Sentences with phrase «significant blocks of»

Greater Manchester is looking for a deal with the government over the full five years from the next spending review (expected in autumn 2015) covering significant blocks of funding where the region can keep savings generated through reforms over the period — with an agreement sharing risk and reward.

Without a sponsoring body or benefactors to underwrite the broadcast, it becomes necessary to use a significant block of time to solicit financial support.

Blue regions indicate significant blocking of the sun's energy by pollution that formed atmospheric sulfates.

Not exact matches

«We have currently informed both companies that a significant number of IP addresses located in the clouds of these two services have fallen under the block on the basis of the court ruling (to block Telegram),» Zharov was quoted as saying.

These «blocks of time» aren't useless meetings, but rather are portions of your day when you can accomplish significant work.

Beyond Buffett's continuing to accumulate Wells Fargo stock for Berkshire, significant changes in its equity list included sizeable reductions in its blocks of Conoco (COP) and Kraft (KFT).

Painted Pony described the test results as significant and said it expected all 36 sections of the Beg Block to be prospective for development.

Like most people, I deal with this problem all of the time and the best way I've found to overcome it is to block out significant time to focus on one project and eliminate everything else.

HOUSTON, March 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA)(Nasdaq: APA) today announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9 / 18a Area - W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea...

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

«The verification of such a large number of blocks may take a significant amount of time, during which new blocks may be added to the blockchain, further delaying the ability for the new node to participate.

So, there is still a significant amount of basic blocking and tackling that needs to be done.

For starters, they became the first of the significant cryptocurrencies to adopting the SegWit (Segregated Witness) system, which separates transaction signatures to increase the block size limit of the blockchain.

And countries from which a significant share of refugees in recent years have been persecuted religious minorities — such as Iran, where Christians and religious minorities have made up 95 percent of refugees in recent years — are blocked for at least 90 days and possibly longer.

They argue that the basic building blocks of the human brain, such as neurons, are too large for quantum indeterminacy to play a significant role.

An example of this is the story of the sick man who had to be let down through the roof into the room Jesus occupied because the door was blocked by large numbers of people (Mark 2:1 - 5) It is significant that apparently the friends and not the patient himself sought the healing and had the expectant trust.

It seems to me that if wealth can be such a significant stumbling block on the path to salvation, we ought to urgently warn against its possible dangers, perhaps in the same way we warn against the dangers of pornography or lust.

The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.

Now while this block is no doubt in its present arrangement the work of priests, it contains a significant nucleus that is not of the priestly cast.

This is significant because although it may be possible to envisage how attributes beneficial for survival are «selected for» in the context of the evolution of species, it is not at all clear how such a «selection» process can work when it comes to forming the building blocks of life.

Quite clearly Murray Goulburn, like the rest of us, reckons a regulator seeing this proposition through its traditional «significant lessening of competition» prism will block this effort.

Cut blocks are mostly illegal, with a few exceptions, because they carry a high risk of significant injury.

But the money needed to interest Rybolovlev, and the convincing it would take to coax Mbappé to England instead of his preferred Spain, are significant stumbling blocks for doing this business.

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

The Mayor should also point out how poorly NY State has handled the East Ramapo mess — avoiding taking on the fraudulent practices of a Board of Education that represents a significant voting block.

A hillside near the Normanside Country Club in Bethlehem collapsed somewhere between 8 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday, blocking a significant length of the creek that separates the Normanside Country Club from Capital Hills Golf Course on the Albany side.

If Nick Clegg does indeed have a «victory» in blocking the proposal it will be one of the deputy prime minister's most significant achievement in office.

That's a significant increase in wordiness for Felder, who said only one word in two of his three previous years in the Legislature, but had a jump in 2016 due to his lengthy defense of a bill that would have blocked New York City from implementing a plastic bag tax.

Without a significant new investment in New York State's Child Care Block Grant, New York State will not be able to meet federal health and safety requirements and maintain the current number of child care subsidies.

