Sentences with phrase «small nations like»

Around the Gulf there are some peculiarities where small nations like Qatar don't control the air traffic in their airspace.

Putting matters in perspective, Brenner rationalizes that «in a small nation like this, there are just not enough people.»

Not exact matches

There are also smaller films that should have your attention like the Sundance hit «The Birth of a Nation,» the powerful «The Light Between Oceans,» and the Amy Adams sci - fi trip «Arrival.»

The small nations of the Nordic region like Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland have much in common besides cold weather and long, summer nights.

Then, instead of reading like the «Around Home» section or the obituary column of a small - town newspaper, it could have provided a more worthy document of the life and times of the ancient world, a register of the designs and deeds of the truly great men and nations of the ancient Near East.

Just like their are a small number of Klansmen and Aryan Nations pinheads who will never let racial equality become settled.

More Christian diet groups have emerged and gone national, including Houston - based First Place (founded in 1981), with programs in nearly.5, 000 churches across the country and in 13 other nations, and smaller programs like Jesus Is the Weigh.

If Israel reduces Zionism to «a Jewish community in Palestine» or tries to build a small nation just like other small nations, it will end by attaining neither.

Republican Law Makers, in direct disrespect to the actual law, once again prove that their hypocritical «small government» blather is a crock of bull by seeking to invade peoples» private lives... like always showing us that they have respect for neither their own stances or this nation.

Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.

But although 412 Food Rescue recently acquired a small refrigerated truck for highly perishable items, their model relies on a large network of 750 individual volunteers, much like the new crop of tech - driven companies around the nation that are finding ways to simultaneously reduce food waste and feed the food insecure.

It will also provide extra motivation for teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham as the competition progresses, with some of the best teams in the competition and potential winners from smaller nations — the likes of Ajax, Anderlecht, Salzburg and Zenit immediately spring to mind — already likely to be assured of Champions League places through their domestic finishes.

like those «smaller nations» playing their hearts out vs brazil in world - cups and causing huge upsets (play the game, not the name).

Though Norway won enough gold in 2014 to feed a small nation, Bovada still likes Germany.

As a consequence, regardless of the outcome, Ireland and other smaller nations — like Bosnia have been royally screwed.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

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.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / kickers A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook buildings and sent people in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas streaming outside into the summer weather on August 23 might seem like small shakes for residents of more quake - prone regions of the nation.

Since the 1980s, dozens of smaller studies have suggested that countries with high rates of circumcision, like the Muslim nations of western Africa, have lower rates of AIDS, whereas southern * Africa, where circumcision is rare, has been ravaged by the epidemic.

How come such a small country with only about 7 million inhabitants produces more start - up companies than large stable nations like Japan, India, Canada and the United Kingdom, asks the book «Start - Up Nation».

We do need tens of thousands of average citizens like the Gracchi, citizens willing to make sacrifices for the sake of our nation's small farmers and others.

Westport native Lisa Addario and her husband / screenwriting - directing partner Joe Syracuse came up with a crazy idea: What if a rebellious teenager became the pen - pal of a notorious, Castro - like tyrant of a small Caribbean island nation — and he suddenly arrived on her doorstep?

About a small town that goes to hell when someone starts publicly posting private social - media exchanges and search histories, Assassination Nation looks like an arch, bloody high - school horror - comedy that, sure, could be a Heathers for our age.

If we had the political will to create high schools like these across the nation, what lessons about improving the life chances of low - income teen - agers might we take from the New York City decade - long experience with small schools of choice?

At CEI, as with many across the nation, we were stunned by the senselessness of the acts of a lone gunman on a December day at a small school that was very much like many schools across the U.S. Like others, we keep asking: «why, and when will it stop, what will it take?&ralike many schools across the U.S. Like others, we keep asking: «why, and when will it stop, what will it take?&raLike others, we keep asking: «why, and when will it stop, what will it take?»

ELearning seems like a natural fit for developing countries, allowing smaller, economically struggling nations access to education.

Cyber schools were the subject of a recent investigative article in The Nation about a small group of lobbyists who stand to profit from legislation like that in Michigan.

Martinez has covered big stories — like the UAL trial that nearly grounded the nation's largest carrier — and smaller stories that matter to the «little guy.»

The African - American struggle continues in every corner of the nation, from small towns like Ferguson, Missouri, to the boroughs of New York.

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.

Like Singapore Airlines, Icelandair serves a small island nation, but it has a big international reputation.

There are other small Pacific island nations like New Caledonia, Tonga, Niue and the Samoas that have excellent colourful coral reef diving and snorkelling.

That seems like cheap planetary insurance, and a small but significant step toward rebuilding our reputation from the «torture - nation.»

Or renewable energies like solar power, which many nations are promoting, but which make up only a small portion of the energy mix in most countries, and often have physical limitations?

Nor can they be unaware that for at least 15 years every study of the economics of transforming the energy economies of nations like the United States shows that the cost to GDP would extremely small.

Small island nations, like Saint Lucia and Barbados in the Caribbean, are extremely vulnerable to a warming climate, yet many rely on an industry that's a big driver of global carbon emissions.

The most effective «possible action» for curbing climate change, population is being ignored — enabling and encouraging people to have smaller families and fewer children is an essential component of a climate change strategy, and especially important in high consumer nations like the UK

«Naturally some smart politicians and speculators in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in the small island nations, understand that they can profit from the Paris Treaty by gaming the rules on things like carbon credits, or milking the green fund for «climate compensation» or «green energy technology».

In the city of Padang, Indonesia, for example, residents — like other inhabitants of archipelagos and small island nations — worry about rising sea levels and powerful storms.

This is true in big countries, like the United States and China, and smaller nations, including those for whom climate is an existential threat, and many in between.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

Small independent oil and gas producers in states like North Dakota, Colorado and New Mexico, which account for a substantial portion of our nation's energy wealth, could be hit the hardest.

Of the eight nations known to possess nuclear weapons, even those with the smallest nuclear arsenals, like Pakistan and India, are believed to have 50 or more Hiroshima - sized weapons.

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.

For a small island nation like Iceland, the retention of culture is a key concern.

At the same time, watching the growth of a site like www.visalaw.com, which was always one of the most successful law firm web sites, stay up to date on advancements in web tools and user sophistication is an easy lesson in what the web can mean to what once was a very small firm, and today is one of the nation's largest in immigration law.

Like most of the nation, recent studies have shown that most Denver residents commute to and from work in their car while only a small percentage are taking public transportation, walking or riding their bikes.

«Like - kind exchanges help investors more efficiently allocate capital and resources with less borrowed money into new investments that drive economic activity in communities across the nation,» said NAR President Chris Polychron, executive broker with 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «Any tax reform plan repealing like - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.&raLike - kind exchanges help investors more efficiently allocate capital and resources with less borrowed money into new investments that drive economic activity in communities across the nation,» said NAR President Chris Polychron, executive broker with 1st Choice Realty in Hot Springs, Ark. «Any tax reform plan repealing like - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.&ralike - kind exchanges would hurt investors and small businesses, increase financial leverage, weaken growth and the economy, and result in the loss of jobs.»