Sentences with phrase «moving countries closer»

This Bonn session should be a continuation of the constructive spirit of the last, moving countries closer to significant, global action to reduce climate change's perilous impacts.

Not exact matches

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

Japan said the move would have a «big impact» on the countries» close bilateral ties, while China said it was «resolutely opposed» to the decision and South Korea said it may file a complaint to the World Trade Organization.

«Maybe you picked the child you live closest to now, but they later move halfway across the country,» Clapp said.

They assumed that China's opening up to the global economy meant that the country was moving down a path closer to western models.

During the leadership conclave, Xi also declared a «new era» for his country, which entails the idea that China is moving closer to the center of the global stage as an influential power.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)-- Uganda's government on Tuesday issued eight oil production licenses to two foreign companies, moving the East African country closer to becoming a producer of crude.

Moving manufacturing overseas can mean that companies can close plants in their own countries.

Sprint and T - Mobile are moving towards closing a deal above the $ 30 billion range that will merge the country's third and fourth largest telecommunications providers, but antitrust regulators may not give the deal its blessing.

If this deluded lunatic looks like he might even come close to winning the White House, I am packing up my family and moving to some more enlightened country until America works itself through the Dark Ages all over again.

And while these issues can not be discussed without considering other deeply troubling problems such as mental health treatment and school security, they need to be discussed if our country is going to move any closer to authentically providing our children with safe spaces to learn.

In a move likely to fuel tensions with its minority Arab population, Israel moved a step closer to passing a law that would require new citizens of the country to declare their loyalty to a «Jewish state.»

We also love how close we are to other south Asian countries so we've been able to travel a bunch since moving here which is so fun!

Kevin De Bruyne «s proposed switch to Manchester City from Bundesliga outfit VfL Wolfsburg has moved a step closer after he was pictured arriving in the country ahead of his planned medical later today.

With a fortnight still to go until the transfer window closes in China there's still time for more stars to make a big - money move but the proof of the country's success won't come before February 26, it will be when they start creating their own superstars.

But Miller says, yes, she worked hard to put a ring on it — she didn't have casual flings or drunk text, she moved across the country to be closer to a serious prospect (after a month of dating), learned to communicate and negotiate after moving in together, etc..

AT&T Inc.'s wireless workers moved closer toward striking at the nation's second - largest carrier, citing a campaign pledge by Trump to keep U.S. jobs from being outsourced to other countries.

Tom Harris MP Transport select committee member Miller's wrong move Maria Miller's decision to close Remploy factories around the country, shedding the jobs of 1,700 people in the process, was the wrong decision at the wrong time.

Johnson believes that any move to stay as close as a country such as Norway is to the EU would tie Britain's hands because signing up to the same regulations would limit the ability to strike new trade deals elsewhere.

We are already diplomatically close, but this move by Mr Hague to extend our interests is a very welcome renewal of our four countries» friendship.

The move comes in the wake of intense lobbying by the church, which included the archbishop of Westminster, cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor, writing to ministers warning the laws could see Catholic adoption agencies close across the country.

«This is a move to try to create mayhem in the individual country boroughs,» said one source close to the campaign, who explained that hiring staffers at the Board of Elections is one of the county leaders» key jobs.

The law in Australia, the US and other countries does not discourage scientists from writing about companies, and the hope is that English libel law will move closer to these models.

China, she said, invested millions of dollars in closing down inefficient coal - fired power plants, a move for which the country was highly lauded.

But the two countries have been moving closer in recent years, and barriers have been coming down.

The new struggle on Hawaii foreshadows what the rest of the country could face as solar moves closer to the mainstream, several involved in the debate said.

That became clear in the meeting's closing moments, when both Yuste and Bargmann offered goals and suggestions — like the idea that national agencies fund worthy applicants from any country; and the convening of a committee that tackles the links between international projects — but no specific plan for moving forward.

A friend of mine managed to stay close to home for grad school, but now she has to pick up and move halfway across the country for a postdoc, leaving her daughter with her parents for a while.

My choice of locale didn't make it any easier, either; I moved much of the way across the country and away from family and, although I know a few people in this town, I have no close friends here.

One day I will pack all my things and move to another country, and then do it again and again, till I find one close enough to what I dreamt of; but that is a luxury I should be grateful for.

This Lincoln does not prophesy an incontrovertible march towards the fulfillment of our preordained destiny; he sees a country, instead, torn by war and divided over slavery, a country that through any means necessary — even means that may seem anathema to the American project — must persist in moving closer to the ideal realization of itself.

In this quietly charming, animated tale, two sisters (voiced by real - life siblings Elle and Dakota Fanning) move to the country to be closer to their hospitalized mother.

How does a close - knit Italian American family prevent one of its members from moving across the country in pursuit of a dream job?

Ultimately, this plan would move us closer to how other countries do testing: fewer tests with much higher stakes.

Although the U.S. is not among the 9 countries that were losing ground over this period of time, 11 other countries were moving forward at better than twice the pace of the United States, and all the other participating countries were changing at a rate similar enough to the United States to be within a range too close to be identified as clearly different.

Poland's OECD PISA rankings moved from below to above the OECD average and is now close to the top - performing countries.

Other countries, such as Finland, closed their schools of education and moved them to the universities, requiring subject - matter degrees and raising the bar for entry substantially.

Academies Enterprise Trust, the country's largest academy chain, has a pension deficit of # 68.6 million, down from # 71.9 million the previous year, when nine of its academies were merged, closed or moved to other trusts.

So while moving to a foreign country might not be possible for many Utahns, getting a global education may be as close as your neighborhood school.

It takes 20 seconds to open / close the rooftop fully and it can be done while the vehicle is moving up to 40 km / hr, which is good for the sudden changes in weather in our country.

That hurricane had been the shortest on record, but to keep the coastal towns safe from our fish, our family had packed up and moved deep inland, plunging into the very heart of the land and stopping as close to the center of the country as we could get.

Why do some institutions close IRA accounts when the account holder moves to another country or spends most of their time outside of the United States?

Finance Magnates has learned that 24option is the latest binary options broker closing its Israeli call center and moving its operation to another country.

She moved to Northern California in 2007 just to be closer to Napa and the surrounding wine countries there.

As the legal saga around Shepard Fairey's Obama portrait draws to a close, the country has moved on.

From Dupuy - Spencer's brush emerges a highly personalized worldview that moves in the broad geographic space between Upstate New York and New Orleans, and the compressed emotional distance dividing her depictions of close friends and a fantastic pantheon of departed country music legends.

The close links between energy and development, assessing today's global picture for access to modern energy, the strategies and technologies that can enable countries to achieve energy for all by 2030, and the ways in which reliable energy can move communities from poverty towards prosperity.

The long - expected finding, set in motion two years ago by a Supreme Court ruling, moves the Obama administration one step closer to regulating CO2 emissions from a number of sources across the country.