Sentences with phrase «curb cuts in»

The advocates want the court to accept the conclusions of a report released in August that found up to 80 % of sidewalk curb cuts in the city do not meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act and to order the city to come up with a plan to fix the situation.

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Netflix has said BitTorrent use in Canada has been cut in half since the company set up shop and independent studies have found the same — that legal services such as Spotify curb use of shadier ones wherever they pop up.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.

During a major industry gathering in Houston this week Ali al - Naimi, Saudi Arabia's oil minister, ruled out the possibility of cutting output, damping hopes of more aggressive action to curb a glut estimated by some traders to be as large as 2m b / d.

And so another thing I love about desserts in jars: it curbs the temptation to cut yourself a larger slice, and it seems almost piggy to eat two in one sitting.

It is possible for individuals to make a difference by changing things within their control, such as cutting down on their meat consumption in order to curb the harmful emissions generated by the livestock industry.

The Trump administration would cut or delay funding for border surveillance, radar technology, patrol boats and customs agents in its upcoming spending plan to curb illegal immigration — all proven security measures that officials and experts have said are more effective than building a wall along the Mexican border.

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

But Republicans also have much in common with the governor, who has doggedly and unapologetically sought to curb spending and cut taxes.

Russell supports a 70 percent cut in the military budget; legalization of marijuana; a «single payer,» government - run health care system; campaign finance reform; and tough curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.

Many in the PLP genuinely believe Labour will be unelectable unless it pledges cuts in benefits, or curbs on immigration, and are now struggling to resolve the contradiction of convincing the membership to want the same things that they think the electorate wants.

Also mentioned were bike racks, broken sidewalks, potholes, «curb cut» ramps, less stop and frisk, noisy clubs, mental health care, more mom and pop stores and small business in general.

Cutting back on the consumption of ultra-processed foods could be an effective way of curbing excessive added sugar intake in the US, conclude the researchers.

Talks likely to continue, but slowly Japan, meanwhile, focused on ways to curb more emissions by midcentury instead of by 2020; Saudi Arabia, like India, insisted that the burden of doing more to cut emissions falls squarely on the shoulders of industrialized countries — which, within the world of U.N. climate talks, does not include Saudi Arabia, despite its wealth and vast oil resources; and Qatar, which is hosting the next major climate conference but which has historically played a quiet role in the talks, did not offer a submission.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

Cutting the fat in normally high calorie foods might help curb the nation's obesity epidemic, Singh suggested.

Handmade in their studio in London, made using 2 identical chains to 16inches and 18inches scattered with 2 and 3 mm solid gold dots set on the lightest and most delicate diamond curb cut chain designed to move delicately with your body and soft that you won't take it off.

I've already shown it to you in the post Recent Finds Leann's Curb Finds, and then I showed you the details of how I cut it down to size in the post DIY Desk / Hutch Modification.

Read about our network's success in curbing a $ 17 million midyear budget cut in 2009.

SRE can also contribute to curbing rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (vital at a time of cuts to sexual health services) and has been flagged as a key tool for tackling sexual harassment in schools.

It makes 362 hp and 406 lb - ft, which proves to be enough for quick moves in the freeway cut - and - thrust, despite the GL's porky, 5566 - pound curb weight.

Removing the XL1's battery pack and electric motor would cut 230 pounds from its 1753 - pound curb weight, but to save money engineers would add some of the weight back by using aluminum instead of magnesium wheels, steel brakes in place of carbon fiber, and glass rather than polycarbonate side windows.

- traction and stability systems fairly eager to cut in - nine speed auto can't deliver truly fast swift shifts - hefty curb weight - Lack of stiffness - smell of hot brakes - Shimmying over rough surfaces.

First up, thanks to the utilization of materials like high - tensile strength steel and aluminum in the body, the Q5 cuts upwards of 200 pounds from the curb weight, depending on the trim level.

Rather than just cutting free the front two wheels from the rest of the drivetrain, Lambo engineers have completely retuned the car's suspension — due in part to the lighter overall curb weight.

I'm used to curb cuts, but at home in New York I'm aware of intersections without them, or with broken or what seem to be very small cuts.

I don't know how you miss this big rock or how you cut the curb so tight you end up jacked up on the rock,» said Brangwyn Jones, who lives in the northwest community of Sage Hill.

