Sentences with phrase «universities against the background»

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«As phenomenal as the generosity the Zuckerbergs are showing is, it comes against the background of the remarkably generous tax treatment he has gotten for the wealth he has earned,» says Brian Galle, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a specialist in tax issues.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.

Against this promising background, the small university of sciences (Fachhochschule, or FH) in the lake's vicinity, FH Ravensburg - Weingarten, decided to adopt international cooperation in education and research as one of its special trademarks.

«Nothing in the paper undermines in any way the conclusion of earlier studies that the average temperature of the late twentieth century in the Northern Hemisphere was anomalous against the background of the past millennium,» wrote Mann and Princeton University's Michael Oppenheimer in a privately circulated statement.

Prof. Dr. Peter De Jonghe, group leader at VIB and Antwerp University; one of the project leaders of the European EuroEPINOMICS consortium; and member of the Genetics Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE): «Combining data sets of three large consortia has proven to be a productive and cost - effective strategy to unravel the molecular genetic background of severe epilepsies in childhood.

«Nothing in the paper undermines in any way the conclusion of earlier studies that the average temperature of the late twentieth century in the Northern Hemisphere was anomalous against the background of the past millennium,» wrote Mann and Princeton University's Michael Oppenheimer in a privately circulated statement.

Santa Barbara, CA — On March 22, World Water Day, against the background of a recently released U.S. Department of Energy report focusing on «threats to national energy production that might result from limited water supplies,» the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will open the First Western Forum on Energy and Water Sustainability.