Sentences with phrase «using national examples»

Using national examples from districts including LAUSD, the report also includes information about how seniority - based layoffs exacerbate the number of people who lose their jobs because districts have to layoff more teachers with low salaries to meet budgetary demands.

Not exact matches

National Public Radio, for example, said this week that it has chosen not to use the word «lie» in reference to the false or inaccurate statements that President Trump makes because the intent behind those statements can not be known.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

One example they use is the late»90s labour turmoil in the National Basketball Association.

(For example, Optiva ads that ran in national consumer magazines claimed that using the competing Braun product wouldn't prevent the growth of bacteria that might contribute to heart disease, stroke, low birth weight, and other life - threatening conditions.)

The most famous example is last year's WannaCry cyberattack, in which North Korean hackers used malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency to attack tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

(The example below uses an income of $ 51,022, which is the average starting salary for the class of 2017, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.)

The key point here is that they were using Canadian ports as an example of the competitive threat posed to US jobs and were calling for the US government to make similar investments in the context of a national strategy.

For several examples for the recent use of firearms for defensive purposes not typically reported by the national media please visit: http://www.equalforce.net please forward this address to others to whom this information may be useful.

Brazil, for example, repeatedly urged that the UN should be made the organizational home of communications satellites and that there should be a prohibition by the UN on the use of the satellites»... for the purpose of encouraging national, racial or class rivalries... «17.

He uses the phrase «the theatre of the national pornography of the Roman state,» to describe public executions, and goes on to give an analytical example where «the rending of flesh in public could be linked to the bravery exemplified by a woman in her confrontation with Roman authority, and simultaneously, to a language of love.»

For instance, an acquaintance of mine on the national staff of a Protestant denomination was deeply disturbed when an evangelical conference on porn used a photo of a woman's naked breast among its examples — hardly a case of the material available in porn shops.

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

«For example, if you're at Shenandoah National Park, which extends along the Blue Ridge Mountains on the East Coast, their signature dish is a blackberry ice cream pie made using local berries,» he explains.

The Australian Government can assess where national standards will make a difference — for example, where standards can be used to reduce the costs associated with meeting different state and territory requirements.

In addition, the U.S. National Library of Medicine says your kindergartner will be able to recite his phone number and has learned about common household items — for example, he will be able to identify and name different coins, though he may not have the math skills to use them yet.

The image shown left is an example of how these emails are used to advertise infant formula in violation of marketing requirements and UK national measures (full details in the monitoring report).

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

For example, the recent Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development document suggested allowing one additional hour in the setting of an epidural, thus, at least 3 hours in multiparous women and 4 hours in nulliparous women be used to diagnose second - stage arrest, although that document did not clarify between pushing time or total second stage (33).

You can use the ABA National Office fundraising page as an example.

The Basque Eurocity is one example of inter-city collaboration across national borders, and is used as a vehicle to strengthen national confidence and international visibility, all within the EU's regional policy framework of euro - regions (MOT, 2013; Herrschel, 2011).

«An important consideration is that our national infrastructure, which guarantees our energy and water supplies and enables safe and reliable use of road, rail and air transport, is increasingly interconnected and interdependent (for example flooded power stations mean power cuts, which result in telecommunications failures).

For a recent example, let's use something from my day job: the National Women's...

For a recent example, let's use something from my day job: the National Women's Law Center's successful «What Do Tax Breaks for Millionaires Really Cost?»

Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability to use it aggressively to expand or promote national interests; examples of militarist states include the United States, Russia and France.1 It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the «predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state «2 (see also: stratocracy and military junta).

One example is Japan, where the national government uses the parliamentary system, but the prefectural and municipal governments have governors and mayors elected independently from local assemblies and councils.

«The National Assembly already have an agreement with the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, that if for example, the Private Finance Initiative does not materialize to provide the needed funds for the completion of the Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, just as in other areas where government has issues with the budget, the instruments of virement and supplementary budget can be used.

