Sentences with phrase «not billions of people»

It is easy to claim that the conditions experienced by millions, if not billions of people are the result, not of politics and policies, but of climate change, and to promise that policies which will mitigate climate change will bring about world peace, end poverty and create a general sense of well being amongst all people.

Yes to world leaders, football matches and Christmas markets; no to climate marches and protests pointing out that the negotiations, with the current level of emission targets, endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions if not billions of people.

What standard of proof should be required before enacting policies which will inevitably lead to deprivations of life, liberty and property of millions, if not billions of people?

Millions if not billions of people all over the world have played at least one game in their lifetime.

Marvel Studios has not only changed my life and the lives of every person in this photo they have entertained millions, if not billions of people around the planet.

It doesn't take deep thought to realize that «Surrogates» is, as a story, a metaphor for how millions, if not billions of people have an alternate persona online who happens to be an idealized form of themselves.

Millions, if not billions of people around the World were sitting in apprehension, waiting for the moment when Kate Middleton would step from her car and reveal her wedding dress to the waiting world.

First off I have to thank you for writing such an eye - opening article and sharing it with millions if not billions of people like me who really need it.

Mercury could be reducing the mental performance of millions if not billions of people worldwide and medical experts are just not seeing it.

It's not the billions of people in developing countries who are using up all the planet's resources, flying around the world, driving SUVs and spewing CO2 at every available moment.

We would be able to protect millions if not billions of people around the planet who have been ravaged not just by the drug war, crimes and the vicious violence but also by terrorist groups funded largely by this trade who continue to maim and kill around the planet too.»

Changing humanity implies that millions, if not billions of people are going to be affected by your vision for the future.

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But not many Midwestern business people have had that rocketship growth experience; the visceral sense of the pressure and speed of g - forces when you take a $ 1 million startup and turn it into a $ 1 billion - plus business.

This in turn means that billions of dollars of «unnecessary and avoidable spending» takes place, as people are not following their healthcare plans.

Eventually, the technology could help providers identify more individuals who are at risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — cardiovascular disease not only affects over 100 million people in the US, it is also the costliest disease in the nation, with associated costs reaching $ 555 billion in 2016, according to American Heart Association.

Goldman may be hoping that this new venture will soften its image and make it more popular with average Americans, but it's hard to forget its role in the subprime mortgage crisis that destroyed billions of dollars of value on Main Street, not to mention people's livelihoods.

To believe that people like Schwarzman or Trump, or Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (net worth US$ 2.5 billion) or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose net worth is a modest US$ 150 million), will leave Canada alone, that they will look for a better deal with everyone except their second - largest trading partner, is not just naïve — it's like jumping into a pool filled with great white sharks because you've convinced yourself they're vegetarians.

To date EverFi has raised a total of $ 251 million including the latest round, its Series D. People familiar with the deal declined to comment on the firm's private valuation, though one person familiar with the terms suggested that the company had not, at this stage, hit that oft - vaunted billion - dollar milestone.

Today, hundreds of millions — if not billions — of people use the radio to keep informed about goings - on in the world, listen to music, and be entertained.

Health tech and biotech have the power to transform the lives of millions, if not billions, of people in the not - too - distant future.

Federal regulators are poised to impose a $ 1 billion penalty on Wells Fargo for a variety of alleged misdeeds, including forcing customers to buy auto insurance policies that they didn't need, according to people briefed on the regulatory action.

We're not talking earnings in the billions of dollars from multinational, multi-industry conglomerates anymore - we're talking about the ability for people to work together in harmony, understanding and mutual respect, along with cooperation.

You may not have heard of Wayfair, but neither have a lot of the people who've turned the online purveyor of home goods (faux florals, ceiling fans, fire pits) into a nearly $ 1 - billion - in - sales business.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Ma says part of his strategy for growing the company is to continue expanding into developing countries — countries where approximately 6.5 billion people don't use e-commerce today.

Its goal is to connect the billions of people in developing countries who aren't yet online by giving them access to certain portions of the Internet for free.

I'm not amazed at being able to make a website anymore, but remembering why we got into this and knowing there are millions and billions of people we can help inspires me.

Aiming to appeal to people's sense of both productivity and patriotism, Heinz cited a statistic that more than 16 million people call in sick or simply don't go to the work the day after the Super Bowl, leading to an annual loss of $ 1 billion.

The violence has largely taken place outside of areas frequented by tourists, who drive what is a $ 20 billion industry for Mexico, and statistics suggest it hasn't had great effect on how many people are visiting — occupancy rates exceed 90 %.

The Justice Department offered a $ 17 billion settlement in the previous round of discussions and felt the bank's proposal was not serious, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Despite the fact that Zuckerberg made billions from a company that encourages people to share the details of their lives, he doesn't want the specifics of the meetings leaking, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The reasons are understandable — a billion - dollar payday for Instagram, for example, tends to get investors» attention — but let's face it: another Facebook camera app is not going to save people's health, or restore American competitiveness, or life ur standard of living or quality of life.

The fundraising is continuing and Blackstone already has commitments totaling in excess of $ 17.5 billion, which is the fund's hard cap, or fundraising limit, the people said on Thursday, asking not to be identified because the fundraising process is confidential.

We effectively get a stupendous return on our investment, and I don't know anything that could be better than that — given that we understand that this is a hugely global play, and participants are up against people whose balance sheets are $ 50, $ 60 billion of capital.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this yeNot only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this yenot seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

Facebook may not want to admit that it is a media entity, but the reality is that it plays a huge role in how billions of people see the world around them.

As secretary, Price criticized the Medicaid health program for low - income people, saying it doesn't deliver results commensurate with the hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayers spend on it.

A proposed settlement figure of about $ 20 billion was discussed at the bank, according to people briefed on the matter, but it is not clear who proposed that number.

This caricature of a system that doles out unique scores to 1.4 billion people could not work technically nor politically, says Rogier Creemers, a scholar of Chinese law at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands.

It could raise as much as $ 10 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the company but not authorized to speak on the record.

This isn't one of those cases where 94 per cent is an A +, non-numbers people — but even you can likely see the gut - wrenching problem of this year's deficit, now adjusted upward to $ 10.9 billion.

And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgages.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

One of the big concerns about comparing Puerto Rico to other blackout events — as Rhodium did in the first chart — is that not every country tracks power data as well as others, and some countries are still electrifying (there are still 1.1 billion people around the world who don't have electricity), explained Peter Marsters, a research analyst at Rhodium.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

SAC employees expect clients to say they will take back most of the $ 4 billion they haven't already marked for redemptions by early next year, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.

It's been losing not only capital flight of $ 25 billion a year to the west but its people have been emigrating and President Putin, now Prime Minister Putin, has said that the demographic effect of just privatizing Russian real estate, and industry and following western advice has lost maybe 30 million Russians from what the normal demographic growth would be to 2050.

Fortunately for Zuckerberg, in the time since he told CNN that he might not be the most qualified person at the company to testify, Facebook has already gotten ahead of some of the most damaging conclusions — like that all of its two billion users should already assume their data made it from Facebook to like, whoever.

A skeptic might argue that this does not necessitate peak coal, because other developing countries home to billions of people are still nowhere near the level of electricity use of the Western world.