Sentences with phrase «of substantial improvement»

As the economy shows signs of substantial improvement, the commercial real estate industry is emerging from a transitional phase in 2010 to a recovery stage in 2011.

However, some months later, an occupational physician reported emerging evidence of substantial improvement and a realistic prospect of a return to flying duties.

The prospects of substantial improvement in public education without substantial changes in the education system itself are not good.

Other than ox where do you see a realistic chance of substantial improvement on their career high?

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

Most people will of course have their HUD or closing disclosure statement showing their original cost, but they also need to keep records of substantial improvements and their costs.

They are less impressed, though, by the limited pool of battle maps, and the lack of any substantial improvements on the sieges front.

Since the announcement last September by the Minister for the Environment of substantial improvements to be made under Part L of the Building Regulations, speculation has been rife in the construction industry about what the details of the updated regulations would entail.

The veteran must certify that he or she intends to occupy or reoccupy the property as a home upon completion of the substantial improvements or repairs.

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In a separate report focusing on larger integrated oil companies, Moody's came to a similar conclusion — that the substantial improvement in the financial position of the oil industry over the past year is poised to slow down.

Ever since the bank introduced that extraordinary forward guidance in December of last year, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been at pains to explain to investors and reporters that the 6.5 % target is a «threshold» and not a «trigger,» meaning that the bank could decide to keep rates low for longer if it is not satisfied that 6.5 % really indicates a substantial improvement.

WESTERN Australia's economy continues to perform strongly, with the release of end of year results for 1999 - 2000 showing a substantial improvement on budget expectations.The budget bottom - line for the last financial year shows the total public sector ac

As a result, the January minutes included a carefully worded caveat: «Evaluation of the efficacy, costs and risks of asset purchases might well lead the committee to taper or end its purchases before it judged that a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market had occurred.»

Where these balance sheet improvements are most advanced, future financial distress will look more like what we typically see in instances of financial stress in the major economies — substantial asset price volatility and the potential for substantial financial losses, but less in the way of a significant disruption to either short - run or long - run real economic growth.

Ideally, any removal of the current overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome would involve a substantial improvement in valuations, an initial deterioration in market action, and then an eventual firming of internals.

Moreover, to support a stronger economic recovery, the FOMC is purchasing long - term Treasury securities at a rate of $ 45 billion per month and agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS) at a rate of $ 40 billion per month, and will continue purchasing assets until it sees substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, conditional on ongoing assessment of benefits and costs.

Those data are namely 1) the recent rally in stocks, 2) the recent improvement in the ISM (formerly NAPM) surveys, and 3) the substantial string of Fed easings «in the pipeline», which have accelerated growth in broad money such as M2, and 4) the likelihood that inventories will stabilize, taking away the biggest negative factor currently pressuring GDP lower.

It appears that the extensive changes in the economy over the past decade — including a structural fall in the inflation rate, productivity - enhancing changes in the labour market, corporatisation and privatisation of public - sector enterprises and substantial falls in the barriers to international trade — have led to an improvement in Australia's underlying rate of productivity growth.

Over the next few years, the combination of the operational improvements and oil market recovery should lead to substantial earnings at Weatherford.

I don't know how familiar you are with high end audio products, but there's a whole class of extremely pricey products that purport to offer substantial improvements to the sound in your audio system.

Mention of that great saint brings to mind what he said about change: he sharply cautioned against changing law — any law — even when some improvement is possible, unless there is some «urgent necessity or substantial and obvious benefit», since «the mere fact of change in law itself can be adverse to the public welfare and lessen the restraining power of the law».

The movement spawned beautiful thoughts and eloquent phrases aplenty, but, after the shouting began to subside, serious studies of the effectiveness of these groups revealed little permanent improvement in the members and sometimes substantial damage.

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

It includes substantial irrigation infrastructure along with improvements consisting of a residence, machinery and storage and shedding.

Videojet's new Corner Wrap applicator option provides substantial improvements in production throughput for applications that require labeling on two sides of the case so it can be seen from multiple orientations.

