Sentences with phrase «years in countries such»

Vivian has worked with disability and inclusion for the last seven years in countries such as Tanzania, South Sudan, Jordan and Iraq.

Europe is still behind the US with respect to the average eBook penetration, but the gap is narrowing with growth figures of over 200 % per year in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

Such anemic volumes meant that in good years it could call itself the country's fastest - growing brand.

For years, the company rode the post-9 / 11 surge in demand for security services in dangerous countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

McDonald's first - quarter same - store sales rose 5.4 %, propelled by interest in all - day breakfast, the company's new» McPick 2» value menu that launched earlier this year and new products such as kale bowls and yogurt smoothies being tested in various parts of the country.

In European countries hit hardest by recent financial crises, such as Greece and Portugal, incomes have of course fallen sharply in recent yearIn European countries hit hardest by recent financial crises, such as Greece and Portugal, incomes have of course fallen sharply in recent yearin recent years.

Smartphone sales fell 3 percent in the March quarter compared with a year earlier, as consumers in developed countries such as the U.S. and China balk at upgrading to more expense phones.

That is due in part to the considerable oil wealth that characterizes countries throughout the region; although lower oil prices in the last two years have significantly impacted fiscal revenues, particularly in the larger more - oil - dependent economies such as Saudi Arabia.

Uber's Kalanick, whose company has been investing aggressively in self - driving cars, has said that it could take between 5 and 15 years before such vehicles are meaningfully deployed around the country.

If such trends persist, China's economy, the second - largest in the world behind the United States», may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.

Over the past few years, countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Brazile, Russia, India, and China, and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have begun to pose a challenge to the current system, forming pacts to transact oil in local currencies, bypassing the petro - dollar.

Those tariffs, and other smaller ones in countries such as Japan (6.3 per cent) will be eliminated after a phase - out period of 10 years.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

Just last year, Vancity Credit Union — the biggest such union in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its employees.

The biggest winners in the military buildup are the country's largest defense contractors, such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, which spend millions of dollars each year lobbying Congress.

For a country such as China, that impact is three to five times bigger than the IMF calculated in its last exchange rate assessment released last year.

Meanwhile, countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic that are supposed to adopt the euro in the years ahead might now have second thoughts.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

The third group includes volatile countries that have alternating years of rapid growth and disaster, such as some countries in the Middle East.

Net earnings for the quarter rose to $ 109.8 million from $ 68.2 million in the same quarter a year ago as the company saw revenue growth improve in key countries such as the U.S., U.K. and Italy.

Besides the fact that virtually no one in this country has ever been prohibited from saying «Merry Christmas» in the first place, such a sentiment stands in blasphemous contradiction to the very doctrine of incarnation we are meant to embrace this time of year.

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.

During a recent year 21,265 men passed through the 111 such centers in this country.

On the one hand, I am freshly amazed at how profoundly our country has changed over the past 50 years, how much progress has been made in such a short time, and how poignant it is to honor Dr. King the day before we swear in the first African American president.

Then Bloomberg did not allow religious services at last years memorial, and i decided right there i would never donate another dime to such a cause in the Northeastern part of the country.

So while countries such as Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fell significantly in rank on this year's watch list (Sri Lanka dropped 15 spots to No. 44, and the UAE dropped 14 spots to No. 49), their level of persecution dropped only slightly from last year's list (by four points and two points, respectively, on a 100 - point scale).

so what ever this endless blo - odshed is resulting now is because of such action has become a burden on America and the Americans whether this was planed by them or have been misled by Kurds or by those countries who were fearing S - adam regime in the area... which I am sure their turn would be coming sooner or latter to pay their dues to humanity as a whole for the losses and grieve they have caused all those years of emb - argo and followed by the brutal inv - asion...

The surge is stark, given that in 2011 only half of the global population (52 %) lived in such countries, while the worldwide level of government restrictions on religion remained largely the same between the two years.

Love has always existed... even many thousands of years ago when the first parents of our species nurtured and cared for their offspring in much much harsher conditions that what any of us are used to today in a country such as this.

