Sentences with phrase «large number of community»

While there hasn't been a Senate companion bill introduced, CAI expects members of the House of Representatives in states with a large number of community associations — such as Florida, California, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New York and Massachusetts — to support the legislation and continue a dialogue that leads to inclusion of the tax deduction in comprehensive tax reform legislation.

Communities for Children collaborates with a large number of community services that work to support families with children aged from birth to 12.

For example, the community meeting where APS families impacted by the innovation zone could give feedback on drafts of the innovation plans did not see a large number of community members or families in attendance.

«We welcome the opportunity to lend our support to charitable organizations, and we are pleased to sponsor a large number of community events,» Kolache Factory says, noting that it also supports events that help schools, children, disease prevention organizations and the elderly.

At each clinic, large numbers of community cats are humanely trapped, sterilized, vaccinated for rabies and returned to their colonies where they can no longer reproduce.

January 2015: The veterinary and human medical students meet with a larger number of community representatives to hold the clinic's second retreat.

One cumulative impact is that it not only fosters a sense of community, but a sense of a community of communities, since large numbers of communities share similar challenges in common, and can learn from and assist one another in the process of meeting the challenges that lie ahead.

Not exact matches

San Francisco offers many libraries, high rates of philanthropy, a large number of five - star nursing homes, few car crashes per capita, walkable communities, and mild weather.

One reason for its popularity is the more accessible price point, due in large part to the overwhelming number of semi-detached houses in this community.

As Fusion notes, «the nootropics community is surprisingly large and involved,» with a number of online forums offering recipes and information on users» drugs of choice.

This is hard to scale to a large number of employees, but if you're only dealing with a few individuals, you can create a tight - knit community within your virtual workplace this way.

The FDIC's Summary of Deposit numbers released in October showed for the past several years, community banks have continued to lose deposit share to larger institutions.

In choosing a community in which to open your store, you'll want to consider a number of location «whether» factors (this will serve as a review of our marketing chapter), including whether the community has a large enough population, whether its economy is stable enough for you to make money and whether the area's demographic characteristics are compatible with your target market.

And immigrants are drawn to areas were there are already large numbers of their own community, which is what makes Toronto and other big cities so attractive.

Ma's company has a number of successful and widely used platforms in its portfolio, including QQ, its instant - messaging service, which is one of the world's 10 largest websites; a mobile - texting service (WeChat) with over 800 million users; a mobile - commerce product (WeChat Wallet); and an online - gaming community (Tencent Games), the largest in China.

Ma's company has a number of successful and widely used platforms in its portfolio, including QQ, its instant - messaging service, which is one of the world's 10 largest websites; a mobile - texting service (WeChat) with 600 million users; a mobile - commerce product (WeChat Wallet); and an online - gaming community (Tencent Games), the largest in China.

Through the use of netting, which the central banking community has consistently supported, the number and amounts of payments passing through large - value systems could decrease significantly.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

Our analysis demonstrates that the limited number of North Korean leaders and ruling elite with access to the internet are actively engaged in Western and popular social media, regularly read international news, use many of the same services such as video streaming and online gaming, and above all, are not disconnected from the world at large or the impact North Korea's actions have on the community of nations.

The report is compiled based on information provided by a large number of businesses, community contacts, banks, economists, market experts and other sources outside the Federal Reserve System.

* 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.»

While several large mining pools, as well as a significant number of companies, have signed on to the New York Agreement, this agreement was itself drafted without any feedback from Bitcoin's technical community nor — even more important — a reliable gauge of user sentiment.

In his charming memoir, Frederic Warburg says that the prominent Jewish community in Berlin appeared to be split down the middle between those hundreds of thousands of Jews who elected to stay and seek a restoration of judicial norms for both the Jews and citizens in general and the equally large numbers of Jews who chose the hard road of migration and a loss of what seemed to be personal security as well as homes and possessions.

Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Selma director Ava DuVerney, comedian Hannibal Buress, musicians Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe and several others hosted an event in Flint to raise money for the community that has been effected by a horrific crisis, in which thousands of residents — including large numbers of children — have been exposed to contaminated city water.

Priorities are established among the various things which older Christians know, or which the community at large knows and which are all good to know, by hfting out the minimal number of things which a new believer needs to know first.

It is now the largest community of Muslim African - Americans, numbered at 200,000.

He has spoken persuasively to that large number of Germans who, although they still pay the church tax, have not been active in church life, The bishops» strategy is to isolate Küng so that he will appear to be a religious philosopher (one thinks of Bloch or Jaspers) without a visible community.

The large number of people who are involved in small groups, the depth of their involvement, the extent of their caring for each other, and even the degree to which they reach out to others in the wider community all suggest that the social fabric has not unraveled nearly to the extent that many critics have suggested.

The large number of women and minority students has transformed the schools into new kinds of communities.

In consequence the new middle class has cultural clout enormously larger than one might expect from its relatively modest numbers and financial resources (the latter are considerable, but still modest when compared to the economic might of the business community).

The question of providing spiritual fellowship to those committed to Christ in different religious communities is a peculiarly Indian ecclesiological problem which has been with us for many decades and needs to be faced squarely, for the number involved is large and the stand of many of them based on the distinction between the spiritual fellowship of faith and the Christian communality, have theological justification.

Brazil is said to be home to the largest number of such groups» more than 70,000 such communities, according to Phillip Berryman, while Arthur E McGovern, S.J., estimates 80,000 to 100,000 groups.

He contends that in a community where large numbers of pupils are served by church - related schools, it can be assumed that state assistance would entail considerable political activity.

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.

Communicating your school's nutrition program effectively means reaching out to a number of key groups; not just students and their parents, but teachers, administrators, custodians, and the community at - large.

Encourage communities and health facilities to use new media technology to reach larger numbers of people with breastfeeding information and alert them about the conflicts of interest that may arise when entities which profit from selling or distributing products under the scope of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (Code) promote breastfeeding.

In recent months, officials have discussed installing a turf field instead of a grass field in the park — at an added cost of up to $ 1 million, which the Lyons Township Soccer Club has said is needed for the community's large number of soccer players.

When Chicago citizens were asked about the parks during five community forums convened by the Mayor «s Drug and Gang Task Force, the largest number of negative comments by far were about the district «s failure to make its programs known to the public.

Our results are consistent with several larger studies3 - 14 in various communities in developed countries, using a number of developmental tests, which have shown a positive association between breast feeding and cognitive development of the child, even after adjustment for confounding factors.

A large number of New Yorkers believe doctors are to blame for the opioid epidemic gripping their communities and nation, according to a new Siena College poll.

After all of that work for their candidate, recruiting volunteers, raising money, building a community of supporters, and spreading campaign news, a very large number of campaign web sites freeze on Election Day.

as an immigrant of color who has large numbers of undocumented economic refugees in her district she will be helpful to communities of color and immigrant, refugee communities esp.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

The greater number of people we can reach about employment opportunities, the greater number of hires we can make that help County Government be a better representation of our community at large.»

«The combined result of these problems is that the prison system is releasing large numbers of individuals who are not fit to return to the community,» BMA committee member Dr Redmond Walsh commented.

«I am encouraged by the large number of my fellow Westchester residents who turned out and spoke out against the horrific incidents of gun violence that is plaguing our communities, Legislator Williams tells BW.

Property values are not an accurate indicator of wealth in the community, he said, especially in the Adirondack Park, where myriad dynamics skew the values — including the large tracts of state land and high number of seasonal residences.

My district currently has the largest number of residents attending community college outside of Erie County and the greatest amount of chargeback fees paid annually.

Quoting acting DEC deputy commissioner Thomas Berkman's reference to the project's «potential for significant adverse environmental impacts,» the document states, «the very large number of affected communities demands a scoping process that can accommodate their effective participation to identify issues of local and regional concern.»