Sentences with phrase «much about the country»

I do think it says much about the country we're living in, and what we're living through.

I remember the first time we talked he was still in junior high school and he knew so much about my country.

This year, while in Florida, she was in constant contact with a man named John Dixon, an old Afghan hand who knew as much about the country as almost anyone and was helping achieve the vision of a person who knew even more than he did: a seventy - nine - year - old woman named Nancy Hatch Dupree, who for decades had divided her time between Kabul and Peshawar.

Each breed can tell you so much about the country they are from.

Italy's film giallo — garish, bloody, and melodramatic — says as much about the country as its understated neo-realistic or high - brow surrealist works.

We didn't know much about the country apart from some mentions we'd heard about the national football team (we're big football fans).

Thanks to our tour director, we learned SO MUCH about our country's history in the West.

She knew so much about the country which made me feel comfortable and I learnt so much from her

I hadn't considered traveling to Nicaragua simply because I didn't know much about the country and I had never been to Central America before.

Living and teaching in Korea, not only have I had the opportunity to learn so much about this country, but I am in an excellent position to explore all that Asia has to offer as great travel opportunities are at most a cheap flight away.

Not exact matches

Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus told CNBC he's disappointed about the political divide in Washington and that the country's elected officials could be doing a much better job.

«What democratic socialism is about,» Sanders declared, is «that it is immoral and wrong that the top one - tenth of 1 percent in this country... own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.»

Before figuring out how to price your sale and design its terms, you need to learn as much as you can about the country's payment norms, creditor protection laws (if any), and your customer's credit history.

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

Although he's been the face of the party since 2003, his candidacy for the country's top job has brought up issues of disclosure and privacy: How much does the public need to know about a prospective leader?

Ren built the business by first servicing developing, underserved countries, which is why the western world hasn't heard much about Huawei, yet.

There's much talk these days about the risks to the economy posed by globalization, where problems in one country spread to others.

In an interview with YFS Magazine, global entrepreneur Tej Kohli talked about the different hurdles he came across when expanding from country to country, including learning about behavioral and cultural norms, legal and tax differences and much more.

But ultimately the dollar, because our country is going to get so much stronger economically, if you look at what's happened to our country over the — look, I've been talking about this with you for 25 years.

«Most other countries think about privacy in a much more restrictive way than the U.S.,» says Byers, who expects he may need to open offshore data centers.

These rotations told Cramer that the investors putting their money to work in the market were betting that the country is about to grow at a much faster pace.

The evangelists of a services economy don't talk much about the fact that Canada spends considerably more on other countries» services than those countries spend on ours.

Today, it's the biggest per - capita exporter of food by nearly double — the next country on the list, France, produces only about half as much.

«Foreign workers applying to jobs are much more nervous about the process, and even our existing H - 1B workers are worried that they will be kicked out of the country,» she adds, noting that one employee is considering working from Europe as opposed to the U.S. — a move Phone2Action would support.

«It clearly sends the signal that they intend to apply their management principles of cost - cutting and meritocracy as they describe it — the youthful assumption that it can always be done better — which will now be applied to the much more profitable and successful acquired company, in a country they've never worked in before,» Danahy said about the prospective new owners.

This country is very much the leader in research, design and innovation for hardware, whether you're talking about autonomous vehicles or consumer electronics.»

They also need to ask themselves hard questions about their government's fiscal policy, including why their country continues to spend so much money on defence.

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

«Then they came up with some sensors that Elon Musk said would drive itself across itself the country by the end of 2016,» Wozniak said, referring to a much - talked - about «summon» function Musk has promoted.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Flournoy said President Trump's tough talk about North Korea — which has included deriding Kim Jong Un as «Little Rocket Man» and threatening to rain «fire and fury» down on his country — made it «much more likely now that one side or the other will misread what was intended as a show of commitment or a show of force.»

No doubt we should be cautious about reading too much into a comparison between resource project decisions governed by different statutory regimes in countries separated by half the globe.

«[My family has] much bigger things to worry about right now than what the president says,» she said on «The View,» adding that the country needs «more compassion.

Businesses in the 17 countries that use the euro became much more gloomy about their prospects in May as the currency area's fiscal crisis deepened.

For much of the country lawn - mowing season isn't here yet, so you should have time to read Jonathan Blumberg's article about Christy Webber, who turned a summer lawn mowing job into a multi-million dollar business.

In most countries, a «spike» has been evident for much of 1999 in expectations about the level of interest rates around the turn of the year.

Currently, total trade between Mercosur countries and Canada totals about $ 8 billion, however that stands to grow exponentially if an agreement is reached (for reference, trade with Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Chile totalled $ 48 billion despite these countries much smaller economic size due to bi-lateral agreements with Canada).

This is our country and I care as much about the coast of British Columbia as folks living in Burnaby do.

Complaining about income taxes is an American pastime in its own right, but regulatory costs run much higher, eating up 11 percent of the country's $ 17.4 billion GDP.

About half of the country thinks they watch too much TV.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

Mutual funds vary between different countries, so it pays to find out as much as you can about them in your own locale if you are planning on investing in them in any way.

I mean this country is protest crazy, suing crazy, and sometimes, with the way we care so much about celebrites, is crazy itself.

Actually few months before what is happening now in my country I saw big flood flooding over the city but not in to my place of my living... although people were some screaming and some as riding it smiling but all were being washed away... then have asked a freind about it who said it might mean no much money or business will be coming to me which I doubted if it meant that, but today I know what it was about...!

Yes our quality of life is still quite good relative to SOME other countries... that not really what people are thinking though when they use the term «3rd world country» — they are talking about the trending that they see — and the media reflects a perception out there that things are trending in a negative direction... look, if you read my original posts, you will see that they have much less to do with our economy as they have to do with WHY we are involved in the middle east and the SOCIAL impact of that.

When you're Ample Hills Creamery, the # 1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window.

Much of classical music is instrumental, operas are not always about religion, country music isn't always religious, folk music depends on the origin which can be secular or of other religions besides Christian, much of rock and pop music is not religious, and soMuch of classical music is instrumental, operas are not always about religion, country music isn't always religious, folk music depends on the origin which can be secular or of other religions besides Christian, much of rock and pop music is not religious, and somuch of rock and pop music is not religious, and so on.

Republicans fall for it because the have no real connection with most Americans... the need it to get control of the country... Christians fall for it because they use the black and white issue of abortion and gay and lesbian marriage... while completely ignore the harvest field of the Muslim world because they have guns adn will kill you if yo uso much as fart while Muhammad is takign a dump... there's billion Muslims and very few Christians willin to go there... it's obvious a job for a million Christians a real million man and woman army willin gto die for Jesus Christ and stop talkign all the time about abortin abortion abortion and the gay thisn and anythinng else..

Things would be resolved much quicker in this country if people would realized that if you talk about things, instead of stomping your feet and crying like a pre-schooler, usually there is a simply and reasonable explination.

I'm American and I love my country, but some people here think they know so much when they're completely ignorant about the world, especially the Eastern world.