Sentences with phrase «small number of official»

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«It's a small number where it has been kinetic, but it is happening,» another source, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the program, told BuzzFeed.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

Many American companies use H - 1B visas to bring in small numbers of foreigners for openings demanding specialized skills, according to official reports.

What the authorities admitted holding as of last summer was almost unbelievably small compared to what even the official figures streaming through Hong Kong alone, plus domestic production add to the total, and China is now the number one global gold producer.

The fees are intended to help pay for making city pools available to the relatively small number of users, officials said.

Since there is a much smaller number of constituents per elected official, there's much less «noise.»

The upshot of that thread is a small number officials (mostly the President, legislators, judges and district attorneys) have absolutely immunity from civil or criminal liability for certain kinds of discretionary official acts.

Then a small number of dismissals of prison officials directly involved.

Bernard Jenkin, the Conservative chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (Pacac), told Civil Service World that he believed the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of Spads — including director of communications Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

White House officials acknowledged that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times.

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.

The meeting began quickly as the Legislature breezed through a number of smaller budgetary matters including the official acceptance of grants from the New York State Office of Children and New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Bernard Jenkin said the change had echoes of Tony Blair's decision to allow a small number of special advisers — including Alastair Campbell — to give instructions to officials.

County Sees Spike In New Flu Cases While the number of confirmed cases of influenza in Oneida County is small compared to last year's, there has been a spike locally during the holiday period and flu remains widespread throughout the State, health department officials said today.

While it's likely no nominations will be taken up, a very small number of judicial appointments could move forward, the official said.

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.

«As Assembly Minority Leader, I was encouraged to hear the governor put forward priorities that fall in line with a number of Conference proposals, including: pension forfeitures for convicted officials, a Constitutional Convention, greater resources for our State Police and focus on public safety, tax relief for small businesses, tax credits for teachers, and a substantial investment in education.»

That year, US government officials were faced with the double threat of H1N1 swine flu, which threatened to explode into a devastating pandemic, and the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, which was continuing to infect small numbers of people.

In 2013, India's National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program reported that the country had experienced an annual average of 20,474 dengue cases and 132 dengue - related deaths since 2007, but infectious disease experts believe those official numbers likely reflect only a small fraction of actual cases.

* Clarification, 26 September, 11:48 a.m.: The story has been revised to reflect the fact that Oak Ridge officials hope the number of staff reductions will turn out to be smaller than 475.

«Health officials in both Mississippi and West Virginia report that overwhelming majorities of the public support their policies and that opposition comes from a very small number of the population.

A small number of studies and numerous media reports have attempted to capture the reactions of public school officials to these new threats to their enrollments and revenues.

Although official figures displayed on the government teacher payscale confirms the possibility to earn up to # 65,978 in inner London, Mr Powell - Davies claimed the advert was «deliberately misleading» because the number of teachers actually earning this rate was a considerably small proportion.

State officials, having identified a small number of Tier 1 curricula, applied a similar winnowing process to professional - development providers, recommending only vendors such as Achievement Network (ANet), American Reading Company, Generation Ready, LearnZillion, and others that could offer training geared specifically to Louisiana's Tier 1 curricula instead of general pedagogical strategies or techniques.

«The jurisdictions who are continuing with that trial have committed to work closely with officials in terms of technological issues to make sure any and all issues are resolved to their satisfaction so the small number of schools participating in the trial can have absolute confidence that it will work and be successful this year.»

That number is small compared to the Atlanta and Philadelphia scandals, yet with more state policies — like teacher evaluations, merit pay, and takeovers of schools with poor ISTEP + scores — riding on students» scores on state tests, state officials, education experts, and parents told StateImpact Indiana they see these pressures to get results as incentives for teachers who can't hack it to bend the rules on state tests.

In response to the Ofsted report, Birmingham local government officials and politicians accused Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, of deliberately misrepresenting problems of governance in a small number of schools by associating them with a wider threat of Islamist extremism.

Education officials and family advocates say that as large failing schools were closed and replaced with smaller schools during the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, many bilingual programs disappeared because schools no longer had the number of students necessary to sustain them.

Although the captain and first officer were able to safely deplane the aircraft by air stairs in order to conduct external safety inspections of the aircraft, airline officials believed that deplaning passengers by air stairs may have been unsuitable due to the inclement weather, as well as the number of passengers requiring wheelchairs and the number of small children on board.

«We've looked at the situation very carefully and come to the conclusion that a small sedan positioned below the A4 has the potential to significantly increase sales penetration in a number of markets,» an Audi official told AutoWeek.

We select a small percentage of the total number of books we publish every year for Official Outskirts Press EVVY Nominations.

The Government Complex is home to more than 30 official departments and agencies and functions as a small town, having a large number of amenities such as banks, retail shops, restaurants, clinics, and a huge parking lot with total capacity of 1,000 vehicles.

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We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

Additionally, a recent comprehensive study of measured natural gas emission rates versus «official» inventory estimates found that the inventories consistently underestimated measured emissions and hypothesized that one explanation for this discrepancy could be a small number of high - emitting wells or components (33).

The Global Witness report concluded that despite forestry reforms initiated by the prime minister himself, large - scale illegal logging operations were the preserve of a relatively small number of people who were relatives or friends of the prime minister or other senior officials.

Apple today has launched an official repair program for a small number of users experiencing an issue where their iPhone says «No Service».

Fraudulent accounts can easily be distinguished from the real deal by their relatively small number of followers and lack of official verification.

There are also a number of Windows tablets currently from Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, and Toshiba that sport the smaller form factor, but none officially from Microsoft's official Surface product line.

The functionality has rolled out to a small number of users at this point and has been confirmed by a Spotify spokesperson as «just a test for now», according to TechCrunch, with more official details to come.

The official name of the device that hid under the model number «ZTE V0840» is the ZTE Small Fresh 5, which probably sounds odd to you, but it's something Chinese consumers are quite familiar with, considering this is not the first smartphone that was announced in the «Small Fresh» lineup, as its name suggests.