Sentences with phrase «states by a fraction»

Recent stark examples of the absurdity in a «winner - takes - all» system occurred in Florida and New Mexico during the 2000 presidential election when candidate George W. Bush won both states by a fraction of a percentage point, but gained the total number of each state's electoral votes.

Not exact matches

The state - backed documentary «Amazing China» portrays the Huajian Group as a beneficent force spreading prosperity — in this case, by hiring thousands of Ethiopians at wages a fraction of what they'd have to pay in China.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

But mass shootings, we know by now, are only a small fraction of total gun deaths in the United States.

We have received close to 700 requests from local homeowners to repair their severely damaged homes, a fraction of the 13,000 the state of Louisiana says were damaged by the hurricane.

Attorneys representing two women in a sexual - harassment dispute against Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez had initially demanded a settlement payment of $ 1.2 million before agreeing to a fraction of that amount, according to internal email correspondence made public Thursday by the state attorney general's office.

While only a fraction of the state Republican leaders voted in the straw poll, Molinaro won by a wide margin.

By vetoing 126 items in total, the senator said Cuomo sought to trim what he saw as unnecessary pork from the state budget, but Addabbo said the money was for old projects that never got all their previously promised cash and the local funding allocations were a fraction of the total $ 132.6 billion state budget.

It's a fraction of what the state's existing gambling operations already earns for the state, which relies, for example, on money generated by the state lottery to pay for school aid.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

«The ability to control the functional states of opioid receptors is of particular interest because they belong to the large family of so - called G - protein - coupled transmembrane receptors (GPCRs), which make up a large fraction of the proteins targeted by pharmaceutical agents,» says Matthias Schönberger, first author of the new study.

These finding were exactly in accordance with Gillet et al., 1996 [24], who stated that, Cyclin D1 staining did not appear to correlate with an increased S - phase fraction as judged by flow cytometry.

We show that the fraction of cells present within this state is influenced by factors that both promote and suppress primitive endoderm differentiation, but conditions that support ES cell self - renewal prevent their progression into differentiation and support an equilibrium between this state and at least one other that resembles the Nanog positive inner cell mass of the mammalian blastocysts.

Some of the products tested contain such a small fraction of the labeled value (see Metal Content chart above) that those products would generally be considered to have misleading and / or deceptive labeling by the Consumer Protection Department of various state governments.

Nationwide, school administrators identify only a tiny fraction of their teachers as ineffective, despite major evaluation - reform efforts by state and federal governments.

States where a greater fraction of teachers were covered by a union contract in 1987 were much less likely to pass a charter law in the 1990s, more likely to pass a law later (if at all), and more likely to pass a weaker law.

By the early 20th century the United States began to endow a large fraction of its youth with skills in formal, school - based, academic settings, using a system termed here the U.S. template.

TEA's general counsel argues the state has violated Taylor's 14th Amendment right to equal protection from «irrational state - imposed classifications» by using a small fraction of his students to determine his overall effectiveness.

Students who attend public schools now must learn to divide and multiply fractions by fifth grade, according to federal guidelines known as the Common Core Standards that are followed in most states.

Sure, you can dislike the interruption in instruction (although the time taken up by state standardized tests is a tiny fraction of time taken up by local tests).

It expresses the average teacher salary in each state (as collected by the NCES for 2012 - 2013) as a fraction of that state's median household income (as of 2012).

They say their job to educate is made more difficult by state funding that's just a fraction of what New York is giving to public school students.

While the total number of works available is only a fraction of the thousands of titles released by commercial publishers each year, the stated goal of LibriVox, which has more than eighteen hundred registered volunteers, is to eventually «make all public domain books available as free audio books.»

Just a fraction of Caracol, a once - powerful Maya city state, has been unearthed by archaeologists.

Fascinated by how political ideology could turn into terrorism and how the State and the media present it, Richter produced a series of paintings depicting the arrest of the Red Army Fraction members in the 1980s.

In his book, Lomborg proposes that a modest carbon tax could pay for all of this work at a fraction the cost of a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, the approach pursued by Europe under the Kyoto Protocol (and rejected in the United States).

These credits are sold at a fraction of the regulatory market price to buyers concerned about reducing their carbon footprint for reasons other than compliance with the law, as documented in State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2008, published by the Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance.

Historically, about half of the crude oil that comes out of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System has been shipped by tanker to refineries in California (the other half is sent to refineries in Washington state, with a much smaller fraction sent to foreign markets).

As a stunning early spring blooms across the United States, just weeks after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year on record, it's easy to forget that all the extra warmth in the air accounts for only a fraction of the heat produced by greenhouse gas emissions.

It's noteworthy that the BoM's state area - averaged maxima can be multiplied by its area fraction of the Australian landmass, and then summed to obtain the national area average of 40.3 C on 7 January:

Earth's atmosphere is mostly empty space; the tiny fraction of that space that is occupied by N2 molecules, is actually accounted for in the Van der Waals equation of state.

He has achieved the rank of Diplomate, the highest level of achievement in the American Board of Trial Advocates and a rank attained by only a small fraction of lawyers in the United States.

The appeal court stated that in normal circumstances, the court would calculate a monetary judgment with reference to the mother - in - law's life expectancy when she moved in, and would multiply 29 % of the fair market value of the house at the date of trial by a fraction the denominator of which would be the number of years the children could have expected the mother - in - law to be in the house from the date when she moved in, and the numerator of which would be that number 9.

In the interview Justice Binnie stated, «These people were messed around by a insurance company and from the record, it appeared to me that the insurance company was just attempting to wear them down until they accepted a fraction of what they were entitled to.»

Experts know that cases of abuse or neglect that are substantiated by a child protective agency represent only a small fraction of children who are maltreated.122 That being the case, it would be far more useful to gain a better understanding of child maltreatment so that it can be prevented (and strategies to prevent it can be assessed) before it becomes necessary for the state to intervene.

That fraction, called the residential assessment rate is recalculated regularly by the state.