Sentences with phrase «increasingly used as alternative»

There was a short period of declining prison populations from 1981, when fines, community sentences and cautions were increasingly used as alternative punishments.

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Core ETFs have long been a major component of the ETF growth story, but recent flows suggest the popularity of these generally low cost funds offering broad - based exposure to specific markets and sectors may be stronger than ever with investors, including institutions who may increasingly be using them as an alternative to more expensive futures contracts.

Described as a mix between the crowdfunding of Kickstarter and issuing shares on a stock market, they are increasingly used to fund companies in the fast - growing world of blockchains, as an alternative to traditional fundraising routes.

While the larger brewing companies traditionally use rice as a grain source, craft brewers have increasingly been seeking other carbohydrate alternatives for their formulations.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

To mitigate these and other environmental and economic issues, professional growers are increasingly interested in the use of biodegradable plastic mulches as alternatives to traditional plastic mulches.

In addition, while sodium chloride road salt is the most widely used type of road salt, it is increasingly being replaced by alternatives that contain different types of salts or different additives such as beet juice.

Also, better food handling and behavior is preventing waste, and there are increasingly more alternatives to using wood as fuel.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Crumb rubber, chewed up old tires, is used on athletic tracks, playgrounds, and increasingly as an alternative to mulch.

He finds increasingly GCs are focused on creating value and leveraging some of the new business models in legal services such as using alternative legal service providers, engaging in legal process outsourcing (LPO) or even shifting corporate legal work to «large enough» law firms.

Increasingly the Courts have recognised the benefits to parties of resolving their dispute using alternative methods of dispute resolution (known as ADR).

The fact that our corporations are increasingly looking at using private courts as an alternative to the civil justice system because of its slow pace and higher costs (among other reasons) is a testament to the underlying problems.

As a huge array of startup firms are slowly stumbling upon the goodness of blockchain technology and implementing the same in their energy sector, the need for making use of alternative energy sources is increasingly being felt.

This could be anything from IT skills (increasingly used in the legal profession as well as within the alternative options), to organising ability derived from your extracurricular activities.