Sentences with phrase «in substantial measure»

With the mistakes he has made, I personally believe he is in over his head and that he will have a very difficult time dealing with the facts (in substantial measure because he has an unreliable client) I wouldn't be surprised at this time if he is beginning to wonder whether the case is worth his time.

It's mostly quiet, too, with the sound of the burly V8 one of the few noises that penetrates the cabin in any substantial measure.

Unless the new agreement delivers these objectives in substantial measure, we will find it difficult to justify the final result to the 52 % who voted leave.

In substantial measure, then, we alone enjoy the individuality that we achieve.

Not exact matches

The loss in trust in this case was quite concrete, measured by a substantial drop in the company's share price.

They claim flaws in RBC's methodology exaggerate affordability, so the measures should take second place to the price - to - income ratio and other indicators showing substantial overvaluation.

And while its reach may not be broad, Reddit is clearly a substantial digital - media entity when measured by its sheer size: The site gets more than 200 million unique visitors every month, and typically has about 4 million logged - in users every day, looking at or commenting on one of the community's more than 8 billion active pages.

The World Trade Organization provides substantial leeway for countries to pursue trade measures in their national security interest, but few countries have tested those permissions.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

The International segment reported a loss from continuing operations before income taxes of $ 1.3 million on a US GAAP basis and an underlying pretax loss of $ 1.0 million in the fourth quarter, versus a loss of $ 5.1 million for both measures a year ago, driven by the addition of the Miller brands, volume growth and positive pricing in Latin America and Australia, cost savings in MG&A, and cycling the substantial restructure of our China business in 2015.

First, we've had a substantial rally from the September lows, without any favorable shift in our core measure of trend uniformity.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The imperial authorities, after their custom in the provinces, allowed the Sanhedrin to exercise a substantial, though well controlled, measure of local autonomy.

Under Omri in Israel and Jehoshaphat in Judah a substantial measure of security was regained in the sister kingdoms.

There are a substantial number of quality checks at every stage, and once we have final approval from the sampling room the product in the bottling vat is then passed through an inert food grade filter as a safety measure to ensure that our product meets the most demanding standards.»

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

Clarke was adamant at the full - year results in mid-August that Treasury could undertake capital management measures and still buy something substantial.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

But would overseeing the departure of Ozil to league rivals Man Utd in exchange for a suitably likewise playmaker in Mata, plus a substantial transfer fee for good measure, be a good deal for Arsene Wenger's capital club?

«I promised a transparent and open government, and by being here today and laying out the documents and discussing from the beginning to the end what occurred and taking some pretty substantial measures by relieving a long - time employee of his responsibilities here in the County of Monroe, I want the people in Monroe County to know that I will not tolerate this type of behavior,» Dinolfo said.

Affected State Entities shall implement a cost - effective portfolio of measures identified and recommended in the audit and shall complete or make substantial progress toward completion of such measures within two years of completion of the audit.

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

This is a «substantial achievement» noted NAO head Sir John Bourn, who says Britain is ahead of other countries in measuring and understanding benefit fraud as a result.

«We have disagreed with that argument throughout the economic crisis since it first began in 2007, and have consistently called for substantial counter-cyclical measures to get people into work and out of the Jobcentre.

«Grain intake in the feedlot is relatively easy to measure and the industry now has a substantial number of feed intake records.

One of those bills should advance this week, in fact, as a Senate panel is expected on Wednesday to approve a measure that includes substantial language aimed at giving researchers some regulatory relief.

«Many prevention measures can be simple, like implement adequate food safety staff training for all restaurant employees and apply sufficient sick leave policies, and can potentially avoid substantial costs in the event of an outbreak.»

«Memantine induces responses in a substantial number of proteins that we measured, and it does this without impairing or enhancing learning.

Curiosity measured the same pattern in isotopes of hydrogen, as well as carbon and oxygen, consistent with a loss of a substantial fraction of Mars» original atmosphere.

Using quantitative survey techniques, we were able to demonstrate substantial increases in energy and reductions in depressed mood (using an externally validated measure).

Indeed, this is underscore by the fact that some carefully controlled studies have reported that substantial early phase strength gains occur in as little as 5 days without changes in agonist muscle activation as measured by EMG amplitudes (Holtermann et al. 2005).

Even though there are substantial problems with using EMG amplitudes to measure changes in agonist muscle activation over time, it is not uncommon for researchers to use it in this way.

The increase in fecal volume measured as a function of the dose administered was twice as high for lactulose as for fructooligosaccharide; however, there was substantial interindividual varia - tion in the response.

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In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

Aim of this paper is not only to condemn Boko Haram's attacks against civilians but also to put pressure on the Nigerian government in order to take substantial measures to deal with terrorism.

Inquiry - science intervention; measured impact of an urban instructional intervention in grades 3 - 5 using matched pre - and post-tests found substantial learning gains and a cumulative effect as students participate over several years.

The intervention produced substantial gains in measured student achievement in the year following its completion, equivalent to moving the average student from the 50th to the 59th percentile in achievement test scores.

Children receiving substantial RCCP instruction saw their social world in a less hostile way, were more likely to choose nonviolent approaches for resolving conflicts, and did better academically, as measured by standardized tests.

In Maine, Democratic Gov. John Baldacci is proposing a new set of measures, including allowing student - achievement data to be used in evaluating educators, and letting districts create «innovative» schools that would have substantial autonomIn Maine, Democratic Gov. John Baldacci is proposing a new set of measures, including allowing student - achievement data to be used in evaluating educators, and letting districts create «innovative» schools that would have substantial autonomin evaluating educators, and letting districts create «innovative» schools that would have substantial autonomy.

Still, the education research and practice communities have made substantial progress in appreciating these challenges and responding with an array of measures and metrics intended to satisfy various goals, including public accountability, program improvement, and information to prospective teacher candidates.

The researchers find substantial overlap in measures of a teacher's value added across all areas, but they see substantial inconsistencies, as well.

These five charter schools are among the lowest performing schools in the state, have not demonstrated substantial growth over time, and have consistently ranked near the bottom of state and local measures of academic performance.

But after more than two years of effort at Liberty, they have yet to see a substantial increase in test scores — the yardstick that the success of the new standards will ultimately be measured on.

Schools where principals set high standards and involve teachers in decision making are seven times more likely to make substantial improvements in math than schools weak on such measures.

First, there is substantial variation in teacher quality as measured by the

Tennessee has gained a substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student achievement produced by local schools.

In the end, while the authors of this chapter do not disclose the actual correlations between their two measures and value - added, specifically (although from the appendix one can infer that the correlation between value - added and Tripod output is around r = 0.45 as based on an unadjusted r - squared), and I should mention this is a HUGE shortcoming of this chapter (one that would not have passed peer review should this chapter have been submitted to a journal for publication), the authors do mention that «the conceptual overlap between the frameworks is substantial and that empirical patterns in the data show similarities.&raquIn the end, while the authors of this chapter do not disclose the actual correlations between their two measures and value - added, specifically (although from the appendix one can infer that the correlation between value - added and Tripod output is around r = 0.45 as based on an unadjusted r - squared), and I should mention this is a HUGE shortcoming of this chapter (one that would not have passed peer review should this chapter have been submitted to a journal for publication), the authors do mention that «the conceptual overlap between the frameworks is substantial and that empirical patterns in the data show similarities.&raquin the data show similarities.»

Data showed that «schools that measured strong in all five supports were at least 10 times more likely than schools with just one or two strengths to achieve substantial gains in reading and math.

If value - added scores are measured with substantial error, a claim that a teacher lies, say, in the lowest 25 percentile of all teachers is also vulnerable to error.