Sentences with phrase «least number of first»

Under instant runoff voting in New York City, if no candidate receives 50 percent of first - choice votes, then the candidate who gets the least number of first - choice votes is eliminated.

Not exact matches

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

«This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time SIGAR has been specifically instructed not to release information marked «unclassified» to the American taxpayer,» Sopko wrote.

Add $ 14 billion of the accelerated repurchase and I guess you get $ 19 billion in the first four - and - change months of fiscal 2014, which annualizes to... I mean, ISS says «it appears to be on track to repurchase at least $ 32 billion in shares» and, sure, that is a number.

For reservations made before November 1, 2017, first - time AirBnB users that provide their Elevate loyalty program membership number will earn a bonus of 1,500 Elevate points and a $ 20 AirBnB travel credit for a booking of at least $ 150 in value.

The number of Asians with at least $ 100 million in disposable assets overtook North America's tally for the first time... Seguir leyendo >

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This principle means first: In ecclesiastical decisions, measures, etc., there is always a choice between at least two, but usually between a number of possibilities.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

For the first time in history the answers to all three questions seem, for a large number of intellectuals at least, to depend completely upon the answer to the prior question: «Who are we?»

While flights leaving the country on a Monday won't quite match the culinary standards of Sweden's Malmö Aviation — the first airline in the world to join the MFM campaign — at least the choice has improved for the growing number of people who are eating less meat.

2 / If Le Coq really is the number one DM in the team, then we expect him to play at least 70 % of the first team fixtures, and at least 65 % at the very top of his game.

If people really want to go to town on his 8 goals in first season, signed on dead - line day, no pre-season, played centrally for only a small number of games (14 in fact) then they should at least keep it in context; look at the first season or comparable age scoring from some of their other heroes like Kanu, Eduardo, Wiltord, Adebayor and RvP — they certainly were not ripping up trees and played centrally all the time.

Also, his command of the area and set pieces were shaky to say the least on multiple occassions, and was bailed out from a number of situations caught in no man's land by one of our players getting their head to the ball first.

In the envisaged revamping of the Arsenal first team squad during the in - coming summer transfer window for next season's campaign during which at least 2 world class players are expected to be signed by Arsenal in addition to keeping Ozil and Sanchez, and some underperforming Gunners for 3 consecutive seasons allowed to leave on the expiration of their contract deals this season or be sold if their deals are still active to recoup some funds used in signing the 2 world class players in addition to the signing of 3 other top quality new players making them 5 in numbers of: a LB, a DM, an AMD, a versatile world class Winger & a world class Striker whom Arsenal should sign during the summer imho.

«I'm sure that first number is at least 85 % now; gambling is growing at a phenomenal rate in the United States,» says Henry Lesieur, chair of the criminal justice department at Illinois State University and the acknowledged dean of American gambling researchers.

Sydney FC's 2016/17 Hyundai A-League Championship and Premiership winning season saw a number of Australian football records, some dating back more than 40 years, broken, with the Sky Blues setting Australian football records for most points in a season (66), least losses in a season (1), least goals conceded in a season (12), best goal difference in a season (+41), most wins in a single season (20), and became the only club in Australian football history to remain in outright first place all season.

• During the first week, we expect the baby to wet the number of diapers equal to the baby's age / days (= 3 wet diapers on day 3) and 1 or two stools (at least the size of a US quarter) in 24 hours.

The number of times your child poops will vary, but she should have at least one or two bowel movements a day in the first month.

«We do find that the baby who took the probiotic since the first week of life, they develop less number of colic and constipation in the first month of life so they improve at least the symptoms,» says Dr. Flavia Indrio, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the University of Bari in Italy, who led the study.

According to the most current study, the number of women who choose to breastfeed in the United States continues to rise, with 77 percent of new moms reporting they at least breastfed their babies for the first few months of their life, if not for a year — or years.

Implementation of this intervention may contribute to the achievement of the following targets: Global nutrition targets Target 1: 40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Target 4: No increase in childhood overweight Target 5: Increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in first 6 months up to at least 50 % Global NCD targets Target 7: Halt the rise in diabetes and obesity

While original agreements with the state required SolarCity to hire at least 1,460 workers for its Buffalo factory — including 900 within the first 24 months of operation — the number was dropped to just 500 workers, according to an amended agreement filed with the SEC.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

In fact, since August 28th, his office has sent me the governor's latest news via email at least EIGHTEEN TIMES in only three days, a number which is tragically low because I deleted the first few messages before I realized I was witness at the birth of a new literary genre.

