Sentences with phrase «than neighboring countries»

Until a few years ago, I regularly lived & traveled around Bali quite comfortably for about $ 250 - 300 US per month, making Bali considerably cheaper than other countries around SE Asia (where I could live comfortably for about $ 400) Nowadays budget prices in Bali have increased so much that Bali costs as much or even slightly more than neighboring countries!

With a universal health care system, and a successful primary health care strategy, Brazil is in a better position than its neighboring countries to handle the chaotic situation that has emerged with the Zika virus epidemic.

Not exact matches

In Africa, for instance, many former colonies maintain trade links with their ex-colonial power that are as strong or stronger than those with either neighboring countries or with the relatively newcomer of China — despite the decades that have passed since Britain and France relinquished their empires.

But as a result, the country has better growth prospects now than its high - inflation neighbors.

Many countries across emerging Europe are rich in resources, have strong banking and manufacturing sectors, healthy economies and lower debt levels than their western neighbors.

And that was specifically the «60s for white people; that wasn't the rest of our experience... The idea that this amalgamate of God and country rather than God and neighbor, which is the faith that's been passed to us.

When religion is used as a POLITICAL tool to conquer, divide, oppress and subvert a country's own people and / or neighbors, it becomes an evil weapon more powerful than any man made weaponry.

My colleagues in Jordan, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East are exhausted from responding to the escalating crisis, which since beginning in 2011 has displaced more than half of Syria's population, including more than 4 million who now reside as refugees in neighboring countries.

If you see your neighbor sick go visit him, if she is hungry give her from what you eat, if you see a criminal don't blame others than him, don't blame all Muslims when they are serving this country and working hard peacefully.

The mission of Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption, Including Neighboring Countries (FRUA) is now more true than ever.

Working with Venezuela, neighboring countries or others that would be willing to provide safe passage to Qaddafi would be far preferable than the apocalyptic endgame that the regime might otherwise pursue for lack of alternatives... Threatening al - Qaddafi with war crimes prosecutions today may create perverse incentives with little strategic benefit.

But it habitually produces only about 5 gigawatts of actual wind power, and when recently that output shot up to a record of more than 20 GW on a particularly windy weekend, cross-border connections to grids in neighboring countries had to be shut down because they couldn't handle the surging power.

The news, reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), may help resolve a puzzle: After Brazil, Colombia is the country that has been hardest hit by the mosquito - borne disease, yet it appeared to have far fewer microcephaly cases per capita than its southern neighbor.

Looked at as a group, immigrants to countries as diverse as the U.S., Australia, Germany and Canada live longer than their new native - born neighbors.

Farmers in the Near East — what is today Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and neighboring countries — began cultivating plants and herding animals about 8000 B.C.E., but there are no signs that they used animal dung for anything other than as fuel for fires.

When on a few occasions cases have struck out to other neighboring countries, fortunately, certainly in the case of Senegal, also in Nigeria, they've gotten out to countries that have considerably more resources than Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.

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.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Less than 2 % of the world's refugees are in the UK The world's poorest countries take in the majority of refugees — usually the neighboring countries.

• Particularly smaller emerging countries like Peru, Colombia or Indonesia offer less attractive returns at the moment than more developed neighbors like Brazil or Thailand.

As word of the devastating flood spread throughout the No More Homeless Pets Network community, partners from more than 50 shelters and rescue organizations across the country contacted the network team at Best Friends and offered to take pets already at Louisiana shelters when the flood hit, which would free up space for pets rescued from neighboring damaged or destroyed shelters.

Although the country boasts one of the most monumental temple complexes in all of Asia, Cambodia is still much less travelled than its neighbors Thailand and Vietnam.

Google is collaborating with more than 150 select partners from 40 countries, ranging from large, traditional museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain or The Museum of Modern Art, to smaller institutions such as the neighboring Gibbes Museum in Charleston, South Carolina.

This is particularly true when it comes to corruption: it ranks 33rd out of 176 countries — much better than its neighbors — on the 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index from the nonprofit watchdog Transparency International.

In those 100 days, more than one million Americans from across the country attended large - scale rallies and local events, signed petitions, sent letters to decision - makers and used social media to engage friends and neighbors in fighting climate disruption.

Its different in the country when your neighbor is more than 8 feet away.

In a country which captures less than 60 % of its own fresh water needs and is currently reliant on its neighbor, Malaysia, for water, this is an especially important feature.

The annual clearance rate reached up to 80 % and this was much better than neighboring and other African countries, as well as the crime rate being significantly lower.

Neighboring South Carolina was not so lucky, as drivers there experienced the 9th highest rate in the country, about 31 % — over 4x greater than North Carolina.

On Tuesday, the company took down more than 270 accounts and pages operated by the IRA that were used to spread messages to people in Russia and neighboring countries.

More than half of them came from the Netherlands» neighboring countries of Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom.

As a close neighbor, the weather and time differences as well as the ability to visit friends and family would not require much more adjustment than a move across the country would.

«This was especially clear in the Northeast, which seems to place more importance on limiting backyard exposure than other parts of the country — in Rochester, N.Y., or Boston, homes with less backyard exposure were more highly valued, and in some parts of the country, like Buffalo, Wyoming, and just south of Spokane, Washington, homes with more backyard exposure to neighbors actually [had] higher values.»

Good Neighbor Award winner mentors on average spend more than 20 hours a week on volunteer work and have built and led some of the most effective charitable organizations in the country.

The Good Neighbor Award winners, who mentor the Volunteering Works recipients, on average spend more than 20 hours a week on volunteer work and have built some of the most successful charitable organizations in the country.

I'm a country girl but live in a house in town with very close neighbors and I would love to sit and listen to the fountain rather than noise from the street.