Sentences with phrase «of other wealthy countries»

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

Not exact matches

In fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy country.

«In almost any other part of the country we would be wealthy,» said one respondent who identified as middle - class.

Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.

The company had long pursued educated consumers over wealthy ones, and Shields knew this region had more colleges than any other part of the country.

So while citizens of other countries who arrive here looking to build a life in this province will get stuck paying extra, the savvy and wealthy investors who are driving this out - of - control market will easily find a way around it.

Americans are know for being very obnoxious about other countries, but it still surreal to see wealthy people from free countries support someone like him while a lot of other countries all over the world are burning due to being tricked by the same kind of populism.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

Your argument begs the question of how much the US would be harmed by not taxing non-resident wealthy people, when almost every other country seems to feel that there isn't sufficient benefit to initiate the practice.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / JeremyRichards Diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other afflictions that once primarily plagued wealthier, western countries are now accelerating in poorer nations.A new study reveals that risk factors for heart disease in Indian cities are now more prevalent than they are in the U.S.

Other countries that are counting on kilowatt - hours to cut infant mortality aren't so picky, nuclear advocates note, and it would behoove wealthier parts of the world to help them gain access to energy, even if it's not the cleanest available.

The conventional wisdom has long held that China is merely following the path of the United States and other developed countries that polluted — and in some cases, continue to do so — on their way to a wealthier populace and eventual stricter environmental controls.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

As in other wealthy countries, sustainability of supply is not necessarily a focus for shoppers.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the other big player, is in the midst of a «replenishment drive» that is asking wealthy countries to donate $ 13 billion at a moment when the United States and many European countries are facing political uncertainty.

In wealthy countries where people eat a lot of animal foods, many other factors exist that can contribute to heart disease.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

Students First is freely spending the millions of dollars that the Waltons and other wealthy conservative «reformers» are pouring out to influence the move toward privatization and less local control here and across the country.

Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»

Since the first iPad came out in 2010, sales of traditional computers have slowed in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.

Although money will not provide happiness by itself (I've met a lot of really happy people in third world countries as well as unhappy wealthy individuals), it can help us to provide financial security for ourselves and our families, help others in need, support worthwhile causes, and provide us with enriching opportunities.

But experts say there are plenty of schools in western Canada and the United States and other wealthy countries that could similarly tumble someday under assault from known seismic threats.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

My point being John Edwards made the premise of his campaign to fight poverty here in this particular wealthy country among other's.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

Mr. Obama is appearing to say that the wealthy countries that build the existing human - generated greenhouse blanket do owe a climate debt, of sorts, to the poorest countries in the world, but not — if I read this right — to China and the other emerging economic powerhouses of the world.

I'd like to think The New York Times does a better job of making the news world flatter, but it's clear that, overall, media and the public in the United States (and I'll bet at least a few other wealthy countries) are caught in a circular chase for the familiar and relevant.

He listed areas where deals might be reached, including: finding ways for wealthy countries to get emissions credits by paying for the protection of forests in poorer nations; the Clean Development Mechanism, a system for encouraging other kinds of investments that cut poor - country emissions; and systems for sharing technology.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

The US, EU, Canada, and other developed countries however have grown much wealthier, and their per capita emissions are still very far ahead of other countries.

What's happening in Germany is, unfortunately, a bellwether for what is to come in other large wealthy countries attempting to make renewables the kingpin of their power grids.

India, China and other developing nations have demanded that the wealthy countries be obligated to act based on their long histories of emitting and their capability to pay, and our short horizon polluter pays principle and use of national income as an indictor of capability address their concern.

But, unlike those environmentalists in wealthy countries who denounce the modern world while enjoying its blessings, the ecomodernists recognize that, though with today's technology it is impossible to lift the world's poorest out of poverty without destroying the environment, with the technologies of the future — next - generation nuclear and solar power, carbon capture and storage, high - intensity agriculture and aquaculture, and others — all things are possible.

Norway and other wealthy countries should act according to the Lofoten Declaration and recognize that new exploration is inconsistent and no longer acceptable if we are to stay within the limits of the carbon budget.»

«For extremely wealthy foreign individuals who own property in England (among other countries), the court will not simply operate a «numbers game» approach to their residency for the purposes of an action.

«It's increasingly common for wealthy families to have family members and assets in multiple jurisdictions, so it's important to have — at the very least — an awareness of other countries» laws and a sensitivity to other cultures.»

American and Canadian common law jurisdictions uphold all of these; other wealthy common law countries have gradually abandoned them since the 1970s.

Sirin Labs is only selling the phone to customers in select countries, presumably in an effort to keep the Solarin out of the hands of terrorists, drug lords, and other potentially wealthy criminals.

In a wealthy country like ours, it's completely unacceptable that Aboriginal children die at twice the rate of other Australian children, and Aboriginal people live at least 10 years less than other Australians.

In comparison with European and other wealthy industrialized countries, social mobility in the United States ranks among the lowest.17 A 2015 Pew Charitable Trusts report documented that the effect of parental income advantage is persistent over all levels of parental income but is especially strong for children born to wealthy families.