Sentences with phrase «small number of policies»

A small number of policies will expressly provide for protection against premium increases, or guarantee renewal.

The district school board sets and monitors the attainment of community standards, and it establishes a small number of policies and regulations that ensure the choice - driven decision - making system promotes equity, diversity, excellence, and other community values.

Not exact matches

Kelly Johnson's 14 rules about how to manage a disruptive project described how to remove a small innovative team from the politics, policies, procedures and processes a large company had built to support execution of its core business (and its military customers had developed to procure large numbers of standard aircraft.)

Theoretically, it's good for small business: The Wall Street Journal reports that Giuliani hopes at least 13 million people will trade their employer - based insurance for a private plan, bringing the number of Americans who buy their own policies to more than 30 million.

As we approach 2018, policy activity across four major central banks — the US Federal Reserve (Fed), European Central Bank, Bank of England and Bank of Japan — and a number of smaller players presents opportunities for discretionary macro managers, in our view.

The concern that the network hashrate will become too low is based on several assumptions and variables, including the number of daily transactions, the willingness of the users to wait for confirmations, the willingness of the users to pay small amounts, the behavior of the miners, the fee policies set by various wallets, the emergent consensus on acceptable fees by the mining community, and other factors, including what actually is «too low» of a network hashrate in the first place.

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 number of people with a significant influence on corporate policy is usually quite small.

We all know «small» parishes where closure has meant that significant numbers of the faithful have stopped going to Mass. «Key result area» analysis should produce a very different approach from these policies of despair.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

The Gamble is a sophisticated account of how a relatively small number of serving and retired US offi cers and civilian defence experts developed a counter-insurgency policy for Iraq which became the Petraeus Surge.

Lib Dem policy - passed by a relatively small number of party delegates in a conference hall - didn't matter very much when the party seemed destined to be permanently in opposition.

This privacy policy only covers data collected and used by Freedom from Torture, including a small number of third parties on Freedom from Torture's behalf.

So what we're getting today are what Dolphin dismisses as «a number of micro-announcements of small policy changes that don't cost much money».

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

More fundamentally, Leanne's victory will shift Welsh politics to the left, keeping Welsh Labour under pressure to maintain and strengthen its «clear red water» policy programme and to resist the influence of the small but highly - placed number of crypto - Blairites seeking to drag the party to the right.

«The report confirms that even the most significant challenges schools have faced were surmountable and that the small number of schools continuing to face difficulties should learn from those that have implemented the policy well.

Can we even enumerate the number of businesses that started, blossomed and are thriving because of the friendly policies she put in place to drive the growth of cottage, small and medium scale enterprises in this country?

«While the number of cycles is relatively small, it is definitely growing,» said Georgia Tech's Aaron Levine, the associate professor in the School of Public Policy who led the study.

«Our results demonstrate that physically weak males are more reluctant than physically strong males to assert their self - interest — just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation among small numbers of individuals, rather than abstract electoral dynamics among millions,» says Petersen.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

Reid also rejects the charge of «blacklisting» and says the purpose of the policy change is to weed out the small number of scientists who submit multiple, poor applications.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

«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.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

Among the G8 economies, the U.S. assessed the second smallest number of students for PISA and collected the least contextual information, limiting the inferences that can be drawn for states and the usefulness of PISA for policy.

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 fact, a growing number of Federal agencies (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

Third, the ESA supports the incubation of new edfirms and enforces the small number of district policies and regulations (adopted by the district school board) for all edfirms.

The number of these new schools is likely to be small, so this policy will have a much less significant effect on the education system than the law now being passed to enable maintained schools to convert to academy status.

And that's because a relatively small number of charter networks — KIPP, Success Academy, and YES Prep to name a few — dominate the sector in ways that over the last decade or so have shaped the national debates and policy agendas around charters.

Mr Courtney added: «The NUT maintains that the free school policy has diverted funds into a small number of schools and prevented Local Authorities opening schools where most needed.

He also has helped oversee the creation of a number of small high schools, another of Mr. Klein's signature policies.

We've stood by as the concentration of wealth have made it possible for small groups of extremely wealthy people to wield power far disproportionate to their number, leading to inaction on issues as broad - ranging as climate change to gun policy.

Success of our movement depends on autonomy but this small number of chronically underperforming charters endanger the legislative and policy environment for all charter schools.

At the present time, a small number of studies describes how superintendents and their staffs work with state policies and regulations to ensure authentic reflection of such reform efforts while, at the same time, doing justice to local district and school priorities.

Under its «school - led» policy, the infrastructure is becoming increasingly fragmented, with a massive expansion of School Direct, the accreditation of vast numbers of new small - scale training providers and a rather chaotic and rigged new recruitment system.

I maintained the daily «pop - in» (as it has proved to pay dividends in relation to enhancing my visibility in the school and allowed me to touch base with students in the classroom daily) and individual support for the small number of teachers undergoing formal evaluation (as instructed by district policy).

The available options include limiting the number of fees that can be charged when an account balance is negative; ensuring that consumers have clear information about overdraft programs; making overdraft penalty fees reasonable and proportional; prohibiting banks from maximizing overdraft revenue through harmful reordering policies; and allowing banks and credit unions to offer affordable small loans in place of expensive overdraft penalty programs.

Since the number of policies is quite small and therefore it is rather «tricky» to use general LE - tables, do you have any insight in the (specific) backgrounds of the policies (in addition to age)?

A small group of concerned citizens formed the Foundation Against Companion - Animal Euthanasia (FACE) in 1993 to establish programs and policies which would decrease the number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the Indianapolis area each year.

The number of UK prion experts could be counted on one had; from a small back water to the front of government policy, huge funding levels and a knighthood; just who could resist (me for one).

OR — The number is so vanishingly small that we dare not reveal it to the blissfully ignorant public who would revolt if they knew the actual «value for money» of our policies.

In numbers, after all, there is strength, while individuals and small groups are far more vulnerable — and the purpose is two-fold: to undermine the credibility of wider scientific consensus and to discourage other researchers from sticking out their necks and participating in the public discourse over matters of policy - relevant science.

The development of the energy policy has been led by the ministry, the industries it regulates and a small number of experts linked to them.

Surely it is useful for the public to know whether a particular scientific judgment of potential policy relevance is shared by a small number of authors or by the broader scientific community.

A number of independent reports have shown energy policy costs make up a relatively small proportion of household energy bills.»

Graybill and Gaspé Chronologies Given the acknowledged dependence of the MBH reconstruction on a very small number of tree ring chronologies, any engineering - quality verification for policy reliance, would inevitably include a close examination and assessment of the reliability of these chronologies, including re-sampling if necessary.