Sentences with phrase «be closer to reality if»

The goal of ensuring the accuracy of states» graduation data would be closer to reality if the Department of Education had been more forceful in implementing provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, the department's office of inspector general says in a report released this month.

Not exact matches

«Our job is to be at the forefront of virtual reality and ensure that if this is something that brings our sponsors, our distribution partners, and ultimately the sports fan, closer to the game, then we take advantage of it,» Nathanson says.

If you take that tree and chop off 99 percent of it, [what is left] is closer to reality; it's the true beginning of every group of animals, all represented at the very beginning.

If you have an extra few hundred thousand dollars lying around, than your dream of going to space is one step closer to reality.

Again we have argued ourselves into a dipolar view of reality; again we must conclude that if this dialectic of dipolarity is synthesized, as it is in Altizer's or Hegel's world of pure experience, we then close ourselves to an adequate, logical, and intelligible view of reality.

Your continued push that most people, if confronted by their sin of living together, would stay in that particular church is not even close to reality of the majority of those situations.

In reality we lost EPL in summer transfer window, we did nt buy dm and cb, if we had good dm and beckup cb we would be much closer to chelsea, injuries destroyed us and plus bad defense, when Mert and Koss are stable we never lose.

It's re-iterated by Don Balon that this is one of a number of reasons why Ronaldo wants to leave Madrid, and with more disappointing performances and results, it could be edging closer to reality if Los Blancos end up empty - handed at the end of the season.

In reality however Walcott's 10 years at Arsenal have been very much up and down and sadly it seems as if his Arsenal career may be coming ever closer to an end.

I can't see him maintaining this but if he even gets close to maintaining it there will need to be a major re-assessment of his status and value to the club because he generally gets a raw deal from the virtual reality football managers on here and other sites.

The reality was that I wasn't that close to the driver so what did it matter if he thought I was a jerk?

But what a crazy system we have, if the people closest to the day - to - day reality of school are essentially excluded from the public debate over how we educate our kids.

This book is of course a narrow range of information (and frankly very dry if you're not interested in economics), but these types of works will get you much closer to minute details on the everyday realities and decisions ancient governments faced.

Eventually, the pair saw that if they ran simulations using a hypothetical massive planet in what's called an anti-aligned orbit — a path in which the planet's perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, is 180 degrees from all of the other objects and known planets in the solar system — their six strangely behaving objects moved in the strange alignment that they actually do in reality.

Close your eyes and try to imagine different scenarios that could occur if this goal were a reality.

Sometimes 5AM and they go to the coffee to get them up but in reality, if you don't need as much time in the morning, say you can push your schedule back a little bit and try to wake up closer to 7AM or closer to the actual sun up time, if you're getting up before the sun and you can change that to — to getting up at sunrise, you're basically — I'm gonna use my analogy that I mentioned to you — if you're getting up at 4AM to get ready for work, you're only going halfway up the hill on your favorite rollercoaster before you start going back down the hill.

(If only the clothes had magical powers to make this sort of thing reality, but you know it's pretty close).

Because here's the deal: if I'm going to be single (a reality I am completely fine with and one I've accepted and embraced) I want to be living close to my family.

The power is having some augmented reality glasses, and these glasses have somehow that cognitive intelligence to tell the operator what screws they have to press, in what order they have to do a process... in the end, it comes to help, because the human being is fatigued or does not have their best day, and if you are doing some kind of delicate operation, having help, a counselor who is saying «First tighten the screw A, once it is closed, you go to B...»

You can certainly drop that number down if you use the car's eco mode and just generally lay off the throttle, but if you prefer spirited driving our figure is closer to reality.

If you want a smaller, affordable Jaguar sedan, your dream is one step closer to reality.

For many of us, recent wars have waged nearly invisible damage on our everyday lives; perhaps Downing's work is intended to deliver the feel if not the reality close to mind.

The jingle of a bell as a yak grazed, invisible in the mist, made me wonder if the trade caravans of the old tea horse road were there, close to me, unaware of and undisturbed by my reality.

Each page you complete, even if it's only one page, reinforces your intention and brings your published book closer to reality.

