Sentences with phrase «small nation states»

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California topped the nation in small business filings for reorganization or liquidation: The state's metro areas claimed four of the top five slots on the most - filings list.

For a rather small nation — technically a sovereign city - state — Singapore has a lot of dining options.

Being a franchised network of IT consultants to small businesses, CMIT Solutions is expecting to expand from 130 locations to 500 locations across the nation and from only having units in 32 states to all 50 states within the next couple of years.

The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

Today, there are thousands of thriving solar small businesses in every state throughout our nation that leverage American ingenuity to ensure that more of us have an opportunity to capture the American dream.

It may be the second - smallest state in the nation, but there is big potential for homeowners in Delaware.

New Jersey is one of the top five smallest states in size but ranks as the number 11th most populous state in the nation.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

It's also one of the smallest states in the nation, clocking in at the bottom 10 for both size and population.

Here in the United States we already have a small group of religious zealots infiltrating government at every level in an attempt to turn the US into a christian only nation.

Perhaps the time of relevance of the nation - state is past with the smaller micro-units of peoples within the nations and the transnational united peoples expressing their political awakening in relation to each other in new ways of mutual protection.

The new nation which arose to the north of the United States, in British North America, while much smaller in population than its neighbor, had a larger percentage which claimed a church connection.

Empowering subjugated minorities in India by splitting it into smaller states would trigger uber economic demand for western nations who have given so much financial and technology aid to India with no return to show for the investment.

Tennessee State, the nation's sixth - ranked small - college team, beat the Stormy Petrels of Oglethorpe College 7 - 4.

A source confirmed to SB Nation that Alleva will evaluate Orgeron against a small pool of outside candidates — Dellenger reports the list has been narrowed to «as few as four» — and that despite heavy support for Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher among boosters, there is no clear favorite among the university's decision makers.

We dedicate only a small fraction of the public money we spend on children to the earliest years; in one recent international ranking, the United States placed 31st out of a group of 32 developed nations in the proportion of total public spending on social services that goes to early childhood.

«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.

Instead, the Pakistan which remained tried to carry on, pretending that it was still the land of South Asia's Muslims, just smaller... It never figured out why it should exist as a nation - state, and that combined with poor governance and major geostrategic factors have brought the country to a pass where its further dissolution is now argued increasingly in terms of when and how, not if.

Thus, political devolution, economic development and nation - state re-scaling processes are merging and becoming intertwined, thereby establishing a new European regional order characterised by the presence of city - regional small nations as new key players.

The unit of analysis is the city - region, in which a complex networked dimension could account for different currently established socio - territorial structures, such as small nations (the Basque Country, Scotland and Catalonia), metropolitan cities (Dublin, Portland, Liverpool and Manchester), cross-border regions (Oresund) and small states (Iceland).

There are two forces operating in two different directions: on the one hand, city / regional small nations are demanding Independence from their referential nation - states, while on the other hand, nation - states themselves are re-centralising or decentralising their structures and powers.

The society it points towards is an ideal shared by One Nation Tories and smaller state liberals alike.»

For the purposes of illustration, I will extract from the book some brief conclusions for each of the three city - regional small nation cases, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Scotland, in relation to their referential nation - states.

He said he'd work to reduce the state's taxes, which are among the highest in the nation, and would help families and small businesses.

Molinaro says he'd work to reduce the state's taxes, which are among the highest in the nation, and would help families and small businesses.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

He became immersed in the political life of New York's sleepy capital city, acting more like a small - state governor than one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation.

When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.

«As a company employing more than 15,000 people, and as the nation's 6th largest U.S. Small Business Administration lender, it's important for M&T Bank to maintain continuing dialogue with our local, state and federal government leaders to help them understand our vital role in creating jobs and economic growth in communities we serve.»

«In this regard,» the report continued, «New York is distinct from the nation at large and from neighboring states, where nonprofits employ smaller percentages of the workforce.

In a rare statement on his successor, Obama said, «Even in the absence of American leadership; even as this administration joins a small handful of nations that reject the future, I'm confident that our states, cities, and businesses will step up and do even more to lead the way, and help protect for future generations the one planet we've got.»

While our state has the smallest wage gap in the nation, there is still a lot of work to be done.

However, the secretary of state for transport Douglas Alexander insisted this week the government had no plans for a nation wide road pricing scheme until it had observed the effect of local small - scale schemes.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Noting recent reports that New York is the most segregated state in the nation, gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins advocated a different approach to public housing in a brief speech to a small crowd of local residents at Swallow Coffee, 433 Warren St., Hudson, Wednesday afternoon.

In the nation's smallest state of Rhode Island, check out the most widely read political blog: http://www.rifuture.org.

For the record, New Mexico had the weakest increase in jobs in the nation as well as the smallest decline in the unemployment rate, while Rhode Island and Mississippi tied for the worst current unemployment rate and Maine and Connecticut saw the smallest increase in inflation - adjusted state GDP.

The state party, for instance, began spending $ 100,000 on a television ad this week praising Mr. Cuomo for «passing the strongest gun law in the nation,» with a separate, smaller digital campaign this week focused on congressional Republicans, noting that six of them were given an A rating from the National Rifle Association.

Basic scientific research, conducted at universities in communities across the country, is the smallest slice of the nation's R&D pie, yet it is the critical spark that ignites discovery and innovation in the United States.

This year, Fiji has the presidency of the United Nations talks, and it's prioritizing the concerns of its residents in the South Pacific and other members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).

Small island states, such as Grenada, say that target is not enough to stem the problem and could lead to the disappearance below the waves of some of these nations as well as devastating storm surges and tropical cyclones.

Public and private funding agencies in the United States, a nation whose prosperity has been generated in no small part by the infusion of human talent from all over the world, have a special responsibility to support these critical efforts.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

The biggest share of the deaths comes not from glass massacres at skyscrapers but from occasional collisions with the nation's many small buildings, says Scott Loss of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

As sociologist Daniel Bell once wrote, «The nation - state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life.»

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Grenada is an island nation and sovereign state consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the south - eastern Caribbean Sea.

Catching Fire presents mostly the same story as the first film, but speedier and with a slight twist as previous Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (the grim - jawed Josh Hutcherson) cause trouble for the capitol of Panem, the post-war-rebellion version of the United States, after their previous victory, which inspires small scale rebellions across the nation, mostly evident via graffiti.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

The U.S. and the U.K. were both awakening to being «nations at risk,» due in no small part to the parlous state of their public education systems, and reformers in both countries were pushing for big changes — changes that their respective «education establishments» didn't want to make.