Sentences with phrase «region than the nation»

However, the rate of overall consumer distress (having any seriously delinquent debt or third party collections debt) is lower in the tristate region than the nation.

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It ended up being OK — a trade treaty meant that FXR pays Canadian tax rates, which are much lower than those of Scandinavian nations, on its profits from the region — but checking ahead of time saved him from a potentially unpleasant surprise later.

But the absence of fuel subsidies in most Asian nations is likely to mean the region feels the pain of the jump in crude prices far faster than was the case previously.

(NB: Some entries, like Macau, Jersey, Hong Kong and Gibraltar, are semi-autonomous regions of larger states rather than nations in their own right.)

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed more than half a century ago, has historically struggled with challenges facing the region because it works only by consensus and is reluctant to get involved in any matter deemed to be internal to any of its members.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific estimated that, in 2014, 4.3 billion people lived in the Asia - Pacific region, accounting for 60 percent of the global population — more than half of the people in the world!

Select reasons why the housing sector helped the New York - New Jersey region fare better than the nation during the recent downturn include:

According to data website Coin Dance, that's far higher than the value of bitcoin transactions on the same website seen in more prosperous nations across the region, including Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Portuguese government debt led declines in securities from Europe's most indebted nations, while banks dragged stocks in the region down more than 1 percent.

Also, the allegiance of human beings is much more to their immediate communities, family, ethnic group, sub-culture, region, even professional associations, rather than nation - states.

Born of a people who never attained greatness as a nation, buffeted by greater and lesser enemies throughout their whole existence, a nation that at its widest period of expansion would have ruled a region scarcely larger than Pennsylvania, this book has mothered three great religions which between them touch very nearly half the entire population of the world.

In addition to the impressive representation from all relevant wine producing nations and regions, ProWine Asia will offer trade visitors more than 300 tasting sessions, masterclasses, in - depth seminars, lectures, presentations and workshops.

Moreover, EVEL does not engage with on - going reforms in the other nations of the UK nor within England, appearing designed to operate in parallel, rather than in tandem, with other policies such as devolution to England's cities and regions and the wider Northern Powerhouse agenda.

The Wessex Regionalists have been around for a while; and, despite its claim that Cornwall is not a region but a nation, Mebyon Kernow is in practice «regionalist» in its approach, as reflected in its support for a Cornish Assembly, rather than full independence.

Speaking on the exposé at this year's Ghana Bar Conference in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, former President Kufuor said «nothing is more detrimental to the security of a nation than a compromised judiciary».

Jobless levels are higher in the Buffalo Niagara region than they are across much of the state and the nation, where unemployment in New York State was 5 percent in January and 5.1 percent across the United States.

A nation that is more active with agreements and business interests in another country or a region will have different needs than one that doesn't.

Addressing members of the Tertiary Education Institution Network, TEIN, at the Tamale Technical University, Vice President Amissah - Arthur said it is a known fact that some regions are well resourced than others and it is incumbent on government to bridge that gap as part of nation building.

She says the electorate in the Northern Region should elect competent and time - tested leaders capable of fixing the nation's economy rather than voting based on tribal preference.

«In total, we should not have more than 40 ministers at the centre and in the regions (including deputies),» he said in Accra yesterday when he delivered his version of the State of the Nation Address titled, «Solutions for Ghana: A nation in crisis&rNation Address titled, «Solutions for Ghana: A nation in crisis&rnation in crisis».

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

An accelerating rate of decline The nation's largest aquifer is the Ogallala, underlying more than 170,000 square miles of the High Plains region and stretching across eight states, from Nebraska to Texas.

In 2013, the agency invested $ 512 million in science funding, more than many nations in the region.

This is only one hundredth the concentration in the breast milk of women in the region in the early 1970s, but remains about ten times higher than in either former North Vietnam or industrialised nations such as the US.

«Island nations in the western Pacific region are subjected to more tropical cyclones than anywhere else worldwide,» said Thomas Marler, ecologist with the University of Guam.

