Sentences with phrase «against the measure earlier»

Kolb had said he was going to vote against the measure earlier in the day, but as the governor phoned, the 32 Republicans in the Senate were leading the way to its unanimous approval in that chamber.

Not exact matches

The only way to know for certain that your content is holding up its end of the bargain is by agreeing on goals early on and using the right tools to measure your work against those goals as you go.

The Alaska measure led by about 52 - 48 percent with all precincts reporting preliminary results early on Wednesday, and groups for and against the initiative said it had passed.

From its early 2002 peak, the US dollar has fallen by 24 per cent on the major currency TWI but only 13 per cent on the broader measure, which includes several currencies that are either directly linked to the US dollar or closely managed against it.

General Hassan Firouzabadi stated Iran's intentions plainly in early April: «If America presents Iran with a serious threat and undertakes any measure against Iran, none of the American soldiers who are currently in the region would go back to America alive.»

The Spaniards slowly managed to regain a measure of the control and poise they had earlier in the match, but against a rejuvenated Juventus side, they still struggled to play the same authoritative football that let them control the first half so thoroughly.

Doubtlessly, there are also lots of accusations, allegations and rumour against certain persons in the party which cases appears not excite the interest of the powers that be to attract the same measure of action as earlier meted out to others - KENNEDY AGYEPONG AND HIS ILKS.

Earlier this month, he voted against a Republican - supported measure attacking a United Nations» resolution that censured the Jewish State for its settlement activity in the West Bank.

His performance contrasted with German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble's measured — and uninterrupted — arguments against Brexit a few moments earlier.

Earlier this year, every Republican in the chamber as well as Democratic Senator Ted O'Brien voted against the measure, which fell two votes short of passage.

The measure known as «skinny repeal» failed early Friday morning with three Republican members of the U.S. Senate voting against it.

A few months earlier, Ritter resigned from UNSCOM, allegedly because he was dissatisfied that the UN wasn't taking harder measures against Iraq.

During the early 1690s Harley became a leader, second only to Paul Foley, of the «Old Whigs» who were willing to co-operate with Tories in pursuing «Country Party» measures against the ministerial or court Whigs in office, the so - called Whig Junto.

Coffee intake has been inversely associated with PD occurrence in some studies, but evidence has been equivocal.5 - 8 In an earlier longitudinal study from the Honolulu Heart Program, coffee intake measured prospectively appeared to be protective against PD, but not after adjustment for cigarette smoking.5

That may not be fair, but the company only has itself to blame if, measured against its own success, «Early Man» is such a disappointment.

Maybe the problem lies with the fact that the film will automatically be measured against the storied franchise's earlier installments.

Resembling, in the early scenes, an NFL quarterback in a touchdown victory dance, Thor gets a bit too big for his bulging breastplates when he attacks the realm of the Frost Giants against the will of his father, Odin (endowed with a measure of gravitas by Anthony Hopkins).

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.

You have this weekend to marshal your local forces, because the deadlines for arguments against some of these measures start as early as March 13th.

«It goes against the principles of good teaching in early years, and at the same time does not assess accurately enough to form the basis of a school performance measure.»

As I mentioned earlier, the easiest way to plot a Fibonacci extension is to measure backward (against the price swing) with the regular Fibonacci retracement tool.

Stock prices aren't cheap when measured against corporate earnings, unlike the early years of this bull market.

The tourism industry takes measures against the sexual exploitation of children since the early 1990's.

In the early 1960s, for example, he seemed to be measuring himself up against the achievements of Abstract Expressionism and consciously wondering how he might beg to differ, and even testing the limits of our patience as spectators, asking us to consider how little might be required to make a painting which has clout and authenticity — overlay an entire surface with black paint, and then introduce across that surface some black chevrons edged with orange?

In 2009 Tate Britain staged Turner and the Masters which looked at the way Turner measured himself against earlier painters.

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

We can repeat our earlier observation that CET instrumental to 1659 - this time augmented by the reconstruction using historical records to 1538, demonstrates a temperature profile that looks quite different to significant periods of the remainder of the Northern Hemisphere if the official version of extended climate - as epitomised by the «Hockey stick» - is taken as the appropriate set of data which it should be measured against.

«The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half - century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the epidemiological data showed no negative association; saturated fat's effect on LDL - cholesterol (when properly measured in subfractions) is neutral; and a significant body of clinical trials over the past decade has demonstrated the absence of any negative effect of saturated fat on heart disease, obesity, or diabetes.

Although we have extensive trial experience against the government, we believe — particularly in heavily - regulated industries or when government contracts are at issue — that it is equally important to engage in early efforts with regulators to pursue alternative solutions that impose only the most reasonable burdens on our clients, using measures such as consent agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, and nonprosecution agreements to amicably resolve disputes, including those in which the amounts at issue reached nine figures

Our earlier post (and see update) mentioned that Eugene Volokh had written about the contours of a constitutional right to self - defense, and now the UCLA lawprof (at the newly un-paywalled site of his Conspiracy) has sketched a possible argument against the Philly Plexiglass measure along those lines.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

This study presents a follow - up of our earlier study on an online mindfulness course that examined change in perceived stress.41 It extends our previous study by examining the effect of the course on depression and anxiety symptoms, benchmarking the effects against other studies by using measures that are now widely used in primary care practices in the UK.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the utility of the Against Violence Parents Training (ACT) program [now called the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program] in disseminating knowledge to early childhood professionals.

The current study aimed to develop a reliable laboratory measure of socially indiscriminate forms of attachment behavior based on direct observation and to validate the measure against assessments of early care and later behavior problems among home - reared infants.

In addition to coordinating resources and services for early childhood, the Office of Great Start is tasked with adopting a single set of early childhood outcomes and measuring performance against them.

A QRIS helps to improve early care and education programs by measuring current quality levels against research - based standards.