Sentence examples for use of placement from inspiring English sources

In 2009, New York City banned the use of placement agents after repeated scandals.

It has also led to a state ban on the use of placement agents, which are firms that help fund managers find investors.

The use of placement agents isn't in itself illegal, and no wrongdoing has been charged on the part of funds like the Carlyle Group or the Quadrangle Group, which received state investments.

Along with concerns about the use of placement agents, regulators have grown increasingly concerned about whether states may have hidden financial weaknesses, particularly in their pension portfolios, and whether investors who buy municipal bonds can fully appreciate the risks.

The biggest change adopted by the companies and the state pension fund has been a ban on the use of placement agents, the middlemen who facilitate deals between investment firms and public pensions.

"The SEC has an ongoing look at pension funds in California" because of revelations about the use of placement agents who recommended investment managers, said Patricia Macht, a spokeswoman for Calpers.

In my own field, the social sciences, I've seen a number of faculties sharing in the £19.5m Q-Step initiative, which aims to boost the statistical research skills of undergraduates through the use of placements and other forms of community engagement.

City parishes made great use of placements in manufacture, but rarely bound children far from London, while some parishes in Westminster made greater use of sectors such as dealing, which reflected their own occupational profile.

It has emphasized the significance of the traditional sector, and the ongoing use of placements local to London as well as the more high-profile mass bindings to the industrializing north.

Some of the recommendations made in the report include reducing the use of institutional placement; addressing the racial disparities; reinvesting in communities, expanding community-based alternatives to institutional placement; funding education and mental health treatment programs that prepare juveniles for release and reentry, and creating a system of transparency and accountability.

"It's probably the most creative use of product placement in TV," said Chris Ender, a network spokesman.