Sentences with phrase «large part of the activities»

Although a large part of this activity probably reflects the desire to complete construction prior to the introduction of the GST, other factors have contributed to the strong demand for housing, notably the relatively high levels of affordability throughout 1999.

A large part of the activities of these organisations depends on the involvement of volunteers who participate in collective actions such as legal aid, advice and support in terms of access to services (housing, schools, welfare, etc.), language or educational support (in particular children's support), fundraising, therapeutic or moral support.

Although the dogs still cost the same to produce, a large part of their activity is to do the fundraising themselves, so the cost of the dog is already covered by grants and donations.

Thanks to large part of our activity, the practice of this application becomes more homogeneous.

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A large part of that means allowing for more private enterprise activities.»

You will stay more consistently motivated if you're working on activities that are inherently meaningful or are part of a larger mission.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

It's all part of the phenomenon of repressed yields and cheap credit: Companies are borrowing large amounts of money to buy back their own shares and to buy out each other, instead of funding investments in productive activities.

I work at a large industrial conglomerate — several of the conditions of employment are an IP waiver and a requirement to identify other income sources and / or business activities as part of conflict of interest reporting.

That followed a magnitude - 3.2 tremor in the same area Thursday morning and is part of a large cluster of seismic activity in the region over the last 30 days.

While oil majors are already cutting back on exploration activities in Nigeria, the decision by Shell indicated that keeping a large part of its oil and gas reserves in the ground would be risky.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

Only the series of dominant occasions known as the soul is a separate society, i.e., a set of personally ordered occasions which provide continuity in time for the patterns already generated in large part by nexus of living occasions within the field of activity proper to the brain.

Accordingly, a large part of economic activity is devoted to the satisfaction of man's psychic wants.

Nor are large numbers (including many of its own members) fully aware of the organization's innovative activities that address image and other nontangibles as part of their focus.

It would seem that such activity on the part of the second - largest organization in the United States (the largest being the Roman Catholic Church) would be worthy of some scrutiny.

The agency of the larger social whole is thus to be compared to an ensemble of persons acting as one voice: an activity manifested as a whole, but one derived from and enacted by its parts; one voice made up of many separate voices, socially interrelated.

This term implies that economic activity is part of a larger social whole; the economy can be completely isolated from politics only in a game.

The majority of Dick's Last Resorts are located in high - profile parts of large - market cities, particularly those that attract a significant amount of tourism and convention activity.

Camps listed further down the page offer volleyball training as part of larger slate of sports activities.

The largest part of the property, 134 acres of forest and wetlands, will be owned by the Town of Princeton Conservation Commission and will be open to the public for conservation and recreational activities.

Focusing skills, hand - eye coordination, and developing the larger muscle groups are all part of this type of activity.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

These activities are instead part of a much larger narrative in which cultural pride and historical grudges play leading roles.

The move was part of the larger campaign to impress upon government suspend all small - scale mining activities to enable and audit of the entire mining sector to help sanitize it and address galamsey.

As the state filings show, the only significant activity of the camp is retiring debt, which in large part must wait for the CFB's disbursement.

In the digital era a large part of the surveillance of Parliament by citizens and outside actors is now focused on social media, which are more suited to the detailed communication of parliamentary activity to a wide audience.

It is part of a larger fight for a smaller police force and more community input in city activities.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

The results of this article, part of the European study HELENA involving nine countries, demonstrated that eating larger amounts of egg is neither linked to higher serum cholesterol nor to worse cardiovascular health in adolescents, regardless of their levels of physical activity.

But the Southern Ocean plays a more benign role in the global carbon budget: Its waters now take up about 50 % of the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, thanks in large part to the so - called «biological pump.»

«The relationship between colour variation and stability was independent of activity period or host plant range, since the more stable species with large variation in colour drawing were not restricted in their activity to a shorter part of the year or to a narrower range of host plants.

«Cold, hot or dry: Persistent weather extremes associated with decreased storm activity: Decrease in storm activity over large parts of the US, Europe, Russia, and China is found to influence weather extremes.»

During the last few months, these activities have moved «a large part of the university community to the street,» Ravaglia says, as researchers and others have organized strikes and demonstrations at universities, research centers, and major cities.

A related study, also published in PLOS Genetics, shows that RPM - 1 functions as a part of a novel pathway to control β - catenin activity — this is the first evidence that RPM - 1 works in connection with extracellular signals, such as a family of protein growth factors known as Wnts, and is part of larger signaling networks that regulate development.

Truthful tweets took six times as long as fake ones to spread to 1500 people across Twitter — in large part because falsehoods were 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than the truth, even after accounting for the posters» account age, activity level and number of followers (Science, doi.org/gc3jt6).

The study was performed as part of a larger project for Carnegie Mellon's Quality of Life Technology Center called dwellSense, in which Dey and Lee, then a Ph.D. student in HCII, deployed devices that monitored such activities as making coffee and using a telephone, as well as taking pills, in residences.

Indeed, a large part of the information services of the future will involve a new type of activity — the purchase and sale of information work.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

A large part of our past activity has focussed on identifying principles underlying the functional organisation of the early secretory pathway (ER exit site (ERES)- Golgi) in cultured Drosophila S2 cells (1)(2).

Studying how animals plan over these different timescales has been challenging, in large part because it requires many brain areas operating at once, and neuroscientists have lacked the tools to observe neural activity over broad swaths of the brain.

Plus, the grant will help them work with researchers led by Doug Nordli, M.D., at the Lurie Children's Hospital at Northwestern University, which has a large clinical program for Dravet syndrome and will look at heart rhythm activity during and after seizures in its patients as part of the study.

«It's a more complicated picture, but broadly it means that there are going to be winners and losers in the oceans as its chemistry is modified by human activities — this could have the effect of altering major ocean ecosystems on which both we and a large part of marine life depend.»

The favorite parts of my job are working with faculty to help make proposals more competitive, using data analytics to develop strategies for investing in shared infrastructure and mid - to large - scale research activities, helping to develop interdisciplinary connections among our researchers, and working with our Vice Provost for Faculty Success to provide training and support resources for faculty.

Most notably, the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming, and it is extremely likely (at least 95 % probability) that these changes are in large part a result of human activities.

Your chest is a part of a larger group of «pushing muscles» found in your upper body, and as such it enables you to perform a variety of daily activities and functional movements at the gym.

Here at Mark's Daily Apple, we advocate the Primal Blueprint Lifestyle, that is, a health philosophy that in large part acts to mimic the diet and physical activity of our pre-agricultural ancestors.

It puts our human place in the cosmos in clearer perspective, reminding us that we are part of a much larger world that is not dependent upon our human activity.

At 1200 - 1500 calories per pound, if they become a large part of the diet, they can raise the overall calorie density and make it much easier to overeat on calories and easy to gain weight and / or not lose weight, even with a higher activity level.

I mean, these are the events that have led to the conspiracy theory — which isn't quite so farfetched and is supported by some good evidence, some of which we bear witness to here — that the CIA was actively involved in importing cocaine into the United States in the 1980s, and that the agency's activities were in large part responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic.