Sentences with phrase «substantial shares of»

The hallmarks of an efficient training system for green building identified in the report are: including training as an integral component of the green building strategy, involving social partners in the design and delivery of training, combining practical and theoretical knowledge, and targeting initiatives towards migrant and informal workers as well as small construction businesses, which account for substantial shares of construction employment and business.

In Canada, the Amazon Imprint footprint is a much more modest 3 % of all ebook sales, largely due to the substantial shares of the overall Candian ebook market held by Kobo (25 %) and Apple (14 %).»

Some school districts are losing substantial shares of their enrollment; others are trying to bolster their funding streams by wooing students from other districts or private schools.

Data Suggests Surprising Shift: Duopoly Not All - Powerful — Amazon and Snapchat Are Experiencing Faster Growth Amazon and Snapchat are among the firms making faster - than - expected gains into Facebook and Google's substantial shares of digital ad spending, according to new data.

All together, the government wholly owns about twenty sizable companies, and it holds substantial shares of about 100 others in every sector of the economy.

«Although I don't subscribe to the view that the tax cuts pay for themselves,» he says, «there's considerable evidence to suggest that the increased investment they produce will generate extra revenues to offset a substantial share of those lost to the tax cuts.»

In an interview, Bullard says he believes the Fed risks losing credibility with the public by ignoring the prices of goods that account for a substantial share of household spending.

There is also a view that the exchange rate arrangements that exist in the present context — the substantial share of the world economy that shadows the dollar — should increase our confidence that this pattern of imbalances could be financed without stress for some time.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

Interestingly, while previous research had established that the CPS doesn't fully capture irregular withdrawals from IRAs and DC plans, the authors find that the CPS also seems to miss a substantial share of traditional defined benefit (DB) pension income.

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

Until Joe finds a job, he will probably spend a substantial share of each day at such a club, drinking coffee and chatting with Alt friends who drop in.

If a substantial share of the religious organizations in our country would undertake an enthusiastic and realistic program of prevention, America's fourth largest public health problem could be brought under control and hundreds of thousands of persons would be protected from becoming alcoholics.

In a few years he had become the neighborhood drunk and was spending a substantial share of his time «on the bum» living on Skid Rows around the country.

Within the context of the Adelaide metropolitan area, the ACCC considered that there would remain two independent taxi networks, with a substantial share of affiliated taxis, that could be approached by new entrants.»

It also requires that a corporation that already has a substantial share of a market must not directly or indirectly merge with or acquire assets which would have the effect or likely effect of lessening competition in a market.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

He later became RSA's UK Commercial Finance Director, overseeing the financial planning and performance of a number of large and complex underwriting P&L s, and a balance sheet representing a substantial share of the RSA Group balance sheet, before leaving to join Willis in 2008.

Many other countries do a very substantial share of their science at freestanding research institutes.

Proponents hope that PCM could eventually take a substantial share of the flash memory market, worth more than $ 20 billion in 2008.

In contrast to gene expression, there is a substantial sharing of exons among the top affected tissues (those with ≥ 20 significant exons), with the tissue pairwise overlap ranging from 43 % to 82 %, representing 22 to 76 shared exons.

Given that its surrounding shell of gas and dust contains the higher element Magnesium, the star may have already shed a substantial share of its mass after progressing up the giant branch farther than, say, Pollux.

Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in test scores: that single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.

In a series of survey experiments, we find a substantial share of the public willing to reconsider its policy prescriptions for public schools.

It seems that a substantial share of teachers either realize that similar standards and Common Core are much the same, or that they dislike standards in general.

Consistent with this view, as of today a substantial share of the public would end teacher tenure and pay more - effective teachers higher salaries than less - effective ones.

4) People like their local schools more than ever before, but at the same time they judge a substantial share of the teaching force to be performing below a satisfactory level.

Even when researchers can evaluate charter schools that are large enough to contribute useful results to a study, old enough to have a track record, and representative of a substantial share of all charter schools, they face a daunting analytical challenge: finding students in the regular public schools who are truly comparable to the charter school students.

• A substantial share of the ineffective principals in high - poverty schools tends to move on to take principal positions in other schools and districts, rather than leave the profession.

And you're still pushing the lies about the high - stakes test refusal movement being white and rich even though New Jersey's more than 120,000 refusals last year were disproportionately Black and included a substantial share of Latino and low - income students.

«Working nine - to - five for a single employer bears little resemblance to the way a substantial share of the workforce makes a living today.»

The rise of Amazon, in addition to the period in which Borders and Barnes & Noble took a substantial share of the trade, has affected the number of independent book stores in the United States.

They are also demanding a substantial share of the ad revenue, something to the tune of 35 — 45 percent to make up for the low rates Apple is offering for them, which is just a fraction of what Pandora currently offers.

Also, it excludes the valuation of private companies, which make up a substantial share of American GDP.

Speaking at an event to kick off this program, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford stated, «Traditionally, people in their 20s and 30s would account for a substantial share of Maryland's first - time homebuyers.»

Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital are the city's top employers, although the fishing and tourism industries also account for a substantial share of the local economy.

Seed Resources, with Birdola's strong brand equity, has developed a substantial share of the premium domestic wild bird seed cake business, an attractive segment of the wild bird feeding market.

Distributed Generation in Liberalised Electricity Markets also looks ahead to a future where government policies and further technological developments could lead to a substantial share of electricity being produced by distributed generation.

If you look at the total carbon budget to ensure that temperature increase by the end of this century will not exceed two degrees Celsius, we've already used up a substantial share of this.»

The attractiveness to the consumer of being able to use electricity from overnight charging for a substantial share of the day's driving is stunning.

Nuclear Fission already produces a substantial share of the world's energy needs.

Ensure the poorest places - hurt most by dirty fuels - receive a substantial share of clean energy, forest, and water investments

Nonetheless, a substantial share of allowances is still distributed through free allocation, with policy justifications including protection for trade - exposed industries and prevention of economic activity leakage outside of the European Union.

This is also an inherently regressive tax policy simply because a substantial share of the U.K. population can not afford to fly very often if at all, yet they help subsidize this high - cost mode of transportation for their more affluent compatriots.

Because there is so much on the line as you attempt to prove the other side's liability, you'll likely find that the involved trucking companies, truckers, and insurance companies will try to saddle you, if not a third party, with a substantial share of the blame.

One way is to require the client to pay all or a substantial share of the litigation expenses at the start of a case or on an ongoing basis.

South Korea's Upbit and Bithub also accounted for a substantial share of daily transaction volume.

Even so, realty companies involved in acquisitions or mergers that end up with a substantial share of a given market should keep in mind that they may be subject to the same type of antitrust scrutiny faced by mergers in other industries, says Legal Affairs.

A substantial share of our practice is on referral from institutions for their own properties and those of their clients, where we act as the real estate advisor of choice in helping solve major gift, estate planning and family holding issues.

According to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Statistics State of the Nation's Housing report, published in 2012, «Homeownership rates for non-family households, which include a substantial share of single persons, have also change relatively little [from the mid-2000s], (p. 18).»