Sentences with phrase «number of failed states»

So in the May issue, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute, he writes an essay in which he raises sort of the specter that potentially, in the decades to come, that if we are not careful, that these problems with maintaining a sufficient food supply could get bad enough that it actually would threaten the state of civilization globally; that it just could cause widespread chaos, cause a large number of failed states and trigger [an] enormous number of problems down the line.

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

I am not convinced that the number of failing states is growing.

In many ways, the most basic indicator of our plight is the number of failing states.

Our future depends on reversing both the spread of hunger and the growing number of failing states, but this will not happen if we continue with business as usual.

As the number of hungry people has risen, so too has the number of failing states.

Not exact matches

The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The saga of the failed BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., which was heightened by the potential involvement of a Chinese state - owned enterprise, carries several lessons for Canada as it prepares to deal with a growing number of large, and potentially controversial, acquisitions by state - owned and other enterprises.

It fails to include resources from philosophy, or, more particularly, from that contemporary movement in philosophy called «environmental philosophy,» which, as articulated in a journal such as Environmental Ethics, has a growing number of advocates in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia.2

incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

Quite simply, the state has failed to avail itself of any number of reforms which would curtail the corrupting influence of money in politics.»

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

It has been stated times without number that the regular source of funding for the Police, through budgetary allocation has failed to address the financial needs of the Police to provide adequate security for the Nation.

A number of religious - based private schools in the Hudson Valley are facing state scrutiny over accusations that they're failing to provide children with basic education.

The regulations would also the state to revoke a facility's license should fail to meet a number of requirements, ranging from having enough adults not be present at the center or an injured child not receiving medical attention.

If a state fails to submit electors then shouldn't it change the number of votes needed to get a majority?

«You may not know Jerry Zandstra, but all of you have a «Jerry Zandstra» in your state: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his respstate: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his respState Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his response.

The state Board of Elections in 2015 also flagged 329 checks made payable to cash, large numbers of unitemized transactions and campaign finance statements that falsely reported or failed to report numerous expenditures.

Some lawmakers believe a lawsuit could claim that the higher number of failing city schools is in breach of state and federal law which denies each student a «sound basic education.»

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Empire State Development, the state agency administering the program's grant funding, refused an interview request but said in a statement that the company's funding is contingent on job creation and that it will be required to return the money if it fails to create the number of jobs promState Development, the state agency administering the program's grant funding, refused an interview request but said in a statement that the company's funding is contingent on job creation and that it will be required to return the money if it fails to create the number of jobs promstate agency administering the program's grant funding, refused an interview request but said in a statement that the company's funding is contingent on job creation and that it will be required to return the money if it fails to create the number of jobs promised.

The package of ten bills has failed in the past, because of point number ten, which would bring the state's legislation on abortion in line with the federal standard of Roe v. Wade.

The bills that were passed also failed to lift the cap on the number of charter schools in the state — but they did unlock a cash freeze that has prevented charters from getting their first increase in per - student funding since 2009.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

Beekmantown was faulted in a state audit report released last month, which showed that the town's highway department had overspent for fuel by over $ 21,000 and the town clerk failed to adhere to a number of state standards.

If the propositions fail, the governor said he will have to make cuts to schooling and health care and would likely need to release a large number of inmates from the state's prison system.

State officials touted increases in scores on tough Common Core exams this year but failed to reveal that they had lowered the number of right answers needed to pass half the exams.

A number of state - based initiatives that favored parents and parental choice were reflected, albeit sometimes only partially, in the final legislation, including new requirements for school choice and supplemental services for children trapped in chronically failing schools.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

But some high - profile bills failed to pass in the session that ended June 1 — including a proposal to lift the cap on the number of charter schools permitted, a request that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made of all states.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

Responding to the growing number of failing Baltimore schools requiring state - approved improvement plans, she said, «No one has the answer.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

In this year's study, 48 % say the local school district should decide what to do with a school that has had failing test scores for a number of years, rather than the state education agency (32 %) or the governor (15 %).

Meanwhile, the number of students who failed eighth - grade state math exams has tripled from 14,000 in 2012 to 44,483 since Common Core exams in grades 3 to 8 were introduced.

And she's not right to fail to note that the Common Core would have been — at least at this point in time — a sort of ambitious pilot program involving a smallish number of states that were serious about the implementation challenges, until the feds blundered into the middle of it with «incentives» that turned it into a sort of national piñata.

It would also allow school districts to convert an unlimited number of failing public schools into charter schools or — in cases of severely failing schools — authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to force public schools to convert.

And having significantly lower numbers of failing schools means that state officials, including some mayors and governors, will not be embarrassed with large numbers of failing schools.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

The number of schools failing to meet AYP targets was nil or small in many of these districts (e.g., 2 of 60 schools in one large district), although in one state an entire district was designated as «in need of improvement.»

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

The truth is that there have been a slew of scandals around a number of charter schools largely concentrated in states that, in their haste to enact market - based reforms, did not promote strong charter oversight and failed to keep foxes out of the proximity of chickens.

In addition, the state Board of Education this week approved a new school grading system that will nearly triple the number of failing schools.

Late last week, the Connecticut State Department of Education released a report blasting the Paul Vallas» leadership and the Bridgeport School System because, among other violations, it «systematically failed to identify a number of students determined to be eligible for special education...»

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.