Sentences with phrase «first instituted as»

The U.S. federal gasoline tax of $ 0.01 per gallon was first instituted as part of the Revenue Act of 1932.

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As a number of observers have predicted, instituting a-la-carte channels is likely to have two obvious results: first, the popular channels will probably end up costing a lot; and second, the unpopular channels are likely to die off.

Interest rates will inevitably rise, as the Bank of Canada keeps pointing out, and the federal government has instituted numerous changes over the past few years that will make a home purchase more difficult for first - time buyers.

As the first fintech internship scheme led by a regulatory authority and a research institute, banks and universities have joined force in developing talents for the fintech industry.

Instead, the decision as to what our question is must be made first in much more general terms, and only then can we institute a comparison.

This claim that the future calls for corporate, interdisciplinary theological inquiry leads to the conclusion that futuristic research institutes and «think - tanks» are needed by the religious community as well as by secular agencies as we approach the twenty - first century.

In 1997 he gained worldwide fame as the leader of the team at the Roslin Institute, a government - sponsored biotechnology research institute in Midlothian, Scotland, which brought to birth the world's first cloned mammal, a sheep known as «Dolly.»

«When our association discovered that bats could be altered and gain enhanced performance above our bat standard, stiffer penalties were instituted as a deterrent,» wrote Craig Cress, the president of ASA, in an email to me years ago when I first started examining this story.

And childhood hunger is the reason why I've always been a supporter of breakfast - in - the - classroom programs even though they can be, as you note, quite controversial — as such a program was here in Houston ISD when it was first instituted.

[129] Many hospitals have instituted practices that encourage breastfeeding, however a 2012 survey in the US found that 24 % of maternity services were still providing supplements of commercial infant formula as a general practice in the first 48 hours after birth.

First, the correction - I'd originally reported that the district would no longer continue its practice of requiring kids to take a package of animal crackers as part of the in - classroom, universal breakfast service that was instituted last year at the elementary level.

E.g. (these are my random examples, please don't concentrate on the specific examples here): «This amendment hereby repels 100 % of the wording of the Constitution, all prior Amendments, and institutes a new government as a monarchy with Kim Kardashian as Queen Kim the First»; or less drastically «This amendment changes the amendment process such that no further amendments are allowed».

The CJC's Needs Assessment Report, which was validated by industry expert RicciGreeneAssociates in 2013, called for a two pronged approach — first, enhance the County's innovative work with Alternatives to Incarceration programs to divert people away from the jail and drive down recidivism; and second, move forward with larger jail facility, designed as transition center campus where the County can improve its ability to institute additional evidence - based rehabilitative and re-entry programs.

He recollected his first speech as Rector, in which He prayed for spiritual direction in order to transform the then institute into a world class campus for higher learning.

One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.

Starting this summer, the institute will start operating out of the old SmartPill building at Main and Virginia, with offices first and then machinery as it is installed.

The preliminary budget touts $ 1.1 billion in total savings that the city will achieve by the end of fiscal year 2017 through de Blasio's «citywide savings plan,» the voluntary savings program he instituted in his first budget as mayor.

(CNN)- Hours after his inauguration as Virginia's 72nd governor — and in the wake of a scandal that engulfed his predecessor — Terry McAuliffe has made ethics reform his first order of business, instituting tighter limits between public officials and lobbyists like he once was.

In the first external revision proposed to GFT, Ayers and co-researchers David Zhang, Maurcio Santiliana (both with Harvard University), and Benjamin Althouse (with the Santa Fe institute) explored new methods for using open - sourced, publicly available Google search archives to forecast influenza, an approach that can serve as a blueprint to fix broader shortcomings in public health surveillance.

The institute is the first tangible evidence of the Administration's plans, announced in March, to invest $ 1 billion on 15 institutes that would serve as regional centers of excellence across all sectors of manufacturing.

A decade later, Ko - Ferrigno has made the transition from the lab to science writing and editing, working at first as a science editor at a prestigious journal and now as an information and communication specialist at a research institute.

Scott: First, now they have four PR firms working on promoting this film for the next couple of weeks, but the initial marketer is Motive Entertainment, which is the same marketing company that promoted Passion of the Christ and Chronicles of Narnia; and the kind of pioneering approach that they instituted with Passion of the Christ was this viral marketing as they were doing with Expelled.

That was why the institutes were established in the first place, as umbrella bodies for related divisions.

One of the first things I had to do was to get my residence permit from the aliens» registration office (Ausländerstelle), but as an EU citizen this was just a formality, the host institute having written a confirmation that I was a fellow there.

As a first step, Williamson's team, in collaboration with other institutes, have produced eight mice whose milk contains lysostaphin, an enzyme which kills staphylococcal bacteria by dissolving their cell walls.

