Sentences with phrase «nation and world area»

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It currently has a population of four and holds the Guinness World Record for «the smallest area to lay claim to nation status.»

Our difficulty in speaking about cross-cultural principles of right and wrong is compounded by the fact that international organizations, from the United Nations to the World Court, are fragile and nearly helpless in many of the most critical areas of conflict.

The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).

None of these infrastructures and supporting industries for the rural areas of the world can be built without the backing of the donor nations and multilateral agencies.

St Woolos Cathedral's website outlines the main areas of prayer: «Pray for good order and harmony for the city during the Summit, Pray for the Summit itself - to be positive and productive, Pray for peace and for wise government throughout the world, Pray for the nations, particularly those currently experiencing war and trouble.»

This is certainly obvious in terms of widening the area of human co-operation — in uniting families into peaceful communities with equitable distribution of responsibilities and privileges, and then creating from these the larger communities of states and nations, and finally developing from these a world society dedicated to the fullest realization of every member of the human family.

Prentice, like more than a dozen Chicago - area hospitals, now emphasizes rooming in as part of its effort to earn a «baby - friendly» designation offered by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.

«We concluded with a conversation about how the acknowledgment of those living with special needs across the world is growing and it is one of the areas that in the United Nations and, from his perspective, in the Arab world has transcended some of their other political difficulties and some of the other controversial topics that obviously and rightfully consume their attention,» Molinaro said.

The U.S. R&D enterprise has contributed enormously to the quality of American life, to the nation's health and security, and to its world leadership in many areas of industrial technology.

The U.S. R&D enterprise contributes enormously to the quality of American life, to the nation's health and security, and to our world leadership in many areas of industrial technology.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

Such afforested areas account for only 4 percent of Earth's forests, but they already supply 35 percent of the world's wood products, according to the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization.

A new analysis commissioned by the United Nations uses a comprehensive combination of social, economic, political and environmental factors to identify areas around the world most at - risk for «hydro - political» strife.

While commercial fishing has not yet occurred in the area, the world's hunger for fish protein is rising and both Arctic and non-Arctic nations are angling to develop natural resources in the region as global warming opens shipping lanes.

The United Nations launched its Oceans and Coastal Areas Network — later renamed UN Oceans — in 2003 to coordinate ocean and coastal efforts around the world.

The world's nations have expanded access to water and sanitation while creating more protected areas than ever before, yet countries have failed to reverse degradation of air quality and decline in fisheries, the report finds.

More than half of the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations projects another 2.5 billion people will move to cities by 2050.

NewYork - Presbyterian is the # 1 hospital in the New York metropolitan area, according to U.S. News & World Report, and consistently named to the magazine's Honor Roll of best hospitals in the nation.

7/13/2007 UCSD Medical Center Programs Rank Among The Nation's Best The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is the only San Diego hospital that ranks among the best in the nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» Nation's Best The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is the only San Diego hospital that ranks among the best in the nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» issue.

Coconut oil protects tropical populations from bacteria and fungus so prevalent in their food supply; as third - world nations in tropical areas have switched to polyunsaturated vegetable oils, the incidence of intestinal disorders and immune deficiency diseases has increased dramatically.

Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth - largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world.

Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth - largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14 largest independent nation in the world.

It is the second largest country in South America and eighth in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish - speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.

It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish - speaking nations.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

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Education is just one of the areas where Newark is working to become the model for cities across the nation and the world.

It is the third largest Muslim - majority nation, and one of the most densely populated countries in the world; about 147 million people live in an area about the size of Iowa, with about a third of the land prone to flooding each year.

Feline distemper is known in all parts of the world, in both developed and undeveloped nations, and in both rural and urban areas.

Some areas of the world — notably Australia, Great Britain, Iceland, Japan, and the Scandinavian nations — have managed to eliminate rabies through strict quarantines on incoming animals, but it is found everywhere else in the world.

Dog flu is in the Chicago area, and there are outbreaks around the nation, which Dr. Natalie Marks and myself discuss on my national radio show, Steve Dale's Pet World, on WGN...

The town lies in the centre of a United Nations World Biosphere Reserve, an ecologically significant area that supports many uncommon plant and animal species.

These teams will unveil their concepts on September 4, 2014, kicking off a public process that will draw feedback from across the Bay Area, nation, and the world.

Placencia is proud to be one of three pilot sites chosen in the MAR area, working with the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), supported by funding from the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in a collaborative effort known as ICRAN / MAR, working to halt and reverse the decline in health of the world's coral reefs, specifically the Mesoamerican World Wildlife Fund (WWF), in a collaborative effort known as ICRAN / MAR, working to halt and reverse the decline in health of the world's coral reefs, specifically the Mesoamerican world's coral reefs, specifically the Mesoamerican Reef.

Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how it will alter — the physical and social landscape of the country (in particular, the socioeconomic divide between urban and rural areas).

Providence, Rhode Island — based artist Dave Cole blurs the lines between homespun and manufactured, innocent and subversive, nostalgic and postindustrial in his knitted, quilted, and hand - sewn sculptures that range from three - inch - tall Kevlar booties to a 450 - square - foot American flag quilt stitched together from the red, white, and blue areas of the «192 Flags of the World» — the official United Nations set.

I was making a statement about the reality that 1) much of the world is today is already at or below replacement fertility levels, and that 2) the main high - fertility areas remaining in the world today are in fact sub-Saharan African nations.

Dignitaries and participating organizations pledged new support for controls on poaching, efforts to limit tiger - human clashes in populous areas and steps to conserve habitat, with money coming both from the 13 countries where tigers still roam and nations whose citizens desire a world with room for wild tigers.

The first 10 countries listed are top in the world ranked by GDP, and the remaining nations represent areas with relatively low electrification levels in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

It is already one of the most disaster - prone nations in the world and many of its 1.2 billion people live in areas vulnerable to hazards such as floods, cyclones and droughts.

This guidance document showcases how the world's smallest island nations are now using new climate prediction tools to boost their economies and enhance livelihoods in areas as diverse as renewable energy, agriculture and national economic planning.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- As economic losses from disasters rise around the world, more effort is needed to reduce the risks from extreme weather and earthquakes in every area, from infrastructure to health, the United Nations disaster prevention chief said.

Today energy development in Area 1002, as in much of the Arctic, remains prohibited by restrictive federal policies, which puts at risk our nation's long - term energy security and ability to meet the nation and the world's energy needs.

Then in 2011 sharks sanctuaries came fast and furious: Honduras became the first nation in the Americas to create a shark sanctuary, followed soon after by Chile and the Bahamas; then Tokelau in the Pacific declared a sanctuary in its waters; finally the Marshall islands created the world's largest sanctuary, spanning a total area larger than the country of Mexico.

Eventually, this work in Louisiana can be expanded to address other critical wetland areas throughout the nation and the world, making this study a first step, with the potential for major global impact.»

Some of the most interesting projects are applications for the Internet, including one dubbed The World Database on Protected Areas, a joint project of the United Nations Environment Program and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«He is a world leader of energy research and policy and he will be instrumental in organizing research efforts of our faculty in areas of critical importance to our state's and nation's energy needs.»