• Whenever this burgeoning religious observance began, it's now visible across the Muslim world in the increasing number of women in the street wearing head scarves, the number of Islamist parties that have made electoral gains in recent years (in Morocco and Egypt for instance), and now, in an increasing appetite for Sharia finance.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Portable defibrillators, which can deliver an electric shock that may restart heartbeats, are available in an increasing number of places, such as in airplanes, police cars and shopping malls.

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  • For taxpayers in the increasing number of states where this is available, film credits are a real boon.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Our success in increasing the number of programs reporting improper payments is similar to the success the government is having in reducing improper payments.

    WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of Clay Johnson III

  • If showy residential towers are now old hat (if often empty) in an increasing number of Chinese cities, these kind of digs are still new to much of rising India.

    FORBES: Haute Property in Mumbai

  • The composites are also likely to see applications in enhancing the storage capacity of CDs and DVDs and in increasing the number of circuits that can fit on computer chips.

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  • But there is an element of principle and dignity in what he has to say, and in an increasing number of Republican debates, his rivals for the nomination find themselves praising or agreeing with the Arizona senator on one issue or another.

    NPR: Thompson Accelerates Pitch to Iowa Voters

  • Most of the deaths are in Africa, and they are increasing in number.

    ECONOMIST: Africa��s twin scourges

  • Second, if then we have the international force through the United Nations, or CARICOM or the U.S. in Haiti increasing the number of the international police already in Haiti, it will make the huge difference.

    CNN: Aristide: Haitian killers like those of 9/11

  • Instead, the closure came after staff walked off the job on Wednesday in protest against the increasing number of pickpockets operating in the museum.

    CNN: Thieves force Louvre to shut its doors

  • While many of them are filed in Delaware, an increasing number are being filed in other states where judges may be less experienced at telling the difference between a meritorious case and a simple shakedown for fees.

    FORBES: Plaintiff Lawyers Seek Their Cut On Virtually All Big Mergers, Study Shows

  • In Chinese cities, an increasing number of companies are in the business of buying luxury cigarettes, wine, medicine, gold and silver accessories, and gift coupons at a discount.

    FORBES: Where Do China's Luxury Purchases End Up?

  • The Spanish experience also shows increasing in the number of donor coordinators who work with bereaved families, and the number of specialists who retrieve organs can have a significant impact on donor rates.

    BBC: Q&A: Organ donation laws

  • Plymouth Bio-Fuels is the only outlet in Devon and there are only about 30 Bio-Fuel factories around the UK at the moment, but they are increasing in number with the support of environmental groups like Friends of the Earth.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Dean ditches diesel for veg oil

  • In China we go wide in terms of increasing the number of cities where we are present and go deep, which means in major cities we present in more point of sales.

    FORBES: Tech Gets Exciting In India, 5 Years Behind China

  • By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and an increasing number of our troops will continue to come home.

    WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Bringing Home Our Troops

  • But one of the ways in which America can improve is by increasing the number of graduates in science and engineering.

    FORBES: America Is Innovation

  • Kennedy International Airport in New York by increasing the number of transatlantic flights out of its hub at nearby Newark Airport in New Jersey.

    FORBES: The ghost of Crandall

  • Danny, who lost his right arm in a car accident, is one of the increasing number of Paralympians competing in able-bodied athletics.

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  • And keep in mind that an increasing number of people are listening to Pandora on mobile devices.

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  • Best Buy took a step in the right direction when it hired former Starbucks executive Stephen Gillett as a president and put him in charge of an increasing number of areas.

    FORBES: How to Save Best Buy, Radio Shack From an Ugly Death

  • By the end of next year, in addition to the increasing number of petrol-electric hybrids on offer, it will be possible for the first time to buy proper cars from mainstream manufacturers that are propelled solely by electric motors (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Electric cars: Charge! | The

  • Obama has shown that when the threat is most urgent he does not hesitate to act, whether it means deciding to double down in Afghanistan, increasing the number of drone and special operations missions against terrorists, getting Osama bin Laden or bringing down Moammar Gadhafi.

    CNN: Does North Korea think U.S. going soft?

  • This trend, according to Christopher Leinberger, an urban planning professor at the University of Michigan and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, stems not only from changing demographics but also from a major shift in the way an increasing number of Americans -- especially younger generations -- want to live and work.

    CNN: Is America's suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?

  • Jocelyn Davies AM indicated that the housing department was currently in discussions with local authorities with regards to increasing the number of council houses in Wales.

    BBC: Environment questions

  • It was also about setting a course on a relationship of working in partnership with countries throughout the Americas as we have an increasing number of capable partners in the region.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Ideally, in a few years time NGLC will have seeded a series of new schooling models that other schools themselves can adopt, in much the same way an increasing number of schools are now adopting models that have proven to be successful in the field.

    FORBES: Steps and Leaps Into Next-Gen Learning

  • It is hoped that this will help relieve the shortage of supply teachers to fill in for absent staff and meet growing demand because of "increasing number of under-fives in Scotland who will soon enter primary school".

    BBC: Teacher addresses class

  • Robert Russell, a judge in Buffalo, New York, after noticing an increasing number of veterans on his docket, in 2008 created the first court specialised and adapted to meet the needs of veterans.

    ECONOMIST: Criminal justice

  • In 1985, President Regan expanded the program, increasing the number of air marshals, in response to a series of domestic and international hijackings, including TWA Flight 847, in which a U.S. Navy Diver was killed and his body dumped on the tarmac in Beirut, Lebanon.

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