Sentences with phrase «than country residents»

Similarly, city folks are more likely than country residents to rate convenient trading hours as very important when choosing a supermarket.

Not exact matches

(According to the official population figures, Beijing and Shanghai, often portrayed as the norm for the new China, house less than 4 % of the country's residents.)

Luckily, though, there are many countries where, as a legal resident, you can qualify for a local healthcare plan that's often more comprehensive and less costly than Medicare.

(California's legal adult - use cannabis market could even be bigger than the one that may be coming in Canada, as the state actually has more residents than that entire country.)

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

With the Winter Olympics underway in South Korea, residents in the country's Gangwon province are set to earn more than $ 2 million from renting out their homes to visitors, according to Airbnb.

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.

We have a country that started from scratch, with just 4 million people living here in 1790, and ended up with close to 25 percent of the world's GDP and more than 300 million residents a few hundred years later.

Among residents of the 27 countries of the European Union, women were less likely than men to agree with the four statements about the role of education in the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and skills, with the gap being largest for the skills to run a company.

Further, if Tribune is successful at buying the Orange County Register and Riverside Press - Enterprise out of auction this month, he would become the business head of the biggest monopoly newspaper company in the country, serving an area of more than 20 million residents.

More than 100,000 South Korea residents have signed petitions asking the government there to step back from any plans to close the country's cryptocurrency exchanges.

The state did better during the country's most recent economic problems than many other states, but Utah residents are still having problems getting their debt under control.

Offering a range of natural landscapes to enjoy and explore and some of the most exciting and diverse cities in the country, it's no surprise that California residents say they'd rather be here than anywhere else.

However, Tennessee, like most states in the country, was badly hit by the nation's most recent economic woes, and residents are carrying far more debt than they would like as a result.

Few in the world are more aware of the need for peace than the residents of this continent where violence is woven into the fabric of daily life in several countries.

Syria, where ISIS violence has displaced more than a million residents, was the No. 2 country of origin among the nearly 85,000 refugees the United States admitted last year.

But as a resident of Canada, I find myself thinking my home country wiser in its legislative rather than judicial approach.

When they featured Gainesville, home of my beloved Florida Gators, they picked a Bananas Foster dessert from Ballyhoo, a restaurant frequented more by Alachua country residents (ACRs) rather than UF students.

As I am writing this post I am more than 4000 miles away from home in a city which has four time more residents than the country I come from - New York City!

With 11 courses serving communities whose populations total only 30,000 permanent residents, the desert enterprisers have truly done more than any other spot in the country to bring what was once a rich man's game to Everyman.

The residents in question are entitled to Medicaid coverage under state court rulings, but ineligible for federal Medicaid funding (mostly because they have been in the country less than five years).

Fields is one of more than 400,000 residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the country's largest public housing system, who stands to be impacted by the executive order signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo declaring a state of emergency this past Mon., Apr. 2nd.

More than 220,000 immigrant New Yorkers will remain unable to benefit from Obama's immigration executive order, which would have protected millions of parents of U.S. citizens across the country from deportation and granted them work permits under a program known as as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA.

According to the organization, «In the face of rising poverty and economic inequalities across the country, the Lagos State government should be considering eliminating toll charges rather than allowing the Lekki Concession Company to get away with overcharging citizens and residents and prioritising profits over the public interests.

Educated male NYC residents earn more early in their careers than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.

With more than 400,000 residents, the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, is the largest public housing system in the country.

More than 220,000 immigrant New Yorkers will remain unable to benefit from President Obama's immigration executive order, which would have protected millions of parents of U.S. citizens across the country from deportation and granted them work permits under a program known as as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA.

It is truly a special place where people can experience the incredible variety of cultural traditions celebrated by Queens residents who come from more than 100 countries and speak about 160 different languages.»

Residents across Long Island whose wallets continue to be squeezed by electric rates higher than nearly anywhere else in the country didn't need to read a 34 - page audit to know that current costs are unsustainable and unacceptable.

In 2005, residents of Portland, Oregon — where regulations encourage infill development — emitted 35 percent less carbon dioxide than the average resident of the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas.

Because Americans spend more per capita on health care than residents of any country, debate has rumbled on for years about whether all that investment yields sufficient results.

The country had already been on edge following the volcano's initial eruption this past weekend, spewing hot ash, gas and smoke into the air for several days, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,200 residents and leading to the death of a 92 - year - old woman who suffered a heart attack aboard a navy boat as she was being taken to Puerto Montt, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of the volcano.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living below the poverty line and 300 million people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.

Mexico, along with many other low - to middle - income countries, is experiencing a rapid aging of its population, and poverty among elderly residents there is far more prevalent than among the young.

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

Residents of Brazil are more likely to wake the neighbors after a an orgasm than people in any other country, as 65 % of Brazilian respondents described themselves as screamers, stated the survey.

New York has more than 19.8 million residents, with more than 40 % of the population living in New York City (aka the Big Apple), making it the most populous city in the country.

If you, like me, dedicate a large portion of your time to travel, and spend more time traveling than you are resident in your own country, you're more

Most of us have failed to maintain it, and have inevitably If you, like me, dedicate a large portion of your time to travel, and spend more time traveling than you are resident in your own country, you're more

The new production circumstances of Code Unknown gave him the space and budget to retry and perfect some of the thematic strategies risked in the glaciation trilogy, but it is the combination of the fates of semi-established African residents in Paris with those of Romanians in the country illegally and begging in the streets that makes the film feel more global in scope than his earlier work.

That's a novel approach here in Sri Lanka, a country that's one of the world's largest exporters of tea — an industry that employs more than 1 million of its 22 million residents.

Calls for tighter gun controls surged in other parts of the country after the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where a former student killed 17 people, but they barely registered in gun - loving Texas, where more than 1 million residents are licensed to carry handguns.

Among those benefiting from those protections are more than 30,000 New York City residents who came to the country before age 16.

Medical residency programs receive more than $ 11 billion in federal dollars annually from Medicare and Medicaid.86 This means that 1,000 teaching hospitals across the country receive funding to train 115,000 medical residents.87

Bookline claims to have a user base of better than one in ten of the country's population, with just over one - and - a-half million users in a country with slightly less than ten million residents.

With the average sales tax percentage that a U.S. customer pays reaching 9.64 % in 2010 according to a finding published by Vertex, Inc., and considering that residents in some areas of the country pay an astounding 13.73 %, the savings over the holiday on a device that ranges in price from $ 134 for an e-reader to over $ 500 for a tablet can more than cover a few ebooks.

It is the most populous place in Oglala Lakota Country with more than 3,000 residents.

Richmond residents with a college education have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 2.4 percent, and they can expect to make 69 percent more than if they had only a high school diploma.

On average, air pollution in this country results in more than $ 50 million per TWh in annual healthcare costs, but these cities have taken some important steps to ensure their residents can keep their portion of those costs down.