Sentences with phrase «significant number of practicing»

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Through this program, we have received and continue to periodically receive helpful input regarding a number of stockholder - related matters, and have adopted a number of significant changes to our corporate governance practices in addition to welcoming two new independent directors to our Board in 2017, bringing the total number of independent directors to seven of nine members.

He has extensive experience in a number of HR roles and a significant background in developing, implementing and people analytics practices.

Yet there are an inadequate number of professionals who have invested the significant time necessary to get educated on this new area of practice.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

Now, as authoritative teaching within the Anglican tradition gradually dissipates, significant numbers have discerned the need to return, yet hoping to bring with them traditions of prayer and practice which have some unique claim to go back even to English Catholicism as it was before the Reformation.

A significant number of employees were transferred to the Texas stores and relied on to continue the store's strong customer service and business practices, he says.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

Perhaps the most unexpected and inexplicable defect of all in a book by a statistician is The Skeptical Environmentalists almost pervasive inattention to the ranges of estimates that exist for quantities of interest even inattention to the standard scientific practice of expressing quantities to a number of significant digits roughly commensurate with the precision to which the quantities are known.

Each person had also been asked to evaluate her or his psychological state at a number of points during the entire study, and people who had practiced yoga noted a more significant reduction in anxiety as well as a greater improvement in mood than people that walked.

The study's findings (that regular yoga practice can effect statistically significant improvements in sleep habits) back up a growing number of medical professionals» emphasis on altering our routines, as opposed to taking pills, to correct disturbed sleep patterns.

With the significant number of short and long - term benefits to our physical and emotional health, it is abundantly clear that making exercise a regular practice in our life is an essential element of wellness.

While general surgeons, ear / nose / throat surgeons, and some other types of surgeons can and do perform thyroidectomies, statistics suggest that the best outcomes, and the lowest risk of any complications in thyroid surgery, are found when surgeons have performed a substantial number of thyroid surgeries, and who in fact make thyroid surgery a significant part of their practice.

A number of schools showed significant improvements in at least some areas of their practice, sometimes within as little as twelve months.

The practice of forcing students to stay in the testing room, despite having been opted out of the SBAC program by their parents, is an ugly strategy to embarrass, humiliate and ostracize children who are inappropriately being required to sit in the testing room for hours while their peers are taking the defective and high - stakes SBAC tests that are designed to unfairly fail a significant number of the state's children.

The many trends that Penn and co-author E. Kinney Zalesne identify as having significant future impact range from the potentially divisive (a sizable increase in the number of ex-convicts in the general population; a rise in the ranks of highly educated, connected and well - financed domestic terrorists and terrorist sympathizers) to the quirky (more left - handers, more office romances and more people eschewing the practice of sun - bathing).

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice, or are retired, and the number of practices which have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian, despite recruitment attempts.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice or are retired and the number of practices that have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian despite recruitment attempts.

Dr. Bill Pollak, a local veterinarian says, «I have been practicing veterinary medicine for 40 + years in Fairfield and can say without a doubt that the CCSNAP program — and the annual Big Fix campaigns — are having a significant impact on the numbers of homeless animals in our area.»

Another significant advantage to TNR is that, when practiced on a large scale, it lessens the number of kittens and cats flowing into local shelters.

While most clients of spay / neuter clinics can't afford the prices at for - profit practices, he adds, «a significant number... are those people who just don't feel the need to spay or neuter their pet.

This year, a number of members are spotlighting significant works on paper that provide new insight on the role of the medium within artists» practices, and we are pleased that so many never - before - seen works will also be on view.»

Yet his early practice of the 1950s and 1960s intersects with a number of significant processes and issues explored by painters and sculptors in the decades after World War II, across America and Europe.

A significant number of artists in Asia took to such practices with gusto through the late 1980s and»90s, which may well have had less to do with rejecting a modernist paradigm (as it had been with the neo-avant-garde) and more to do with a proliferation of exhibiting conditions that favoured new media — that is, the space of the biennial.

The exhibition demonstrates the significant changes in artistic practice that coincided with the burgeoning number of art schools and university art departments, nonprofit art spaces, alternative galleries and artist - run spaces and publications that not only provided exhibition opportunities but, in the relative absence of commercial support, also created a community that fostered an exchange of radical forms and ideas.

