Sentences with phrase «other local causes»

At every site the company plans to put # 60million into community benefit funds that could help to pay for engineering and renewables study at training colleges and pay for other local causes.

The veterinarian will also check for irritation of the mouth or throat, tumors, inflamed saliva glands and other local causes.

Not exact matches

Some of the causes are regional and local, but other factors are relevant to vacation areas across Canada, leading to worries that the malaise could spread east.

It said cleanup operations were being co-ordinated with the Department of Emergency Management and other local authorities, and that the cause of the spill was being investigated.

First, it fights against disruptions in the supply chain caused by weather, local politics or other problems that commonly upset shipments.

Last month, President Trump expressed concern over Amazon, declaring, «Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!»

On the investment side, while the detention of Canadian investors John Chang and Allison Lu for commercial disputes with politically connected counterparts in China has gotten most of the publicity, other practices, such imposing technology transfer requirements on foreign investors, targeting foreign over local firms in enforcing environmental rules, and denying reciprocal treatment of investments in resource projects, banking, telecommunications and professional services are also cause for serious concern.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

(1) The inconsistency was stated thus: The Disciples churches by requiring the rebaptism of members of other churches who apply for membership in a local church of Disciples deny their fundamental commitment to the cause of Christian unity.

If people travel to Mexico or other third - world countries, it will most likely be to take advantage of beautiful beaches and favorable exchange rates rather than to explore the causes of hunger and poverty.16 The majority of people, rich or poor, who actually follow the news rely heavily on major television networks and local newspapers.

We focus on four things for this — carefully planning quantities, giving any wastage from the delis to local community causes, using leftover veg in other dishes, and using companies that turn waste into fertilisers rather than just adding it to landfill.

Partnering with local families and other community members has naturally led to involvement with a number of charitable causes including the Children's Miracle Network.

Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

To that end, the restaurant promotes a turnkey fundraiser program that returns 20 % of an event's proceeds back to organizations, helping schools, sports clubs and other local groups «cause a scene for a good cause».

In addition, there will be other special events and activities such as «Friday Buck a Shuck Oysters», trivia night and more supporting local causes.

• Shop around and get free estimates from several different companies • Make sure the company you choose is bonded in case they cause damage to your home • Ask to see a list of references or other people that you can call to see how well they performed their job • Check with the BBB or local watch dog group to make sure that they haven't had numerous complaints • Make sure they agree to give you a free estimate and that they warranty your work • Also, make sure the work order is negotiable.

Crick made many other contributions to Scottish political life, from participating in his local Labour Party, to defending Glenogle Baths from closure, to, in his last weeks of life, penning a humorous Op - Ed for The Scotsman on the chaos caused by the tram line delays in Edinburgh.

The radiation produced was acutely dangerous in local areas, and caused cancer risks downwind, but the overall effects were dwarfed by many other man - made disasters.

Success» critics have argued that new, co-located Success schools can cause overcrowding and other problems in local district schools.

«PAAM wishes to condemn in clear terms the harassment being visited on party members by the governor who has been arm - twisting them across the 16 Local Government Areas of the state, forcing them to reject palliative Christmas gifts from other party chieftains while he, as a governor, has refused to help their cause.

The bill provides grants to encourage states to adopt laws, similar to Indiana's 2005 Jake Laird Law, that enable local law enforcement, with probable cause, to seize and retain firearms from individuals who are determined to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.

And if we know against which epidemics our population here has acquired immunity, we can then see whether there are other advancing epidemics that will not be stopped by the local immunity, making it probable that it may cause an epidemic here.

An average warming of 0.4 of a degree is predicted by 2099, and whilst this warming will not be enough to allow any species from other neighbouring continents to invade or colonise Antarctica, it will cause the unique local species to change their distribution.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

The large amounts of additional data, researchers say, has helped refine previous work, fill holes in the data coverage, and also to rule out other possible causes of some sediment deposits, such as major storms, random landslides or small local earthquakes.

