Sentences with phrase «few states used»

For example, a few states use longitudinal growth models that, in as careful a way as possible, measure the «value added» by a given school in the course of a year.

Posted on April 11, 2018 · Texas is to be commended for being one of only a few states using a competition to distribute federal school improvement funds

Most states use a percentage target for the state's renewable portfolio by a certain year; a few states use targets measured in megawatts of capacity that the state must develop.

A few states use pure comparative fault, allowing a plaintiff to recover damages even when he is largely responsible for his own injury.

Not exact matches

When a body is donated, few states provide rules governing dismemberment or use, or offer any rights to a donor's next of kin.

While the group's combined employees are fewer than 1 million people and a small slice of the more than 160 million people in employer - based healthcare plans in the United States, Amazon's strength in using data and technology to disrupt businesses has healthcare investors watching closely.

Microsoft cleared up the confusion by posting some clear policies on its website a few days before E3, stating that the Xbox One will need to connect once a day to authenticate games and that publishers will be able to block used games if they choose.

Many of the ingredients Wafu uses to make its products — rice vinegar and pickled ginger, to name a few — are imported from the United States.

Not only has the United States used sanctions extensively as a non-lethal tool of power - projection in the past few years, but this behavior has encouraged a range of other countries to follow suit; from the EU to Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

Policy makers in the United States acted quickly to clamp down on myclobutanil use when it was discovered a few years ago.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's History of the United States, Daniels called «disinformation.»

It actualy is very close to the origional version used in the United States after Vatican II, before they simplified it a few years later.

Just a matter of how we use it and where we let it take us a head, beyond or an even steady keel of pleasure from within or live in a painful mental state of internal torture except for the few who lash out and gain the respect of their fellow prisoners!

Texas used to be a solidly Democrat state and outside of benefitting from a few oil spikes, it's been all downhill since they started supporting GOP windbags.

A few years ago the United States refurbished and rededicated the Statue of Liberty, a powerful and oft - used icon of our generous and hospitable national spirit.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

He pointed to the company's 19 Crimes brands that has grown to generate annual sales of about 1.5 million cases in the United States in fewer than three years, and labels such as The Walking Dead, which have both used augmented - reality campaigns that have been big successes with a younger demographic.

Let me use an example from public health: white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer white woman die from breast cancer than black woman.

It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).

Pittsburgh plays California, Texas takes on Texas Tech, Missouri meets Maryland, UCLA entertains Texas A&M (the night of the 16th) and Florida meets Mississippi State — to mention only a few of what used to be midseason attractions.

Quite a few colleges, such as Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa and Southern California use the so - called multiple offense, shifting from an unbalanced (four men on one side of the center, two on the other) single wing to a T or Split T. Red Sanders at UCLA and Bowden Wyatt, at Arkansas last season and now at Tennessee, are the only coaches of note using the Tennessee balanced - line single wing.

That is to say, so much of a players performance remains out of their control, due to managerial preferences, league styles and game states, to name a few, that you can use numbers to paint any number of pictures.

Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).

However most moms state that after a few uses they can estimate how much is in the cups.

State car seat and booster seat laws are also updated occasionally, so if you haven't looked at the requirements for a few years, they may be entirely different from what you used for an older child.

With medical marijuana legal in most states and recreational use permitted in a few states, more moms are wondering whether they can smoke weed while breastfeeding.

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had earlier stated that BPA — the chemical that hardens plastics in products like bottles and cups, and is used in linings of metal cans — is safe; the agency announced last month that a few new studies have underlined «some concerns» about BPA's possibility of potentially damaging the brain of fetuses, infants and children.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

I run a modest but pretty vocal community of people who take issue with the current state of breastfeeding promotion (as well as people who are totally cool with breastfeeding promotion, but ended up using formula for whatever reason and are willing to put up with the constant drama and debate because they have few other communities where they feel safe asking questions about formula feeding).

... Clinton would actually have won a few more electoral votes in 2016 had all states used proportional allocation by district (though she'd still fall short of 270).

It was an activity of a criminal who is using some of his criminal gangs in the state to harass people, that I have assured the governor when I met with him few days ago.»

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

This is at least the third of these unattributed quotes that you've used in your columns on the leadership of the state GOP, and that's only since I started paying attention to any of this in the last few days.

In his «state of the state» address, Cuomo offered few details about the program which would make New York the 21st state to legalize marijuana use.

But the state has a say in a few key steps in that process, and it's using it to pressure Entergy into closing Indian Point.

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

``... Over the last few years, the NRC has reassessed nuclear plants in the central and eastern United States for their vulnerability to earthquakes, using new seismic data developed by geologists.»

This is less true today, and states have much fewer rights than they used to - but that was the original design.

In the 13 states that passed laws allowing for the use of medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010, 25 percent fewer people die from opioid overdoses annually.

The action plan would see VAT being paid on all transactions (with a few exceptions) and then recovered from the EU member state where it was incurred if the goods were used to make taxable supplies of goods and services.

The Department of State security (DSS) said on Friday that its operatives uncovered a sinister plot by terrorist elements to stage series of coordinated attacks using explosives on different cities across the country in the last few weeks and arrested the masterminds.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he is considering using the April 19 presidential primaries as an election date for a few vacancies across the state, including the seat last held by now Councilman Joe Borelli.

A few hours later, a state Department of Health spokesman said the agency would use the EPA's guidance as it conducts its «risk analysis to determine an appropriate health guidance value.»

«This practice enables the city to circumvent civil service rules, report fewer city workers than are actually working for city departments, and opens the possibility that federal grant funds could be used inappropriately to offset the cost of city operations,» today's ABO report states.

Some of the buildings are used by nonprofit mental health and homeless services groups that contract with the state to provide services to a few hundred homeless and mentally ill individuals.

Crony capitalism is the means by which those who seize the power of the state use it to distribute the wealth of the state to a few oligarchs, mostly their friends, members of their families, or lovers — basically a narrow population — to control and dominate state wealth for the maintenance of the idea of private property.

The leftover money if Romney does not run can be used to help finance any Republican campaign or help a few state GOP committees.

Over at the United State Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) blog there was a great piece posted a few days ago, «Using the Toxic Release Inventory to Build Power in Communities.

He stated that so long as he remained as the President, funds from the oil production would not go into few individual pockets, but it will be used to finance...