Sentences with phrase «encouraging numbers as»

Those are not encouraging numbers as the counter ticks up.

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The IEA expects that number to rise to 50 million by 2025, and to 280 million by 2040, as countries everywhere encourage their drivers to make the change to e-mobility.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Encourage each employee to set up a number with it and to use that number as their primary contact point.

«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.

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.

The company was recently recognized as a «Number One Builder» by KFC and Pizza Hut, and also earned the People Encouraging Talent and Excellence (PETE) award from KFC.

Registration is free and teams are encouraged to sign up immediately as the maximum number of participants allowed to compete in the Bartenders Cup is 100.

Benitez, per reports, felt unable to pick Casemiro in the 4 - 0 defeat to Barcelona, due to a pressure to be seen to attack in big games, and felt... let's say encouraged to experiment with Gareth Bale as a number 10.

It's not comprehensive, as I could only find data on 22 of the 30 starters, but the numbers are not encouraging.

We encourage you to use «strong» passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols) with your account and with other accounts that you may connect to your fanatix account (such as your email).

WIC by no means is excited about the numbers but they do want to move forward and include peer councilors into the normal visit to encourage pregnant mothers as well as mothers who are currently breastfeeding the opportunity to get support from other mothers like myself who have breastfed.

Research shows that developing and encouraging math skills and problem solving at home provides children an advantage in school, as they now are asked at a very early age to understand number sense.

Park Board members agreed to the concept last week, but Park Board President Mary Lou Wehrli opposed the design, saying a single building would limit the number of creative options a joint partnership could encourage, such as facilities or programs.

As individuals wait for their laundry to dry, they often read these boards, and could be encouraged to consider cloth diapering by health issues, environmental concerns, cost, or any other number of reasons.

Increasing the breastfeeding rates (especially increasing the number of babies who are breastfed for at least 9 months) is one of the goals and the report states a few ways to get there, for example increasing the number of «baby - friendly» designated hospitals, as they encourage breastfeeding.

Also, international evidence shows that to encourage a significant number of fathers to take time off to look after the baby, what's needed is a period of reserved father - only leave (often known as a «daddy month»).

Each of our rooms are also home to a number of geodes, which encourage staff as we embark upon the rather uncharted territory of independent practice for nurse - midwives.

encouraged Janet, stressing that the winners are not determined by the total amount raised, but the total number of donations as a percentage of your membership.

An obvious solution to this is to encourage voters to express a certain number of preferences, or as is the case in Australia, require them to do so.

Several Labour MPs in favour of the government's motion have faced online abuse and threats of deselection, and a number of comments by Jeremy Corbyn and his allies have been interpreted as encouraging this behaviour.

As a result, it has become ever - more expensive to operate smaller aircraft, which has tended to encourage a reduction in the number of UK domestic flight connections.

«These numbers are further proof that Governor's tax cap is a success and they also demonstrate that even with a stricter 1.56 percent cap this year, the tax freeze is working as intended to encourage schools and local governments to cuts costs and provide relief to property taxpayers.

Many Party members will take the same line as LabourList and want to convince themselves that elections in our Party are fair and above board.Sadly this is not the case.Last year after the CAC Election a number of delegates, from several different Regions, came forward and said full time officials encouraged them to vote against Katy and myself.This is totally against the Code of Conduct and, to me, is little different to ballot rigging.An investigation is underway.We have a good idea who was behind it.LeftFutures will keep you updated.

Suffice it to say that we are very pleased with the number of highly qualified candidates who have expressed interest and we encourage any other qualified candidates to apply as soon as possible.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a number of efforts in his 2013 agenda to encourage the commercialization of academic research and boost entrepreneurship, including a venture capital fund and network of incubators, which are seen as mechanisms to boost economic growth.

· 12 % of respondents are aware of their companies recruiting more graduates · Only 1 % are recruiting the same number of graduates as before the recession · 66 % stated their company encourages its workers to gain a professional qualification, a further 22 % said it was a requirement

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.

Whilst 57 % of respondents acknowledged that it was «very important» to retain ageing workers, this was not reflected in the number of respondents who stated that their workplace had measures such as flexible working, succession planning, mid-life career reviews or retirement planning designed to encourage an extension to longer working lives.

A number of Sunday papers reported that Boris Johnson was either being encouraged to make a leadership bid in an effort to oust Mrs May, or actually preparing one - a claim dismissed as «tripe» by the Foreign Secretary.

«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.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

That is of course true inasmuch as New Labour converted NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts), introduced ISTCs (private treatment centres paid by public funds irrespective of the number of patients treated), gave NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraged NHS patients to choose them, and developed HMO - style commissioning as in the US.

As for public opinion, Consensus is encouraging input from the community on a number of forums, including Facebook, its website and a series of public meetings.

«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that fall in line with a number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»

As you are aware from last week, the county executive and the health commissioner talked about the encouraging numbers we received in the county.»

The guidelines encourage using a checklist to ensure the reporting of important experimental parameters, such as standards used, number and type of replicates, statistics, method of randomization, whether experimenters were blind to the conduct of the experiment, how the sample size was determined, and what criteria were used to include or exclude any data.

The guidelines encourage using a checklist to ensure the reporting of important experimental parameters, such as standards used, number and type of replicates, statistics, method of randomization, whether experimenters were blind to the conduct of the experiment, how the sample size was determined, and what criteria were used to include or exclude any data,» McNutt wrote.

«There is a huge strength in numbers, and the more we can encourage donors and recipients to participate in paired kidney donation — even as a compatible pair, which we were able to accomplish in our UAB kidney chain — you can gain things by participating in these exchanges,» Locke said.

An increasing number of journals, including Nature and Science, have adopted measures such as checklists for study design and reporting while improving statistical review and encouraging access to data and protocols.

In the article and the book he describes how many successful scientists are mathematically «semiliterate», and reveals how, as a 32 - year - old Harvard professor, he sat with undergraduates (some his own students) to learn calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would - be scientists who aren't naturals with numbers.

In Ireland, Donnelly helped to set up the Trinity Research Staff Association, which aims to support the growing number of postdocs who have faint prospects of tenure - track jobs by encouraging the university to provide courses in such issues as research management and policy development.

A lawyer who made a fortune as an early investor in the telecommunications firm Nextel and other high - tech startups, Warner has long advocated increasing the number of H - 1B skilled temporary worker visas and «stapling a green card to every Ph.D.» as ways of encouraging innovation.