Sentences with phrase «small number of instances»

Sadly, it only takes a small number of instances of poor background screening practices before the media attempts to discredit the entire industry.

I seem to remember that in a small number of instances, members of the House of Lords appellate committee (which was the equivalent of the UK supreme court until 2009) did informally refer to other members as «brothers».

Collins describes the discoveries as «a small number of instances where select agents were improperly stored.»

Not exact matches

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

Eliades» criteria reduce the number of «confirmed instances» to a smaller set with fewer false signals.»

While the lithium business is accretive to company financials (I couldn't find an instance where it wasn't), the small relative size of these numbers renders the lithium business as a «nice to have» or niche rather than real drivers of overall financial performance.

It's more accurate to say that each week we have a small, statistically insignificant and wholly unreliable forecast for the coming week's market direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically significant.

If small busniess owners (like someone who owned five rental properties) can decide only to rent to legally married couples, for instance (and marital status is one of those things for which you are protected from descrimination) then there could suddenly be quite a number of people who are unable to find places to live, or can be taken advantage of by a limited number of other renters.

Where there is no justice, change toward a more just situation is good; but change can also be evil when it curtails justice ~ as, for instance, when economic and political power is being concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people.

It means that, for instance, election battles become concentrated on a smaller number of voters.

A large number of males born into a small group, for instance, limits the reproductive potential of the population.

The system is so elegant, mathematically, and so beautifully spare in its notation that there is now a small cult of siteswapping numbers jugglers, a geeky, largely male group of computer programmers, academics, and engineers who eschew razzle - dazzle tricks — chain - saw juggling, for instance — in favor of such sublime challenges as keeping 10 balls aloft.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

For instance, when a person sees a clock, only a small number of neurons become active, enough to do pattern matching that draws upon the brain's memory of a clock and compares it with the object's basic features — its round shape, the presence of numbers — to draw a conclusion that this thing is a clock.

There's such care in the way she writes every character; I think, for instance, of the priest and drama instructor played by Stephen McKinley Henderson, who has a small number of lines but an arc that's filled with pathos.

India, where a relatively small number managed to introduce widespread use of their language, is an instance of Diffusion.

According to the FDA, «There has been a small number of reported instances of cats and dogs in the United States that developed kidney failure after eating the affected product... Dogs or cats who have consumed the suspect feed and show signs of kidney failure (such as loss of appetite, lethargy and vomiting) should consult with their veterinarian.»

For instance, while Chase points are great because they're transferable, they only transfer to a very small number of airlines.

One of the reasons some players do this is because they read somewhere on a developer blog post about a specific bug or glitch, which normally only affects a very small number of users and occur in rare instances.

There's a reason ArenaNet marketed Guild Wars 1 as a Competitive Online RPG, they said that it wasn't a traditional MMO because the instances only host a small number of players.

The highlights of this update were laid out last week, although there are quite a number of smaller, less noticeable changes and fixes in there too: An issue causing Ikora to display an incorrect waypoint has been cleared up, for instance, and the dismantle timer for Masterwork Cores has been increased.

But even a system without version control might satisfy most of these requirements — for instance, if the data can be tagged with text and a URL, then it's pretty easy for a user to figure which version is which, especially if the number of versions are small.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

For instance, if a person has been involved in a minor car accident and is looking to get an attorney involved, he or she will likely reach out to a small number of lawyers for quotes.

In the case of Slaughters, for instance, only a very small number of its ranks are likely to receive its coveted new «exceptional» grade.

~ A small number of decisions in other Canadian courts of first instance are not enough to establish a category of cases in which a duty of care has previously been recognized, for the purposes of a Cooper v. Hobart analysis.

Unfortunately, in a small but still significant, number of instances, this remains the case.

There are a number of instances where a small mistake can lead to grave disasters.

The numbers were smaller here compared to instances of single words, but some patterns did develop.

A small number of health professionals sought more qualified support, for instance, wanting LI practitioners to have health qualifications.

For instance, the small number of e-mail entries we received signaled a marketing void.