While plein air painting goes back further among individuals, it was with the invention of tin paint tubes and the portable «Box Easel» in the 19th century that painting en plein air, or «in the plain air» became the practice of significant numbers of artists.

This little - known body of work is vast in scope — numbering some 1,200 individual compositions — and highly significant within her larger practice.

In the first there judges have unlimited discretion (Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25: «all the circumstances of the case» and a checklist (s 25 (2)-RRB-; though in practice they tend to be guided by a small number of significant earlier decisions.

Today, law firms have to be sensitive and be prepared to take constructive action if a significant number of partners believe there are areas of practice the firm ought to be in so that it may provide better service to its key clients, or there are practice areas in which the firm is so weak that it would be doing its clients a favor by eliminating it and referring them to better specialists.

Throughout almost 40 years of practice, Baron & Budd has achieved a number of significant victories for individuals and entities through individual lawsuits and class actions.

«We are losing a significant number of women from the practice of law all together,» says Beth Symes, a member of the committee that proposed the program.

She says the criminal defence bar loses a significant number of women after about five years of practice.

Some of our colleagues at UNLV have conceptualized the evolution of legal writing scholarship as a series of leaps.2 The first big leap was to take an interdisciplinary approach to writing about teaching writing.3 The second leap was to build community by creating spaces of our own, such as LWI, the Journal, and then later, JAWLD.4 The third leap was to develop a rich, often interdisciplinary approach to studying and writing about legal writing.5 In their article, Linda Berger, Linda Edwards, and Terry Pollman suggested — hoped, perhaps, and I along with them — that scholarship relating to legal analysis, skills and practice is no longer considered inferior to traditional legal scholarship.6 The growing number of schools where legal writing faculty have achieved equal status due at least in part to their legal writing scholarship suggests we have made significant progress as a result of these leaps.7

She has acted for clients in contractual disputes and negligence claims in a variety of sectors and has acted on a number of professional negligence disputes including a significant claim against a global accountancy practice.

While software - as - a-service (SaaS) is a significant offering in the cloud world, with some strong companies dedicated to providing legal practice management applications, there are a number of other opportunities that require less dramatic changes to your practice.

For individuals, its attempt to cover law and practice in a whole number of areas is understandable but does mean that this can not be less than its 60 - odd pages and significant detail can not be avoided.

The merger adds significant experience in a number of complementary practice areas, including commercial litigation and products liability defense.

ECSL brings extensive appellate practice experience to McAfee & Taft, having handled and won a significant number of cases before the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

As one of the original cloud - based law practice management systems, Rocket Matter has helped to pave the way for a significant number of legal technology companies and startups, particularly those targeting solo and small firms.

Seven major practice areas - corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax - provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

A significant number of us willfully start to roll out improvements in our driving practices as we get more established by:

Additionally, recognizing that a cyber - or privacy - related development can expand to encompass a number of other significant legal issues, our group works hand - in - glove with attorneys in our White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations, Securities Litigation, Complex Commercial Litigation, Business Finance & Restructuring and Employment Litigation practices, among others, to address subsequent risks such as government or regulatory inquiries, shareholder, consumer, or employee class action litigation, trade secrets theft, funding or financial issues, and disputes with vendors, service providers and other third parties.

In fact four of the top six innovative law firms represent some of our biggest user communities; these firms have automated a significant number of their transactional documents across multiple practice areas.

Seven major practice areas — corporate, financial services, energy and environmental, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax — provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

The team has also developed a significant Belgian insurance practice and they are instructed in several high profile Belgian insurance claims, including fire, industrial hazards and professional liability, as well as in a number of insurance regulatory matters.

A significant portion of his practice relates to complex cases that involve the interface of intellectual property and antitrust, especially in relation to standard essential patents and he has been involved in a significant number of the leading cases in that area.

The Report does not address whether this trend toward late retirement will be true for in - house lawyers although the number of potential retirements from in - house practice may not be significant over the next decade given relatively low numbers in in - house practice in the 1980s.

The Civil Frauds Unit brought a number of significant civil actions alleging financial and healthcare fraud and collected hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements for fraud relating to faulty lending practices.

We remain concerned about the number of persons who have access to identifiable health information, and believe that causing covered entities to examine their practices will have significant privacy benefits.

In addition to making their mark regulating the practice of law and, in particular, post-entry competence, the courts have also taken a number of significant measures in the last several decades with respect to regulating the business of law.