They joined in many of the ordinary celebrations of the country such as Onam and Vishu or New Year's Day.

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

But look at other Islamic Arabs majority countries such Egypt, Sudan, All North African Countries you would find Worship houses for Muslims, Christians, Jews and God know what else and been living for years in Peace and Respect until this Era since WW's + 1948 unjust decisions the world is changing badly separating brothers of one blood in different faith & beliefs become to doubt each other in to some race towards power and dominance over each other in to some Jungle Laws, this has brought negative feeling and emotions among all multi religion cultures that were living and trading in countries such Egypt, Sudan, All North African Countries you would find Worship houses for Muslims, Christians, Jews and God know what else and been living for years in Peace and Respect until this Era since WW's + 1948 unjust decisions the world is changing badly separating brothers of one blood in different faith & beliefs become to doubt each other in to some race towards power and dominance over each other in to some Jungle Laws, this has brought negative feeling and emotions among all multi religion cultures that were living and trading in Countries you would find Worship houses for Muslims, Christians, Jews and God know what else and been living for years in Peace and Respect until this Era since WW's + 1948 unjust decisions the world is changing badly separating brothers of one blood in different faith & beliefs become to doubt each other in to some race towards power and dominance over each other in to some Jungle Laws, this has brought negative feeling and emotions among all multi religion cultures that were living and trading in peace...!

As Topicz moves up five spots this year to No. 16 on Convenience Store News magazine's list of the top 25 largest convenience store distributors in the country, it's no wonder companies such as PepsiCo are making the switch.

With salmon, blueberries, and an assortment of produce figuring heavily in the menu, the recipes also emphasize eating local and seasonal as much as possible and in such a way that is relevant in the Pacific Northwest and the Nordic countries this time of year.

Throughout the years, San Joaquin Valley of California had seen a large influx of minorities who were accustomed to certain company profile meat products that were prevalent in the dishes of their home countries — such as pork feet, skin, ears, Golden Valley Industries www.goldenvalleyindustries.com snoots and tails; beef marrow bones; turkey necks Headquarters: Stockton, Calif. and smoked turkey parts — but were not readily availEmployees: 50 - 150 Specialty: Variety meats able in the mainstream American supermarket.

Sparkling wine is forecast to grow by an average 2 % year - on - year to 2021, driven predominantly by North America, but also showing strong growth in the UK and Asia - Pacific countries such as Australia, Japan.

A one - time investment to develop a biofortified crop such as Golden Rice can generate new varieties for farmers to grow for years to come, in many different countries.

Large current markets in developed countries such as USA, Japan and Germany are expected to exhibit slow growth over the next five years (< 1 %), while high growth is expected for emerging Asian markets including Vietnam (13 %), India (13 %) and Indonesia (13 %) as well as the well - established Chinese market (8 %).25

Each year it buys about 400,000 animals in producing countries like Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Uruguay and then sells to countries and regions that don't have enough to meet demand, such as China, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Middle East and Turkey.

Influenced by lowering birth rates and increasing life expectancy, all major European countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy have more than 16 % of population who are aged above 65 years in 2012.

The company's portfolio of packaging events (which covers brands such as Empack, Label & Print, Luxury Packaging, ADF, PCD and the Pentawards) now covers 38 events in 19 cities across 12 countries, and attracts over 85,000 visitors each year.

This year, Bruce Pascoe is set to highlight the importance of events such as the Food Sovereignty Convergence in recognising the impact of First People's land management practices, and how the future of farming could look if we work with the First Peoples of Australia to utilise their «grossly undervalued» knowledge to improve farming systems in this country.

Such experiences were common in this part of the country 30 years ago.»

Age — 23 Contract — 30.06.2018 Has got five years in hand on his mate, Theo, but the Ox's is another career that's stagnated to such an extent that such rare talents as Alex Iwobi and Jake Livermore are getting the nod ahead of him for club and country.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

Cars 3 has already been released in a lot of countries, but is coming to more of them — such as the UK, Japan and Spain — in July and others later in the year.