At college, Barack Obama didn't know that he was to become the first black president of the united states of America.

At the age of 18, he moved to the united states.

Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental united states, but they were gradually displaced by human development.

Her husband and daughter were united as one.

In 2004 , when my daughter Becky was ten, she and my husband, Joe, were united in their desire for a dog.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

In the southern United States, pieces of corn bread represent blocks of gold for prosperity in the new year.

In the United States alone, over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year.

Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my mother to actually carry it out.

Passenger pigeons once flew over much of the united states in unbelievable numbers.

Some aspects of life here are different from those in the united states.

The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in pike county, Ohio, in 1900.

They decided on a tour to the united states in 1964.

Unesco united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of Jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying voice across cultures.

The ability to draw upon every available tool and insight—picked up from science, arts, and technology—to solve the problems of the future, and take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves, will be helpful to them and the United States.

Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to oil exploration and production in the name of environmental protection

And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.

There is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economy

Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin

At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

Even the United States Postal Service (USPS) suspended mail delivery.

In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.

In the United States, 36 states currently allow capital punishment for serious crimes such as murder.

In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says.

since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world.

The United States Postal Service has a system to ensure its employees’ safety.

Today in the United States there are 72, 000 centenarians.

Today, the EFK program operates over 144 branches in 32 states within the United States and in 21 countries.

\If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of oppor

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at

At some 2,300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate \free-riders\: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In the 1960s, the United States devoted nearly 17% of discretionary spending to research and development, reaping decades of economic growth.

In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

It is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the Wri, maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to bu

Many major donors and the United Nations are targeting hunger-relief programs at pregnant women and young children.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Now a new study has provided another contribution to the debate, uncovering strong evidence that adolescent well-being in the United States really is experiencing a decline and arguing that the most likely cause is the electronic riches we have given them

On the one side, you have the United States government's mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer' phone.

simultaneously, technological advancement and global economy has reduced demand for well- paying blue collar jobs here in the United States.

Space Policy Directive-3 lays out general guidelines for the United States to mitigate the effects of space debris and track and manage traffic in space.

The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist's smartphone is the culmination of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government.

The European Union's level of international co-authorship is about twice that of the United States, Japan, and India.

The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson river, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

They include the United States, Austria, Costa rica, South Africa and Germany.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people's reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go home.

As much of Mexico city shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to crop up in New York city, the southwestern United States and around the world.

Biologists estimate that as many as 2 million lesser prairie chickens一-a kind of bird living on stretching grasslands - once lent red to the often grey landscape of the mid-western and southwestern United States.

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

Entergy runs 11 other reactors in the United States, including pilgrim Nuclear station in Plymouth.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury.

In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.

In the United States, new cases seemed to fade as warmer weather arrived.

Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States.

Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a \GAFA tax,\ meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon—in other words, multinational tech companies based in the United States

Studies from the United States and Australia show that students who take a gap year are generally better prepared for and perform better in college than those who do not.

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.

The eisenhower Executive Office Building commands a unique position in both the national history and the architectural heritage of the United States.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250, 000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

The phrase \less is more\ was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

The United States has never had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe.

We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.

While the rest of the world takes the lead, notably China and Europe, the United States is also seeing a remarkable shift.