Sentences with phrase «small number of issues»

-- for the NRHA to focus on a small number of issues at the expense of the whole.

Under the new Appeals Services Division guidelines there are 31 types of issue that will not receive an oral hearing (except in exceptional circumstances) and a small number of issues for which the worker may be allowed an oral hearing after providing written detailed submissions supporting the request.

However, TAVF is far less diversified than the vast majority of mutual funds, measured both by the Fund's willingness to concentrate the bulk of its monies in a relatively few issues, as well as the relatively small number of issues owned.

«Many percentage increases that at first glance seem clear winners, on closer inspection only represent a small number of issues downloaded due to the small base.

A small number of issues from 1996 formerly included in a current Science Online subscription are now in the Science Classic archives.

Non-diversified investing may be focused in a smaller number of issues or one sector of the market that may make the value of the investment more susceptible to certain risks than diversified investing.

Not exact matches

He wanted real - time, at - a-glance data on those visitors that would quickly alert him to any site issues, and more important, allow him to tweak his marketing efforts to generate solid leads from the relatively small number of visitors to his clients» websites.

Clif Bar issued the recall after receiving «a small number of consumer complaints alleging peanut or tree nut allergic reactions.»

Apple doesn't have that issue; there are only a small number of Macs (tens, instead of thousands) that need to be supported, so bugs can be squashed quickly.

Instead, on Dec. 1, Mettrum issued a vague press release saying that «as a result of further testing and working with the full co-operation of Health Canada,» the company was adding «a small number of additional product lots» to its previous voluntary recall.

If you have incorporated your business with a smaller than desirable number of shares, you can modify your capital structure by «splitting» the current number of shares issued.

It issued a software patch to fix the behavior, issuing this response: «We have learned of an issue impacting a small number of Google Home Minis that could cause the touch mechanism to behave incorrectly.

The CRTC got an earful from a (relatively small) number of Canadians about being denied access to the original ads when watching the Super Bowl game in Canada, but this issue became the lighting rod that raised the whole ad substitution issue.

Despite loan restrictions from certain Australian lenders, the issue is said to apply to only a small number of borrowers, and has not impacted Chinese appetite for Australian residential properties,... Ler mais >

As well as some high - profile large issues, many smaller companies also listed, with more than one - half of the total number of listings being companies that raised less than $ 10 million each.

While we note that the number of their bonuses is much smaller compared to their competitors, with a maximum bonus amount of only $ 10,000, this is barely an issue in our view.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

The broader issue is that smart political theologists have always conceded the same point: there is always a more or less small number of individuals who are able to live pretty well on Earth without recourse to religion.

Before you pull on you SJW uniform and climb onto your high horses, remember that racism is no isolated incident and only a small number of educated people the world over seem to have any sort of perspective on the issue and are genuinely open to people of varied races, while most put up a show to just seem politically correct.

Although it might be inferred that confidence in addressing the needs of breastfeeding mothers translates into better clinical management of breastfeeding issues, the number of residents in this study was too small to correlate the performance of individual residents in the clinical setting with their reported confidence level.

Good Info, Funding is always an issue when it comes to school lunches, but a number of corporations and private foundations are putting up big money for schools and small farms to implement such programs, especially in areas with high obesity rates.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

A smaller number of studies have examined home visitation programs» identification of maternal depression, 9,11 and challenges related to programs» identification and response.13, 14 In recognition of the prevalence of maternal depression and home visiting programs» limited response to this issue, interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression have been developed.

Most benefits are small in absolute numbers, and do not take into account unique maternal and family issues that make up the reality of new parenthood.

On BBC's «Hard talk» show in 2012, President Yoweri Museveni made similar reckless statement about the homosexual issue when he said «Homosexuals in small numbers have always existed on our part of Black Africa.

One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations.

I was a member of a small party which initially scooped up a large number of people who cared about issues which got mostly ignored by the established parties.

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.

Indeed, when speaking to members around the country, that issue was seen as naval - gazing, relevant to a small number of people in the Westminster village who were aggrieved that their man didn't get the job.

«The same issue that affected other states caused the system in New York to experience sporadic technical issues at a small number of schools on Tuesday morning,» Emily DeSantis, spokeswoman for the state Education Department, said in a statement.

GOP senators want a number of issues to be part of any minimum wage package, including lowering workers compensation and unemployment expenses for business, providing tax breaks for small companies and excluding some kinds of employers from the wage increase mandates, said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

«When I compared the issue of net neutrality to women's suffrage, I was saying the issue started, like women's suffrage, with a small number of passionate advocates and then grew to become something amazing,» Mr. Wu said in a statement to the Observer.

He seems to have figured that the smart posture is to run sideways, like Pataki did, on a small number of critical issues.

«There'll be a number of people that we'll be working with in a different fashion but look, I'm ready to work with anyone who will help New York City whether again it's on those day - to - day issues, the smaller things or whether it's on the big picture issues like saving Obamacare and making sure that the tax code is fair to New Yorkers,» de Blasio added.

The Obama Administration recently unveiled a pilot program that will allow Pell Grants (the federal college subsidy program for the poor) to be issued to a small number of colleges to offer college courses to eligible inmates.

«In the mental health arena, there is a very small component, very small number, with mental health issues that seem to be involved in some of these mass shootings on a regular basis,» Katko said.

The right wing Progress group are struggling lack of members and smaller numbers of MP's backing it, so now we all can see the issue with Watson and the Eagles moving to the right.

A small number of infants have contracted herpes through such contact with herpes - infected mohels, provoking public health officials to seek to limit or ban the practice and providing a difficult political issue for Mayors Bloomberg and de Blasio.

And on some issues, a small number of countries are failing to address critical problems.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

Offspring that inherited the triplicated genes and the genetic susceptibility to cancer had only half the number of intestinal tumors as their cancer - prone parents, and the tumors that did develop were smaller, the team reports in the 3 January issue of Nature.

While «let's negotiate» might never be said out loud, couples negotiate the terms of their relationship on a daily basis, through big issues and smaller issues - from deciding what to eat for dinner to selecting a movie, from settling on the number of children to have to figuring out where to live.

However, testosterone deficiency is a pretty serious issue which affects a small number of men, so if your muscles aren't growing as fast as you would like to, check your diet and workout routine before blaming it all on testosterone.

But several types are wiped out by a course of Cipro, or they survive only in much smaller numbers, reports Stanford University's Les Dethlefsen, PhD, and his colleagues in this month's issue of the journal PLoS Biology.

I have no serious health issues as such, but a number of smaller / low level chronic ones — headaches, gastric reflux, fatigue, stomach bloating and gradual weight gain.

Furthermore, there is also little question that the vast majority of conversations, seminars and published papers on the subject have addressed gut microflora purely in terms of its role in GI health, particularly in reference to the ever increasing number of patients who present with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and inflammatory bowel disease.

It's spawned a number of major successes on the big and small screen but it ran into a few issues with the disappointingly sanitized Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck and, more recently, a mostly forgettable second season of Love.

It's probably easier for the teachers who have a small number of students with similar issues who are just building skills - not preparing for exams - rather than trying to suit hundreds of students.

«There is a small number of parents in any city who are attracted to citywide school issues,» said Marcia Klenbort, director of apple Corps in Atlanta.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.