Sentences with phrase «in rate of fire»

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

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• Pacific Growth Investors invested in Conquest Firespray, a Warren, Mich. - based maker of fire - rated architectural goods.

OPINION: With a touch of irony, the central bank governor fires a warning shot in mortgage - stressed WA that rates will rise.

When the Bank of Canada cut interest rates in 2015 to offset the collapse of oil prices, it was worried about more than a blow to gross domestic product; it was also thinking about what mass firings in the oil patch could mean for the financial system.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick was rated by six of the above sources (including us), for instance, so its total review score at this point in the process was divided by six.

With customary flair, Stack ended the experiment by gathering up all the rating sheets and setting them on fire in a small picnic area in back of the plant.

The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock — an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic — in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

Factors to consider may include whether a possible employer has the power to direct, control, or supervise the worker (s) or the work performed; whether a possible employer has the power to hire or fire, modify the employment conditions or determine the pay rates or the methods of wage payment for the worker (s); the degree of permanency and duration of the relationship; where the work is performed and whether the tasks performed require special skills; whether the work performed is an integral part of the overall business operation; whether a possible employer undertakes responsibilities in relation to the worker (s) which are commonly performed by employers; whose equipment is used; and who performs payroll and similar functions.

«With the Italian 10 - year bond yielding less than its US counterpart, with clear signs of accelerating growth and inflation in Europe, and a depressed Euro adding fuel to the fire, assets correlated to European rates will be vulnerable in 2017,» says Mitchell.

Equally problematic, the Fed is already at the zero - bound range in interest rates with no bullets left to fire in that arena as the specter of deflation begins to emerge around the globe.

Consider the Fed's hike in interest rates on March 21, the passing of a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill on March 23 that dramatically widened the federal deficit, the resignation of former director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn on March 6, the firing of former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, the tariff tantrum between the U.S. and China on March 1 and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

«While Doug Ford would take an erratic and reckless approach and fire Hydro One's board — which would absolutely do nothing to reduce customer rates, but would almost certainly risk the market value of Hydro One upon which so many people rely — we believe in a stable solution that exercises our authority as the largest shareholder.»

At least one of the weapons in the photographs appears to have been modified with a «bump stock,» a device that allows a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds faster, at a rate similar to a fully automatic weapon.

The bump stock — a previously obscure gun accessory that became infamous last year when a shooter in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire at helpless concertgoers — is on its way to being banned in Maryland.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

Making students share rooms also helps reduce pregnancy rates, but given that most of today's applicants have never shared a room in their lives failure to provide singles is a sure fire way to reduce your applicant pool.

Or, if he preferred the ultimate in accuracy at the expense of cyclical fire rate, he could use his M - S Safari Arms sniper rifle.

She rated it as an 11 on a pain scale in which 10 is the most painful and said, «there are thousands of knives digging into my leg and twisting while it is on fire.»

Arsenal 3 - 0 West Ham: Calum Chambers fires Man City warning Manchester City player ratings for shock Burnley loss: Champions just one point in front of third placed Arsenal

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Redknapp has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal, most notably in the forward department, and with the likes of Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon all in prolific form when it comes to creating chances, and Jermaine Defoe, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Peter Crouch all top - rate strikers which give defender's something different to think about, there should be enough fire - power and variety in this Spurs side to cause Blackpool all sorts of problems at the back should the hosts decide to open up and go for the throat of Spurs early on.

We hope that you will never have to test your fire - rated doors, but they provide peace of mind that in the worst case scenario, yourself and your family will be protected from the danger.

Consumers who have working smoke alarms in their homes die in fires at about half the rate of those who do not.

Over time, they have become skilled at rating the level of threat like rangers adjusting those Smokey the Bear fire danger signs in the national forests: «Today's Mom - fire threat level is Green.»

• Keep an ABC - rated fire extinguisher in the kitchen and every floor of your home.

