Sentences with phrase «against measures like»

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With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

Absent people achieving like him, it's easy to accept limitations without context to measure them against.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

Or to counter state capitalism like China's, they may engage in explicit subsidies or tax breaks or subsides or preferences or soft loans to promote domestic business's ability to compete overseas against state supported or state owned companies — trade promotion ideas which teeter between reasonable competitive measures and bad crony - capitalism.

An index is a collection of specific stocks or bonds that the industry uses as a benchmark for investors (like mutual funds) to measure how their performance stacks up against the «overall market segment» performance.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

Here is where people like myself generally part ways with most people in circles you may associate in: People like me struggle with sin, succeeding against it, at least in some measure for spaces in time, then failing again and ultimately casting ourselves upon God's grace, which is really good — reassuring, restorative, revitalizing.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

Trying to measure love is like trying to determine inches of the universe and comparing one love to another is like pitting stars against each other instead of letting each simply blaze through the dark.

We must measure our own behaviour towards others against that which we would like to receive ourselves.

Archbishop Justin and Patriarch Kirill also suggested: «We ought not to forget preventative measures against the ideology of extremism that has spread throughout the world under the influence of militants like an epidemic.

«In contrast to that, I feel like my faith is something that is so individual, it's never measured against another human being.

Parents with 24 - hour - surveillance cameras on their child's crib look like unfit guardians when measured against the scrutiny Jett gave his greens last week.

High pressure games are games against top clubs or in cup competitions rounds like Quarter finals and above against rivals that measure up in quality or have more quality than we do.

We can only measure Spieth against the likes of Tiger and Jack based on age thresholds.

If any one of our guys had scored 2 goals against an appalling side like Club Brugges you wouldn't be able to wait to tell everyone how that shouldn't be a yardstick to measure anyone by.

Fans are a fickle bunch, and it's not like they would have the alternate history of the Jeff Hoffman Era to measure it against.

When executing analysis like this, we always prefer using against the spread (ATS) records as a measure of how a team, or player in this instance, performs because point spreads include a level of «expectation» that straight - up wins and losses do not.

Of course the adoption agency had no prior situations like ours, so there was nothing to measure against.

Flanagan said he would have voted against the law and added he did like the measure itself.

The Senate bill, like the measure that passed the U.S. House of Representatives this spring, shifts the cost of county Medicaid spending to the state government — a provision Gov. Andrew Cuomo has railed against.

Taxi drivers demonstrated against a measure that would expand phone app based ride services like Uber and Lyft to Long Island and Upstate, chanting «Uber, shame on you».

Taxi drivers demonstrated against a measure that would expand app - based ride services, like Uber and Lyft, to Long Island and Upstate, chanting «Uber, shame on you.»

Like a flyweight amateur getting in the ring against the heavyweight champ, the ballot measure calling for a state constitutional convention hit the canvas hard and fast: Voters rejected it by a ratio of 5 to 1.

But those provide a way of protecting against racism, even with measures like affirmative action or the fight against segregation based in the fallout from racism (social / cultural / geographical segregation, for example).

But at the same time, Faso took a more direct shot Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, two of the state's most prominent Democrats who have vocally opposed the measure and pushed Republicans in marginal House seats like Faso's to vote against it.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

Moderate Republicans like Faso could be key to passing the measure in the House, after several conservative lawmakers and powerful conservative groups came out against the bill.

The finding makes it all the more important that pregnant women get vaccinated against flu and practise basic hygiene measures like hand - washing, says Bradley Peterson of the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Given essentially the same costs, equivalent clean and dirty technologies competing against each other should fare equally well, more or less, in terms of things like patenting, which can be used to measure technological advances.

Russell Davis, executive vice president of the Home Builders Association of Alabama, said measures like hurricane clips would be costly and of little help against the strongest tornadoes.

And Michael Mazzola suggests that «trivial proscriptions» like the one offered by Stratton only delay the day when serious measures to counter injustices such as violence against women are implemented.

They measured potential benefits, like more agricultural opportunities, and weighed those gains against environmental impacts.

As previously noted by Doug McCuiston, Mars Exploration Program Director NASA Headquarters in Washington, «The Viking mission looms like a legendary giant, an incredible success against which all present and future missions will be measured.»

However, after seeing how much cadmium is present in molluscs im not convinced that any of these measures would be effective against prolonged high intake of metals like cadmium, so i am considering dropping molluscs as a regular part of my diet.

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Our latest research compares overall interest in dating against established measures and events like economic factors, key political moments, and popular.

It's clear she has the physicality for it, and given she is a woman playing in a genre thats dominated by men, it's hard not to measure her against the likes of Linda Hamilton (the Terminator films), Sigourney Weaver (the Alien franchise), Charlize Theron as Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road, and several others.

It is not the fault of black movies and black actors that their success and failure can feel so collectively important — but I am wondering if, in cases like Proud Mary, it might serve the movie best to measure it against the kind of goals that white action films have been aiming at for years: that is, a genre where even a bad one can be good if it manages to be entertaining.

Instead getting a funny joke out of the proceedings is like pulling teeth, relying mainly on a few gross - out moments that might make you laugh in spite of yourself, but if measured against those found in Team America: World Police, even in that field MacGruber doesn't have a chance.

Like the Weinstein - backed movie itself, which will cruise its way into the Best Picture lineup in a manner similar to that of Les Misérables (another ensemble piece that's easy to endorse but hard to adore), Streep will fill a predestined slot, earning kudos for a performance that's fine, but not stellar when measured against her better work.

Like Frodo, he's a mere speck when measured against the powers of this world, and this one - sheet elegantly succeeds in depicting lofty stakes, which many felt would never compare to those of the earlier films.

President Donald Trump and lawmakers from both parties in Congress seem to agree that additional training of school staff and law enforcement, as well as new preventive measures, would help guard against incidents like the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17...

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

From my work with teachers, I found that these are some of the critical teaching strategies that support students to become assessment - capable learners: Provide time for student reflection on their learning Involve the students in developing success criteria & rubrics for their own assessment Let students assess their own work & measure this against teacher judgements Provide feedback & encourage students to set goals from this assessment Be explicit about what learning progressions look like & encourage students to use these to set their own learning goals Provide opportunities for students to achieve goals through attending teacher - led or peer - led clinics And celebrate goals when they are achieved!

The Winston Society — or «Winsoc,» in Orwell's newspeak — played on these associations in constructing the wiki as a space for classroom teachers to join the likes of Winston Smith and «fight big brother» — that is, work against NCLB and its test - based accountability measures — and cultivate alternative visions for education that involved more progressive politics and pedagogies.

You always like to measure yourself against the competition, which this year includes brand new race cars from our competitors.

But when measured against the class leaders, it's no match for the likes of the M4 or F - TYPE R.