Sentences with phrase «on decreasing the number»

On the decreasing number of nuns.

Greenhill is not a full service veterinary clinic; our focus is solely on decreasing the number of unwanted animals.

For Utah to become a no - kill state, more emphasis must be put on decreasing the number of cats who enter shelters, and the best way to do that is to focus on implementing trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs.

Not exact matches

«At the same time we took on board the concerns of the people, who are worried about the future, and this means we want to reduce, we want to drastically decrease the number of people coming to us,» Merkel told broadcaster ARD.

Although the number of homes on the market increased this year, the average multi-million listing price decreased slightly from $ 1.7 million in 2016.

The number of cars on the road is expected to decrease by 135 million globally as car sharing and public transportation improve.

More importantly, 23 percent said they plan to add workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent said they planned to scale back on the number of workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.

The policy that councillors will vote on won't immediately decrease the city's number of payday loan businesses to 15 to match its number of wards because it will grandfather in existing companies, but will prevent new ones from opening, said Tom Cooper, the director of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.

This number has the potential to grow upwards of $ 489,000 if the return on investment increases to 12 percent and the potential to decrease to $ 58,000 if the return is a mere 4 percent.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Incentives for early and late retirement will be modified to decrease the attractiveness of early retirement and increase the attractiveness of late retirement; phased retirement will be facilitated by allowing people to collect benefits while contributing and earning new claims on CPP retirement benefits; and the number of years of low earnings that can be deducted from the calculation of a CPP retirement benefit will be increased.

In the 1990s, a number of studies reviewed deregulation's impact on airline wages, attributing decreases in the range of 10 to 20 percent for pilots, and more for flight attendants.

Moving on to the latest employment report, released Friday, that showed a slight decrease in the unemployment rate widely attributed to a drop in the number of individuals looking for work, Gundlach said it was a bleed - off of the temporary increase in employment due to unseasonably warm weather.

«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»

With cryptocurrency transactions, customers don't have to share personal data when making purchases because they rely on a send - only protocol, meaning that counterfeiting and identity theft are decreased because there aren't any number for hacker to steal.

Both of these prices continue to rise as the number of insured Americans rises and the health of the insured population decreases on average.

In recent years, while the number of people holding credit - card debt has been decreasing, the average debt for those households carrying a balance has been on the rise.

If cultured meat weren't able to become cost - competitive with conventional meats, then it may have a very limited impact on the demand for conventional meats and so a very limited impact on decreasing the vast number of animals subject to industrial agriculture.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

There was a marked decrease in programming which was broadcast on sustaining - time, and a corresponding growth in both the number and size of the independently syndicated evangelical programs which were broadcast on purchased time.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

He lamented, in 2009, the significant decrease in the number of Catholic faculty and the fact that the University's increased focus on research to maintain its status among elite universities was weakening the quality of undergraduate education.

Thus on the one hand the number of gods increased with the number of tribes and on the other decreased with the victory of one tribe over others.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

However, while newspapers like The New York Times could scale back their sports coverage to reflect its relative importance — The Times tucked its decreased number of sports pages into the back of other sections — the same option wasn't always available to the country's myriad all - sports, all - the - time outlets, for whom the show, one way or another, had to go on.

When teams fitting the aforementioned criteria are facing an opponent who won their previous game, the number of system matches decreased by 307 games but our return on investment jumps from 16.5 % to 21.5 %.

The number of injured players on the Injury League Table decreased to 82 from 88 last week.

The number of injured players on the Injury League list has decreased to 80 from 89 last week.

The number of injured players on the Injury League Table decreased slightly to 74 from 78 last week.

The number of AFAM majors on Williams» teams has decreased significantly since his first title.

The number of injured players on the Injury League list decreased by one to 77 from 78 last week.

The authors of the advice responded they did not «mean'to decrease the amount of breastfeeds between 4 - 6 months, although not giving any advice on the amounts or number of the different foods to be given to the babies (would this be too complicated to tell parents??).

Doubts about producing enough breast milk and problems with latching on play a large role in the sharp decrease of this number, says Patricia Schutte, spokesperson for The Netherlands Nutrition Centre (Voedingscentrum).

Early in pregnancy, the number of fetuses noted on ultrasound can be decreased in order to increase the chances of having a baby or babies delivered as close to full term as possible.

The agreement would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

The new plan would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

With anywhere from a 40 % — 50 % divorce rate (depending on who you talk to) and a 23 % decrease in numbers of those marrying from 1960 to today, it's obvious that lifestyle trends are shifting away from «forever after» unions.

Thus, although swaddling clearly promotes sleep and decreases the number of awakenings, the effects on arousability to an external stimulus remain unclear.

On jobs a quarter of the companies expect to increase numbers, half no change and a quarter a decrease.

«Whilst it is encouraging that student numbers have not decreased in our universities, it is extremely worrying that there has been no change in the number of students from the very backgrounds the government is spending considerable sums of money on persuading to apply,» UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said.

But the bill would also decrease the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot: 375 for the Assembly, down from 500, and 750 for the Senate, down from 1,000.

In July 2010, figures published by the Home Office showed that experiments on animals in the UK had fallen by 1 % to just over 3.6 million, with a 10 % decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on animals.

While the number of potholes filled on Staten Island more than doubled last year — to 65,036 from 29,783 in 2013 — road resurfacing decreased there.

Based on the number of questions that come up about gun control (c.f. Has gun violence decreased in states with open carry laws?

Chris Cerrone, a Western New York parent and co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, an opt - out activist group, offered a different take on why city districts numbers have remained low or, in the case of Buffalo Public Schools, experienced a significant decrease.

«Yet while teachers» pay has dramatically decreased, the number of headteachers being paid six figure salaries is increasing year on year, according to the Department for Education's own figures.

With the federal budget sequester on and the Afghanistan war winding down, the numbers of soldiers assigned to the post and civilians working there is likely to decrease.

Walker, who said Transform Milwaukee has been in the works for a year, said the investment would help improve the state's overall economy and decrease the number of people dependent on state resources.

Domestic violence cases have been on the rise in the past several years, but in the past year, the numbers have started to decrease — perhaps partly due to these new initiatives, Pierre - Louis said.