Sentences with phrase «number of developments since»

There have been a number of developments since our first report was published including the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR), the decision of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to end the trainee solicitor minimum salary and legal aid cuts brought in by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO).

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We've had that client over 3 years and have since run a number of successful content and link development efforts.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

Since then the company experienced massive growth both in terms of its own development and the increase in the number of customers.

Although the evidence is far from conclusive, when taken together a number of price - related developments since the beginning of this year suggest that the cyclical commodity bear market has ended.

Since members of the family are often too much involved themselves to see the oncoming development of suicide in one of their number, it is here that the minister may well save a life.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Everything that has happened since then, including the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer, makes it clear that a future world could not sustain a population of even the present number at a higher level of industrial development without reaching environmental limits.

That was an interesting development since bettors were likely waiting for the line to reach the key number of 17 before taking the underdog.

This wasn't an overnight development; according to data compiled by the Southern Education Foundation, the percentage of American public school students who are low income has been rising steadily since the foundation started tracking the number in 1989.

Despite criticism, her steadfast belief that corporal punishment was detrimental to children's mental and emotional health and development has since been supported by a number of scientific studies and is widely accepted as fact by nearly all infant and baby care experts today.

Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding difficulties.

BABYBJÖRN developed its first play yard 50 years ago and since then the product development team has improved the design a number of times.

The Erie County Industrial Development Agency had a record - setting day today, approving tax breaks for seven projects — the largest number of projects that it has provided subsidies for in a single meeting since it was created in 1970, agency officials said.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Since 2010, the UK Government has made «boosting economic development» its number one priority for international aid and development, in spite of evidence which indicates that this might further disadvantage the world's poorest children.

Animal testing peaked in the early 1970s, and has been in decline since, due to both increased public pressure to reduce the numbers of animals tested and the development of available alternatives.

Since its formation the UN has been extensively involved in a number of worldwide operations including peace keeping and security, human rights and humanitarian assistance and social and economic development.

«Empire State Development is currently reviewing the proposals we've received and since this is an open procurement, we can not release information on specific proposals or the number of proposals received, as it would impede our ability to negotiate in the best interest of New York State,» said Adam Ostrowski, a spokesman for the agency.

The current document observes that, especially since the 2000 report, a number of positive steps have occurred, such as establishment of postdoctoral offices at many universities and increased use of individual development plans to help postdocs clarify their career options.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

The UED method has been under development by a number of groups throughout the world since the 1980s.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

Since the number of eggs present in the ovary at birth is determined while still in the womb, the research shows that the implications of disrupted ovary development could be significant.

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Only nine countries have achieved a U.N. development goal of reducing the number of women dying before, during or after giving birth by 75 % since 1990, the United Nations and the World Bank said on Thursday.

Ocean pH has declined to 8.1 from 8.2 since the Industrial Revolution, and while those are just numbers to most of us, «reef development is thought to cease at pH 7.8,» said David Wachenfeld, director of reef recovery at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a government agency.

Specifically, mid-way through our project, after going through a number of firms we had to again change development firms since the firm we had hired was unable to build the customizations we needed.

Since its inception in 2006, the CJ Koh Professorship in Education program has seen a number of world renowned professors in the field of education visit including Professor Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College, Columbia University, Professor Linda Darling - Hammond of Stanford University and Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor for Education Policy to the Secretary - General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Since 2000, more than half of the states have adopted requirements for mentoring novice principals.40 And a number of districts have stepped up their emphasis on professional development and principal coaching despite harsh countervailing budget pressures.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

The report shows since funding for free PSHE continuing professional development (CPD) was scrapped by the government in 2010, the number of participants in the certified course has fallen from a high of 1,937 in 2009/10, to just 175 last year.

Outside of Hong Kong, the most significant development observed was by South Korea, with its approved quota jumping 10 times to CNY 30 billion, while the number of the qualified institutions climbed from 1 to 14 since last December.

Since then the company experienced massive growth both in terms of its own development and the increase in the number of customers.

Furthermore, the I.I.I. notes the number of people buying NFIP policies nationwide has plunged by 549,000 — almost 10 percent — since 2009, even as coastal development surges and sea levels rise.

Since then, their popularity has waned somewhat, with the development of a number of other popular companion terrier breeds, including the Yorkshire Terrier.

