Sentences with phrase «poor practices decades»

«The public pays to clean up acid mine drainage today because of poor practices decades ago,» Jackson said.

Not exact matches

Granted that present circumstances are different from those of World War I and the following decade, ministry today is also practiced in a time characterized by great unrest, by the specter of armed conflict, and by the tremendous problems of the poor, the aging, the emotionally disturbed.

For some strains of the hepatitis C virus, the most likely date of the original hospital infection was before 1995, indicating that poor hygiene practices — such as reuse of needles and improper sterilization techniques — have been causing accidental infections there for more than a decade.

Our research goes to show that we should be more prudent in labeling a species «invasive» or non-native when the evidence for anthropogenic introduction is poor», says Pfenninger and adds: «Perhaps the rapid increase in Spanish slugs we have seen in the last decades is caused by changes of land use practice.

Over my 2 decades in practice and over 100,000 patient visits, I've met so many «healthy» people who struggle needlessly with excess weight, hair loss, low energy, poor sleep, digestion problems and a variety of other health - related symptoms, all due to Hashimoto's and irregularities with their Thyroid.

(Only in years to come will we look back on the entertainments of this decade and be shocked at how grimly colorless they were, trapped in a hue - killing triple - headlock of CGI, 3 - D, and poor projection practices.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

For the last decade or so, we have challenged statements like, «the kids are bad, it's a poor neighborhood, it's after lunch, they don't like math» — all explanations for poor student results that don't have anything to do with teacher practice.

Teaching to the middle has been considered a poor practice for decades; however, the diversity of the population and the need to hold high expectations for individual students makes small group instruction a significant priority in an increasingly low - income community.

My study of dog bite - related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.

As a direct consequence to decades of poor dog breeding practices, certain dog breeds face bigger challenges when they go into labor and may even require your knowhow on how to handle such situation.

«10 Delise, based upon her study of fatal attacks over the past five decades, has identified  poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining dogs, and maintaining them as resident dogs outside of the household for purposes other than as family pets (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their dogs (chained dogs, loose roaming dogs, cases of abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter resident dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.4

Combined with the poor farming practices adopted in the previous decades, these harsh weather conditions destroyed the agricultural economy of the area.

Until that point, Barlows had looked as if it was finally turning the corner after nearly a decade dominated by partner departures, poor financials and management inertia to regroup around its core insurance practice, a business the firm had hopes of rapidly taking international.

After decades of poor billing practices including; lump sum billing, unclear labeling, surprise fees, and delayed billing - clients have lost trust in the legal billing process.