Sentences with phrase «years in a country where»

I guess you have a different perspective when you spend years in a country where henna is the norm.

Suppose that someone spends most of their life in one country with currency X, and a few years in another country where they have currency Y. Let's suppose also that the person earns a similar income and has similar types of expenses in both countries (such as rent and groceries).

Not exact matches

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.

«He's the only one for our country that, for all of us, is going to even scratch the surface at giving us a chance to have a future where we're not living in a depression for the next 10, 15 years.

Many of these suppliers also sell to the defence sector, where spending is likely to decline in coming years as countries, especially the U.S., try to reduce their deficits.

Russian tech execs met in Moscow in early October to discuss how to build up their industry, which has lagged for years, as the country imported whatever it needed, largely from the U.S. (where many Russians now work in Silicon Valley).

Unlike in Canada, where the country's biggest universities play in front of sparse crowds and go years without winning a season, U.S. colleges outside of the Ivy League depend upon their sports teams to bring in new students, attract attention, and draw donations and revenue.

Sixty - five years later, the U.S. Army and Navy veterans have come back to the country where they once served to watch the Olympics Games in Pyeongchang.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

Sixty - five years later, they've come back to the country where they once served to watch the games in Pyeongchang.

The where - to - be-born index «attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead,» says a statement.

At the same time, median incomes in the U.S. and other industrialized countries are roughly where they were some 30 years ago.

It contributes up to # 150 million a year in revenues to the BBC, mostly from foreign countries where viewers don't get to hear about his off - screen antics.

«We generate almost $ 30 million a year in net licensing profits from China alone,» Flanders says, «a country where we've never had a magazine or a website or a TV channel.»

In Belize, where tourism accounts for nearly 13 percent of total employment, the country attracts more than 1 million visitors a year, figures from its Tourism Board show.

In the past year, we launched new Virgin mobile businesses in Chile and Poland, countries where our brand previously had no presencIn the past year, we launched new Virgin mobile businesses in Chile and Poland, countries where our brand previously had no presencin Chile and Poland, countries where our brand previously had no presence.

Another devaluation could trigger a jump in inflation if it is implemented early this year, economists say, a major concern in the country of 90 million where millions live hand to mouth.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

Economic research is making increasingly clear that increased trade with China over the last 25 years had significant, negative effects on workers in certain parts of the country, like the industrial town in Ohio where Vance grew up, though perhaps not as negative as widely believed in those regions.

Drawing on the skills he developed growing up in the Emerald Triangle, where an estimated 80 percent of the country's marijuana is grown, in January Eli founded The Attis Group in Portland, Oregon, where he has lived for the last two years.

In a country where more than 230 people have been killed by terrorist attacks since January 2015 and unemployment still stands at 10 % nine years after the financial crisis, a growing part of the population is ready for a radical change.

The cost of buying a home, living comfortably in the country, and eating good food is lower here compared to the U.S.,» says Laura Springham about rural France where she, her husband Keith, and their son Patrick moved almost two years ago.

The news is an encouraging milestone in an ongoing effort by JPMorgan Chase, the country's biggest bank, to steer more of its corporate philanthropy toward revitalizing inner cities — particularly in Detroit, where the Entrepreneurs of Color Fund is part of a $ 150 million, five - year commitment by the bank.

On January 29, Starbucks announced plans to hire 10,000 refugees around the world in the 75 countries where it does business over the next five years.

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The flight toward cryptocurrencies in a nation where inflation in bolivar prices is projected to surpass 2,000 percent next year falls in line with what has happened in other countries stricken by war or economic collapse.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

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Blockchain technology is growing in many countries around the globe, as can be seen in South Korea where a tremendous amount of growth has occurred within this year alone.

Import penetration from countries that export relatively cheap goods to us remains high compared to where it was 20 years ago, but it has actually come down in the past few years.

One million dollars in savings could last you nearly 21 years in Mississippi, where the living costs are the lowest in the country at an average of $ 48,256 per year.

San Francisco has the most expensive housing in the country, where residents must make $ 147,996 a year to be an average homeowner.

In a country where the unemployment rate is at a 20 - year low and industrial output is approaching historical highs, fueling inflation concerns, a 10 - year government bond yield of 1.5 % is totally inappropriate and will naturally spur people to buy real estate.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made this argument after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting: «I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun - related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

We now have examples from seven or eight African countries where the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sexual partner in the past year has declined significantly, and this is followed by a general decline in HIV prevalence at the national level.

We live in a generous country where last year more than $ 300 billion was given to charity from voluntary donations.

Then, years later, you bloody Christian Americans were obsessed with fighting in Countries like Viet Nam and Iraq, where we had the sense to pretty much stay out.

We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

And countries from which a significant share of refugees in recent years have been persecuted religious minorities — such as Iran, where Christians and religious minorities have made up 95 percent of refugees in recent years — are blocked for at least 90 days and possibly longer.

Moore pointed to the $ 14 million his film has made in Mexico and South Korea, two of the more than 20 countries where «Noah» will run this year.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

I've heard predictions based on trends that range from 15 years to 40 years (I think 25 years sounds about right) where atheists will outnumber Christians in this country.

This tallied with what a «Foyer» is now to people in 45 countries over five continents where 75 Foyer communities are hosts to thousands of retreatants each year.

That Shakespeare was raised in a country where Catholicism had been the dominant religious and cultural tradition for more than a thousand years argues that he could scarcely have avoided some degree of Catholic influence.

These uncertain times call for different measures and communication tools than we have used in the past... There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.»

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

This is about what happens everyday in our country where tens of thousands for people die every year because of gun violence.

There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.