During his two terms, President Barack Obama made three official visits to the Capital Region, using the area's emerging tech sector as an example of a direction for the national ecomony.

The opposition National Democratic Congress has criticised her use of harsh language targeted at former president John Mahama, tried to block her appointment in Parliament because she didn't do national service and described her hairstyle as un-Ghanaian and a bad example for cNational Democratic Congress has criticised her use of harsh language targeted at former president John Mahama, tried to block her appointment in Parliament because she didn't do national service and described her hairstyle as un-Ghanaian and a bad example for cnational service and described her hairstyle as un-Ghanaian and a bad example for children.

The annual survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government (CDG) and the National Association of Counties (NACo), recognizes the nation's best examples of using technology to improve services and boost efficiencies.

Income inequality is a moral issue that is moving into the national spotlight, he said, using President Barack Obama's «strikingly progressive» State of the Union speech as an example.

«There is probably no clearer example of how Mike Bloomberg uses his immense private wealth for public power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doe Fund.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The National Park Service is using the map to identify places where humanmade noise is affecting wildlife — animals such bats and owls, whose ears are up to 20 decibels more sensitive than human ears, for example, are affected by humanmade noise because it drowns out the faint rustles of insects and rodents they need to hunt, they say.

For example, Yvon Le Maho, a physiologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research's Centre d'Ecologie et Physiologie Energétiques in Strasbourg, France, began using RFID tags, electronic chips that are injected under the penguin's skin instead of bands.

For example, China has already pledged to reduce its national energy intensity — how much energy it uses per GDP — by one - fifth by 2010.

In Algeria, although Berber is now recognised as a national language like Arabic, it is not yet official and can not be used in schools, for example.

Howard Dean, for example, has risen from obscurity to national recognition on the back of his Web - based grassroots fund - raising approach, and campaign supporters of all types have learned to use a social - networking site, Meetup.com, to arrange political gatherings.

For example, discretionary funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is reduced by $ 1 billion in the proposed budget, but that is offset by a $ 1.8 billion increase using mandatory funding.

The study looked at roughly 160,000 examples of firm performance in the U.S., using data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Patent Data Project, as well as Standard & Poor's Compustat database of financial information for companies.

For example, the National Science Foundation is investing more than $ 100 million to establish the USArray, a nationwide network of 400 linked seismometers that will be used, in part, to create a more detailed map of the inner core.

For example, she recently received a National Geographic research grant to go to Panama to look for endangered Golden Frogs and determine how they are being affected by Bd using eDNA.

A national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that 154 million American adults watched the eclipse directly, using a combination of solar glasses designed to allow the direct viewing of the sun and various other devices — pin - hole viewers, for national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that 154 million American adults watched the eclipse directly, using a combination of solar glasses designed to allow the direct viewing of the sun and various other devices — pin - hole viewers, for National Aeronautics and Space Administration found that 154 million American adults watched the eclipse directly, using a combination of solar glasses designed to allow the direct viewing of the sun and various other devices — pin - hole viewers, for example.

«The Forest Service is accelerating the restoration and management of our national forests, despite budgetary challenges, using innovative and collaborative strategies to work across large landscapes,» USDA Undersecretary for Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Bonnie said in a statement, adding that the 4FRI project «is one of the best examples of this approach.»

The United States, for example, has enormous untapped potential and could produce enough farmed seafood to meet national demand using only 0.01 percent of its exclusive economic zone, Gentry noted.

«It's more difficult to do research into local than national policies, Halskov Hansen goes on to explain, and mentions the restrictions on car use in Hangzhou use as an example of the measures the local authorities have already introduced.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

The discussion that follows uses the National Institutes of Health (NIH) system as example, as this is the largest source of biomedical research funding.

For example, last year one of our «Young Investigators» reported that his project, the development of a new method to visualise fibre tracts in the brain using functional imaging techniques, was not only successful but he recently secured ongoing funding for it from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).