Sentences with phrase «number of young people who»

The Permanency Initiative is designed to reduce the number of young people who age out of the child welfare system without permanent connections.

A good number of young people who come to us for treatment are gifted students, artists, musicians or performers.

In the first year of the campaign, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County saw an increase in testing and we are committed to increasing the number of young people who get tested again this year.

The primary healthcare service provides for a population of 764 Indigenous Australians aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 28.5 % of a total of 2677 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The community - based youth service serves a population of approximately 4338 Indigenous young people aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 30.1 % of a total of 14 391 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The client base of both services includes a significant number of young people who move between the regional centre and the remote and very remote communities of far north Queensland.

For a growing number of young people who want to purchase a home of their own, rising rents and crippling student debt has meant that many are putting off that dream of home ownership — or changing what their ideal of what home ownership looks like.

The camp was run by a number of young people who became, alongside the public, either believers or sceptics.

I work with a number of young people who are trying to manage through the massive amount of college debt they have accumulated and it is always sad to see the «regret» they have for the «investment» they made.

«Their commitment will hopefully serve as a catalyst for other similar partnerships in New Orleans and nationwide aimed at increasing the number of young people who graduate from four - year colleges.»

Although there is a high number of young people who go through police custody, the percentage that we, as custody visitors, meet and talk to is small.

The students had the option of not answering the questions on self - harm, however, and about five per cent took that option, meaning that the number of young people who had self - harmed could be higher than indicated.

This habit represents one of the greatest health risks to the greatest number of young people who use cannabis.

«These findings suggest limiting the visibility of tobacco displays in retail stores may reduce the number of young people who try cigarettes,» said William Shadel, associate director of RAND Population Health Program and senior behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

The study found that a number of young people who had suffered from language problems in childhood often still find it difficult to understand speech as young adults, especially when spoken quickly.

The danger is there's not sufficient focus on the disturbingly large number of young people who are living dysfunctional lives.

TEEN SUICIDE: The state will create a task force to study adolescent suicide and recommend policy changes to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives.

Research tells us that plain, standard packs make cigarettes less attractive and help reduce the number of young people who start smoking.

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

«Out there in the world is a growing and increasing number of young people who don't believe in God... They have no communities or groups.

He said: «We were working with a number of young people who were living in tents across the jungle and we were working with them to build up case work on their case and then bring a legal case forward for them to come to the UK.»

Gareth Cheeseman from the Christian charity Acet UK which runs sex education classes said: «Our concern at the moment is the number of young people who don't receive any relationship and sex education because their teachers are untrained and they don't have the curriculum time to cover it, anything that can help tackle that issue has the potential to be a positive force.»

To be honest I am surprised as heck at the number of young people who do go to Church every Sunday.

As Independent editor Simon Kelner pointed out: «Whatever Brand may be, he's not trivial... [he] definitely articulates a strain of thinking among a growing number of young people who feel disenfranchised, disenchanted, disengaged and, most important, disinterested in the idea that politics can change the world.»

«We're seeing so many new businesses in East Austin because of the large number of young people who have moved to Austin in recent years,» he said.

The number of young people who want to make a difference in this world and do something positive, create a solution, solve a problem, bring people together, and help those in need is astounding.

But more important are the changing patterns and attitudes of campus life, the enormously increased and still increasing numbers of young people who are on campuses, and the various kinds of movements that combine to make young people think of religion and the church as false, traditional, or irrelevant.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced that Oneida County will be taking its Teen Traffic Safety Program on the road to local schools this year to maximize the numbers of young people who are reminded about traffic safety practices that can help save lives.

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With cord - cutting accelerating and the number of cord - nevers — younger people who have never subscribed to cable and aren't likely to — on the rise, there's a market waiting to be addressed.

Mozaffarian also mentioned that the disproportionate number of younger people drinking sugary beverages compared with elderly people would dramatically increase the number of people who have diseases related to the drinks.

Since the percentage of phone numbers that connect to mobile phone — wielding young people and elderly landline users is about equal, it's actually the youthful folks who may dominate a sample created by random digit dialing, says Marc - David Seidel, an associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

It's exploding on mobile devices, set off by young people — most in their twenties — who have attracted large numbers of followers on social networks — platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

«It's a model that allows young people with less capital and maybe with even less experience to get into an entrepreneurial experience,» said Joseph Mariano, president of the DSA, who said 2015 growth numbers should show an uptick of about 3 percent to 5 percent.

Immigration advocacy groups have said that ending the program would be a coldhearted step that would yield no benefit to the nation while endangering large numbers of young people raised in the United States who are seeking to work and pay taxes.

The company's hope is that a large number of these graduates will be «Opportunity Youth:» young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not enrolled in school or are out of the workforce.

Record number people no longer believe, 8 years ago the young adults who could vote now couldn't then, and there are a lot more of them then those who believe.

Some young people who travelled to see have formed a group and taking their anointing around the UK, a number of us from our Church are going to see and hear at a Church not far from this group on Saturday night.

Patricia Schreck, manager of the Episcopal Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, is one of many who report «an increasing number of young people and those in the 25 - 35 year range getting into intense Bible study.

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

(Numbers 31:7 - 18) So were the young virgin girls lucky that they weren't slaughtered like the rest of their people, or were they unlucky that they were essentially taken as sex slaves to be used to satiate the lusts of the soldiers who slaughtered their fathers, mothers, brothers, and older sisters?

St. John Chrysostom, an outstanding doctor of the Eastern tradition, was particularly pessimistic: «Among thousands of people there are not a hundred who will arrive at their salvation, and I am not even certain of that number, so much perversity is there among the young and so much negligence among the old.»

My life is happy and fulfilled, and with the exception of a number of young nonbelievers who are the way they are because religion has somehow hurt them, most nonreligious people are good, upstanding people who want to further the human race.

I an further encouraged by the number of young people in this country who are not under the delusion of religion.

Yet anyone who moves around the world of mainline Protestantism in America comes time and again upon congregations which, without any of the «strong» traits enumerated by Kelley, show remarkable vitality, not only in terms of growth (including the presence of large numbers of young people) but in terms of their members» expressed satisfaction with the spiritual comfort and nurture they derive from their participation.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

• Tax Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs: As a further commitment to creating a supportive ecosystem for young Ghanaian entrepreneurs of age 35 years and below who start their own businesses, government will, through the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), grant tax holidays based on the number of persons employed by a start - up or early - stage busiYoung Entrepreneurs: As a further commitment to creating a supportive ecosystem for young Ghanaian entrepreneurs of age 35 years and below who start their own businesses, government will, through the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), grant tax holidays based on the number of persons employed by a start - up or early - stage busiyoung Ghanaian entrepreneurs of age 35 years and below who start their own businesses, government will, through the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), grant tax holidays based on the number of persons employed by a start - up or early - stage business.

We work with 50,000 children and young people across the UK and our projects are still seeing increasing numbers of families who are at breaking point and children who are at risk of neglect, entering the care system, or are getting into trouble with the law.

The statistics demonstrate the depth of the recession's impact on young people, who face the most difficult job market in decades and increased competition for university places, with a record number of applications this year.

«AFAG wants to urge the President - Elect and the appointing authority to look within the pool of the NPP to ensure that young people of excellent standard and virtue who form a sizeable number of the human resource at the nation's disposal are identified nurtured,» AFAG said in a statement.

Richard Angell, the selection specialist, is the former Chair of Young Labour and now Deputy Director of Progress who they say «helped with successful selection campaigns for a number of people including Stephen Twigg in Liverpool and most recently Emma Reynolds in Wolverhampton.»

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.