Sentences with phrase «than the country as»

As such, any stimulus measures should be largely earmarked to these provinces rather than the country as a whole.

But then again, consistent with much else that this government does, maybe Tory MPs rather than the country as a whole were Hammond's intended target audience for this particular set - piece announcement.

• Lean Democratic districts are 5 to 10 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.

• Strong Democratic districts are 10 to 20 percentage points more Democratic than the country as a whole.

Overall confidence in the economic future is strong, but less in New York than the country as a whole.

When Jankowski tries to woo high - tech companies to the Texas city, data from Question No. 12 allow him to brag that the metropolitan area has a higher concentration of graduates with degrees in science and engineering than the country as a whole.

That makes the core audience more diverse than the country as a whole.

Minneapolis and its surrounding communities help drive the Midwest's economy, and it's an area that has been doing better than the country as a whole in recent years.

You look at consumer debt in Calgary — it's $ 28k which is significantly higher than the country as a whole.

In terms of mortgages in Toronto — and it's going to be a big part of that, what your home is worth, and what part of your home has a mortgage — the average home price in Toronto, it's quite a bit higher than the country as a whole.

That said, as of September 2011, the unemployment rate in St. Petersburg was 10.50 percent — higher than the country as a whole — as competition remains keen for good jobs.

Not exact matches

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.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Today, Sweden is among the most - connected countries in the Eurozone, with more than nine out of 10 households having internet access as of 2015, according to European Commission data.

«As a U.S. company that has operations in more than 200 countries and territories, we respect people from all backgrounds.»

As of October, it had 172 locations in 18 countries, used by more than 150,000 members.

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

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.

As the IMF has reported, we have better synchronization, meaning there are the largest number of countries who are growing now than we've ever seen.

In the 2011 Canadian census, more than 260,000 people described themselves as truck drivers, making it the second-most common job in the country for men.

To be sure, the country still has more than 11 million undocumented immigrants within its borders, as Trump never tires of pointing out.

With a network of 40,000 artists from more than 120 countries, Bucketfeet empowers artists to share their stories and perspectives using the universal language of art and the shoe as their canvas.

«What if a Chinese enterprise listed Alaska or Hawaii as an independent country rather than a state of the United States?»

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

Why have venture capital investments become ever more concentrated along a single stretch of Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, rather than diffusing out across the country as the industry has grown?

Using a full range of leading and mature 5G E2E full - scenario product solutions, Huawei has realized the continuous deployment of 5G sites in more than 10 countries, such as China, Korea, Canada, Germany, UK, and Italy.

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

Koch began his international aspirations more than four years ago, visiting more than 130 sites in nine countries before settling on Berlin as the location for his restaurant and production facility.

So far, it seems to be working: As of June 2014, the program has drawn more than 12,000 applicants from 112 countries and admitted 810 from 65 countries.

The TPP is highly contentious, as it would foster greater trade with countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam, which can pay workers an hourly wage of less than 50 cents.

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.

These kinds of foods are arguably more eco-friendly than meat but - whatever your thoughts about gluten - free eating - it will change how protein crops are distributed globally and may divert pulses or increase the price of them for countries such as India that depend of non-livestock proteins.

In the end, the existence of programs such as PRISM and Stellar Wind is disheartening for Diebert, since democratic societies are supposed to be better than the less - free countries they often condemn.

Operating out of facilities in its hometown as well as in Manitoba, Iowa and China, the firm sold its products in more than 45 countries in 2015.

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.

As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

Dalio explained that a so - called capital war, when a country uses its asset holdings such as bonds to inflict pain on its adversary, could be even worse than a trade war.

As one of America's top consumer experts, he has been «looking out» for people around the country for more than 25 years now.

For millions of Americans, Dave Ramsey is a household name, as his popular radio show is heard throughout the country by more than eight million people each week.

Several large and as - yet uncontained wildfires have burned 1,500 homes and more than 53,000 acres in Napa County, as well as thousands of additional acres in Sonoma County — both of which comprise California's wine country.

Chamber members quickly saw the potential in a publication reaching more than 250,000 businessmen across the country, and in August 1930 relaunched the newsletter as a publicly available periodical (a change of name to Canadian Business would soon follow).

Yet, as a country, we are probably more vulnerable than we were a decade ago because we failed to take seriously the most important lesson of the crisis: the dangers of housing mania and the perils of household debt.

(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.)

The woman added: «It was more than bananas, it's the fact that there's more opportunities out there that we need to see as a country.»

In checks on the financial strength of the country's four main banks - National Bank of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - the ECB determined that even if the economy performs as forecast, the banks would need almost 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.8 billion) and more than 14 billion if it performs worse than expected, in a so - called «adverse scenario».

The competitive nature of these populations and ultimately countries meant that while each was always vulnerable as societies they progresses much better and faster than the autocracies of China and Turkey.

And almost everybody pays: Transparency International ranks Argentina 105th in terms of corruption, worse than famously corrupt countries such as Mexico, Egypt, and Liberia.

India will predictably apply fresh restrictions (e.g. protocols, new net worth norms) after it experienced some pain (after some scam or loss as in the Vodafone case), thus making the country a follower rather than a leader in this space.

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

His country had been spending far more than it collected in taxes for as long as he had lived, and paying for the shortfall by printing money or borrowing from international investors.