Sentences with phrase «state and nation on»

Not only are food and household goods transported into the city by trucks, but, the majority of retail goods made in the area are shipped throughout the state and the nation on trucks.

A strong candidate will be highly motivated to ensure that his / her students have some of the strongest scores in our state and the nation on the ACT and California Common Core assessments.

We joined franchise industry leaders from the region, state and nation on the steps of the State Capitol building to raise awareness about the high unemployment issues our veterans face, and to discuss what we are doing with other franchise companies to support veterans and their careers.

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that not only is California behind most other states and the nation on enacting policies that support effective teaching, but it has also slipped from its already low position of a few years ago.

Quality Counts grades the states and the nation on educational performance across a range of key indicators, issuing overall A-F grades based on a traditional 100 - point scale.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any move by the United States to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum would be a «very bad idea» guaranteed to disrupt trade between the two nations.

Of note, China's emphasized in the white paper that countries should respect «the rights and freedom of non-Arctic States to carry out activities in this region in accordance with the law,» specifically pointing multiple times to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

We can talk about nation - states and employees who click on malware.

Christian Leuprecht, a political science professor at RMC and Queen's University, says that unlike other nations» security agencies, which might actively seek to extract information from other states, Canada's intelligence operations focus more often on protecting intellectual property and trade secrets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft of new nuclear weapons systems at his State of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for human life.

Residents of the United States have, on average, more food - energy available to them than anybody else on the planet: 3,729 calories per person, per day — or so the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization calculates.

Crony - state capitalism has imposed rentier monopolies and cartels on wage earners, effectively transferring more of the nation's income and wealth to politically powerful entrenched interests and cartels.

«The California Air Resources Board reaffirmed its own set of regulatory standards for the automotive industry, setting it and 12 other mostly East and West Coast states that follow its lead on a different path than the rest of the nation.»

Steven C. Bullock: The pyramid is a sign of strength and survival and long - lasting, and that's showing that the new nation is going to survive and last a long time, and it's built on 13 different steps meaning the 13 new states, the 13 former colonies.

State Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R - Lehigh, introduced the bill last October after doctors from his district showed him grim data on rising maternal mortality rates in the nation and the sState Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R - Lehigh, introduced the bill last October after doctors from his district showed him grim data on rising maternal mortality rates in the nation and the statestate.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

The board's researchers gave Canada a grade of D on an innovation report card, putting it 14th among 17 industrialized nations, placing behind the likes of the United States, Japan and Germany.

Under the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contaminStates in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contaminstates agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination.

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

This is a direct financial motivation that would benefit both cybercriminals and nation states - either by their acting on the information or selling it for profit.»

«Under the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back inStates in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, for instance, states agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back instates agreed to explore space for the benefit of all humankind, not place weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and avoid harmful contamination,» Maynard explains, but that was way back in 1967.

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar after militant attacks on Aug. 25 sparked a crackdown led by security forces in western Rakhine state that the United Nations and United States have said constitute ethnic cleansing.

«I call on the president and our nation's military leaders to re-focus their efforts on improving health care and other services for our service members and veterans and ensuring the security, freedom, and prosperity of the United States and its allies.

Fossil fuel prices are squeezing budgets in several states that rely heavily on severance taxes, such as Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma — even as OPEC nations consider cutting production to boost prices.

In considering my book, which focuses heavily on the U.S., I think there may be something to the theory, that the United States is indeed a special — and perhaps superior — nation.

The main outcome of Habitat III was that UN nation states agreed on the New Urban Agenda (NUA): a non-binding document, which will guide policies over the next 20 years with the goal of making cities safer, resilient and sustainable and their amenities more inclusive.

In its most recent report on the state of global fisheries, the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are fully or overfished, and increasing production to meet the world's growing demand for animal protein can't be done in a sustainable manner.

Reviewing commitment to clean energy research and development June 1 The United States committed along with 21 other nations and the European Union to double research and development spending on clean energy technology.

Israel has more venture capital investments per capita than any nation on earth, including the United States, and boasts the most non-U.S. companies listed on the Nasdaq after China.

Engaging constructively with governments is central to advancing BlackRock's mission, and, in the United States, we desperately need to find common ground on which Americans of different views and from different parties can come together to move the nation forward.

Rather than repeat this approach, both the federal government and state governments should write contracts to ensure that economic incentives focus on reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for the nation's inmates, not just warehousing as many people as possible.

President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as «shithole countries,» according to two sources familiar with the comments.

Cyber security software firm Tanium has raised $ 120 million from investment firms as more U.S. federal agencies rely on its technology to fend off attacks from nation - states and hackers, the company announced Wednesday.

On Jan. 27, Trump issued an executive order, «Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,» which suspended refugee admission to the U.S. and banned citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from traveling to the United States for the next three months.

Nothing could be better for the United States than for our government to renege on the Iran deal while the EU continues to respect and enforce it among its own nations.

President Trump has exempted the two nations from 25 % import duties on steel and 10 % duties on aluminum, and has further left the door open to any nations with which the United States has a «security relationship».

That's where the good news ends: Vermont retirees are taxed on almost everything — estate, inheritance and Social Security income, for which the state has the second - highest tax rate in the nation.

CVS Health said on Sunday that it had agreed to buy Aetna for about $ 69 billion in a deal that would combine the drugstore giant with one of the biggest health insurers in the United States and has the potential to reshape the nation's health care industry.

Supporters of Green Mountain say the company is bound to maintain its grip on the United States, since its machines exclusively carry many of the nation's biggest coffee brands, including Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and Folgers.

There have been very few updates on the state of negotiations, but just because Iran and the P5 +1 nations reached a framework deal in April does not mean they can overcome the remaining outstanding differences, which also happen to be some of the thorniest.

Based on a $ 400,000 purchase price with a 20 percent down payment and zero points, GoBankingRates uncovered the best 30 - year fixed mortgage rates in states with major metropolitan areas across the nation.

The nation's largest city has been on an ambitious, state - and city - backed push to broaden its strengths in finance and media and into high - tech, but it is short on Amazon's request for 8 million square feet of affordable office space.

WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

Instead, unilaterally imposing a 19th century tariff policy is a sure way to alienate Washington's closest friends and ensure that other, less democratically - minded, states might become tomorrow's «greatest nation on earth.»

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

The good news is that the Chinese do not feel morally superior or exceptional, and that the majority of them believe China should not take on a world leadership role, or if it does, it should jointly lead the world with the United States and other leading nations.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The White House said Pence would use his address to the Organization of American States to call on nations to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to address the country's humanitarian crisis, release political prisoners and hold free and fair elections.