Sentences with phrase «of a few other countries»

U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents and citizens of a few other countries are eligible for Global Entry membership.

Not exact matches

The growing recognition of the negative effects of corporate tax rates explains why Canada and other OECD countries have made it a point to reduce corporate income taxes over the past few decades:

The latest investor revolt appears to center on news that Valeant didn't get the kinds of bids that it wanted for one of its pharmaceutical units, iNova, which sells and distributes over-the-counter and prescription medications in Australia, New Zealand, and a few other countries outside the U.S..

Canada is actually one of the few countries where that's the expectation; in most other jurisdictions, the momentum on both measures is downward.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Other issues he is considering for future iterations are ways to lessen the subjectivity of how experience levels are determined, factoring in a country's tax rate, and a better solution for the few employees who lack a fixed location.

Regulations have twisted the laws of supply and demand, causing Western Canada's biggest metropolitan area to have fewer taxis per capita than any other city in the country.

The same can't be said for the other countries in the top five, many of which see discrepancies of a few thousand dollars tilted in men's favor.

Listeners of country and talk formats tend to stay with the same station for longer periods of time than other listeners who flip through channels constantly, so you need to run fewer commercials to reach those «settled» listeners than you need to run for the flippers.

BlackBerry fans don't have much longer to wait now — the Q10 is officially launching in Canada and a number of other countries on May 1, with the U.S. release coming just a few weeks later.

«We have some catching up to do if we're going to match the variety of mortgage products that have been available in other countries over the past few years,» says Holt.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was filled with amazing comparisons of Apple's size to not just other companies — including the combined market caps of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon at one point — but entire countries and industries as the Things Apple Is Worth More Than tumblr details.

As did other Rust Belt states, however, it suffered a devastating decline beginning in the 1970s, when manufacturers moved to the U.S. South, Mexico and other foreign countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, lower taxes and fewer regulations.

Not only has the United States used sanctions extensively as a non-lethal tool of power - projection in the past few years, but this behavior has encouraged a range of other countries to follow suit; from the EU to Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

If you multiply China's GDP growth by its share of global GDP, you will find that Chinese growth over the last few years has comprised a larger share of global GDP growth than that of any other country.

I think our board, although unusual amongst other boards, there are very few if any other central banks that have this kind of a board, but in our country, for this kind of filter to be applied to the decision process, I think adds to the credibility, to the legitimacy that the whole process has in the eyes of ordinary people and that's very important.

3) Beijing and other Chinese entities could buy fewer U.S. assets and replace them with an equivalently larger amount of assets from other developed countries, so that net capital flows from China to the United States would be reduced, and net capital flows from China to other developed countries would increase by the same amount.

5) Beijing and other Chinese entities could buy fewer U.S. assets and not replace them by purchasing an equivalently larger amount of assets from other countries, so that net capital flows from China to the United States and to the world would be reduced.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

While there is no doubt that a cooling of Chinese demand for commodities over the next few years will have an impact on Canada (as well as other resource exporting countries like Australia), China always takes the long term view and so should Canada.

Analysts believe that investors are gradually beginning to pay more attention to these assets since they are unrelated to a country's economy — unlike fiat currencies and other traditional forms of money exchange, which are extremely vulnerable to internal and external economic shocks — leading to the popularity of cryptos such as bitcoin and a few others.

if say, over the next few years, non U.S stocks out - perform the U.S will my existing block of VWRL move it's allocation from 50 % U.S to the other countries that are doing better?

It is a combination of fundamentals that few other countries enjoy.

There are many types of risks and here are few examples: Credit Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Volatility Risk, Settlement Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risk, Country Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, Currency Risk, Legal Risk, Systematic Risk and many other risks.

only TWO frustrating convoluted tax laws, not the whole of the USA tax system and a few other countries» to keep in mind as i write software.

In other Muslim countries, the demand for the same is solidifying; in a few decades, the face of the entire Islamic world will dramatically change.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

While property is relatively more affordable in other parts of the country (six times the average salary in the North - east rather than 14 times in London) it's impossible to ignore that even in the most affordable areas house prices are geared towards two - earner families with two or fewer children.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

Then there is «Church in a Bar» in Rome, GA, and a few others around the country (If you know of one, leave a link to it in the comments below).

Having been born in Saudi Arabia, and having traveled extensively in the Middle East, I know that very few Muslim countries tolerate open worship by people of other faiths.

CEO salaries have gone up precipitously in just one generation: 30 years ago many a CEO would have considered himself amply rewarded by an annual salary of $ 100,000, along with a car, a country club membership and a few other perks.

I've been applying to churches and organizations all over the country, and even a few on the other side of the world.

If we condemned the actions of a few and turn around and exclude others we will be acting contrary to what this country stands for, said Barak Obama.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

and I see it today in South Africa (and in the Soviet Union, Chile and El Salvador, to name only a few other countries) The common factor in the posture of these governments is that the state is placed above criticism: one is disloyal if one criticizes it.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

A few years ago there was one yogi who rolled from one end of the country to the other.

Sachs offers a short overview of development economics, explaining why some countries have grown rich in the past few centuries while others have barely groxvn at all.

Objections of the USA and a few other countries have prevented its adoption.

Several other Asian countries are also witnessing the emergence of a few - rich and middle class people at the expenses of many poor.

The interactions and dynamics between the two (as well as between Weekes and other characters) made Weekes that much more endearing to me — his awkwardness in the relationship (particularly a few foot - in - mouth moments that showed him as the country boy he is), their effort to keep their relationship out of the spotlight... it was all very sweet.

In just the last few years, nearly every other major food provider in the country, including Target, Kmart, Kroger, Safeway, and Costco, have committed to ridding their pork supply chains of gestation crates.

All of the farms listed below have a field for you to pick your pumpkins, but they have a few other activities that make it worth the trip out to the country.

Though once common in some cultures and settings, in the USA and other countries there are a lot of unknowns as the practice has not been acceptable for a few generations.

It may be assumed, that, as in other countries, the sharp drop in breastfeeding rates after the first few days of life is due to lack of breastfeeding support and is a major reason that women do not achieve their own breastfeeding goals [3].

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.