Sentences with phrase «officials zero in»

The film examines the potential consequences that arise when law enforcement officials zero in on one suspect and work to build a case against that person while ignoring any contradictory evidence.

«In an effort to combat a potential typhus outbreak,» reports today's Los Angeles Times, «city officials zeroed in on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.»

Not exact matches

As official interest rates in various countries approached zero, there was talk that going negative — effectively requiring private lenders to pay to deposit their excess reserves at central banks.

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

Based on what VW and environmental officials have described, this was a deliberate and elaborate scheme rooted in digital ones and zeroes.

The Bank said it does not expect the scheme to lead to significantly faster aggregate loan growth, but to offset any hit to lending from a cut in official interest rates closer to zero.

Most Federal Reserve officials have signaled that they think this year is the appropriate time to raise interest rates from near zero, where they have been since the depths of the financial crisis in late 2008.

The six - month accord will need to be renewed at OPEC's next official meeting in June, but by then the cartel could have done a great deal to zero out the supply surplus.

Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

In December, officials softened the link, saying they would keep rates near zero «well past» the point when the jobless rate falls to 6.5 %.

Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Greek Orthodox Church, the only church that was actually destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, as church leaders have been frustrated and fouled by New York officials who have virtually turned their backs on the reconstruction of the church near Ground Zero?

«The [FBI] official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, questioned the logic of the mapping program, reasoning that the wholesale plotting of Muslim communities - rather than zeroing in on suspected extremists - could drain counter-terrorism resources and alienate Muslim residents at a time when they are crucial to law enforcement efforts.»

No he hasn't proven me wrong he's scored a grand total of zero goals for Arsenal in official games, none of the other top teams have an injury prone 21 year old leading the line in big games, what he needs is a LOAN!!

Here in the UK we had Zero Waste week last month — I missed the official week but am holding my own next week.

Oak Park Park District officials have said they hope to repair both pools in the village, at Rehm Park and at Ridgeland Common, and add water slides and a zero - depth wading area to the pools.

We recently received a letter of protest from a high - ranking official at Nestle Canada regarding our January posting about the company's participation in Brazil's «Zero Hunger» program, which aims to completely eliminate hunger in that country (January 26: «Nestle's Deadly PR Scam in Brazil»).

A few weeks ago, I visited the first new home to receive «official» zero carbon status and so I've seen how energy efficiency can go hand in hand with good design and affordability.

Gov. Scott Walker's plan for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena has «zero chance» of passing the Wisconsin state Legislature in its current form, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told county officials at a meeting Wednesday.

Cuomo's team has plenty to work with, given that Teachout listed Vermont as her address in official paperwork as recently as 2013, avoided paying state and city sales taxes on a car she bought in New York, listed Vermont as her home on tax forms when she joined the faculty of Fordham University Law School in 2009, and reported to tax authorities that she lived in New York for zero months in 2009.

ALBANY — Growth in school taxes on Long Island and statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses.

Growth in school taxes statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses, according to the state comptroller's office.

«The nearly zero growth in the tax cap will limit budget options for school and municipal officials as they plan for next year,» said DiNapoli.

Saranac Lake hit 21 below zero this morning — colder than any other official measuring station in the lower 48 by 7 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

One top labor official said John Samuelsen, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, was beefing with Mr. de Blasio simply because the mayor's Vision Zero initiative initially forced bus drivers to automatically face misdemeanor charges if they injured or killed pedestrians crossing with the light in their favor.

The tally shows that Rocky Anderson polled 19,399 votes in the state, but this seems to be an obvious error, because the official tally shows that Mitt Romney received zero votes in Wallingford, and that President Obama received 9,259 votes in Wallingford, and that Anderson received 11,559 votes in Wallingford.

«The impact on public education would be significant, particularly in light of a tax cap that is projected to be near or at zero for next year,» said Michael Borges, executive director of the state association of School Business Officials.

The officials also called on the city to take a zero - tolerance approach in addressing quality - of - life issues, including public urination and noisy drumming, which have disturbed residents and business owners around Zuccotti Park for the past seven weeks.

In City Hall's Blue Room, Mr. de Blasio was sitting alongside Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, and other top officials to outline legislation to create a system that would register, inspect and clean the cooling towers atop buildings across the city — which were ground zero for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx that has now killed 12 peoplIn City Hall's Blue Room, Mr. de Blasio was sitting alongside Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, and other top officials to outline legislation to create a system that would register, inspect and clean the cooling towers atop buildings across the city — which were ground zero for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx that has now killed 12 peoplin the South Bronx that has now killed 12 people.

Officials credited the NYPD's «precision policing» approach — which has officers zero in on more serious offenders like gang members instead of those committing minor crimes — as well as the department's new neighborhood policing model.

It was never meant for elected officials, who must be replaced at their current salary, resulting in zero savings to the county.

