Sentences with phrase «whittle said»

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said the authority will look at ways of getting more children from poorer backgrounds into the selective schools.

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said figures were improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over 3 %.

«It's always a good sign to the investors coming in that those who are there continue to put money in,» Mr. Whittle said last...

The Edison Project has received an infusion of $ 30.5 million in new capital that company founder Christopher Whittle said will stake expansion for the near future.

Chairman Dan Whittle said: «Whether it is unfair dismissal or discrimination law we will offer our members whatever protection we can.

'' [Private insurers] are willing to retain more of the risk when you have federal NFIP coverage in place,» Whittle says.

«If you are out looking for a product, you know what you want in terms of coverage, you know what premiums would be, you find out what discounts are available,» Whittle says.

The limits don't apply in the event of a total loss, such as if the apartment burns down, Whittle says.

Not exact matches

«We ended up with almost 500 ideas, which were whittled down to about 50, and now they're down to about a dozen that we will focus on,» Jacob says.

But there are limits to the federal insurance, of about $ 500,000 for damage to structure and $ 500,000 for damages to property inside the structure, says James J. Whittle, Assistant General Counsel & Chief Claims Counsel, for the American Insurance Association.

Let's say you have a 5 - stage sales funnel with a 5:1 lead - to - deal ratio that gradually whittles down prospects to the final deals:

«From Packstar's perspective, after having some due diligence performed, we learned the Brook & Whittle culture was very similar to our culture,» he says, adding that both companies» cultures were rooted in the values of customer service and technology - driven business development.

For more than five years, Plastic Suppliers Inc. has been working closely with Brook and Whittle / Packstar, and Plastic Suppliers Vice President of Business Development Rich Eichfeld says the companies» cultures and values line up very well together.

Stewart says the companies already have shifted certain equipment assets to different facilities to help improve operational efficiencies and Sharp says Packstar has incorporated some of Brook & Whittle's practices.

«[The main benefit is] having the access and knowledge that Brook & Whittle had learned over the years in pressure - sensitive [films] and we're using some of that in the shrink - sleeve market,» he says.

Regardless of the economic pressures of the day, Eichfeld says Plastic Suppliers will continue to be a valuable partner to Brook & Whittle as well as the many other companies it serves, thanks to its innovative products and just - in - time focus.

Although Brook & Whittle still is in the early stages of implementing it, Sharp says lean has significantly reduced Packstar's waste and time to product in just the short time since the company introduced it.

U.S. meat, wine among Canada's targets in label fight: minister Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat - labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday...

Employees: 350 «We at Brook & Whittle were looking for the Specialty: Packaging Stephen Stewart, president: same sort of thing that [Packstar] offered,» says «We've actually gone through Stephen Stewart, Brook & Whittle CEO.

Let me say this — the Playoffs get everyone's competitive juices flowing — especially when the field whittles down to just 4 Teams.

Martin Whittle, professor of fetal medicine and chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists» working party on ultrasound was quoted in The Sunday Times as saying:

She said she was told by one of them that the clause could theoretically be used to whittle away the legislature's authority to nothing.

In the hustings, Nuttall, said the death penalty should be returned for those who kill children, while Suzanne Evans and Peter Whittle were against the punishment.

An administration source said Cuomo's plan was to whittle away more controversial provisions and simply act on the schools legislation before mayoral control expires at week's end.

Le Pen, 45, has said she will concentrate on a return to French sovereignty and the whittling down of European Union power.

Gage said that he whittled down a list of 29 possible witnesses, which had included a deceased former state senator, to about five.

Peter Whittle, Ukip's culture spokesman, told Good Morning Britain voters «had seen common sense in UKIP» and «60 % of people who voted for us are saying they are considering voting for us at the general election.»

The former president said he had restrained himself from commenting on governance issues after losing the presidential seat to the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo, because he believed that every new government needed time to settle in office, but «it looks like NPP is whittling away its honeymoon period with the mistakes that it is doing.»

«Initially when I started reading about the referendum it seemed very clear that we as a host community were going to have a yay or nay vote about whether or not a casino would be sited here, and as I just heard the answers in this meeting this evening, that's clearly not the case,» said Whittle.

But true reform should strike deeper, he said, and should include whittling down which services are funded through the tax rolls — including fire and highway departments.

CHIP's Engel painted a dire situation for the industry if Democrats succeed in dismantling the IDC, saying that the party would quickly start whittling away at all the pro-business protections in place.

Banks told those close to him that he'd met with Bratton earlier this week and was told the NYPD brass planned to beef up the scope of the No. 2 job — which had been largely whittled into a figurehead job under former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, sources said.

Anumonye said, «To prove our case, we need to interact with the witnesses and to assist the tribunal to whittle down the number of witnesses we intend to call.

The governor is proposing a 10 % cut to state agencies, and Brynion says agencies have already been whittled down through cuts over the past couple of years.

Aubry said his campaign was centered on defending his record, especially the severely whittled downstate budget recently passed in Albany.

The original field of 136 experimental vehicles vying for a $ 10 million prize in Progressive Insurance's Automotive X PRIZE competition has been whittled down to just nine finalists, competition organizers said Tuesday.

It took the Marines a month to realize thatReyes wasn't the same, but instead of looking deeper, he says theysimply allowed him to whittle his time away playing video games in thebarracks while the rest of his friends prepared for another tour inIraq.

Despite this unexpected evidence of long - term mating among communities with different cultures and styles, the tempo of genetic change and the population sizes of farmers and hunter - gatherers remain poorly understood, says archaeologist Alasdair Whittle of Cardiff University in Wales.

Hemmings says that proposals for Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica are «lost in a sandpit of discussion or whittled away by Russia, Japan, South Korea, and a number of other fishing states.»

Unless the price tag can be whittled down to $ 2.5 billion, the report says, the mission to explore for signs of life and collect sedimentary rocks for later return to Earth should be delayed or canceled.

The next step, Pomponi says, will be to whittle the suggestions down to a manageable number.

It took the Marines a month to realize that Reyes wasn't the same, but instead of looking deeper, he says they simply allowed him to whittle his time away playing video games in the barracks while the rest of his friends prepared for another tour in Iraq.

Also, a high - end salmon feed and selective breeding has helped minimize fishmeal use, reducing the ratio of pounds of wild feed fish to produce pounds of farmed fish to 1.1 to one — a number AquaSeed owner Per Heggelund says he expects to whittle further.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I've really whittled down what I carry for myself after having kids.

Even when you've whittled profiles down to the ones that say they are Christian, it's still no small feat to determine which ones are committed to their faith and which ones are not.

«The only things that haven't changed are churches and schools,» Mr. Whittle, the president and chief executive officer of Edison Schools Inc., said recently.

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

Evans says the search committee will whittle down that list to approximately ten applicants and after further interviews, the committee will host public hearings giving candidates the opportunity to speak to the community.

«There's a very typical CPS pattern here, which is that Claypool makes a scary pronouncement about 5,000 teachers being laid off in November then over several months that number is whittled down,» Sharkey said.