Sentences with phrase «more encouraging numbers»

Despite these slightly more encouraging numbers, more than half of the companies surveyed conceded that their businesses will have to be restructured or staff moved.

Not exact matches

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

THE Australian Society of CPAs is encouraged that more than half a million businesses, out of a potential two million, have already applied for the Australian Business Number.

But more than just a numbers game, social media is about a qualitative message, and the ability to encourage dialogue and engagement with followers.

However, the largest national research survey, using recent data on hundreds of companies that employ 6 million workers, gives encouraging news on this score, showing that managers in companies with more employee share ownership, appear to implement a greater number of these supportive involvement policies.30

While the big - picture finding that more than four in five small businesses are planning growth in 2017 is encouraging, the numbers are little less rosy when we look at them by gender.

 Mr. Poloz himself bent over backwards in his last Monetary Policy Report to not use that term — even though the Bank's own numbers (projecting negative GDP growth for both the first and second quarters of 2015) suggested a recession was indeed already underway. Instead, public officials are normally sanguine and rose - coloured in their public pronouncements, hoping to incrementally shift consumer confidence with their cheeriness, and thus spark more spending. [A ridiculous extreme of this approach was provided when George Bush blithely encouraged Americans to go shopping in the days after the 9 - 11 terrorist attacks.]

To encourage more swiping, some cards offer a rewards bonus if you make a certain number of purchases within a certain period.

The more encouraging messages from readers, and especially from the growing number of readers of college age, are those that say they discovered in First Things a perspective that enabled them to turn the cacophony of impassioned opinions into the paths of robustly constructive conversation.

So it seems to me that he is either padding his numbers to encourage people to place ads on his site, or, more likely, there was a month once where he got 300,000 pageviews, but that month is not «normal.»

ii) The second count was that on 12 May, More sent a number of letters to John Fisher to encourage him in his refusal and to say that he himself kept silence.

There are a number of diet programs that encourage eating more like our ancestral Stone Age caveman (or cavewoman) with plenty of meat and veggies, and cutting down or eliminating grains, starches, added or refined sugars, and chemical preservatives.

You may find that bringing your child's bedtime forward slightly or encouraging more naps during the day helps to reduce the number of night terrors.

This is probably because of a number of factors, including that there is a lot less conformity and rigidity at home which encourages thinking, they have time to explore things more, they have more conversation with adults, etc., but whatever the cause, it's strong enough that even non-home schooling people, including many university professors, have observed it.

According to Rosalind, «If dads are taught to cook a minimal number of easy dishes so that they realise how quick and easy cooking is, I think that they may be encouraged to cook more regularly.»

West has co-authored a number of books, including The Womanly Art of Breast - feeding, 8th edition, The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide to Making More Milk and Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Procedures, all of which encourage women to nurse and share information on how to breastfeed more easMore Milk and Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Procedures, all of which encourage women to nurse and share information on how to breastfeed more easmore easily.

This includes encouraging more women to become engineers and growing the number of engineering apprentices.

As a result, it has become ever - more expensive to operate smaller aircraft, which has tended to encourage a reduction in the number of UK domestic flight connections.

In a liberal society, people should be free to have the odd drink or two, but tackling binge drinking requires encouraging more people to do so responsibly and minimising the number who drink harmfully.

Lighter evenings could cut down the number of opportunistic crimes and encourage more outdoor exercise and use of public transport, for example, affecting the Home Office, Department of Health and Department of Transport respectively.

A veteran of numerous mayoral administrations and a rare independent voice in Mr. de Blasio's realm, Mr. Weisbrod was unafraid to admit that a solution to the city's affordable housing crisis may be encouraging more housing construction beyond the five boroughs — and therefore enticing the increasing number of people who work in the city to live elsewhere.

Meeting the looming on - time budget deadline of March 31 was encouraged by observant Christian and Jewish lawmakers wanting to get home and, more importantly, by agreements to punt on a number of partisan - dividing policy issues not directly connected to the state's financial plan.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has called on HMRC to allow taxpayers a limited number of defaults before incurring a penalty for late submissions under the new proposals for digital tax reporting.1 This can be achieved by allowing those taxpayers a short extension period on those particular occasions.2 The CIOT says such an approach to penalties is more consistent with HMRC's five principles for penalties than alternative penalty regimes that HMRC recently consulted on.3 The CIOT has said that this «cumulative suspension» penalty regime is more likely to encourage compliance, penalise non-compliance and be a proportionate response to late filing.4 HMRC is yet to publish details about the level of the penalties, although it has confirmed that this will be a fixed penalty, irrespective of the size of the business.