The thriving dive industry of the Gili Islands is centred here (although some operators have outposts on the other two islands), and since about 2005, the island has gone through a massive development boom, and a number of upscale sleeping, eating and drinking establishments have opened.

«Since the resort's opening 11 years ago, our number of guests have increased annually, and with the development of The Walk and Dubai Marina, we are predicting even higher visitors» interest in The Ritz - Carlton at the completion of this expansion programme.»

With the exception of a number of weeks spent providing updates to Deadstone, the sole focus of development since November 2014 has been Vigilantes, a crime themed turn based tactical RPG game for PC.

Since the sad discontinuation of the Sega Dreamcast in 2001, the company has focused solely on software rather than hardware development, and in the last few years its many in - house development teams have released a number of games for the PlayStation 3, including Valkyria Chronicles and Yakuza 3, both of which are exclusive to the console.

However, it's been a number of months since we've heard any further developments

Regular development updates have helped to flesh out the game's content, and average player numbers have been holding steady over most of the past year, with peak player numbers growing since since December.

It's been through a lot of drama already (including at least one major delay and controversy within the development team), but it seems like the Mighty Number 9 issues are gonna keep on coming, since it's now been delayed until Spring 2016.

The years since the Second World War, and continuing into the 21st century, have witnessed an unprecedented expansion in the visual arts throughout Canada, evidenced in the number of professional artists, the proliferation of galleries and exhibitions, the development of art magazines, and the significant expansion of art schools like the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Ontario College of Art and Design University.

Since receiving her doctorate in 1994 she has worked as a consultant for a number of institutions in the Caribbean and Britain including the Royal Academy, London where she worked as coordinating editor for the exhibition and publication Africa the Art of a Continent (1995) the National Gallery of Jamaica where she has been a visiting curator member of the Board of Directors since 2000; The British Council where she worked as a consultant to evaluate and promote the profile of that organization in the Caribbean (1999 - 2000), The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas where she spearheaded the development of that institution's curatorial practices and policies following its establishment (2000 - 2002), and the School of Visual Arts in Jamaica where she designed that college's first degree program in Art History (2002 - 2Since receiving her doctorate in 1994 she has worked as a consultant for a number of institutions in the Caribbean and Britain including the Royal Academy, London where she worked as coordinating editor for the exhibition and publication Africa the Art of a Continent (1995) the National Gallery of Jamaica where she has been a visiting curator member of the Board of Directors since 2000; The British Council where she worked as a consultant to evaluate and promote the profile of that organization in the Caribbean (1999 - 2000), The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas where she spearheaded the development of that institution's curatorial practices and policies following its establishment (2000 - 2002), and the School of Visual Arts in Jamaica where she designed that college's first degree program in Art History (2002 - 2since 2000; The British Council where she worked as a consultant to evaluate and promote the profile of that organization in the Caribbean (1999 - 2000), The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas where she spearheaded the development of that institution's curatorial practices and policies following its establishment (2000 - 2002), and the School of Visual Arts in Jamaica where she designed that college's first degree program in Art History (2002 - 2004).

Plans for the coming year also include a number of exhibitions by highly - regarded younger artists, many being shown for the first time in Ireland; an exhibition of Latin American art from one of the largest private collections in Europe; a new schools programme in association with the Abbey Theatre, and a series of lectures on developments in contemporary music since the 1950s.

There is a difference in predictability among storms for a variety of reasons, particularly since major storms require a number of ingredients to come together in an optimal way for development.

Looking at just the 2010 numbers, for example, they show that the United States, with its exceptionally large share of the global population of people with incomes above the $ 20 per day development threshold (capacity), as well as the world's largest share of cumulative emissions since 1990 (responsibility), is the nation with the largest share (33.1 percent) of the global RCI.

A few more projects are expected to be completed in 2014 - 16; however, several other announced projectes have since been cancelled or suspended because of a number of challenges such as environmental impacts on desert wildlife and water resources, cost - competitiveness, and delays in transmission development.

A substantial number of acres on or adjacent to the waterfront are available for development — plenty of space for an economically vibrant mix of residential and commercial uses as well as generous amounts of public parkland offering river access to many neighborhoods cut off from the Hudson since the 19th century.

Let me mention of a number of developments in climate science that have been published or reported in the five or six months since the leaking of the «Climategate» emails.