Sentences with phrase «smaller than a nation»

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As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

Rousseff's impeachable offense was for playing fast and loose with the nation's budget; essentially fudging the numbers to make the budget deficit look smaller than it really was.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

By 2016, the number of small firms operating in six or more nations will more than double, the report found.

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.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

That's because the CMIT Solutions name commands instant credibility — with more than 150 offices across the nation, CMIT Solutions is relied upon for affordable IT solutions in small and medium - size businesses in nearly every major city.

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

While community banks make up less than 20 percent of the financial industry's assets, they provide more than half of the nation's small - business loans under $ 1 million.

Frozen for more than half a century, relations between the two nations exhibited small signs of a warming after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

Vatican City is the world's smallest sovereign nation, with less than 109 acres and about 650 resident citizens.

More than 2,500 years ago, in the bright of day, somewhere in a large Middle Eastern city, the king of a small nation strips down to his underclothes during a religious ceremony and dances to the rhythms of tambourines, castanets and cymbals punctuated by the melody of lyres, harps and other guitarlike instruments.

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.

Th preserve the «person in community» Daly and Cobb (1989, p. 165) favor development that takes the small group, such as the village, rather than the individual or the nation as the unit of development.

In certain critical matters, the small and average - size congregations, acting in sincere covenant with the ABC, are hardly more independent of the actions of the ABC «headquarters» at Valley Forge than the communities of our nation are free of the actions of the bureaus of the federal government.

«In this nation of more than more than 300,000 small, family - run coffee farms, the expansive Gemadro Estate stands as an exception.

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Tasini noted the 15th Congressional District, where he has lived for more than two decades, is the smallest in the nation, geographically speaking.

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.

Though he was tainted by a fund - raising scandal last year that led to the convictions of campaign staffers, Mr. Liu dwarfed Mr. Avella's fund - raising haul: relying on a combination of local corporations and small donors from around the nation, Mr. Liu pulled in more than a half million dollars for his eastern Queens bid.

«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 addition, people who live in modern - day nations are not less violent than their ancestors or people who currently live in small - scale hunting, gathering and horticultural societies, Falk said.

Including the comparatively small amount spent by the private sector, the total amount spent on research amounts to roughly 0.03 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product — a number three times smaller than the amount spent by Japan and far behind other nations as well.

Rather than the end of nations that Debora MacKenzie refers to, a global system based on small nations would be...

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.

However, the reductions required are country specific and small — less than 10 percent below a nation's 1990 emissions.

The occasional quakes rattling the New Madrid Seismic Zone, a series of midwestern faults named for a small town in the Missouri Bootheel, aren't aftershocks of the massive quakes that rocked our fledgling nation more than 2 centuries ago, a new study suggests.

But perhaps support for work with other nations will be distributed more evenly around the research community in future years, rather than being concentrated in government laboratories in one small part of Australia.

A second NOAA - funded forecast, for the Chesapeake Bay, calls for a smaller than average dead zone in the nation's largest estuary.

Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.

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».

France actually has the highest dairy fat consumption of any industrialized nation but suffers from far fewer eating disorders, and there is a smaller incidence of dieting than there is in America.

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It's going to print money on a level higher than the GDP of many small nations, it's going to be the talk of the early summer movie season, and it's probably going to bid farewell to a handful of faces that have become synonymous with this era of Hollywood filmmaking.

In 11 of the 18 nations, the estimate of the effects of class size were positive and statistically significant, suggesting that students in larger classes perform significantly better than students in smaller classes.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

; and a small number (4,638) of charter schools that — despite steady growth — still serve less than 3 percent of the nation's students.

All countries are different, and as many Americans point out, Finland is a small nation with a much more homogeneous population than the United States.

Yet studies show that quality of charters across the nation vary, with just a small percent performing better than traditional public schools.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.

There are several countries in the world where Windows is smaller than Android and Asian nations are a good example of that.

At 110,000 - square feet, the Terry Center is one of the nation's largest veterinary hospitals and is more than twice the size of the original Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

«A review of state and USDA inspection reports from more than 100 breeders who sold animals to the nation's largest retail pet store chain revealed that more than 60 percent of the inspections found serious violations of basic animal care standards, including sick or dead animals in their cages, lack of proper veterinary care, inadequate shelter from weather conditions, and dirty, unkempt cages that were too small.

This resort is located on the north coast of Jamaica, an island nation that is smaller than the state of Connecticut, but has the largest number of churches per square kilometer.

Although smaller, low - cost airlines in the U.S. have been growing much faster than their giant rivals, they have been mostly stymied in their desire to gain access to the nation's biggest air travel market: New York.