Sentences with phrase «unprecedented number of calls»

The unprecedented number of calls and emails U.S. senators have received in opposition to the nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education make it clear that teachers understand the outsized role that policy and politics can play in their classrooms.

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Most worryingly the Bill contains a number of so - called «Henry VIII clauses» where power is given to ministers to use secondary legislation to amend existing primary legislation.2 Alan McLintock commented: «The Bill gives the Secretary of State and the Treasury unprecedented power to create tax legislation with very limited opportunity for scrutiny.

New York's push mirrored those in many other state legislatures: 29 states have introduced new sexual harassment bills in 2018, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which called the number of proposals «unprecedented.»

It is already the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded, and the unprecedented number of deaths has led to calls to try out experimental therapies that are in the early stages of development.

But this latest wave was called «unprecedented» by the U.N. in terms of the number of people that arrived and how quickly they descended on Bangladesh.

Visit the Performance Pavilion To connect buyers with an unprecedented number of new exhibitors, the 2015 SEMA Show will include an exciting new First - Time and Featured Exhibitors expansion area, called the Performance Pavilion.

Alexander Frater is an Australian travel writer and journalist who has contributed to various UK publications - Miles Kington called him «the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war» - and as chief travel correspondent of the Observer, he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards.

In an echo of Campbell's reckless optimism in 2006, the 2014 plan was also based on a host of what the attorney general calls «unrealistically optimistic assumptions», including the idea that new contributions to the endowment would pour in at unprecedented levels, despite the fact that large numbers of students, faculty, and alumni were up in arms at the end of free tuition, and were less likely than ever to support Bharucha's administration.

Heading into the summer of 2017, California's energy markets witnessed unprecedented heat waves, resulting in a very high number of calls, which signaled a need for resources that could act quickly to increase energy supply or reduce demand in order to prevent widespread blackouts.