Sentences with phrase «number of critics say»

[A] number of critics say if history is a guide, California will become more dependent on a fossil fuel — natural gas — in order to make up for the electricity generation that will be lost when Diablo Canyon gets mothballed.

In fact, a number of critics say the Basel 3 measures fall far short of what's required to stop banks from doing another domino impression — and that renewed confidence in the system is unwarranted.

It has a growing number of critics saying that the administration shares little with the press and the public as a political strategy to protect Cuomo from unwanted coverage.

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Critics of PropOrNot, like Fortune's Mathew Ingram and Katrina van den Heuvel of The Nation, say the group sacrifices credibility by remaining anonymous and has flagged a number of well - regarded news sites as propaganda.

However, some economists and critics have said while the budget moved in the right direction when it comes to raising female labour - force participation, its failure to announce steps towards national affordable child care likely means a significant number of women will remain out of the workforce.

Bankers blamed technical problems on the Nasdaq stock market as well as decisions to expand Facebook's offering price and number of shares sold to what some critics said were the highest possible levels.

He echoes a number of top critics in saying that Dylan should be mentioned along with T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden as one of the poetic giants of the 20th century.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

Critics say it's just training the parents, but it's being done all over the world and gaining an increasing number of adherents here in the United States.

«Sad and unfortunate» were vintage Pataki administration responses to anything political and / or negative about the then - governor said by a critic or opponent; I can't count the number of times I wrote «sad and unfortunate» while covering that administration for the TU).

Critics say it is unfair because the number of seats a party has does not accurately reflect the share of votes it receives.

Critics say the union's influence has blocked the effort to lift the legislative cap on the number of charters, which are privately run and publicly funded.

But in an interview with TV3's Bridget Otoo Monday, President Mahama said his critics lack the basic understanding of the number of things he said at the Independence Square.

Critics say Cuomo is overstating the number of governments, and that many entities like lighting districts are little more than checking accounts and sets of letterhead.

But the conference, which the governor's aides said was the first of many to be held around the Upstate area, also gave Cuomo the opportunity to defend his economic development programs from critics who have said the programs have failed to create significant numbers of Upstate jobs.

He then unleashed a series of tweets he dubbed «fun facts» that showed how the number of millionaires, including those making more than $ 10 million a year, has increased since tax reforms were enacted in 2011 despite critics saying tax hikes would cause the wealthy to flee the state.

Reversing these trends will require concerted national action, critics say, but not the steps propounded by some highly publicized reports and industry leaders, such as increasing numbers of graduate fellowships and H - 1B visas — steps that critics argue will only make matters worse.

Or, critics say, CRISPR could simply increase the number and variety of animals sacrificed in the name of science, with little to show for it.

Critics have responded with some of the best reviews of the year with the film at a whopping 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes,» A24 said Sunday when reporting numbers.

What's more, critics say, single - sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue.

Kelly's «Lazy» Dreamer Comment Is Racist and Obscures Truth on DACA Numbers, Critics Say (NBC News) Roberto Gonzales discusses a comment made by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly regarding DACA applicants.

Despite this, critics say that the curricula and methods at the majority of the nation's 500 - plus university - based principal preparation programs remain subpar and out of step with district needs.10 A growing number of districts have become more assertive with universities and other training providers about improving their offerings, because district leaders want enough well - prepared leadership candidates to meet local learning goals and to lessen the expense and damage of early turnover among poorly prepared novice principals.

Critics say the use of 2017 - 18 as a baseline is unfair on schools that have already made efforts to increase numbers studying maths beyond GCSE in recent years, which won't benefit from the extra cash.

But critics say the measure is too simple — it fails to sufficiently account for the academic growth that good schools help students achieve and does not take into consideration the challenges that schools serving a high number of poor students face.

Critics of growth measures have said they can fluctuate depending on the variables and number of years of testing data added to the mathematical formula, making their validity suspect, and worry that grading teachers based on tests will cause them to focus more on test prep in their classrooms.

Critics of the flipped classroom approach to blended learning say that access to videos can be a problem, especially in communities with a large number of learners from low - income households.

Critics on the left have taken issue with a number of things surrounding the standards (you can read a post about eight problems with the Core here), saying that there was not enough input from educators into the drafting of the Core, that the standards are not based on any research, that they ignore what is known about early childhood development and much more.

Critics of the existing system point to the year - on - year rises in the numbers of pupils achieving top grades as a sign that GCSEs have become easier, but supporters say teenagers are working harder than ever and teachers are getting better at preparing them for exams.

«TV is triage these days,» New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum wrote recently, of the unwatchable number of television shows on the air right now, and you could say the same of viewing art exhibitions in Venice during the biennale.

(1) The art collector he admires most is Count Panza di Biumo; (2) Of all visual artists active c.1940 - 2009, only Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be seen as important; (3) Of all the promising artists who died young, the one with the most potential was Scott Burton; (4) He prefers Monet to Modigliani; (5) His favourite art museum is the Prado, Madrid; (6) His house is usually full of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56Of all visual artists active c.1940 - 2009, only Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be seen as important; (3) Of all the promising artists who died young, the one with the most potential was Scott Burton; (4) He prefers Monet to Modigliani; (5) His favourite art museum is the Prado, Madrid; (6) His house is usually full of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56Of all the promising artists who died young, the one with the most potential was Scott Burton; (4) He prefers Monet to Modigliani; (5) His favourite art museum is the Prado, Madrid; (6) His house is usually full of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56of Paula Rego pictures; (7) He disagrees with Blake Gopnik, the Washington Post art critic, who said «painting has been dead for 40 years»; (8) The point of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56of visual art is to counterbalance all the bad TV and films we watch; (9) Jackson Pollock's best painting is One (Number 31), 1950, MoMA, New York; See: Jackson Pollock's paintings (c.1940 - 56).

Japan contends that whales are depleting fish stocks and has been killing ever larger numbers of whales for what it says is research, but what critics say is a thinly veiled slaughter for meat sold to a small percentage of the Japanese public.

Arndt also said some critics and some news media missed, or misconstrued, that the odds of each year being the warmest are expressed in different ranges, not single numbers, but this still can reveal a clear leader.

The utility's «Shared Solar» proposal is far from perfect, critics say, but with the right changes it could expand the number of solar owners in the state by more than tenfold — allowing Tar Heels to tap into the renewable resource who couldn't before.

is far from perfect, critics say, but with the right changes it could expand the number of solar owners in the state by more than tenfold — allowing Tar Heels to tap into the renewable resource who couldn't before.

Critics are now concerned about the number of properties not registered in the UK and say it's sometimes used as a method to launder money.

Bob Ambrogi: There does still seem to be concern from conservative corners in particular something that's been expressed any number of times over the years, the legal aid lawyers spend too much time litigating, political and social causes and not enough time representing those that they're intended to serve, what do you say to critics of the LSC who raised that issue?

While some critics say the regs have a number of new exceptions that will provide loopholes to spammers, those on the front lines of business say the exemptions are welcome.

Fraud: Critics of the no - fault laws in Michigan say that the system is vulnerable to fraud, as aggressive lawyers contribute to escalating numbers of lawsuits and seek to cash in by shuttling clients into unnecessary and costly medical treatments.

The delay is annoying, to be sure, but only an Apple HomePod speaker will work effortlessly within the Apple iDevice ecosystem, and with hundreds of millions of iPhones out there, as well as huge numbers of iPads, Macs and Apple TVs, so whatever critics say, sales are likely to be brisk once HomePod arrives in 2018, whenever that may be.