Sentences with phrase «encouraged a number of»

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

In response, President Mahama, who extolled the school as gender - friendly because it has an encouraging number of female students with 740 girls and 690 boys, promised to satisfy the tractor proposal.

«This image of this panel of men questioning a woman about sexual harassment angered a number of women and encouraged a number of women to run for office to right what they saw as a wrong,» Oxley says.

There have been an encouraging number of successes in 2016, as well...

The Reeders were particularly generous in sharing printmaking techniques that they learned at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, thus encouraging a number of other artists to experiment with the intaglio process.

These attacks encouraged a number of groups to move away from Slack and instead onto Telegram or other competitors like Rocket Chat or Discord.

Highly competitive marketplace conditions coupled with concerns about inflation are encouraging a number of sellers and brokers to look for alternative ways to market homes without paying a full brokerage fee.

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For instance, it encourages «model» federal legislation that would prop up the widespread and automatic adoption of «naloxone,» an opioid overdose antidote that an increasing number of police forces have adopted.

Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.

The hotel group has the largest loyalty program because of the number of participating hotels; this loyalty program encourages visitors to come again and rack up points and rewards.

Walmsley told reporters the Shingrix number was «very encouraging», although she noted that some of the revenue represented supplying necessary stock into the market.

Despite these slightly more encouraging numbers, more than half of the companies surveyed conceded that their businesses will have to be restructured or staff moved.

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

Carrie Espinosa, owner of Waukegan, Illinois - based insurance agency Horizon Benefit Services, encourages employers to provide a number of plans and have their workers contact her directly for advice on benefits packages.

While your toll - free phone number, website URL and / or P.O. box address should stay on the screen at all times, a «closing» segment should take place every ten minutes or so to encourage people to buy immediately or to offer a list of store locations where the product can be found.

In recent years, there have been a number of initiatives encouraging women to become investors — a solution Saunders says is misguided.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

THE Australian Society of CPAs is encouraged that more than half a million businesses, out of a potential two million, have already applied for the Australian Business Number.

But Zuckerberg has made it clear that the company is focusing on features that encourage repeated viewing of videos, rather than the high number of views of seemingly random videos on the News Feed.

In order to minimize the number of broker non-votes, Apple encourages you to provide voting instructions on each proposal to the organization that holds your shares by carefully following the instructions provided in the Notice and the voting instruction form.

Please note that since brokers may not vote your shares on «non-routine» matters, including the election of directors (Proposal Number 1), the proposal to amend Alphabet's 2012 Stock Plan (Proposal Number 3), and each of the stockholder proposals (Proposals Number 4 through Number 10), in the absence of your specific instructions, we encourage you to provide instructions to your broker regarding the voting of your shares.

Please note that since brokers may not vote your shares on «non-routine» matters, including the election of directors (Proposal Number 1), the proposal to amend Google's 2012 Stock Plan (Proposal Number 3), and each of the stockholder proposals (Proposals Number 4 through Number 8), in the absence of your specific instructions, we encourage you to provide instructions to your broker regarding the voting of your shares.

The global financial crisis, like the Great Crash of 1929, also reflected widespread regulatory shortcomings and other weaknesses in a number of countries.1 But it is likely that monetary policy played at least a contributing role in encouraging the buildup of leverage and asset prices in a fragile financial system.

She even engaged clients by encouraging them to post the number of classes they had taken to date.

While growth to date has been led mainly by the United States and China, there have been encouraging signs over the past year that growth is becoming very broadly based, with conditions improving in Japan as well as in a number of other economies.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

Stockholders making such communications are encouraged to state that they are stockholders and provide the exact name in which the shares are held and the number of shares held.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

From including a card on the table to encourage users to share and hashtag their photos with a particular branded message, to offering a rewards program for those who check - in at your restaurant a certain number of times, there are plenty of ways to ensure that you are making the most of your social media marketing efforts.

A huge number of scalable startups have emerged from these accelerator programs, encouraging the other entrepreneurs.

A number of Chinese companies are trying to shore up their stock prices with programs that encourage employees to buy shares and ensuring them against losses.

However, the largest national research survey, using recent data on hundreds of companies that employ 6 million workers, gives encouraging news on this score, showing that managers in companies with more employee share ownership, appear to implement a greater number of these supportive involvement policies.30

In order to minimize the number of broker non-votes, the Company encourages you to vote or to provide voting instructions with respect to each proposal to the organization that holds your shares by carefully following the instructions provided in the Notice or voting instruction form.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six - month low last week, pointing to a further tightening in the labor market that could encourage the Federal Reserve to lay...

Each map has a different goal: One is designed to encourage competitive elections, for example, and another to maximize the number of majority - minority districts.

In addition, the structure of compensation incentives in the investment management industry further encourages the short - term focus; a surprisingly large number of investment professionals have less than half of their compensation based on longer - term performance measures.

It is also worth noting that Cambridge Angels encourages start - ups to reserve a reasonable number of shares for a stock option pool to help sign up the «key hires» needed to ensure your Management Team has the right mix of skills to give you the best chance of success in your chosen markets.

One encouraging element in the May numbers — for those who subscribe to the soft landing scenario — is that most of the gains came in the notoriously volatile condo market, which registered a 22.2 per cent jump in starts to 114,346 units annualized.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

To encourage more swiping, some cards offer a rewards bonus if you make a certain number of purchases within a certain period.

Some states help with homeownership There is a small but growing number of states that are using their tax systems to encourage would - be homeowners to save for their down payments.

They're encouraged that there was very little conviction in the selling under the 200 - day moving average, as the COT Report has shown a relatively small number of net fund longs and healthy amount of gross spec shorts - not depicting a market vulnerable to a significant sharp selloff.

«Clubs will be encouraged to offer some equity through the LFE and required to offer a minimum number of unique experiences or special offers so that the real fans can take part in their favorite clubs,»

Investors were encouraged by the release of the better than expected existing home sales data this morning and are looking forward to a number of important economic reports later this...

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi also passed a law aiming to encourage a wave of mergers among the country's «popolari» banks — the 10 largest cooperative institutions — while new regulations limiting the number of bank shares that a foundation can hold as well as new tax rules regarding loan write - downs have been introduced.

The report, which described its findings as «highly encouraging for near - term economic growth,» confirmed that over 200,000 small businesses were founded in 2013 by entrepreneurial Americans who have completely and utterly lost their grip on reality, and noted that the number of bold and frankly insane Americans applying for new business permits had risen markedly over the past year.

Allowing offerings on start - up crowdfunding portals to the broadest number of potential investors regardless of which province they reside will encourage a healthy marketplace.

«As a result of the new circumstances, the Minister of Agriculture, Orit Noked, encourages Israeli palm tree growers to significantly increase the number of lulavs to be given for the Sukkot holiday.

They also encouraged and enabled women to choose the number of children.

There are any number of ways for people to assemble to encourage each other, it isn't as if it has to be church on sunday morning.