Sentences with phrase «lesser figures cite»

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Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

Again, just to cite a single example, the practice of formulating fixed and stereotyped figures of speech, already reflected to a lesser degree in the Himayana scriptures, becomes here a kind of codification of a quantity of rigid formulas which seem to threaten all life with suffocation.

In particular no evidence supports the notion, cited in some newspapers and some pulpits, that there are more Muslims than Presbyterians in the U.S. Yes, the number of members claimed by the relatively rigorous counts of all the Presbyterian bodies in the country — around 3.5 million — is less than the 6 or 7 million figure claimed by some Muslim spokespersons.

A study cited in a NY Times article states that McGill University neurologist, Michael Meaney, discovered that his rats who licked and groomed their babies frequently, produced rats who figured out mazes more quickly than the rats whose mothers were less attentive.

Women receive less than 5 percent of conventional small business loans, even though women - owned businesses make up nearly 40 percent of all businesses in the country, Gillibrand said, citing figures from the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

It cites figures showing just 21 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls met recommended guidelines for moderate exercise per day and that British children born today were on course to be 35 per cent less active by 2035.

As you do not generally cite the figures for Science Fiction > Galactic Empire vs Science Fiction > Space Exploration there is no need to go into the sub-categories as everything there is already in the top level Science Fiction category and you have the ability to exclude results by a rank judged to mean less than one sale per day.