Sentences with phrase «speaking countries where»

Unlike English speaking countries where the publisher advances an author money, in China, the author pays the publisher.

They were looking for an English - speaking country where Simon could cont -LRB-...)

Not exact matches

After getting fired from his job in New York, Cole Zucker booked a one - way ticket to Shanghai, in search of adventure in a country where he knew no one and spoke no Chinese.

Wu was speaking from Yancheng, a mid-sized city in the country typical of where the bulk of China's box office growth comes from.

«So I'm in a foreign country, where no one speaks English, I don't know this country's emergency number, and I have no clue what to do,» she wrote.

To a country where they might not even speak the language?

But he nonetheless traveled the country, even speaking to a pro-gun rally in June 1996 — where he told gun owners, to their face, that some of their guns would be seized.

A lot of that seems to have coincided with Venezuelans in Venezuela and also Chinese in China looking to get money out of their countries — you know capital outflows and then from there, it seemed to have critical mass taking off to where it is today slightly over $ 10000 as we speak.

«In a country of 1.2 billion people where only 250 million speaks English, vernacular speech recognition can enable financial inclusion to information dissemination to farmers.

And, in a very strange reinterpretation of American history, Huckabee declared, «I believe America is an exceptional country created out of the providence of God because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in the freedom to worship and to speak out and to protest, and where every person was equal to every other person in intrinsic value and worth and no person was worth more or worth less because of how much land they owned, what their last name was, what their occupation was and what their bloodline was.»

Once upon a time there was a country where men could speak openly for and against such things.

For example, the concept of freedom speaks of a condition where capital has the ability to embark and disembark in a country without any approval or regulation from a social agency in which individuals and community set different priorities to seek perfection in life.

Wales is another country where some people speak Welsh.

So where I disagree with Larison is his claim that «Conservatives actually know very well that they do not speak for a majority in this country, and they are also well aware that changes that would allow for more direct, plebiscitary democracy, whether in presidential elections or in passing legislation, would work to the detriment of their smaller states and their overall political interests.»

I can't speak for you, but I can definitely sense a pull in our world, and especially our culture where the whole country is being split right down the middle.

I'll admit that when I first took the decision, I still cared very much about what people think of me; and when people questioned my decision to give up my job at the bank and uproot from Singapore to live in a country whose language I couldn't speak, or where I didn't have a job waiting for me, I found myself fighting internally with these comments.

Especially when you are living and working in a country where everyone speaks it?

As reported by the Evening Standard he has been speaking about the possibility of going to play in his country of birth Germany or even in Turkey where his father comes from.

The kid came to a foreign country, where he didn't speak the language, at the age of 18.

He already spoke perfect English and now he was moving to the country where he would prove that he could speak it better than most of his team - mates, particularly the English ones.

While the wealth disparity in this country is increasingly shocking, here is what has surprised me most: regardless of where I am, and whom I'm speaking to, change — in our value system, in the way we parent, in what we expect from our children — has been consistently met with a combination of interest, appreciation, apprehension and resistance.

If you are moving to a foreign country where the language is completely different to what your children know and speak, it's only right to give them a fair chance with learning the language.

She also has an online blog where she shares her daily discoveries about living green, and speaks at workshops and festivals around the country.»

These days, you practically never find it in English - speaking countries, and in France, where it could be considered home, it is ranked 142 in baby names.

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

Those who speak «contemptuously» about their views are being unfair: at risk is «a beautiful place in the country» where a railway will be built «that's being forced on them».

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that six traditional rulers, one from each geo - political zone of the country, spoke at the occasion where they reassured the support of their zones for the Buhari administration as well as the continued existence of Nigeria as one country.

He also touched on streetism where he said, some of the children he spoke to revealed that they have been forced to come to the city to seek greener pastures because their parents have abandoned them to also do same in other countries.

Rev. Asante said the situation where politicians were at each other's throat whenever they mounted party platforms or are speaking on the radio, do not augur well for the country's democracy.

Dan - Ali spoke on the implication of Trump's presidency for Nigeria, saying: «Security-wise, as always, we will always collaborate with external forces where we can get peace and tranquility in our country.

«A few weeks ago, Secretary of Labor and Buffalo born and raised, Tom Perez was at Bennett High School where he spoke eloquently about the contributions of people with disabilities to our country,» said Kevin Horrigan, Associate Vice President of Public Affairs, People Inc..

Speaking about the interview in Ovation where President Mahama alleged that a cabal had taken control of the media in Ghana and were blocking his transformation message, Chief Momodu said his assessment shows that Mahama has done more to develop the country.

Speaking about an interview in his magazine, Ovation International Magazine, where President Mahama said a cabal had taken control of the media in Ghana and were blocking his transformation message, Chief Momodu told host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle that his assessment shows that Mahama has done more to develop the country.

Speaking in Swindon as part of a tour of west country constituencies, where his speech was watched by his parents, the Conservative leader said: «At the start of this campaign I said we would fight this election for the people who are ignored in our society, the ones who work hard, pay their taxes, live decent lives and yet feel they are sidelined.

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

Consider the counterexample of Canada — a mostly English - speaking country, every bit as much in the American cultural orbit as Britain, but one where Reagan / Thatcher - type financial deregulation never took hold.

«Frankly speaking, If Nigeria is a country where democracy is democracy, so many won't talk about contesting election.

The so called Països Catalans, that is, the Catalan Countries refers to those territories where the Catalan language is spoken.

«The left needs an independent voice, where we act and speak for ourselves,» Hawkins said, «Working people in this country aren't voting because they're so alienated from both parties.

It is truly a special place where people can experience the incredible variety of cultural traditions celebrated by Queens residents who come from more than 100 countries and speak about 160 different languages.»

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D - Maine) spoke to aspiring litigators at the Albany Law School this month where he discussed his time on Capitol Hill and his role serving the country as special envoy overseas.

Her passion for justice has taken her around the country and the world where she has been invited to speak and present at various conference and gatherings in multiple states and countries, including: Senegal, Cuba, Mali and Tunisia as a UN Delegate for the world summit on informational systems.

I thought that moving to a country where you supposedly speak the same language would be relatively easy, but that was without counting Australian colloquialisms!

She was sent to Morocco, where she became fascinated with the French - speaking, Arab / Muslim country while working on water shortage issues in a rural community there.

Several stories are fantastical, darkly magical: the humorous «Talk of the Town», where Daventry speaks to the youthful narrator and «Happy Hour», in which an ancient power, now dwelling in an air extractor fan in a country pub, becomes hungry.

Rothman adds, «If you are going to a country where you don't speak the language, try to find a bilingual school.

The same month that Bishara spoke to the U.N., war - ravaged Yemen, where students have been killed by Saudi air strikes, became the 70th country to sign the Safe Schools Declaration.

And hopefully, I would follow up with visiting the countries where each language is spoken.

Language acquisition is the quickest way to narrow differences between cultures, and it might even foster an interest in learning about a country where the language is spoken.

At that time, I was one to turn to antibiotics if I got sick, but that wasn't an option in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language and definitely couldn't navigate the medical system, so I took the nasty tasting tincture that he offered.