It covers a summary -LRB-... based on a novel by a man named Lear), conflict -LRB-... his clinging wife doesn't understand), characterization (It's a dirty story of a dirty man), motivation (it's a steady job but he wants to be...), length -LRB-... a thousand pages give or take a few), author flexibility (I can make it longer if you like the style), the writer's acceptance of reality (If you must return it you can send it here), and a heartfelt closing (But I need a breakif you like the style), the writer's acceptance of reality (If you must return it you can send it here), and a heartfelt closing (But I need a breakIf you must return it you can send it here), and a heartfelt closing (But I need a break).

First, let's try to play Devil's Advocate and figure out if the Blackberry CEO's wishful thinking might be closer to reality than we realize.

But there is hope, compliments of Jane Friedman, the WD article's author (I prefer to call it a reality check): «If your immediate thought upon reading this blog post headline was something like: I couldn't stop trying even if someone told me to give up, then you're much closer to publication than someone who is easily discourageIf your immediate thought upon reading this blog post headline was something like: I couldn't stop trying even if someone told me to give up, then you're much closer to publication than someone who is easily discourageif someone told me to give up, then you're much closer to publication than someone who is easily discouraged.

Perhaps, if publishers release more reports of their international eBooks» sales, the sales data will be closer to reality to reflect eBook penetration in the bigger picture.

Some people are too scared to switch to a new carrier because of the termination fees when in reality, it's not that much if it's close to the expiration date.

These require further investigation to establish if the book is close to reality.

OK, my RRSP Reality check shows that by saving 150 $ / bi-wk i'll get close to 1million @ 65 yrs old and then be able to withdraw something around 37 000 $ / yr'til i'm 90 yrs old... and thats it if i don't want to jump MTR.What if i get to save all that money in TFSA and still get the 37 000 $ / yr and when i want to do something very special (or most likely out of my control like sickness) the money is there and i can just call my financial advisor and ask please withdrawal this much $ $ $, without thinking of taxe consequences.

Inputting anything that sounds like «Gross Values» will not represent reality, because if you choose to withdraw your money, you won't be getting anything close to that much money refunded, after the life insurance company first deducts their enormous fees, charges, and commissions.

«It will affect dogs throughout the country that need emergency or preventative blood product transfusions for a medical reason, if a severe shortage became a reality, if Hemopet was forced to close,» Dodds told The Dodo.

An assist attack can become a reality simply by launching an attack on an enemy from the opposing team when your currently selected character is close to another team member with assist displayed above them, although assist attacks only occur if team members trust each other and a certain wariness of enemies is required as enemies may also use assist attacks when possible.

That's always what interested me, even when I was a very young painter... I decided if I was going to talk about paintings in which you were seeing reality... talk about the act of observation, I had to get closer to how I observed rather than just use as a model how everyone else observed.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

If the artist was aiming to conjure the mystique of an ancient temple, the reality was closer to a Twenty - seventh Street superclub.

The other thing that's still lacking, of course, is fresh commitments to boosting long - lagging investments in basic research and development in energy sciences and related areas — which a host of studies have shown to be vital if that reality gap is to be closed.

If you do the same on annual means instead, the uncertainty most programs report will be much closer to reality.

If you take the view that CCSM is correct, or nearly so, then in order to predict the real world, we need to work out which realisation is closest to reality.

If you suspect the data could be adjusted to provide a picture closer to reality, then Mosher's advice is spot on.

That conclusion seems much closer to reality but may be unwelcome in some circles since the implication is that, if true and with SLR now at 3.4 mm / annum, loss of land - based ice must be considerably greater than hitherto reported.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be ok.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be OK.

«Overall, the findings suggest that if there was closer attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than continuing with seemingly intractable debates on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where there could be agreement on some action.»

And then I wonder if any news article is every close to touching on reality.

The reality is that for probably close to 100 % of you reading this article now, you or a loved one wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for antibiotics.

If the multiplier were 80 instead of 25, that would represent 14.7 million tons — a figure much closer to the scientific reality over the next 20 years.

We are so close, we are such a hub that if you separate the emotion and you understand and respect that emphasize of course with that aspect it's really parallel and wholly separate from the reality that the embargo did not change, communism did not bring it down, and perhaps doing business and opening these doors and not allowing there to be an excuse for actions taken in the island nation can perhaps do a different change in a positive manner, to do a pragmatic and business approach.

Dare ourselves to look closer and see if our reality is just a lie.