Sentences with phrase «despite widespread»

It's official: Despite widespread fears to the contrary, the IRS has clarified that last year's big tax overhaul did not kill all interest deductions on home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, and equity loans.

Despite widespread speculation that the Hyatt hotel chain — owned by the influential Pritzker family of Chicago — may go public as part of the family's plans to split up its $ 15 billion empire, Hyatt chief Thomas Pritzker insists there are no immediate plans to do so.

Despite widespread speculation that the Hyatt hotel chain — owned by the influential Pritzker family of Chicago — may go public as part of the family's plans to split up its $ 15 billion empire, Hyatt chief Thomas...

Work - family balance has not been consistently defined despite widespread academic and practical interest.

Conclusion Despite widespread warning regarding smoking cessation during pregnancy, the literature base on the longer - term effects beyond the neonatal and infant period is less available.

Despite widespread support for Planned Parenthood and a huge need for affordable health care, states now can move forward with cuts.

Despite widespread bipartisan support, interim short - term budget resolutions failed to include home visiting.

However, despite this widespread celebration of the authoritative style of parenting, there are a few academics who refreshingly challenge Diana Baumrind's insistence of high control as being ideal in parenting:

Despite widespread implementation, Cochrane reviews have found little evidence for the effectiveness of school - based drug prevention programmes on adolescent substance use, with such reviews focused on any or only universal intervention approaches.4 — 6 Of the multiple intervention approaches examined by such reviews, little or no evidence of effectiveness has been found for the most commonly implemented curricula or information - only interventions.

Despite widespread cynicism about the institution lately, I'm optimistic about its future.

[38] Despite widespread recognition of the severe resource constraints under which Native Title Representative Bodies (NTRBs) operate, the 2008 - 09 Federal Budget, the first Budget of the new government, decreased the funding available to them.

There is a growing evidence base in support of the effectiveness of acupuncture for a range of musculoskeletal conditions11, 12; however, despite its widespread use by participants13 there has been limited evidence for acupuncture as an effective treatment option for depression.14 Patients with strong preferences for psychotherapy or counselling for depression are not likely to engage in antidepressant treatment, 15 yet the evidence for counselling as a treatment for depression is limited16 despite widespread utilisation in primary care in the UK, with around 90 % of general practices providing on - site counselling services.17 To address this evidence gap, a randomised controlled trial Acupuncture, Counselling or Usual Care for Depression (ACUDep) compared acupuncture or counselling to usual care as treatments for primary care patients with ongoing depression.18 The results showed that acupuncture and counselling were clinically effective in reducing depression in the short to medium term.

Despite the widespread consensus on the need for such a body, there is still considerable divergence on what kind of body this should be?

Despite their widespread use, credit scores and credit histories raise concerns over an unfair disadvantage to minority populations.

This is despite widespread fears of

And despite the widespread belief that Bitcoin is the crypto markets «digital gold,» its proven to be much less stable than it's real world, shiny brethren.

This is despite widespread fears of the Japanese government cracking down on cryptocurrencies after the Coincheck hack.They announced that they intend to stick to their original plan of accepting Bitcoin payments by the end of the fiscal year in March 2018.

A total of 11.8 million Americans signed up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2018, a drop of just 400,000 from the previous year despite widespread predictions that enrollment would plummet amid political and insurance industry turbulence surrounding the law.

Despite widespread fear, the number of cyclist accidents between 2007 and 2012 ir relatively low 12 have died and more than 660 injured.

Yet, despite the widespread and often breathlessly erotic media coverage of teenage sexting stories, almost everyone has gotten in the act.

Repeated studies have shown that very few lawyers (3 - 4 %) take advantage of available part - time policies, despite the widespread availability of such policies in law firms.

Despite widespread concerns — raised at many of the public hearings across the province — about how injured workers will be adversely affected by increases in the minimum wage unless the WSIB practice of deeming is addressed, the issue has not yet been reflected in changes to the bill.

A less welcome developent in April was the «Client and Cost Management System» (CCMS) for civil legal aid applications being made mandatory by the Legal Aid Agency despite widespread opposition from the legal profession.

