Sentences with phrase «stronger than the nation»

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The U.S. economy has been stronger over the past few years than that of most other nations.

It is worth noting that the 12 states holding contests, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, were not only less affected by the housing crisis, but have stronger housing markets today than most other states in the nation.

Strong circumstantial evidence indicates the federal government and partner nations want to store 100 % of all communications for more than 8 years.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

There is a much stronger sense of community in countries that have a large indigeneous population and a deeper shared sense of belonging to the natural order than there is in Western nations that have experienced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

I firmly believe that the character of our country is stronger now than it was in our nation's early formative years.

But the United States, and other stronger nations, preferred to have the meeting fail rather than openly discuss their hypocritical policies.

It is perhaps significant that the exchange of ideas and mutual interdependence between the scholars of various nations — American, English, Dutch, French, German, Scandinavian — in this discipline has been as strong as, if not stronger than, in other fields of sociological research.

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

That influence remained strong enough to help Johann Sebastian Bach's music sweep across the island nation more than four centuries later.

No nation on earth has a stronger verbal commitment to freedom and to democratic principles than the United States.

«Today, our nation still faces great challenges, but this last decade has proven once more that, as a people, we emerge from our trials stronger than before,» Obama said in a statement Friday.

Even though the 1979 treaty never mentions abortion, and many states party to the convention have strong pro-life laws, CEDAW's committee has pressured more than forty nations in the last five years to liberalize their laws.

Some nations were better poised than others to take advantage of innovation — England in particular, because it had a relatively open society with more scope for entrepreneurship; strong institutions of political liberty; a commitment to the scientific method exemplified by Newton; lots of seaports and colonies; a relative isolation that reduced the risk of invasion; and lots and lots of coal.

Our nation is stronger than you seem to realize as well.

Since they're 32 strong — more participants than 54 nations have in Salt Lake City — the Wadlows always have enough for a football game.

Daniels became Mater Dei's starter in his freshman season, put up jaw - dropping totals as a sophomore for a team that was ranked No. 1 in the state and nation for many weeks and is now trying to help prepare the Monarchs for a stronger finish than the one they had last year.

Team GB named 43 of their 47 strong rowing squad for the Olympic Games after qualifying 12 boats in the 14 classes at last year's World Championships, one less than at London 2012 but more than any other rowing nation.

The nation boasts a strong stable democracy, with an economy that has been growing positively for more than two decades.

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

The Minister, represented by the Executive Secretary, NCCE, Prof Monday Joshua, noted that the education sector needed to key into the various «change initiatives» of the government to make the nation stronger than it was before.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

At this momentous time, it is more important than ever that we face the future together, united by what makes us strong: the bonds that unite us as a people, and our shared interest in the UK being an open, successful trading nation in the future.

«Buy American» Plan will Implement the Nation's Strongest State Procurement Laws Mandating the Preference of American Products -» [A] ll state entities will be required to give preference to American - made goods and products in any new procurements more than $ 100,000.»

Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social networks than their non-cancer peers, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers, who hope to translate that support into better lives for the nation's growing population of cancer survivors.

These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming.

It doesn't hurt that T'Challa is surrounded by strong and dangerous women: Letitia Wright as Shuri, T'Challa's younger sister and designer of his gadgets who shares more than a few similarities to James Bond's Q; Okoye, played by Danai Gurira, head of Wakanda's all - female special forces and private security; and Lupita Nyong» o as Nakia, a spy for the nation who has a long and close history with T'Challa.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The reality that choice remains illusory for four - fifths of all children in this country and especially for the kids who need strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula the most (and, as Dropout Nation has documented ad nauseam, are the least likely to get it in traditional districts) is more than enough reason to adopt Common Core (alongside expanding the array of choice options that can allow for a variety of curricula choices).

Particularly in the case of Anderson, the strong support from reformers throughout the nation made her more - competitive in her ultimately unsuccessful race against incumbent Zimmer than would have been possible with the help of local reformers alone.

The National Education Association (NEA), standing strong with more than three million union members, is committed to transforming the nation's persistently low - performing, priority schools into great public schools for all students.

We indeed capped the year on a high note and as we look to the future, the commitment of parents, teachers, charter leaders and authorizers across the nation is stronger than ever.

Serving more than 900,000 students, Colorado has endeavored to build a strong and integrated early childhood education program and ranks among the highest in the nation for offering students a «chance for success,» according to EdWeek's Quality Counts 2017.

This number may seem low, but it's actually a sign of strong interest, considering that independent schools represent less than 1 % of the schools in the nation.

Delaware, which serves a proportionally larger population of black students than the nation serves as a whole, exhibits a similar pattern with respect to the white - black achievement gap in reading — stronger early - grades performance, but below - average overall performance by eighth graders.

The Ford Taurus, one of the nation's top - selling cars since it was introduced December 26, 1985, has been a huge success for Ford.About the only complaints with the car have been that it could use a larger engine than the 3 - liter V - 6 being offered and that it could use anti-lock brakes.For 1990, the two sore points are now strong points.

In general, though, as a nation, we are in a «stronger» place now than before.

The Euro is strong — So strong that marginal nations were able to borrow at rates lower than they ever dreamed imaginable.

The nation's economic output grew at an even faster rate during July, August and September than the government initially estimated, giving the economy its strongest six - month performance in more than a decade.

Generous though the offer is, the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz does also note that Tate Modern may have more than a strong claim to say that it already runs the nation's contemporary art museum and have no intention of going anywhere, especially with the news that the current director of Haus der Kunst Munich, Chris Dercon, will join as director from Spring 2011 and plans for Tate Modern 2 not likely to be shelved, in favor of an extended construction timetable.

More than ever, we need strong, cooperative and accountable leadership from politicians of all nations.

These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming.

Nikola Tesla invented an electric car in 1931 and Ford built a plastic car in 1941 out of hemp plastic, with plastic 10x stronger than steel & it ran on hemp vegetable oil... needless to say a few greedy traitors sabotaged our nation's progress, to personally profit from selling scarce death - based OIL, their prized monopoly.

Of these people, in most nations a quarter to half felt «a great deal» of concern about it, substantially higher than just a few years earlier, whereas fewer than a fifth of Americans now expressed strong concern.

The United Nations is to vote later this week for a climate treaty «on steroids» — stronger, more all - encompassing and more legally binding than the ailing Paris accord.

Moreover, no nation in the world is in a better position to adopt strong targets than Australia.

But the United States delegation could not exert strong leadership, for the U.S. Senate had barely begun to consider the nation's target for its own future emissions, and if it ever did set rules they would surely be weaker than other nations were demanding.

While other developed nations were silent on the issue of including stronger wording about protection of intact forests, none other than the EU actively blocked it.

Furthermore, developed nations needs to take the lead, make stronger emission cuts than have been so far put forward.