Sentences with phrase «proposing alternative uses»

At City of Oxford College, a project with Laing O'Rourke has seen students proposing alternative uses for a unit in a city centre retail and leisure development.

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The Small Business Administration defines businesses eligible for SBA loans as those that: operate for profit; are engaged in, or propose to do business in, the United States or its possessions; have reasonable owner equity to invest; and use alternative financial resources (such as personal assets) first.

In fact, PROMISE began with Republican - proposed legislation signed in 2009 by then - Republican Gov. Charlie Crist directing districts to «use alternatives to expulsion or referral to law enforcement agencies unless the use of such alternatives will pose a threat to school safety.»

The term «constructive» is used to contrast with «deconstructive» to emphasize that constructive post-modernism is proposing a positive alternative to the modern world.

But they will mainly use a combination of action strategies to stop plant closures and / or to propose community - worker plant buyouts, to push legislation protecting the worker, to propose alternative economic development plans and to hold conferences and publish educational materials.

Vacca added that residents and community boards can use the guidelines to propose alternative ways to deal with traffic issues and will be in a better position to challenge decisions they disagree with.

Other Republican lawmakers have said they were either studying the measure itself or had proposed alternative bills that would prohibit the use of smokable marijuana.

Facing pressure from opponents of a proposed inner - city natural gas - fired power plant to help run Empire State Plaza, the state Power Authority is revisiting whether alternative energy could instead be used, even though it has already publicly dismissed that as infeasible.

[citation needed] He has proposed that alternatives to anti-bullying programs be used in Loudoun County schools.

He estimated that the rehabilitation works would last for four weeks, and proposed that motorists should use the Eastern Corridor, Fufulso - Sawla and Central routes as alternatives.

However, recently an alternative version of quantum mechanics was proposed which uses more complex, so - called «hyper - complex» numbers.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

In a new Essay publishing 28 December in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft and Sam P. Brown of Georgia Institute of Technology propose that development of alternative therapies for mild infections could help slow the development and spread of antibiotic resistance, thereby preserving the drugs» effectiveness for use in severe infections.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus proposes cutting petroleum use in non-tactical operations by 50 percent and shifting half of the Navy's total energy supply to alternative sources by 2020.

He also explores the flawed tactics we currently use to treat addiction and proposes alternative strategies, such as correcting the brain's chemical imbalance and addressing the emotional urge to self - medicate, which together may prove more effective.

Norepinephrine is currently recommended as the first - line vasopressor (an agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure) in septic shock; however, early vasopressin use has been proposed as an alternative.

About ten years ago, after ferroelectric properties were demonstrated in ultra-thin single - crystal films of perovskites, an alternative concept for memory devices was proposed — based on the use of the tunnel effect.

Although an ideal monitoring program would include the sampling of both healthy and sick wildlife by trained professionals, the researchers propose that less costly alternatives could be used to effectively collect information.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

A team from Oxford University, led by Dr Grant Churchill and Dr Sridhar Vasudevan of the Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Professor Phil Cowen of the Department of Psychiatry, used a database of «failed» drugs, found to be safe but ineffective for their proposed use, to identify ebselen as a possible alternative to lithium, the main treatment for people who are bipolar.

Researchers at CNRS, CEA and the Université Grenoble Alpes propose an efficient alternative using semi-conductor nanocrystals (also called quantum dots) based on cheaper and less toxic elements, such as copper, indium and sulfur.

Perhaps Dr. Greger could develop a «strength» number to assign to the results of any given study that would take into account not only the number of subjects, but also how strong was the response to the proposed treatment or how different was the response between two alternatives and post those numbers in the «Dr's Notes» section for each of the studies he used.

I left off in part 1 emphasizing that the energy shortage in the brain is specific to glucose, and proposing that it would be possible to nourish these starving cells if there were some type of alternative fuel they could use.

And he sent back a proposed law that would have allowed schools to use «alternative assessments» for students who had failed the state's high school exit exam.

Using the same method employed in our original cost analysis, the additional associated costs of this alternative would be $ 320,025,000 total or $ 213,350,000 more than our proposed change, which would result in 38,490 total or 25,660 additional slots lost and 4,422 total or 2,948 additional teachers no longer employed.

When FairTest proposes alternative assessments, we are primarily talking about using classroom - based activities and individual work products.

