Sentences with phrase «relied upon them since»

Full time exclusive breastfeeding has been relied upon since the beginning of time to space children - at least for the first 6 months, as it causes a rise in hormones that suppresses ovulation.

Texas's nutrition standards are pretty lax when compared to the new federal rules (allowing, for example, 28 grams of fat in a given item), but the TDA has relied upon them since 2009 to curb sales of the worst junk food on Texas school campuses.

Surgical treatments for malignant mesothelioma are relied upon since the disease is highly resistant to chemotherapy and radiation therapy alone.

Though it has been relied upon since its inception as a basic desktop reference text and even as a required text for LRW (legal research and writing) classes, this role and status are increasingly questionable.

Not exact matches

Since CMIT Solutions is the go - to provider for IT solutions across the board, individual franchise partners are frequently relied upon to provide expert commentary about the latest developments in the IT world.

The monetary policy strategy needs to take this longer - term trajectory into account, since a continually rising exchange rate can not be relied upon to hold inflation permanently below a rate consistent with its domestic determinants.

And since religion is a delusional belief system that relies upon indoctrination to gull followers into believing without question, why would anyone be surprised that scandals happen at all?

This is a false statement since it relys upon the premise that soul's exist when there is no evidence to support that hypothesis.

Our favourite appliance was the freezer, since the efforts involved relied upon bulk production.

Hector Bellerin broke into the first team after injuries to key players and he has since shown he can be greatly relied upon.

The structures of the romance genre — which rely upon white, middle - class, able - bodied, and heterosexual norms of social mobility and citizenship through the marriage union — make a nonstereotypical and nondiscriminatory inclusion of black and disabled people quite difficult, since social mobility, rights of citizenship, and marriage are still actively denied to black and disabled people.»

Since children rely upon the adults in their lives to help keep them safe, David Patterson has provided us with his Health & Safety Guide with tips on topics ranging from travel safety to water safety to neighborhood safety.

The motive for the distinction relied upon in both cases is the same (prejudice), and the loss to the individuals is the same, since even if separate were equal, the latter status (civil partnership) would be in some sense inherently inferior.

This differentiation relies upon the electorate somehow forgetting they have been working closely with the Conservatives since 2010.

Since parties rely so heavily upon activists come election time, to knock on doors, to phone bank, to deliver leaflets, they can not simply be roundly ignored.

We rely upon our full - time staff of attorneys, forensic accountants, research analysts, field investigators and computer forensics experts to staff these assignments, and we work collaboratively with our business clients to develop an investigative plan that is appropriate to the suspected misconduct... Since most of our investigative professionals have had experience in federal, state and local law enforcement — as prosecutors, auditors and agents — our investigative strategies are developed with an understanding of the evidence that may be needed to support an eventual criminal prosecution.»

Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the North of England Since the Recession, by Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan, concludes: «The findings suggest not only a need for regional rebalancing of both the economic and social kind, but that economic growth per se can not be relied upon to improve social outcomes in any region — and in particular it can not be relied upon to reduce poverty and inequality.»

Since the 1990s medical science has relied upon a process called «systematic review» as a means of weighing up the available evidence and coming up with a reliable answer.

Since dwindling returns led them to give up on the traditional method relied upon in some form for eighty years, Disney's feature animation department has made three CGI films: Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, and Bolt.

It should be noted, though, that we as a nation have been relying upon similar high - stakes educational policies since the late 1970s (i.e., for now over 35 years); however, we have literally no research evidence that these high - stakes accountability policies have yielded any of their intended effects, as still perpetually conceptualized (see, for example, Nevada's recent legislative ruling here) and as still advanced via large - and small - scale educational policies (e.g., we are still A Nation At Risk in terms of our global competitiveness).

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

This beats relying upon any single source (whether it be positive or negative) since it's important to realize that single sources may lack knowledge, integrity, or applicability.

I've been writing since I was fourteen and have never once relied upon my ex-spouse or my current spouse for support.

Since BlackBerry 10 heavily relied upon gestures for control, this seemed like a necessary evil.

Since I was not at my computer, I relied upon my iPhone apps for trading.

Since you don't have a particular background to rely upon, you may not know what you feel comfortable with just yet.

Since social security benefits are heavily relied upon in the US, it is not a good idea to start taking money from those who have earned this benefit.

