Sentences with phrase «large number of proposals»

The literature on climate change contains a large number of proposals on possible future international agreements.

It was really very interesting and educational to read a large number of proposals from a reviewer's perspective.

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Susan Alt, senior vice president of public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «makes a mockery» of the company's investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»

In this respect, the approach proposed by the Jenkins Panel of separating from the National Research Council a number of its existing technology institutes into a constellation of large - scale, sectoral, collaborative R&D centres involving business, the university sector and the provinces is an important proposal.

Evidently we have been able to bring in a large number of ideas and proposals, because each of us has been involved, often for a long time, in the action process.

From the beginning I realized that the proposal was not only large and complex, but that there were a considerable number of people studying the theme who were disposed to collaborate in the publication of the book.

From prior experience with the similar «Badman» proposals for England and Wales in 2009/10, we believe that one of the factors that convinced the government not to proceed was the large number of individual responses from home educating families and groups.

A federal proposal to tighten eligibility for free school lunches could force large numbers of low - income children out of a program that feeds more than 800,000 students in Illinois, local school officials say.

But neighbors quickly rallied against the proposal, citing, in part, the possible risk of fire if the turbine were installed in the middle of the woods and the large number of birds in the nature preserve surrounding the lake.

Lately, the Erie County Legislature has been handling a large number of unbalanced spending proposals including lead and opiate initiatives that have been pushed on the Legislature without any notion of how to fund these programs for the long term.

The governor jettisoned a large number of policy proposals he had hoped to yoke to the state budget, amid resistance from legislators.

May was «traducing a large number of people in this House» and undermining the work of the joint committee investigating the proposal, he added.

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.

A large number of Labour backbenchers, as well as numerous Labour luminaries like Neil Kinnock and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, made known their opposition to the proposals and published an alternative white paper.

Similarly, it backed away from dropping the marriage questions, writing that «in deference to the very large number of comments received on the Census Bureau proposal to eliminate those questions, the Census Bureau plans to retain those questions on the 2016 ACS.»

Platzman's and Mills» gamma - ray laser proposal involves generating coherent emission of these 511 keV photons by persuading a large number of Ps atoms to commit suicide at the same time, thus generating an intense gamma - ray pulse.

EPSRC receives the largest number of grant proposals among the U.K. research councils, and that number has grown dramatically in recent years, according to David Reid, head of communications at the council.

The proposal they issued to create a larger number of new civil servant positions so that the research system could absorb them is controversial.

And the number of good proposals to the total number of proposals is more or less the same everywhere and therefore in the end it does happen that larger countries do get more time than smaller countries.

The next step is to convince a large number of people to support the proposal and then submit it to the IAU for approval.

The government of Netanyahu in the first week of the assault on Gaza apparently turned down a proposal to conduct lightning strikes inside Gaza that would have destroyed Hamas» command and control centres and other military infrastructure and spared a large number of innocent Palestinian lives.

The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.

In total, districts from all but two states — North Dakota and Wyoming — plan to submit proposals, with California, New Jersey, and Texas boasting the largest numbers of interested districts.

That said I do think there is a groundswell of opinion, including from conservatives, that the forcible conversion of large numbers of highly performing schools is not a good idea and the proposal to allow trusts not to have parent governors is likely to be dropped with much fanfare at some point.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy was in Sacramento Wednesday for a press conference in support of Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to shift more funding to school districts like LAUSD that have large numbers of poor and English Language Learner students.

There is no evidence tying any of these proposals to better outcomes for large numbers of kids over time.

As is the case with the election as a whole, both party platforms offer specific proposals related to immigration policy but provide few details on what their party believes to be the best strategy for supporting the large and growing number of ELLs who are in U.S. schools.

Features Tax Relief: The New Act and What It Means for Individuals Tax Strategies: In addition to adopting the largest of the president's 2001 tax cut proposals, Congress included a substantial number of reforms that provide significant increases to the maximum contributions allowed for retirement savings vehicles.

The results of the 2012 BC Consumer Debt Study show that an equal number of males and females and those between the ages 40 - 54 comprised the largest number of bankruptcy or consumer proposal filings in B.C. — with typical debt loads reaching between $ 25,000 to $ 49,000.

As an engineer who's worked on a large number of cost proposals I'd like to offer a rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate of the time and money it would take to do a complete audit.

President Obama's proposed 2015 budget proposal also seeks to cap the PSLF amount forgiven at $ 57,500, which might significantly affect a large number of recent graduates who have relied and made decisions based on the program.

And many of the larger corporations are using requests for proposals to create panels of law firms to consolidate the number of firms with which they are working.

At the same time, the large number of reform proposals currently floated risk fragmenting investment law even further.

Recently, there has been a large number of international Bitcoin communities that are voicing their opinion against the SegWit2x proposal.

While this may sound like just another proposal (and it is one of a very large number introduced in the scaling debate of late), Bitcoin Cash took a notable step forward earlier this week when ViaBTC launched futures trading for the tokens - and trading took off (it had about $ 11m in volume on Thursday).

Unlike other scaling proposals, Chainweb's parallel network model maintains security without using side channels or only using part of a blockchain to process a large number of transactions.

He further explained how some prominent people in the bitcoin space decided to «kill» the Bitcoin XT proposal, which included deleting posts with the words Bitcoin XT from discussion forums, expulsion of a «massive» number of users from these forums and most importantly, Coinbase — the largest and best known Bitcoin startup in the USA — was temporarily erased from the official Bitcoin website for picking the «wrong» side.

However, I am concerned about the potential inherent in the proposal for claimants and NTRB's to be inundated with large numbers of irrelevant notices, such as when a State:

The proposal to move a large number of units within a compressed time — seven weeks — started when MAC contacted the Onni Group, which had a 375 condominium units available in seven Lower Mainland projects, completed and ready to move into the market.