Sentences with phrase «nation of about»

NAR representatives traveled first to the Dominican Republic, a nation of about 10 million people that shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.

Clarke added that Burundi — an East African nation of about 10 million people who speak the local Kirundi language and French — is on a list of countries at the Refugee Protection Division for expedited processing.

Although statistics are scarce, Russia — a nation of about 140 million people — may have nearly a million krokodil users, estimates Anya Sarang, a public - health advocate who works with drug users in Moscow.

If the old Polish - Lithuania Commonwealth (from the Middle Ages) were reconstituted with Poland, the Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states, it would consist of a nation of about 100 million people that would be a threat to Russia.

He confronted me in the presence of a witness: «Abdul - Rahman, with a nation of about 70 % Christians, do you think it will be fair to have a Muslim President?»

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... As a nation, we have been trained to look past the bad behavior of our rudest guests, especially the uninvited ones, and rather than cause a scene, we shall just go about our daily business as if nothing has happened.

She was heading to the nation's capital to hear Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testify before Congress about the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.

Despite constant internal bickering about the consequences of allowing it, Canada came to be regarded internationally as a nation quite open to receiving foreign capital.

OPEC's largest producer and de facto leader — Saudi Arabia — is the most closely watched oil nation for hints about an unofficial oil price target, and speculation has been ripe since the start of the deal in January 2017 as to what price the Kingdom is aiming for.

Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

But the CEO of Martin Marietta is encouraged about repairing the nation's crumbling infrastructure after meeting recently with President Trump.

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

Yet according to data from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unitred Nations (FAOSTAT), Americans eat about 3,600 calories daily — a 24 % increase from 1961.

The highly buzzed about «Beasts of No Nation» will be available to stream for all Netflix users on October 16.

Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor at the Reserve Bank of India, speaks about how a potential trade war will impact the world's second most populous nation.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for higher duties to about $ 150 billion.

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Eunice Yoon speaks to entrepreneurs across the nation about the challenges of opening a business in China.

Last year, the United Nations» heritage body expressed concern about the state of the Great Barrier Reef and urged Australia to boost its conservation efforts.

Trump paused during a lengthy statement to the nation about his November trip to Asia to take a sip of water, holding the bottle with both hands and causing social media to erupt in viral gifs and videos.

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.

At the time, oil supplies for OECD nations had surged to near 400 million barrels above their five - year average, and were still running at about 300 million barrels above the average at the end of 2016.

Much as been recently written about the startup boom in Tel Aviv, known colloquially as Startup Nation, the city with the highest density of startups in the world.

Despite harsh noises from western leaders about throttling tax havens, he believes they are proliferating as never before — with the complicity of those same leaders — and are causing immeasurable damage to developed and developing nations alike.

Coates recently spoke to Wired about the joys and challenges of penning new adventures for the character, who is the king of an African nation called Wakanda.

Ironically, the selloff of U.S. stocks began a few weeks ago because of weakness in the Chinese economy, the devaluation of the yuan, and stock market turmoil in the Asian nation, which led to serious concerns about a global economic slowdown.

Trump couldn't resist, in the middle of his very serious speech about our nation and its future, to muse: «I have the best courses in the world.»

If you are serious about owning a business with consistent reoccurring revenue, this can be your opportunity to become part of the nation's most innovative and respected organic - based lawn care company.

The United Nations voiced deep concern about reports of Syrian soldiers and allied Iraqi fighters summarily shooting dead 82 people in east Aleppo districts this week - accusations denied by the army and the Iraqi militia in question.

And increasingly, some of the nation's highest - profile commentators are speculating about one slightly unconventional pick: Sen. Al Franken.

As mentioned many times before in these blogs about the show, a scary proportion of these aspiring inventors are sadly ignorant about our nation's patent, copyright, and trademark laws.

If the US decided as a nation to reduce or eliminate incentives for homeownership, eliminating just the mortgage - interest deduction would, on average, eliminate about a third of that subsidy.

«I'm hoping and praying we can alleviate some of the suffering, not only in West Virginia, but everywhere across the nation just about now,» he says.

TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters)- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday.

David Miliband, International Rescue Committee, talks about the impact of President Trump's executive orders to restrict immigration with seven nations and suspend refugee entry for 120 - days.

While in the same breath he talks about «Putting America First» - which to some sounds like a return to U.S. isolationism - Trump makes it clear he has big plans to write a whole new chapter of the nation's war on terrorism, which dates back to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

«As we speak,» he says, «eight out of 10 journalists in the nation's capital are chasing a story about the long - form census, and, according to a poll I read this morning, 50 % of Canadians don't care about it.»

«This find is very important because it reaffirms a lot of the history that our people have been talking about for thousands of years,» William Housty, a member of Heiltsuk Nation, told CBC News.

But what makes Zappos incredibly powerful is that it took call - center jobs and online retailing order - fulfillment work and wove them into one of the most talked about corporate cultures in the nation.

But a merger of the nation's third - and fourth - largest mobile phone carriers would raise questions about whether regulators would allow the combination or block it on antitrust grounds.

In part two, Sharapova talks about how she overcame injury, her work with the United Nations and the launch of her candy business, «Sugarpova».

It is — and this is putting it mildly — sometimes difficult to generalize about a nation of 1.3 billion people.

SYDNEY, March 16 (Reuters)- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia reject protectionism, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Singapore counterpart said on Friday, amid fears about a possible trade war sparked by U.S. plans to raise tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

A new survey says graduates of the nation's top b - school aren't entirely optimistic, but they have some pretty solid ideas about how to get Americans back to work.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

Fox: I've been debating with this fellow [Nigel] Farage, creator of the Brexit and promoter of the Brexit, about the nation - state, about a powerful government that controls borders but also controls individuals.

IT»S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast - moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a «war», because it's not; what's going on is simply economics at work, and it's telling a story of changes in the wealth of nations.

They shared contrasting views about a number of hot button issues around privacy, which have created a deep divide between Silicon Valley and the nation's security apparatus.

SYDNEY, March 16 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Australia reject protectionism, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Singapore counterpart said on Friday, amid fears about a possible trade war sparked by U.S. plans to raise tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.