Sentences with phrase «increasing number of first»

Many colleges have said loud and clear that they want and are committed to increasing the number of first - generation and low - income students on their campuses.

What good is increasing your number of first dates if they all end there because you lied about your weight, height, age, etc?

Breast cancer risk increased with increasing number of first - and second - degree relatives diagnosed as having breast cancer for both BRCA1 (HR for ≥ 2 vs 0 affected relatives, 1.99; 95 % CI, 1.41 - 2.82; P <.001 for trend) and BRCA2 carriers (HR, 1.91; 95 % CI, 1.08 - 3.37; P =.02 for trend).

The interview confirms the word around the Capitol that Cuomo had met with legislators to discuss increasing the number of first - round casinos allowed in New York to four should the enabling legislation be approved alongside the second passage of a constitutional amendment that expands non-Indian gaming in New York.

According the to the ASU website, the «Hispanic Mother - Daughter program is an early - outreach middle and high school program designed to increase the number of first - generation Arizona students who are qualified and prepared to enroll at Arizona State University through direct family involvement.»

The Nissan Leaf went on sale in December 2010, meaning increasing numbers of the first cars delivered to customers are nearing the ends of their leases.

Not exact matches

Western Australian employers have downgraded expectations for increasing staff numbers in the first quarter of 2013.

According to Morgan Stanley, M&A offer intensity, the number of offers relative to the number of stocks, increased to 3.2 % in the first quarter from 2.5 % in the fourth.

In the first year, the number of users jumped from 2.2 million to 3.1 million, and average site visits increased from 95 seconds to 138 seconds.

BT streamed both finals last season on YouTube for the first time, increasing the number of people who watched its live coverage to more than 12 million.

In the weeks leading up to an event, it says, the number of attacks increases, peaking during the first week of the tournament or games.

By adopting these 7 core beliefs shared by an increasing number of consumers, start ups, and business leaders, you can break the old profit - first cycle and crush it in the marketplace — all by simply putting people first.

Investment dollars from venture capital firms jumped nearly 40 percent in the second quarter to $ 13.8 billion, and the number of deals increased 11 percent compared to the first quarter.

Mompreneurs: Moms first, business second By Katie Engelhart October 04, 2012 An increasing number of stay - at home moms are starting and succeeding at their own businesses.

Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round Capital and an investor in startup Modern Fertility, says the number of pitches he sees from companies addressing women's health care has increased about 10 times in the past five years.

But Andrew Crocker, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that the number of government requests to technology companies has been increasing since 2014, when data first started to become available as part of a settlement between technology firms and the government.

More importantly, 23 percent said they plan to add workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent said they planned to scale back on the number of workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.

The number of angel investment deals for U.S. startups increased 33 percent in the first quarter of 2010, compared with the same period last year, Giga Om reports.

The company said Wednesday that its first - quarter numbers include a $ 22 million hit due to foreign currency headwinds while the cost of its revenues increased by 46 % year - over-year, to $ 679 million.

Furthermore, earlier this year the FBI noted that the number of Americans losing money to ransomware is increasing; in 2016, we also saw the first functioning Mac ransomware.

While the value of M&A deals globally increased 67 percent year - on - year in the first quarter of 2018, the number of deals dropped by 10 percent to 10,338, preliminary Thomson Reuters data show, reflecting how deals on average are getting bigger.

A lot of that growth came from increasing EpiPen prescriptions as the product became more mainstream: In the first seven years Mylan owned EpiPen, the number of patients using it grew 67 %, according to Bloomberg.

In the next section, we first contextualize and explain our hypothesis as to how an increase in the number of mini flash crashes in equity markets could have contributed to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash.

The retailer's say its customer experience scores and associate engagement numbers have increased since the first phase of raises went into effect.

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

He said in his report that Comscore data showed that total time spent in the app had declined, although its average number of monthly unique visitors increased in the first quarter.

In China, the world's number one auto market, 10.7 million vehicles were sold in the first five months, an impressive year - over-year increase of 7 percent.

Price pressures do appear to be building across other indicators as steady monthly increases in PCE, CPI and PPI replace transitory low numbers from the first half of 2017.

The first - quarter sales strength stemmed in part from a 4.9 percent increase in prices over the past year, while the number of transactions in the quarter declined.

Those numbers then increased over the following two weeks but dropped again in the first week of March.

«US Fleet Tracking was one of the best decisions I made in a long time... Our call volume has only dropped because our first - call efficiency numbers are increasing and the use of GPS has greatly improved our response time and calls per day.»

But it is also an acknowledgment of where the broadcast industry is heading, as streaming options change viewers» expectations, increasing numbers of TV subscribers ditch their subscriptions and some younger consumers never sign up in the first place.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

So far the number of exits, however, has not matched the increases in investment during the year's first half.

This partially reflects the view held by some respondents of a pick - up in underlying inflation, but it also reflects an increase in the number of respondents who have incorporated an estimate of the first - year effect of the GST into their inflation forecasts.

The company noted that «So far this year, the number of registered patients in Florida has increased 46 % to over 93,000 patients, and the number of recommending physicians has increased 44 % as the physician community continues to witness the benefits of medical cannabis first - hand.»

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Houston continues to have a strong housing market and is one of the top job climates in the U.S. Houston was the first major city in America to regain every lost job from the recession and jobs have increased 230 % since pre-recession numbers!

Moreover, it also meant that for the first time, Pakistan saw more investment than India, despite India registering a slight increase in investment from $ 4.3 billion 2016 to $ 4.8 billion in 2017, with a number of road projects nearing final closure.

Stocks of purchases increased for the first time since November 2014, but a number of firms linked this to weaker than expected demand patterns.

Julie Hembrock Daum, who leads the North American Board Practice, highlights key findings from the 2017 Spencer Stuart U.S. Board Index, including increases in the number of first - time and female directors and changes in director skills and backgrounds.

They assume that at the end of the first year you have a fixed number of memberships, and, even though most of our clubs continue to increase their memberships after the first year, that you remain at that level for the entire year, adding as many new members as the number of members that leave.

Our most recent Constitutional Amendment, number 27, adopted in 1992, which prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives, was first introduced by James Madison in 1789.

With the meting out of more mandatory sentences for drunk driving, the number of suicides among first offenders is likely to increase significantly.

Looking at the figures, showing steadily increasing numbers of pilgrims (with peaks in the Jubilee Years: next one 2021) it seems to me that the turning point in 20th Century numbers was in 1982, the first pilgrimage to Santiago of St John Paul II.

The first is an unlimited increase in the aura of influence radiating from every living being; the second, even more radical, the prospect afforded to a growing number of individuals of being joined together and ever more closely unanimized in the inextinguishable fire of research pursued in common.

In the first place quantitatively, by the addition to the Mystical Body of an increasing multitude of human souls, «until the number shall be complete».

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

One trend is the increasing number of students in institutions of higher learning who return to school or enroll for the first time later in life — a far cry from the typical stereotype of undergraduates.

And the number of goodies God doles out — whether in the form of a lucrative job, an increased bank account or even physical healing — depends entirely upon your faith (sometimes shown by how much you're willing to give first).