As soon as it became clear that patient zero was a case of indigenous dengue hemorrhagic fever, American health officials began collaborating with counterparts in Matamoros (a Mexican city just across the Rio Grande with a population of nearly three - quarters of a million), dispatching teams to do a blood - sampling survey to uncover the overall extent of dengue infections.

Reservoir levels were retreating so sharply during summer in the Southern Hemisphere that officials had warned that the city's water supply would be shut off on «Day Zero» in April, forcing most of the city's 4 million inhabitants to queue for rationed potable water.

The world's first international study on homophobia in sport, «Out on the Fields,» has found widespread homophobia in UK sport, prompting calls for a zero tolerance approach towards discrimination and better training for coaches, teachers and officials.

«Zero tillage is already being used to sow wheat on 1.8 million hectares in South Asia's extensive rice - wheat rotations, and state government officials in India are implementing policies to support more widespread adoption.»

Since the donation of the «Zero Emission» Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station to the Belgian State in March 2010, the International Polar Foundation was appointed as official Antarctic Operator under the newly established Belgian Polar Secretariat.

Official Premise: World - renowned Kojima Productions showcases the latest masterpiece in the Metal Gear Solid franchise with Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.

By the time Yanshi is finally released, Wanyu has gone «movie crazy» (plausibility zero, in other words): She remembers that she has a husband in prison, but doesn't recognize him when he's standing in front of her, mistaking him either for a complete stranger or for a Party official whom (it's implied) she slept with to keep Yanshi from being executed.

Aligning itself with a CIA official (Jessica Chastain) whose decade - long pursuit of bin Laden calls on vast reserves of courage and resolve, Zero Dark Thirty goes deep into the shadow world of «enhanced interrogation» and black sites, details the many leads and red herrings that finally brought investigators to a compound in Abbottabad, and executes the raid itself with stomach - turning verisimilitude.

While some fans may feel deflated, find some comfort in knowing that if you weren't following the company's UK Twitter account, you would have had zero build - up, since neither the official Dark Souls nor Bandai Namco U.S. Twitter pages posted the news of a clothing line.

After making its debut in Famitsu magazine just last week, Phantasy Star Zero now has an official release date in Japan.

Where Zero prompted investigation into whether officials gave the filmmakers classified information, the White House neither confirmed nor denied any of the facts in the screenplay of Seal Team Six's first - time scribe Kendall Lampkin.

In its Official Selection, Sitges 2013 will also be presenting eagerly - awaited films like Machete Kills, the latest from Robert Rodriguez with a star studded cast (Danny Trejo, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas, Lady Gaga...), as well as the latest big hit on American screens, Insidious Chapter 2, the most recent film by king of horror James Wan, or Terry Gilliam's new incursion into science fiction with The Zero Theorem.

If you're interested in some of the amazing photo's taken within Zero Dawn's photo mode, check out the official post on the PS Blog.

If I were an ESA parent, I would have zero interest in what my state education officials had to say about the quality of, say, the online courses offered by a given university.

She recounts how the «zero tolerance» approach to school discipline of the 1990s was followed by the Obama administration's official guidance to schools on minimizing suspensions, issued in 2014, and notes

«As a long - time IB educator and Project Zero practitioner, I couldn't be more thrilled at the inclusion of the Project Zero Classroom and the online courses in the official offerings of IB professional development,» said Jim Reese, director of Professional Development Collaborative at the Washington International School (an IB school since 1977).

In their contingency plan, L.A. Unified officials propose two ways to cancel out the three - year $ 72.2 million deficit if no solution presents itself by 2017 - 18: zero out the planned $ 101.3 million contribution to a trust fund that pays retiree health benefits, or implement $ 102.8 million worth of the cuts an independent financial review panel recommended in NovembeIn their contingency plan, L.A. Unified officials propose two ways to cancel out the three - year $ 72.2 million deficit if no solution presents itself by 2017 - 18: zero out the planned $ 101.3 million contribution to a trust fund that pays retiree health benefits, or implement $ 102.8 million worth of the cuts an independent financial review panel recommended in Novembein November.

In schools, the analog to such policies is a «zero tolerance» discipline code, in which school officials crack down on even «low level» offenses such as defiance, minor physical contact, and inappropriate language, because of the potential consequences of such behavior on other students and their learninIn schools, the analog to such policies is a «zero tolerance» discipline code, in which school officials crack down on even «low level» offenses such as defiance, minor physical contact, and inappropriate language, because of the potential consequences of such behavior on other students and their learninin which school officials crack down on even «low level» offenses such as defiance, minor physical contact, and inappropriate language, because of the potential consequences of such behavior on other students and their learning.

Sun, October 23 — Teach - In 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of schooIn 11:00 am — 2:00 pm 417 N. Lexington Street, Durant Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child - servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of schooin Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero - tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.

The state Association of School Business Officials said in a report Monday that districts may not see increases in local revenues next year because the property tax cap will be around zero.