Susan Anderson, CBI's director of human resources policy, said: «Women are still under - represented in senior positions and more progress must be made, but it is encouraging that an increasing number of women are becoming directors, particularly from the younger age groups.»

· 12 % of respondents are aware of their companies recruiting more graduates · Only 1 % are recruiting the same number of graduates as before the recession · 66 % stated their company encourages its workers to gain a professional qualification, a further 22 % said it was a requirement

This is important because the role of a select committee chair is a high profile, influential one; an increase in the number of female chairs has a direct impact on the visibility of women in Parliament, and may encourage more women to play a role in the committee system and politics itself.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

What we are seeing in the recently released hotel occupancy numbers is a very encouraging first step that should lead to even more growth in 2012.»

Paradoxically, finding ways to encourage more microbial ecosystems in hospitals might help bring the number of infections down and is one of the BioBE team's primary challenges.

The game involves zooming in and zooming out to rescale the number line, and Christopher talks through each move — a strategy that Babtie encourages — but it takes him more than a minute to locate 210.

Instead they are encouraged to take the safer path, performing less challenging, more routine experiments in order to assemble the number of publications necessary to take the next step in the career progression.

Dr Coleman and her group have developed a sensitive test to allow them to detect the location and number of the stem cells after they've been added; they report that the stem cells do not permanently integrate into the host tissue but instead produce signals that encourage the host's own cells to heal the fracture more efficiently.

«There is a huge strength in numbers, and the more we can encourage donors and recipients to participate in paired kidney donation — even as a compatible pair, which we were able to accomplish in our UAB kidney chain — you can gain things by participating in these exchanges,» Locke said.

Dr Simon Black, of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), has developed a number of techniques that are more commonly seen in business settings to encourage improvements in conservation management.

He said the numbers forecast in the House and Senate bills — about 700,000 vehicles in the first five to six years — are more than what the manufacturers are currently planning to build, so the bills will encourage them to raise production, which will spill over to all markets.

«We are optimistic that our technique will increase the number of kidneys available by encouraging more people to donate.»

By controlling conflicts, macaque cops had enabled individuals to feel more secure, which encouraged them to work with a greater number and variety of their peers, the team reports in today's Nature.

«The number of people who are developing, encouraging, thinking about biologically inspired designs is vastly more than it was five years ago, two years ago even,» Spedding said.

Encourage them to be less focused on the actual «number» and more tuned in to how they feel.

In some regions hit hardest by the epidemic, the numbers are even more encouraging: Over the six - year span, new infections dropped by 29 % in eastern and southern Africa.

Although these numbers are much too small to draw hard conclusions from, and more details about the pregnancies are not recorded, the study, which I have attached in case you are curious, is encouraging, and its authors include a current advisor to the American Diabetes Association.

Still, this study highlights the importance of balance: Weighing yourself once a day may be encouraging as a useful tool to measure progress, but any more than that and the weight - loss journey may simply become an obsessive numbers game.

GenF20 Plus ® encourages your pituitary gland to release more HGH, which, in turn, helps your body to lose weight in a number of ways.

Having large levels of glycogen also generally encourages people to move around more, which can increase the number of calories they burn.

I did have several experiences with a number of individuals who did not share my interests and most importantly refrained from even encouraging me in a conversation just because I was always on a bike.Read More >>

Speaking about the relaxing of its sign - up questionnaire, Langston said: «If you were going to take 10 questions, if that's the number that you think you can stand to get through, then you're going to get matches that are less compatible, but the point is we want to get you in the tent, then start encouraging you to move towards more questions and better matches.»

It's not as action - packed as «Predator» (it's actually more comparable to «Prometheus» and «Alien: Covenant»), nor as incomprehensible as «Under the Skin» (with which it shares a number of similarities), nor as aloof as «Arrival,» but it's one of those rare drama / horror hybrids that hopes to encourage audiences to think — at the same time that they're cowering.

I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs a lot more once I embraced this absurdity and the Definitive Edition encourages you to be a little silly with a huge number of novelty outfits taken from popular Chinese film and other Square Enix properties.

Shooting Once Upon a Time in Mexico with HiDef instead of celluloid cameras apparently allowed for more spontaneous implementations of CGI — Rodriguez claims that he solicited some 330 unallotted F / X shots (many of the niftiest of which Rodriguez deconstructs in the vein of football play - by - plays) and still came in under budget, though I'm not convinced that the sloppiness encouraged by the flexibility of DV (the phrase «we'll fix it in post» is a veritable mantra on HiDef productions) isn't largely responsible for the inflated number.

To be honest, it's not really my cup of tea, but I hope it sells in decent numbers and encourages Tecmo to release more games for the Wii U. Any exclusive game is a bonus, so lets hope it does well.