• a new district facility plan for the Hickman County School District • district facility plan amendments for Christian, Clark and McCracken County School Districts • 2013 - 14 Local District Tax Rates Levied • a waiver of 702 KAR 5:060, Section 6 (2) from the Fort Thomas Independent School District • site approval for the proposed new high school, Floyd County • school district indirect cost rates for fiscal year 2014 - 15 • the appointments to the Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board of Christina Nymo - Yance, Debbie Haydon, Jennifer Harris, Sharon White, Michelle Gadberry, and Mike Lafavers • the appointment of former Graves County Superintendent Pete Galloway to fill an at - large seat on the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) Board of Control • proposed amendments to the KHSAA Bylaws • a request from Kenton County to use an alternative effectiveness and evaluation system

Council member David Grosso, who wrote the proposed bill, said it is an effort to encourage wider use of alternative disciplinary practices.

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The proposed action (Alternative # 5 — Beaver Pond Terrace) called for a reorientation of management and use to more adequately preserve and interpret the area's globally significant Alaskan brown bear viewing opportunities and prime brown bear habitat, and to manage these elements as integral parts of an evolving environment that also contains nationally significant cultural resources, scenic values, and world - class sport fishing opportunities.

They use video installation, lecture - performance, 3 - D rendering, and writing to propose alternative ways of how we understand subjugated bodies.

This is reflected in the use of such speculative names as «Douglass Commonwealth» (a proposed alternative meaning for «D.C.») and «New South Canada» (for the entire United States).

That does not introduce the «Climate Signal» and invalidate the result as suggested by WahlAmman2007 and I can not see anywhere where they propose an alternative as to the correct power spectrum to use for the simulation — perhaps I overlooked it and you can point it out to me?

«If you have customers paying near zero bills but still using the grid, you can't scale that to a large percentage of customers,» said Matthew Freedman, an attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a ratepayer advocacy group that proposed an alternative to net metering to the PUC.

Using a portion of Carbon Tax revenues to fund such a bureaucracy can be proposed as one alternative.

To try and reduce CO2 emissions, a number of governments have proposed or adopted policies to promote the use of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels.

In one report, Generation and Use of Thermal Energy in the US Industrial Sector and Opportunities to Reduce its Carbon Emissions, researchers from INL and the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) identify key greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in the industrial sector and propose low - emitting alternatives using targeted, process - level analysis of industrial heat requirements.

This analysis has two main objectives: to understand the climatic risks that threaten agriculture and to propose alternatives that can be used in other Sahelian countries.

Parties who wish to propose alternative demand forecasts or to question the assumptions and methods of entities contributing demand forecasts should use this workshop as their opportunity to contribute to the record of the proceeding.

When residents of the Turkish village of Büyükeceli decided to install a set of solar panels to demonstrate how renewable energy could be a viable alternative to the proposed nuclear power plant they are fighting, they first thought to use the green electricity to power a local school.

Although a significant majority of all respondents were in favour of amending the Divorce Act to change the language used to describe the post-separation care of children from «custody» and «access» to alternative terminology such as «parental responsibilities» and «parenting time,» a slightly larger proportion of respondents from Alberta supported the proposed amendment than respondents from the rest of Canada.

Myself, I have only ever used it for alternative citations to old, mostly UK law reports and I am not proposing to discard the set should we cancel it so that purpose would still be served.

Many other commenters agreed that the research use and disclosure should not require authorization, but disagreed with the proposed rule's approach and proposed alternative models.

Second, the NPRM proposed an alternative method so that covered entities with sufficient statistical experience and expertise could remove or encrypt a combination of information different from the enumerated list, using commonly accepted scientific and statistical standards for disclosure avoidance.

I should note that this isn't the only reason I'm relatively unconcerned about Google's decision: I also think there will be plenty of alternatives for those who wish to continue using RSS feeds as their main information diet, including Feedly — which says it has cloned the Reader API and created its own back - end for other services to use — as well as NewsBlur, and a proposed reader client that the new managers of Digg say they are working on for release later this year.

The standard of necessity of self - defense sets a high threshold, prescribing that «there must be no practical alternative to the proposed use of force that is likely to be effective in ending or averting the attack».

This Star Trek - sounding term has been proposed as a way to use blockchain technology to decentralize the internet with an alternative to HTTP.

The proposed reforms to the civil justice system in Scotland, through the Courts Reform Bill, include the increased use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes including mediation, and for a range of issues, not just family cases.

The Bureau, in response to these comments, conducted additional qualitative testing of the proposed integrated disclosures using a sample refinance transaction in which a consumer would receive cash at consummation, in which case the cash to close would be disclosed as a negative amount, and a modified version of the integrated disclosures with an alternative table that would use checkboxes to denote that cash was received at consummation.