Sentences with phrase «majority of those service members»

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the deployment of more than 2.5 million service members since 2001, with the majority of those service members experiencing one or more deployments.

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Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

«These fighters will have a positive impact on Taiwan's self - defense and would act as a necessary deterrent to China's aggressive military posture across the Asia - Pacific region,» Senators John Cornyn, the assistant majority leader, and James Inhofe, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a letter to President Donald Trump.

While a small minority of larger churches do experience some success with this approach, the overwhelming majority of smaller churches attempting to be Hillsong clones continue to haemorrhage members every week because they can not offer the same quality of music, preaching or other services that their mega-mall comrades down the road are able to provide.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

Silver presides over the heavy Democrat majority in the Assembly and has come under criticism in recent months by members of both his own party and the Republicans for what Katz called his actions «in covering the sexual improprieties of Assemblyman Vito Lopez with taxpayer dollars by means of the «Miscellaneous Contractual Services» account.»

«An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support ride sharing and elected officials, small business owners, clergy members and law enforcement officials had been clamoring for the service for years,» Uber spokeswoman Alix Anfang said.

Those being sued include: Superintendent Joel Klein, Assistant Superintendent for the Office of Special Student Services and Funded Programs Elie Wizman, the district attorney, Albert D'Agostino, the five current members who are part of the Orthodox and Hasidic majority: school board President Daniel Schwartz, Vice President Yehuda Weissmandl, Moses Friedman, Moshe Hopstein and Eliyahu Solomon.

«We do have to reform but I just want to say that I continue to believe that the vast majority of members of this House are upright, decent, honourable people who have come into politics, not to feather their nests, but because they have heeded the call of public service,» he said.

Such ambiguity often makes scientists hesitant to contribute their expertise in service of science policy, Smith said, but he encouraged scientists to share their knowledge with policymakers, the majority of whom are not scientists themselves — just 5 % of members in the 114th Congress have a college degree in any science, Smith said.

Because the majority of our members have successful careers, we also take into account your education and income level so as to safeguard the professionalism associated with our service.

However, unlike the vast majority of free online dating sites, we have strict quality control over new member applications, sophisticated spam and fake account monitoring software, and top - flight customer services.

A majority of the online dating services make users believe that they can communicate with any member category once they sign up.

Among members of the Christian dating service that are 21 years of age and over, the majority (65 %) either abstain from alcohol consumption, or rarely partake.

The plaintiffs say the websites» forms were intentionally designed to prevent the majority of members from ever seeing the Terms of Service.

They do have a paid upgrade membership which gives you additional features but the majority of the features of the dating service is free which is what most members take advantage of.

True.com counter these claims by arguing that criminal background checks remove the majority of undesirables from a dating service, so creating a safer environment for their members and a more reliable online dating service, and that this is a much better situation than currently exists in most internet dating services.

The briefings were given to: U.S. Senator (Washington - D) Patty Murray and her staff; members of the staff of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (Tennessee - R); and Michael Gentile, majority clerk of the Senate's Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Delft, the Netherlands, where he worked from 1946 to 1979 as a civil servant for the Dutch Postal Service, Schoonhoven rose to artistic prominence as an active and influential member of the international avant garde.

Altria recently added a former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to its stable of lobbyists, while Reynolds added a former deputy chief of staff to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price when he was a member of Congress.

Likewise, the Polish Sejm's giving itself the power to select members of the national judicial council (i.e., the body responsible for nominating Polish judges) might not be a cause of concern, because those judges will still enjoy some protections from the majority party like civil service tenure.

Despite serious staffing shortages that are causing occupational stress for RCMP members the vast majority of them are continuing to provide our communities with stellar policing services across the country often at great cost to their health and personal lives.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

Even though a majority of most legal budget is still spent on outsourced services, most departments surveyed have shown an increase in internal headcount and / or the plan to add more team members and more budget again this year — often paired with the growth of their client organizations.

The green paper also promised greater accountability: by requiring approval of the House of Commons to the dissolution of Parliament; giving a majority of members the power to demand the recall of parliament; and putting the Civil Service on a statutory footing.

I was talking to some of the premium service members in the last one month and majority of them have invested in Unit Link Insurance Policies (ULIP's) and want to surrender old frontloaded ULIP's.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Reduced church electricity bills by 55 % by suggesting performing majority of services in church lawns • Grew member interest in church activities by implementing 15 outreach programs • Increased church members from 650 to 1000 by introducing Jesus in Us, a program especially designed to interest teenagers in attending church • Reorganized church administrative procedures by incorporating technology and reducing paperwork

The majority of our military resume specialists are former service members themselves.

In any 4 - year period, 81 % of the adult membership obtains this service, and more than 50 000 members are evaluated yearly; thus, data from the HAC represent the experiences and health status of a majority of adult Kaiser members in San Diego.

The continued success of PTI depends upon providing good service to its practitioner members so that the needs of the majority are always taken into account.

Obviously, there needs to be a reasonable balance between healthy competition, and an organized industry being able to bring its services to consumers in a way that the majority of its members — acting reasonably, and without duress — believes, best reflects on the role of the industry?

A natural person, a corporation through its officers, a partnership through its partners or a limited liability company through its members or managers that deals in selling, exchanging, purchasing, renting, leasing, managing or pledging the person's or entity's own property, including cemetery property and membership camping contracts, and that does not receive special compensation for a sales transaction or does not receive special compensation or other consideration including property management fees or consulting fees for any property management services performed, if the majority of an officer's, partner's, member's or manager's activities do not involve the acts of a real estate broker,

These members drain the staff resources and work against the majority of the members who want to provide the best service to their clients.»

The results of its 2017 customer survey, which had 914 member respondents, reveal that the vast majority of The MLS ™ members report overall satisfaction and feel the services meet their needs.

Aiken says: «TREB's practices protect the interests of the majority of its traditional, dues - paying members from the competitive threat of innovative brokers who want to use VOWs to enter or expand in the market and offer more attractive services to consumers.