This 313 - bed institution — which includes more than 60 intensive care beds and the only pediatric neuro - intensive care and cardiac intensive care units in the region — is one of the nation's first children's hospitals and the only freestanding children's hospital between Philadelphia and Atlanta.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

East Asian nations like Japan and South Korea now spend more on R&D as a percentage of GDP than many of their Western European counterparts and a culture of entrepreneurship is taking hold across much of the region.

• If each state instead meets the achievement level of the best state in its region, gains would still amount to roughly $ 35 trillion, more than twice the nation's current GDP.

In less than two decades, Chile rose from its position as the country with the seventh highest income in Latin America to the wealthiest nation in the region.

In the beginning, our nation was primarily the home of Native Americans and other indigenous groups representing more than 400 languages, Africans from a wide range of different regions, and Europeans of mostly British heritage.

New England and the Pacific Northwest are designated Subaru nations, and while the rest of the states may feign some interest in Subaru's quirky, no - nonsense cars, those regions buy more of them than anywhere else.

Dell confirmed in its official corporate blog that those who bought the tablet from the nation's number four carrier will not be getting the update, citing no other reason than that there are requirements that need to be met based on carrier, region, and device.

These schools serve Native students from the more than 500 federally recognized American Indian Nations from every geographic region in the United States, integrating Native languages, cultures, religion, and other traditions throughout their curriculum.

Travelers» tendency to visit more than one Southeast Asian country on a single trip means the region is sometimes mistakenly regarded as a monolith, the nuances of each nation's landscape and culture lost on first - time visitors from the West.

Europe recorded 8 % more international arrivals than in 2016, «extraordinary results for such a large and rather mature region,» the United Nations World Tourism Organization said....

Stash Hotel Rewards, the nation's largest point - based loyalty program for independent hotels, recently announced that it has partnered with another seven hotels in New England, growing its overall presence in the six - state region to 22 independent hotels, and more than 150 one - of - a-kind properties across the country.

In an unprecedented move, Chabil Mar Marketing Director Larry France announced the introduction of a travel package that gives couples a mini-tour of Central America at such an affordable price — and with so many perks — anyone eager to explore more than one nation in the region is sure to jump on the opportunity fast.

The Crocker Art Museum is the only museum in the Sacramento region accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, a recognition given to less than 800 of the nation's 17,500 museums.

Located in the nation's fourth - largest city, UH serves more than 39,500 students in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region in the country.

Roger Duncan, a deputy general manager of Austin Energy... said that «it's hard to say what impact it will have on the nation as a whole,» but that in regions that use cleaner - than - average power sources, like Austin or California, it would provide a clear emissions benefit.

Tropical deforestation is a major cause of climate change; and, unfortunately, Latin America is no stranger to this issue — more forests have been destroyed in this region than in any other since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992.

The nation's top public health official traveled to Harris County on Wednesday to get a look at how the region is recovering more than three months after Hurricane Harvey.

Nearly 500 million tons of coal are strip mined annually, providing 43 % of the nation's coal, more than any other region.

«We really don't detect any change with the Americans,» said one of the officials, Aleksi Härkönen of Finland, who chairs the eight - nation Arctic Council's key group of senior officials, who are charged with protecting a region warming faster than any other on Earth.

A nation needs a certain amount of each, but some ways of producing these are more expensive than others, depending on the regions for farms or on the source for energy supply.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

They found that although the island of Cyprus and the bordering nations of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey have always tended to be dry, the latest drought is at least 50 % drier than anything experienced in the region in the last 500 years, and up to 20 % drier than anything 900 years ago.

People in mountaintop - removal mining communities across the Appalachian region are faced with these spills, and the health implications that come with them, far more frequently than anyone else in the nation.

Two - thirds of the nation's residents live in regions where an EV is cleaner than the most efficient hybrid (50 miles per gallon).