Sentences with phrase «smaller nations which»

NOTE: There are a number of other, smaller nations which get all or nearly all of their electricity from hydropower — Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal, others — but considering that none of these actually produce much electricity to start with I took them out the running.

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The issue is particularly important as the nation celebrates National Small Business Week, which acknowledges the important contributions small business owners make to the ecoSmall Business Week, which acknowledges the important contributions small business owners make to the ecosmall business owners make to the economy.

The company said the nation - wide move is in response to customers» desires for smaller sizes, and to prepare for Ontario's Making Healthier Choices Act, which takes effect in 2017.

One of the most cutting - edge is Palo Alto - based Bling Nation, which is trying to deploy a system that lets small firms create on - the - fly loyalty programs.

That's still a «healthy level,» says the report, but it signals that the U.S. will lose ground to developing nations, which are suffering far smaller declines in growth than the industrialized world.

But InsideClimate News recently reported that the leak detection systems used on most of the nation's pipelines rarely detect spills smaller than 1 percent of the pipeline's flow, which for the Keystone XL would be hundreds of thousands of gallons per day.

Lisaak Forest Resources Ltd., a joint venture between the Nuu - Chah - nulth First Nations and Weyerhaeuser, which bought MacMillan Bloedel, was formed to conduct small - scale logging in the area.

She is active in numerous outside groups and shareholder coalitions focusing on responsible investment practices including the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, for which she served as the Co-Chair of the Small Funds Initiative Work Stream.

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.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

America before 1930 was a society in which a small number of very rich people controlled a large share of the nation's wealth.

John F. Kennedy promised: «We seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine world security system... capable of resolving disputes on the basis of law, of insuring the security of the large and the small, and of creating conditions under which arms can finally be abolished... This will require a new effort to achieve world law».

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Ultimately every nation, small and big is faced with a choice which may be expressed in the words «Federate or Perish,» If their government does not exercise the one choice, it opts implicitly for the other...

«Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.»

This wild confusion is present in the minds of a small but financially powerful minority, though a much larger part of the population has a tendency to hold rigid ideas about the kinds of economic institutions in other nations with which we should cooperate.

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.

Yet with our understanding of the way that life is involved with life, of the manner in which self and society are bound together, of the way in which small groups within a nation act for the whole, it seems that we must move toward a conception similar to the Hebraic and medieval one.

The question of saving power in the nation is the question of whether there is a minority, even a small one, which is willing to resist the anxiety produced by propaganda, the conformity enforced by threat, the hatred stimulated by ignorance.

According therefore as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniences for which it has occasion».

The small brewers renamed their industry organisation the Independent Brewers Association in May and hired Essential Economics to produce a nation - wide snapshot of the craft brewing industry, which showed annual economic output has reached $ 740 million.

Some European nations, for instance, observe baby naming customs which usually involve a small gathering of family and friends.

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.

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).

The Oneida Nation, which operates the big Turning Stone casino in Oneida County and two smaller gaming venues in Madison County, plans to start sports betting in the «near future.»

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.

He called on those nations that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) which seeks to stop the proliferation of small arms and light weapons that nurture the spread of terrorism.

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.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Voting opened at 8:00 am after a campaign hailed for a vibrant and violence - free debate in the small West African nation, which suffered back - to - back civil wars from 1989 to 2003.

The Oneida Nation, which operates the big Turning Stone casino in Oneida County and two smaller gaming venues in Madison County, plans to start sports betting in the «near future,» according to a statement from Joel Barkin, the nation's vice president for communicaNation, which operates the big Turning Stone casino in Oneida County and two smaller gaming venues in Madison County, plans to start sports betting in the «near future,» according to a statement from Joel Barkin, the nation's vice president for communicanation's vice president for communications.

To celebrate the United Nation's Women's Entrepreneurship Day, which was marked worldwide over the weekend, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul paid a visit to two small women - owned businesses working out of the University at Buffalo.

But these small achievements by conventional supranational structures are a long way from a vision which recognises the way in which nations are slowly splintering in the face of myriad conflicting interests and overwhelming transnational economic forces.

But perhaps the real scandal is that many industrialised nations, which enjoy lecturing small nations about their environmental inadequacies, have also chickened out.

The U.S. remains a nation in search of a solution for what to do with its nearly 70,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel, which has a small fraction of plutonium mixed in it.

Big soccer clubs in nations that host the World Cup enjoy significant bumps in attendance after the event, which provides at least a small ray of sunshine amid the howls of protest from Brazilians over the extravagant hosting costs.

The small nation of Wakanda is a protected valley enclave in east Africa, hidden from outside eyes by some very advanced technology fueled by the alien metal vibranium, which arrived via asteroid millennia ago.

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.

He has a sworn duty to protect his country and its otherworldly resource vibranium, which, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, has made this small nation unbelievably wealthy and technologically advanced — spaceships are a common conveyance.

Based on the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers by Calegari, Eggers, and Daniel Moulthrop, the film is one part of the Teacher Salary Project, which aims to shine a light on the undervaluation of the nation's 3.2 million teachers.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

The above is just a small sampling of post-election headlines which flooded the media after last Tuesday's historic election, which generated a major political shakeup in the nation's capital as well as state houses from coast to coast.

Learn how a small Arizona charter school, which straddles the edge of the Navajo Nation, strives to interweave its academic focus with traditional Navajo values.

When I attended the Detroit Auto Show back in January, I saw two vehicles I wanted to buy right away: the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the new Ford Escape small sport - utility, which is just now arriving in volume at the nation's Ford dealers.

His tone contrasted with that of his 1967 New Year's message, when he had spoken of «the detestable unjust war» in Vietnam in which a «big nation» was destroying a small one.

Unlike the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which measures the performance of foreign stocks in smaller emerging countries, the EAFE Index concentrates on stocks in the larger, more industrialized nations of the world.

APPA's membership consists of nearly 850 companies, which include both small businesses, as well as the nation's leading pet product companies.

Discover the thrills of snorkeling, boogie boarding and parasailing over the Cerulean blue waters of this popular tourist hotspot, which is home to the nation's smallest (but most beautiful) national park.