Sentences with phrase «years by the country»

Both play for the two biggest football clubs in the world and their impact on their respective clubs is so huge that when Real Madrid play Barcelona it is the most watched game every year by country mile.

Yet, supposedly, the experts know how much fossil fuel is burned each year by each country, as well as supposedly knowing how many metric tonnes of CO2 emissions are being emitted to atmosphere.

«The House That Built Me,» performed by Miranda Lambert, was the No. 1 country song for four weeks last summer and was voted Song of the Year by the Country Music Association in November.

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The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

The key parts of the text state that any country wishing to leave the EU must do so by their own «constitutional arrangements» and that EU treaties will cease to apply to the exiting exactly two years from notification.

The IMF also estimates that consumer prices will climb by an astronomical 13,000 percent this year due to the monetary financing of large fiscal deficits and the loss of confidence in the country's currency.

iiNet last year completed a series of acquisitions across the country and merged with New Zealand's iHug, boosting customer numbers by 17,000.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles.

Saudi Arabia's National Transformation Plan is a pivotal element of the country's «Vision 2030» reforms which were announced last year by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Guatemala, where smugglers rely on routes in its vast border regions, and Honduras were both named major transit countries for narcotics by the US State Department this year.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.

Changes to the country's immigration rules implemented by the federal government last year could help replenish the pool of workers available to employers, with a new emphasis on skills and youth.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

And rich countries will finance poorer ones, with $ 100 billion a year by 2020 and a promise to increase financial support after that.

The U.K.'s fastest growing markets are, in descending order, Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and South Korea, with U.K. exports to these five countries worth $ 71 billion last year, a study by Wyelands Bank and Global Trade Review, published Monday, stated.

This year Hanes is expanding its effort by placing collection bins in its 160 Hanesbrands outlet stores across the country.

«After many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea.

Netflix will be in 200 countries by the end of the year.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

Trump's declaration coincided with the signing by 11 countries of a new Trans - Pacific trade pact that the United States withdrew from last year.

Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the top 15 by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous year:

«Fully replacing cash is highly aspirational,» she says, «and hasn't been achieved even by countries like Singapore and Malaysia, which have pursued national strategies for several years.»

The firm, which provides U.S. cities with international travel predictions, reversed its 2017 forecast that foreign travel to the U.S. would grow this year and expects the country to lose as many as 6.3 million visitors by the end of the year.

-- Rifat Oguz, founder and CEO of Sinemia, a global movie ticket subscription system used by five million moviegoers in five countries and named on Wired's annual list of hottest startups last year

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

Last year, in an attempt to address the growing STEM skills gap in Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) led a collaborative effort by 29 organizations to give every 7th grader in the country a pocket - sized programmable computer that helps teach coding in a simple, fun, and accessible way.

As our country's population continues to age (according to the U.S. Census, by the year 2030, there will be over 57.8 million «baby boomers» between the ages of 66 and 84), the demand for quality homecare is sure to increase.

Responding to negative coverage in The Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Trump said earlier this year, «I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence, and I got ta tell you, we have a different country than we used to have... He wants political influence so that Amazon will benefit from it.

Over the past few years, public pensions including California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERs) and California State Teacher's Retirement System (Calstrs)-- the largest in the country by assets — have posting mediocre returns due to low interest rates and growing retirement obligations.

For a nation that isn't officially at war against another nation, the United States dropped an awful lot of bombs on a pretty large number of countries last year, according to research by Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and research associate Jennifer Wilson.

With 5,000 independent repair technicians, known as iTechs, in over 500 cities in the U.S. — and expecting to more than double that number by the end of the year — Forsythe says his company is the largest company of its kind in the country.

We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.

In his report, the IG found that complaints about sexual harassment, in many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.»

Within a year, Wanderu was serving the entire country and expanding by triple digits quarter over quarter.

A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission announced on Wednesday proposals for a new multi-year budget that is expected to see EU countries squabble among themselves over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

Amar Abrol, CEO & MD, AirAsia India, says by October next year AirAsia India should have 20 planes operating in the country and hit a threshold that could open the way for international routes.

In the same year that he unveiled his vision for a massive shift in the country's energy future he also surprised critics by laying out a detailed plan for colonizing Mars.

A share surge at Country Garden Holdings, China's largest developer by sales, has sent Vice Chairman Yang Huiyan's wealth up by $ 2.1 billion — and that's just in the first four trading days of the year.

All the while, regulators in both countries are coming down hard on the pipeline companies in the wake of a scathing assessment by the National Transportation Safety Board, released in Washington in July, of the causes behind a disastrous Enbridge spill in Kalamazoo, Mich., two years ago.

Oil investor hopes were raised at the start of the year by a deal to cut production between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and some non-OPEC producers.

Kim Hoe, a 33 - year - old tech worker from Penang, Malaysia, was staying at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country, which was gutted by flames.

Although upstart mattress companies are challenging brick - and - mortar incumbents like Sleep Country by offering lower prices and a hassle - free experience, the company plans to open up to 12 locations annually for the next five to seven years.

Last year, the country's Bundesbank transferred 210 tonnes, and it plans to have the full 3,381 tonnes in - country by 2020.