Sentences with phrase «by at least a fifth»

For countries worried about global warming, there is a target to reduce EU greenhouse - gas emissions by at least a fifth of their 1990 level before 2020.

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By the end of Monday, with the S&P 500 itself down, more than one - fifth of the stocks in the index were down at least 20 percent from their 52 - week highs, while two - thirds were off more than 10 percent.

Overwhelmed by the failure, Bill had one «comforting» thought: «With a fifth of gin, I could be a millionaire — at least for a while.»

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

Rising Popularity of origin chocolate A survey of consumers in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, UK and the US, published by Barry Callebaut in March this year, suggested that 42 per cent of respondents had already discovered origin chocolate, 26 per cent more than in 2006, and one fifth of all consumers eat it at least once a month.

But four of their five losses were by at least 14 points, and the fifth was a gross 17 - 10 loss to Tennessee State, a mediocre FCS squad.

If they can pull off a win this week, though unlikely, they'll be at least the fifth ranked team by the committee, and perhaps in the top four in terms of true probability to make the playoff.

The Honey Badgers scheduled nine games and are looking for two more, but at least one of their games — a showdown against vaunted John Curtis Christian in River Ridge, La., ranked fifth nationally by Rivals and set to be televised by ESPN on Oct. 19 — is in jeopardy because the Louisiana Athletic Association mandates that its schools play teams recognized by their respective states.

While it was only the fifth time this season where the Toffees got themselves a little sticky in front of goal by scoring none, their overall tally of 18 — 10 of those coming at Goodison Park — is an underwhelming tally to say the least and the catalyst for their lacklustre campaign to date.

In the first month, your baby has at least three stools a day and they lighten to a yellowy - mustard color by the fifth day after birth.

They have at least three stools each day and the stools lighten to a yellowy - mustard color by the fifth day after birth.

For at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.

At least four amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty - First, Twenty - Second, and Twenty - Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V conventioAt least four amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty - First, Twenty - Second, and Twenty - Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V conventioat least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention.

Allowing Jeremy Corbyn to stand in a new Labour leadership contest without the backing of at least one - fifth of the party's MPs and MEPs would be «remarkable», according to legal advice seen by PoliticsHome.

A bill by Sen. John Bonacic, a Hudson Valley Republican, would establish a five - member panel — four people appointed by legislative leaders, the fifth designated by at least 3/4 of them — to submit a plan to a referendum.

They just don't like us fiddling around in the heavens without a purpose prescribed by the heavens, or at least one comprehensible to a fifth - grader.

Yet it's already the deadliest heat wave to hit India since at least 1998 and, by some accounts, the fourth - or fifth - deadliest worldwide since 1900.

It's easy to take for granted how prescient Sidney Lumet's Network actually was for its 1976 release: the onslaught of vapid reality shows was still a few decades away, evangelical television and Fox News had yet to surface, and though the country was shaken up by corrupt politics, at least people still recognized the important of the fifth estate due to events like Watergate.

In a film at least ancillary about evolution (the fifth this summer behind Evolution, A.I., Jurassic Park III, and, arguably, The Animal), it seems piquant that this Planet of the Apes is actually a good deal dumber (with the exception of a wry cameo by former NRA - head Charlton Heston) than the 1968 original, its stupefaction affected to accommodate, I suspect, Hollywood's prevailing view that the viewing public has gotten denser in the intervening years.

However, they are becoming increasingly underused and underappreciated in education, with a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) revealing that over a fifth of school staff said their school library budget has been cut by at least 40 per cent since 2010.

One of its conclusions is that a Black student's probability of dropping out fell by 29 % if they had at least one Black teacher in third through fifth grades (Gershenson, Hart, Lindsay, and Papageorge, 2017).

Approximately one - fifth of all New Jersey school districts have responded by assuring parents who refuse the test that their children will be provided with an alternative location, or at least the ability to read in class, while their classmates take the test.

The researchers studied approximately 100,000 black students who enrolled in third grade in North Carolina's public schools between 2001 and 2005 and found that the risk of dropping out for black students decreased by 29 percent if they had at least one black teacher in third through fifth grades.

Given that at least 6,006 Second City teachers — or one - fifth of employees covered by the pension — will retire in the next decade, Emanuel will have to do more than just freeze cost - of - living increases for pensioners of this and those drawing off the rest of the city's annuity funds.

For this demographic, having at least one black teacher from third through fifth grade reduced the likelihood of later dropping out of school by 39 percent.

Help your fifth - grade students see that word problems don't have to be daunting by going over at least one problem with them.

I figure by my fifth book I'll have sold at least 100,000 books.

The average annual return in the first year of this example is -4.23 %, but by the fifth year the annual return is positive, and would continue to climb, at least for a few years, even if the interest rates flatten.

Fortunately, travelers who want to maximize their miles can visit at least two islands on the same trip by taking advantage of the fifth freedom flights operated by British Airways.

That was the basic logic employed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2010 when it approved the new leases in the Powder River Basin that stretches across Wyoming and Montana, expanding projects that hold some 2 billion tons of coal, big enough to supply at least a fifth of the nation's needs.

«The IEA has shown that if global warming is to be limited to 2 degrees, at least a fifth of all vehicles on roads by 2030 should be electric.»

«Our findings showed that at least one - fifth of annual fossil fuel emission of carbon in the United States can be offset by planting new forests.»

There are non zero probabilities that by 2030 we might have some or all of (i) thin film solar cells with 40 % efficiency installed for $ 1 / watt, (ii) «batteries» with at least five times the capacity of lead acid and one fifth of the weight, (iii) boring old solar thermal plants with no drama plugging away, (iv) there may be some one using solar cells in space sending power to earth as radio frequency energy.

In addition, carmakers would have to invest at least $ 145 million in their assembly lines and in engine and parts production, build at least 100,000 such eco-cars by the fifth year of production and make at least 80 % of the parts domestically.

More than three - fifths (61 %) of respondents to a survey by the Law Society's Junior Lawyers Division spent more than # 20,000 on their legal education, and more than a third spent at least # 25,000.