Sentences with phrase «wealthy nation in»

We may not be the most wealthy nation in the world, or have the most powerful military.

With a master's degree in sociology, political science, statistics and economics, Solberg leads one of the wealthiest nations in the world, with a per capita GDP of $ 70,812, and one of its happiest, too.

Within a few decades, Japan had become one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

Most Canadians (64 %) say that countries like Canada have a moral responsibility to assist less wealthy nations in development, but one - in - five (21 %) say they personally donate money to overseas aid or charity projects.

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

We are the wealthiest nation in all of human history.

Salmond said he intended to set up an oil fund over the next five to ten years which would directly financially benefit every person in an independent Scotland, and make Scotland's GDP 115 % higher than the rest of the UK's, and the country the sixth wealthiest nation in the world.

Minireview: glucocorticoids — food intake, abdominal obesity, and wealthy nations in 2004.

«It is completely unacceptable for students, families, and educators in the wealthiest nation in the world to be handed schools like that.»

In less than two decades, Chile rose from its position as the country with the seventh highest income in Latin America to the wealthiest nation in the region.

Chile has moved to the top of the scale as the wealthiest nation in Latin America with a GDP per capita of $ 15,000 today compared to $ 6,500 in the 1990s.

Costa Rica is one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of biodiversity.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made that clear in a morning news conference, saying the United States was prepared to join with other wealthy nations in «mobilizing» $ 100 billion a year by 2020.

The wealthiest nation in the history of man provides many many years of theft for those who can stomach being thieves.

: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

As Tom Calma, in his role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, pointedly stated in 2008: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 % of its citizens.

Though the U.S. is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and Virginia is one of its most prosperous states, both have among the highest rates of premature and low birth - weight births in the developed world.

Not exact matches

Among wealthy nations, income gaps in Internet and device access is shrinking, but a new type of digital divide is emerging.

«Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,» Trump said Tuesday.

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.

Fear and violence are escalating in America, making it all too clear that being a wealthy nation doesn't necessarily translate into social peace and progress.

It could endanger its place in the G - 7 group of wealthy industrialized nations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security councinations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security counciNations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security council seat.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

It represented a fundamental change in thinking: it recognized that wealthy nations» companies should not abet corruption elsewhere.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is higher than that in most similarly wealthy nations — and it's actually been on the rise over the past two decades.

During a fundraiser in early 2012, Romney told a group of wealthy donors behind closed doors that 47 percent of the nation is willingly dependent on the government.

Banks in Chile have closed the accounts for three of the country's cryptocurrency trading platforms, sparking fears of an outright blanket ban in South America's wealthiest nation.

99 % of electricity used in Costa Rica comes from renewable sources, and the government is far ahead of many wealthier nations, having committed the country to becoming carbon neutral by 2021.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

Meanwhile, the EU will urge the US, Japan and other wealthy nations to mimic its aggressive approach to slashing public debt when G20 finance ministers gather in Washington on Wednesday.

She is also one of the worlds most wealthiest institutions and has sway with the kings and nations of the earth in the political arena.

The Archdiocesan of NY is amongst the wealthiest in the nation yet they have closed down close to 40 schools in the past two years alone.

Schizophrenia has a more benign course and outcome in the developing world [than in the wealthy, industrialized nations].

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

you better pray for an uprising holding the wealthy in this nation responsible to pay up for research and break our dependence on oil.

But even if they agreed that in already industrialized countries with adequate productive capacity a shift toward regional self - sufficiency would be possible, they would be likely to argue that this withdrawal from the global market on the part of the wealthy nations would be unconscionable.

Its about time we stop trying to reward the wealthy for already being wealthy by giving them more money and stop trying to punish the poor for simply being poor in a nation where the minimum wage isn't a living wage, health insurance is unaffordable for far too many, and education is obscenely expensive.

«What has gone wrong in this wealthy, well - educated nation?»

In a capitalist nation such as the United States or Canada, those who benefit most from the social arrangements are the wealthy.

We in the wealthy nations enjoy astonishing technical progress and material comforts.

But throughout his election campaign of 2000 Bush proposed policies that would give permanent tax breaks mostly to the wealthy, leading the nation into a deeper deficit than in the Reagan - Bush years.

Of course, the other wealthy nations and their corporations are complicit in this new American imperialism.

Those who died in the United States represent a cross section of the human community: 4,000 people from more than 80 nations, people of nearly every ethnicity and religious belief, wealthy individuals and people with very little, including low - wage immigrant workers.

Qatar is on track to become the wealthiest nation (on a per capita basis) in the world.

So Laughing please rationalize how North Koreans, Vietnamese, The Chinese, Tibetans, & Cubans are so happy & how life in these wealthy nations is so good we should be just like them?

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Mao Zedong banned the game in 1949, as it was one viewed representative of the nation's wealthy class.

As a nation, we are far more interested in wealthy adults than impoverished children.