Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair / exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

Alterations in the quantity of atmospheric greenhouse gases determines the amount of solar energy retained by the planet, leading to global warming or global cooling.

Soil erosion ( especially from agricultural activity ) is considered to be the leading global cause of diffuse water pollution, due to the effects of the excess sediments flowing into the world's waterways.

As one of the world's leading industrialized countries it is recognized as a major power in European and global affairs.

The elimination of the Legacy Virus gave Magneto a freshly healthy army, leading him to declare a campaign of global conquest.

The Cayman Islands were the leading location, accounting for 34 % of the number of global hedge funds.

The Information Security Forum is a global nonprofit organization of several hundred leading organizations in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer goods, government, and other areas.

Japan is the world's 3rd largest automobile manufacturing country, has the largest electronics goods industry, and is often ranked among the world's most innovative countries leading several measures of global patent filings.

: CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub > + H < sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub > → CaSO < sub > 4 </ sub > + H < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub > ( global reaction leading to calcium sulfate )

* Three leading food processing companies, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Nestle, together achieve a large proportion of global processed food sales.

Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centres, hosting many international organizations, and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.

Even the leading Snowball proponent Hoffman agrees that the ~ million year long Gaskiers glaciation did not lead to global glaciation, although it was probably as intense as the late Ordovician glaciation.

During the 1980s, Schneider emerged as a leading public advocate of sharp reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.

The WHO regularly publishes a World Health Report, its leading publication, including an expert assessment of a specific global health topic.

Zurich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres.

Leiden also houses the headquarters of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N. V. ( EADS ), a global pan-European aerospace and defence corporation and a leading defence and military contractor worldwide.

Marked by global instability and the Great Depression, the 1930s contended with several consequential European and Asian outbreaks of war, leading up to catastrophic World War II in 1939.

At the end of June 2000, a strategic business alliance between Vivendi, Seagram, and Canal + was announced, and Vivendi Universal, a leading global media and communications company, was formed after the merger with Seagram ( the parent company of Universal Studios ).

A current hypothesis as to one cause of transient global amnesia — a dramatic sudden temporary near-total loss of short-term memory — is that it may be due to venous congestion of the brain, leading to ischemia of structures, such as the hippocampus, that are involved with memory.

As well as being a leading global soybean exporter it is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.

Through their three businesses — agribusiness, fertilizer, and food products — they have established a leading global presence in the farm-to-consumer food chain.

His interference ruins the Earth's climate, causing global temperatures to soar and leading to an environmental collapse of devastating proportions.

Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of February 2012 " evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change " and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 21 leading manufacturers, on the strength of " well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology " and " out in the Leaderboard for scoring high in the Future Savings Goal criterion.

Several of the Commonwealth nations followed the British lead and sourced buses from British manufacturers, leading to a prevalence of double-decker buses.

The consequences of this were that the pocket calculator was affordable, and that it was now difficult for the manufacturers to make a profit out of calculators, leading to many companies dropping out of the business or closing down altogether.

The two leading manufacturers, HP and TI, released increasingly feature-laden calculators during the 1980s and 1990s.

Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics products for the consumer and professional markets.

Dobro is also a brand name of one of the leading manufacturers of resonator guitars.

The leading semiconductor manufacturers typically have facilities all over the world.

Most of the leading automobile manufacturers have their own climatic wind tunnels

Various methods and proprietary digital signaling protocols were used by different manufacturers in first generation ALE, leading to incompatibility.

In the United States and other countries, the Hoover Company remains one of the leading manufacturers of household goods, including vacuum cleaners ; and Hoover became very wealthy from the invention.

Apart from navy-related civil facilities, Sevastopol hosts some other notable industries, such as Stroitel one of the leading plastics manufacturers in Ukraine.

Rallying itself can be traced back to the 1894 Paris – Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition ( Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux ), sponsored by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, which attracted considerable public interest and entries from leading manufacturers.

The leading manufacturers devoted considerable energy to creating a history and identity for their wine, associating it and themselves with nobility and royalty.

* 1918: One of the leading gas turbine manufacturers of today, General Electric, started their gas turbine division.

Most leading vehicle manufacturers recommend brake disc skimming ( US: turning ) as a solution for lateral run-out, vibration issues and brake noises.

Under the leadership of the foreign management the company renewed its model range, established cooperation with the leading international manufacturers and achieved the best financial results in the company ’ s history.

With an eye toward commanding the emerging European market for sound film, Tobis entered into a compact with its chief competitor, Klangfilm, a joint subsidiary of Germany's two leading electrical manufacturers.

These are de-facto standards, usually originated by one manufacturer and reverse-engineered by others, though the VESA group has co-ordinated the efforts of several leading video display adapter manufacturers.

In Rixensart, the company Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques ( changed to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in 2000 ) is one of the world ’ s leading vaccine manufacturers, supplying around 25 % of the world ’ s vaccines: GSK Biologicals employs a little over 5, 300 persons on the Walloon sites of Rixensart, Wavre and Gembloux.

He was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Cecelia Margaret ( née Newlove ) and Frederick Samuel Phillips, who worked at Glover and Main, manufacturers of cookers in Edmonton, London ; the " filthy, sulphurous " air of the factory gave him a weak heart and edema, leading to his death at the age of 44.

In addition, Intervet, one of the world ’ s leading manufacturers of animal health supplies, selected De Soto for one of its four U. S. manufacturing facilities.

Because of the ready availability of lumber, it was the birthplace of the Herschell-Spillman Company / Allan Herschell Co., one of the leading manufacturers of carousels in America and is now the home of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum.

Microsoft had pursued a policy of insisting on per-processor royalties, thus making competing operating systems unattractive to computer manufacturers and provoking regulatory scrutiny from the European Commission and US authorities, leading to an undertaking by Microsoft to cease such practices.

* MAN Truck & Bus is one of Europe's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers.