Sentences with phrase «state are fewer in number»

«Although it appears complaints around the state are fewer in number this year, there are still schools questioning the transparency of the process,» Neal said.

Not exact matches

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Anyone who nevertheless wants to grow and dispense should consider working in a state that has restricted numbers of licenses, rather than a state such as California or Colorado where there are few such barriers to entry.

Also, while payrolls continue to chug along posting numbers that are about 2x of most economists BLs from a few years back, in percentage terms, their growth is decelerating, from around 2 % back in 2015 to around 1.5 % now, much as we'd expect as we close in on full employment, whatever that much - sought - after state looks like.

Women are running for office in large numbers, but few are poised to advance to November in state's biggest races.

Over the past few days, a number of major firms have shown faith in cryptocurrencies - including the likes of Nasdaq, which stated that they are open to the idea of becoming a crypto - exchange.

It outlines a number of areas for Christians to consider and advises people to vote for a party that is interested in «reversing the accumulation of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands, whether those of the state, corporations or individuals».

Copts make up 9 % of Egypt population, according to the U.S. State Department, but have been the target of a number of attacks in the past few months.

Despite the range, readers (or viewers) who support their own media are few in number and this limits the resources of any communications outside of advertising or state sponsorship.

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

You don't need numbers to understand that Florida's defense is incredible, but here are a few basic ones: The Gators are allowing just 217.0 yards per game, second in the country behind Michigan State.

As much as they claim to be victimised for public breastfeeding, FFing parents are frequently compared to child abusers, told that they are feeding their babies poison, that they don't deserve to have children and shown sensationalist «infographics» like the ones a few posts back which stated that formula fed babies are x times more likely to die within the first year of life without even accounting for the numerous confounding factors that would cause those numbers to be elevated in the first place.

I find this shocking, especially since we know that the maternal death rate has been rising in recent years — something that isn't happening in other countries» [9] Currently, according to the World Health Organization and several United Nations agencies, the United States ranks behind no fewer than forty other nations in preventing maternal deaths (based upon an official but unreliable number).

However, analysis by The Times has shown that there are fewer women in office than when Gordon Brown held a reshuffle almost exactly ten years ago, and the number of state - educated ministers has fallen since last week.

In a report prepared by the city's Department of Transportation, which was shared with Curbed, the city had put forward its own list of 25 stations that needed improvements based on the number of riders visiting those stations; the stations picked by the state had significantly fewer riders, the city argued.

Lawmakers and community members say they have been told that the state under Cuomo will be unveiling a number of «enhanced areas» in the next few weeks where homeowners will be able to apply for a buyout worth 100 percent of their homes pre-storm value, with a five percent incentive if they move within their borough.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

Jerry Gretzinger, a spokesman for SUNY Poly, said SolarCity had actually increased the total number of jobs it had promised throughout the state — 5,000 in 10 years — though automation at the Buffalo factory meant that fewer jobs would be in manufacturing and more would be in research, sales and management.

The state will be publicly disclosing the latest numbers in a few weeks as its sixth annual New York State MWBE Forum — Oct. 5 - 6 in Albany — approastate will be publicly disclosing the latest numbers in a few weeks as its sixth annual New York State MWBE Forum — Oct. 5 - 6 in Albany — approaState MWBE Forum — Oct. 5 - 6 in Albany — approaches.

Additional numbers included in the survey found 80 percent of state residents agreeing the United States is in the middle of an opioid epidemic and 83 percent think the problem of opioid abuse has gotten worse over the past few years.

The labor - backed party didn't make a decision on the 31st SD race when it held its state convention in Buffalo a few weeks back, in part because a number of its affiliates were divided between Espaillat and one of his primary opponents, District Leader Mark Levine.

Gallivan is slightly off on the numbers, but his claim that few of these cases result in a conviction - and even fewer receive a state prison sentence - is correct.

Rochester was one of the few metro areas in the state to lose jobs in latest monthly numbers.

Cuomo has released a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York State by 2020, which would mean reducing the number of new infections to fewer than 750, below what is considered epidemic levels.

The state won't disclose the precise number of millionaires in a county where there are fewer than 10.

«If there's a potential way to do a caucus instead in the state, given the few number of voters in a particular party, that's what we're thinking about — it has nothing to do with democracy,» said Politi (I - North Elba).

