Sentences with phrase «year as a direct result»

Unfortunately Marie Stopes International experiences a significant increase in women accessing our unplanned pregnancy services during the New Year as a direct result of men and women forgetting to use or having their contraception fail over the Christmas / New Year festivities.

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

Researchers estimate that worldwide, more than two million deaths occur each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution.

Data are not always collected and analysed in ways that allow learning; poor practices and mistakes go undetected; and, in the English - speaking world alone, tens of thousands of patients die each year as a direct result of medical errors.

1.2 million dogs are euthanized every year as a direct result.

Climatology as a physical science has blossomed in the last thirty years as a direct result of the establishment of the IPCC and its AGW hypothesis.

A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that these figures may be underestimates, and that up to 284,000 deaths occur each year as a direct result of medical malpractice on the part of physicians.

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Other income for the Direct Banking segment decreased $ 21 million from last year's second quarter as a result of lower late fees, lower transition services revenue related to the Student Loan Corporation and a decline in protection products revenue.

Those folks have been entering retirement for the past few years, and potential economic growth has been slowing as a direct result.

How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?

Over the past twenty years or so, Australia has seen the demise of hundreds of small grocery stores, butchers, bakers, florists, greengrocers, pharmacists, newsagents, liquor outlets and other small retailers as a direct result of the continuous expansion of major supermarket chains and major speciality retailers, often subsidiaries of the same conglomerate.

The fact that their equalising goal late in the second half came as a direct result of an attacking Arsenal move that we messed up with an awful attempt at a cross by Monreal, with some second rate defending and what looks like an error from the keeper Petr Cech along the way, is just about typical of the way things have been going for the Gunners this year.

Should they do so, it would end their two match losing streak at home in the league whilst almost guaranteeing them another year in the top flight as a direct result.

The modification of WCB assessment criteria will eliminate the requirement for the State Insurance Fund to hold reserves for assessments; as a result, the Executive Budget proposes to direct SIF to release $ 1.75 billion in reserves to the state to support its capital plan over the next four fiscal years.

In social media posts following a visit Wednesday to Target in Camillus, U.S. Rep. John Katko claimed that the retail chain raised wages last year «as a direct result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,» a federal tax plan that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in December.

Last year 4,300 people died as a direct result of our air quality.

But the President was compelled to switch his love for English wears following criticisms directed at him after he assumed office as President earlier this year; and the result has been elegantly amazing!

Each year in the U.S., at least 2 million people are infected with drug - resistant bacteria, and at least 23,000 die as a direct result of these infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And we understand that on the basis of direct observations, which have become very much better over the past five or 10 years and also as a result of theoretical investigations, particularly those involving sophisticated numerical computations; and here we are able to do the sort of experiments, with the computer if you like, that were not possible 10 or 15 years ago.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

As a longtime vegetarian who knows first hand the power of natural medicine, I can attest that after a traumatic accident last year, the level of wellness that I enjoy today is a direct result of Sara's laser focus on healing and attention to detail.

Whereas the high end video dating services have all but vanished as a direct result of the Internet, we've seen a marked rise in the number of personal matchmakers who've entered the dating scene in recent years.

Valletta's roles — given the actress» off - camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work — accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito - directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing.

As a result of his teaching and research activities at Harvard over the last four years, he created and directed the Globalization, Languages and Cultures program, a HGSE - CERI cooperation, which culminated late April 2012 with the publication of the book Languages in a Global World - Learning for Better Cultural Understanding (Paris: OECD).

In giving feedback to the states a year ago, for example, Melody Musgrove (who directs the Office of Special Education Programs at ED) forewarned chiefs that ED was redesigning their monitoring system into «a more balanced approach that considers results as well as compliance.

However, in the past two years, the nature of teaching these topics has changed as a direct result of America's willingness to embrace or at least tolerate the cult of teaching to the test.

In addition to issues you have noted, in Moore we have noticed HUGE increases in class sizes in grades 4 - 12 as a direct result of cuts (after years of using LEA fund balance to maintain those class sizes).

«The good news is that overall safety belt use for professional bus and truck drivers has steadily increased each year and as a direct result, more lives are being saved,» said FMCSA Acting Administrator Scott Darling.

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The resulting rates showed that as a smaller direct lender, Carrington quoted a higher initial rate on the typical 30 - year fixed rate mortgage than any of the big banks.

According to the data released in the report, it's estimated that 18 % of all job creation in the last five years has occurred as a direct or indirect result of growth in the housing and mortgage sectors.

As a result, there has been an increase in demand for comfortable, convenient travel products among pet owners, including cat owners, notes Penny Johnson, chief executive officer for Gig Harbor, Wash. - based Sturdi Products Inc. «There are many more products available on the market today that are directed at pet travel then there was when Sturdi started business over 20 years ago,» she says.

She stoically endured treatment for further health consequences of her years of mistreatment - she had surgeries twice as she developed mammary cancer - again, as a direct result of overbreeding - and eventually her other eye was removed.

In the past year over 400 dogs have been adopted as a direct result of this site!

Martha, she died as a direct result of the neglect she suffered for seven years in your care.

«The LaRocca's supported our organization for more than 17 years and that was a direct result of Karen's love for animals as an adopter and as a volunteer, and Don's loving support of her work.»

«Every year at least a few graduates start getting published in newspapers, magazines and web sites as a direct result of lessons learned and contacts made at the conference; in fact, a number of this year's «faculty» members started out as «students» at the conference.»

«Receiving this distinction two years in a row reinforces our guest's satisfaction as a direct result of our staff's emphasis on putting the customer first.»

Also for the first seven weeks of this year we operated a reduced service as a direct result of a fire on a shuttle in the Channel Tunnel in September 2008.

It has many failings, but the biggest is that it's a victim of yet another half - assed campaign that came as a direct result of DICE and EA attempting to appease criticism that last years Battlefront had no singleplayer.

They're burning bridges with former fans in the hopes of maximising returns this fiscal year, and to the smug satisfaction of many, we've just seen EA's share price take a $ 3 billion (yes, with a «b») drop in value as a direct result.

As a result of this direct costs increased nearly 72 % year on year to 80m SEK from 46.7 m SEK.

As a result, he directed that the funds of the Foundation be used to help talented individuals in their formative years, to acquire the necessary training, skills and competence in the traditional artistic methods, specifically excluding all grants to students, artists or sculptors «who show clearly a disposition to use the purely abstract or non-objective method in their work.»

As a direct result of his encounters, James now invites twelve to sixteen artists to visit his school each year.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

University of Minnesota: Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers.

Thus what you see as wiggles in the increase per year is the direct result of temperature changes in ocean surface and vegetation (for the latter, precipitation also plays a role).

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

Yes, other factors have been in play in the past, but the warming of the past 150 years or so has been the direct result of CO2 increases (as well as increases in other greenhouse gases) due to human activity.