Sentences with phrase «much power countries»

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Meanwhile, Portugal's Communist Party has support of as much as 10 percent of the electorate — and could help deny that country's Socialist Party a shot at taking back power from the governing center - right coalition in an Oct. 4 election.
Despite being one of the world's sunniest countries, Saudi Arabia does not generate much power from solar, which makes up just a marginal amount of its largely oil - fired power production.
Adds Byrd, «The U.S. power sector has simply reached an inflection point where renewables have become the cheapest form of new generation across much of the country.
Since gaining power, howerver, Syriza has not been able to deliver as much as it had promised, such as adding thousands of jobs to the economy and writing off most of the country's debt.
I feel for the women who were frightened by this guy but that being said women are being treated much worse in countries where their theological system has power.
The founders of the United States were keenly aware of the danger of concentrating power and developed a system of checks and balances that is responsible for much of what is best about our country.
We live in a country that would never elect a non-christian (which says much about how much power christians have... hello theocracy) The argument is whether or not belief and opinion should affect policy.
Those who support the thesis that the law is power and preference and command have much to sustain them in British history and the history of other countries as well.
The country has pretty much been at war since the 1940's with India over the Kashmir territory — and both countries are nuclear powers.
This requires a networking of groups and inter-relation of actions much more than in previous periods when the problems of one country could be dealt with within a country and through the use of state power.
That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».
Of course, there is an argument that Qatar should have as much right as any other country, established in football or not, to host a World Cup and that the European powers should not be able to stand in their way.
Within this context, it will be very much unbecoming for any politician seeking political power to abuse the system and introduce what will not work well for the country.
The country's «internal conundrum of military versus civilian power must be slowly resolved in favour of civilian, but civilian politicians must be much more responsible to the nation than they have been so far» (p. 210).
No, they rather imagine how much of that amount they would have pocketed if they were in power, living in obscene luxury, while the rest of the country went to hell, if it wanted.
Often, that doesn't materialise, but in general, a country is much more likely to maintain the status quo as long as the same person remains in power.
But - tempting thought it has been for him to switch off his phone and put his feet up - the PM loves his country too much to abandon it, even in his final days in power.
But in other countries, where power is not kept as much in check, probably not.
They also call for greater cooperation with developing countries, saying: «We have a chance to build much more ambitious energy partnerships with China, India and others that will leverage our market power with theirs and potentially set the technology standards for a global low carbon economy.
If the diplomats recognize or support the government change, are willing to represent the new regime or give up their powers to those appointed by the new regime, then the representation of the country in the UN passes to the new regime without much troubles.
OTOH, the Big Countries on the block sometimes have the power to stop other countries from having nukes - and note that they are not usually successful because they don't have THAT much power (witness Iran - despite all the posturing, the effective rate of success of everyone else in stopping - or even slowing down - their nuclear program is slightly below that of stopping Russians from drinking alcohol during their Prohibition iCountries on the block sometimes have the power to stop other countries from having nukes - and note that they are not usually successful because they don't have THAT much power (witness Iran - despite all the posturing, the effective rate of success of everyone else in stopping - or even slowing down - their nuclear program is slightly below that of stopping Russians from drinking alcohol during their Prohibition icountries from having nukes - and note that they are not usually successful because they don't have THAT much power (witness Iran - despite all the posturing, the effective rate of success of everyone else in stopping - or even slowing down - their nuclear program is slightly below that of stopping Russians from drinking alcohol during their Prohibition in 1980s).
But there are so many upright, good people who could do so much for this country but never get a chance of sharing power.
This check ✔ simply assured that no president / Prime minister gains too much power to undermine democracy as not putting any term limits have caused disastrous affects as seen in past through multiple examples, but not putting any term limits also hasn't caused any major problem in many countries such as India - the world's largest democracy.
On the balance, even with the Muslim lobby's Arabic scrawl on Nigeria's currency and their gamely push to brand their faith as the religion of power of independent Nigeria, British colonization has ensured much of the country's so - called «secularity» had Euro - Christian roots.
The Conservatives will have a significant majority whoever leads them and the opposition vote will splinter — to the SNP in Scotland and in the rest of the country a smattering to Labour, a rump to UKIP and loose change to a Liberal Democrat party that left power regretting it so much that it fled without a credible position to challenge from.
According to the lawmaker, too much power is concentrated at the centre and this does not augur well for the development of the country.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio described Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's career taking on «tough battles» and «standing up for those without much money and without much power» against Republican nominee Donald Trump's, as «one of the least generous billionaires our country has ever seen» and «the very definition of the predator class.»
To examine coal: It provides 60 percent of India's power and just one government - owned company, Coal India, is responsible for much of the country's supply.
That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.
(Other countries — such as the United States — very much lack an energy infrastructure that can work better with renewable power, hence President Barack Obama's emphasis on the so - called smart grid in the stimulus package.)
At its peak, a Weinstein campaign's optics had the power to silence the competition and absorb all the attention in the room, well beyond awards season: For much of the country, Weinstein and his movies became synonymous with American independent film.
It's unclear how much of this drop should be attributed solely to the elimination of agency fees, as Act 10 included other measures to curb union power, but the overlap between the states that allow agency fees and union power is evident across the country.
With everything that is happening in our country right now, it is so important for teachers to know how much power they have.
Unlike others, the Fordham Foundation analyst isn't so much concerned about what LAUSD is asking to do, or the federal government's ability to oversee the progress of individual districts around the country, but rather the possibility that a waiver for LAUSD gives too much power to the Education Department in Washington and bypasses state education agencies.
And, in turn, she told the principals, she'll urge state and local superintendents to follow suit and «give as much flexibility and decision - making power [as possible] to you and your colleagues across the country
In much of the country electric power is generated from coal.
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On the famously narrow country lanes of the British Cotswolds, which are heavily seeded with traffic speed cameras, there was not much opportunity to appreciate the SVR's power or even its overtaking abilities.
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As the country wrestles with the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision this week that gave another company the power to do pretty much as it pleases with regard to how it conducts business and employee relations, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that Amazon is not required to conduct business with any single entity.
Interestingly, there is no evidence found in history of the country why females have so much more power than males.
When such a move happens in currency markets, a country finds itself with much more purchasing power and a drastically improved import / export position.
The many gift shops that can be found around the city do nothing to detract from the sublime quality of Granada; if Santiago was the pinnacle of Christian achievement in Spain, then Granada represented the height of the Muslim power which once ruled much of this country.
[106] In 1394, he adopted Confucianism as the country's official ideology, resulting in much loss of power and wealth by the Buddhists.
Think how much we could achieve if every homeowner in this country converted from oil / coal / gas heat to solar and / or wind power.
The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.
If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.
Now the movement, much enlarged, is invading Washington, where several thousand young people from around the country have assembled for a meeting on climate and energy today, called Power Shift.
Developing countries now are much more capable of building and running nuclear power plants than US, UK, France, Germany, Russia were 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago.
The fact that they do not indicates how much power the coal industry has in the running of «our» country.
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