Sentences with phrase «number of first posts»

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The recent Lassa fever death in Guinea — the first in more than two decades, as the Washington Post notes — is worrisome for a number of reasons, but one of those is where the Guinean victim died: next door in Liberia.

The numbers, which put the department store chain on track to post its first quarter of comparable sales growth in three years, are the start of an awaited payoff to years of investment in Macy's e-commerce firepower, says Macy's departing executive chairman and former long - time CEO Terry Lundgren.

In a blog post titled, «Google + is the social backbone,» Dumbill described the new project as the first major step toward integrating all social applications, much like e-mail went from a number of closed systems to incorporating one online communication standard as a foundation.

Since the first Frank Talk blog post was published in 2007, it's now widely read around the world and regularly appears on a number of financial news outlets.

A graduate of the MBA program at the Sloan school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will earn $ 1.8 million in total compensation in the first year out of school, according to a post on the business education website Poets & Quants, which pulled the number from Bloomberg BusinessWeek's annual...

Shares of Square (NYSE: SQ) recently tumbled after the payments solution provider posted its first quarter numbers.

In an online discussion on religion and Nazis, the probability of a discussion involving Hitler's faith equals 1 and will happen within the first x posts, where x is y % of the number of regular posters.

I really need to start keeping track of the number of times I see your first picture and just automatically pin before I even get to the rest of the post.

Oklahoma's Orlando Brown has been universally considered a first - round prospect, but he may see his stock plummet after posting some of the worst numbers of the week in the 40 - yard dash, the bench press, and the vertical.

Sportsbook.com became the first sportsbook to post NHL Stanley Cup Futures for the 2014 - 15 season and a number of prominent sportsbooks followed suit shortly thereafter.

The Buckeyes have posted silly rushing numbers in 2013, going from excellent in the first half of the year to patently absurd in the second half.

When he returned, Ball began posting better shooting numbers than he had in the first half of the season.

Several weeks ago, BetOnline posted a number of NFL Draft prop bets including one which lists Myles Garrett as the odds - on favorite to be selected with the first overall pick.

In the 1 [1/16]- mile Breeders» Cup Juvenile, Arazi broke from the far outside post, number 14, and fell so far out of it in the first quarter mile that no one, not even Paulson, figured he had a chance.

While a number of players surged early in the third round, Spieth was struggling to post red numbers during the first half of the round.

Although the first fourteen picks won't be finalized until the lottery drawing on May 19th, the offshore sportsbook TopBet has posted a number of prop bets regarding the 2015 NBA Draft.

When this post was first published, a number of marquee free agents remained unsigned and many teams did not know how their rotations would look for the upcoming season.

Mattia Destro scored in extra time to earn Roma a semi-final spot in the Coppa Italia GettyImagesMattia Destro scored in extra time to earn Roma a semi-final spot in the Coppa Italia The Viola had a number of chances in the first half but Luca Toni hit the post with a 17th - minute header before Alberto Aquilani smashed a free - kick on to the crossbar six minutes before the interval.

I have to first admit that I've been a little reticent to post about this, not because I'm not excited about it, but because homebirth in our culture is not seen as a safe or wise choice (though in reality it is as safe or safer than hospital births in most cases — there are a number of studies that indicate as such).

This post will be updated on 12/16/2016 with the comment number and first name of the winner.

This post will be updated on June 9th, 2017 with the comment number and first name of the winner.

As much as they claim to be victimised for public breastfeeding, FFing parents are frequently compared to child abusers, told that they are feeding their babies poison, that they don't deserve to have children and shown sensationalist «infographics» like the ones a few posts back which stated that formula fed babies are x times more likely to die within the first year of life without even accounting for the numerous confounding factors that would cause those numbers to be elevated in the first place.

A small number of comments have not been posted because they have not included a first and last name.

First - past - the - post voting tends to result in a smaller number of viable candidates.

Michael Caputo alleged the Western NY Web site where Paladino's e-mails first appeared this morning is run by a «hardcore Democrat» who has written a number of critical posts about the Buffalo businessman — including the fact that he not only used to be a Democrat himself, but also contributed campaign cash to the very Democrats he's now attacking.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

A number of methods of tactical or strategic voting exist that can be used in STV elections, but much less so than with First Past the Post.

But if one takes «first past the post» to mean the horse with the greatest speed, then extendingthat to the candidate with the greatest number of votes isn't difficult.

Yet while Britain's First Past the Post acts against the representation of women, the fact that the number of women candidates is going up and that the ERS are able to project a rise in women does show that parties can move forwards in this area.

But the Labour leader failed to land his first choices for a number of key shadow cabinet posts, according to insider accounts.

First past the post (FPTP) will be retained if the number of «no» votes exceeds those voting «yes» on May 5th.

Our first blog post touches briefly on events from a very productive last week, when we met with the Minister of State for Business and Energy at our exhibition at BIS, held our AGM and annual lunch, commented on Q1 GDP numbers, and arranged interviews on the BBC and Channel 4 with our Economics Director and Chairman, respectively.

The breakaway groups would get around 13 - 14 % of the vote, which would likely not be enough to gain a significant number of MPs under the first past the post system.

Some representatives are elected via the traditional first past the post method but voters get to cast a second vote for «top - up» seats, allocated in proportion to the number of votes.

Shortly after the first numbers were posted online by the Erie County Board of Elections, both candidates were on their way to landslide wins.

New data obtained by Investigative Post shows there's an increase, for the first time in four years, in the number of children in Erie County -LSB-...]

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

[13] The Conservatives, however, promised to keep the first - past - the - post system, but to reduce the number of constituencies by 10 %.

The disparity between the numbers of votes and the number of seats obtained by the smaller parties gave rise to increased calls for replacement of the «first - past - the - post» voting system with a more proportional system.

A number of electoral systems use single - member districts, including plurality voting (first past the post), two - round systems, instant - runoff voting (IRV), approval voting, range voting, Borda count, and Condorcet methods (such as the Minimax Condorcet, Schulze method, and Ranked Pairs).

But a summary of the pre-Christmas call put out by Number 10 made no mention of Trump's apparent endorsement of inflammatory tweets posted by the deputy leader of Britain First.

Assemblyman Keith Wright of Manhattan, a former state Democratic committee co-chair, was the first of a growing number of Assembly members calling for Silver to resign his post, saying if the speaker remained, the chamber would be «mired in the swamp of dysfunction and chaos.»

His backing for electoral reform - which would mean scrapping the first - past - the - post system on which Westminster MPs are elected in favour of some form of proportional representation (PR)- came as John Denham, the skills secretary, also let it be known that he favours considering a number of «radical steps», including electoral reform.

The Lib Dems are keen to move away from first past the post (FPTP), which exaggerates the number of seats awarded to a winning party - or the runner - up - traditionally favouring the Labour and Tory parties.

Table 2 (a): Number of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post&raNumber of electoral college votes that would have been won by each candidate if these had been apportioned proportionally (PrEV), as contrasted with the number won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post&ranumber won by each candidate in the actual election («winner takes all» /» first past the post»).

When The Post first revealed last year how the mayor had boosted the number of special assistants by 140 percent over predecessor Mike Bloomberg, de Blasio retaliated by ignoring a Post reporter at a news conference and publicly attacking the paper as a «right - wing rag.»

In Scotland, Wales, and the London Assembly, the fixed numbers of additional members, elected in relatively small regions, are not always sufficient to fully compensate for the disproportionality caused by the single - member district (first - past - the - post voting) tier.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

Welsh Conservatives did well in the Assembly elections in gaining a numner of first past the post seats and causing a number of others to become highly marginal.