Sentence examples for institutions counting from inspiring English sources

There are currently over 500,000 non-violent drug offenders serving time in America's correctional institutions, counting for nearly a quarter of the country's entire prison population.

Goldman Sachs is just one of several institutions counting on the stupidity of investors to make the same old mistakes again and there are no shortage of financial industry retreads working hard to profit off the misery of those they originally helped make miserable.

In Mr Chávez's Venezuela, institutions count for little, and all important decisions are taken by one man.

What makes for authoritativeness in the relevant sense (which institutions count as authoritative in the system)?

For instance, Brown operates on a trimester system, while RISD goes by semesters; the school calendars are not aligned; and the two institutions count credits differently.

This is where others can step in and change the very attitudes toward abuse which so many institutions count on when they commit these crimes.

The 19 homecare institutions counted on average 1,752 clients and 18% of their clients was excluded, mainly because their care period was too short (96% of the excluded cases had received less than six months homecare, 2% was aged under 18 and 2% was excluded for other reasons such as hospital admission).

The participating psychogeriatric institutions counted on average 60 residents of whom 6% was excluded for various reasons: too short a stay or temporary care (52% of the excluded residents), terminal or palliative care (12%) or other reasons (36%) such as having no relative to fill out the questionnaire.

The S.E.C. oversees more than 35,000 publicly traded companies and regulated institutions, not counting the hedge fund advisers that would be added under the new legislation.

For example, Howard E. Cosgrove, chairman of the University of Delaware board, in a statement described the growth in his institution's endowment and in the number of grants and contracts to faculty during the tenure of David P. Roselle, who retired this summer as the university's president and who was the top earner at a public institution, not counting Mr. Gee.

But the foundation lists an additional 1623 institutions that grant bachelor's degrees, not counting institutions with a "special focus" on areas such as engineering, music, or health professions including 52 medical schools where doctor training is the main objective.