Contribution rates in 2000 to the state's employees retirement system and police and fire retirement system accounted for 1 percent and 2 percent of overall payroll, respectively.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Bump stocks, which can increase the rate of fire on a weapon, came under intense scrutiny after investigators said they believed Stephen Paddock used them to modify weapons used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that killed roughly 60 people and injured hundreds more.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

Dempsey said that if the bill on bump stocks solely focused on the bump stocks he'd be less against it, but the bill before the committee specifically refers to accessories that increase the rate of fire of a firearm and he argues almost any part could assist in doing that including those that assist with aim.

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D - Albany, said she'd like to see action on a bill she introduced last week to ban possession, sale and manufacture of bump stocks, devices used in the Las Vegas mass shooting that allow a semi-automatic firearm to fire at a faster rate.

But the preliminary evaluation results suggest the vast majority of teachers are in no danger of being fired due to the ratings.

Commenting on the publication of the Barclay Review of Business Rates, Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT's Scotland Technical Committee, said: «Ken Barclay and his team have today fired the starting gun on the process of reforming Scotland's business rates system and presented the Scottish Government with an opportunity to lead from the front in enacting lasting, meaningful reRates, Moira Kelly, chair of the CIOT's Scotland Technical Committee, said: «Ken Barclay and his team have today fired the starting gun on the process of reforming Scotland's business rates system and presented the Scottish Government with an opportunity to lead from the front in enacting lasting, meaningful rerates system and presented the Scottish Government with an opportunity to lead from the front in enacting lasting, meaningful reform.

The audit also found civilian employees in the Fire Dept. averaged 400 hours of overtime per year, and cases where someone was taking personal time off at an overtime (time and a half) rate.

The proposal aims to provide a «safety net» to educators whose ratings were affected by the rough transition to the Common Core standards in New York and who could be fired because of it.

Developing countries like India and China continue to unveil new coal - fired plants — at the rate of one every seven to 10 days in the latter nation.

Wolf Singer of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, in Frankfurt, supports a code involving synchronous oscillations, or many neurons firing at both the same rate and the same time.

In the aftermath of 9/11, New York City fire department rescue and recovery workers exposed to the caustic dust at the site experienced high rates of lung injury and excessive loss of lung function.

A number of fires are set on it simultaneously, and they all spread in all directions at the same rate.

In the variable cue - constant place condition, the firing rates of active cells varied, often over more than an order of magnitude, whereas the location of firing remained constant.

In hundreds of trials, the monkeys» reaction times varied from roughly 150 to 400 milliseconds, and the response time depended on how fast the neurons increased their firing rate to a level that seemed to trigger the eye movement.

«In the absence of sound, neurons fire randomly and at a high rate,» says Burger.

Among the areas determined to be flawed and in need of more research are: accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain - pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis.

Now, scientists have discovered a key component of this ancient navigational system in rats: a group of neurons called «speed cells» that alter their firing rates with the pace at which the rodents run.

With 27,000 flashes of light per second — more than 200 times the pulse rate of the LCLS — the European XFEL will allow scientists to get lucky, capturing free - floating molecules in dilute solutions where other FELs would fire and miss.

According to this Mental Synthesis Theory, the subject's brain will trigger an increased firing rate in both object neurons and, more importantly, a synchronization of their activities would occur.

Flame retardants such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been widely used in furniture foam cushions, clothes, building materials and electronics to slow the rate of ignition and fire growth.

Whereas place cells in a rat brain may change their firing rates if their environment is altered even a little — for example by changing the colour of the walls — those of grid cells remain robustly unchanged.

In collaboration with Prof. Eli Nelken of Hebrew University and Dr. Michael Slutsky of Mantis Vision, Slomowitz found that the network returned to its original firing rate over the course of two days despite the continued presence of the drug — and even though the firing rates and patterns of individual neurons did not reflect homeostatic tendencies.

When exposed to something new, groups of brain cells in the perirhinal cortex fire quickly, at a rate of about 30 pulses per second, or hertz.