Sentences with phrase «about recent increased»

The Secretary - General is deeply concerned about recent increased tensions in the vicinity of Guerguerat in the Buffer Strip in southern Western Sahara between the Moroccan berm and the Mauritanian border.

«We are encouraged by the declining number of new Ebola cases in West Africa, but remain concerned about a recent increase in cases in Guinea, and an inability to further reduce case counts in Sierra Leone,» said the White House.»

One of the most disheartening aspects about the recent increases is that it's a substitute for fixing anything in law firms.

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Canada's post-secondary education system has come under increasing scrutiny in recent times, with questions about the continuing value of a university degree and outrage in some quarters about tuition levels.

«We are bullish about Expedia's recent strategic investments to increase its global property supply,» analyst Brian Nowak says.

«Evolving regulatory disclosure requirements have increased the disclosure in recent years of information about fees in the industry, but there is nothing new nor unusual about our fees and administrative expenses or disclosure practices which are fully compliant with regulatory requirements,» wrote O'Brien and Poirier to Maclean's.

There's been a recent trend in biopharma where some companies, led by Allergan (agn) CEO Brent Saunders» new «social contract» with patients, are voluntarily pledging to limit drug price hikes and being more transparent about which products have seen price increases.

Given CEO Tim Cook's recent statements about the company's cash pile, investors are hopeful that a bigger increase is on the way.

With increased attention in recent years about the need for responsive design for business web sites, designers have been in high demand.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

A recent study by two Canadian business schools into what causes inflated executive pay upends some of the conventional wisdom about what causes executive salaries to increase over time.

Lee added that this recent price rise also reflects increased awareness about the digital currency.

According to company founder and Vice Chairman Steven Neelman, the health account industry is growing at an average rate of 20 percent annually, while his own company has seen its annual revenue increase about 40 percent in recent years.

Part of the increase in transaction time has, no doubt, been caused by the recent arrival of new, less knowledgeable investors who are coming into the market only because they have seen the headlines about the price of bitcoin going up, up, up.

We would strongly recommend that you support the IMF conclusion in its recent report on» the importance of increasing transparency and communication about these challenges (demographic) and their long - run implications, (and) to increase public awareness and contribute to a debate about possible solutions» [9].

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business expressed concern Monday about that possibility, noting that some employers are cutting back employee hours in response to Ontario's recent minimum wage increase.

Ameriprise, for instance, said in its most recent earnings report that it had spent north of $ 11 million this year to comply with the rule, and announced earlier this year that it had devote about 400 people to compliance efforts and has increased training for staffers.

Meanwhile, the sense of unease about how Europe will manage its problems has increased over recent months.

A recent survey of institutional investors in Australia found that exposure to credit risk had increased in the first half of 1999 and that about half of the respondents intended to take on additional credit risk in their bond portfolios over the remainder of 1999.

As reported by Risk.net, available at < http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/feature/2471922/margin-rules-lead-to-ndf-clearing-surge >, in late September 2016, ForexClear, an LCH.Clearnet Limited clearing house, has had a significant increase in non-deliverable forward trades that are cleared, from about US$ 4 billion per day earlier in the year to around US$ 22 — 24 billion per day in recent weeks.

«We are increasing the understanding of our industry, we're increasing the knowledge across the whole country about why these projects are so important,» Fraser said of recent poll support for Trans Mountain.

Some economists have raised concerns that recent moves by the Trump administration and Congress to boost economic growth through $ 1.5 trillion in tax cuts and increased government spending could cause the Fed to worry about overheating and inflation.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

It appears that's partly because increased promotional expenses (though they are lower than some rivals) and recent moderation in North American comps (versus prior periods) have raised investor concerns about whether Michael Kors» growth will slow soon.

Mountaineer State drivers experience their most recent gas tax increase in 2017 — about 3.5 cents per gallon.

We will see how serious Germany is about recent suggestions that it plans policies aimed at increasing domestic demand.

Income - Driven Repayment (IDR) plans first came about in the 1990s and 2000s, but the Obama administration promoted IDR in recent years to combat a sharp increase in defaults by federal student loan borrowers.

In talking about monetary policy's contribution to the management of the economic challenges, the speech notes the recent increases in mortgage rates of the commercial banks, outside of the cycle of changes in the cash rate.

The recent bout of volatility in financial markets occurred in an environment of growing uncertainty about the global economic outlook and increasing geopolitical tensions.

A more recent attempt, following the botched singing of the South African national anthem by Ard Matthews, was featured in a Memeburn piece on how viral marketing is about increasing positive brand presence by Jonathan Houston.

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

The recent announcement by European central banks to restrict further sales of gold and the decision by the IMF to fund its debt - relief initiative with off - market transactions, contributed to a sharp recovery in sentiment in the gold market in late September; the gold price in US dollars increased by around 25 per cent in the wake of these decisions, but has since retraced about half of this rise.

To date, the Federal Reserve has increased the Federal funds rate by 175 basis points in this tightening phase, and recent evidence from the Federal Reserve's survey of senior loan officers suggests that lenders are also becoming somewhat more cautious about extending credit to businesses.

In your recent post «10 Proven Ways To Improve Your Facebook Reach» you mention that most Facebook pages only reach about 16 % of their followers on average, but that it could be increased as high as 47 % or more.

Comex positioning has since given back about 81 % from the highs, mainly driven by a strong increase in gross short positions, which have been reaching record highs in recent weeks.

Over the recent weeks, there has been much debate about the notable increase of issuance in the fledgling green bond market.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

Jonathan Jacobson, founder of Highfields Capital Management, wrote in a recent letter to clients about why the increasing influence of quants is obfuscating market risk:

Christian organisations are reacting to concerns about the increasing «sexualisation of children», as highlighted in a recent article by journalist Cole Moreton.

I would go further: in the absence of such historical controls, we are lured into just the kind of dubious suppositions — for example, about allegedly increased defections from oldline to conservative — that have plagued recent discussions.

In recent years there has been an increase in discussion around mental health, which has led to public figures speaking more openly about the effect grief has had on them.

Even more recent statistics published by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that an increasing number of young persons are thinking twice about marriage.

A recent study of tobacco ads concludes: «In the face of increasing public knowledge about the health risks of smoking and the shrinking population of current smokers, the tobacco industry has portrayed smoking in advertisements in a misleading manner — as adventuresome, healthy, safe, and erotic, images in stark contrast to the voluminous data implicating smoking as a factor in ill health.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

In recent weeks, the US has been increasing surveillance flights over Syria to gather more data about where IS fighters are working from.

This neo-fundamentalism has been on the increase in recent years despite — or perhaps because of — all the new and complex scholarly information now available about the historical person of Jesus.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

A recent New York Times article, about scientists visiting Aquiares to study, noted the increase in biodiversity as a result of the extensive variety of shade trees and the provision of buffer zones.

Fonterra has revealed that prices were down sharply at its latest auction, as concerns about supply, which had fueled recent price increases, eased.

I mentioned briefly in a recent post about having some increased allergy trouble, consequently, my meals haven't been all that thrilling lately.