Sentences with phrase «significant numbers of communities»

Falconer goes on to praise the emergency brake as «indicative of a prime minister who is aware that there are significant numbers of communities in this country who feel that immigration from the European Union is making their position worse rather than better», and describes changes to child benefit and exclusion from ever closer union rated as «sensible... I don't attack the deal he's done».

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The beach community also had a significant number of $ 5 million home listings at 166.

Significant support is given to the local primary school and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue project.

Under Ms. Tolstedt's leadership in 2010, the Community Bank achieved a number of significant strategic objectives, including converting approximately 750 Wachovia banking stores to the Wells Fargo platform, record cross-sell results in legacy Wells Fargo stores and increased cross-sell results in Wachovia stores, rising customer service and satisfaction results, growing market share in key businesses, and positioning the Community Bank for future growth when economic conditions stabilize.

While several large mining pools, as well as a significant number of companies, have signed on to the New York Agreement, this agreement was itself drafted without any feedback from Bitcoin's technical community nor — even more important — a reliable gauge of user sentiment.

You inces santly trumpet the superiority of those in the scientific community and those in academia, and yet when it is mentioned that significant numbers of those same individuals are theists, it's» Most people do not analyze the situation objectively.»

These communities «do not represent significant numbers of religious Americans.

Without significant numbers of active advocates in your community, you'll never get far with Aramark, a billion dollar corporation.

Even for apparently well - integrated communities, the cultural lacuna is still significant and operates on a number of levels.

Richard Cherry, Founder and President of the Queens - based Community Environmental Center, said: «It's exciting to see this excellent and significant increase in the number of green employment opportunities.

A geographic breakdown of poor and ALICE households shows that many Ulster County communities rarely thought of as poor have significant numbers of economically struggling families.

The housing stock in CB 12 largely remained in the hands of landlords and tenants during the 1970s and 1980s when residents were fleeing the city, while in Harlem — in community boards 9, 10 and 11 — the city was able to purchase significant numbers of properties.

Quoting acting DEC deputy commissioner Thomas Berkman's reference to the project's «potential for significant adverse environmental impacts,» the document states, «the very large number of affected communities demands a scoping process that can accommodate their effective participation to identify issues of local and regional concern.»

This ability to work together, along with a number of other significant votes, clearly demonstrates that government, despite party affiliations, can work together to do what's best for the community.

Orange County developers are relying what they say will be their ability to attract the most number of gamblers — and the greatest number of high rollers — will result in a significant cash flow to the state and the communities surrounding the casino.

In addition, all three communities have a significant number of residents who live below the federal poverty level, and many have complained that insurance won't cover monitoring and that their doctors know little about the dangers of PFOA.

Statistics provided by the American Association of Community Colleges (www.aacc.nche.edu) indicate that a significant number of minority students enroll in community Community Colleges (www.aacc.nche.edu) indicate that a significant number of minority students enroll in community community colleges.

«Prior to the 2016 mass bleaching event, we observed significant variation in the number of fish species, total fish abundance and functional diversity among different fish communities.

«The same sense of academic community does not exist, for the most part, for the industrial postdoc, unless there are significant numbers of postdocs within a given department.

The global community is generally improving on a number of issues, such as health outcomes related to drinking water and sanitation and protection of marine ecosystems, while on other issues significant challenges remain.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

The AAAS Mentor Award honors AAAS members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, pursuing Ph.D.'s in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and who have demonstrated scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

These numbers clearly indicate that sequestering a significant fraction of projected emissions in vegetation is likely to be very difficult, especially as forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and communities.

«The cancer care and research community at MSM has seen significant growth over the past five years; doubling the number of oncologists and quadrupling the amount of translational research funding.

However, it's important to note that a significant number of major clinical studies and investigations done by the medical community have reported that the * most impressive * results with HGH are seen after 6 months of committed use!

Rockhampton hosts a significant number of governmental, community and major business administrative offices for the central part of the state.

The site has more than 77 million members and sees more than 25.5 million visitors a month — a significant number of them being from the LGBT community.

