Sentences with phrase «number of countries all»

The new store will be launching in a few weeks and this marks the total number of countries it operates in to 26.

«Globally, according to one study, the number of countries providing a VAT exemption or reduced rate to eBooks rose significantly, around 50 %, over just three years.

It travels through a number of countries during its journey to the Atlantic Ocean, but the majority of its length is spent within or bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

«Someone asked Shaitan, the devil, «Since there is such a large number of countries in the world, how do you manage to keep so many of them in turmoil all the time, like Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and Palestine?

During his 15 - year career in the music industry, he wrote hits in a number of countries including a number one song in the U.S.

It had 5,000 books online in April 2002, 10,000 books online in October 2003, and 15,000 books online in January 2005, with 400 new books available per month, 40 mirror sites in a number of countries, and books downloaded by the tens of thousands every day.

Supercell has just released Clash Royale for Android and the game is available in a number of countries.

Rights for the Nic Costa series have been sold to a number of countries, but he is particularly proud of the fact that the series has been translated into Italian, «When you're a foreigner writing about their country, normally they won't touch you.

The Sony PRS - T3 e-Reader has officially been released in a number of countries.

This device may not ship millions of units like the 7 inch $ 50 Fire did, but it should be appealing to customers in a number of countries.

A growing number of countries are requiring antilock braking systems on motorcycles.

In the course of 2010 the smart fortwo will be launched in Argentina and Indonesia — bringing the number of countries to 45.

Suzuki launched the Swift Sport in a growing number of Countries in 2012 and sales in the UK are 1,200 units per year, of which around 450 units will be the five door model.

Traffic regulations in a large number of countries require trucks to always drive with an engaged gear, which in turn provides a certain amount of engine braking (viscous losses to the engine oil and air pumped through the engine and friction losses to the cylinder walls and bearings) when no accelerator pedal is applied.

Over the years, we have published many books and articles, presented at NAGC Conferences and many state conferences, and worked in a number of countries outside the USA.

It is very important to bear in mind that Shanghai's education system rests in part on favorable cultural factors that are widely shared with other Asian countries and uses strategies that are very similar to those used by a number of those countries and provinces in Asia that are also at the top of the PISA league tables.

A number of countries have improved over that time: Colombia, Israel, Macao (China), Portugal, Qatar and Romania.

«Many of Sebit's existing products have been chosen by Ministers of Education in a number of countries as nationwide solutions,» said Jose Ferreira, Founder and CEO, Knewton.

Other indicators like measures of child wellbeing or human rights where a number of countries outside Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom do especially well, also have to be considered.

Queensland's system, like those in a number of countries, also employs «moderation,» a process of bringing samples from different schools to be rescored, with results sent back to the originating schools.

An increasing number of countries are setting a new standard of educational excellence.

Disappointed by the lack of rigor in the U.S. public education system but encouraged by the small number of countries that have dramatically improved student performance, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley set out to uncover what is happening in their public schools that we could — and should — be doing in our own classrooms.

As well as having 65 schools in USA, the Big Picture Learning philosophy of «one student at a time» has already seen the idea spread to a number of countries including New Zealand, China and Belize where new schools have been created, existing schools have transformed or national policies have been influenced.

He takes students on a biennial international experience to Central America, and has traveled extensively around the world on his own, including a semester sabbatical that took him through a number of countries in South America in 2012.

The TIMSS data comprise information on students in two grades in a number of countries, but we utilize only information on 8th - grade students in the United States.

A number of countries have used test scores to allocate financial rewards for school improvement, performance pay for teachers, and to identify and intervene in schools that fail to meet annual improvement targets.

A growing number of countries have institutional structures now that are designed to help the schools understand and respond to changes continuously.

At one time, internationally comparable information on student performance was not available for a sufficient number of countries over a long enough period of time to allow for systematic study, which is why economists relied upon the less informative measures of school attainment.

«In a number of countries, since 2009 students have become more supportive of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups in society.

Recently, a number of countries have made policy changes in the face of evidence that overall national performance is associated with reduced disparities between schools.

A number of countries have succeeded — usually over a period of time — in making teaching a highly regarded and sought - after career.

All things being equal, students in countries with centralized exams scored 16 points higher in math and 11 points higher in science, although the science finding is not statistically significant due to the small number of countries in the sample (see Figure 3 for results).

There may be a number of countries and capital cities that students do not know, or are not aware of, so the posters also help them develop their general awareness, knowledge and understanding of world geography.

But consistent with building - on - strength theory, a number of countries that have advanced relatively rapidly were already high - performing in 1995 — Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, for example.

The survey — which included 1200 respondents from a number of countries where this has increasingly become a problem — reveals this new hazardous wasteland trend is in - part the result of cheap tents — 46 % surveyed paid less than # 75, and 60 % said they left their tent because it was broken.

Corporal punishment such as beating and caning is standard practice in schools in a large number of countries.

But we have no way of knowing, because the data to calculate those rates across a large number of countries do not currently exist.

While these statistics reveal unacceptably high levels of school bullying, research in a number of countries has begun to show antibullying programs and intervention strategies have actually worked, with bullying reduced by «around 20 per cent in schools where they have been employed and rigor ously monitored» (Rigby, 2010).

This partly arose because of a sort of moral panic in the last few years in a number of countries that young people aren't voting.

Students are gaining direct experience of sustainability through a wide range of school - based «learning by doing» ESD initiatives that have been introduced in a number of countries.

There are a number of countries which only have 1 cable connecting them to the remainder of the world.

However, education quality has received increased attention since 2000; the number of countries carrying out national learning assessments has doubled.

In a number of countries, the basic principles of refugee protection are not upheld and many refugees have not been able to enjoy civil rights, including socioeconomic rights.

Its latest release, Joy to the World, features holiday music from a number of countries.

According to the Radio Times, the special episode will be shown in a number of countries including China, where the show has a massive fanbase.

With Netflix's lump sum upfront and a reduced spend on P&A in a large number of countries, the deal marks an attractive way for Paramount to recoup its budget.

Banned in a number of countries and met with a fiery Molotov cocktail attack in Paris and other protests throughout France, Last Temptation remains one of the most controversial films ever made.

The action crosses a number of countries thanks to the race against time premise.

It has opened in a number of countries and has had a healthy week at the box office.

SYNOPSIS: Documentary maker Michael Moore «invades» a number of countries to steal their best ideas and claim them for the USA.