Intel has reduced overall package size and enhanced cube efficiency for its line of processors by replacing all PVC inserts with thermoformed APET and corrugated fiberboard in a reduced package size for a substantial improvement in environmental impact for this high - volume product line.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

While Wenger has overseen a substantial change in Arsenal's philosophy and played a major role in their move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium, Dyche has also had a hand in how Burnley have built the foundations for future success of the pitch, with the # 10.6 million Gawthorpe training ground redevelopment progressing well and other improvements made to the infrastructure of the club, often at Dyche's behest, paid for by the Premier League cash he has played such a huge role in securing.

This is due to Liverpool Lime Street undergoing major engineering work in order to deliver substantial improvements from 2019 as part of the Great North Rail Project.

«The West Lake project along with its substantial improvement to our snowmaking system has been a huge undertaking and we're excited to show what it can do,» said Erik Barnes, general manager of Mount Snow.

The rates of any breastfeeding at 6 and 12 mo among Hispanic, Native American, and white women are quite similar, but still require substantial improvement to meet the HP2020 goals of 61 % at 6 mo, and 34 % at 12 mo..

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

Despite substantial improvement, as of 2013, implementation of several of these maternity care practices and policies was far from optimal.

For six of these steps, substantial improvement in reported hospital implementation occurred from 2007 to 2013, including having a model breastfeeding policy (11.7 % to 26.3 %), assessment of staff competency (44.6 % to 60.2 %), early initiation of breastfeeding (43.5 % to 64.8 %), rooming - in (30.8 % to 44.8 %), teaching feeding cues (77.0 % to 87.3 %), and limiting use of pacifiers (25.3 % to 45.0 %).

The national improvements in maternity care supportive of breastfeeding from 2007 to 2013 are substantial; however, more work is needed to ensure that all women have access to evidence - based maternity care policies and practices supportive of breastfeeding.

«By placing a substantial number of injuries into categories that presume little to no compensation, the Board has made a policy judgment that exceeds questions of medical improvements and worker healing.»

Production of semi-soft and thermal coal improved following the completion of recent brownfield mine expansions and substantial productivity gains through operational improvements from load and haul fleets.

And I have been clear that I will work with any group of Senators who have real economic development and jobs - encouragement ideas, who plan to bring substantial tax relief to the people who elected me, who have compassion for the poor and respect for the middle class, who support the improvement of public education and a plan to ease the burden of tuition - paying parents across New York.»

«Pothole repairs can only do so much, which is why I dedicated funds for a wear and tear crew to make substantial, long - lasting improvements to some of our most dilapidated roads.»

We are concerned that the mayor errs too much on the side of testing to measure school and student achievement, but those tests do show that there has been substantial improvement.

In a joint letter, education reform groups thanked Governor Cuomo, Senate Leaders Skelos and Klein, and Assembly Speaker Silver for the substantial improvements you made to New York State's teacher evaluation law as part of this year's budget.

If Miner's strategy works, Syracuse could have access to tens of millions of dollars to make substantial improvements in a system that has seen one to two water main breaks per day for the past two years.

In February 2014, the New York State Office of Children and Family Services released an audit showing substantial improvement to Erie County CPS since their previous audit in November 2013.

Thus, whilst it might, possibly, result in a short term improvement in poll ratings, it would certainly mean a substantial loss of grass roots and possible swing votes in an election.

The researchers say that the stability and accuracy of this new system represents a substantial improvement compared to previously developed direct detection Doppler wind LIDARs.

Dr. Senn says young women are at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted, primarily by male acquaintances, and that any reduction in these numbers would result in a substantial improvement in their mental and physical health.

Substantial benefit was defined as an improvement of 50 percent or more from the baseline pain and disability assessment.

Those who trained using method of loci showed substantial improvement in their ability to recall lists of words.

The deletion of one copy of the gene resulted in substantial improvements in most symptoms, while deleting both copies eliminated them almost completely.

He found two types of games that lead to substantial improvements in specific cognitive skills: first person shooter games and spatial puzzle games (such as Tetris).