The phrase
"significant portion" means a substantial or important amount of something.
Full definition
The systems must be built to protect themselves from catastrophic failure in order to avoid risk of damaging
significant portions of a harvest.
The issue of pension portability is an important one for teachers, who currently can
lose significant portions of their future retirement income when they switch to jobs in different states.
In return, you can
invest significant portions of your portfolio in the equity markets, which historically have generated the highest returns.
Some markets have individuals spending hundreds of thousands of dollars above asking price and
paying significant portions in cash rather than risk losing the contract.
Such a state system performs well across all the standards, including use of sampling and classroom - based assessments
as significant portions of accountability and public reporting.
Those that
do significant portions of training in cooler weather (and sweat more during hotter competition climates) can suffer, as well as those who finish a marathon in under four hours.
While significant portions of the film looked crystal - clear, many other scenes came across as less than terrific, all of which made for a generally good but erratic viewing experience.
Now in 2016, that proportion has risen further to 38 % of student loan repayments and represents an
more significant portion of borrowers.
While its own stores and franchise deals are an
increasingly significant portion of the business — wholesale currently makes up 65 percent of retail sales — there are no plans to flee department stores.
This is expected to reduce the predatory practices made by many banks, protecting students from
accumulating significant portions of credit card debt early in their lives.
I won an
entire significant portion of the game with the top screen covered up, which is where the game is actually displayed, because that's how simple the game is.
The car led in class
for significant portions throughout the race before two late spins and an engine issue with 30 minutes remaining put a halt to the car's charge.
What has changed, however, is that people now
spend significant portions of their time on and within social networks built around their interests and relationships.
For instance, a world that will require a basic incomes policy and in which a
very significant portion of the population will not be employed?
Now in 2016, that proportion has risen further to 38 % of student loan repayments and represents an
more significant portion of borrowers.
Because children attend school for
significant portions of their early lives, their social, moral, physical, and psychological development must be central to the school's mission.
Buffett
devoted significant portions of Berkshire annual letters in the late 1970s and early 1980s — amid high inflation in the United States — to discussing what rising prices mean for stocks, corporate balance sheets and investors.
And consumers may suffer indirect effects as well,
if significant portions of their spending or available credit are reported unconventionally.
As much as these kind of corporate policies are infuriating, we also have to take a long, hard look at ourselves, and ask simple question: how much of this we are pre-conditioned to believe because male - dominated (often family - disengaged male that does not go to ballet recitals and spring concerts or PTAs, the same one that
comprises significant portion of middle - management at Y!)
Many multi-billion dollar institutions and high - net - worth individual investors have followed this strategy for years, by
allocating significant portions of their portfolios to assets such as private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, and real estate.
Thanks to NPS's new sound level mapping, it is fairly clear that a 35 decibel sound limit isn't just discriminatory to wind farms, it's likely impossible to achieve under already - existing conditions
in significant portions of the country.
The property, which
includes significant portions of the Suisun Marsh, was once a Native American village, then the working ranch of settler Hiram Rush.
The museum also
holds significant portions of the Albert Frey, E. Stewart Williams, Arthur Elrod / Harold Broderick, and Hugh Kaptur archives.
I have
contributed significant portions of my disposable income to a variety of charities as well as volunteer work for such things as the Air Zoo (a passion of mine) and Habitate For Humanity.
Questions about district graduation rates first emerged with a November report by radio station WAMU and National Public Radio that Ballou High School issued diplomas to seniors in 2017 who
missed significant portions of the academic year and did not meet graduation requirements.
Park District Executive Director Ken Brissa
said significant portions of the vertical walls of the south staircase will be removed and new access at the top of the existing deck will be added.
It could
take significant portion of the year on average for cardholders of the other three luxury cards to break even and start reaping the rewards.
Cohen has
donated significant portions of his collection to museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Morgan Library, and many others.
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has once again reorganized some of his firm's major properties so that his family and its various trusts
own significant portions of the company's real estate.
Researchers have shown that innovative educational programs have the greatest impact
when significant portions of the school culture are mobilized in conjunction with all stakeholders.
We then show that teacher assignments are highly predictive of both eighth - grade test scores and advanced course taking in high school, and that differences between advantaged and disadvantaged students in teacher assignments
explain significant portions of student outcome gaps.
His slides give the reasoning behind this, but basically it is predicated on avoiding a global mean temperature rise that could
cause significant portions of the ice sheets to start to melt, based partly on an analogy with the temperatures at the Eemian (the last interglacial ~ 100,000 years ago).
Initiated and led a multi discipline design team to
replace significant portions of an electro mechanical pilot interface dealing with flight controls and propulsions commodities.
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