This is perfectly acceptable practice, since the person receiving and reviewing these documents will most likely only be assessing
a small number of candidates, and will be interested in gaining deeper insight before deciding who to interview.
The local committees reviewed the applications, selected
a small number of candidates for interview, interviewed and made recommendations for appointment to the Attorney General.
Given the small size of most teams within the wealth management sector, there are
a small number of candidates in the market who have specific experience in wealth regulatory advice, client transaction structuring and general commercial advisory.
High - performing countries tend to have more rigorous selection processes for admission into teacher preparation programs compared with the processes in the United States.7 A program can be selective in many ways: It can admit only
a small number of candidates; it can set a high bar for admission; or it can include qualitative or performance - based assessments of a candidate's knowledge and skills.
Indeed only
a small number of candidates will ultimately achieve promotion and to top load an organisation like the Police with those who seek to attain higher rank could lead to disenchantment and premature exit from the service to other employment in an effort to seek further remuneration, better prospects or less challenging work.
The Alberta Party and EverGreen Party are only expected to nominate
a small number of candidates.
ComRes reached
a smaller number of candidates, a good number in less winnable seats.
While the declines are not good news for schools — it means they're competing for
a smaller number of candidates — a recent paper found that teachers hired during the recent recession tended to be stronger than those hired during better economic times.
Not exact matches
While Democratic
candidate Vermont senator Bernie Sanders would go as high as $ 15, a
number of Republican
candidates say they favor only a
small bump up in wages.
How their top executives feel about the
candidates, however, is hard to say: CrowdPAC's data notes only a relatively
small number of chief executives have contributed to campaigns so far.
Our
numbers are much
smaller but now we will attract more young men who will be the right kind
of candidate.»
substantial, in part because
of the political ties
of many
of its preachers, beginning with their support
of a
number of conservative causes and
candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively
small group
of people who for the first time found a national public articulation
of their views.
First - past - the - post voting tends to result in a
smaller number of viable
candidates.
In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater
number of citizens in the large than in the
small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy
candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages
of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.
The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure
of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's
smallest state with the lowest
number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics
of the ruling party's
candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.
A third prominent
candidate, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, is also in the race, and has announced the support
of a
number of smaller unions, especially in trades.
Public Matching Funds in NYC Amplify Voices
of Small Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their dist
Small Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for
candidates who can raise a certain
number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their dist
small - dollar contributions from constituents in their district.
Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable
number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one
candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly
small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.
Finance has consistently been one
of the biggest talking points from early on with Latimer painting Killian as the big money
candidate and championing his larger
number of small donations.
That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in
small populations; the need to present a minimum
number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some
of the
smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters
of the party)
While 538 such
candidates is impossible without several changes in the rules (even in Maine and Nebraska, two statewide electors are allocated together), a
smaller number of ties like ten is possible.
Through financing from the Citizens» Election Fund,
candidates that obtain the required
number of small donations can receive a lump sum to fund their campaign.
It is worth noting that Andrew Smith, the Labour
candidate, is one
of the
small number of Labour MPs who voted for a referendum on PR in the last parliament.
In a situation like that, even a
small amount
of electoral fraud, or a
small number of people whose vote was swayed by a negative story about a
candidate, could be enough.
«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity
of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field
candidates when you need such a
small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»
Like all winner - take - all voting methods, IRV tends to exaggerate the
number of seats won by the largest parties;
small parties without majority support in any given constituency are unlikely to earn seats in a legislature, although their supporters will be more likely to be part
of the final choice between the two strongest
candidates.
The update adds
candidate spending data from the Electoral Commission (expressed as a percentage
of the long and short spending limits for each constituency) and corrects a
small number of errors in variable names.
Despite the encouraging poll
numbers — Spitzer called them «comforting» — the
candidate acknowledged that he and the
small army
of petitioners (some paid, some volunteers) currently headquartered in his father's real - estate building on Fifth Avenue still had some work to do in the final 24 hours to get over the finish line.
Today, the benefits
of the system are even clearer: the
number of small donors to political
candidates has grown, and elections field more competitive races.
