Sentences with phrase «at least an improvement from»

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

Not exact matches

«Accordingly, policymakers and citizens alike would benefit from having an alternative, or at least complementary, bottom - line metric that measures the level and rate of improvement in shared socioeconomic progress.»

Second, improvements in rich world living standards may, for the moment at least, come from the capture of policy low - hanging fruit.

I expect that we'll maintain some amount of put coverage at least until we observe confirming evidence from high trading volume and improvement of more conventional market internals.

Mr Boon told shareholders in a letter that the transaction was expected to deliver at least $ 130 million a year to pre-tax earnings from synergies and business improvements and that integration costs to achieve the synergies would be about $ 141 million pre-tax, though $ 67 million had already been spent in the 2017 financial year.

The story is one of mounting personal agony for the two fathers, Kumalo and the elder Jarvis, as in different ways they search for their sons, Kumalo for the release of Absalom from the murder charge or at least the boy's repentance for his act, and Jarvis for the significance of his son's life which was devoted to the improvement of the lot of the blacks in South Africa.

MIddle of the road type starter and like you said from three years ago so there's reason to believe in at least some improvement.

Recommended Bet: There were a few signs of improvement from Spurs on Saturday, at least they were willing to grind.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

Also at 11 a.m., a new report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community schools need at least five years or more to create lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.

There's little prospect of improvement, but at least Republicans will benefit from low expectations: Americans assume Congress can fly no better than a passenger pigeon.

The de Blasio administration's decision to withhold bond financing from a Queens real estate development will delay heating improvements at an adjacent public housing complex for at least three years, a City Council report said Tuesday.

Slaughter, a Democratic House member from upstate New York, has the backing of government data for this depressing statistic, though we also noted that the United States has at least seen improvements in these scores across all races since the early 1990s.

Because this containment still failed to show any visible improvement in the amount of oil flowing from the wellhead, Secretary Chu's back - of - the - e-mail math suggested that at least 40,000 barrels a day must be gushing from the well.

After 12 months from SVF therapy, at least 50 % clinical improvement was recognized in 81 %, and at least 75 % clinical improvement in 47 % of patients, respectively.

So while 10,000 steps is fun and easy to remember and a catchy marketing tool in (at least) two languages, maybe it's time, given just how unhealthy so many people are and how much they'd benefit from moving around just a little more, to embrace an incremental - improvement approach to exercise.

Even switching from one low - junk diet to another can produce an improvement, maybe because, as Paul says, it's the dose that makes the poison, so it's always at least temporarily beneficial to stop regularly eating something that's toxic, even if you're inadvertently switching to another set of toxins instead.

So yes at least in my experience, a great improvement in my over all health since I incorporated the principles that I learned from the PHD book.

From what I've observed at most gyms, almost NOBODY trains in this rep range (most people seem to always train in the 8 - 12 or higher rep ranges), so there are a TON of people that could see Testosterone improvements by incorporating this into their training at least once or twice a week.

I highly recommend removing each of these from your diet for at least a month, and observing to see if you notice an improvement in your energy levels, body composition or cognitive function / mood.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

It's a huge improvement from the first Ariana Grande x MAC collab, at least for me personally.

Of all the game's systems, the combat has changed the least and yet has benefited from the most positive improvement — despite the fact that all you have to do is mash the buttons and you'll be able to beat 90 % of enemies without even thinking, or barely looking at the screen.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

Students in the study said that they expected their SAT scores to go up by at least 100 points by taking the prep package — a bump from the 50th percentile to the 69th percentile — but they were willing to sacrifice that critical improvement to save face with their peers.

The improvement of scores for at least two contiguous grades (for example, grades 4 and 5) from one year to the next is a mixture of value - added changes (the 4th grade students who become 5th graders) and cross-cohort changes (the 4th grade students this year are a different group from the 4th grade students last year).

Findings from an evaluation of upper primary and middle school students» science inquiry skills suggest there is room for improvement in implementing an inquiry - based teaching approach, at least in terms of students» abilities to undertake scientific inquiry.

A Hechinger Report analysis of school data found that all of the districts have seen at least slight improvement in their overall score from the state on a 300 - point scale, which is based on student test scores.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

«While progress on the NAEP continues to vary among the states, all eight states that had implemented the state - crafted Common Core State Standards at the time of the 2013 NAEP assessment showed improvement in at least one of the Reading and / or Mathematics assessments from 2009 to 2013 — and none of the eight states had a decline in scores.

These include schools in which at least 40 percent of students are in poverty, schools that receive a waiver from that 40 - percent threshold, and certain schools that received waivers under the School Improvement Grant program.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years means that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Despite a decades - long effort to restructure schools — in part, at least, to give parents a greater voice in school decisions — we see little evidence that teachers perceive much influence from parents, or from students.48 This outcome probably reflects the wellknown and persistent challenges teachers and administrators face in creating authentic relationships with parents for school - improvement purposes.

The first is the new 3.0 Liter turbocharged straight six that makes 306 HP and 295 lb - ft of torque, a 4.4 Liter twin turbo V8 producing 408 HP and a 3.0 Liter turbo diesel mill that makes 245 HP, but we are expecting to see an improvement of at least 30 HP or more from the aftermarket manufacturer.

The powertrain, at least for South Korean local market shows a little improvement on the diesel CRDi 1.6 - engine, that moves from 128 hp to 136 hp.

The objective of the first subtopic is to develop and demonstrate friction and wear reduction technologies for light -, medium -, or heavy - duty vehicles that improve fuel efficiency of legacy vehicles by at least 2 %, and / or improve fuel efficiency of future vehicles by at least 4 % (improvement based on comparative results from engine dynamometer, chassis dynamometer testing, or test track, e.g., SAE J1321) without adverse impacts on vehicle performance or durability.

At least there's the improvement of the digital zoom from 2x to 4x.

Well, at least it's an improvement from the time when revenue was so important companies didn't even have to make a profit.

From the looks of the leaked Kindle 2 photos and information, the new Kindle will be notably thinner and less angular — which means Amazon has addressed at least part of the first item on our list for Kindle improvements.

Normally at least 80 % of the Fund's assets will be invested in equity securities of companies expected to benefit from the development and use of scientific and technological advances and improvements.

Although behavior changes associated with CDS are at least partially distinct from neuropsychological cognitive changes, they have been able to show that interventions to provide neuropsychological improvement can also reduce or stabilize behavior changes associated with CDS.

Eliminating an allergen from the body can take a while, so don't expect an improvement for at least a month.

Because improvement from immunotherapy is slow, injections are usually continued for at least a year.

In terms of not devaluing the living hell out of Marriott Rewards, I can't say they've won any accolades from me, but at least, there has been an improvement from the bloody coupe of 2013.

PS4 Pro isn't selling as well as the base model, it's branded by Sony from launch as a mid-gen refresh of PS4, not a new start to the 8th gen.. That midpoint was three years, November 2019 is 3 more, plus the tech exists to vastly improve on what even PS4 Pro can do, like at least 3X the raw power of that system, in GPU performance alone, with architecture improvements PS5 can easily have at least 5X that level.

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From the list of improvements and changes over the original on Steam I can't even imagine what the original was like, but fans of classic turn - based RPGs with some lovely 3D art and plenty to do will get at least a couple dozen hours out of this one.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

In a decisive vote, 341 to 263, the European Parliament called for three binding targets for 2030: a 40 % cut in greenhouse gases from 1990 levels; at least 30 % of energy to come from renewable sources; and a 40 % improvement in energy efficiency.