Sentences with phrase «than a dozen such»

The inaugural U.A.E. Drones for Good competition awarded more than $ 1 million in prizes in February as part of an effort to seed the Middle East's drone industry, with more than a dozen such startups launching in the emirate.

After industry award nominations were announced one year, Ms. Clifford, who had amassed more than a dozen such honors, reminded an interviewer that she had been snubbed in the categories of cinematography and editing.

In the past three years, the US steel industry has brought more than a dozen such cases to the Commerce Department and the US Trade Commission — some leading to tariffs of more than 500 percent on certain Chinese steel products used to make cars and appliances.

Now, Principal Lauren Keville is floating the idea of a Dual Language Mandarin program, one of less than a dozen such public elementary programs.

From less than a dozen such schools in each country a decade or so ago, Thailand now has over 172 international curriculum schools, half of them following England's national curriculum.

More than a dozen such suits have been filed across the country recently.

Not exact matches

The e-commerce giant will provide items such as winter clothing, toys and household essentials to be sent to more than a dozen hyperlocal nonprofits located near Amazon fulfillment centers in cities ranging from Boston to Chicago and Sacramento, California.

But a small business with a work force of half a dozen people will be hurt far more by such an employee than will a company with a work force that numbers in the hundreds (or thousands).

I love this story — and not just because Erika and Sy have done such a marvelous and comprehensive job of reporting it, interviewing more than three dozen experts from across the spectrum of the healthcare industry.

More than a dozen states have similar legal protection, although this is the first time Wisconsin's courts are facing such a case.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

In April, the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, sent a letter to more than a dozen retailers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap, J. C. Penney and Victoria's Secret, requesting more information about on - call scheduling and questioning whether such practices were legal.

To do so, each year they look at hundreds of companies (and formally recommend dozens to the investment committees), have more than a thousand meetings and discussions with management teams, and also consult countless other knowledgeable sources, such as customers, suppliers and former employees to supplement their analysis.

But after conversations with more than a dozen Protestant and Orthodox believers in Moscow, I have to admit that no outside interference was necessary to generate such high praise for Russia's president.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity, such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.

Such bands are a dime a dozen these days, though they cost a bit more than that to book.

It's such a glaring question that more than a half - dozen sources, unprompted and independently, volunteered their thoughts.

To such a weird and wonderful estate, which over the last dozen years has annually paid him more than $ 100,000, most of it already spent, Mel Allen has risen on the strength of an indefatigable, hinged - in - the - middle tongue, an unsurpassed knowledge of and almost mystical involvement in sports.

One such group, Soothing Stitches, based out of First United Methodist Church in Arlington Heights, recently sent more than a dozen caps for newborns to Washington, D.C., for shipment to Malawi and Bangladesh.

Over time, the state has authorized a total of $ 7 billion in borrowing under more than a dozen different names and acronyms, such as NYEDP, NYSEDAP and NYSTAD.

Mangano's budget also calls for more than two dozen new or increased fees on local businesses such as dog groomers and health clubs to raise another $ 1.7 million in revenue.

Prohibiting such turns is just one of more than a dozen recommendations in the report, which Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota released at a press conference Tuesday.

The Buffalo Billion includes more than a dozen other regional projects, a potpourri of state - backed ventures such as an information technology hub, a pharmaceutical research center, a pediatric hospital, a visual effects center, various residential redevelopments and even a candy store renovation.

The measure was inspired by SLA's pursuit of the Colonie retailer Empire Wine, which in August 2014 was cited for shipping to consumers in more than a dozen states where such shipments are illegal.

He said such work is one reason why he was endorsed by more than two dozen business and economic development officials.

In the case of Jobs For New York, the group is not simply trumpeting the real estate industry's pet causes, such as increased development, but is sending flyers and mailers that pinpoint the supposed misdeeds and missteps of individual candidates, according to a review of more than a dozen pieces of opposition literature.

Worries about such virus exposure, however, have been echoed by more than a half dozen top vaccine experts and epidemiologists in interviews with Scientific American.

Such mistakes were part of a lifelong pattern for Moorcraft, now director of the Center for Foreign Policy Analysis in London and the author of more than a dozen books.

After analyzing fossils from more than a dozen specimens, researchers reported in April in Nature that the herbivore was actually a kinder, gentler cousin of such bitey carnivores as T. rex and Velociraptor.

During the last century, scientists discovered more than a dozen vitamins and determined minimum intake levels needed to prevent deficiency - related diseases such as scurvy and beriberi.

Discover senior editor John Langone interviewed more than a dozen leading epidemiologists in the United States, Britain, and France and consulted such publications as The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet.

As well as producing Oscar - nominated visual effects for the movie, Thorne and the effects team also unearthed some unexpected physics, such as that an observer close to a rapidly spinning black hole would see more than a dozen images of individual stars just outside one edge of the black hole's «shadow.»

After the attacks, victims» families sued more than two dozen game makers, saying titles such as Doom, a first - person shooter that the two teen gunmen played, desensitized them to violence.

Since 2000 ecologists have identified more than two dozen such traps.

More than a dozen related studies also appear or will appear in journals such as Genome Research, Genome Biology, Blood, and Nature Communications.

Fewer than two dozen have been identified in the past decade using giant radio telescopes such as the 1,000 - foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

Physicians have recommended vitamin D supplements to their patients for a decade, with good reason: dozens of studies have shown a correlation between high intake of vitamin D — far higher than most people would get in a typical diet and from exposure to the sun — and lower rates of chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 1 diabetes.

More than two dozen unusual lumps discovered in Italy (such as this one; note hammer for scale) are the first known fossils of ambergris, a waxy substance produced in the intestines of sperm whales, a new study suggests.

A category 1 hurricane such as Matthew in 2016 might bring sustained winds no greater than 153 kph (95 mph) but still cause dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in damage.

Privacy advocates at organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Fight for the Future; tech industry groups, including the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), whose members include Facebook, Google and Yahoo; and more than a dozen cybersecurity experts, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest (the «R» in the RSA cryptography protocol) and Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The longstanding mystery of their origin, which is further compounded by the fact that less than two dozen such events have ever been detected, has spawned a plethora of scientific (and not so scientific) theories, including the occasional speculation that aliens are responsible for them.

Sun and his colleagues took into account more than a dozen health and demographic factors that could influence both drinking and aging (such as diet, smoking, educational attainment, and family history of disease), but it's still possible that the moderate drinkers differed in key ways from their peers.

Older people should be especially mindful of interactions such as these, since they are much more likely than younger people to have heart problems and may be taking a half - dozen prescription drugs or more, Dr. Jahangir says.

Winter squash such as butternut squash is # 25 on the Dirty Dozen list and has been linked to more than 60 pesticides.

This all - natural supplement contains more than a dozen active ingredients to address the effects of menopause that are noticeable (such as hot flashes and night sweats) and ones that aren't so obvious but just as concerning (such as bone mineral losses that can lead to osteoporosis).

Dozens of Web sites cater to singles older than 40, such as MatureSinglesOnly.com, BabyBoomerPeopleMeet.com, SilverSingles.com and PrimeSingles.net.

Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce companies and tradegroups, such as America Online, eBay, Oracle, Orbitz and Yahoo, said more than a dozen states have considered but not passed such laws.

More than half a dozen websites advertise such services.

Officially licensed by the NBA, more than a dozen mini-games are available in NBA»07 including favorites such as 21, Own the Court, and 3 - Point Shootout.