«We have seen that these toxins enter neurons at the injection site, causing the desired local paralysis, but Ewa and Jason have shown unambiguously the existence of a second entry pathway that takes some of the toxin molecules to other neurons.»

Independent and widely separated observatories are necessary to determine the direction of the event causing the gravitational waves, and also to verify that the signals come from space and are not from some other local phenomenon.

In those cases, other causes of water shortages came into play due to local factors, such as increased water demand, population growth or methods used for irrigating the crops.

Jet lag is a temporary condition caused by rapid travel across time zones — as may occur with jet trips — and may leave an individual experiencing fatigue, insomnia, nausea, or other symptoms as a result of the internal circadian rhythm, or body clock, being misaligned with local time.

Contracted through the bite of an infected mosquito or through sexual or other modes of transmission, Zika virus (ZIKV) infection can be prenatally passed from mother to fetus.1 The virus was first identified in the region of the Americas in early 2015, when local transmission was reported in Brazil.2 Six months later, a notable increase in the number of infants with congenital microcephaly was observed in northeast Brazil.3, 4 Clinical, epidemiologic, and laboratory evidence led investigators to conclude that intrauterine ZIKV infection was a cause of microcephaly and serious brain anomalies.5 - 7 However, as with other newly recognized teratogens, these features likely represent a portion of a broader spectrum.

Toxic metals may also simply deposit in many sites, causing local irritation and other toxic effects.

• Local muscle injury is the most common cause of physical problems, and is often associated with trauma to the muscle itself, such as the result of a fall, a so - called pulled muscle, a twisted ankle, or other injury.

2 years ago I started working out at my local gym and my main goal was to build muscle but then I started to look bulky for my own personal taste (not only I gained muscle but also fat cause you can't gain one without the other), so in the last 2/3 months I started leaning out.

While I can't isolate the cause (perhaps interference from other electronic devices), some places make even local multiplayer matches nearly unplayable.

But the impact - aid rules at the center of the dispute could cause similar disruption in other states and plunge the federal government into local controversies over education finance.

Though a smattering of grants have benefitted local causes — after - school yoga ($ 31,000), book drives ($ 1.2 million), new district schools ($ 2.1 million) and sundry others — over 40 percent of the money granted to organizations has left the state.

«We had to convince voters of the value of charter expansion while [the other side] simply needed to falsely position charters as the root cause of local school funding issues.»

Although Al was never able — on this issue as on many other reforms that he knew were needed — to get the AFT's state and local affiliates to embrace his visionary thinking, his restlessness with the status quo, his boundless creativity, and his statesman - stature in the education field cause him legitimately to be viewed today as one of the parents of charter schooling in the U.S.

This helps account for at least some of the trauma and disruption caused by the storms, the quality of schools students attended in other regions while their local schools were closed, and any changes in the state tests and state education policies that affected both groups.

In April 2015 he caused controversy by granting permission for neighbouring academies in Redditch, Worcestershire, to convert into two - tier schools, despite concerns that it would «decimate» the town's education system and threaten other local schools.

While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.

Too often, cause and effect relationships, student motivation, local conditions, economic class, and other variables are not controlled when testing is used for this purpose.

But the grades were a cause for shock, tears and reflection for a number of other local charters.»

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Called Chrysler HQ, local Chrysler dealer, Bosch and other mechanics, no one knows what could have caused this.

Whether it is donating trees to the area, sponsoring Children's Hospital events, supporting our local parks, or one of the numerous other local charities and causes that we have been involved with, we are always here to support our community in any way that we can.

These doubts caused the State of New York to threaten to break up some or all of these insurers, separating the low risk municipal bond insurance portfolios from other commitments in order to protect market access for thousands of state and local borrowers.

Problem debt costs the UK # 8.3 bn through the damage it causes to family life, mental and physical health, productivity and employment prospects and costs to the welfare state, the NHS, local government and other agencies.

The law will also stop the Legislature and local communities from passing laws or ordinances after November 2016 to address any water and air pollution caused by factory farms, harm to other farmers» and residents» land not withstanding.