Sentences with phrase «advantages over the public»

In fact, the private sector offers some advantages over the public sector.

The jury also wanted to determine how private universities use their advantages over public universities to develop efficient and innovative courses, the idea being that private institutions might offer models for introducing reforms to improve teaching, focus courses, and establish more vocationally orientated curricula at public universities.

Crime thrillers typically have an advantage over the public in that their depictions of illicit worlds need only to look believable.

Trinity Christian may not have fancy facilities or funds to pay for necessary repairs, but it does have one advantage over public schools, said Vandevender when speaking with a reporter with the Fayetteville Observer for a story that was published last weekend.

Private schools often promote their small class sizes as an advantage over public schools.

«You could make the case that for certain populations of kids, charters have an advantage over public schools, for kids who have not been well served,» he said.

A private retirement system, with its broad dispersion of asset ownership, also has an advantage over a public retirement fund when it comes to accumulating corporate stocks.

Not exact matches

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

With bitcoin having certain non-tech advantages over ETH, mainly it's time on the market and the public's familiarity, teams adamantly expressed their belief to place some, if not most of the speculative one million dollars into BTC, over the next five years.

«As a mandatory public scheme, the Canada Pension Plan offers many advantages over individual savings and workplace pensions.

Legacy companies would clearly retain a huge advantage over new entrants, but at least there would be a mechanism to limit how much they are able to profit from public infrastructure.

The biggest advantage Mr. Bush had over the present incumbent was a general feeling among the public that his heart was in the right place, even though he could be clumsy with words, and his administration's relief efforts were less than stellar.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Takana, a rabbinic forum established in 2003 to clamp down on s - exual misconduct by Orthodox educators, went public February 15 with allegations that Mordechai «Moti» Elon had taken advantage of his influence over male students and performed «acts at odds with sacred and moral values.»

Over the past few years, we have constantly explained that bettors can take advantage of public perception by betting against ranked teams — but what happens when two ranked teams square off?

With college basketball totals on the rise and public betting continuing to hammer the over, contrarian bettors may be able to take advantage of these inflated lines by taking the under.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

It's hard, therefore, to see what political advantage there is in Cameron fighting his own side over an issue of supreme unconcern to most of the public.

CADA believes that over the years it is the EC's neglect to supervise the Police activities during electoral processes that has fuelled the perception that influential politicians and those in power do take advantage to manipulate the electoral process, the police and expose it to public ridicule.

razor says: «when someone like Romney thinks that public opinion on immigration gives them an advantage over McCain, they overstate the case.»

Zinke had a $ 1.1 million to $ 524,000 cash advantage over his Democratic opponent Denise Juneau, the state superintendent of public education who is also the state's first openly gay candidate for Congress, on March 31.

«If you're doing a public works project and you're not paying prevailing wage, it hurts not just the workers, but you're operating at an unfair advantage over those who are following the law,» he said.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story said that Johnson had a financial advantage over Kurland in the upcoming Democratic primary, but because both candidates are participating in the city's public financing system, they have the same amount to spend.

A policy gaffe by Oliver Letwin over public spending cuts left the party with an own goal that Labour soon took advantage of.

Pete Demola April 22, 2018 The Sun Plattsburgh − Earth Day is serious business in the Adirondacks and across the North Country, and the public took advantage of the sunny weather over the weekend to celebrate the global event designed to boost awareness of environmental issues.

One advantage Stringer has over Díaz and Jeffries is a large orbit of loyalists in the public and private sector that has been privately compared to a «Ready for Hillary» operation.

USAID established that «drug money skews political competition, giving advantage to capital and the narrow interests of drug traffickers over formal state institutions and the broader public».

Democrats, though, may be reluctant to surrender the significant money - raising advantage they have developed over Republicans, saying that Mr. Obama, by cultivating millions of small donors over the Internet, has built what amounts to a parallel public financing system that is arguably more democratic.

A Ken Clarke punching with all his considerable (metaphorical) weight against Labour would be a huge advantage to us: a Ken muttering darkly in public and being evasive when questioned over Europe would be a huge disadvantage.

The certifications give MWBE businesses an advantage over other firms for a share of public contracts.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

McCoy and his collaborators took advantage of the public nature of the bitcoin blockchain technology to trace ransom payments over a two - year period ¬.

If a permanent position has advantages over a postdoc, a job at a public research institution in France also has advantages over the typical academic post.

Public health should take advantage of the newly shifted terrain to make the case that any trade or investment policy that prizes economic growth over reducing health inequities and enhancing ecological sustainability is bad policy.»

[33] Nintendo however, scored an early public relations advantage by securing the first console conversion of Capcom's arcade classic Street Fighter II for SNES, which took over a year to make the transition to the Genesis.

Over the course of 10 days and 11 nights, the public is invited to take advantage of world premieres including independent films and major studio releases, as well as tribute screenings, outdoor movies, celebrity - filled red carpets and more.

I felt that sometimes conversations were boiled down to one best practice — for example, current best practices stress integrating students into the public system and government ownership over the sector, but this seemed to undermine the «both / and» approach: that formal and informal programs were necessary, given the scale of the crisis, and that international, national and local actors all have their own advantages and expertise to offer.

Today, more than 2 million students are taking advantage of this robust public school choice option in over 5,600 charter schools across the country.

For example, last year over 90 urban public high school students in New Orleans took advantage of Louisiana's new Supplemental Course Academy (SCA) to complete credits for their first year of college through Bard Early College Campus, a satellite campus of Bard College in New York.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

Critics of public charter schools have long suggested that they have an economic advantage over traditional public schools because they have attracted financial support from philanthropies.

Hiding behind children is an unique advantage teachers have over other «public servants» like DMV processors or meter maids.

Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).

Over time, conservative charter school advocates argued that having a nonunion environment in charter schools was a key advantage — perhaps the defining advantage — over regular public schoOver time, conservative charter school advocates argued that having a nonunion environment in charter schools was a key advantage — perhaps the defining advantage — over regular public schoover regular public schools.

Despite the deep pockets of many for - profit charters and other alternatives, you can make the argument that public schools still hold an advantage over the competition.

Nevertheless, Marino said, the Lebanese public school system offered important advantages over other options for refugee education.

Until now... thanks to a thorough study carried out by The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS), an association that works with more than 300 boarding schools around the world, there is evidence that supports the advantages of a boarding school education for students over public and private day schools.

Its goal was to give them an opportunity to take advantage of a stronger public education system than the one that had served many other children over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, whether or not they had English - speaking parents.

And yes, charters that choose not to backfill have advantages over charters that do backfill, as well as over traditional public schools that backfill.