Having worked in a number of think tanks down the years, I always found that backbenchers were the least interested in our work, while we were on first name terms with the most senior politicians - people who recognised the power of (new) ideas.

Indeed, the total number of Lib Dem councillors will very likely plummet below 2,000 for the first time since 1983 — and at least then the SDP / Liberal Alliance was on its way up, not down.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

On the first day of presenting their defense cases Thursday, their lawyers urged a federal judge to dismiss the charges on a number of grounds, not the least of which, they said, is that the government has failed to prove corruption occurred after nearly five weeks of prosecution witnesses and evidence.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

Bonacic, R - Mount Hope, said he's still holding out hope for at least three casinos in the Catskill Region, but said Cuomo was willing to add a fourth casino in the first round of construction in exchange for capping the number of gaming facilities at two.

While original agreements with the state required SolarCity to hire at least 1,460 workers for the factory — including 900 within the first 24 months of operation — the number was dropped to just 500 workers, according to an amended agreement signed last October and filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Researchers examined 28,516 postmenopausal women without cardiovascular disease from the Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births, age at first pregnancy lasting at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to menopause) with incident heart failure.

The findings of the studythe first to measure cumulative exposure to environmental hazards of all kinds in the stateare dramatic: communities in which people of color make up at least 15 percent of the population average more than four times the number of hazardous waste sites, compared with communities having less than 5 percent people of color.

Through the first half of 2012, at least 180 active - duty soldiers committed suicide, more than the number of U.S. troops who died in battle during the same period.

A year later, Columbus built his first town on the nearby island of Hispaniola, where the Taino numbered at least 60,000 and possibly as many as 8 million, according to some estimates.

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

On day 3, you'll be consuming the least number of calories compared to the first two previous days.

Without recording this it's very challenging to select a weight that will cause muscle failure at a specific number of reps. Continually keep a log of at least your first one or two exercises so you can track progress each week and know exactly how much weight you should be using on each set.

Once you begin to communicate with a member, never give them personal information such as your address or phone number until you have met a few times in person and have judged them to be genuine and trustworthy and at least for the first few dates, meet in a busy venue during daylight hours and tell friends and family of your plans.

CHEMISTRY FACT # 5: having at least some chemistry with someone is a good and necessary first step, but you need to connect on a number of levels to sustain a long term relationship.

I joined first met with the highest expectations, paid the first month and never got a single real world contact.no phone numbers, no email, even though I put my phone number out to a dozen women im not a slob, i think if this was legit, id have got at least a call or email.a real waste of time and money.

First, you need to dispense with the stigma because these days, online dating is just how most people meet for a number of reason not the least of which is time and.

Data summarized on this website provides additional factual information about online dating that may surprise you even more: First, of the large number of singles in the U.S. (more than 54 million), about 80 % have tried online dating sites at least once.

While the choreography is generally fairly minimal (at least for this sort of mega-production), first time film director Phyllida Lloyd (who helmed the original stage version) has woven together a tightly edited and exceedingly well shot film that capitalizes on the music wonderfully while never worrying too much about such nettlesome items as character or motivation, providing enough other movement that one ultimately doesn't miss huge dance numbers a la Robbins or Fosse that much in the long run.

A movie that looks to be engrossing due to the dynamic of the relationship between Will and Tom, and their commitment to each other, the trailer sets up a number of questions for the potential viewer to be thinking about ahead of seeing Leave No Trace — not the least of which is why are they in the forest in the first place — and it promises excellent performances from its two leads.

There is evidence to suggest that Dumbo is the least popular and relevant of the first five, its sales numbers not being enough to qualify it for Disney's ten - deep Platinum Collection on DVD, not even after the company expanded the series to include fourteen.

As of September 21 2017, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is the best - selling third party game on the Nintendo Switch, and was noted to have outsold at least one first - party game, although no specific numbers were disclosed.

In order to qualify for at least a minimum pension, teachers must first work and pay into the plan for a minimum number of years, called a «vesting» period.