Sentences with phrase «significant background of»

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On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the bureau alerted the White House to problems with Porter's background check months ago, throwing significant doubt into Kelly's version of events.

As an incentive to students to turn over their essays, Lysinger says the group plans to donate a significant portion of its profits to charities related to students with non-traditional backgrounds.

«I am one of the only students with a science background who also has significant startup experience, so I think that brings a very different view to our case discussions when we talk about making decisions using very little data,» she said.

Though 92 percent of Americans support universal background checks, gun reform was a less significant issue to voters than terrorism and the economy.

He has extensive experience in a number of HR roles and a significant background in developing, implementing and people analytics practices.

The background environment was one in which demand in Australia — which grew by over 5 1/2 per cent in 2007 — outstripped, by a significant margin, any plausible estimate of growth in potential supply.

The Board's decision to increase the cash rate in March was taken against the background of strong demand pressures combined with a significant pick - up in upstream prices during the second half of 2004.

-- Most of those things are a simple by - product that a significant population in the US is from a Judeo - Christian background.

These acts may seem small and limited, against a global background of persecution and terror, but every act of kindness and mercy, practiced on a wide scale, by ordinary believers, would be significant.

A significant element in the background to the Gospel accounts of Jesus is the tradition of apocalyptic literature in which God has come to be viewed as temporarily absent from the current flow of history.

Having come from a background of heroin addiction with little schooling and no qualifications, I had significant concerns as to whether or not I would be able to complete a degree in theology.

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

I. Background of the Dialogue between Process Thinkers and Evangelicals The publication of Pinnock's Theological Crossfire (1990) signaled a significant change in the tenor of evangelical responses to process thought.

Thus all of the pre-Abrahamic Biblical figures are a part of Islam's background as well as of the Hebrews», and he makes constant use of those who came after Abraham and who had a significant part in developing the Hebrew faith.

It would be well to conclude this brief survey of some of the most significant recent theories in source analysis with the judgment of Aage Bentzen.6 It is of first importance, he states, that we understand the «import of tile «old school,» so that continuity in science can be seen and the new points of view get their true background.

In the background of every significant human activity is the discovery of something in the cosmos that we can rely on, depend on, have faith in, and the more we know about the universe the more we find factors here that answer our trust so that we can act on the basis of their dependability.

Among the significant new contributions of the next two years are Lewis S. Ford, The Lure of God: A Biblical Background for Process Theism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978); and Lawrence F. Wilmot, Whitehead and God; Prolegomenon to Theological Reconstruction (Waterloo, Ontario: Winfred Laurier University Press, 1979).

Through my membership on the HISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee, I've gotten to know some of these men and women over the last year and a half, and I recognize the significant hurdles they face in trying to feed over 200,000 kids a day, many from impoverished backgrounds, on a limited budget and under strict governmental regulations.

Background: The practice of exclusive breastfeeding (EB) in Morocco has witnessed a worrying decline in recent decades, contrary to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) which advocates it during the first six months as a significant public health tool.

A lot has been made of his middle class and «privileged» background by many commentators and opponents, but more significant was he came from an activist Labour family and his brother Piers is cut from the same cloth.

Background bonuses What I bring by virtue of being a «first» [Bangladeshi MP] is that my country of birth is much more significant than it would've been.

Secondly, the significant differences in levels of understanding about RA across different demographics, including different age groups, ethnicities and social backgrounds.

The board has been accused of financially starving the public schools that serve a significant number of African - American students of Haitian background as well as a growing Hispanic population.

Since a significant share of school funding is local, and communities with lots of students from affluent backgrounds tend to be affluent communities that pay more in taxes, «good schools» also tend to be better funded.

Field organizers with significant political background have been hired in the targeted states to coordinate with the heads of state parties to release «report cards» on a handful of members of Congress.

Most projects would involve a subset of these components but a broad background in science or engineering would be a significant advantage for any researcher.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

«Postdocs from all social backgrounds reported significant declines in interest in faculty careers at research - intensive universities and increased interest in nonresearch careers,» compared to their feelings early in grad school, write Kenneth Gibbs, Jr., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland; John McGready of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; and Kimberly Griffin of the University of Maryland, College Park.

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

A proof - of - concept study finds that it is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics — a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and anthropological research.

«Despite significant progress made in reducing tobacco use within the general population, individuals with mental illness smoke at rates approximately twice that of adults without mental disorders and comprise more than half of nicotine - dependent smokers,» according to background information in the article.

Core collapse supernova (CCSN) rates suffer from large uncertainties as many CCSNe exploding in regions of bright background emission and significant dust extinction remain unobserved.

The significant changes reinforced the impact of the genetic background to various phenotypic analysis, even using nearly divergent substrains.

There is, therefore, a significant risk that multiple stars will be located in a given optimal aperture and thus that a given star is contaminated by a number of background stars.

CAST / EiJ mTR — / — mice exhibit significant deficits in tissue renewal during adulthood, even in the first generation, and progressive worsening of the phenotype with successive generations, similar to what is seen in other background strains with these mutations and in the genetic anticipation observed in successive generations of families with autosomal dominant forms of the human genetic disorder of telomerase components, dyskeratosis congenita.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

Second, it is clear from Figure 7A that a significant load of deleterious mutations (as is required by background selection) exists in A. thaliana.

A significant minority of on - line daters have paid to use a web - based relationship website or app, and «niche» websites like Interracial Dating, Hippie Dating, Disabled Dating etc., for specific interests or backgrounds are popular with comparatively large numbers of online daters:

Investing time in learning more about your significant other's background and beliefs will not only express how much you care, but it can often have the pleasing side effect of bringing the two of you closer together.

Coolidge hasn't made a campy, condescending comedy, but a satiric romance, in which the background gags and caricatures contribute to a sense of significant conflicts and solid emotions.

Each title gets a full - length audio commentary from Travis Crawford, a dogged film critic and programmer with the instincts of a historian, who goes into detail on the background of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his vision on screen.

Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) and Lumumba (Raoul Peck, 2000) are discussed from the important perspective of whether they represent racial - colonialist «appropriationist» or «assimilationist» narratives, and Bingham uses specific textual details (including cinematic techniques), extensive background production research, and his own logical argumentation to substantiate his opinions on these significant issues.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

Transitions are important rites of passage for all students and are significant milestones for youth with disabilities and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

That said, students with significant background knowledge are capable of hard thinking when they take more ownership of their learning, and we need to honor those capabilities.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Each of these differences is statistically significant after adjusting for differences in the background characteristics of parents using district and charter schools.

Virtually all subsequent analyses have included measures of family background (education, family structure, and so forth) and have found them to be a significant explanation of achievement differences.

Given the expertise and background of the panelists who will present next week, how they define equity, the public sector, and school quality will be quite significant.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.