Sentences with phrase «by substantial numbers of people»

At the same time it was estimated that there yet remained five hundred to a thousand other language groups spoken by substantial numbers of people into which translations should be made, and many of them will be.

I propose as that definition, realizing that it would probably exclude some of those already discussed, the following: The sacred book contains writings that purport to have been produced under divine or extra human inspiration or impulse, and which have come to be recognized by a substantial number of people as the basis of their religious faith, since it is regarded by them as the authentic revelation of God to them and to the world.

Not exact matches

A substantial number of people whose lives were upended by Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy have suffered from — and, in some cases, continue to suffer from — PTSD.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

Consequently, a person coming into the program at a later stage will be unable, in a substantial number of instances, to find additional investors because the recruiting of participants into the program at an earlier stage by others has exhausted the number of prospective participants.

When the pope comes to London next month, he is going to be greeted by substantial numbers of protests organized by people calling for his arrest and accusing him of the wildest hatreds.

«When you increase the number of very smart people in a field by a substantial amount,» Borjas says, ``... not everybody benefits.

In examining the situation today, Rosenberg posed the question: Although the laboratory won, so to speak, «why is there always a substantial number of people who employ practitioners and modalities that are not taught by medical schools, that are perceived as «other»?»

Rising healthcare costs will be caused by a substantial increase in the number of people living with the condition in the coming years, experts project.

Accuracy would be less if the prediction were for the next hour, and if one would just have to make a forecast for the next day, merely by looking out of the window, a substantial number of people on any given day would be wrong.

Whilst a substantial number of people in the UK are apparently unconvinced by the AGW case, the warmists have managed to embed serious doubts into the minds of a considerable majority of the public, many of whom think it may be «better to be safe than sorry» - at almost whatever the cost.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if --(a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

While I can't argue with Ms. Mireau's numbers — $ 25,000 is a lot of money to the average Canadian by any objective standard — the increase is designed to open the doors of the courtroom to those very people for whom $ 25K is a substantial sum.

A substantial number of people who have reported alleged sexual harassment in the workplace have faced retaliation by their employers, ranging from reduced hours to termination.

It might be better to have a stringent rule about when one is entitled to sue substantial numbers of people, or a requirement such suits can not be dropped by the plaintiff.

Having concluded that, as a matter of empirical fact (on which more below), the fees at issue deter substantial numbers of people from pursuing their claims, the Court asked itself whether «the text of» the statute pursuant to which the fees were imposed by the executive, «but also the constitutional principles which underlie the text, and the principles of statutory interpretation which give effect to those principles» [65] provided authority for setting the fees at their current level.

By contrast, the Supreme Court held that «the fall in the number of claims since 2013 was so sharp, so substantial and so sustained as to warrant the conclusion that a significant number of people who would otherwise have brought claims have found the fees to be unaffordable».