He said he would permit exceptions to the hiring freeze, but added, "I will personally review each request for an exemption to this freeze, and I expect to approve very few".
"They control all of it, either by rejecting new projects or approving very, very few of them," Mr. Zheng said.
Since 2005, 161 zones have been created but only half of them have had their management plan approved and very few are nearing its implementation.
"That's important, because last January when these numbers were approved, there were very few people who thought that could be achieved," Colonel Ferrari said.
Under the Swiss policy, which the Federal Council is expected to approve this month, very few types of biofuel sources — like corn stalks — would qualify automatically for financial incentives.
Whatever the reason for using targeting, one of its undoubted effects is to make sure the organisation gets lots of applications from the universities it approves of and very few from the ones it doesn't rate.
Currently, there are approved symptomatic drugs but very few disease-modifying agents capable of slowing down or reversing disease progression.
Pediatricians for years had very few drugs approved for their use because drug makers often failed to test new medicines in children.
Among the very few adjuvants approved for human use, only the Monophosphoryl Lipid A (MPL) is known to engage a TLR (TLR-4), being a non-toxic derivative of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Salmonella Minnesota [ 39, 40], but many new vaccine adjuvants are under development and evaluated in clinical trials, whose mechanism of action is mediated by TLRs [ 41- 46].
I think it's safe to say that very few Americans approve of this sort of behaviour.
