Sentences with phrase «large contribution from»

The article fails to mention that Tim Burgess, who is the council member leading the charge on this issue, received a large contribution from hotel lobbyist.

Essentially, it takes a large contribution from natural variability to get a very hot heat wave.

A large contribution from the Greenland Ice Sheet is unlikely, as it is mostly grounded above sea level and so mass loss from calving ice bergs is limited.

Previous projections of sea level increase did not anticipate such a large contribution from the Alaskan glaciers.

There have been large contributions from the Steen foundation that has kept us afloat.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

With matching funds, candidates don't have to rely on large contributions from the special interests.

But he criticized the way de Blasio helped steer large contributions from donors to county committees to specific state Senate candidates.

She repeatedly mentions that the Ulster and Putnam committees didn't have a history of receiving large contributions from their donors in the fall of 2014 or getting involved in Senate races, which she views as signals that they were used as straw donors to evade contribution limits.

In India, a broad increase in fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammonia.

Earth's much thicker layer of low - level ozone, however, has a much larger contribution from the build - up of molecular oxygen beginning some 2.4 billion years ago from photosynthetic microbes excreting oxygen as a waste gas, which now along with plant life is constantly replenishing Earth's two - atom as well as three - stom ozone oxygen molecules.

Furthermore, as we move into higher intensities of exercise, we will also begin to accumulate greater quantities of lactate and hydrogen that spill over into the blood from muscle cells given the larger contribution from our anaerobic pathways.

In the analysis of the results was considered the highlight of the frequency bands in which it has the largest contribution from the harmonic fragments studied.

To fund these benefits requires large contributions from employees and employers.

T.T. Minor has been supported for several years by large contributions from a private foundation, which has paid for extending the school year and other enhancements.

In addition to large contributions from ConnCAN and Achievement First board members, Malloy has collected $ 10,000 from billionaire Steve Mandel who serves on the TFA Board of Directors and $ 8,000 from billionaire Eli Broad who is one of the three largest funders of the corporate education reform industry.

There has been a larger contribution from the low beta component (0.84 %) than from the intrinsic value component (0.39 %).

«They can make larger contributions from 44 to 60.

Including the two decades around the internet bubble would show a much larger contribution from cash payments and less from runaway stock prices.

CSRS retirement benefits are financed by contributions from you and much larger contributions from the Government.

This worsening position has occurred despite strong investment returns in 2012 and despite large contributions from plan sponsors [in 2012 such contributions were the highest in 10 years.]

The standard deviation of the monthly MSU 2R anomalies has a much more zonally symmetric structure (Fig. 4 and Fig. 5) so that relative to the surface there is a much larger contribution from the northern oceans and a generally smaller contribution over land and near the equator to the hemispheric and global means.

But to help balance large contributions from variable renewables effectively there is also a need to link to national and international grids.

Although thermal expansion has been projected to contribute the most to sea level rise, the potential of large contributions from the Antarctic Ice Sheet has added significant uncertainty to predictions.

In this commentary from the final report on the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self - Sufficiency (BIAS) project, Marianne Bertrand talks about the potential for a broader behavioral agenda that would include larger contributions from psychology and could transform public policy in ways that might induce long - term changes in behavior.

Not exact matches

«Attitude is really important,» said Chen, «Based on our data, the unique contribution of positive attitude to math achievement is as large as the contribution from IQ.»

Despite most the world's largest technology companies harking from the U.S., Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted the contribution made by the developing world in a speech Tuesday.

Contributions from Bank One Corp. and Northwestern Mutual were a large part of the $ 60,000 political action committees and bank employees donated to Ryan's first reelection campaign in 2000.

Wiseman said all of CPPIB's investment teams made material contributions last year, producing CPPIB's largest level of annual investment income since inception, but noted the Canada Pension Plan isn't expected to need to draw money from the fund until at least 2023 and, even then, at a relatively small amount for several years.

But while Obama refuses money from registered lobbyists, he's happy, as a Los Angeles Times report makes clear, to take contributions from their partners, not to mention the clients who hire them — a loophole large enough to drive a truck full of money through.

Other large contributions to the increase came from basic metals and other manufacturing and repair not elsewhere classified, which increased by 4.5 % and 3.7 % respectively.»

State and local employees» contributions to the two largest pension systems increased by 10 %, from 5 % to 5.5 % of their annual salaries and increased the retirement benefit age for new public employees, from 55 to 60 years.

First, the six - figure contribution was the largest to the Trump Foundation in 2015 from a source other than Trump himself, according to the Times.

Now that seven provinces (B.C., Sask., Man., Ont., Que., N.S. and N.B.) have legalized crowdfunding for businesses — which involves collecting small contributions from a large group of people — Canadian entrepreneurs have amassed between $ 250 million and $ 300 million in the last year alone to start up and scale up their businesses.

Walmart Canada's annual campaign for disaster relief and preparedness raised a total of $ 3.27 million for the Canadian Red Cross this year, including an $ 818,000 contribution from Walmart which makes us the largest corporate donor to the Canadian Red Cross.

«From a marketplace perspective we're scaling fast, adding 8 million SKUs over the last three months alone,» said CEO Doug Mcmillon, adding that e-commerce contributed 50 basis points to third quarter U.S. comparable sales — its largest contribution yet.

The largest infrastructure investment of the year was a minority growth financing in AvidXchange for $ 225 million led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from Foundry Group, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Nyca Partners, Square 1 Bank and TPG Capital.

There was also a reasonably large contribution to inflation from items with prices that are publicly administered.

By industry, the largest contributions to employment growth over the year continued to come from household services (including health & community services, accommodation, cafes & restaurants and cultural & recreational services), construction and manufacturing.

Crowd funding Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically via the internet.

And according to an analysis by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, annual contributions to the largest 85 donor - advised funds nearly tripled in value from 2008 to 2013.

Large contributions to employment growth over the past year were also made by the public sector and the property and business services industry, which has benefited from robust sales activity in housing markets.

We would concur with this broadly positive outlook for the economy over the rest of the year, in large part due to the contribution from US consumers, whose well - being — thanks mainly to a robust labor market — was apparent in one measure of consumer confidence during September, which hit its highest level in nine years.

* The Merriam - Webster dictionary definition of «crowdfunding» is «the practice of soliciting financial contributions from a large number of people especially from the online community.»

There were some encouraging signs the US economy remained on course to deliver a better showing over the second half of 2016, and we would concur with this broadly positive outlook, in large part due to the contribution from US consumers.

Crowdfunding generally refers to a financing method in which money is raised through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people.

When a woman has to create her own position and then maintain that position apart from the contribution (both financial and spiritual) of a larger institution, her target demographic can disproportionately affect the shape of her ministry.

Granting the contributions they can make to our public life, perhaps it is still the case that the first task of believers is to learn again what makes them distinct from the larger public sphere, lest, when the opportunity presents itself, they have nothing to say that others could not think of without their help.

Financially, since there is such a large population of evangelical Christians in our society, even modest contributions from a small proportion of them can sustain fairly extensive broadcasting.

The company, which debuted on the ASX just a week ago, saw an increase in training revenues, significant growth in its telco business, the awarding of a large labour hire contract to a logistics supplier and contribution from acquired business, OneForce Recruitment.