Sentences with phrase «group of affected persons»

The EAT found that a small group of affected persons may be sufficient to satisfy the public interest test; in this case 100 managers.

The website also includes easily accessible research findings and treatment options for the different groups of affected people: rescue and recovery workers, residents, children, city employees and others.

Not exact matches

But if people can't act on their values when the stakes aren't high, then how can they expect to act on them when the consequences of their inaction affect not only themselves, but an entire group of people?

On Christmas Eve, a group of senior Goldman executives held a conference call to discuss the writedown and how it would affect employee bonuses, people familiar with the matter said.

The communications people advising the Finance Minister felt that the best way to sell the proposed tax changes was by arguing that they would lead to greater tax fairness, even though the Finance Minister himself claimed the tax changes would only affect a small group of high - income earners.

That affected the value of AIG's holdings in People's Insurance Company (Group) of China Ltd. (PICC Group) and PICC Property & Casualty Co. Ltd., the company said.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

Insurance provider UnitedHealth Group, the largest in the United States, is giving some of its resources to help people affected by the Orlando shooting.

In addition, issues of life and relations among people, groups and communities are affected by these fused horizons on all levels.

What according to one person (or group of persons who are affected) may look like natural disaster, to others, who are yet to be born eg.

You are speaking in stereotypes that are not true for the vast majority of people whilst ignoring the fact that they affect other groups of people (straights) as well.

They do not include, for example, Catholic Charities» extensive network of 1,400 charitable agencies serving 18 million people; the Catholic Health Association's 600 hospitals and 300 long term care facilities serving 20 million people; or the Campaign for Human Development's efforts to organize and empower the poor, with 200 local antipoverty groups working to improve policies, practices and laws affecting low - income people.

According to a watchdog group, a young girl was among at least 24 people killed in unrest which has affected areas including the capital Nairobi and the Lake Victoria port city of Kisumu.

When Justice Kennedy asserts that there is no rational basis for the amendment, and that the «inevitable inference» is that the action is «born of animosity toward the class of persons affected,» he is saying, in judicial terms of art, that the amendment was adopted «because of» and not merely «in spite of» its adverse effects upon an identifiable group.

Kind of ironic that 9/11 affected muslim americans more severely than any other group aside from people directly affected by the attacks.

This has prompted farmers groups in Asia to call for the immediate halt of the said project, stating that the said GM crop would adversely affect the staple food crop of billions of people across Asia.

It's as if... a small group of ultra-rich people... have a disproportionate effect on how... aaaaah, my brain... government can help them stay ultra-rich even in matters that don't affect the... aaaaagggh it burns, help... general population, just by virtue of having powerful friends in... AAGGGH I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME... Congress?

But because genetic differences can affect how well some people's bodies utilize calcium, Abrams said the committee went a step further and established 1,300 milligrams as a «recommended dietary allowance» that would cover 97 percent of all children in the group.

«The public is hereby reassured that the Service will collaborate with appropriate agencies to ensure that the mischievous activities of any person or group (s) to engage in illegal activities will not affect the effective distribution of products across the country.

covariance with ethnicity / race and socio - economic attainment (i.e. people of the same ethnic or racial groups may have similar incomes, and in some cases socio - economic attainment affects racial or ethnic identification as in the U.S. where as income rises, families who historically identified as latino begin to identify as white)

She could travel to Liverpool to hear about the work done by a group of people on an estate who taught themselves about the bedroom tax rules and now support and advise their neighbours who are affected by it.

The all - party parliamentary group for children and NCB are right to consider how we can prevent the impact of current spending decisions affecting people today.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

Though the bill must ultimately be accepted at the state level, a group of city council members, including Manhattan representatives Melissa Mark - Viverito, Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez, is voicing its support for the legislation via a resolution that was proposed to the council on Wednesday, saying the current law unfairly affects people in their communities.

The NG7 Food Bank opened 30 months ago in response to «punitive welfare reforms and further draconian immigration policy» which it says have deeply affected already vulnerable groups of people.

This is not equivalent to the misuse of Ripa surveillance laws by local councils or police harassment of innocent photographers which affect much larger groups of people and were enthusiastically opposed by the Conservatives.

In particular, the groups hope the Trump administration can address aspects of the Affordable Care Act considered especially vexing for social conservatives as well as concerns such as «the numerous small business owners who have been negatively affected by the push to keep people of faith out of the public square.»

They said they were profoundly affected to see the diverse group of people who would benefit from medical marijuana, including infants and people suffering from debilitating diseases.

«We need real housing, permanent housing that's actually affordable to homeless people,» said Lisa Milhouse, a member of advocacy group Picture the Homeless and a resident of one of the affected buildings.

He said, «The Lake Chad Basin for example, has shrunk to a mere 10 per cent of its original size, and this has seriously affected the livelihood of over five million people and contributed to the growth of insecurity in the region, including the emergence of Boko Haram as a terrorist group.

Diabetes brings a wide array of complications that can harm the cardiovascular system and other organs, and it has been found to affect some groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities and people with low incomes, at a disproportionate rate.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

More than 50 percent of the reservoir area is affected by erosion and an additional 500,000 people will need to be relocated,» says Peter Bosshard, policy director at International Rivers, a dam watchdog group.

We urge the adoption of policies that ensure opportunities for people to participate in research studies and clinical trials without fear that the information generated by their participation will be inappropriately disclosed and adversely affect their health insurance status or that of their families, either as individuals or as members of a particular group.

There have been many studies looking at the number of people affected by anxiety disorders and the groups that are at highest risk, and in an attempt to synthesise the various studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Public Health carried out a global review of systematic reviews.

Abnormal color vision increases significantly with aging — affecting one - half or more of people in the oldest age groups, reports a study in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

At the earliest opportunity, begin to develop a list of all the people or groups interested in, affected by, or needed to support your project.

A second, control group consisted of 20 people who thought they would not be affected much by the election result.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the mapping tool has provided accurate estimates of the number of affected workers by race, ethnicity, industry or other characteristics, to figure out which groups of people or types of businesses were most in need of aid.

She said: «Our study not only helps shed light on how meat consumption may affect the sections of the colorectum differently, it emphasises the importance of reliable dietary reporting from large groups of people.

The drought - affected people of East Africa did not receive international or domestic aid for six months, partly due to the risks posed by armed groups.

This was compared to a group of people not affected by changing seasons in winter as well as themselves in summer.

Observing this group of people over time could provide insights on how other risk factors or life events, such as puberty, affect the mind.

Gay and bisexual men in the U.S. are more severely affected by HIV than any other group of people in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ours is the first study describing how brain genes affect food intake and dietary preferences in a group of healthy people.»

And so he pleaded with the group of very august scientists to remember that they had some ability to affect and influence people around them to show that, really, science is an open endeavor and that everybody is welcome to the party and to the discussion.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

Psychosis is a common and distressing group of psychiatric symptoms affecting people with Parkinson's, usually manifesting as hallucinations and delusions.

Professor Andrew McIntosh of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, who leads the Edinburgh - based research group, said: «Depression is a common and often severe condition that affects millions of people worldwide.