Sentences with phrase «employ significant numbers of people»

It's just saying that it is actually possible to develop a full - scale enterprise in a city, and provide lots of food, and employ significant numbers of people.»

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In December 2010, Barrie, Sudbury and Abbotsford all experienced significant declines in both the size of their labour force and the number of employed persons.

The report notes that the solar workforce is growing more diverse, employing a larger share of women and people of color, as well as a significant number of military veterans.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

No modern nation with a significant urban population has attained prosperity without an industrial base capable of employing larger numbers of people and of manufacturing goods for domestic consumption and export.

But the looming collapse of the multiemployer pension system is significant given the sheer number of people affected and the potential for a devastating economic ripple effect: retirees losing the pension checks that keep them afloat and a potential wave of bankruptcies among the companies that once employed those workers.