Sentences with phrase «by the attrition of»

So we have a disturbing picture of mass layoffs combined with plunging help wanted advertising, but the effect on the monthly unemployment rate and weekly unemployment claims is masked by attrition of workers from the labor force.

The cumulative weight of Bultmann's prodigious career, focused into the concrete programme of demythologizing, burst like a meteor into the void caused by the attrition of the Nazi ideology, the war and post-war collapse, and the passing of such leading New Testament scholars as Lietzmann, Büchsel, Behm, von Soden, Lohmeyer, Kittel, Dibelius, and Schniewind.

Not exact matches

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

«If a portion of the industry is going to be commoditized,» Marchionne told Bloomberg, «then the attrition rate is going to be tremendous for those that can not distinguish by brand.»

Legg Mason's global employment dipped by about 100 people, about half of the decline coming from Baltimore, a combination of attrition and the January merger of ClearBridge Investments and Legg Mason Capital Management.

The scenario model is pre-populated with data based on a large sample of U.S. public companies (more than 2,500 companies) over a seven - year period (2004 - 2011), as compiled by BoardEx.1 To access the pre-populated model calculations, click the Calculations / Historical data and Attrition data tabs in the Excel spreadsheet that you can download from this page.

: Expect a wave of attrition at Yahoo, as some of their most important employees are lured by forward - looking companies using cutting - edge technologies to build a close tribe across great distances.»

As might be expected, it was only gradually worn down by the steady attrition of increasingly harsh penal laws against the open profession of their religion.

Jesus» parable states that despite the attrition caused by a scatter method of sowing, any seed that falls in good soil will bear abundant fruit.

And since changes in church school enrollment usually precede changes in church membership by three to five years, these churches face severe attrition in both the quantity and the quality of their constituency in the years ahead, if present trends continue.

The church of 1980 seems less threatened by clergy attrition than in former days.

We see certain qualities which have been realistically preserved and recreated — this utterly noneuphemized story of the sojourning Levite and his concubine, the degenerate townsmen, the women's tragic fate and the unhappy mores which dictated the circumstances (cf. Gen. 19), the Levite's shockingly dramatic response, the attrition of Benjamin, and the episodes of that tribe's very meager reconstitution [was Benjamin in fact depleted by Philistine massacre over the years?].

it could be the test for this season ahead is one of attrition, who'll be blighted most by injuries or worn out with fatigued and depleted team.

Of those six teams, four lost at least 50 percent of their defensive line tackles and tackles for loss and three were crushed by attrition at linebacker (only one returned any major level of experience), and while five of the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienceOf those six teams, four lost at least 50 percent of their defensive line tackles and tackles for loss and three were crushed by attrition at linebacker (only one returned any major level of experience), and while five of the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienceof their defensive line tackles and tackles for loss and three were crushed by attrition at linebacker (only one returned any major level of experience), and while five of the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienceof experience), and while five of the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienceof the six were reasonably experienced in the secondary, none were vastly experienced.

Attrition the first two years (still referred to by players of that time as the Death March) was frightful.

Ok I get that 3 points is what matters and happy we took them but what a misleading title the idea that watford finally gave in to arsenals attrition is idiotic... For an hour they were the one that probably had the more chances but in all honesty 2 2 would have been a fair scoreline... They were outdone in end by the class acts we have and they lack... Sanchez and ozil... And by one of most promising young players in Europe..

Of his four wins that season, one came in a race of serious attrition, and two were gifted to him by his teammateOf his four wins that season, one came in a race of serious attrition, and two were gifted to him by his teammateof serious attrition, and two were gifted to him by his teammates.

I awoke on Monday morning sick and angry at the realisation that the Sam Allardyce School of football had somehow found its loathsome way to the World Cup final as Holland kicked, hacked, tripped and shirt pulled their way through 120 mins of cynical attrition, laughingly described by some as football.

Youth sports attrition is a complex phenomenon influenced by a variety of personal and situational variables.

So we have the problem of attrition, lets say you try to correct for this by keeping the women in the study in the water birth group.

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

So we may be getting rid of flavored milk by attrition instead of by ban.

The attrition of the public realm; the remorseless growth of inequality; the social pathologies associated with its growth; the humiliations suffered by those at the bottom of the economic pile; the callous indifference of those at the top; the penetration of state institutions by corporate interests; the decline of public trust; and, not least, the hubristic irresponsibility of a sometimes criminal financial sector — all the stigmata of pre-crisis Britain — loom as large as they did before 2008.

Political communism failed due to the policy of encirclement by the Western powers, a war of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.

