Sentences with phrase «than their counterparts in»

Firms in Canada's financial sector are under less pressure than their counterparts in, say, Europe or Japan, where negative interest rates are out in force.

In states lacking non-discrimination policies for LGBT people, gay men tend to be penalized most, Klawitter's research indicates, with gay men in same - sex couples earning about 30 percent less than their counterparts in opposite - sex couples.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

Even though the Massachusetts filers owed substantially more in unsecured debt (that is, debt not backed by a home, a car, or another asset) than their counterparts in other states, they reported less than half as much medical debt, which is also unsecured.

One thing's certain: many more of this year's CEOs plan to delegate than their counterparts in years past.

Asia and Latin America are not risk - free, but «there seems to be sense in buying equities in these regions on similar or lower valuations than their counterparts in the developed world given that dividend growth is likely to be superior, given higher economic growth potential.»

New Jersey property taxes are eight times higher than their counterparts in the Aloha State.

If you're manufacturing in the U.S., you'll need to find a manufacturing facility and you'll have to pay workers more than their counterparts in lower - wage countries.

In general, companies from emerging markets invest more, and more often, than their counterparts in the developed world: between 1999 and 2008, emerging - market companies paid out half as much in dividends, but invested much more in fixed assets.

African American (21 %) and Hispanic (18 %) business owners were more likely than their counterparts in the general population (10 %) to be in the startup phase.

Toronto cabs have been found to be more expensive than their counterparts in New York, Paris and Los Angeles.

What's more, China Corp. in China B will have $ 100 more in assets than its counterpart in China A, and this will be matched on the other side of the balance sheet by $ 100 more in retained earnings.

Also, Chinese consumers upgrading from bicycles and scooters might be more receptive to electric vehicles than their counterparts in the West.

However, they have a stronger profit motivation than their counterparts in America and Europe.

While governments in the likes of South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore try to tighten the regulatory noose on cryptocurrencies, they are more amenable to projects on the blockchain than their counterparts in the West.

Average call center workers only make 15 percent more than their counterparts in India.

While less information is made publicly available by the Alberta Lobbyist Registry than its counterpart in BC, we do know that Kinder Morgan targeted the Department of Energy, the Premier's Office, and the Department of Environment in the past three months.

Miami area small business owners are more confident about their business performance than their counterparts in other markets, according to the spring 2017 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report.

A December 2010 Pew Forum poll showed Egyptians to be more moderate politically than their counterparts in Jordan and Lebanon, and about as moderate as those in Indonesia.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Southern men and women had higher rates of divorce in 2009 than their counterparts in other parts of the country: 10.2 per 1,000 for men and 11.1 per 1,000 for women, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

For me, anyone that smacks of «Christian» fundamentalism is just as bad, if not worse than their counterparts in other religions.

The practitioners of religion have often been much more attuned to the international realities of the present world than their counterparts in the social sciences.

In midfield there was a tenacious box - to - box display by Hojbjerg, who has undergone something of a renaissance in recent weeks and showed far more clarity than his counterparts in blue.

And here's some positive news for a group that rarely receives any: Toddlers in single - parent households get rid of diapers faster than their counterparts in two - parent families.

But they have greater influence than counterparts in the US, as approximately 40 % of formal workers are unionized in Argentina, and there is a history of strong labor mobilization (as well as corruption and influence - peddling).

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., who styles himself a progressive reformer, is actually far more punitive toward poor and minority defendants than his counterparts in other boroughs.

The City Council had already passed a bill consistent with what the mayor wanted, but gave some city workers benefits that were less than their counterparts in neighboring suburban departments.

Well, according to today's Q poll, more popular than his counterparts in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and even New Jersey, which is headed by a Republican to whom the Democrat Cuomo is often compared.

Municipal employees in Central New York tend to make more than their counterparts in the Capital District but less than public employees in Western New York, which includes Buffalo, and the Finger Lakes region, which includes Rochester, the report said.

Most Big Apple residents will see a far less bountiful windfall from the tax overhaul than their counterparts in Florida, according to an analysis by the Partnership for New York City.

She, however, advised that health workers posted to rural communities should be rewarded more than their counterparts in the urban areas in order to encourage them to stay at their duty posts.

At the Capitol, staffers employed by the majority party have long commanded higher salaries than their counterparts in the minority.

In practice, Australian whips play a lesser role than their counterparts in the United Kingdom, as party discipline in Australia tends to be tighter.

Alan Milburn, a former Labour UK cabinet minister, recently published a report showing that pupils eligible for free school meals in England are 50 % more likely to obtain five good GCSEs than their counterparts in Wales.

The 7 billion people on Earth had more freedom in 2010 than their counterparts in 1987, who numbered 5 billion, according to Washington, D.C. - based Freedom House.

Faculty members in the U.S. earn more than their counterparts in Europe, and universities in the U.S. have greater leeway to reward high performance and productivity with higher salaries.

Analyzing data from 6.9 million adolescents and adults from all over the country, Twenge found that Americans now report more psychosomatic symptoms of depression, such as trouble sleeping and trouble concentrating, than their counterparts in the 1980s.

BRITISH and Italian children are much more likely than their counterparts in Germany, France and Spain to try new food or drink products after seeing them advertised on television.

Also, the native residents of these small ecosystems — surrounded by fewer species than their counterparts in large continental ecosystems — are evolutionarily less fit to compete against invaders.

And there is other evidence for a vitamin D link: Last November, Cornell University researchers published a study in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine showing that children in rainy (and therefore more overcast) counties of Oregon, Washington and California were two times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than their counterparts in drier parts of the state.

In a detailed accounting of the pollination life of cabbage thistles (Cirsium oleraceum), Knop and colleagues found that night - lit plants produced 13 percent fewer seeds overall than counterparts in naturally dark places.

«And, consistent with that thought, we did find that participants in both the VR and 360 - degree video conditions were more empathetic toward the story characters than their counterparts in the text condition and they also reported higher intention to share the story with others.»

Hautier's team found that a sloth's bottom neck vertebra, directly above the rib cage, ossifies earlier than its counterparts in other mammals.

Under a promise by House Republicans to cut projected federal spending by some $ 5 trillion over the next decade, House appropriators have $ 91 billion less to work with this year than their counterparts in the Democrat - controlled Senate.

As a result, the Florida reefs recovered within two weeks, much faster than their counterparts in other areas of the Caribbean that did not experience the benefit of hurricane - induced cooling, such as those in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the researchers report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Swedish PhDs traditionally have not completed their theses until their early 30s (although this is a situation which is changing) so are generally older than their foreign peers, and postdoctoral fellows have more independence than their counterparts in other countries.

Persons with cystic fibrosis born after 1990 in the U.S. have better nutritional status now than their counterparts in Canada.

By starting treatment for high blood pressure earlier and being more aggressive, physicians in the United States control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe report researchers from Temple, the University of Chicago, and Stanford in the Jan. 22, 2007, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.