Now, given the increasing number of homes in vulnerable areas, firefighting efforts have grown more urgent.
This is an especially relevant issue given the increasing number of the country's public school seats occupied by Latinos.
Should the government take action to increase road safety given the increasing number of older drivers, or are things fine as they are?
Given the increasing number of people displaced because of the attacks, it is only humane to provide services in a timely manner.
Yet given the increasing number of emerging and 'frontier' markets whose growth is driven in large part by wealth derived from natural resources, 2013 saw a growing sense of urgency for transparency to be applied to revenues from oil, gas and mineral resources that may far outstrip aid.
There is no requirement by law that general contractors be licensed, a fact that Mr. Morgenthau and Patricia J. Lancaster, the buildings commissioner who joined prosecutors in announcing the indictments, said might need reconsideration given the increasing number of construction accidents in the city.
"The cognitive impairment observed in the present study may have important safety consequences not only for the individuals concerned, but also for society as a whole given the increasing number of jobs in high-hazard situations that are performed at night," they write.
That kind of interest isn't particularly surprising given the increasing number of video ads that appear in networks like Facebook.
This could become particularly useful, given the increasing number of people choosing to live in and around the periphery of at-risk land.
Given the increasing number of available genomic sequences, one now faces the task of identifying their protein coding regions.
But it would have happened sooner or later, Loftus says, given the increasing number of people convicted with eyewitness testimony who have been subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence.
