Sentences with phrase «which large numbers»

The most notable of those would be the controversy over the real - money loot boxes in «Star Wars Battlefront 2,» which large numbers of players felt tilted the game's balance in favor of those who were willing to dump money into it.

Likewise, Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guterman's 1949 book, «Prophets of Deceit,» studied the Father Coughlin type of rabble - rouser, contemplating the «possibility that a situation will arise in which large numbers of people would be susceptible to his psychological manipulation.»

an incident in which large numbers of British nationals may have been killed or injured, or which continues to pose a danger to you.

It is most common in an environment in which large numbers of cats live...

You dog can suffer from a condition called caval syndrome, in which large numbers of heartworms invade the right side of the heart and block blood flow.

TFA's recent placement strategy in the Miami - Dade County Public Schools, in which large numbers of TFA corps members are placed as clusters into a targeted set of disadvantaged schools, provides an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the TFA program on broader school performance.

As a political matter, it will be difficult for supporters of CCSS, already under attack from various corners, to sustain a system in which large numbers of students are denied diplomas.

And here in Massachusetts which was the case virtually everywhere there were State institutions in which large numbers of those children were housed at that time.

The researchers also used the new technique, called microfluidic dissection, in which large numbers of yeast are grown in a chamber bathed with liquid food containing a constant concentration of nutrients.

The atoms are in a so - called quantum degenerate gas, in which large numbers of atoms interact with each other.

U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr., a former New York education commissioner, is pushing new regulations that would designate public schools in which large numbers of students refuse to take Common Core tests as in need of improvement.

The UN envoy for Iraq strongly condemned the New Year's triple bombings in Baghdad in which large numbers of civilians were killed and injured.

It could lead to complacency about catastrophes in which large numbers of people perish.

PETA focuses its attention on four main areas in which the largest number of animals suffer the most intensely including factory farms: the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.

They found what they considered the worst block in the city, from which the largest number of boys were haled to the courts.

Indeed, whoever listens carefully to the lyrics of Browne and Taylor will be initiated into the feelings with which a large number of today's students resonate — feelings of loss, lassitude, uncertainty, despair.

What is much more difficult to ascertain, however, is the compossibility of all the different elements in a highly complex situation in which a large number of potentially competing values are simultaneously realized.

The effort has included the holding of two public conferences and 30 meetings during which a large number of excellent development ideas were presented, reviewed and incorporated into the Jamaica Action Plan.

As its era ebbs, however, the only aspiration for which a large number of its MPs stand is their own.

The Lund researchers have already started new studies in which a larger number of women will be monitored from breast cancer diagnosis and onwards, as well as testing ctDNA methods in other cancer types.

Is there another set of eight numbers in which the largest number in the set is the same as the one in the answer to problem # 2?

In a quantum computer the 0 and 1 states can simultaneously exist, allowing a kind of parallel computation in which a large number of computational states are acted upon by the machine at the same time.

The computer games that appear to be most effective for the development of English vocabulary are those known as Massively multiplayer online role - playing games (MMORPG), a genre of role - playing computer games in which a large number of players interact with one another in a virtual world.

Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Brian Lightman said: «School and college leaders are deeply unhappy about the way in which a large number of changes to exams have been introduced in a short space of time in a piecemeal manner.

This disconnect contributes to gaps in the workforce, as well as a «completion crisis» in postsecondary education, in which a large number of students enter postsecondary education but leave before obtaining a degree or credential.

It is the most important two years degree program in which a large number of students are enrolled in various business schools around the globe.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

What is needed now is a successor arrangement in which a larger number of governments, including the US, China, and India, accept emissions limits.

The conservatism is built into its consensus structure, which tends to produce a lowest common denominator on which a large number of scientists can agree.»

Talisman Energy (UK) and Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) are the coordinators of the project, in which a large number of research and development organisations are participating from all over Europe.

although the CA commented that it was likely that individual awards of compensation would be relatively modest (so far they have been in the low thousands of pounds), there could be a growth of class actions in which a large number of individuals have suffered emotional distress or invasion of privacy, leading to larger overall damages awards;

A great deal of our work involves class actions, in which a large number of clients come together to put in a claim against large corporations or organizations that have caused them harm as a group.

Minister Ahern has introduced a law which a large number of our leading criminal lawyers have said is unnecessary, probably unconstitutional, will «jettison ancient rights and rules of evidence» and has been introduced «without any research to support its desirability and without canvassing expert opinion or inviting contribution from interested parties».

A hackathon is an event, typically lasting 24 - 48 hours, in which a large number of people (software programmers, user experience designers, data scientists, project managers, and subject matter experts) meet to engage in competitive collaborative computer programming around a specific set of challenges.

Well, this is a question which a large number of candidates mull over and fail to get an appropriate answer.

aOnly variable in which larger numbers are better; for others (UHCN, K6, SDQ, adolescent mental health, and WTC family exposure), bigger numbers mean a poorer outcome

Not exact matches

It can mask weakness in the market if there are large numbers of discouraged workers, as in the U.S. which now has a lower jobless rate than Canada despite a poor job creation record.

More than half of those openings are at one company, Accenture, which is looking to fill a large number of entry - level roles including consulting analysts and software engineers.

Rather than judge Canada's success on abstract measures, which have little meaning to average folk — GDP, productivity, trade balances — Trudeau's candidacy is built on a pragmatic mantra: «A strong economy is the one that provides the largest number of good jobs for the largest number of Canadians.»

Bitcoin futures contracts are available through a number of brokerage firms, the largest and most noteworthy of which is TD Ameritrade.

Fuel rods are an interesting proposition but surely if the issue is that there will be protests why don't we go the path of least resistance and kick start the solar industry which is sustainable and could employ large numbers of unemployed or under employed.

«We did have larger vote totals for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, and you had a large number of write - in votes, which was kind of unusual,» Rob Hansen, the Democratic chair of Milwaukee County, told Business Insider.

At least one expert told Bloomberg that people may be reluctant to think about cereal as anything other than a breakfast food, at least not in numbers large enough to end the sales slump, which is expected to continue at least through 2020.

You've got a large number of different color options here, but our recommendation would be sky blue or pink, which are both a great complement to lighter spring and summer suits.

It has already automated sorting and distribution at a number of its busiest facilities — which the company said has improved labor productivity by 20 % — and plans to fully automate all work at its 30 largest US hubs by 2020.

Some think of Twitter as a numbers game, in which the more followers you have, the more powerful you are, and so they build up as large a number of followers as possible.

A large number of North Koreans resort to bribing officials to have their documents approved, which means a passport can cost up to $ 3,000 — a sum of money most can only dream of in a country where widespread poverty is regularly reported.

The hack, among the largest ever recorded, was especially alarming due to the richness of the information exposed, which included names, birthdays, addresses and Social Security and driver's license numbers, cyber researchers said.

There are a large number of factors — many of which are outside your control — that can have a serious impact on your business.

Back in February, I shared with you research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which predicts that by 2050, China and India will become the world's number one and number two largest economies based on purchasing power parity (PPP).