At this time, state government is in disrepute for a number of reasons - failure to face fiscal reality, corruption and other misbehavior by elected officials, intense partisanship leading to the inability to transact business, excessive influence of lobbyists and major contributors, concentration of power in a few legislators.

Klarides said, «I do believe that having a majority in the House and Senate is the most important thing we can do as Republicans and showing this state what we can do in the majority evidenced by what we've done in the past few years with the numbers as close as they are.

The exponential growth in the number of tertiary institutions in the last few years, certainly shows that has been the most popular decision by the churches and others that have gone into the sector,» the President stated.

«Fortunately,» states Katerina Douka, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, «there have been an increasing number of multidisciplinary research programs launched in Asia over the past few decades.

A study by UK - based Critical Limited, a consulting company, shows that while the number of biotech companies in Europe and the United States is almost equal, European companies are much smaller and have very few products in later stages.

Fewer but fiercer tornado days New analysis of tornado counts in the United States dating back to the 1950s has found that, while America has consistently seen around 1,000 tornadoes each year, the number of days in which those tornadoes have occurred has been steadily decreasing.

Only a few thousand French researchers work in the United States for the moment, but the number has accelerated recently and is «worrying,» says Ioanna Kohler, policy programs director at the French - American Foundation in New York City and author of the report.

4/4/2007 Smoking Cessation Rates Are Up, Cigarette Consumption Is Down, Says UCSD Study of California's Tobacco Control Program Since the advent of the California Tobacco Control Program, in 1989, the state's young adult smokers are quitting the habit in record numbers and older smokers are consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores CAre Up, Cigarette Consumption Is Down, Says UCSD Study of California's Tobacco Control Program Since the advent of the California Tobacco Control Program, in 1989, the state's young adult smokers are quitting the habit in record numbers and older smokers are consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores Care quitting the habit in record numbers and older smokers are consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores Care consuming far fewer cigarettes, according to a new series of studies from the Moores C...

A few weeks ago, Washington state health officials declared that we've reached «epidemic» flu levels, and in King County the number of ER flu cases is the highest it's been in five years.

A larger number of similar individuals as indicated by a larger search volume index in a state for «Ashley Madison» may therefore be associated with fewer cases of Chlamydia holding population, race, age, income, and population density, constant.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

San Antonio is one of a growing number of districts, in Texas and other states, that have decided in the past few years to offer complimentary cuisine to all students.

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.

And when we see less than half the kids are graduating without a waiver (and) the district is almost doubled the number of waivers issued in the last few years, less than half the kids are proficient on the state standardized exams... we need to do much better than we are doing.

A few months is not enough time to thoughtfully rework a teacher evaluation system, Chancellor Carmen Fariña said Thursday, joining a growing number of education officials critical of the tight timeline included in a new state law.

The most obvious pattern we have discovered in the data is that the lowest performing school districts in the state employ the fewest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff and the highest performing school districts employ the greatest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff.

In theory, many state laws provided for the possibility of organizing charters on a school - by - school basis, but given the expense of unionizing a small number of teachers, few unionizing efforts have been made.

During the past few years, media reports have highlighted an increase in the number of parents who are opting their children out of annual state tests, often called the opt - out movement.

distributing funds based on the needs of students: «The fact that Illinois was able to pass an evidence - based formula — one of the few states in the country to make this shift official — allows Illinois to serve as a potential leader and model for a growing number of states that are moving this direction.»

Although the number of math and science teachers has increased in the state, there are fewer of them than in other core subjects.

Acasia Wilson Feinberg from Educators for Excellence - Chicago, a member of the Funding Illinois» Future coalition and the PIE Network, believes Illinois» progress can be a model for other states that are not distributing funds based on the needs of students: «The fact that Illinois was able to pass an evidence - based formula — one of the few states in the country to make this shift official — allows Illinois to serve as a potential leader and model for a growing number of states that are moving this direction.»

As Ed Week reported: «Californians Together, a research and advocacy group for the state's 1.6 million English - learners, is the brain trust behind this bill and catapulted the long - term ELL issue into the national spotlight a few years ago with its report showing that large numbers of such students were languishing in California's public schools.

A growing number of Connecticut parents are beginning to understand that in just a few weeks, the state's public schools will start giving the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test.