Sentences with phrase «relatively small nation»

The results show that the relatively small nation of Gabon has the majority (almost 60 percent) of the remaining forest elephants.

Isn't it amazing that though Israel has always been a relatively small nation, and few in number, they are still one of the world powers in military, science and economics?

In other words, relatively small nations find it much easier to outsource their defense needs from U.S. contractors.

Not exact matches

The commission on Thursday outlined three options for taxes aimed at internet companies that could be agreed upon relatively quickly at the EU level or by a smaller group of EU nations.

In a report published in February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.»

As terrorist activities spread, it would be possible for nuclear war to be triggered by the irresponsible behavior of a relatively small group or nation, and for it quickly to escalate as the more responsible nations resorted to their nuclear arsenals to end the conflict.

The New Testament is the work of a relatively small community with highly selective interests, whereas the Old is the product of a whole nation's wider issues and situations.

«Massachusetts can be proud it ranks in the top 15 among states in total amount of land protected — given that the Commonwealth is the seventh smallest state in the nation, and has relatively little land conservation activity by federal agencies,» Wilber said.

Just as a relatively small number of zillionaires are scarfing up more and more of the nation's earnings, a top echelon of scientific «stars» are scoring a growing share of scientific publications.

New Jersey has the highest per - pupil spending in the nation, in part because of its large number of relatively small...

«Americans chose,» she once wrote, «to be both one great nation and many relatively quite small, local communities.»

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being.

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being, according to The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long - Run Economic Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes.

Compared to other top - achieving nations, American teachers spend relatively small amounts of time collaborating with their peers.

Like the cheapest places in Rhode Island, the places with the most expensive renters insurance premiums are relatively close to one another, contained within the geography of the nation's smallest state.

There have only been around 50 in that time in the entire nation, so three happening in one relatively small community is pretty amazing.

Although the nation is relatively small, occupying just under 9,000 square miles, Belize is home to a mixture of traditional Mayan people, those with roots in Garifuna heritage, Kriol residents, Mestizos and plenty of immigrants from China, Lebanon and India.

I also know that the majority of economic models indicates relatively small net economic damage in 2100 (1 - 5 % of global GDP), with a large fraction of that damage, in some modells virtually all the damage, concentrated in tropical nations.

Indeed, arrayed against the arcane burlesque of the United Nations IPCC with its politically selected 2500 Scientists, of which a core group of 600 exists, and a relatively small number of mediocre «scientists» here and there across the American landscape who have suddenly found notoriety or grant money in the global warming cause, are 31,072 + legitimate and viable scientists (of which I am one) who signed the American Petition Project declaring the Global Warming Hypothesis bogus found here, here and here.

Meanwhile in South Korea, just one example, on a relatively small land area a nation is powering ahead as manufacturers and producing steel from Australian ore and coal.

These other non-OECD Asian nations are relatively small consumers of energy individually, but collectively they accounted for 7 % of world primary energy consumption in 2015.

In the all - out war to undermine the credibility of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and with it, mainstream climate research — skeptics have once again found a relatively small weakness and blown it into a mega-scandal.

In Illinois, like elsewhere in the nation, rollover incidents account for a very small number of the total crashes but a relatively high proportion of the total deaths caused in traffic accidents.

It seems quite wrong to miss out the legal profession from the nation's archives when so many other sectors are represented, and particularly when the cost per firm is relatively small.

The vice president noted that a relatively small amount of cryptocurrency trading occurs within the EU and that, as a result, Europe needs to work with other G20 nations to address these possible risks.

After all, the nation with a relatively small geographical territory is responsible for a sizeable trading volume, about one - fifth by some measures, in Bitcoin.

Mobile Nations» chief media officer Kevin Michaluk told CoinDesk that a relatively small amount of payments were made in bitcoin, roughly 0.004 % of total orders.

Congress is once again debating an overhaul of the nation's overarching K - 12 law, and the latest plan would improve early education, though those steps would be relatively small compared to initiatives in state capitols around the country.