Sentences with phrase «by widespread reports»

The NPP's election victory in 2016 was followed by widespread reports of people believed to be NPP supporters taking over toll booths, public toilets and other state installations.

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CBA's announcement, which was made in a YouTube video by a senior bank executive a day after BuzzFeed Australia reported the data breach, puts further pressure on Australian banks already reeling from revelations of widespread misconduct in a judicial inquiry.

The scandal emerged in 2014 with the release of a university - commissioned report led by the investigator Kenneth Wainstein that found widespread enrollment in fake classes at the university.

Yet, Wells Fargo's board only decided to clawback Tolstedt's pay following widespread outrage that Tolstedt was set to leave the bank with as much as $ 125 million in stock and options intact, which was first reported by Fortune.

By industry throughout 2017, the report said the growth was «widespread» with 18 of the 20 sectors showing increases.

Returning to EVs, adoption isn't currently widespread across the globe, with only 14 large metropolitan areas accounting for roughly a third of all sales, according to a recent report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).

Ottawa should encourage widespread investment in existing and new infrastructure by institutional investors, such as pension plans and insurers, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute...

The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Market News reported widespread concern in 2014 about tightening organic dairy supplies, with supermarkets in many parts of the United States posting signs about organic milk shortages by the end of the year.

Widespread adoption of a meat free diet could see emissions drop by 63 per cent, the report says, or 70 per cent if veganism were taken up.

The Wall Street Journal reported that this myth is supported by widespread belief among the professional wine community1, but with a mere 383 cases produced, it's unlikely that the 2000 The Prisoner sparked this revolution.

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Reports of academic dishonesty — within prestigious universities, on high school exit exams, by authors of bestselling books — have been widespread this fall.

Widespread reporting on the problem began five years ago, when tests by Consumer Reports found arsenic in rice and rice - based foods, including infant rice cereal.

The 1997 Conference of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) responded to the Cracking the Code report referred to above by adopting a motion noting the «widespread abuses» and suggesting that the RCM Council «reconsider its hypocritical position of boycotting Nestlé whilst continuing to accept sponsorship from other infant feeding manufacturers.»

The report argued public anger and consumer pressure were helpful tools for convincing large companies to behave more responsibly, with the widespread outrage at tax dodging by Starbucks and Amazon being notable examples.

The final report of the Small Business Taskforce — a group of leading businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics commissioned by Labour to examine how to support small businesses to thrive — highlighted widespread dissatisfaction with the ability of the big banks to meet the financing needs of small businesses.

Though the conduct of the election itself was peaceful, jubilations by people associated with the NPP after the results were announced has been characterised by reports of widespread attacks on NDC supporters with some reported deaths.

Six countries in Africa, the continent where malaria is most widespread, could be free of the disease by 2020, according to a WHO report published Monday to mark World Malaria Day.

Details of the allegations were made public this week in two reports issued by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan, and with the revelations drew widespread disgust and outrage at the lawmaker.

A further report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also funded by the RAC Foundation, published in May 2012, said the economic rationale for road pricing was «compelling» and recommended a move to a widespread system of road pricing.

Skip forward to 2015 and a scathing report by the Kings Fund think tank found that the changes had been «disastrous» and that it seemed likely that they had contributed to «widespread financial distress and failure to hit key targets for patient care».

The results of the study, which was funded by the Scottish Government and is the first of its kind, have revealed that interference with lawfully set traps and snares is widespread and there is a reluctance to report incidents to the police.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

Widespread report on Friday suggests that the nimble - footed midfielder was among six other players released by the club for non-performance.

In February, Investigative Post reported that two reports done by a private investigator almost four decades ago raised concerns that the contamination could be more widespread in yards, roads, parking lots and driveways throughout Niagara County.

«According to the report by National Security, the fire was deliberately set to destroy evidence of theft and massive fraud and widespread irregularities on the procurement and distribution of medical supplies involving senior management and junior staff.

Ukip's poster campaign suggesting that builders are being forced out of work by immigrants was looking shakey today, after the building industry reported a widespread shortage of skilled workers.

It was gathered that the meeting was informed by reported widespread discontent trailing the alleged poor performance and failing health of President Muhammadu Buhari and the need to get a younger candidate ahead of the political party primaries.

By imposing third - party reporting of expenses, a VAT system reduces tax evasion relative to a self - reported income tax system like that used in the U.S. where the IRS periodically audits business expenses, but there is widespread abuse in the area of business expenses (especially in small businesses that often treat what should be considered personal expenses as business expenses) due to a lack of third - party reporting of business expenses the way that it has third - party reporting of business income via 1099 information tax returns.

While reports of widespread purges have not proved true, there is increasing evidence that county boards of elections used voter notification cards required by HB3 that were returned by the post office to flag hundreds of thousands of voters» names at the polls throughout Ohio and force them to vote provisionally.

Yet, campaign reports refute Smira's account of widespread reporting problems by the lobbying firm.

Investigative Post reported in February that two reports done by a private investigator almost four decades ago raised concerns that the contamination could be more widespread in yards, roads, parking lots and driveways throughout Niagara County.

Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch «s lifelong lieutenant and closest adviser, faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 internal News International report, which found evidence that phone hacking was more widespread than admitted by the company, before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the practice was limited to a single reporter.

The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has reacted to widespread reports that some certain individuals including a 10 - year - old boy were killed by security operatives during the demolition of a market in Owerri, the state capital.

Assuming that greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, the widespread adoption of cool roofs in the Los Angeles metropolitan area would offset some of the warming expected by midcentury, the team reported in 2016 in Environmental Research Letters.

A hobbyist has reportedly used a drone to track cattle (apparently taking up the slack left by the EPA, which contrary to widespread reports, is not sending drones to spy on farms throughout the Midwest).

Recently, a report by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services found widespread fraud in the H - 1B system.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

Encouraged by press reports of widespread popular disaffection with the restored Bourbon monarchy in Paris, Napoléon decided that his former subjects would welcome him back.

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea report evidence of ES in the brains of people with fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by widespread, chronic pain.

The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says «widespread» use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger threshold.

A team of researchers led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History has released the first report of widespread biofluorescence in the tree of life of fishes, identifying more than 180 species that glow in a wide range of colors and patterns.

In September 2006 a report by the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, coordinated by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, revealed widespread, persistent respiratory illness among rescue and recovery workers who were at the site on that fateful day.

A team led by David Abramson of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Children's Health Fund, surveyed residents of FEMA - provided trailers and hotels in Louisiana and reported widespread clinically diagnosed psychiatric problems.

Widespread use of the student version of the SAEBRS, in which students report their mental state directly, would remedy this by providing more accurate assessments for older children.

Still, the DOJ's strategy in that case may provide some clues as to what's in store for Edward Snowden, a government contractor who exposed himself last weekend as the source for a widespread domestic communications story first reported by The Guardian.

The Basic Research Needs report, published by the Department of Energy September 2012, describes the state of the science and the research needed to overcome current roadblocks to widespread use of alternative energy technologies.

The most striking discovery was the large gap between substantial support for financial incentives to improve quality and the widespread opposition to public reporting, which was seen by doctors as potentially punitive.

When you factor in the fact that most rapes are not reported you come away with a realization of widespread rampant sexual abuses carried out in many cases by commanding officers.