The reason for this is the law should be made by the legislature, not a slow war of attrition by Carter - Ruck.

Mahoney has rewarded her loyal supporters, friends and family members with jobs on the county payroll at a time when the overall number of county jobs has shrunk by about 500 through buyouts, layoffs and attrition.

Weak governance, gross insensitivity and unacceptable levels of incompetence have been compounded by battles of attrition in which northerners have sapped each other's» strength.

-- «Inside Cablevision's War With Big Labor,» by M.L. Nestel in The Daily Beast: «the bruising three - year war of attrition that Dolan and Cablevision, the multibillion - dollar cable company he runs, have fought with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union that some employees voted to join in 2012.

They include increasing estimates for existing fee and traffic summonses by a combined $ 8.5 million; saving $ 8 million through staff attrition and $ 6.5 million through a host of department - level initiatives proposed by a NIFA consultant.

Since much of the allowed increase is eaten up by spending for education and Medicaid, agencies have been squeezed, losing workers to attrition and consolidating operations and processes to save money.

The cost of health care services and health insurance plans have increased after the introduction of the Affordable Care Act, and Ulster County government has responded by downsizing its staff through early retirement incentives and attrition.

«Meanwhile the Governor has not addressed the problem of top - heavy management in state operations: only about 50 management / confidential personnel were approved for the administration's buyout plan while thousands of lower paid positions held by people who actually deliver frontline services to the public every day have been eliminated by attrition and reduction.»

My unease is caused by the knowledge that anyone other than Corbyn would be listened to at the present time because of the months of attrition from within and without the party.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on May 6 called for laying off 4,278 teachers, and reducing the size of the teaching force by another 1,500 through attrition, in his executive budget.

The Bloomberg administration shrank the department's uniformed ranks by 400 through attrition but recently hired 100 new workers and ordered the demotion of 100 foremen back into the ranks of workers, said Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association.

The attrition of women and men from academic science programs is broken down by gender in the table below.

Attrition of novel drug candidates due to cardiovascular liabilities (including proarrhythmic risk due to delayed ventricular repolarization and Torsades - de-Pointes arrhythmia) remains a hurdle for drug discovery efforts, a hurdle which may be mitigated by the use of human induced pluripotent stem - cell derived (hiPSC)- cardiomyocytes.

The problem of recruiting STEM teachers is compounded by high attrition.

By coupling the most attractive aspects of the target - based and phenotypic approaches, as well as ensuring that projects are focussed on the most rigorously validated targets, SDDC aims to reduce attrition in preclinical discovery significantly.

The most well - known of these are so - called «senescent» cells, originally characterized by Leonard Hayflick as mitotic cells that reached growth arrest after a limited replicative lifespan (later associated with telomere attrition) under unphysiological conditions in culture.

Since the days of John Hunter it has been known that when the enamel and dentine are injured by attrition or caries, teeth do not remain passive but respond to the injury by producing a reaction of the odontoblasts in the dental pulp in an area generally corresponding to the damaged tissue and resulting in a laying down of what is known as secondary dentine.

The comedy works by a process of attrition.

San Andreas doesn't follow the playbook used by the likes of Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure (or more recently, Into The Storm), the cast - attrition disaster movies where a group of survivors is whittled away one by one, often via heroic sacrifice or cowardly mistakes.

Zombeavers (R for gory violence, crude humor, graphic sexuality, gratuitous nudity and pervasive profanity) High attrition - rate, horror comedy about a group of college kids whose plans for a wild weekend of debauchery at a riverside cabin is ruined by the arrival of a horde of bloodthirsty zombie beavers.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

The Last Days on Mars (PG - 13 for brief profanity) High attrition - rate horror flick about a crew of astronauts who mysteriously perish one - by - one while collecting specimens on the surface of Mars.

Night of the Demons (R for sexuality, nudity, drug use, profanity and graphic violence) Grisly remake of the 1998, high attrition - rate horror flick about a decadent Halloween party at a haunted house in New Orleans where teenaged revelers suddenly find themselves stalked by bloodthirsty demons.

Never one to shy away from a good slaughter, the prolific Japanese auteur dials up the violence even by his high standards, orchestrating not one but two massive battles of attrition that a pit lone wolf swordsman against absurdly large numbers of disposable enemy combatants.

However, Adolf Hitler has responded to the attrition in the ranks of his army by exhorting women and children to take up -LSB-...]

This gruesome splatter flick directed by Antoine Fuqua trades in profanity, ethnic slurs and gratuitous violence in service of a high attrition - rate crime whodunit designed for the blood sport demo.