Sentences with phrase «system of our small nation»

«We must ensure that we learn one of the major lessons from the highest performing nations in Pisa, and ensure the education system of our small nation has clarity of vision and consistency of approach.

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One of the most cutting - edge is Palo Alto - based Bling Nation, which is trying to deploy a system that lets small firms create on - the - fly loyalty programs.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

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.

John F. Kennedy promised: «We seek to strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its financial problems, to make it a more effective instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine world security system... capable of resolving disputes on the basis of law, of insuring the security of the large and the small, and of creating conditions under which arms can finally be abolished... This will require a new effort to achieve world law».

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

When smaller nations resist, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose structural adjustment policies upon them on pain of their total exclusion from the international economic system.

While it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, it has marginalized and violated the basic human rights of millions.

The real content of the programme of these gentlemen (and some ladies) is undeniable because at its base it guarantees maximum profit for capital, at the price of stagnation and growing inequality between the small minorities benefiting from the system and all the working classes, and between the nations of the triad and all the rest.

He worked out long ago that in a one - country - one - vote system a handful of votes from the smallest nations anywhere in the world cancel out the votes of the European footballing powerhouses.

If we succeed, Ed Miliband's commitment to a regional banking system, acting as the delivery arms to the British Investment Bank we have already called for, could represent a life - line to Britain's small businesses, and the bedrock of a One Nation economy that is built by the many and not just a few at the top.

The CFB report demonstrates the benefits of a public matching system for small donors, supporting the view that the New York City system could be a valid model for the rest of the nation.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Regarding question 12, the bureau said today that «[g] iven the importance of this small population group to the economy, the federal statistical system and the nation, bolstered by the new knowledge of historical precedent brought to light by commenters to the Federal Register notice, the Census Bureau therefore plans to retain this question on the 2016 ACS.»

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

The U.S. and the U.K. were both awakening to being «nations at risk,» due in no small part to the parlous state of their public education systems, and reformers in both countries were pushing for big changes — changes that their respective «education establishments» didn't want to make.

Andorra is a small European nation nestled in the Pyrenees Mountains where cross-national collaboration is at the root of the education system.

Mr. Petruzielo, 54, announced last week that he will be leaving his post as head of the nation's fifth - largest school system for the greener pastures of Cherokee County, Ga., a small but growing suburb of Atlanta, where he will head the 24,000 - student school system.

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.

The notion that a small group of well - heeled businessmen want to tear the nation's education system up by its roots makes many people in the education field nervous.

Most of our nation's public school districts would incur staggering travel costs for students to implement «choice» or would have to run a complex and inefficient system of schools too small to offer comprehensive programs.

Many noted at the conference how the monetary policy of the big nations travels to the smaller nations under a system of floating exchange rates.

Sagrillo, without a doubt our nation's most experienced small - scale wind installer, shepherded the completion of our 10kW wind system with a bunch of students as a part of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's renewable energy hands - on workshop series.