Sentences with phrase «as observers reported»

Not exact matches

According to the Pentagon's June 2017 Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan report, «Haqqani and Taliban integration has become so robust that many observers no longer look at them as separate entities, but as factions within the same group.»

Not surprisingly, many observers are calling out the move by the Times — which has been at the forefront of the current wave of sexual harassment reporting that has sparked numerous firings elsewhere — as hypocritical.

That alludes to rumblings around the Nike brand that have existed since as far back as June, when Nike reported fiscal fourth - quarter sales that disappointed Wall Street observers.

With debt crises looming in the U.S. and the EU, central bankers are still hesitant to heed the advice of observers who warn (as the OECD did in a recent report), that rock - bottom interest rates have touched off problematic inflation.

Yes, biopharma M&A drama swept industry observers today as reports emerged that the rare disease drugmaker had rebuffed a $ 62.5 billion takeover bid from Takeda but that Botox maker Allergan was also interested in getting in on the action.

I have been critical of the Globe «s business reporting practices in the past (especially its tendency to quote Bank economists as «objective» observers of economic events) but on Saturday, it ran one of the best business pieces I've read in a long time.

Many analysts and independent observers suggested indications that Apple had cut its outlook for the iPhone 5 by as much as half seemed extreme, given recent reports of strong smartphone sales by Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

Ernest Boyer, drawing upon the reports of observers who visited 29 campuses across the country, as well as upon a survey of the attitudes and opinions of 5,000 faculty and 4,500 undergraduates in a representative sample of institutions, writes more analytically and less passionately than Bloom.

The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears to many observers «to be set on a voyage of self - destruction.»

Aren't anthropologists support to watch and report what they see as neutral observers?

Although to be fair to the observers, a review of some of their preliminary reports reveal that some of them raised credibility issues even as they approved the process.

A Suffolk police spokeswoman said: «Around 2 pm officers from Suffolk rural crime team were called to attend at the Great Thurlow hunt as a result of an incident being reported between the hunt and hunt observers.

The BNI report, however, has been criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

The intelligence report, corroborated by numerous security sources, reveals that the The Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) an association of rightists / conservative political parties in various African countries on whose ticket Mr Mac Manu was traveling to Kenya as an observer of the elections, and the National Super Alliance (NASA) led by opposition leader Raila Odinga are doing everything possible to manipulate the Kenyan election in favour of the National Super Alliance (NASA) and its Presidential candidate Raila Odinga.

Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, Kwesi Pratt Jnr explained that as an observer himself, the basis of a report of any international election observer team is to report and record what they witness during the election process.

This is a subject both intensely timely and well suited to Alessandra's skills as an observer, reporter and writer... she'll be reporting on what she describes as the «psychology, rituals, costs and contradictions» of a new generation of American titans.»

The BNI report was criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

The first phase of that plan kicked off around the beginning of 2013, as observers around the world began monitoring Comet ISON and sending reports to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., the main clearinghouse for information about comets and asteroids.

Yet when the Antares duo are eclipsed by the moon, and the companion reappears first (as it always does, since the moon approaches them from the west), most observers report that Antares B still looks green.

G347.3 - 0.5 (A.D. 393): Chinese observers reported a so - called «guest star» that shone for months, appearing as bright as Jupiter.

Patterns in the waves, when analyzed as if seen by an accelerating observer, appear to re-create the expected signature of the effect, researchers report September 7 at arXiv.org.

Boellstorff spent two years participating in Second Life and reports back as the trained observer that he is.

What is more, touching the shell produces a second illusion: observers report that their finger somehow feels shorter, as if to compensate for the illusory bottom volume of the ball.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

About 140 observer's reports were received - from Malta, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Canaries as well as the UK.

Some report interesting information that national observers may not have known, such as Nebraska's abiding love of locally selected tests and its rejection of statewide assessments.

A 2015 report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that students enrolled in online charter schools aren't performing as well as their peers, and many observers have argued that online - only charters should be put out of business.

