Sentences with phrase «large number of department»

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In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

DHS consistently receives the largest number of FOIA requests of any federal department or agency, receiving almost 40 percent of all requests within the Federal Government.

Chief executive Rob Scott cautions that quarterly sales figures should be taken with a large grain of salt, but the numbers for the three months to the end of March underlined the power of the Bunnings Australia business, and the Kmart discount department store.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

Chicago's Department of Human Services offers the largest number of sites.

In the New York City Department of Education, the largest school district in the country by number of students, cups are «generally available to all students,» but spokesperson Margie Feinberg can not say in which of its schools cups are available only upon request.

Government departments use a large number of similar applications, such as accounting or human resources.

The number of tuberculosis cases in New York City suddenly jumped by 10 percent last year — the largest increase since 1992, according to the Health Department.

The next major change came in the costs reported for the 2011 - 12 financial year, when another large (but unknown) number of staff were classified out of administration, mostly from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

A seven - member committee has begun the process of winnowing down the unexpectedly large number of contenders for the $ 171,000 - a-year job overseeing a department with a $ 521 million budget and 3,400 employees.

A Department of Health spokeswoman said temporary staff helped the NHS address staff shortages and enabled it to provide in - demand services to larger numbers of people.

Commenting on the data released today by the Department for Education on permanent and fixed - period exclusions of pupils during 2013 - 14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The increase in the number of pupils suspended due to assaulting adults in schools is extremely worrying.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

Senate approval of Andy Puzder to lead the Department of Labor will hinge in large part on his testimony in a confirmation hearing tomorrow, as an unusually large number of GOP senators are reserving judgment on the nomination until they hear his explanation of several sensitive matters.

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

«When you have large numbers of military living off base there's a tendency that hey become the soccer coaches, part of the emergency medical teams, the join voluntary fire departments, they serve on PTAs.

In May, a little over two weeks after Southold Town police officer Garrett Lake was honored with a proclamation for making the department's largest number of drunken - driving arrests in 2015, his employment was terminated.

The RFEI included a large number of suggested ideas, with the Parks Department adding their open to hearing others.

The large number of tourists who ride the boat take too long to get off and have been causing delays on the line, the Department of Transportation recently said.

This contract is not a panacea and there are a large number of issues that we have with the City of Buffalo and this department's management staff.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans also has to juggle an immense number of stakeholders and their needs when managing the Fraser sockeye: coastal fisheries with different gear types, the in - river First Nations harvest, and one of the largest recreational fisheries in Canada.

«Worksites are self - contained environments with established communication systems where interventions that modify food options and provide physical activity have the potential to reach large numbers of adults,» said Diana Fernandez, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Rochester Department of Public Health Sciences and lead author of the study.

«The accountability regulations in the Swedish Environmental Code are intended to prevent the leaking of large amounts of pellets, especially in areas like the one around Orust and Tjörn where there are a number of nature reserves,» says Lena Gipperth, Professor of Environmental Law at the Department of Law.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

Because Ph.D. - granting departments are considerably larger on average — the median number of faculty in such departments is 22 — the proportion of those that have faculties consisting of a single sex is expected to be smaller; the model predicts that about 12 % of Ph.D. - granting departments will have same - sex faculties.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

«We're really excited that we've been able to generate a large number of markers that people can work with,» says Buckler, who is also part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

Researchers from the University of Leicester's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, in collaboration with Cleaver Scientific Ltd., have developed a novel, high throughput method of performing the assay which is set to overcome this problem and to push down the costs of processing large numbers of samples.

Professor Samani, who is also Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester and a Consultant Cardiologist at Leicester's Hospitals, added: «Height has a strong genetic determination and in the last few years a large number of genetic variants have been identified in our DNA that determines one's height.

Antibiotics also are responsible for the largest number of medication - related adverse events and the cause of about one in five visits to emergency departments for adverse drug reactions.

«In the clinic, a large number of (Alzheimer's disease) patients have diabetes and chronic inflammatory states going on at the same time,» said Jefferson Kinney, a UNLV neuroscience researcher and professor in the psychology department.

Detectable levels of pesticides are present in a large number of fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S., according to a 2008 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited in the study.

Graham Linehan's classic, award - winning sitcom about a dysfunctional IT department Crowd definition, a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.

December 17, 2014 • The ACLU and the embattled sheriff's department have settled a class action lawsuit that will likely set in motion a number of changes within the nation's largest municipal jail system.

The Department of Education focused upon discipline management because of the disproportionately large number of suspensions, particularly out - of - school suspensions, being given to minority students.

To realize that goal, the commission urged the Department of Education to reduce its focus on monitoring a large number of postdiagnosis procedural requirements and instead concentrate on «a much smaller number of substantive measures guided by broad federal standards that focus on performance and results.»

However, the Department for Education was not sufficiently prepared for the financial implications of such a rapid expansion, or for the challenge of overseeing and monitoring such a large number of new academies,» stated Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office.

The fire department said that large numbers of books in my parents» townhouse accelerated the fire.

Moreover, can the understaffed California state department of education manage or oversee a large number of these low - performing schools?

This is just one in a series of climb - downs by her department believed to be aimed at pacifying hostile backbench Conservative MPs representing large numbers of small schools in rural constituencies.

In fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

Majority - white schools in Minnesota have half as many nontenured teachers as schools with large numbers of black, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian students, according to the Department of Education.

The department proposed a rule that would require local school districts to give schools enrolling large numbers of poor children at least as much state and local money as other schools — thus prompting the letter.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

The Education Department tracks progress in target schools, but little information is available about the performance and trends for the large number of students who leave their Promise Neighborhoods for school.

The English department needs to find a way to help a large number of students improve grammar and paragraphing skills.

We are your full - service dealership with a top notch finance department with relationships to a large number of major lenders to help assist in all credit situations.

However, because of the large number of complaints against them, the Department of Education transferred all direct loans to other servicers.