With primaries usually only turning out a
small number of registered party voters, the game comes down to a
candidate getting his or her people out to the polls.
This is a
small improvement on our current system
of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank
candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart
of our democracy which is that a party's share
of seats in parliament does reflect the
number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions
of wasted votes and a shameful system
of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.
These shortcomings, as well as the same demands that drive most technological innovation — to make it
smaller, faster, cheaper, less prone to failure — have produced a
number of candidate data - storage technologies in recent years, all
of which offer some combination
of advantages over the devices in wide use today.
«To use this «momentum effect,»
candidates will spend a lot
of time in the coming months trying to persuade voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, even though the
number of delegates distributed in these contests is actually very
small.»
The reliably high percentage
of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs
of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively
small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a
candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.
Candidates have to tailor their messages to
small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful
of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction
of the presidential race.
«This gives astronomers a statistically sound population
of planet
candidates to accurately determine the
number of small, possibly rocky planets like Earth in our Milky Way galaxy.»
Dr. King points out that a
number of oral drug
candidates inhibit PKC - delta and that it may be possible to suppress PKC - delta production with microRNAs (
small RNA molecules that help to regulate protein generation).
Examination
of innexin expression patterns -LRB-[24] and these studies) provided only a
small number of other
candidates that might contribute to specificity in the locomotory nervous system.
Based on Kepler observations conducted from May 2009 to September 2010, the planet findings show a dramatic increase in the
numbers of smaller - size planet
candidates, where Earth - size and super-Earth-size
candidates have increased in
number by more than 204 and 136 percent, respectively, since the last Kepler announcement in February 2011.
He said: «The
small window in which examinations can be taken, the large
number of candidates taking examinations and the diverse range
of subjects available to
candidates, places significant limitations on the changes that can be accommodated for any one group.
For years, antipoverty organizations like the Harlem Children's Zone and the Children's Aid Society have operated forms
of community learning centers at a
small number of New York City schools, but some
candidates are hoping to extend the idea to hundreds
of them.
Some MSP leaders recommended that if there are only a
small number of highly - qualified
candidates available, it is better to hire fewer teacher leaders than originally planned rather than select a larger
number of less - qualified
candidates, unless the program is willing to devote substantial time and resources to developing the needed knowledge and skills.
The firm is already speaking to a
number of potential
candidates, but managing partner Richard Masters, who took over from 1 April, told Legal Week that he would like an «acquisition» rather than a merger, with the ideal
candidate being a
small boutique.
There were a
number of likely
candidates: a
small pickup truck loaded with miscellaneous junk, a dump truck and a large truck with a cargo box full
of construction debris.
Each
of our recruiters typically makes far more placements than recruiters at competing placement firms while working with a
smaller number of select
candidates.
The pool
of competent experts in financial sector litigation is surprisingly
small and law firms looking for expert witnesses or advisers face a
number of challenges: • Identifying the right expert in a specialised discipline • Developing a short list
of suitable
candidates on a discreet basis • Avoiding individual experts «shoe - horning» themselves into roles for which they are not properly equipped • Assessing individuals» strengths and weaknesses and prior track records Our experience - as experts ourselves and from working with our associates over an extended period - normally enables us to propose one or more
candidates whom we consider the best equipped to address specific issues on which expert evidence is required.
It's best to keep the
number of interviewers on the
smaller side, so
candidates feel at ease during the interview.
Many
of the larger employers require graduate
candidates to have, or be on track for, a 2.1, but a good
number will also accept 2.2 s.
Smaller employers will have a straightforward recruitment process, often comprising an application and an interview or two; larger employers will follow a more complicated process, including online aptitude tests as well as an online application, a telephone interview (or, rarely, a video interview) and an assessment day.
At this point, the hiring manager has narrowed down the list
of candidates to a much
smaller number and will be looking to schedule a formal interview if the telephone interview goes well.
Candidates I coach can obsess about getting on a big graduate scheme at a well - known firm and are almost unaware that in terms
of numbers the vast majority
of jobs are with
small and medium sized firms where the opportunities to grow and take responsibility are just as large.