Despite widespread public support from Quebec's legal community and a mid-strike vote in which they rejected the government's final offer by a whopping 97 per cent, the striking lawyers emptied their $ 4 - million strike fund, took out an $ 8 - million loan (which is currently being repaid through an increase in union dues to three per cent from 0.75 per cent of members» salaries) and dropped strike pay to zero from the 60 per cent of members» weekly salaries paid at the start of the strike.

CCMS: CCMS, or the «Client and Cost Management System» for civil legal aid applications, was made mandatory by the Legal Aid Agency from 1 April 2016 onwards, despite widespread opposition from the legal profession.

Now, despite widespread awareness of the risks, many firms still feel their own IT departments can handle cyber dangers.

Despite widespread acknowledgment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, there doesn't seem to be... More

Despite widespread efforts to boost diversity, there are still relatively few women running global practices at the UK's top law firms.

In fact, despite widespread and growing discontent with the perpetually vexed expert witness system in the Ontario auto insurance system — OTLA has never shown up at any of the many media battles over systemic shoddy IMEs / IEs which morph into flawed expert opinion evidence (substandard «expert» opinion evidence is as common as dirt in the Ontario personal injury context).

[13] Despite widespread and often fearful speculation on this point, there is no evidence that there is a higher rate of complaints (or lawsuits) when lawyers offer limited - scope retainers.

The threatened swinging increases in fees payable by local authorities on the institution of care or supervision proceedings (see NLJ 15 February 2008, p 259) have been brought in despite widespread protest.

It comes despite the widespread perception that many GCs are hoping to make future cuts in their external legal spend.

But despite widespread criticism of the billable hour it still accounts for almost two - thirds of outside counsel spend.

Despite widespread talk of population decline, it is important to emphasize that the only countries in the world to have experienced any declines beyond ∼ 1 % have all been associated with the special circumstances of the collapse of the former Soviet Bloc (and some microstates, such as a few island nations), and even in these cases, migration has played a major role in population changes.

It is worth repeating that, despite widespread reports to the contrary, the UT Austin study does not confirm that EPA estimates of methane emissions from natural gas systems are correct and accurate.

The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.

Despite widespread reports stating that only 25 % of oil from the disaster has not been dispersed, evaporated, or dissolved — therefore no longer a threat — the scientists involved in the study say that this interpretation is misleading.

Despite widespread criticism of the Government's decision last month to defer its decision on cutting emissions until next year, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said yesterday he agreed with the approach.

Despite a widespread fear that regulatory interventions would damage already fragile economies in a time of significant market insecurity, the actual result was the opposite — green - innovation and growth.

Despite widespread recognition that hunter - gatherers and early farmers were capable of transforming terrestrial ecosystems around the world, these early anthropogenic changes have yet to be understood as global change processes and are generally portrayed by global change scientists as localized and insignificant compared with contemporary changes in the Earth system (11, 14).

The report notes successes but also recommends immediate action to protect the Hudson River's coastline, which despite widespread federal recognition for its national importance is getting insufficient oversight and support from the state and federal governments.

In the U.S. the Obama Administration has granted sweeping approval to a wide swathe of drilling sites in its Arctic waters, despite widespread condemnation from environmentalists and northern indigenous communities.

(08/20/2009) Armed bands are decimating rainforest reserves in northeastern Madagascar, killing lemurs and intimidating conservation workers, despite widespread condemnation by international environmental groups.

Despite widespread opposition to the hunt (which targets other cetacean species, such as white - sided dolphins, as well) and its brutal killing tactics, the Faroese continue the tradition.

Despite widespread denial among climate activists, a growing number of scientific research papers in recent months have confirmed the global warming hiatus, trying to explain its possible reasons (for the latest studies see here, here and here).

Despite widespread skepticism, the study of [sunspot] cycles was popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Energy and Technology Committee Thursday voted to send major energy legislation to the full legislature for consideration, despite widespread dissatisfaction with the bill as it exists now.

Despite widespread efforts to play down the Climategate e-mails, they were very damaging.

Despite widespread scientific consensus, climate action is now a partisan issue in the US congress, complicating efforts to move from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Possibly, but despite widespread support for Kyoto, that same support is very shallow among Canadians.