Published on September 14, 2011, the College Dating Violence and Abuse Poll finds that a significant number of college women are victims of violence and Domestic Violence Prevention Centre is a non-government community based organisation that provides specialist domestic violence support services to the

Manny Rivera: It's probably unpopular for me to say this, but my guess is that 100 percent of those communities that voted to opt out of NCLB and not receive federal dollars have significant numbers of Latino and African - American policymakers.

«For example, with the under - representation of girls in engineering, knowing that altruism underpins the occupational choices of a significant number of girls could mean exploring with girls the ways in which engineering helps people and communities, as one part of their occupational decision - making.

We used poverty (the number of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches) and type of school (elementary and secondary) as control variables for all of our analyses because several studies examining community involvement specifically found them to be significant influences on parental involvement in schools.

But while half of respondents felt the Common Core would improve the quality of education in their community, a significant number — 40 percent — said the new standards would have no effect.

Both communities have seen a significant surge in their youth populations, and the existing public middle schools do not have enough seats to comfortably serve the growing number of students.

By choosing kindergarten readiness as the first goal of the Blueprint, the community demonstrated the clear understanding of the challenge that a significant number of children are entering the formal school system without the skills they need to succeed, as well as the underlying community responsibility that we need to do something about it.

Our analysis of the 22 included program evaluations demonstrates that ELOs leverage existing resources and contribute additional resources (including significant numbers of adult volunteers) to augment K - 12 and community - based funding streams.

As part of its vision to promote excellence in middle and high school leadership, NASSP, with financial support from a number of partners, annually recognizes principals, assistant principals, schools, students, and advisers from across the country for their leadership and for making positive, significant differences in our schools and communities.

He demanded that there be a significant number of turnaround schools - calling for 10 % of their persistently failing schools to be turned over to the community.

Finally, no teaching garden is complete without a significant number of volunteers and community partnerships.

Students attend three years of high school and two years of community college, and they end up with a diploma plus a significant number of college credits.

And the argument that I'm trying to make is that if there's a significant segment of the black community who feels, even if there are now things that are better, but they have not played a significant role in making it better, or they haven't played a significant role in the power relationships, or if you have significant numbers of people who see the effort to change education and the way that it's being done as a larger part of the disempowerment of black people in the city of New Orleans, even the good things that are happening, in my mind, they are, uh, there's a danger in the ability to sustain it if we, if we can't build on a broader base of support within the black community itself.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

The only thing standing in their way was a state law requiring that parents, teachers and the local community had to play a role in selecting a «turnaround» model and there was little interest in a Washington D.C. charter school company that had virtually no experience running schools with a large Latino population, a significant number of English Language Learners and a large special education population.

While the number of participants alone does not determine the quality of a given chat (everyone's individual journey and quest for collaboration is unique), it is significant when a professional learning community attracts thousands of engaged educators each month.

While Gardner admitted that there is a high percentage of young adults who read on Wattpad — largely due to the popularity of their mobile reading app — she explained that a significant number of users are actually of a wider variety of ages, and that communities are built around almost every conceivable genre.

«Petco Foundation's investments have enabled many organizations to substantially increase the number of lives saved in their communities as we direct significant grants to organizations that are considerably under resourced,» said Charlie Piscitello Board Chairman of the Petco Foundation.

During this time there has been a significant decrease in the annual euthanasia rates in a number of partnering communities.

«Petco Foundation's investments have enabled many organizations to substantially increase the number of lives saved in their communities as we direct significant grants to organizations that are considerably underresourced for the number of animals in their care,» said Susanne Kogut executive director of the Petco Foundation.

Moreover, this did not show a significant decrease in the number of pit bulls in the community.

The large number of horses that can be exposed on such premises and the serious nature of the disease have caused significant concern within the animal health community and the United States horse industry.

«You'll see that in the core game itself, where we have a number of new exciting developments to roll out very soon, but also in the game's appeal on growth platforms like PC, where we've invested significant dedicated resources and design time to make sure we can deliver a great PC game to serve that community.»