Sentence examples for * the iwi from inspiring English sources

The key strength of the IWI is its potential to serve as a metric for sustainable development policy.

Menahem says the IWI measure of wealth does not include natural capital stocks that help climate regulation, flood regulation, fertile soil, biodiversity and drinking water.

To do this, the IWI tracks the progress of 140 countries that make up the lion's share of the global economy ($56.84 trillion) and population (6.89 billion people).

In addition, the IWI can measure the strength of the means of implementation (e.g., policies and programs) for promoting sustainable development (SDG 17).

(Fifty countries with small economies are not included in the IWI because of the difficulty in obtaining reliable data). The latest IWI report shows that 44 out of the 140 countries have suffered a decline in inclusive wealth per capita even though GDP per capita increased in nearly all of the countries assessed.

The vast majority of Māori belong to an iwi, which can loosely be translated as tribe.2 The iwi is traditionally the largest sociopolitical organisation in Māori society and is generally a territorial entity.

However, both students said they'd endorse a name change, and suggested Massey should ask the local Iwi to rename the institution.

In 2000, the local iwi suggestion to rename the Wellington suburb of Hataitai to Whataitai, referring to a taniwha (sea-monster) that legend says lived in Wellington Harbour, was declined by the Geographic Board.

For the TWI, IWI, RE and SE alternative splicing classes, the majority are contained fully within the CDS, which can also lead to potentially significant changes in the translated protein.

Regarding the evaluation of oxygenation by the IWI index, we preferred SaO2 to PaO2/FiO2 because SaO2 has fewer variations (generally higher than 90 to 92%) [ 1, 2] than PaO2/FiO2 (higher than 150 to 200) [ 8, 24- 26] during the weaning of mechanical ventilation, being a better parameter to compose an accurate IWI.

The IWI evaluates, in a single equation, the respiratory mechanics, the oxygenation, and the respiratory pattern, through Cst,rs, SaO2 and f/Vt ratio respectively.