Sentences with phrase «talking billions of people»

On the worst case scenario we are talking billions of people dead.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

With over a billion users, Facebook offers an unlimited amount of people to talk to if you take the time to build relationships.

We're not talking earnings in the billions of dollars from multinational, multi-industry conglomerates anymore - we're talking about the ability for people to work together in harmony, understanding and mutual respect, along with cooperation.

The Internet of Things comprises billions of connected devices and sensors that talk to people and to each other.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal announcement touts «a combination unlike any other,» «a perfect match of two companies with complementary strengths,» and a billion dollars a year worth of «synergies,» which is how business people talk about cost - cutting.

• Meredith (NYSE: MDP) is in late - stage talks to acquire Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME), the publisher of Fortune, Time, Sports Illustrated, and People, for roughly $ 2 billion, according to Bloomberg.

The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim of adding billions of dollars to the global economy and lifting millions of people out of poverty through trade liberalization.

Snapchat Inc., the company that makes a mobile application for disappearing photo messages, is in talks with investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for a round of financing that may value the company at $ 10 billion, people with knowledge of the situation said.

HONG KONG, April 12 U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC is in talks to invest in a fundraising round for China's Ant Financial Services Group that is expected to be worth at least $ 8 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

Sky News cited a person close to the talks that Google's $ 30 million stake equates to 1.5 % of Virgin Galactic's shares and values the company at $ 2 billion.

What people are talking about today: Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, has resigned from the company he built into the world's biggest ad firm, with revenue of $ 19.7 billion last year and 134,413 employees globally.

The mobile car - hailing application is in early talks to raise a new round of financing that could value the start - up at $ 50 billion, according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke anonymously because the process is confidential.

Xiaomi Corp., the Chinese smartphone maker that was once the most valuable startup in the world, is in talks with investment banks about a possible initial public offering and seeking a valuation of at least $ 50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

he talks to me also and billions of other people.

Very funny, the Statue of Jesus peace be upon him got burnt, and people in their comments talk about muslims and islam, very weird, but probably I should not be surprised, there are 1.5 Billion muslims in the world, and if islam really teaches terrorism then none of the nonmuslims will be alive.

You talk of «satan» and «god»... not one person in the billions alive or have lived have EVER provided one shred of any empirical evidence of ANY so - called «god».

It's funny you liken us to fruit flies and yet in the paragraph above you're talking about how god wants our emotion of love, he can hear our prayers he is interested in every individual life of close to 7 billion people on earth.

We're talking about billions of people here!

When they are promoting all kinds of sick perversion, killing unborn babies and can not stop exploitation of a billion people, what are the earthlings talking about?

We are talking about a group of people who, this year alone, remitted $ 22 billion to the Nigerian economy.

We are talking of people who are spending in excess of $ 1 billion.

We also talk about the issues of malnutrition, which can strike people all over the world in unusual ways, and we also look at those larger questions about how we are supposed to keep feeding the perhaps nine billion people that will be facing (unclear) in the mid century.

Amid all this talk of energy demand, the IEA also emphasises another of its estimates: 1.4 billion people across the world lack any access to electricity and 2.7 billion still use wood or other biomass to cook.

Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4 -, 5 -, 6 - degree increases»

Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4 -, 5 -, 6 - degree increases» Homeland Security Newswire 24 Feb 2009

He talked about the technical advancements they made to create Smaug, how they decided to visualize Smaug's speech, the time required to render visual effects like the billion coins in Smaug's vault, just how many people worked on the film, the Desolation of Smaug extended edition, and so much more.

We meet people making a very nice living manufacturing diamonds in Russian built pressure chambers (and we're not talking itty bitty industrial diamonds here but diamonds up to 5 carats), and travel to the far north of Canada where $ 1.2 billion of raw diamonds are pulled out of the tundra each year.

And the main reason is that here I can listen to people who actually know what they are talking about, with many years of experience trading all kinds of markets, and successfully managing billions of dollars, so you are guaranteed to always learn something new.

A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has people talking about Americans aged 60 and older who owe billions of dollars in student loans.

I talked about how I polled this group of 60 or so people I get together with every couple of years as to what rate they think they can compound money at if they were investing small sums: $ 100,000, $ 1million, $ 100 million, $ 1 billion, etc..

Stop the talk and show us results Phil, you say this every year and every year we are let down, wheres CD3???, wheres this 1 billion investment result, its all talk and people, including the hardcore, are tiring of it.

There are billions of people walking around with high - performing computers in their pockets, and spend hours a day playing, watching, and talking about games.

But when I talk to students and others about forging a smooth path toward roughly 9 billion people seeking decent lives, and the underlying need for an aggressive and sustained energy quest, I always say don't look to those hallways full of gray suits — the fossils, as activists call them — for the breakthroughs.

Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

That's all fine, but this also means that the climate talks, which head to Durban, South Africa, next year, are not the place to watch for the breakthroughs — social, financial or technological — that will be required if the world is serious about providing some 9 billion people mid-century with the suite of services that come with abundant energy (mobility, communication, illumination, desalinated water and more) while also greatly cutting emissions from burning fossil fuels, which still dominate the global energy mix.

He talks about monetary values of the reserves being written off, as if the only cost will be to Exxon (and who cares about Exxon), but that fuel has real value to billions of people — so much so that every time prices tick up a tad, Exxon gets hauled in front of Congress to prove its not somehow holding back production.

«I attended Ian Dunlop's talk at the Engineers Australia's Sustainable Engergy Society and it was a wake up call that every Australian has to be proactive in addressing the climate emergency that we are now in and that threatens to destroy life on the planet for billions of people if we continue «business as usual».

«Nobody... likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.»

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The kind of drastic actions required to mitigate global warming risk the destruction of the global economy and the deaths of potentially billions of people.

And if you are not sure about the benefits of mitigation — I recently went to a talk by an Indian scientist who spoke about the melting Himalayan glaciers and his fear that, if we don't stabilise the atmosphere, they will go and stop feeding those major rivers that provide water and make agriculture possible for 1 - 2 billion people.

So we're talking annual growth of, say 2.24 % rather than 2.30 % to save billions and billions of people from needless suffering for decades if not centuries.

So we are talking about the wealthiest 25 % of them to find your richest 1 billion people.

To reduce carbon emissions on a superlarge scale, we're talking about huge portions of the populace (billions of people) needing to agree.

It's expected to be $ 120 billion industry with people like Zuckerberg, and Microsoft, and Google, and by the way everyone should circle and write down Magic Leap Check this out, you guys, because this type of technology is what we're talking about.

China's DJI, the world's largest consumer drone maker, is in talks with investors to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of $ 15 billion, people familiar with the discussions said.

As Google talks about the next billion people to get online being possible thanks to Android, many are worried about the security ramifications of these less expensive devices.