Sentences with phrase «other early measures»

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It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

It's critical to find early measures of change in an organization's conversations and confidence via social media, quick online surveys and other virtual channels.

Those earlier measures alarmed civil rights advocates who questioned whether they would do much to improve security, and worried other countries would introduce similar screening of Americans.

The Senate rejected a measure to privatize air traffic control earlier this year, after the importance of passing other provisions in the bill outweighed stretching the contentious debate any longer.

It's too early to say with great certainty; other tax measures could change the picture, for one thing.

Going forward, our early achievement in building a reporting infrastructure will make it possible for the partners to continue to track and measure their spend with women - owned businesses and other underutilized groups of suppliers.

The manufacturing and non-manufacturing ISM indices, while down from the peaks seen in early 2004, are still at high levels and a number of other measures of business sentiment paint a similarly positive picture (Graph 3).

The exception to this is the price index for market goods and services (excluding volatile items), which increased by 1.8 per cent over the year, reflecting weaker quarterly growth earlier in 2003 (relative to other measures).

With a handful of other states adopting their own anti-abortion measures earlier this year, Perkins says his conservative Christian agenda «has been accelerated forward» in recent months.

But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the «one - child policy» China began to implement in the early 1980s — a state - decreed population - control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced abortions?

In this speech — as with many others he gave in 1967 and early «68 — King is measured and slow.

... Nicaragua's early progress in curbing imports, raising grain production, and other reform and austerity measures were undermined badly by new needs for foreign borrowing imposed by the burgeoning defense burden....

One sees by this measure, as by others, that for the oldline churches it was the higher growth rates of the 1950s that were unusual, not the relatively lower ones that set in after the early «60s.

Identification of opposition to the measure with Catholicism might have been avoided if other religious groups had been perceived in the public's mind as early and strong opponents.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Your childbirth educator will also show you how to manage your contractions and use a variety of positions and other techniques like comfort measures, positioning in labor and more to stay more comfortable in early labor, perhaps before an epidural or IV pain medications are allowed.

Far less attention has been paid to the idea of supplementing the other pregnancy hormone — hCG — to prevent miscarriages, even though hCG is the hormone measured in home pregnancy tests and the serial blood tests doctors use to evaluate early pregnancy viability.

Now, researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were born prematurely and others who went full - term — show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.

Our earlier work showed that other measures of blood cholesterol (ie, LDL) were available in only two - thirds of the studies that reported total cholesterol in adulthood by feeding group (10).

Doubtlessly, there are also lots of accusations, allegations and rumour against certain persons in the party which cases appears not excite the interest of the powers that be to attract the same measure of action as earlier meted out to others - KENNEDY AGYEPONG AND HIS ILKS.

Cuomo pointed to a number of measures he sought this year in the budget, including early voting, the Child Victims Act and others that he said were blocked by Republicans in the Senate.

Veteran reporter Joe Mahoney reported on efforts to enact early voting, «no - excuse» absentee voting, pre-registration for teenagers, and other measures championed by Kavanagh that have gained support in the Assembly but have not been acted upon by the Republican - controlled State Senate.

The group, NYCLASS, «feels very good» about the chances of a new measure being unveiled as early as January, as pressure has been mounting for a compromise after Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito failed to corral enough votes for an outright ban or other reforms.

They have since U-turned on both the timing and the scale of the austerity measures; Cable claims he was persuaded of the case for deep and early cuts, «not by other politicians, but by talking to the most senior officials in the government and the central bank [who said] that we had to act».

Priorities include early voting, reforming voter registration, closing the LLC Loophole, and other measures to strengthen New York's democracy

This means the «direct permanent costs of this measure» are # 100 million, five times less than the # 500,000 expected to be accrued each year from other «taxes on the rich» unveiled earlier.

Other measures to authorize early voting...

In a recent interview with The News Service of Florida, Senate President Joe Negron, a Stuart Republican, said lawmakers may considering using the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to shift some of the guardian funds into other safety measures if the money goes unspent, although it was too early to make that determination.

Rosenthal said she introduced the measure before the internet phenomenon developed earlier this year of people posing for pictures with tigers and other bigcats.

The measures backed by Schneiderman this week would provide for a system of early voting in the state, consolidate the two federal and state party primaries in a single date and allow for same - day enrollment, among other provisions.

Other cost containment and reform measures will, upon full implementation, reduce the annual cost of the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) and Early Intervention (EI) programs by $ 100 million and $ 75 million, respectively.

Earlier this year, state lawmakers, as part of an ethics reform package, implemented a swipe - card system and other measures intended to prevent abuses of travel vouchers.

Earlier, the House gave final approval to a measure allowing veterans with other - than - honorable discharges attributable to post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or military sexual trauma to access state benefits they're currently barred from.

Cuomo's wide - ranging, 10 - point ethics reform agenda advocates for a public campaign financing system, early voting, and several additional measures that reform - minded advocates and legislators have been calling for, as well as others of his own.

In the early 1990s, Hamuy made a key contribution that helped others to measure the accelerating expansion of the Universe and win a Nobel Prize in 2011.

In an earlier report, Brooks and others showed that infant gaze shifting serves as a building block for more sophisticated language and social skills as measured in preschool children.

The earliest instrumental records of Earth's climate, as measured by thermometers and other tools, start in the 1850s.

Other measures such as cognitive (i.e. IQ) ability, early linguistic skills, measures of the environment such as socio - economic status, and whether there is a family member with reading problems or dyslexia are all common early factors used to assess risk of developing reading difficulties.

«We already know from a 2014 evaluation by FPG that the school readiness skills of children who attend Georgia's Pre-K significantly improve across a wide range of language, literacy, math, and other measures,» Early said.

Instead she will rely on markers of behavior, stress hormones, and other measures in early childhood.

The researchers worked with other collaborators to measure the in situ activity of these two enzymes in patients with early stage lung cancer.

A variety of computer - generated colors highlight my hippocampus, lateral ventricles, and other features that Brewer has measured to determine whether I have early signs of diseases such as Alzheimer's.

There are a range of interventions for pregnant woman that can reduce the risk of preterm birth, if identified early, which include steroid injections that strengthen the lungs of the fetus, and preventive measures by the mother such as optimizing nutrition and other lifestyle changes.

This suggests that the tool could be used to monitor for early warning of new invasions in other regions, which would let us enact control or eradication measures when they're most feasible.»

By measuring subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the remnant radiation from the early universe that pervades the sky, WMAP refined the estimated age of the universe (13.7 billion years, give or take), among other key cosmological parameters.

Among other measures, the package includes «a bill to create a «Next Generation of Researchers Initiative» within the [National Institutes of Health] Office of the Director to promote early - career researchers — also a priority in the House bill.»

Thus, it may be too early to observe changes in health or other measures of access or health care utilization whose benefit might take more time to gauge.

«Our results clearly demonstrate associations between early vitamin B12 status and various measures on development and cognitive functioning, as for example the ability to interpret complex geometrical figures, and the ability to recognize other children «s emotions,» says Kvestad.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.