Sentences with phrase «than countries like»

We spend far less of our national income on health than countries like Germany and France, and this scandalous failure to invest is not without consequences.

they were «atheist» for an entirely different reason than countries like sweden and denmark.

But by the start of 2012, its GDP was ranked 15th in the world, bigger than countries like Holland and Sweden.

Not exact matches

Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, has found it easier to set up shop in countries like Brazil and China rather than contend with U.S. government regul...

Legere likes nothing more than to travel around the country to the stores and call centers where most of the company's 51,000 U.S. employees work.

Legere likes nothing more than to travel around the country and visit that gold mine, at the stores and call centers where most of the company's 51,000 U.S. employees work.

Other than China, where many go on a week - long holiday, countries like Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Vietnam also celebrate the festival as public holidays.

Skeptics may balk at the figure, but WeWork now counts more than 160 locations and 130,000 members in 15 countries — and is increasingly luring blue chips like IBM to its vision of hipster communal coworking nirvana.

Last week, we took down more than 270 additional pages and accounts operated by the IRA and used to target people in Russia and Russian speakers in countries like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Some markets are likely to fare better than others, but observers say countries with currencies linked to the dollar, like Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, have a lot riding on the outcome.

Grocery shopping shouldn't set you back more than $ 150 a month at one of the country's western style supermarket chains such as Lucky or Thai Huot or well - stocked minimarts like the famously named 7 - Elephants.

This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read,» Gates reports.

«I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials.»

Along with Musk, many of the country's top entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman are thinking more long - term than ever, not less.

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

Three facets of today's U.S. civic discourse would worry the Framers, said Eisgruber: «mistrust of institutions,» which they considered crucial to forming a republic; the «geographic sorting» that finds people of like - minded views grouping together rather than being more evenly distributed throughout the country; and the rise of technologies (read: Facebook) that are keeping people from reading facts and views that give them proper «civic understanding.»

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

People like him — and there are more than you think — charter a commercial airliner and hop across the country visiting the Meccas of the aviation world.

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

A company like Siemens, the German electronics conglomerate, for example, has operations in more than 190 countries.

It also provides credit insurance to small companies in the U.S. who'd similarly like to sell to customers in other countries who might need more favorable purchasing terms than many small companies can offer.

Other countries could follow the same rule book — I think we are going to see something like that with South Korea and probably many others — but the market's fate will be no different than after what played out in Japan and Australia.

Revenue has grown to about $ 120 million, and it processes about $ 500 million a year in payment transactions, working with more than 15,000 retailers across the country and some of the largest retail brands in the world like Visa, MasterCard and Amazon.

With cities like Seattle raising minimum wage significantly higher than their state's mandate ($ 15 versus $ 9.32 per hour, in Seattle and Washington), minimum wage gaps» effect on competition and employment is becoming an issue across the country.

Uber drivers in the richest countries also generally fall into this category but, as owners rather than employees, they are relatively better off than those in countries like Pakistan and India.

The company has particularly targeted this campaign at developing countries like India where, according to the World Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the world.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

States like Alabama have built a presence in the global supply chain in direct competition with the country's Midwestern industrial heartland, and even if Trump coaxes jobs back to the United States they may well head south rather than north.

A deal with the French oil giant Total to sell d.light's new S300 (about $ 30) and S20 (priced in the mid-teens) in its gas stations in countries like Cameroon, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo, has boosted shipments from less than 30,000 to more than 500,000 lanterns each month.

If the mechanism as described on Friday becomes law, it would let Europeans complain to data protection authorities in their own countries about how the likes of Google and Facebook treat their data, rather than having to approach regulators in the country where those firms have their European headquarters.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

Bags are sold in more than 40 countries and include retail locations like Whole Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond and Target.

The company has also outbid Netflix and other players for the rights to movie and TV offerings at leading industry events like Sundance, and it recently expanded Amazon Prime Video into more than 200 countries, which puts it head - to - head with Netflix.

US gasoline is cheaper than is gasoline in most of the major emerging market manufacturing countries like China, Brazil, India, and South Korea.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

To create this list and others like it, each year, we at Great Place to Work survey millions of employees in more than 50 countries to glean their insights on what makes them love the work they do, and to learn how their employers have created an exemplary work environment.

With residents gobbling up more pizza, burgers and fries, that's good news for the likes of McDonald's, KFC and the rest as the country's industry will soon be worth more than a billion dollars.

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

Our country would be better off if our leaders tried to be like them, rather than comparing them to Nazis.»

Flying across country puts more than two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — like driving 7,500 miles.

It's a question our country is going to have to face sooner than later — what would our country look like if we invested these massive military funds elsewhere?

Uber, a five - year - old company that operates in more than 310 cities and 58 countries worldwide, faces homegrown Chinese rivals like Didi Kuaidi, which has more than 90 percent of the market and is backed by two of the largest Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent.

The growing disparity between the haves and the have - nots in this country means that while the top wealth - holders have more than enough money to do what they would like in retirement, a majority of Americans are massively underprepared for their non-working years.

If countries like Germany, whose surpluses have caused so much damage to Europe, were to arrange income more fairly, not only would Europe benefit, but Germany's hard working and thrifty ants would finally get their rewards — a higher income, rather than a larger national trade surplus.

And thirdly, of course, higher leverage means that monetary policy's impact via its effect on the behaviour of borrowers will be bigger than in the past — especially in a country like Australia where the majority of household debt is at floating rates.

There are many that would contend that the financial regulatory standards in countries like Germany and the UK are higher than those of Cyprus.

In less than a year, they will be the new normal for 34 countries in Europe — thanks to payments initiatives like SEPA, or the Single Euro Payments Area.

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan said the country's GDP growth has overtaken Singapore, Indonesia and even higher than certain developed countries like the United States.