Sentences with phrase «higher number of cases of»

epidemic appearance of an abnormally high number of cases of infection in a given population; can also refer to noninfectious diseases (e.g., heart disease) or to acute events such as chemical toxicity

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It has, but this has been the case since October 2009, when that number reached a high of 10 %, during the peak of the financial crisis.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

That will be a windfall for property managers like RioCan — which owns a number of Zellers leases — as they will be able to re-rent the spaces immediately, in most cases at a significantly higher price.

For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the aim to increase «the number of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»

As you can see, we get a list of related keywords with a correlation number: in this case, «fit jeans» has the highest correlation to «jeans».

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In general, a mortgage lender will approve a mortgage with payments of no more than 28 percent of your income, and total recurring debt payments of 36 percent of your income, though this number can go as high as 43 percent in some cases.

«In 2017, the number of banking - related cases was the highest they have been in the past five years,» said the ombudsman's annual report, which was released on Thursday.

The brokers these robot creators partner with are in most cases, not regulated at all and in more than a few cases, our research showed a high number of complaints posted against them all over the Internet.

For high - growth stocks, the growth rate (g) may be higher than the required rate of return (r), in which case the suggested stock value would be a negative number.

And such is certainly the case today, with the number of purchase candidates standing at more than 180 as of this morning, close to an all - time high.»

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

In Poland, abortion is mostly limited to cases of incest, rape or when the mother's life is medically threatened, but the number of illegal abortions is thought to be very high.

Duddington also provides discussion of the issue of conscience in contemporary society, citing a number of high - proile cases in which the state has intervened on issues of religious conscience and human rights.

I am happy to count among my own friends a rather remarkable number of men of high intellectual distinction who have returned to the full Christian outlook after years of defection from it, and I should say that in practically every case the renewed hospitality of their minds to Christian truth came about through their awakening to the essential untenability of the alternative positions which they had been previously attempting to occupy.

The highest number of cases occurs in some of the poorest countries, the agency figures show, with the West African nation of Niger at the bottom of the list with 75 percent of girls married before they turn 18.

In this sense an atom is more complex than an electron, a molecule more complex than an atom, and a living cell more complex than the highest chemical nuclei of which it is composed, the difference depending (on this I insist) not only on the number and diversity of the elements included in each case, but at least as much on the number and correlative variety of the links formed between these elements.

In many cases, computer imaging provides pilots, surgeons, architects, machine toolmakers, heavy construction supervisors, steel mill operators, high tech color printing operators and an increasing number of technicians and professionals with the only means for them to «see what they are doing.»

The media coverage has often needlessly inflamed the conversation, and yet you could hardly invent a case that would touch on a greater number of fundamental issues in Christian higher education:

Just in case you missed it last spring... This posting had the highest number of viewings for 2013 on Canned Time and I thought it would be good to revisit the jist of «Coconut Bacon»..........

Reducing sugar intake and increasing responsiveness to insulin is extremely important for the growing number of diabetes cases in the U.S. and other developed nations today, so goji berries make a much better snack alternative and sweetener to high - sugar packaged goods and sugar additives.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

Mr Cassidy: «As you would know, we have had a number of problems with section 46 arising out of a number of High Court cases where the law was not clarified until 2007.

In the last few weeks, we have run a series of posts investigating the events of the 30th Chicago Marathon, where record high temperatures caused the early cancellation of the race, amid record numbers of medical cases and emergencies.

Didn't get a job until I was 21, didn't get, my license, move out of home and it really did a number on me, I was also picked on quite a lot in High School as I was over weight which I think affected me socially in terms of I have a minor case of social anxiety, it's not debilitating but I do notice it and it affects certain things.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

Scientists agree that Down syndrome can be attributed to the father in 5 to 10 percent of cases, and some believe that number may be as high as 20 percent.

I would imagine the number is much higher due to cases that have just gone unreported because of fear, shame, and guilt.

Due to a number of high - profile legal cases, [20] many manufacturers now produce goods with built - in safety measures, such as child - resistant locks.

In nulliparous women, a period of 8 hours of augmentation resulted in an 18 % cesarean delivery rate and no cases of birth injury or asphyxia, whereas if the period of augmentation had been limited to 4 hours, the cesarean delivery rate would have been twice as high given the number of women who had not made significant progress at 4 hours.

High needs place number allocations for the 2015 to 2016 academic year, broken down by institution and local authority location inclusive of the outcomes of the exceptional case process are published.

Despite this the number of fatalities fell from 55 to 49, including high - profile cases such as the murder of 11 - year - old Rhys Jones in Liverpool.

I will refer in particular to three criticisms highlighted in the report: the slowness to remove foreign national prisoners from the UK, the concern with the high rate of appeals brought against UKBA's decisions which are decided against the Agency, and the large number of unresolved immigration cases still awaiting decision.

As has been the case in Graphs 2 and 3, the majority of MPs fall within the 90 - 100 per cent band, making it difficult to single out individual high - spenders (barring a small number of MPs who overspent on their budgets).

In any case, if today there are a higher number of small donors, it doesn't look like they are making those donations online to any significant extent.

PolitiFact has not looked into whether the state has also had an inordinate number of sex scandals, but two high profile cases come to mind: In 2008, New York Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after revelations that he had hired a sex worker, and former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is in prison for sexting a minor.

Two years ago doctors reported rising numbers of measles cases, with outbreaks at the highest level for nearly 20 years.

The Upper East Region has the highest number of cases with 39 %, out of the ten regions.

Over the past week in New York State, 7,779 laboratory - confirmed influenza cases were reported to the state and 1,759 New Yorkers have been hospitalized with confirmed influenza, the highest weekly numbers in both categories since reporting began in 2004 and surpassing last week's previous high of 1,606 hospitalizations, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

The public outcry and the criticism of social services which followed high profile cases of child abuse, such as those of Victoria Climbie and baby Peter Connelly, was reported to have resulted in increased numbers of children being taken into care as social workers erred on the side of caution.

The guilty verdict is another conviction for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York who has led a number of high - profile corruption cases of state lawmakers and public officials.

Specificially, it's looking at the case where Evan McMullin (or Gary Johnson) win at least one electoral vote (which likely means winning Utah or Nevada) and are thus in the list of «the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President» (as per the 12th).

This led to a number of High Court cases, notably against Surrey County Council in 2000, with parents claiming that their children had been discriminated against.

A coalition including cooling industry representatives and environmental activist Erin Brockovich called on the state to enforce federal water regulations, regularly test the water supply and improve New York's water infrastructure, as data show the state has the highest number of Legionnaire's disease cases in the nation.

The central New York region has seen a high number of flu cases in the last week, a county health official said.

This paper, was told that the highest number of personnel the Service got after the Ghost name scandal was around 45,000 for the 2014/2015 batch of students, hence the massive increment to 66,000 in the case of the 2016/2017 batch, is inexplicable.

New York has the nation's third highest number of confirmed Lyme cases.

Oneida County is continuing to see high numbers of positive flu cases.

There have been a number of high profile cases of disabled people being moved out of specially adapted homes by the policy.