Second Step participants showed reduced antisocial behaviors reported by teachers; other studies cited report that Second Step participants showed reduced negative behaviors in the classroom, lunchroom, and playground, as reported by observers.

The report's findings — especially the existence of a botnet campaign against Common Core — came as a surprise to some education observers.

In trying to make sense of the dashboard, various observers have referred to it as «a report card» for California schools, school districts and county offices of education.

As readers of this blog well - know, I published a report in October on the purchase (check my home page for the link), so I am now a very keen observer of the outcome.

I came as an ebook developer and interested observer; someone directly involved in W3C work would surely report on the proceedings very differently.

As an example, aside from laziness, why do market observers report a day where the market goes down on no significant news as «profit taking,» or grab at some lame smaller story which couldn't explain the declinAs an example, aside from laziness, why do market observers report a day where the market goes down on no significant news as «profit taking,» or grab at some lame smaller story which couldn't explain the declinas «profit taking,» or grab at some lame smaller story which couldn't explain the decline?

As one observer in a Houston Chronicle report noted, this problem has been bubbling up to the surface for some time:

While I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there.

They and other scientists were recently rushed up to the Arctic «on short notice» on reports of «dramatic» increases of methane release, and observers reported «seas bubbling as if they were boiling.»

We aim to act as independent but compassionate observers, who have undertaken our own investigations and report on them.

«The Paris agreement will not save the Arctic as it is today,» says Lars - Otto Reiersen, executive secretary of the group behind the latest edition of «Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic» (SWIPA), a report produced under the auspices of the Arctic Council, a scientific - policy club for the eight countries with territory in the Arctic Circle), as well as observers including China and India.

First, accredited NGOs from all sides of the issue are welcome as observers at the opening plenary session and some other sessions over the course of the report production cycle.

Wrapping up the package will require agreement on a strong Adaptation Committee including active civil society observers and direct reporting to the COP (as well to the SBs when COP does not meet).

«While I won't be president at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one president at a time, I've asked members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there,» Obama said in a taped message this morning to attendees gathered for the Schwarzenegger event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (also posted on YouTube and the official transition Web site).

june 7th Zeke» As I mentioned in the original post, about 300 of the 1218 stations originally assigned to the USHCN in the late 1980s have closed, mostly due to volunteer observers dying or otherwise stopping reporting.

Surface observers report the all - sky conditions, which include the sides as well as bottoms of clouds, but are unable to report upper - level clouds that may be obscured from the observer's view.

While I won't be President at the time of your meeting and while the United States has only one President at a time, I've asked Members of Congress who are attending the conference as observers to report back to me on what they learn there.»

McLain reports that like Dayton, he too has experienced what many observers might view as a Twitter marketing success: His Twitter presence has earned him online interviews and features in blog posts.

As a veteran observer of decades - long legal publishing rivalries, the most striking «take away» from this report was the absence of name LexisNexis from the discussion.

«Many observers expect the EEOC this year will announce a test, or at least a more refined test, for the use of criminal records... or perhaps even some refinement of the rules surrounding credit reports, which has been another hot topic,» says Rosen, author of «The Safe Hiring,» the first comprehensive guide to employment screening, and a frequent speaker of due diligence issues as part of «ESR Speaks» program.

However, as the parent is most often the closest observer of the child, they are best placed to report on the child's immediate environment and behaviour67 and, at 2 years, parent report is the most feasible and powerful way to pick up any early signals that families and children are responding to the intervention.

Three studies reported observer - rated child behaviour using the behavioural rating scale (BRS) from Bayley II.46 55 59 One study used a dichotomised version of BRS, 46 which may not have been able to detect changes in this population since all but one (intervention) and three (control) children were rated as unproblematic.

SI Appendix, Table S6 shows that whether we examined self - control as measured by observers, teachers, parents, or children's self - reports, individual differences in childhood self - control were significantly related to each of the adult health, wealth, and public safety outcomes; that is, the results were not sensitive to the use of any particular source of information about children's self - control and were robust to the data source in measuring self - control.