Sentences with phrase «encouraging numbers for»

Time will tell the full extent and ability of the Tron blockchain, but these are encouraging numbers for the start of the project.

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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.

The opposition did its best to encourage this outcry, helping their poll numbers, but doing nothing for confidence in an economy that was doing surprisingly well.

«It's encouraging to see not just the numbers, but that there's real synergy in the solutions across tech companies, from education initiatives to unconscious bias training,» says Meghan Casserly, a spokeswoman for Google.

Encouraging intense rivalries between employees who have «leeway to engage in risky or unethical behavior, take dangerous gambles or fudge the numbers,» is a recipe for unethical behavior, Kilduff warns (financial industry, take note).

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.

If prospective customers seem to balk when you ask for their credit card number, you could try a popular new service designed to encourage impulse buying.

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.

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.

The user numbers for this quarter, at last, were encouraging.

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.

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.]

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.

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.

Church officials, delegates and their families, support staff, and laity crowd the meeting in numbers that encourage local restaurants to create vegetarian menus and advertise that sabbath meals may be paid for in advance.

«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.

Encouraged by God's answers, he continues to work down the number, making the case for forty, thirty, twenty, and, finally, ten.

The annual «Status of Global Christianity» survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers: Some are encouraging; others are discouraging; many of them are important for grasping the nature of this particular moment in Christian history.

by listening to them, encouraging them, helping them with some basics needs, use your discernment on this, have a list ready of addresses, phone numbers of places that have resources available for them, ie; shelter, food, clothing and all the rest.

What is especially encouraging for me is meeting an ever - increasing number of church leaders, many of them young, who have a genuine thirst for God.

Years later, the business has since grown from a small seedling into the number one premium pumpkin seed brand, encouraging and empowering consumers to not have to sacrifice flavor for nutrition.

So the pre-match words of Arsene Wenger on Ozil reported by the Arsenal website ahead of the big match are very encouraging indeed, because the Frenchman suggested that his number 11 is fired up and ready for tomorrow and has been looking his old self in training again.

Ancelotti will be encouraged to sell a number of first team squad members to help cover a portion of the cost with the likes of Isco, Angel di Maria, Iker Casillas and Karim Benzema likely to be offloaded for fairly high sums.

This is not a huge number of games — but for the most part, the results continue to back some of the same methods and philosophies that SportsInsights encourages.

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With Santi Cazorla having had to have surgery to fix his ankle problem and being set for about three months out, the most obvious replacement for the German is not available and the manager's recent experiments of using Aaron Ramsey in the number 10 role have been somewhat less than encouraging.

It was one of a number of impressive displays Wolves have put in over the last month and with the team finally getting their just rewards for all their industrious and workmanlike efforts, perhaps now the Midland club can start churning encouraging performances into valuable points.

While only a limited number of helmets of Newcastle football players were fitted with Shockbox sensors for the 2012 season we filmed for «The Smartest Team,» the results, admittedly from a very small sample size, were very encouraging:

Aggravating this was the fact that it was ENTIRELY possible for the bus to go the extra kilometre down the road to the other resorts — but instead one is forced to walk, likely to encourage people to use the terrible Beach Club, thus keeping the numbers down at the other hotels.

I can't even begin to count the number of times I talked to DoulaK on the phone during that time, and she always had a recommendation for something I could try to ease my nipple pain, or to encourage Peeper to latch, or just to help us to bond, in the absence of an actual breastfeeding relationship.

: Ready - To - Use Charts and Activities for Positive Parenting Finding a way to encourage tots and elementary school children to behave well without resorting to bribery is a parent's number one challenge.

With joy and devotion they express wonder for life and enthusiasm for work, building a strong bridge to later academic learning: Songs and nursery rhymes cultivate intimacy with language building literacy skills; Listening to stories, watching puppet shows and dramatic play strengthen the power of memory and imagination; Counting games and rhythmic activities build a solid foundation for arithmetic and number skills; Work activities develop coordination and the ability to concentrate; Outdoor activities, including play and hiking, encourage healthy physical development and an appreciation of nature and seasonal changes.

Rather than encouraging simple memorization of the names for numbers, the book forces children to grasp the concept of a specific quantity of items corresponding with a particular numeral.

1st — 7th August sees World Breastfeeding Week celebrated all around the world with an aim of encouraging breastfeeding and improving the health of babies globally.The theme for 2017 World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is Sustaining Breastfeeding Together, which sees a number of organisations working together for the common good to promote the role that breastfeeding plays in our wellbeing.Breastfeeding is a -LSB-...]

We also hope you will share with your patients the number for H.A.N.D.'s telephone support line [phone] and encourage them to attend monthly meetings.

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.

And because co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing makes breastfeeding easier for mothers, it encourages them to breastfeed for a greater number of months, according to Dr. Helen Ball's studies at the University of Durham, therein potentially reducing the mothers chances of breast cancer.

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.

Encouraging pacifier use is likely to be beneficial on a population - wide basis: 1 SIDS death could be prevented for every 2733 (95 % CI: 2416 — 3334) infants who use a pacifier when placed for sleep (number needed to treat), based on the US SIDS rate and the last - sleep multivariate SOR resulting from this analysis.

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.

Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society is encouraging their athletic trainers to register for their NPI numbers.

The speaker warned that the alternative to a quota system, or an aggressive effort to encourage women to run for office, would be seeing the number of women in city government continue to shrink.

Lighter evenings could cut down the number of opportunistic crimes and encourage more outdoor exercise and use of public transport, for example, affecting the Home Office, Department of Health and Department of Transport respectively.

Some 42 % of the volume served on DemocraticAds.com this year was for state legislative campaigns, for example, in part because the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee encouraged candidates to hop on board [Update: it turns out that the 42 % number was for state rep / lower house races.