Sentences with phrase «year than all other countries»

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime India launched two years ago and CEO Jeff Bezos says more prime members joined there in the first year than any other country.
Yet Canada has been criticized for using a later base year than other countries.

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Based in Carlsbad, California, Jazzercise's instructors teach its total - body conditioning program to almost half a million participants each year in the United States and more than 30 other countries.
Last year, Hungary received more refugees per capita than any other EU country apart from Sweden.
When Warren was asked how she stays so optimistic about the future of America, she assured Bee that the country will come out of the Trump years better than it started because «we don't have any other choice.»
An estimated six million Canadians play golf each year — that's more participants than any other recreational activity in the country, including hockey.
For many years to come, therefore, India will have a much larger group of working - age individuals than any other country on earth.
Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.
More than 70 percent of Chinese tourists traveling abroad will visit other Asian countries this year, according to Ctrip.
That's more rockets than other country or space company in the world, including the rocket juggernaut Russia, who has launched 11 rockets so far this year.
Sweden has seen the steepest increase in inequality over 15 years in the OECD, data showed last year, even though it remains on average more equal than other countries.
Amnesty believes China executed several thousand people last year — more than all other countries put together — but its government won't confirm any exact numbers.
However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.
To create this list and others like it, each year, we at Great Place to Work survey millions of employees in more than 50 countries to glean their insights on what makes them love the work they do, and to learn how their employers have created an exemplary work environment.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
In less than seven years, Canada has concluded new free - trade agreements with nine countries and our Government is negotiating further agreements involving more than 60 others.
But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.
Annually, for over 30 years, more than 36,000 professionals gather from across the U.S. and 50 + other countries to learn, network and grow the industry.
Las Vegas led the country in flipping activity for the second year straight, but house flippers in Detroit picked up their game more than flippers in any other market.
In the Fall Update, the government will not only be able to show the elimination of the deficit (something no other G - 7 country has achieved) one year earlier than targeted, but also to show a declining debt ratio, rapidly approaching the government's target of 25 per cent, the lowest since the 1960s
Since few other countries produce these products, it will be nearly impossible for consumers to avoid a tariff that is increasing to 8 per cent from 5 per cent, costing consumers more than $ 1 - million a year.
If you multiply China's GDP growth by its share of global GDP, you will find that Chinese growth over the last few years has comprised a larger share of global GDP growth than that of any other country.
That's more than any other generation and 42 percent of all the wine drunk in this country last year.
China has loaned more money to other countries in the past 2 years than the IMF since it was founded in the 1930s.
This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).
In our new Apartment List analysis, we concluded that Amazon will increase rents in any metro it chooses for its HQ2, but certain metros are more sensitive to its impacts than others, with rents expected to rise an additional 0.3 percent to 2 percent a year in cities across the country.
The maximum mortgage term is noticeably lower than the other countries mentioned above (ie: 20 years) but banks could consider provable pension income.
And more than that, lawmakers continue acting like the solutions are some sort of mystery, as if there aren't years of research and experiences in other countries that show restrictions on firearms can save lives.
KB Financial raised $ 13.1 billion in 182 bond deals for its clients in Korea, a higher value than any other bank in the country last year.
Grupo Aval, based in Bogotá, raised $ 669 million in a single equity deal last year, more than any other bank in Colombia, making it the country's second - highest overall earner of investment banking fees, according to Dealogic.
Like a number of other countries, Australia has benefited from the rapid growth in China's trade, with its merchandise exports to China more than doubling over the past four years.
Both imports and exports of information technology and communications (ITC) equipment have grown strongly over recent years, with China now accounting for a larger proportion of world ITC equipment exports than any other country in the region except Japan.
One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.
These tables also illustrate, however, that exporters have made some gains in sales to other countries; over the past year, growth in exports of manufactures and services to many countries outside the Asian region have been stronger than trend growth rates recorded earlier in the 1990s.
The move is aimed at recouping the billions of dollars «lost» each year to other countries as the US imports more than it exports from countries like China and Mexico.
As we showed last year, average retirement income in the United States is among the highest in the world — higher than all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries other than Luxembourg (more recent estimates from Andrew Biggs find that Norway also has higher income).
We then win multiple wars in which we were attacked first and are forced to give back more than half of the rightly won land, no other country has been forced to give back land it has won in over 2000 years.
I guess I have never considered late Bronze Age regional Jewish mythology relevant to a country founded more than 1776 years later on the other side of the planet.
The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.
Sure, let's take away a few more days off, when Americans already have less than half the average time off per year than any other First World country, and on average suffer far more from overwork and stress - related health issues.
Since this country has both been largely Christian and the leader in scientific discovery for more than 250 years, it seems the evidence proves that being a Christian nation has made us better off scientifically than other countries without our core values.
Over the years, some 10,000 Colombian officers have been trained there, more than from any other country.
Vice chair, Sue Monckton - Rickett told Premier: «It is a fact; I think that lots of counselling agencies across the country in January do start to see people coming in - perhaps more than at any other time in the year - with relationship issues.»
Some people do (A little unsettling that our Government f eels that way imo), but to be frank i think it is rather absurd for anyone to expect a country ON THE OTHER HALF OF THE WORLD that is THOUSANDS of years older than we to have the EXACT SAME values as we do.
On the other hand, evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore a fundamental point made by Roger Williams more than 300 years ago: «No civil state or country can be truly called Christian, although the Christians be in it.»
Compassion channels about $ 45 million into the country every year, more than any other charity.
The latest global findings from the Pew Research Center, released two days before Religious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a close second).
Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.
The Dutch had their seventy - year schoolstrijd before that compromise was achieved, the Belgians and French their luttes scolaires, and so forth in more than a dozen other countries.
In these and many other countries, the population increases each year by more than their total Christian community.
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