thing that kind of stood out was that it was also about CEP, and CEP was brand - new at the time for us and for most of the nation.»

On election day, while most of the nation was distracted with the mid-term election, another vote was taking place in San Francisco City Hall.

The move would come as New York and most of the nation continues to battle what public health officials say is an epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction, an issue that has especially ravaged parts of upstate New York.

Yesterday marked the end of a second straight sub-par fiscal year for most of the nation's state and local public pension funds, including all five New York City funds and the New York State Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS).

Most of the nation's nationally - organized minor parties, as well as certain other organizations, are members.

E.J. McMahon: «Yesterday marked the end of a second straight sub-par fiscal year for most of the nation's state and local public pension funds, including all five New York City funds and the New York State Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS).»

Things are looking up for most of the nation's commercial casinos, as gambling revenue increased by nearly 5 percent last year and jobs held roughly steady.

It would have to be a nationwide data base and most of the nation would not cooperate.

Beyond the deadly incidents in Kisumu and Nairobi, most of the nation remained relatively calm Saturday.

Last month, McDonald's announced that it would raise its workers» wages to $ 10 an hour, higher than the minimum wage in most of the nation.

Now officials from Ontario and Quebec - where most of that nation's steel is produced - are not ruling out taking retaliatory trade measures against New York State.

Democrats have a greater opportunity to gain seats in 2016 due to their position as the minority party in most of the nation's state legislatures.

Nuclear Genie «As the nuclear powers resumed their deadlock at the Geneva test - ban conference, most of the nations of the world were maneuvering to keep themselves clear of the atomic incubus.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

His research had also determined that the U.S. is the third largest consumer of olive oil in the world, and most of the nation's crop is in California.

Overall, coal - fired power plants and motor vehicles spew out most of the nation's nitrogen oxides, the feedstock for nitric acid rain.

The data, it turned out, were the anonymized medical claims records — every diagnosis made, every treatment given — of most of the nation, which numbers some 8 million people.

Most of the nation had near - to below - average precipitation during the month.

Most of our Nation's earthquake risk is concentrated on the West Coast of the United States.

Arne Duncan, the Obama administration's secretary of education, having previously served as schools superintendent in Chicago, one of the nation's most troubled school districts, gave back - to - back speeches early in his tenure decrying the state of the field: «By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st - century classroom,» and «America's university - based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking.»

Chapter 9 bankruptcy allows municipalities to revisit existing contractual obligations, yet changes to Chapter 9 have made it largely irrelevant for most of the nation's school districts.

Most of the nation's 90,000 public school principals start their education careers as teachers.

But for most of the nation's teachers, who do not teach subjects or grades in which value - added data are available, that debate is also largely irrelevant.

Do you think that U. S. students scored higher than students in most of the nations, U. S. student scores were in the middle of the rankings of student scores, or U. S. students scored lower than students in most of the nations?»