Sentences with phrase «huge number of calls»

Besides being charged with setting up policies to hire more women and minority firefighters, the commission must train emergency phone staffers to be more sensitive to the huge number of calls for emergency medical problems (85 percent) rather than the reporting of fires, Wilson says.

«We're getting a huge number of calls, mainly supportive, but when you get 20,000 calls a day, the trouble is the phone lines get filled up.

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The 12s are what the Seahawks call their fans, and it's become such a huge part of the team's identity that the number was actually retired in 1984; today, a number 12 flag is raised before every home game.

«A huge number of people responded, «To stop the collection calls.

Huge numbers of priests had renounced their calling, as had many nuns and monks.

From reporting in The Texas Observer and The Texas Monthly, I learned about the Dominionist supporters of Rick Perry, including a number of evangelists to whom Perry gave leading roles in his huge public prayer service, called the Response, early this month.

Look at the HUGE number of followers of Jesus who try to deny equal rights to others and hypocritically call people murderers who haven't murdered anyone.

In India in the 16th century, the Moghul ruler Akbar planted a huge orchard, called Lakh Bagh because the supposed number of trees was one lakh (100,000).

The Browns just hired a coaching search firm and are paying them huge amounts of money to basicaly track down Doug Marrone and Pat Shurmurs cell phone numbers when they could just call Johnny Manzell and ask him to pass the phone to Steve if he's awake.

The number of times I have been called an idiot or similar for not believing Wenger is nothing short of a footballing messiah is huge.

A huge bust - up is rumoured to have followed his latest disappointing display, and the report claims that a number of his team members have called him out for having his attention aimed elsewhere while his team is trying to compete.

I've also written another article called Three Year Old Behavior that has generated a huge number of comments from readers.

The party saw huge numbers of their supporters reject their calls to back the union, with much of the shift to «Yes» in the final weeks coming from current and former Labour supporters.

Further, the number of Muslim clerics who have advocated for peace is huge - from the Grand Mufti Talip Atalay of Cyprus to Jordan's top cleric, to the Nairobi Muslim Cleric's Peace Caravan to Iraq's Ali al - Sistani issuing a fatwa last year calling for «Citizens to defend the country, its people, the honor of its citizens, and its sacred places,» against the Islamic State of Iraq.

On the account of the various financial impropriety crusade led by so called fringe financial institutions like the DKM Micro Finance, God is Love and several others through their activities and other engagement with the central bank of Ghana, a significant number of Ghanaians have huge sums of monies hijacked with no or little convincing information available to these helpless victims to curtail their anxieties, frustrations and disappointments.

It was heavily contaminated by a toxic chemical called PFOA — it's what makes teflon slippery and is used in a huge number of manufacturing processes.

The majority of the UK cabinet were never told the security services had been secretly harvesting data from the phone calls, texts and emails of a huge number of British citizens since 2005, Nick Clegg has disclosed.

He is the dominant person in the party and huge numbers of party members and activists contacted the NEC to call for him to stay.

IT HAS been called the demographic sweet spot — a huge working - age population supporting a relatively small number of old and young people — and it has helped power China's economic explosion.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

We called on veteran judges and members of the Managing Committee — all of them senior science journalists — to help winnow the huge number of entries prior to submitting them to review for scientific accuracy by the Washington - area scientists who volunteer to help out.

One, sometimes called the «Great Dying,» occurred as the Permian period gave way to the Triassic and led to the extinction of huge numbers of species.

Hunter was called upon again in World War II, supplying huge numbers of wellington and thigh boots.

The chat covers North America and has a huge number of folks calling each day.

However, when Matthews is lured off his guard and badly wounded, Isaac moves centre stage as he finds himself pinned down by an unseen Iraqi sniper (loosely based on a real - life character called Juba, who was responsible for killing a huge number of Americans).

Later, he gave a nod to Call Me By Your Name, a movie with a lot of critical acclaim, but not huge box office numbers.

In response to a call for evidence from the Women and Equalities Committee the BHA has said that the government's decision not to make PSHE compulsory «flies in the face» of the recommendations made by a huge number of education, health, and children's rights experts, including the Chief Medical Officer, the Children's Commissioner for England, and the NSPCC.

The huge number of K12 INC students who fail to take State testing calls into question even their current meager results.

In so - called high cost areas there were huge numbers of homes with prices above $ 700,000.

With our system crunching numbers in the background, you get simple buy and sell put and call options trades that we have found hand you an 80 % chance — or better — of delivering a huge pop in 90 days.

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has a huge range of moggies and canines ready for rehoming, so if Andy Murray's number one fan Chico is not for you do give us a call, pop in, or visit us at www.battersea.org.uk.

A huge number of cases that we are contacted about are problems with pets not being allowed in their owner's accommodation (11 % of calls to our Canning Town Branch in 2012).

But as the number of dogs in some cities plummeted, many shelters began importing dogs from distant locations and today, humane relocation, or dog trafficking as the critics call it, (4) has morphed into a huge enterprise, moving tens of thousands of dogs each year from areas of high supply to areas of low supply.

It is also a rescue and homing centre for unwanted and abandoned pet cats and the huge number of stray cats and kittens we are called to help each year.

There are a huge number of other golf courses within easy reach - its not called the Costa del Golf!

Psychologist Barry Schwartz calls this the «paradox of choice,» and it feels at least intuitively true: Sometimes, when you're given total freedom of choice and a huge number of options, you'll end up feeling like you can't evaluate the quality of all of those options.

With this in mind, it clearly shows that the PS4 hardware will have a huge win over MS's x1 hardware being that the API they're using right now isn't so demanding on high number of draw calls.

While I hesitate to call Yakuza 3 a sandbox game, it certainly provides you with an open game where you can participate in a huge number of minigames and side quests.

Infinity Ward has revealed that its Xbox Live - topping shooter Call of Duty 4 is attracting «between 1.2 and 1.3 million users every day» just on Microsoft's service - with PS3 numbers «monstrously huge».

For a huge number of people, it means its Call of Duty month.

Relative to the huge number of downloads, this result is not very impressive, raising question marks about the wisdom of using the so - called «free - to - start» model with a relatively high fixed price required to play the full game.

He called the pipeline «the most important issue for the environmental movement in a very long time,» noting that it has brought «huge numbers of Americans into the streets.»

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.

Brian: Not a huge number of UK lawyers using Twitter yet, and between those on the call, we probably know all of them.

«It did not appear that Allison had the background to coach lawyers, and one has to be skeptical of the huge number of people who are calling themselves coaches these days.

I was afraid that making these arrangements would be complicated and a huge headache all around, but when I called the PPO number on my card, they set up an appointment and took care of everything but my deductible.

This call - blocking app automatically identifies callers and flags robocalls, telemarketers, debt collectors, and known fraudsters based on a huge database containing hundreds of millions of numbers.

Surveys show that huge numbers of recruiters are Googling candidates» names before calling them in for interviews, which makes it very important to have a strong, professional online presence that supports what you've said in your resume.

Phone number — there is a huge percentage of hiring manager, who still prefer to call instead of writing e-mails,

But it really will make a huge difference in the number of companies that call you back and invite you to interview.