Sentences with phrase «say rich countries»

But those nations say rich countries should take the lead on emissions cuts because they've pumped carbon into the atmosphere for longer.

Publics in the Philippines (73 %), Ghana (64 %) and Tanzania (64 %) say rich countries should do more.

Developing nations say rich countries should cut emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

She says rich countries and international banks such as the World Bank should pay half this.

Not exact matches

Lady Bird Johnson once said a first lady must be a «showman and a salesman, a clotheshorse and a publicity sounding board, with a good heart, and a real interest in the folks» from all over the country, rich and poor.

To say the rich live differently than we do doesn't tell the full story of life in many of these wealthy enclaves across the country.

A group of mostly rich, industrialized countries says Switzerland should do more to prosecute companies and apply tougher penalties for bribery.

«At the same time as they have these massive tax cuts for the richest people in the country they actually increase taxes for a lot of working and middle class people, and so I think they see the child tax credit as a way to try to address that,» Marr said.

Others say that richer countries may lack insight into the needs of recipients or that aid can be misused by beneficiaries.

Experts say it's working, with the country's scenic landmarks and rich ecology serving as a major attraction for international tourists.

«This year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,» Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release.

It was also highlighted in the said report that the wealthy individuals in the European countries placed 6 - 14 % of their riches in treasure assets.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al - Jubeir said on Sunday that Iran must change its «behaviour» towards his country if it wants normal ties with the oil - rich Sunni kingdom.

The Paris - based energy agency said that demand in OECD countries (i.e., rich industrialized countries that tend to have weak demand growth rates) «continues to be stronger than expected, particularly in Europe and the U.S.»

Caracas says it hopes to draw investment from oil - rich Middle Eastern countries, Turkey and Western nations, such as the United States.

He said that the country had gotten rich but that U.S. politicians never negotiated better deals.

These associates reflect the rich diversity of our country and we are proud to say that 55 per cent of our store managers are female.

The great Founder of modern liberalism — John Locke — said that in a free country you'd better be rich if you're going to get old, and, unfortunately in some ways, that's probably more true and more difficult than ever.

«This doesn't happen in any other developed country in the world, and it should not happen here, the richest nation on the planet,» he says.

Our country remained as one of the poorest countries for very long because the Cap, told us that our oil was not in a com - mer - cial qua - nti - ties, it was like that until the Com, have become to find it was not as the Cap, told us, who must have been br - i - bed to say so by a richer neighboring country...

Our country remained as one of the poorest countries for very long because the Capit - a-lists, told us that our oil was not in a com - mer - cial qua - nti - ties, it was like that until the Com - mun - ists have become to find it was not as the Capit - a-lists, told us, who must have been br - i - bed to say so by a richer neighboring country....

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

«Temecula Valley wine country has a rich history dating all the way back to the 1800s when wine grapes were first planted in Temecula by the San Luis Rey padres,» said TVWA Executive Director Krista Chaich.

So to say that medieval peasants fared better in diet than the rich is wrong BUT in the modern context, if you compared eating standards of poor communities and the upper class in countries such as Guatemala or El Salvador, this assumption is more correct.

President Mahama, said with the country's nascent oil sector it is prudent that it takes experiences from oil rich countries like Trinidad and Tobago to guide the resource.

Osinbajo said his feats within and outside the country, are a rich legacy, which will continue to live on in the hearts of the people.

«We have fought long and hard in this country to let minorities and women to be able to vote, poor people, rich people and we can't go backwards, we won't go backwards,» said Zellner.

We know where we are with old lefties who declare «we're a rich country» — as though that is just a given, and all politicians need to do is decide how to spend it — and who spit out the word «profit» as if it were a profanity (and as if any of the things they say they want could be paid for without it).

Speaking earlier this week, Mr Brown said: «It's the countries that have got substantial reserves, the oil - rich countries and others who are going to be the biggest contributors to this fund.»

In a statement to Today News Africa in Washington DC, the organizers of the protest said Mr. Buhari, a retired Nigerian Army General, is responsible for the death of thousands of Igbo activists who have been demanding independence from the oil - rich but dilapidated West African country.

Mr Blair today said he «totally understood» the needs of the eastern European accession states, who argue that they should not be paying for Britain - one of the EU's richest countries.

In a new report, the aid charity says the practice of double - counting, where rich countries count debt cancellation in their aid budgets, continues and is hiding the real level of aid.

I was out this week talking to friends mate and people, and I said god this country in a mess, and a bloke said yes Manchester Unite are broke, another said we need a new rich owner, and you think people are worried about the economy most do not even know we are in trouble

The campaign coordinator for the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, has said that district assemblies in resource - rich areas across the country could benefit from the extraction of resources if they conduct an input and output analysis of the activities of the extraction companies.

Minister for international development Andrew Mitchell said that while he agreed more focus should be placed on poorer countries, «it would take forever and be difficult» to exclude richer countries from the ODA.

Noting that Nigeria boasts of very rich culture and heritage, Governor Ambode said it was not in doubt that the country has the largest concentration of the black race, adding that Lagos sits in a better position to tell the story of the black race.

«Iran has every right to be a secure, rich country,» he said.

Minutes after Congress passed the tax bill that will primarily benefit the country's wealthiest, President Trump asked one of his Cabinet members — HUD Secretary Ben Carson — to pray for him and his White House staff, which historians say is the richest in American history.

«The most stunning parts of our country should not be the enclaves of the rich and retired, party leader Nick Clegg said.

«We are done being abused as a workforce so we can subsidize the richest corporations in the country,» Cuomo said.

«The North Country is steeped in rich military tradition and is home to some of the bravest patriots this country has ever known,» StefaniCountry is steeped in rich military tradition and is home to some of the bravest patriots this country has ever known,» Stefanicountry has ever known,» Stefanik said.

«We support this and other legislation that will further strengthen the strongest gun safety laws in the country, but as the governor said, to most effectively curb gun violence we need federal action and the lack of federal action on this is alarming,» Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said.

«New York's schools are the second most unequal in the entire country,» Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, said in her kickoff speech in March, «and the gap between the richest and the poorest schools has grown wider today, under Andrew Cuomo, than it's ever been.»

«When the gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest in our country is now greater than at any time since Queen Victoria was on the throne the question isn't whether the NHS should change, it's how the NHS should change,» Mr Cameron said.

«That's part of the joy of politics, but what I would say is that this is a country that is richer, fairer and more confident than it was ten years ago, and we should be grateful for all of that.»

When he appeared before the committee on 20 January, Mr Marfo denied ever saying or implying that only Ghanaians from five resource - rich regions, all of which happen to be Akan - dominated areas in the country, should lead Ghana.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

As a prominent Tory backbencher dismissed Clegg's plan that the rich should face a time - limited tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as a pre-party conference «easy clap line», Osborne said the wealthy already paid more tax and the country should be wary of driving away wealth creators.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

The shadow chancellor said the coalition government had given the «richest people in the country a huge tax cut» by scrapping the 50p top rate - something he said «can not be right».