Sentences with phrase «most other countries governments»

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The government still operates out of Taiwan, but the US and most other countries don't recognize the Republic of China as an official state.

Trudeau, like his predecessors, says the higher prices that result from supply management save the federal government from having to match the farm subsidies doled out by most other countries.

But because the government has so much control over the country — control no developed nation or most other emerging markets have — Shenfeld thinks that any hard landing will be short - lived.

While governments like to boast of Canada's «low and competitive business tax rates,» the fact remains that Canadian companies now pay rates higher than those borne by their counterparts in most other OECD countries.

Regardless of what other countries think of our government, most Europeans and Asians like Americans and have no hatred for us.

The rough area of separation is that states have control of most things purely within their borders and the federal government controls most things that cross borders between states or with other countries.

A reverse of privacy sensibilities: In most other industrialized countries, there is an acceptance of government intrusion of privacy, but other citizens snooping into your past is taboo, and made difficult by things such as «the right to be forgotten» in the EU.

In our report we analyse the experience of other European countries, which have parliaments without a majority party most of the time, and we identify six rules that are in practice used to guide who should be asked to form a government.

In other countries, the party with most seats is given the first opportunity to form a government and there is a formal process for this.

There are others who have no interest in getting themselves involved in the political decisions of their country which directly and indirectly involves voting during elections and most importantly making the world know their point of view during any key decision of government for the larger populace.

Having visited many other secondary schools in the country, I concur with Mohammed Haruna that, in terms of learning space and facilities, Osogbo Government High School «must be one of the largest, most beautiful and most well equipped secondary schools in the country» («Education: Aregbesola as an exemplar», The Nation, September 8, 2016).

«I am not suggesting for a minute that fiscal considerations are the only factor, but the government should at least ensure that it is not more financially detrimental to marry in this country than in other developed OECD countries, if we are to be true to our determination to become the most family - friendly country in Europe.»

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Public pensions are being tightened in other states across the country where government employees, as in New York, receive far more generous retirement benefits than most private employees; many companies are eliminating pensions altogether.

Let's see... We're No. 1 in property taxes nationwide; No. 1 in overall taxes; we're ranked as the state with the worst economic outlook in America by the American Legislative Exchange Council; we have the most corrupt state government in America, according to the University of Illinois; we're losing more citizens to other states than any other state; we're 48th in business climate, according to the Tax Foundation; we have the second - highest electric rates in the country; we rank as the worst state in America in which to retire, and the list goes on.

Elections in 2001 brought to power a conservative government that has slashed most of the country's funding and other incentives for renewable energy.

The so - called Norwegian Government scholarships are open to young researchers from most European countries; only other Scandinavian countries (Sweden and Denmark) are excluded.

The U.K. government today published an industrial strategy to help its businesses make the most of expected growth in nuclear energy as the United Kingdom and other countries begin to build more nuclear plants to reduce carbon emissions.

The London - based Science Media Centre relayed a series of comments coming mostly from the United Kingdom — which, unlike most other European countries, has a long tradition of having science advisers in government.

Our sense is that the most committed governments will work to ensure that the E.U. complies with its Kyoto commitments as a whole, notably by purchasing emission credits overseas from the clean development mechanism and from a similar system that allows governments to obtain credits in Russia and other «transition» countries.

For decades, the U.S. government has mandated fluoridation of the water supply, although most other developed countries reject the idea.

Successive governments of the same ruling Liberal Democratic Party, for the entirety of the postwar period, took the official position that Article 9 of the constitution can not be said to ban the country's right of individual self - defense in its most minimal fashion, but they have consistently ruled out the possibility of exercising CSD, engaging in other countries» wars when Japan is not attacked, as unconstitutional.

Most other modern countries have essentially melded their private - education sectors into their systems of public financing — and have accepted the tradeoffs that accompany such financing, namely government regulation of curriculum, teacher credentialing, student admissions and more.

Customs and Border Protection is now the largest, most well - funded law enforcement agency in the country with an annual budget of more than $ 13.56 billion, and it enjoys a breadth of function unlike any other organization in the U.S. government, with oversight of 44 other agencies.

The federal government, through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., insures 100 per cent of high - risk mortgages issued by banks, whereas the OECD says most other industrialized countries guarantee only 10 to 30 per cent.

Government in the U.K. and other places outside of the United States seem to have supported the consensus IPCC findings on global warming, which has kept their skeptics at bay in their countries for the most part (except perhaps in Australia which is heavily influenced by interests in the U.S.).

The government needs to put a climate recovery plan in place as soon as possible, and at this point, the most direct and most efficient way to encourage that is through the federal courts — which is why I am a plaintiff in a lawsuit with several other kids from across the country who believe the government must do more to protect the future of our planet.

It's an attraction felt most strongly by investors keen to trade in a fresh derivative, by Western governments keen to find a way of cheaply paying other countries to do the work of actually reducing emissions, and by the governments of developing nations desperate for income.

But most big countries have various incentives for renewable energy or solar specifically, making it hard to know who's really getting more help (and if one country is getting a lot more help than others, by buying their products you are getting a subsidy from their government, so that's not bad either).

Most other governments, with Western European countries in the lead, demanded more aggressive action.

Much of what she says was fairly mainstream UK constitutional law lesson 1.1, e.g. that the UK constitution is different from most other countries in that its governing principle is that sovereign power is not distributed between the three branches of government (executive, legal and judicial), but resides solely in Parliament.

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.

Many, if not most, European governments have bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with other countries.

We believe investigating the effects of internet - delivered treatments are particularly relevant for rural populations, 27 as these communities typically struggle to access counselling opportunities, 28 and the rates of problematic gambling are sometimes higher for rural persons than the Albertan average.2 Furthermore, given that most telemedicine applications in Alberta are focused on delivering training or non-clinical services, 28 and that the government of Alberta may legalise on - line gambling in the near future, gambling harm and treatment need are likely to increase for rural and remote Albertans.29 Also, as gambling and the internet are ubiquitous phenomena in western countries, this study may be relevant to other rural and remote jurisdictions.