Sentences with phrase «same number of nations»

By the 2005 U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in June, 141 mayors had signed the Agreement — the same number of nations that ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

Not exact matches

The number of women - owned firms continues to grow at a rate exceeding the national average, yet women - owned firms only employ 6 percent of the nation's workforce and contribute just under 4 percent of business revenues — roughly the same share they contributed in 1997.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

«We don't have the same number [of top athletes], but we do have some guys that are just as good as anyone in the country,» Satterfield says to SB Nation.

«Internally, the NYPD devotes about the same number of personnel to oversight as it does to counterterrorism, approximately 1,000, comprising the nation's most robust and effective Internal Affairs Bureau, as well as inspectional units throughout the department,» he said.

At the same time, the Reform Party of New York won six races solely on its own ballot line, and tripled the number of Reform Party officeholders in the nation.

At the same time, in middle - income nations with long - standing shortages of ophthalmologists, improved survival of premature infants has expanded the numbers of babies at risk for ROP.

For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.

Between 1992 and 2000, math scores across the nation began to creep up; during the same period, a growing number of states began to adopt accountability systems.

Perhaps, but the same can be said for the growth of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the growth in the number of Americans who are employed.

Although most of the nation's 52 million schoolchildren are still on traditional schedules, about 2 million attend school year - round; they attend school the same number of days as students on traditional schedules, but they get shorter breaks throughout the year.

The noticeable increase in the number of such rescuers at the Missouri auctions began around 2005, about the same time that the nation's rescue movement began to evolve.

When one understands the huge number of cell towers, NEXRAD, and such devices as SBX1 and the use of microwave energy to manipulate entire weather systems, satellites, and others nations doing same, it stands to reason the atmosphere and all life on earth is run through and through with a technology that is slowly killing life.

With contributing essays from a number of experts, the book gives us an unflinching view of how sprawl affects our environment and communities, and how other rapidly developing nations would do well to take note before making the same mistakes.