Collins, who in 2008 stepped down after 15 years as director of NIH's genome institute, spoke publicly about his ideas for the first time since his name surfaced as the leading candidate to head the agency.

«Our approach represents a different way of looking at leukemia and considers the entire bone marrow as an ecosystem, rather than the traditional approach of studying and trying to directly kill the diseased cells themselves,» said Allison Boyd, postdoctoral fellow with the research institute and first author of the study.

... and also beat Harvard «Divestment aligns the institute's actions with its values,» Gould said, drawing roars from the crowd as he suggested MIT could show up cross-town rival Harvard University, also embroiled in a divestment debate, by selling its carbon - centric holdings first.

Climb the stairs of OIST's Seaside House to the second - floor offices of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit, and the first sight that greets you may come as a surprise in a research institute:...

Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., currently director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research, becomes only the third deputy director of the institute, which was originally founded in 1988 as an office to lead NIH's portion of the effort to sequence the human genome for the first time.

Background In our institute, the first research program on disseminated tumor cells (DTC) detection in the bone marrow of early breast cancer patients was initiated in the late 90's; with about a thousand patients included, we constituted one of the largest cohort ever reported and contributed to the landmark report that established bone marrow DTC as a level - of - evidence 1 prognostic factor in early breast cancer (Braun, N Engl J Med 2005).

He instituted research programs, the first of which was glaucoma, and he became known as an expert on the disease, one of the leading causes of blindness in the world.

Governor Jerry Brown had to institute California's first - ever statewide mandatory water restrictions, as the state has entered its fourth year of severe drought.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

One of the institute's first education initiatives was the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership (AREL), a nationwide network of principal preparation programs with a mandate, as a 2010 press release put it, «to transform the way school districts identify, recruit, prepare, empower, and evaluate their leaders.»

Otherwise — as with the initial Reading First report — it runs the risk of antagonizing potential allies, and of cooling ardor for institute initiatives and departmental appropriations (see Figure 2).

It eliminated the education undergraduate major, demanded subject matter mastery as well as knowledge of education theory, provided mentors through the first three years of teaching, instituted use of cutting - edge technology, and put heavy emphasis on real classroom experience.

During the 1970s, nearly every state in the nation began instituting tests of basic skills for high - school students as the leading edge of the so - called «first wave» of education reforms.

She also served as a teacher - educator for three years in Teach for America's summer training institute and for a year in Teach First's summer institute in London, U.K.

Former first lady Laura Bush will unveil the report, which the institute described as first of its kind, on Tuesday.

She has also taught high school English as a Teach for America corps member, and served as a teacher educator in Teach for America's summer training institute and in Teach First's summer institute in the U.K. Francesca holds a B.A. in English from Smith College and an M.P.P and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

On his first day in office, the new governor issued a press release that began with «IN FIRST ACT AS GOVERNOR, MALLOY SIGNS THREE EXECUTIVE ORDERS... Orders will help institute fiscal responsibility / honest budgeting, transparency...&rfirst day in office, the new governor issued a press release that began with «IN FIRST ACT AS GOVERNOR, MALLOY SIGNS THREE EXECUTIVE ORDERS... Orders will help institute fiscal responsibility / honest budgeting, transparency...&rFIRST ACT AS GOVERNOR, MALLOY SIGNS THREE EXECUTIVE ORDERS... Orders will help institute fiscal responsibility / honest budgeting, transparency...»

During the 1970s, nearly every state in the nation began instituting tests of basic skills for high school students as the leading edge of the so - called «first wave» of education reforms.

He instituted a program, based on the same premises as his chemistry program, for 500 students who are low income, first members in their family to attend college, have lower SAT scores, and a graduation rate of 20 %.

Editions of Literacy Links are frequently recommended in professional workshops provided be the Maine Department of Education and are also referenced in professional learning materials developed by the Maine DOE, such as the Putting Reading First in Maine DVD Series, the literacy micro-courses and the ELA / literacy summer institutes.

Write for Texas regional institutes are designed with gradual release as the goal, where strategies are first modeled, then applied, and finally used independently by participants.

But it was his first inkling that being an artist might constitute a career, and as he wasn't much good at anything else, when he was demobbed he signed up at the Kansas city art institute under the GI bill of rights.

Mahogany Browne (M.F.A. Writing» 16) and Jive Poetic (M.F.A. Writing» 17) have been selected as the first two recipients of the newly instituted Stacy Doris Scholarship Fund.

During his years as curator of the Phillips Collection — where he started out as a guard — Mr. de Looper worked to promote Washington artists, instituted the first systematic inventory of the collection and organized a number of significant exhibitions.

This was a packed week that featured a lot of hard work all around and it was an honor to be in Los Angeles as this institute kicked off its first year.