Sentences with phrase «than in other nations»

I don't believe that the peoples of Africa are more accepting of corruption than those in other nations.

Admissions standards for U.S. teacher colleges are significantly lower than in other nations considered to be education leaders.

The retail arm should have capital equal to 20 % of assets - a much higher requirement than in other nations.

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

With well over 2 million people imprisoned in the United States — more than in any other nation at any time in world history — the church has ample opportunity for renewal.

The income gap is wider than in any other nation except Brazil, and the institutional divides left over from apartheid are immense.

Not exact matches

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

This possibly explains why other non-nuclear nations play a greater role in the international community and enjoy a higher standard of living than Russia, which prioritizes nuclear weapons above other things like investing in education or infrastructure.

But it's notable since it's the first such drop noted in more than two decades, and Americans» life expectancy is already lower than that of other developed nations like Canada, France, and Germany.

Though they admit comparisons are tricky, economists generally view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in many other wealthy nations.

There are over 70 mobile subscriptions per 100 people in this country, and yet that's fewer than any other developed nation.

More troubling was the finding (demonstrated in the chart produced by TD Economics below) that one of Canada's youngest generations — those between the ages of 16 and 24 — underperformed more than any other age demographic in relation to other surveyed nations.

But while that growth is comparable to the rates of most other cities in developed nations (and better than some), it's far below the rates at which cities are growing in China, Brazil and India.

«Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international disgrace» of U.S. health - care costs, Sanders said, emphasizing that Americans pay more in health - care costs than any other developed nation, nearly 18 percent of U.S. GDP.

And while research firm ComScore reports Canadians spend more time online than any other nation, Zillidy is the country's first startup in the pawning space.

With operations around the world — three wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe, majority ownership in a joint venture in Japan, and distribution agreements with independent contractors in other nations — Wind River faces corporate tax rates that can be much higher than those for companies that operate only in the United States.

As Modern Healthcare notes, the U.S. imports more medical, surgical, dental, and veterinarian instruments from Mexico than it does from any other country, with more than $ 5.4 billion worth of these supplies coming in from the nation between January and November of 2016 alone.

The New York Fed also reported that the regional housing sector had a less consequential effect on regional economic conditions than in other parts of the nation where housing played a more significant role in dampening economic activity.

The US is unique in two key — and related — ways when it comes to guns: It has way more gun deaths than other developed nations, and it has far more guns than any other country in the world.

New York Fed Presents an Update on Regional Economic Conditions; Highlights Less Severe Regional Housing and Employment Conditions than in Other Parts of the Nation

In fact, a range of experts agree that Mr. Trump's proposals are more likely to deepen those problems, particularly if China or other targeted nations retaliate, rather than accept his demands.

It is worth noting that the 12 states holding contests, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia, were not only less affected by the housing crisis, but have stronger housing markets today than most other states in the nation.

The United States has led the pack in the shale revolution, profiting more than any other nation.

China Development Bank raised an outstanding $ 30.9 billion for its clients on China's bond market in 2013, more than any other investment bank in this rapidly developing nation.

Driving an infrastructure boom across the mainland of the world's most populous nation, China Development Bank raised $ 11.1 billion in pubic bonds for its clients last year, more than any other investment bank in the world.

Reflecting its unparalleled access to the debt capital markets of the four Nordic nations, Nordea Markets raised $ 18.7 billion in 221 bond deals in 2013 — more deals than any other bank — in addition to numerous refinancings and restructurings.

If the returnee hopes to work in foreign affairs, the government could ask the individual to demonstrate proficiency a language other than French, as many Asian nations have a limited number of French speakers.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Sales increased faster in Otay Ranch last year than almost any other master - plan community in the nation, said a recently released annual report.

«Since 1945,» he writes, «Americans have insisted on acquiring and maintaining military supremacy, a «preponderance of power» in the world rather than a balance of power with other nations.»

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

It's the reason our test scores are lower than other nations in math and science.

Judging before knowing more how it should be right in Islam, or to know who is out of the righteous way of Islam or is being of Evil Deeds taking Islam as undercover... there are those are the worse Danger to any Religion or Islam within it, more than any others from out side... As they are the worse danger than any Combined forces put together... They are to their «Nation» as «Termites to Woods»..!!

Death by violence is higher in the U.S. than ANY other first world nation.

The Caliph, in Islamic practice, is subject to control by the nation; he has no authority other than that given to him as a representative of the people and that which is required of him as the enforcer of supernatural laws.

If that is so, then our nation must be seen by the worshipers of Yahweh not as any more sacred, any more holy, or any more righteous than any other nation or people, and our propaganda that would try to convince us otherwise must be countered in the name of the oneness of God.

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

The US, a «formerly» christian nation, has done more for sick, starving, and impoverished children than any other nation in history.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Since this country has both been largely Christian and the leader in scientific discovery for more than 250 years, it seems the evidence proves that being a Christian nation has made us better off scientifically than other countries without our core values.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

In fact, Judas, probably more than any of the others, wanted Jesus to be the Kingly Messiah who would restore Israel to it's rightful place among the nations.

After reducing the just causes for resort to force to one, self - defense (§ 2308), the Catechism further limits this in § 2309 by four prudential conditions, all of which it says must be satisfied: «the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or the community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective [last resort]; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

Other nations have in certain respects achieved a higher perfection of democratic aims and practices than have Americans.

It is a fact that people in the U.S. are more prone to violence than are people of any other industrialized nation.

It is perhaps significant that the exchange of ideas and mutual interdependence between the scholars of various nations — American, English, Dutch, French, German, Scandinavian — in this discipline has been as strong as, if not stronger than, in other fields of sociological research.

The people of the nations that have newly won independence from imperial control are exhilarated by the prospect of a brighter future in the political firmament, and peoples whose resources have long been exploited for the enrichment of others now see their own prospects for material improvement happier than ever before.