Sentences with phrase «mostly over concerns»

In the past few years, the district has approved one charter school and denied at least two others, mostly over concerns about brand - new operators with poor financial plans.

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Over time, as people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.

Carbonated soft drinks have been on the decline for a decade, driven by consumer concerns over the sugar — mostly in the form of high - fructose corn syrup — and the explosion of alternatives.

Seems he forfeited the team's first meet of the season against the defending state champion out of concern for the runners» long - term health had they run over a hilly 2.75 - mile course consisting mostly of pavement in 90 degree heat.

«He accused Duggan of being corrupt, favoring downtown business interests over neighborhood concerns, and effectively creating «two Detroits:» one for prosperous newcomers, and another for mostly poor, longtime city residents.

A year that began with concerns among members of his team over whether Arizona Sen. John McCain would face a viable primary challenger from his right is ending with the fifth - term Republican looking mostly unfazed.

But the referendum battle over the future of the UK concerns Scotland - based voters alone, and the outcome of the independence referendum is likely to be determined by the current 10 or 15 per cent of the «don't know» Scottish electors, mostly in Scotland's central belt.

Syracuse Common Councilor Nader Maroun, whose district includes much of the East Side, said he has been looking for solutions to the deer problem for years, mostly out of concern over the spread of Lyme disease, which is carried by deer ticks.

That may not sound like much, but Jews as a group aren't that into new technologies, especially when their private and love life is concerned, so this is a really good number to go with, especially with the fact that the members can be found all over the world, although they are mostly in the US and UK.

The film is mostly concerned with the emotional wreckage that results after the binge is over.

I think he is mostly concerned over a glut of films by neophyte directors who are merely riffing on Tarantino - style shocks (but, he makes clear, without any of Tarantino's intelligence, nuance, or understanding and love of cinema) as a pathway to a likewise Tarantino - inspired cool.

Another questionable item concerns how humans were able to deduce the creatures» limitations prior to their rampant depletion (at least if tabloid fodder is any indication)... so the film's resolution feels a bit like M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002) and those hydrophobic aliens trying to colonize a planet mostly made of water (and speaking of printing techniques, how Evelyn has a calendar to mark her due date well over a year into isolation also seems suspect).

Prior to his scheduled return, Smith tendered his resignation, which he attributed mostly to concerns over «style» and not health reasons.

The changes over other 911 models are mostly functional, with cooling requirements and additional downforce taking clear priority over stylistic concerns.

When he and I talked, I was mostly concerned over the equations as illustrations, having done two things that year to influence my uncertainty: taking Organic Chemistry, and trying to help my grandmother publish her illustrated memoirs, which was a nightmare.

I could've made more by hanging on and rolling my puts lower, but decided the easy money was made and I didn't want the risk in my account right now, mostly for short - term personal reasons over concerns of the risk in staying short.

Probably as haphazard as it sounds above: I'm happy to roam across the internet (& from Twitter) each day, wherever the links take me... Obviously, over time, I return to certain sites over & over again — mostly I'd say they're quite obvious sites, to all concerned — these I'll bookmark (mentally, or in my browser) and return to them regularly.

It may seem widely know that chocolate can be toxic for dogs, but last year alone, there were over 1,100 calls to animal poison control hotlines concerning pets» (mostly dogs) consumption of chocolate.

Homemade dog food is becoming ever so popular these days, mostly due to the concerns over safety issues of processed store bought pet foods... Remember the Pet food Recall of 2007?

What's on view: A group show including dozens of works, mostly painting, by artists dealing with formal, spatial concerns; the exhibition has been split between Venus Over Manhattan and Gavin Brown's Enterprise

Carl Wunsch's concern over the sparsity of the ocean data, as expressed in his recent papers, is mostly related to the part of the ocean below 2000 m (the abyssal ocean).

These studies were concerned mostly with electromagnetic atmospheric absorption and scattering from 0.2 microns to 700 microns over atmospheric slant path lengths from 10 meters to 400 km.

Concerns over REDD now revolve mostly around the details (implementation, financing, governance, and equity) of the mechanism, rather than underlying idea of compensating rainforest conservation as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.