Sentences with phrase «worst hit country»

In Brazil, the worst hit country, the Ministry of Health estimated that there have been 131,643 confirmed cases, another 219,280 suspected cases, and 2,542 cases of birth defects.

In Brazil, the worst hit country, there have been 131,643 confirmed cases, 219,280 suspected cases, and 2,542 instances of microcephaly and other central nervous system birth defects.

Not exact matches

Malaysia's shares and currency have been hit with a toxic brew of declines in the prices of its commodity exports, especially palm oil and crude oil, as well as what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal, which has spurred protests calling for the removal of the prime minister from power.

«Malware created by intelligence agencies can backfire on its creators,» noted Russian President Vladimir Putin, who blamed the U.S. government after his own country was badly hit by the WannaCry ransomware attacks.

The Bundesbank, the most hawkish of central banks, has signalled it would accept higher inflation in Germany as part of an economic rebalancing in the eurozone that would boost the international competitiveness of countries worst - hit by the region's debt crisis.

This has particularly been the case in those countries that were worst hit by the Asian crisis, such as Indonesia and Thailand.

However, Tennessee, like most states in the country, was badly hit by the nation's most recent economic woes, and residents are carrying far more debt than they would like as a result.

Before he became America's sausage king, Jimmy Dean was known for crooning the country hit «Big Bad John.»

The competition at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla. (one of 10 USGA sectionals on Monday), was also hit by bad weather (Tropical Storm Colin, to be exact), which forced a stoppage of play midway through the afternoon round.

The BMF's Kelso Bikefest seemed to defy the worst of the surrounding weather over the weekend and yet again proved a real hit with those visiting this striking Border country.

The country and neighbouring Niger were both badly hit by meningitis outbreaks in 2015, when over 13,700 people were infected in six months, with more than 1,100 deaths.

Mr Hammond warned that air travel was a «safety - first» business, but there were questions about why the weather had hit the airport so badly when others around the country were open and functioning.

Countries where democracy still seems to be putative or uncertain are the worst hit and many of them are in Africa.

He said the former chancellor could «take pride» that he «helped steer our country through the worst financial crisis to hit the world in living memory», adding: «His was a calm head when calm heads were needed.?»

The church noted that between 2014 and 2018, herdsmen had killed over 1,229 people across the country with Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Katsina as the worst hit states.

«Out of the 2,800 - odd local health departments across the country, easily 60 percent are dependent on state and federal funding for their operations, and that's where it hits us — really bad.»

as a teenage blogger in probably the country worst hit by american cultural imperialisation, one thing that constantly occupies me is my leaver's prom, which will be in july 2011.

While en route to the country in April, the worst magnitude earthquake to hit the region in more than 80 years struck.

Synopsis: An Iraqi immigrant hit man, GUIDO, gets mixed up in a deal gone bad and is forced to transport a corpse across the country, with several Albanian assassins and the FBI on his trail.

In fact, Staying Alive is an underdog sports movie that sees Tony hit it out of the park in the Big Game to the admiration of men and the lascivious attention of women, dancing badly in a ridiculous construction called «Satan's Alley» in which, in one of Stallone's dips into bad - allegory country, Tony literally and metaphorically battles his demons to ascend to Heaven.

Country music singer Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) once had a hit song but now languishes in obscurity, playing dive bars and bowling alleys, drinking constantly and bitter about the success of his one - time protégé Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell).

It's going to be pretty bad when the boomers hit retirement years; the country's aging and approaching some real fiscal difficulties.

It might be overkill, and it might be useless depending on how bad the disaster and how swiftly it hits, as we're seeing in Japan — a country far better prepared for just such events than most any other country in the world.

5) Such industry as we still have in this country, would obviously be badly hit.

Tribune: A report commissioned by the government in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund found last year that Pakistan was among the 10 countries likely to be most badly hit by global climate change.

While most global regions are affected, populations residing in large cities in poor countries appear to be the worst hit, data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday revealed.

It's been two years since the downturn's worst hit coal country, but for the people who live there the wound is tender.

From a deadly heat wave that killed hundreds in Chicago — with the South Side's predominantly African - American neighborhoods among the hardest hit — to the long - lasting devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the country's most vulnerable populations are hit first and worst by climate - related disasters.

Pakistan Today: Despite severe flooding in 2011, Pakistan managed to drop itself from first last year, to third position this year in the league table for countries that were worst hit by extreme weather events in 2011, according to a «climate risk index 2013» published here on Tuesday.

«Ethiopia has been hit by a double blow, both from a change to the rainy seasons that have been linked to long - term climate change and now from El Niño, which has potentially led the country to one of the worst droughts in decades,» she said.

Vitu Chinoko, Southern Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Coordinator, CARE International, said: «SouthernAfrica is still recovering from the worst drought in 35 years, while vulnerable countries, like Mozambique and Madagascar, have been hit by cyclones.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Hyperinflation has hit Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, and Brazil, with some countries in worse shape than others (Venezuela).

Foreclosures will continue to be the city's Achilles» heel, making it among the worst hit in the country and negatively affecting construction and manufacturing sectors, slowing overall growth to 2 percent.

It could be argued that across the country in 2008 - 9, new construction in even the nicest subdivisions were among the worst properties and certainly the hardest hit.