Sentences with phrase «of powerful countries»

At the moment the working group's report's zero draft has it on life support but a number of powerful countries are trying hard to pull the plug.

«Black Panther» — has a social conscience, speaking out plainly about the moral obligations of powerful countries, from sheltering refugees to sharing technology and science to dividing wealth equitably.

Blending the charm of a real life politician of a powerful country, his league of extraordinary and benevolent citizens, his flawed self reassurance and the joy of a classic JRPG model, comes Citizens of Earth, a personal favourite of mine from this year.

Not exact matches

China's economic rebalancing towards more consumer - oriented growth has global businesses cautious, but pessimists need only look at the country's annual e-commerce event for a powerful reminder of consumer buying power.

The recent deployment of the Terminal High - Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missile system in South Korea angered China, who fears the system's powerful radar could look deep into the country and threaten its security, says the South China Morning Post.

The Italian crisis — the country's powerful political leader, the comedian Beppe Grillo, would probably call it «commedia dell «arte» — offers plenty of interesting trading opportunities as long as you don't fall for the incongruous idea that this is the end of the euro area.

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

President - elect Donald Trump has threatened to bar all Muslims from entering the country, and suggested building a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» across the southern border of the U.S. Recently, he said he would deport millions of undocumented immigrants at once.

Another powerful motive for many in the southern countries, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, countries that had never in their very long histories had a hard currency, was to exploit the desire of the Germans, and the permanent EU civil service, for a larger, closer Europe, by signing into the euro, acquiring for the first time a hard currency, that they confidently expected Germany to finance.

The session began, though, with talk: a powerful framing of the health care landscape in the world's poorest countries by Gary Gottlieb, the CEO of Partners in Health, the influential NGO cofounded by Paul Farmer.

It's a simple notion, but a powerful one: if small - scale food vendors in developing countries like Kenya had the purchasing clout of Loblaws or Walmart, they could cut costs and pass on the savings to their customers.

Philippe May, managing director of Arton Capital's Singapore office, told CNN the news marks the first time an Asian country has held the most powerful passport in the world.

He cofounded a security - software business, he has developed innovative products, and he has driven computer - security changes at some of the most powerful companies in the country.

But at the same time there are powerful reasons we should be encouraging travel to the United States by citizens of other countries who want to see America.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

At the end of World War II, the world's most powerful and developed countries stopped waging war with each other.

The premise behind the program is that business is one of the most powerful engines of change which can move countries to greater prosperity.

But in a country like the U.S., where drug makers are used to getting their products covered and many patients are used to the option of accessing a wide array of medicines if they so choose, the policy would get some fierce political pushback from powerful stakeholders.

There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want.

But wind will continue to have at least one powerful backer: Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Energy division is on track to become the country's largest producer of wind power.

With national security driving the debate, Democrats see a more powerful argument than simply advocating the need to curb gun violence in a country of 320 million that has more than 310 million weapons.

The SPP initiative began in earnest back in 2002 with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (formerly the BCNI), the most powerful corporate body in the country.

The likes of Tom d'Aquino, Raymond Chrétien, John Manley and Allan Gotlieb are powerful, persistent, tenacious and well - connected in both countries.

Susan Emerick followed Brian Solis on stage at the 3M Think Tank last week, and gave an overview of key concepts from The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, for an audience of marketing thought leaders from around the country:

WASHINGTON, Sep. 14 / CSRwire / - The suffering of millions displaced by powerful megastorms like hurricanes Harvey and Irma underscore the critical significance of finding solutions to the worlds greatest challenges and the need for countries and the private sector to work in collaboration...

In light of this fact, will stopping the pipeline decrease global warming, or just make other countries richer and more powerful, and Canada poorer and weaker?

As state resources from two of Asia's most powerful countries stood -LSB-...]

The United State of Women Summit isn't just a conference — it's a powerful gathering of women and allies from across the country who know their energy and power will break down barriers that stand between women and full equality.

The program brings rising - star women from developing countries to the U.S. each May to shadow participants of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit.

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the small country of Ecuador on April 16, 2016.

Rosneft, the country's largest oil producer, is majority owned by the state and is run by Igor Sechin who is considered one of the country's most powerful players and an ardent Putin ally.

A examination of the need for Canada to adopt a broad Asia Pacific Gateway Strategy to focus resources and attention on this country's ties with the increasingly powerful Asian economy.

When you look at the history of this country, and you look at the history of these kinds of hearings... when companies become big and powerful and accumulate a lot of wealth and power, what typically happens from this body is there's an instinct to either regulate or break - up.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky «powdered with stars» (in Milton's words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world's most powerful telescopes are).

Before the Hamptons and Palm Beach, Long Island's serene North Shore was the country seat of New York's most powerful families.

The jailing of the country's most popular politician, Lula, and voter disgust at corruption among the powerful will give outsiders with clean reputations a chance to shine in October elections.

In almost every case, participant countries will be required to adopt the preferences of powerful U.S. corporate lobbies.

Social investment may be a powerful promotion tool, but another theme repeated at the Summit was that Canadian business owners pursue crowdfunding because there is a scarcity of capital in our country.

Jennifer Robinson, another of McGowan's lawyers, said after the hearing that «Rose is a brave whistleblower who has been the subject of a vicious vilification campaign by one of the most powerful men, in the most powerful industries in this country.»

Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is taking one of the most powerful political jobs in the predominantly Muslim country.

imagine for a second China gives long beach California to the Hui to create their own country the hue come over and put a wall around the native population with full support of a powerful nation lets say America.

For someone who hasn't been elected, Rush has a direct line and the ear to some of the most powerful men in the country.

By his death, there was a growing and powerful Calvinist presence in France, which can be seen as triggering the wars of religion in that country.

I maintain that all kinds of violence are the same the violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969), p. 97].

You are making it needlessly hard, or are perhaps just plain too stupid to understand such a simple fact as: there's no point debunking myths that virtually no one and no one at all with any real clout believes in anyway, but MUCH point in debunking myths that large numbers of people, including powerful politicians, believe should be the guiding principles for the country's entire political culture and laws.

It is the administrations controlling the world's most powerful militaries that create terrorism through aggressive and imperialistic foreign policies which attempt to subjugate citizens of other countries.

To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

Last Sunday, those words were enough to make one of the most powerful men in the country squirm.

The poor have reappeared in most countries, and governments have become instruments of the rich and powerful working to advance their interests, rather than seeking justice for the poor and weak.