Sentences with phrase «small number of state»

A small number of state libraries in each include trial - level opinions.

And, even the small number of state law enforcement officers are heavily concentrated doing traffic enforcement on major state and federal highways.

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

Int he US, in the small number of states that use Open primaries, all voters that register to support your party and those that have not registered to support a different party get to vote in the selection.

New York is one of a small number of states that allows a practice called fusion voting.

A small number of states have used levers intended to create modest system change.265 For example, Indiana adopted a 5 point educational quality indicator system in 2001, and merged its independent Teacher Professional Standards Board into the Department of Education in 2005.

Subsequently, the 2013 500e will only be sold in California — and, perhaps, a small number of states that follow in California's footsteps — starting in early 2013.

A small number of states prohibit the use of credit information by employers as a means for making hiring decisions.

Small numbers of state tax returns for New York State and South Carolina filed using TurboTax software have also been reported as suspicious.

(The use of FITs in the U.S., however, has been limited to a small number of states.)

Most of the testing on self - driving vehicles has taken place only in a small number of states that have agreed to lenient regulations (like Florida).

Ohio is among a small number of states that recognize causes of action for intentional spoliation of evidence, but the actions are limited to evidence that was physically destroyed, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.

CFTKAW lawyers say the NAIC report proposed that these actions should range from activities common to most states, such as the creation of rate comparison guides or the implementation of restrictions on underwriting guidelines, to initiatives unique to a small number of states such as comprehensive programs to provide low - cost liability policies to low - income drivers.

In very recent months, however, a new threat seems to have arisen in a small number of states.

A small number of states use the Melson formula, which is similar to the income shares model, but also considers the financial needs of the parents.

Not exact matches

«We're planning to build and test ultra high - speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States,» says Google on its officail blog.

In the five years to 2000 — 01, the number of small businesses in Australia's state and territory capital cities increased by 6.4 per cent to 945,320, and only Hobart recorded a decrease in the number of small businesses.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

«A number of conditions should be reviewed based on the strategic plan of the company to make sure the loan is good for them,» says Donna Holmes, director of the Penn State Small Business Development Center.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

While the majority of shared renewables projects are solar projects, there is also a small number of wind projects operating in several states.

The director of communications at Coinbase, David Farmer, in a blog post stated that a «small number of miners may attempt to go forward with a fork.»

New Jersey is one of the top five smallest states in size but ranks as the number 11th most populous state in the nation.

The bureau has been relying on a small number of agents based in the United States Embassy in Moscow to serve as intermediaries with the authorities there.

Indeed, as reported by the New York Times, states have promoted these tax credit programs to raise funds for private schools, even though the number of AMT filers is relatively small, approximately five percent of all filers.

Some states help with homeownership There is a small but growing number of states that are using their tax systems to encourage would - be homeowners to save for their down payments.

The Ellis Martin Report is a radio news magazine broadcasted on 100 terrestrial stations in the United States and worldwide via the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.featuring potentially undervalued small - cap or microcap companies from a variety of industry sectors trading on a number of North American and foreign exchanges.

In its 152 - page report, the FSOC stated that virtual currencies are only utilized by a very small number of consumers and their underlying Blockchain technology offers potential in various industrial applications.

The number of babies born through surrogacy in the United States, though still relatively small, has quadrupled in just over a decade.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

There were a number of small independent buffer States between Rome and Parthia and several of them were of Arab tribes.

It is crazy to let a small number of religious nuts from a small rural state have this much say in an election.

But compared with the number of refugees in other countries around the world — and considering the resources of the United States — it's remarkably small.

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

The company also announced new retail partnerships with grocery giants, Jewel, Wegmans and Kroger in addition to its current relationships with select Whole Foods, Mariano's, and other smaller retailers — expanding in - store availability four fold and doubling the number of U.S. states where the product is currently sold.

There are a small number of third - party companies in the Western United States which sell a selection of our products online, such as Good Eggs, Farmstead, and Amazon Fresh.

While there are a very small number of females in every mammal species unable to get pregnant, the United States has the highest infertility rate in the world among humans.

While we appreciate the timely response from Jané, understand that the company no longer operates in the United States, and acknowledge that only a small number of units are on the market, we worry that families who already own this stroller may still face a safety risk, and because strollers often end up on the secondary market for used baby gear, we have designated the Jané Muum a Don't Buy: Safety Risk.

The party has a republican form of governance in which a small number of elected experts (state party chairs, etc.) make decisions for the whole.

Define a coalition as winning if the total number of electoral votes of the state in that coalition is 270 or more (let's ignore at first that two small states make things more complicated by allowing a mixed elector group).

A small number of print journalists will be allowed into the committee, while the live feed will be broadcast on a delay to prevent state secrets from being inadvertently released.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

In theory, it would better match the popular vote... but given the limited number of electors, you'd could still have huge discrepancies from the actual popular vote given demographics (as small populations states still have an advantage over high population states).

And according to a SUNY spokeswoman, 83 percent of public college graduates already remain in the state after they receive their degree, so the potential number of students affected by the residency requirement would be relatively small.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced legislation that seeks to enact a system of small donor matching funds for state elections, along with a number of other provisions designed to reduce corruption and special interest influence.

«Even if we only lose a small number of high - income tax payers, that would cripple the state's revenues,» Mujica said.

Cynthia will work with the state legislature to find solutions and pass new rent laws to protect tenants living in homes that might be smaller than 6 units but are owned by corporate landlords who own a large number of properties.

My guess is that a relatively small number of the people who cast a ballot for New York state comptroller or Texas railroad commissioner can accurately describe what the powers of those offices are.