In the long run, new approaches to cutting waste in making and moving goods — whether materials or energy or land or water — may make the era when people took their cans and junk mail to the curb each week look, well, wastefuIn the long run, new approaches to cutting waste in making and moving goods — whether materials or energy or land or water — may make the era when people took their cans and junk mail to the curb each week look, well, wastefuin making and moving goods — whether materials or energy or land or water — may make the era when people took their cans and junk mail to the curb each week look, well, wasteful.

Family Planning: The world has focused for years on curbing the scourge of H.I.V. in Africa, but population groups say this effort, while laudable, has raided money for family - planning programs that could cut the risk of infection and also help speed the transition out of poverty in the world's poorest places.

That the threat posed by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such emissions.

And assertions that such losses are the new normal distract from glaring opportunities to cut unnecessary (and costly) exposure to this danger in the West, even as the grander task of curbing emissions of greenhouse gases proceeds.

Target 3: Cut the Carbon - Intensity of GDP by 17 %: Slower energy demand growth combined with increased non-fossil energy supply curbed Chinese emissions growth in 2012.

But, given the failure of decades of pledges and agreements aimed at curbing emissions, I suggested it was time to move away from a longstanding focus on numerical goals — such as 350 (parts per million of CO2), 80 percent (in emissions cuts) by 2050, a 2 - degree limit on warming — and toward the goal of maximizing the suite of traits I described in those eight words.

They found that a combination of bold public policies, market rejection of deforesting farmers, and an increase in protected areas curbed clear - cutting, while still allowing the country's soy and beef production to grow.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

note 76, p. 106; cut in energy use calculated from International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI), «Crude Steel Production by Process,» World Steel in Figures 2007, at www.worldsteel.org, viewed 16 October 2007; McKinsey Global Institute, Curbing Global Energy Demand Growth: The Energy Productivity Opportunity (Washington, DC: May 2007).

Health experts said that renewable power sources, cutting industrial emissions as well as rapid transit, cycling and walking networks in cities can help curb rising air pollution.

Trump has promised to «cancel» the Paris agreement, the recently adopted global deal to curb global warming, and to curb climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including the Clean Power Plan to cut emissions from coal - fired power plants, during his first 100 days in office.

To take just one example, the agency could decide that older coal plants only have to make efficiency upgrades to curb pollution — in which case a modest cut in emissions is about the best that could be expected.

Already the planet's largest energy consumer and polluter, China has long taken the position that it is the industrialised nations who should be taking up the biggest burden of emissions cuts, so it is to be welcomed that the Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced plans to curb the growth in some major pollutants by 1.5 % annually from 2011.

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What is strange is that the mainstream media and leading climate action proponents like Merkel all pretend that Germany is a responsible leader in cutting back CO2 emissions, and even claim that big emitters, like China and India, are all onboard in curbing CO2 emissions, and that is only the USA that is the big, rogue CO2 sinner.

A dispute over whether China would ever be prepared to accept effective monitoring of its pledges to cut emissions overshadowed a United Nations climate conference last December in Copenhagen at which nations failed to agree on a timetable for a global treaty to curb emissions.

Los Angeles Times: Pope Francis, in leaked draft letter, calls for curbing global warming Earth Ministry's LeeAnne Beres and Jessie Dye were interviewed by Bill Yardley of the LA Times regarding the Pope's encyclical and cutting carbon emissions, and a quote from Jessie was included in the story.

«In addition to curbing health problems, boosting developing country e-waste recycling rates can have the potential to generate decent employment, cut greenhouse gas emissions and recover a wide range of valuable metals including silver, gold, palladium, copper and indium - by acting now and planning forward many countries can turn an e-challenge into an e-opportunity,» he added.

Team members will be reducing food waste, cutting back on unnecessary purchases, engaging in water saving measures and curbing waste.

The bloc's proposed greenhouse gas curb will be studied closely by China, the US and other major emitters ahead of a global climate summit in Paris next year that aims to agree on the first new emissions - cutting treaty since the Kyoto protocol in 1997.

Curbing dangerous climate change requires very deep cuts in emissions, as well as the use of alternatives to fossil fuels worldwide.

As oil prices languish, even oil - producing nations are getting in on the fun: cutting subsidies and curbing consumption so they can save more of their production for export.