Service dogs are discouraged from social activity since their handlers rely solely upon them for navigation of the world around them and socialization could detract from their ability to do this.

Some pet owners instead rely upon deterrents that give the dogs feces a foul taste or smell; however, this is not always as effective since it can not be administrated to all animals that defecate in the vicinity of the dog.

Since dogs and cats can not tell us what they are feeling, veterinarians rely upon many of the same testing modalities that are used in people...

Since it is almost impossible for you, the buyer, to know what any of the puppies will grow into physically and emotionally, you must rely entirely upon your faith in the person from whom you are purchasing your pup.

Instead the game weights heavily upon its social link system, now called confidants, and relies on these more - so - than previous titles since confidants directly impact the game.

We've seen this process in Steir's work since the «Waterfall» paintings of the 80s and 90s, but the new incarnation does not rely on descriptive gesture at all, instead it «simply» sets the process in motion and patiently follows it through — accepting each occurrence and building upon it.

Update — Since this article has been relied upon in an IPCC report, it is liberated here.

Since I'm not one of those who believes testing it is worth lifting a finger for, I'm not really the one to provide it, but I note that the world is not short of those who think otherwise, and who can be relied upon to supply all manner of metrication with their catastrophic alternative hypotheses — polar bears melting, ice - caps dying out, models that project soaring temperatures — you know the sort of thing.

By measuring changes in winds, rather than relying upon problematic temperature measurements, Robert J. Allen and Steven C. Sherwood of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale estimated the atmospheric temperatures near 10 km in the Tropics rose about 0.65 degrees Celsius per decade since 1970 — probably the fastest warming rate anywhere in Earth's atmosphere.

Since there are far more ways to be wrong than right, accident is not a good thing to rely upon.

By measuring changes in winds, rather than relying upon problematic temperature measurements, researchers estimated the atmospheric temperatures near 10 km in the Tropics rose about 0.65 degrees Celsius per decade since 1970 — probably the fastest warming rate anywhere in Earth's atmosphere.

The fossil fuel energy it would take to make sure we had power when the wind wasn't blowing (345 days out of 365) or the sun wasn't shining (5 out of 365) and between sunset and sunrise (most days since I was born) would consume more fossil fuels to make it work than if just fossil fuels were relied upon at those times.

However, inspection of a claim by Cook et al. (Environ Res Lett 8:024024, 2013) of 97.1 % consensus, heavily relied upon by Bedford and Cook, shows just 0.3 % endorsement of the standard definition of consensus: that most warming since 1950 is anthropogenic.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

Scientists can't even predict weather... Since modern computer models can not with any certainty predict the weather two weeks from now, how can we rely upon computer models to predict what the Earth's climate might be like a hundred years from now?

Since the sister had no enforceable equitable or legal right to the property at the critical time being when the representation was made, the brother should not have relied upon it.

The plaintiffs relied upon the «express mention» canon since the CPA and its regulations provide a list of statutes that are exempted from its application, and this list does not include the OLA.

The claimant conceded that, if the claim for loss of earnings was based on the fact of his detention, that would fall foul of the ex turpi rule, since it would involve relying upon his detention as a result of the manslaughter conviction.

Since most experienced medical malpractice attorneys rely upon their reputation to get cases, they will not jeopardize their business by taking a case where the attorney and expert are the only individuals who get paid.

This has led the Court to conclude that individuals may not rely upon its provisions in proceedings against other individuals since directives can not in itself impose obligations upon individuals (no horizontal direct effect).

Jonathan was introduced to Kim Cornwell, a member of Outside GC's Boston - area team with significant biotech, pharma and vaccine company experience, and has since relied upon Kim to serve as de-facto general counsel for Genocea.

The trial judge recited its understanding of the Linton holding as follows: «Where... the change in circumstances relied upon by the party seeking to modify the spousal maintenance was within the party's contemplation at the time of the decree, no relief is available since the change is not a material change in circumstances.»

The insurer relied upon the Alberta Court of Appeal decision in Ledcor Construction Ltd v. Northbridge Indemnity Insurance Co. («Ledcor»), [5] which excluded from coverage the cost of replacing glass windows that suffered damage during the cleaning process caused by the faulty workmanship of a trade contractor on the basis that repairing the windows would be «making good faulty workmanship» since the damage was the direct result of the cleaning carried out by the trade contractor.