Sentences with phrase «as laggard»

The years - long delay in bringing three former Nortel Networks executives to trial for fraud has reinforced Canada's well - earned reputation as a laggard in markets enforcement, particularly when compared with the United States, its critics say.

As a laggard in technology, I've personally found that once you get into Apple products you pretty much stay hooked.

Too little change and a brand goes from being viewed as a laggard to criticized for not keeping up with the times.

Coming to the points where the Elonex eTouch isn't as laggard as it might seem, the tablet is powered by a 1 GHz ARM 11 processor.

The new British Columbia government wants the province to shed its status as a laggard on education funding and poverty reduction.

Given that defined - benefit pensions (along with near - free healthcare benefits, near - lifetime employment rules in the form of tenure, and seniority - and degree - based pay scales) have been proven to be ineffective in either spurring improvements in student achievement, are a disincentive in rewarding high - quality work by teachers (who get the same levels of compensation as laggard colleagues), and actually serve as a disincentive to luring math and science collegians into teaching, it is high time to scrap this and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

For years, Alberta was seen as a laggard on environmental issues, but our province appears to have turned a corner.

«They're all trying to get toward... a better blend between a physical and digital experience,» he said, «and analysts are looking at J.C. Penney as a laggard in the innovation of experience.»

Meanwhile, Whole Foods has been seen as a laggard in the online shift.

Not as well as global frontrunner Norway, where women hold 35.5 % of seats, but not as bad as laggards like Australia, Ireland and Portugal, all of which top out at 13 % or less.

Rapid uptake in North America and India is also expected while sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and North East Eurasia are identified as laggards.

Today, both countries can be viewed as laggards.

GCP called out banks as laggards on zero deforestation, echoing campaigns that targeted financial institutions like HSBC and pension funds, which underwrite deforestation by lending to, and investing in, plantation and logging companies.

Not exact matches

Leaders who don't listen end up as losers and their companies become laggards.

Shares in T - Mobile and Sprint (s) tumbled Monday as investors betting on industry consolidation — and higher cell - phone prices — bid down the two U.S. laggards.

New York has been a laggard in expanding the definition of parenthood, as a majority of states already recognize non-biological, non-adoptive parents.

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

I then identified the Chinese internet space as the most laggard sector where investors should consider putting money to work.

A few of the directors in our study were clearly laggards, even going so far as to argue that innovation was irrelevant in their very mature industries.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the day's laggard, as it closed only fractionally above breakeven.

Altcoins are clearly lagging Bitcoin, with Ethereum and Ripple still being the biggest laggards of the market, as the second largest coin now retraced all of its gains since the December break - out.

When this happens, it could be a very difficult time for the pharmaceutical industry, which makes the time before the cliff all the more important as companies scramble to shore up their product lines and get their balance sheets in order before their products lose their patent protection [see also Is Your Biotech ETF A Leader Or Laggard?].

As the year unfolded it became increasingly apparent that the S&P / TSX Composite Index offered investors outsized exposure to the laggards, such as energy, but also too little exposure to the leaders, such as the secular growth themes of technology and healthcarAs the year unfolded it became increasingly apparent that the S&P / TSX Composite Index offered investors outsized exposure to the laggards, such as energy, but also too little exposure to the leaders, such as the secular growth themes of technology and healthcaras energy, but also too little exposure to the leaders, such as the secular growth themes of technology and healthcaras the secular growth themes of technology and healthcare.

The quick bounce is another in the list of bullish signs that emerged since the weekend bottom, as despite the notable laggards, Ethereum and Ripple.

Ethereum is the most important laggard in the segment, as the coin couldn't find footing since the reports regarding the Google ad - ban, with the price of the token breaching the February low today.

Financials were among the biggest laggards as investors have begun to question President Trump's ability to deregulate the banking sector.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

As leaders convert their tax - bill windfall into buybacks, laggards may face escalating market and shareholder pressure to keep pace.

The small - cap Russell 2000 and the S&P MidCap 400 were the day's laggards as they posted losses of 0.3 % and 0.2 % respectively.

Another sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up with the times.

He is pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.

One King who relishes the new attitude is the 29 - year - old Dionne, who is often applauded for his personal successes but has never been highly regarded as a team player, perhaps because his club has usually been a laggard.

Painful times to be a Gooner, but as you point out H, you and I and a few other old laggards in the bar have seen a hell of a lot worse.

Cuomo has cited recent job growth in Buffalo, a perennial economic laggard, as evidence that momentum is already building.

He identifies them as: • Laggards - He estimates 20 % of companies are not using any social media • Late majority - Corcoran describes this persona as «distributed chaos» and recommends that a senior digital marketing manager step in to be the «shepherd» that coordinates efforts.

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

Second, as Patrick McGuinn pointed out in a 2010 American Enterprise Institute paper, Race to the Top «shifted the focus of federal education policy from the [state] laggards to the leaders.»

Today, as legislators see it, dual enrollment offers something for everyone: academic enrichment for kids who have maxed out the honors and accelerated classes their schools offer; a glimpse of college rigor for high school laggards; and a leg up on a career for those who enroll in trade programs.

In Hartford, for example, it can take as long as two years to for Perry to remove a laggard teacher from his school.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

As a result, they are restricted to warehouses of mediocrity whose shiny new buildings hide laggard instruction and curricula.

The resulting report, Leaders and Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness, ranked states on important indicators such as rigor of standards and teacher effectiveness.

When you do encounter the occasional laggard who pushes back, incorporate the use of the model classroom as a professional learning goal or growth plan outcome for them.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance as required under Stull, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

Based on all the data on the depths of the nation's education crisis — including the fact that three out of every 10 fourth - graders are functionally illiterate as well as how traditional policies and practices keep laggard teachers in classrooms — you would think valid criticism, internal and external, would be welcomed.

Not that the latter is shocking; two months ago, state officials sought approval from the administration to delay using the evaluation system in rewarding high - quality teachers and sacking laggards, as well as to exempt kids taking trial versions of Common Core reading and math tests being rolled out in the next couple of years from having to take the current battery of state exams.

And as a result, the two unions find themselves taking positions on issues such as dismissing laggard and criminally culpable teachers that are contradictory to their proclamations about professionalism — and do little for either teachers or the children they serve.

The Big Two defend near - lifetime employment in the form of tenure and shoddy teacher dismissal policies that make it difficult for districts to root out laggards (as well as those engaged in criminal and sexual abuse).