Sentences with phrase «small number of the first»

Notwithstanding the small number of the First Nation inhabitants at the time of contact (estimated to be 400), and notwithstanding the fact that the First Nation was semi-nomadic, the Chief Justice agreed with the trial judge that those three requirements had been made out.

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A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

Instead of competing over the same small number of hyper - talented players as his neighbors, he decided to innovate: He became one of the first college coaches to track and pursue high school recruits from across the country.

According to CNN, you'll face a tough market if you're looking to sell your business; the number of sold small businesses fell 36 % from last year in the first quarter of 2009, and the price sellers paid dropped sharply.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

First quarter's milestones will be smaller than the fourth quarter's, but each month and quarter will have a target number based on the amount of marketing I plan on doing during that time.

A more believable number is that slightly more than 50 % of small businesses fail in the first four years.

«This is the first time in 35 years where the fewest number of small business owners have told us that taxes are their number one business problem.

If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.

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.

Our first searches using your techniques are giving a lot of general and broad terms and very small numbers of results (no filter needs to slim down the list!)

The same is true, though on a less spectacular scale, for the smaller east Asian economies, a number of which have bounced back strongly from the weakness seen in the first half of last year.

Given the small number of trading days associated with the first 5 days theory, there does not seem to be enough time for momentum to become a significant factor.

While no small number of writers have examined and analyzed Mendelssohn's philosophy of Judaism and situated it within the history of modern Jewish thought, Michah Gottlieb is the first in some time to argue that his «thought remains an option worthy of consideration.»

«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.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.

First, in reporting widespread child abuse in Brooklyn's community of Orthodox Jews, there was not the «selective outrage» which animates the paper against criminous Catholic clerics, whose numbers are in fact proportionally much smaller than other religious and professional groups.

Or it can combine the two methods by having first a general session for one hour and after that a number of smaller groups for a second hour.

In New England the first group consisted of a small number of people such as the magistrates and other political officers, the ministers, the merchants, and the slowly increasing number of professional people such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

@ZJL I agree that the problem exists of «what came first» or first cause, but a serious study of probability involving just Darwinism (ignoring the problems involvled with the formation of a «perfect enviornment» and the rest of the universe) yields a probabilty so small that to write the number in longhand (without exponents or orders of magnitutude) would take no less than 100 years to put down on paper.

Now RAAW ™ Juices are available in Von's Pavilions, Raleys, Marsh, Giant Eagle, Tops, The Fresh Market, SuperValu, Safeway, a number of Whole Foods regions and larger supermarket chains, as well as the smaller independents in which RAAW ™ Juices were first introduced.

This has been driven by a number of factors, the first being the increased consumer awareness of food miles and sustainability; secondly the return to a patriotic view of supporting British trade, manufacturing and produce (which in part drove the desire to leave the EU as well); and thirdly the resurgence of the craft phenomenon which has seen a number of small producers and brands gain popularity.

Foodbank is one of a small number of organisations tasked by the Federal Environment Minister, the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, to assist in the development of Australia's first ever Food Waste Strategy.

1976 The first test concerning the Tetra King packaging system takes place in a small number of shops in the area of Lund, Sweden.

If people really want to go to town on his 8 goals in first season, signed on dead - line day, no pre-season, played centrally for only a small number of games (14 in fact) then they should at least keep it in context; look at the first season or comparable age scoring from some of their other heroes like Kanu, Eduardo, Wiltord, Adebayor and RvP — they certainly were not ripping up trees and played centrally all the time.

One week out from the first playoff rankings, what would the New Year's Six picture look like if the smallest number of unbeaten teams fell before bowl season?

Whilst centre - backs and defensive midfielders are probably the first players that spring to mind when you think of strength and endurance, there are a number of smaller — much lighter — attacking players who aren't afraid of a tussle.

We appreciate that during the period of change a small number of coaches may have attended shorter first aid courses.

In the first year only, 30 fathers were also interviewed, as were a small number of maternal grandmothers.

It's best to invite a small number of moms and kids for your first playdate, though.

So feel free to go for a walk or to visit a small number of family or friends during your baby's first few months.

Before you conducted one of the first studies of its kind, you should have hypothesized that there may be a smaller number of single people who are avoidant than there are clingy people who are coupled.

(1) Get up and walk; (2) don't plan on anything other than small light meals the first 24 hours afterwards; (3) take stool softener; (4) bring flip - flops; (5) use the nursery; (6) bring the number of a lactation consultant who can visit you in the hospital if you plan to nurse; (7) try to line up 1:1 adult to baby for the first few weeks, especially late afternoon and early evening.

A small number of comments have not been posted because they have not included a first and last name.

A small number of babies also develop brain injuries in the first months or years of life that can result in cerebral palsy.

First - past - the - post voting tends to result in a smaller number of viable candidates.

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).

In some circumstances, such as when one party is totally dominant, it makes sense to tally the small number of voters from the minority party first, because it's quick.

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude.

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

Again, social media didn't cause the Tunisian Revolution, but they enabled it — without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.

First, there are a small number of members expressing entirely unacceptable anti-Semitic views and attitudes, especially on social media.

Doubles Existing Deductions for Start - up Costs for New Small Businesses: New start - ups typically face a number of substantial expenses in their first year they get off the ground, such as permits, consulting costs, expenses in finding clients and custoemrs and other needs, but are limited in the amount of expenses they can deduct that year on their taxes.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

First, because it would be embarrassing for an anti-autonomy government if even a small number of non-residents of the upstart region supported the claim.

In the first year, 1999, a small number of fields of each crop were sown to test the evaluation protocols.