Sentences with phrase «years the practice of»

Those will not allow the district to pay more than $ 1.8 million per year in principal and interest, which is not enough to keep up with its 12 - year practice of completing one major capital improvement every two years.

Simanowitz said the legislation was sparked by a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the city's only mortuary school, The American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, seeking to have the city resume its 50 - year practice of turning over cadavers for its students to use.

In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or hardware manufacturers, has become increasingly popular.

But the film tells the true story of the 300 - year practice of sending poor or orphaned children to British settler colonies to help alleviate the shortage of labor.

Over the past 40 years the practice of FRED EVERSLEY has explored the possibilities of light, color, and shapes.

For many years the practice of using the post office services or fax machines as a strategy for creating and sharing graphic arts and other artistic projects has been at the root of mail art; the advent of information technology has shifted parameters towards the digital realm.

Dr. Klass has evaluated over 15,000 patients in his 30 - year practice of adult and child psychiatry.

Not exact matches

Joe Ngai, managing partner of McKinsey's Hong Kong practice, says the need for infrastructure in emerging markets in central and southern Asia and into Africa amounts to $ 2 trillion to $ 3 trillion a year.

Here are three practices that can help make this season the most wonderful time of the year for you and your loved ones.

In its 2017 State of Cannabis report released earlier this year, California marijuana delivery company Eaze reported that edible sales have increased as more people learn best practices for proper dosing.

This year, a federal court found the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Arizona, in the guise of assisting federal immigration enforcement, had engaged in a pattern and practice of discrimination.

Notable wins for the CFPB include its $ 100 million fine against Wells Fargo Bank last year for its practice of opening unauthorized deposit accounts and credit cards.

A Cabinet Office spokesman said: «It has been established practice for many years that the sovereign and the heir to the throne receive the minutes of Cabinet meetings.

Of course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challengeOf course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challengeof us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challenge).

Using this as a normal business practice will give you the vendor's mailing information, Tax ID number, and also require the vendor indicate if it is a corporation or not (saving you the headache of sending them a 1099 next year).

«I start each day with an hour of meditation, this is a daily practice I have kept for several years now.

Last year it commissioned Montreal lawyer Lloyd Lipsett to review Bisha's current practices; his report, published in April, said spot checks of discharge papers and interviews with Segen workers confirmed they'd been discharged from national service.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

More than 240 bills were introduced in 42 states last year covering a range of security issues, from improving government practices to restricting public disclosure of confidential information, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Monitoring how walloped employees are feeling by weather or cyclical events is one of the functions of measuring workplace mood so closely: by taking the pulse of a workplace and offering feedback, employers can develop happiness - boosting policies and practices (flexible hours in September, for instance, could help parents deal with the start of the school year).

«We think this is one of the most egregious [conflicts of interest] we've seen in recent years, and it seems to be more widely practiced... To me, it sounds like a commission, and clients approach the adviser operating under the banner of fiduciary expecting those biases to not exist.»

He said a pullback of 15 - 20 per cent in prices was likely, with the main impact to be felt next year after the latest round of mortgage lending practices comes into play in Canada.

In his third year of university, in 1999, Baker founded D2L to put some of his ideas into practice.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

Last year, the University of Washington and the University of Oregon agreed to have players wear the Zero1 during preseason practices.

Efforts to squash review aggregators come from the same playbook that retailers used a few years ago when trying to eliminate «showrooming,» the practice of using a smartphone to comparison shop while inside a brick - and - mortar store.

«Whereas IQ is very hard to change, EQ can increase with deliberate practice and training,» Dr Tomas Chamorro - Premuzic, a professor of Business Psychology at University College London explained earlier this year on the HBR Blogs.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (vrx) said on Tuesday it would reorganize, and stood by its full - year forecast, as it attempts to restore investor confidence after facing a storm of criticism over its business practices.

«The legal tsunami Valeant has created could loom for years to come considering the number of serious federal probes investigating virtually all of Valeant's business practices, not to mention civil lawsuits quickly piling up,» she wrote in a report.

Mr. Siegal, who for nine years served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, joins Mintz Levin from Haynes and Boone, where he co-chaired the firm's Government Enforcement and Litigation Practice Group.

The talks were delivered by the staff of DigitalMarketer, a company that spends all year putting its sales ideas into practice before spending three days telling other people what they've learned.

In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

A couple of years ago, the practice of showrooming — where shoppings would look at an item in a store then purchase it online — was on an alarming rise, with 50 percent of online purchases in 2012 occurring as a result of this behavior.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

The volatile scheduling practices have affected her personal life as well, leaving both her husband and 10 - year - old son at the mercy of her employer.

«Evolving regulatory disclosure requirements have increased the disclosure in recent years of information about fees in the industry, but there is nothing new nor unusual about our fees and administrative expenses or disclosure practices which are fully compliant with regulatory requirements,» wrote O'Brien and Poirier to Maclean's.

While unlimited time off is only a piece of the culture puzzle, a practice that has grown over 10 years, it is clearly generating strong employee loyalty.

Over the year, our experts shared their best practices on gamification, staying ahead of the competition, and more.

Here are the top 20 pieces of advice I've gathered — the habits and practices that 30 - year - old self - made millionaires embraced in their 20s.

However, if you sit people down once a year, take out a well - thought - out PowerPoint that you've been practicing for two weeks, and passionately lay out your goals and objectives for the next year, you have a good chance of getting people's attention.

She's practiced the «Oops, I did it again'thousands of times in training, and on Thursday her signature trick was worth its weight in Olympic gold as American Jocelyne Lamoureux - Davidson's shootout winner broke a Canadian 16 - year stranglehold on the women's ice hockey title.

Those who've made the final cut — after what's typically a yearlong series of interviews that scrutinize a venture's business model, hiring practices and sales potential — have gone on to collectively create more than 225,000 jobs and generate more than $ 6 billion last year alone.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

You'll also have to get licensed by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers, and you need at least 3 — 4 years of work experience as well as a pass on the professional practice exam.

After a two - year investigation, the Competition Bureau found that Amazon's practice of comparing its prices to regular prices on its Canadian site gave consumers the impression that the website was selling items at a price lower than the general market.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

Cascade has spent years focusing on employees, the community, and sustainability, so making the grade was largely a matter of documenting existing practices.