Sentences with phrase «number of acts»

Finally, another randomized control trial at 7 years followup showed an 80 % reduction in the average number of acts of serious physical abuse.

Reduced the number of acts of intercourse without a condom among sexually experienced students in the cohort at the 7 - month and 31 - month follow - ups.

Civil and family legal aid firms have nearly halved in number since 2007/08, for example, although they shrunk by almost a further quarter in the last year, and the number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme reduced by almost two - thirds in the last four years.

In his decision, the Small Claims Court Judge described a number of acts or omissions that could amount to insubordination, recklessness and / or gross negligence: issuing incorrect status certificates, delays in preparing banking documents for signature, late payments, failure to provide reports to the Board.

However, as Lord Phillips, the head of the UK Supreme Court, argued last month in a fascinating lecture on statutory interpretation, the courts may be moving towards a position where a limited number of acts of parliament — including the Human Rights Act — are seen to have attained in law the status of «constitutional statutes».

The number of acts of assistance under the civil legal aid scheme had collapsed by almost two - thirds over the last four years.

To ensure accountability and that the law is working as intended, the school board must prepare an annual report which states, for each school, the number of acts of bullying or violence reported by the principal to the director - general of the school board, and the nature of those acts.

Also, if you read a number of the acts that are regulated by the POA, you will note a large number of them have already been changed to incorporate monetary and non-monetary penalties.

These laws have been established through a number of acts and subsections in acts, such as the Equal Employment Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and others.

With a strong talent base and impressive access to a large number of the acts that these women (because, with one exception, they are all women) have supported, 20 Feet From Stardom is a documentary that would have been interesting enough with only a bare minimum of work put into it.

The sheer number of acts of violent conduct and the disgusting nature of the scratch should warrant a more severe punishment.

Where RDTs were used, the number of ACT prescriptions dropped, as hoped.

You may recognize Webber from any number of acting roles, as the «Talent» in Scott Pilgrim, or indies ranging from Explicit Ills to Shrink to Weapons, but he's as talented behind the screen as he is on it.

In the television categories, Vallée's Emmy - winning Big Little Lies earned a number of acting nods (Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Alexander Skarsgard) as well as best limited series.

The decline in the number of students interested in an education career is even more striking given the fact that the total number of ACT - tested graduates has increased substantially — up by 18 percent — during the same four - year period.

In successfully increasing the numbers of acts of advice through civil legal aid, the LSC has shown that legal aid providers are willing to take on additional contracts to deliver more services to clients... [o] ur view is that the provider base will be able to work with the new fee schemes.»

Not exact matches

The Canada Pension Plan Act says that once a sufficient number of provincial governments have indicated support, the federal government can move forward and lock in the reform with an Order in Council — no new Parliamentary debate or legislation is required.

Despite plenty of case work and the small matter of updating the annotated version of the act, Abudulai makes time for a number of additional roles.

The FORM Act also calls for an annual GAO audit of the Federal Reserve, doubles the number of times the Fed Chairman testifies before Congress, and makes some other tweaks to the makeup and protocol of the Federal Reserve Board.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

At the time, Ontario's Securities Act operated according to the principle of «individual reliance,» which meant each investor had to prove that he or she was duped into buying stocks by faulty company numbers.

There are a number of reasons why comparisons of this bill to the 1986 tax reform act are faulty.

No, it's not some sort of Mayan end - of - the - world situation, but it is the day on which Wikipedia, Google and a number of other big websites will be protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

In a YouTube video, CBA's acting head of retail banking services, Angus Sullivan, said the bank found in May 2016 it had lost two magnetic tapes containing 15 years of data on customer names, addresses and account numbers for 19.8 million accounts.

«Combined with the strength of the PokerStars brand in the U.S. and its U.S. customer database, it will be in a very strong position to capitalize on the potential revocation of PASPA (the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act) later this year, which could result in a number of U.S. states legalizing online sportsbook / gaming,» he wrote in a report.

The CHOICE Act not only cuts in half the number of stress tests, but requires that the test itself be published in advance, thus giving the SIFIs a test cheat sheet!

Using a barrage of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, TRAC has been able to gather data buried in the Justice Department's own computer files (minus the individual case numbers that might be used to identify defendants).

Change Number 6 is that Starting a Company means you no longer Act Like A Big Company Since the turn of the century, there's been a radical shift in how startups thought of themselves.

That's right, Old Spice and Proctor and Gamble, who have hired Crews to act in a number of commercials, sent the actor an amazing letter of encouragement:

Why do you need to not just have, but act on, a number of ideas?

Too many sales people get so caught up in the act of selling that they either turn off completely the prospect, or miss key opportunities, So in true click bait fashion, I thought I would compose my # tips for cold calling (number 3 will absolutely not shock you):

The legislation proposed earlier this summer - the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act - would exclude most such workers and would reduce the total number of green cards awarding permanent legal U.S. residence to just over 500,000 from more than one million today.

We don't have hard numbers on this, but we suspect the grown - men - in - positions - of - power demographic is the most likely to act like petulant children.

The result: a multiyear, multinational, ongoing research project known as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, or GEM, which counts (in effect) the number of working - age adults who are engaged in acts of company creation.

McDonald authorized an efficiency study that assessed every act and function performed by every employee and then reduced the number of «business processes» needed to run the company to 88.

The act of studying each number each month will improve performance in that area.

The ruling gave some much needed clarity to stockholders concerning the fate of companies that benefit from the higher number of insured brought about by the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump administration has already rolled back a number of environmental regulations and moved toward delaying the Clean Water Rule, which clarified the Clean Water Act to prevent industries from dumping pollutants into waterways and wetlands.

One of the things I mentioned in both my upcoming review and of the Z10 is that the dearth of apps compared to competitors may act as a deal breaker to a significant number of potential buyers.

The budding number of sensors will detect and act on environmental and other contextual factors, such as weather; will be aware of who and how many people are around in its vicinity to change levels of input and output; and adjust to save resources and improve safety.

The information is later used to change the victim's direct deposit, address and telephone number information, according to acting Inspector General of Social Security Gale Stallworth Stone.

«The act of coming up with these numbers weekly is very important for our financial staff,» says Kib Buschman.

Even if Le Pen wins, she'd likely have less freedom to act than President Trump, who has signed a number of executive orders calling for sweeping changes.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

If your business falls into one of the categories listed above (size of business, number and placement of speakers, etc.) radio / TV] you may want to check out section 110 (5) of the Copyright Act.

Acting as their own boss, women, or «stylists» sell the jewelry line through a number of different channels — parties, online and one - on - one events — and make a commission off the sales.

While there are a number of legal devices on the market that can make a semi-automatic weapon act as if it were fully - automatic, «bump fire stocks» are the most well known.

With the number of female founders on the rise, it is no longer uncommon to publicly discuss the challenges of raising capital while visibly pregnant, how long one can put off starting a family, or what constitutes an appropriate maternity leave plan for businesses that are not large enough to require adherence to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

One key to DFA's growth so far is that it is working with a number of large advisors like Loring Ward, who act as TAMPs, offering a suite of retirement plan services (like recordkeeping, investment advice and DFA funds) to smaller advisors.

A number of real estate crowdfunders, including Equidy, RealtyMogul, RealtyShares and PassiveFlow.com, have sprouted recently in the hope of thriving in a post-JOBS Act business environment.