Sentences with phrase «small number of positions»

Law students have always coveted federal clerkships, leading to fierce competition for a very small number of positions.

While Chuck owned hundreds of stocks, I preferred the thrill of the hunt that comes from being a stockpicker and watching over a small number of positions.

While Chuck owned hundreds of stocks, I preferred the thrill of the hunt that comes from being a stockpicker and watching over a small number of positions.

Not exact matches

If GEICO's numbers were there — and if the size of the positions was relatively small in comparison to the billions that Buffett deals in — you were into Simpson territory.

The cost of even a small number of critical leadership positions remaining open far exceeds the cost of developing a leadership strategy.

That leaves Sprint in a position where it could try to merge with a smaller player or attempt to roll up a number of companies that could leverage Sprint's customer base as well as its spectrum.

«8 Yet an increasing, albeit small, number of evangelicals are suggesting that the church's theological position regarding homosexuality must be rethought.

Given the small number of Everest expeditions and the intense competition for positions on each climbing team, my prospects seemed slim.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Funny how 99 % of women go to the hospital and don't complain because doctors wanted to go a VE to know what the baby's position was, yet there is this small number of ladies who kick and scream because they were deprived of a procedure that has the potential of becoming lethal in minutes because hospitals don't have anaestesia 24 hours a day.

However, if you are a fan of Infantino's smaller profile and generally softer materials but demand a greater number of positions, then this is the product for you.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

A slightly smaller number of voters (16 %) favour a mostly elected chamber with a small number of appointed members — the position adopted by the Tories in their 2010 general election manifesto.

It is tragic that a small number of leading Blairites should prejudice the party's position in this way.

Fried's position is that as a geographically small county with a population of 300,000, Rockland does not need the same number of legislators as much larger and more populous counties.

Early on, I realized that specializing in plant systems might narrow my chances for future employment because of the relatively smaller number of academic positions and biotechnology companies devoted to plant research.

Former Cancer Prevention Fellow Lisa Colbert, currently at the National Institute on Aging and soon to assume a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, states: «I am now one of a very small number of exercise physiologists who also have an M.P.H..

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

Because of the small number of staff members employed in this category in each company — a big company might have a dozen people — and because of the specialized knowledge required for the job, these positions generally go to people who already work for the company.

In the process, it will take a stab — again, a small one — at the deep, underlying problem in the academic labor market: the severe, perennial imbalance between the number of would - be researchers coming out of the nation's universities and the number of career positions available to them.

And the number of these permanent positions is small.

Maybe it is the optimist in me, but based on the number of management positions our recruiting company and others have filled in the past 6 months, I sense that, downstream, hiring will soon increase in companies large and small.

The reason some hiring managers are more critical of industry postdocs is that a number of smaller biotech companies consider positions at the postdoc level to be «cheap pairs of hands» jobs and not independent research positions.

The researchers note that countries scoring high in United Nations rankings of economic development tend to have smaller executive cabinets — Iceland, number one in development, has a cabinet of 12; the U.S., in 12th position, boasts a cabinet of 17 — although there are glaring exceptions: Australia, Canada and New Zealand score high on development and cabinet size, according to Science News.

We discuss the position, it's called something impressive like «Head of Global Research;» the salary is going to be so enormous that I'll be able to retire in a small number of years.

MDs, PharmDs, and even fewer PhDs occupy only a small number of scientific positions in these large production plants.

MiSciNet: A small number of minority scientists hold postdoc positions in national laboratories and academia.

This is an area of great concern because we fear that the number of postdocs in physics is even smaller than the number of African American physicists with career positions within the DOE laboratories.

And the number of positions remained relatively small.

The idea is to perform an extremely large number of measurements at A and B and extract the small fraction in which the EEG signals caused changes to the settings at A and B after the particles departed their original position but before they arrived and were measured..

The consensus position in the research community is that tracing back the biochemical chains of cause and effect to root causes, something that is not yet possible for many common medical conditions, will show that all age - related conditions and their complexities are the consequences of a comparatively small number of types of cellular and molecular damage.

It's a little thin in terms of content, but it's just a small incentive to keep pushing the player into the number one position.

The public — generally very supportive of teachers — does not understand union positions that over-protect the small number of teachers who are harming kids.

A small number of organized and involved individuals can drive positions and agendas.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

The letter from Eileen Milner, Education and Skills Funding Agency chief executive, says: «You are one of a very small number of trusts in this position — fewer than 3 per cent of all trusts pay more than one salary in this bracket.

Amid all the talk of teacher shortages, some sections of the country are inundated with applications for small numbers of teaching positions.

But in Kentucky, where more than 85 percent of schools have site - based decision making councils, the number of parents running for council positions and voting in council elections remains dismally small.

«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.

Brooklyn Navy Yard During the 1930s a small number of women worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, almost exclusively in administrative positions.

Any time a company pulls out of a market, it strengthens the position of the remaining players, and this is a field that has seen a number of closures already, from small indie e-tailers to Borders.

We expected volatility such as this when we launched the fund — the small number of stocks and relatively large positions tends to mean a volatile unit price.

Until now, and because of my «R» size, I've entered a positions relatively with a small number of shares (No more than 1,000 shares in each trade).

When I trade a small number of shares, let's say 1,000 shares, I put a stop market order (That's my prefered order for entering a position), and I'm in with all the 1,000 shares (sometime with a little slippage) when the stock's price of 19.38 $ has been hit.

I set the upper bound for the number of investments at 20 under normal circumstances, which is consistent with my typical «small» position size of 5 %.

Accordingly, a non-diversified mutual fund is generally subject to the risk that a large loss in an individual issue will, causing a greater loss for the fund than it would if the fund was required to hold a larger number of securities or smaller positions.

I would estimate that a very small proportion of the population are in this position and so I probably won't run the exact numbers and devise specific strategies, but my conclusion would probably still remain largely the same.

It now appears to me that the share price was pushed up by a number of people buying small positions before the record date so that they could participate in a large way in the oversubscription; that would have been perhaps the best strategy.

If you're determined to exercise your options (or there's not enough liquidity to reasonably sell your contracts to the market), then you could plan ahead and exercise smaller number of contracts at a time and sell the resulting position in the underlying, which will give you funds to exercise some more contracts and sell the underlying.