Sentences with phrase «american than choice»

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More than half of Americans have only one choice for broadband, according to the FCC, and nearly 20 % of Americans couldn't get broadband if they wanted to because it's not offered where they live.

Rural Americans seldom have a choice of more than one or two wireless, broadband, or cable providers.

Got ta wonder who these American politicians are really loyal to.I believe atheists would be more likely to represent all Americans than a Christian would, if a situation occured where the choice would have to be made.

Many Americans, more than in a long time, have come to feel that our problems do not arise merely from a faulty choice of means but from a failure of our central vision.

The new black conservatives assume that without affirmative action programs, white Americans will make choices on merit rather than on race.

«There are more than five billion suckers out there,» noted Vice President Bore, «and, fortunately, American brands, thanks to our technological edge, are the smoke of choice.»

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

The company is applying its sparkling expertise from premium brands Perrier ® and S.Pellegrino ® and harnessing the brand loyalty to its Regional Spring Water Brands to offer Americans a new and updated line of sparkling spring waters with more flavors and packaging choices than ever before.

There are more than 124 million single Americans, by choice or chance, outnumbering those who are married.

On the other side of the debate, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that the benefits for the infant in terms of reduced risk of infection, adult obesity, allergies, and asthma are so great that breastfeeding must be viewed as an «investment in your child's future» rather than a «lifestyle choice.»

«I've known Bill Bratton for more than a decade — he is one of the most knowledgeable and effective people in American law enforcement, and the right choice for New York City Police Commissioner,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

«There are diagnostic tests for some of these kinds of pathologies that can be performed during pregnancy, but other than early detection, the expectant parents are limited to two choices, either to abort or to continue with the pregnancy, being fully aware of the outcome,» explains the North American scientist Travis Stracker.

And if these factors hold true for men and other groups of women, making healthy lifestyle choices could save more than 200,000 Americans from sudden cardiac arrest death each year.

With stronger requirements for the core disciplines and no multiple - choice questions used in testing, the coursework was «much heavier and deeper» than in the American educational system, which tends to be «more broad and shallow.»

More than 77 percent of Americans have only one choice for high - speed, high - capacity connections in the form of their local cable monopoly that bundles broadband, along with TV and other services, Crawford says.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advisory did not make a statement about whether organic food is a better choice for children than is conventionally grown food.

More than 30 percent of Americans live with at least one cat, and they re probably getting the same stress relief and happy - hormone release from their pet of choice that dog - owners get; there are simply fewer studies to prove it, says judge Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for Human - Animal Bond at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine.

A study reported in the Archives of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.

Maple Match was beta testing its service earlier this year, and this month seized the opportunity to launch its new app to help Americans feeling less than happy with their country's choices.

In a couple months, a reality TV show star will be inaugurated, due in large part to the American people just being able to recognize him at all, rather than choosing him as the best choice because of his previous accomplishments.

You know you're in trouble when the Hollywood Foreign Press threatens to upstage all of the other voting bodies with its diverse choices, when 90 outsiders have their fingers on the pulse of changing American culture better than thousands of insiders who work in the industry.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

On the one hand, they can be far more daring and playful in their choices than the American Academy — this is an organisation, after all, that has handed their Best Film award to such enduring works as «The Purple Rose of Cairo,» -LSB-...]

Given the plot, it's odd that Truffaut's Jules and Jim is never alluded to in any way, and the references to other movies that are included usually work better for the Cincinnati crowd (with its narrower choices) than for Parisians or Chicagoans (except for the one most American viewers are likely to find inexplicable — clips from the end of Robert Bresson's Mouchette to contextualize a suicide attempt, which I found offensive).

Written and directed by Maggie Carey, the film can easily be compared to American Pie or Super Bad, but from the female perspective and set in 1993, an interesting choice considering much of the language or concepts discussed are significantly more recent than 20 years ago, but let's not quibble about such issues.

French actress Romane Bohringer seems mainly wasted playing a woman who's Henry's first choice for Cordelia, and Jennifer Jason Leigh acts up a storm playing an American bimbo who turns out to have more brains than expected; she winds up with the role.

The American penchant for expressive individualism means that most conservative religious parents often place a higher priority on the unique qualities of individual children and the prerogatives of parental choice than on church dogma.

Three - quarters of the choice students were African - American, compared with a little more than a third of all students in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school district.

Prior research by William Howell and Paul Peterson suggested that the reason low - income inner - city African Americans benefit most from private - school choice is that moving to the new school represents a more dramatic improvement in the school environment for them than for less - disadvantaged white and Hispanic students.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

A recent American Enterprise Institute study found that states with lightly regulated school choice programs had much higher rates of school participation than highly regulated states.

[53] Thomas Stewart and Patrick J. Wolf, «The School Choice Journey: Parents Experiencing More than Improved Test Scores,» American Enterprise Institute, January 2015, https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-school-choice-journey.pdf (accessed October 26, 2016).

«Today's decision is a win for children, especially the more than 7,100 children who rely on the Louisiana Scholarship Program to attend a quality school of their parents» choice,» said Kevin P. Chavous, executive counsel to the American Federation for Children.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

Ms. Ravitch says very badly, maybe even worse than before, and her view, elaborated in a new book — «The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education» — has been getting a good deal of attention, including from Congress, which she was off to visit this week.

American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that spends heavily in favor of school choice, spent nearly $ 1 million on Wisconsin races in 2014 and has spent more than $ 4.5 million since 2010 to elect pro-voucher candidates.

From where they sit, DeVos» advocacy for advancing school choice, both as Chairman of American Federation for Children as well as in her philanthropy, should more than make up for such concerns.

While more than half (55 percent) of all Americans think it is important that students of different races or ethnicities attend school together, many oppose policies that would limit parental choice.

Nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated than Douglas County, Colorado, where education politics and an ongoing constitutional fight over educational choice have converged to create perhaps the most consequential school board election in modern American history.

Polls by the American Federation for Children, a pro-voucher group that DeVos helmed until she became Trump's nominee, show that American voters are significantly less likely to support «vouchers» than «choice.»

In Understanding the Psychology of the American Idea of Choice, researchers noted that Americans respond more strongly to the word «choice» than people from other counChoice, researchers noted that Americans respond more strongly to the word «choice» than people from other counchoice» than people from other countries.

Thankfully, through the hard work and dedication of thousands of advocates, educators, families, and elected leaders, we've made significant headway toward expanding public school choice and educational opportunity to more American students than ever before.

While it is important continue examining the long - term benefits and drawbacks of school - choice programs — through detailed research and student or parent interviews, in particular — the knee - jerk desire on the left to reject education freedom often betrays blind loyalty to teachers» unions rather than to considering what programs are truly best for American children and families.

Imagine an American city where parents have a choice of where to send their children to school, rather than being stuck with whatever's in the neighborhood.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Favorable attitudes to choice are underscored by parental demand with families of more than 800,000 African - American students choosing public charter schools.

Scott saw his support from African - American voters more than double, and Chavous cites Crist's opposition to school choice as a key reason why.

Watchdog.org: Poll: African - American voters support school choice more than pols http://bit.ly/2cJGmXW

This year, millions of American students, parents, teachers, and educators will gather at more than 21,000 events nationwide to mark the impact that school choice brings to the lives of children and parents.

We'd chosen the TDI rather than the price - leader 2.5 - liter five - cylinder or the powerful but thirsty narrow - angle V - 6, and, admittedly, either of the other two might be considered the more American engine choice.