Sentences with phrase «national figures by»

The last two attorneys general have become national figures by using the office in aggressive and sometimes creative ways.

New Yorkers love to assume that their politicians are national figures by default, even as one by one they flame out on the big stage.

Not exact matches

If you add up the GDP figures issued by the provinces, the sum is 10 % higher than the figure ultimately issued by the national government, which in itself is tweaked to hit politicized targets.

A new analysis done exclusively for Poets & Quants by PayScale, which collects salary data from individuals through online pay comparison tools, shows that the MBA — even from schools that lack global or national caché, delivers hefty seven - figure income over a 20 - year period.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Following the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had secured all - but - unfettered access to user data held by the largest U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, politicians and businesses around the world were struggling to figure out what exactly this news meant for them.

In August and September, Johnson and other security officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, became «increasingly convinced» that Russia had perpetrated the election process by hacking the DNC and other political figures.

When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made the fateful decision to share sensitive documents with reporters revealing secret and mass gathering of the metadata associated with the phone calls made by tens of millions of Americans, he had to figure out which news outfit to trust.

Bank loans come in all shapes and sizes, from microloans of a few hundred dollars, typically offered by local community banks, to six - figure loans by major national banks.

I should note, however, that on the basis of a much broader set of regional and national Fed and purchasing managers surveys, the 50.2 number was a large outlier — a figure closer to 48 was implied by that other data.

The figures were released Monday by The Solar Foundation (TSF) in its fourth annual National Solar Jobs Census.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

The ShopperTrak figures only cover in - store sales; a different survey by the National Retail Federation estimated sales both in stores and online over the four days plunged 11 %.

In the first 11 - months of 2017, Japan welcomed approximately 26.2 million visitors, and a quarter of them, or around 6.8 million, were from China, according to figures provided by Japan National Tourism Organization.

The figure is their calculation of what each Florida student is worth to the Republican senator; they came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

«disposable personal income», as reported by the BEA, is a total national figure for personal income after taxes, so comparing how individuals might spend that income in different parts of the country is not even considered by this report... the phrase may be poorly chosen, as might the phrase «personal income» itself, which includes not just wages and salaries, but also passive income from dividends, interest and rent, proprietor's income, and transfer payments such as social security... take all those forms of payments going to individuals, subtract out what's paid nationally in personal income taxes, and you have a national figure for «disposable personal income»

It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.

Many priests trained in the past 20 years have attended catechetical courses given by national figures using precisely Fr Purnell's approach where the Church teaching and liturgy are just the explication of what is going on in each person.

In his native Italy, Antonio Rosmini is a celebrated national figure, recognised by secular as well as religious institutions as one of the truly notable thinkers of the 19th century.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics calculate that the current population of rural England is 9.3 million, and that it continues to grow by around 50,000 people each year.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

New figures released by the Office for National Statistics reveal the number of opposite - sex marriages decreased by 3.4 per cent between 2014 and 2015, to 239,020.

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

The figures published provide a breakdown of pay by gender for staff of the National Church Institutions (NCIs) and do not cover clergy ministering across the 42 dioceses of the Church of England.

According to figures from the National Association of Teachers of RE and the Religious Education Council, take up of the GCSE RS short course has also fallen by 53 % from 211,269 in 2012 to 99,601 in 2014

There is nothing particularly unusual in that until you realise the wine that has been picked up by TV stations, national newspapers, websites and blogs around the world was not some four figure beauty from Bordeaux, but a rather less glamorous Chilean Malbec on sale in Asda in the UK for # 4.37.

The industry figures reported in the current study were corroborated by national dietary surveys that indicated a similar downward trend.

Our state - by - state blue - chip counts don't align perfectly with the website's national count of them, but their resulting figures are within decimal points of equal for each year.

Carey Casey works with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

The National Center for Fathering is a non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

The majority of mothers in the UK say they wanted to breastfeed for longer (90 % who stopped by 6 weeks; 63 % of mothers interviewed when their babies were 6 to 8 months old — National Infant Feeding Survey figures).

At the National Center for Fathering, we work to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

According to the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and maintained by the USDA, the following figures represent the calories consumed away from home [PDF] by children: 41 percent for males aged 6 - 11, 36 percent for males aged 12 - 19; 36 percent for girls aged 6 - 11, 42 percent for girls aged 12 - 19.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

The ad distorted figures compiled by WHO and UNICEF in an effort to demonstrate that national breastfeeding rates are at acceptable levels and have not been endangered by formula advertising.

According to figures from the National Cancer Institute, thirty percent of all cancer cases can be attributed to tobacco, while 35 percent are caused by dietary factors.

Here at the National Center for Fathering, our mission is to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

The total number of new registrations in the 12 months to the end of June 2017 was up by 14 %, according to figures just released by the NCC (National Caravan Council).

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

The only thing Miliband will be able to tinker with is how much rents increase, but the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that rents have gone up by less than inflation in the last year, rising by just one per cent in England.

That technique was used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to show Total Managed Expenditure with and without the support given to banks after the financial crisis in 2007 as shown in Figure 2.

«Whilst these figures are already startling and should constitute a national emergency, Nigeria's growth rate of 3.2 percent annually means that our nation will, according to USAID, reach a population of 440 million people by 2040.

The select committees reports would be accompanied by a debate in Parliament and a corresponding report from the Office of National Statistics with simple figures on the number of quangos and their cost.

Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a massive 38 per cent increase in deaths across England and Wales during the arctic cold snap experienced last December, the coldest in over 100 years.

Unemployment has fallen by 14,000 in the final quarter of last year to 2.5 million according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The figure rose to 9.34 million in 2008, and over trebled to 29million in 2014, according to statistics by the National Health Insurance Authority.

«This explains why they have continued to keep people like the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in detention, even after he has been granted bail by the courts and have been after figures like Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu as well as politicians perceived to be interested in the 2019 Presidential elections.

The most recent polling for Gillibrand's own race has her leading opponent Wendy Long by wide margins — 64 to 27 percent, says a September Quinnipiac poll — and so the New York senator has sufficient leeway to throw her time and resources behind other campaigns, an unusual luxury for a politician and a traditional path for New York figures to a measure of national power.

Crucial matters of national importance, like aviation or press freedom, are shipped out to supposedly independent figures for extended periods of rumination, while barely - there controversies, such as GCSE marking, are quickly dropped by MPs once an independent investigation has been ruled out.

Since the scrapping of entrance charges to the UK's national museums and galleries, visits are up by 75 per cent, according to new official figures.