Sentences with phrase «quarter of the nation»

The disruption of nearly a quarter of the nation's refining capacity has already led to a spike in gasoline prices.

Tesla Energy's solar business currently represents a quarter of the nation's residential rooftop solar market in the United States acquired through the former SolarCity banner.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

The disparity is also reflected in the nation's prison population: According to the International Business Times, black Americans are more than five more times likely to be imprisoned than whites, and in 11 states, blacks represent more than half of the prison population, in spite of the fact that more than three - quarters of the nation is made up of white Americans.

United Nations efforts to broker a deal between the warring factions has not borne fruit, while the economic situation in the country continues to deteriorate with nearly a quarter of the nation's foreign reserve consumed in 2014.

Britain has just six - and - a-half million trade union members, which represents barely one - quarter of the nation's workforce.

According to the EPA, approximately three - quarters of the nation's housing built before 1978 contains some lead - based paint.

A quarter of the nation's donors that contributed over $ 1 million to Super PACs are New Yorkers.

«A survey commissioned by the FSA looking into the difference between actual and recommended servings, revealed that more than three quarters of the nation eat two - to - three times more than the portions recommended,» she highlights.

About a quarter of the nation's 1300 public companies are paying no tax.

[This estimate assumes that three quarters of our nation's 100,000 undergraduate ed school enrollees are paying in - state public college and university tuition and related fees of $ 10,260, and the other one quarter of undergraduates in ed schools are paying out - of - state or private school tuition and fees ($ 18,303).

One - quarter of the nation's high school students don't know the name of the ocean that separates the United States from Asia — the Pacific — and 80 percent do not know that India is the world's largest democracy, according to a 2001 study conducted by the Asia Society, a New York City - based organization that promotes an increased understanding of the countries and cultures in Asia.

The latest Census Bureau data for Hispanic students alone show they make up about a quarter of the nation's public school enrollment.

MR. FRANK SESNOMore than three - quarters of the nation's public libraries lend books electronically, a fact not widely known among the reading public.

More than 13 million children have been orphaned by AIDS in Africa; UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS) predicts that by 2010 25 - 50 million African children under the age of 15 will be orphaned; in a dozen African countries, up to a quarter of the nation's children will be orphans.

These findings are striking because more than three - quarters of the nation's public libraries lend e - books.1

As the nation's top mortgage insurer (the organization backs $ 567 billion in default mortgage insurance), the CMHC controls roughly three - quarters of the nation's mortgage default insurance.

FedLoan Servicing manages «more than a quarter of the nation's $ 1.4 trillion student loan debt on behalf of various lenders for millions of borrowers across the United States.»

An independent survey commissioned by the UK Kennel Club (2014) indicated almost three - quarters of the nation's general public disapproves of shock collars and would support a blanket ban.

Three - quarters of the nation of Belize is covered in green, from coastal swamps to inland jungles and wooded mountain ridges.

They are dedicated to renewable energy with a quarter of the nation's energy being generated by renewable sources.

Almost a quarter of the nation's coal - fired power plants lack controls limiting emissions of dangerous sulfur dioxide.

Generally, they were mutual companies that sold insurance to farmers and others in specific agricultural businesses, such as millers, at a time when a quarter of the nation's population lived on farms.

Less than a quarter of our nation's SUD treatment centers offer specific services for pregnant and postpartum women, and even fewer offer recovery drugs to control cravings and withdrawal.

«While we're seeing early signs that foreclosure activity may have peaked in some of the hardest - hit markets, foreclosures continued to rise in three - quarters of the nation's metropolitan areas in the first half of the year,» said James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.

Rents also declined month - over-month in nearly a quarter of the nation's 100 largest cities, while only 19 cities experienced increases in rents by more than 0.5 percent — both down trends compared to the previous month.

Not exact matches

Canada was one of only three developed nations tracked by Scotia to post gains in the third quarter of the year.

Carl Icahn: The activist investor disclosed on Thursday that he bought roughly 2.7 million shares of Gannett (GCI), the nation's largest newspaper publisher, during the second quarter.

A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug - of - war, this time over six former Soviet Republics.

Kaska territory spans more than a quarter of the Yukon's landmass and is home to several First Nations.

Millennials had been driving the nation's overall homeownership rate, showing the biggest gains throughout 2017, but they dropped back in the first quarter of this year.

Crude stockpiles have fallen in the OECD, a group of mostly developed nations, throughout the second quarter, OPEC notes in its September bulletin.

The commercial - real - estate firm CoStar estimates that nearly a quarter of malls in the US, or roughly 310 of the nation's 1,300 shopping malls, are at high risk of losing an anchor store.

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

That includes Bling Nation, the developer of mobile payment solutions that's behind BlingTags — quarter - size microchip stickers that affix to any wireless handset and let consumers pay for purchases at participating retailers regardless of their phone type.

By contrast, the average size of the loan from the nation's leading SBA lender Wells Fargo was about a quarter that size.

The economy of both the 19 - nation single currency area and the 28 - nation European Union (EU) grew by 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2018.

But the country's changing demographics, the civil rights movement and a push for multiculturalism in many quarters mean that white Americans are now confronting the prospect of a nation that is no longer built solely around their own identity.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

U.S. first quarter earnings supported the market, though the composition of gains for banks and financials has drawn scrutiny, says Scott Nations of NationsShares.

Prices for important commodities remain high and the nation's terms of trade are at an all - time high in the current quarter.

The finance sector on Friday launched the first - quarter 2012 earnings season with unexpectedly good results from some of the nation's big banks, as JPMorgan Chase reported better - than - expected earnings per share, and Wells Fargo posted a 13 % rise in net income.

The economic picture is strong: We've had 2 back - to - back quarters of around 3 % GDP growth, and for the first time in a long while we're seeing synchronous growth among developed nations.

Almost three - quarters of Americans think the pharmaceutical industry has too much power in the nation's capital, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In the last quarter of 2015, Manhattan residents paid a median $ 4,374 — the highest average rent in the nation, according to Marcus & Millichap.

The January - to - March quarter was the nation's warmest three - month start since at least 1895, with an average temperature of 42.01 degrees Fahrenheit — six degrees warmer than the long - term average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Soured loans at the nation's 3,800 banks increased for a third straight quarter, the longest streak of deterioration in eight years, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

The nation's economy, which had been estimated initially to have expanded by a tepid 1.5 % in the April - through - June period, was revised to show an increase of 1.7 % in the most recent quarter.

This report also comes out less than six hours after the Commerce Department had reported that the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) had been revised upward for the second quarter from an initial estimate of 1.5 % growth to a mildly more reassuring rate of 1.7 %.

San Francisco, which has been the nation's least affordable housing market for nearly five years, was supplanted by Los Angeles in the third quarter of 2017.