Fiscal conservatives (who want lower taxes and lower government spending) are the face of the party, to some extent, but the Christian Conservatives are a significant block (the former Southern Democrats); they were added in the late 1960s through the 1980s slowly over time as the Democratic Party shed some of its ties to the area in favor of stronger ties to the urban centers.

, or without a vigorous opposition press, or with a slanderous and irresponsible opposition press, or which have signed up to supranational bodies outside democratic control, or which have signed up to international treaties ditto, or which make use of protected seats for women or ethnic minorities, or where the if the prime minister is one ethnic group the president is conventionally always another, or where unlimited campaign donations are allowed, or disallowed, or where significant numbers question the legitimacy of the polity holding the vote, or where voting is compulsory, or where non-citizens can not vote, or where they can, or where there is (or is not) a second chamber or supreme court that can block popular legislation...

A hillside close to the Normanside Country Club in Bethelehem collapsed somewhere between 8 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday, blocking a significant length of the creek that separates the Normanskill Country Club from Capital Hills Golf Course on the Albany side.

In her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationals.

He said there was significant scope to use the absence of a Tory majority in the Lords to block the government.

(b) There has been no significant patronage and appointments to executive positions in various government agencies such as Chief Executives and Executive Directors of government agencies and parastatals as members of our block of the party continue to helplessly watch as these positions are shared by the erstwhile CPC, ACN, ANPP and even APGA blocks of the party and those who have no party at all.

Significant numbers of MPs from both the main parties believe that an elected upper House would undermine the Commons» monopoly of democratic legitimacy and, as in 2012, they will defy the Whips to block it.

The mayor cheered several significant projects that are planned or under way, including redevelopment of the Inner Harbor and Kennedy Square, construction of the Connective Corridor and the Pike Block, and the recent completion of the Creekwalk.

For many, Cuomo's tenure has been marked by some significant successes, but also an extensive list of essential policy priorities left on the chopping block due to a chief executive who «governs like a Republican,» as Nixon has said.

Cuomo and the state Legislature must prove to the voters before November they believe in actual democracy, by enacting significant reforms that block the big - money billionaires and lift up the voices and votes of everyday New Yorkers.

Speaking just one block from where Congressman Charles Rangel was scheduled to appear shortly thereafter, Espaillat addressed the public polls indicating a significant advantage for Charles Rangel, Board of Elections issues including reported issues in providing spanish language translators and the timeliness and accuracy of Board of Elections operations and the accuracy of public polls.

But recently, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have identified significant mitochondrial changes that take place in cocaine addiction, and they have been able to block them.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Blocking this inflammation after radiation therapy brought a significant improvement in survival in a mouse model of the disease.

The linking of these two building blocks is a significant step towards the construction of a hybrid quantum system of atoms and superconductors which will enable the further development of quantum processors and quantum networks.

This study of 27 patients indicates that temsirolimus, an mTOR inhibitor, and HCQ is safe and tolerable, blocks autophagy, and had significant antitumor activity; researchers observed stable disease in 75 percent of those patients with metastatic melanoma.

Block polymers, which are two or more polymer chains with different properties linked together, show great promise for many of these applications, and a research group at the University of Delaware has made significant strides in their development over the past several years.

Three organizations — the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust and Sierra Club — filed suit in federal court in October 2008 to block the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the area, from allowing uranium mining in what they consider risky and nationally significant areas.

As left over building blocks of the solar system's formation, asteroids are of significant interest to scientists.

Following it in the list of significant industrial sources in the U.S. are the production of iron and steel, ammonia, aluminum and petrochemicals — the building blocks of much of modern endeavor.

Next, in a laboratory test - tube experiment they found that mixing serum from women with classic or atypical HELLP together with a monoclonal antibody the blocks complement, resulted in a significant decrease in the killing of cells in the modified Ham test — from about a 34 % kill rate down to a 5 % kill rate, the amount seen in healthy individuals.