Sentences with phrase «such a smaller country compared»

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He may think he is being practical but in a country that has relatively low taxes compared to the rest of the EU, only small state ideology can support such a view.

Average scores in science followed a similar pattern: New Jersey ranked No. 14 in the study, which compared all 50 states, 38 countries and nine smaller systems abroad, such as several provinces in Canada.

Moreover, the relative impact of an extreme event such as a tropical cyclone that can affect most of a small island's territory has a disproportionate impact on that state's GDP, compared to a larger country where an individual event generally affects a small proportion of its total territory and its GDP.

Like Uruguay, the other global leaders in renewable energy conversion — countries such as Costa Rica, Iceland, and Bhutan — all have populations smaller than many U.S. states, so it's not entirely fair to compare them with a country of 318 million people.