Sentences with phrase «than the nation»

The good news is the state's job growth was up 1.9 percent over the past year, better than the nation as a whole.

More than our nation's capital, the ACT is the repository of our national treasures.

Nonetheless, in its focus on poor and rich people it is consistent with a class - based rather than nation - based approach to economic justice.

That's lower than the nation's overall four - year graduation rate of 70 percent.

This was the only visible Protestant organization larger than the nation, the only group claiming a loyalty above and beyond the nation.

It may also explain why the sample population turned out to be slightly more urban and upscale than the nation as a whole.

They would require more intrusion by a global agency into the affairs of each nation than any nation has thus far accepted.

In many ways the democratic nations will be in greater danger after the war than those nations which have been more obviously guilty.

Similarly, when there is no sense of any unit more powerful than the nation, national sovereignty becomes divine.

Urban school districts may have shown slightly more improvement than the nation as a whole, where results were largely stagnant.

I also think this is more doable by independent actors (nations) than all nations working collectively to reduce emissions drastically.

This should not surprise, given that the provided information concerned the ranking of the respondent's own local school district rather than the nation's schools as a whole.

«The Southeast has grown about 2.5 percent faster than the nation as a whole throughout the 1990s,» explains Mary Kassis, research coordinator with the Economic Forecasting Center (EFC) at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

In Maryland, 46 percent of fourth - graders and 38 percent of eighth - graders scored proficient or advanced in math, 4 percentage points higher than the nation in both grades.

This weathered the 2008 crash much better than the nation on average.

(NB: Some entries, like Macau, Jersey, Hong Kong and Gibraltar, are semi-autonomous regions of larger states rather than nations in their own right.)

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.

On the positive side: For the second year in a row, Philadelphia added jobs at a faster rate than the nation as a whole... a...

Yet the main player in the market are the corporate entities of capital in and outside Asia, rather than the nation states which are even losing control over the economic life of their own people.

Property in Maryland is pricier than the nation's average.

It was none other than Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who tried to dissuade Sheila Abdus - Salaam from continuing her law studies at Columbia University.

In nine out of 10 markets on Zillow's list, home values are expected to rise at a faster pace than the nation overall, with the exception of Denver.

Your answer doesn't seem to add any new information other than those nations are members of the UN.

This is considerably cheaper than the nation's average of $ 236,450, according to Zillow, making the state one of the more affordable places to settle down.

From millions of interconnected online genealogy profiles, researchers have amassed the largest, scientifically - vetted family tree to date, which at 13 million people, is slightly bigger than a nation the size of Cuba or Belgium.

The fines and penalties are higher than the nations average which are as follows:

Israel has more venture capital investments per capita than any nation on earth, including the United States, and boasts the most non-U.S. companies listed on the Nasdaq after China.

Australia's plans to export more iron ore this year than any nation ever is driving up shipping costs by 80 percent.

If we are going to establish meaningful environmental protocols, then they must include the two nations that have the potential to pollute the air faster, and in greater annual volume, than any nation ever in history.

This is considerable less than the nation's average of $ 236,450, according to Zillow.

Property in the Pine Tree State is cheaper overall than the nation's average.

Still, he said, the study suggests the world's carbon budget — the amount of carbon dioxide the world can burn while keeping global temperatures below 2 degrees — may be smaller than nations realize.

This means that New York grew a bit more slowly than the nation as a whole over the same period; the national increase was about 9 percent.

America's large urban school districts are making faster progress on federal elementary math and reading tests than the nation as a whole, but they are still underperforming national averages.

New York's Constitution, older than our nation's, reaches at once toward powerfully high aspirations and low bogs of muck.

And for all that we provide that the world consumes, the amount of harmful emissions we produce is much smaller than a nation like China or India, or a lot of those countries in the Far East.

A nationwide poll recently conducted by EdChoice shows that parents with school age children are more likely to support school choice than the nation as a whole.

Nations with environmental provisions in their constitutions have smaller ecological footprints... are more likely to ratify international environmental agreements, and made faster progress in reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and greenhouse gases than nations without such provisions.»

And of course the Australian landmass has more renewable energy resources than any nation in the world, far more and at much cheaper cost than Germany and Denmark where great strides have been made towards building new renewable infrastructures.

The average home goes for $ 244,775, which is more expensive than the nation's average of $ 229,737, according to Zillow.

«We need to look no further than our nation's 20 million veterans, 20 % of whom, according to a 2017 American Legion survey, reportedly use cannabis to self - treat PTSD, chronic pain, and other ailments,» said Boehner and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, a libertarian who is also joining Acreage's board of advisors.

However, the rate of overall consumer distress (having any seriously delinquent debt or third party collections debt) is lower in the tristate region than the nation.

That plan is well on track to becoming a reality — in fact, this past July, wind farms in Denmark produced more energy than the nation needed, offering a huge 140 percent of the expected output.

Conducted on Sunday, the nuclear test created a powerful earthquake — and was found to be five or six times stronger than the nation's most recent test in September 2016, according to the Associated Press.

Select reasons why the housing sector helped the New York - New Jersey region fare better than the nation during the recent downturn include:

Attempts to pay more foreign currency than the nation can generate in export earnings will cause the currency to depreciate and raise monthly mortgage bills.

All of the accords still require approval from Argentina's Congress, which also needs to repeal a law that currently prevents the country from proposing terms to the holdouts that are better than those the nation offered creditors in earlier restructurings.