Sentences with phrase «bearing early fruit»

An ambitious experiment created by Harvard economist Roland Fryer to export and scale the practices of high - performing charter school chains to public schools in Houston appears to be bearing early fruit, according to Fryer's findings in a recent report.

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This effort is usually pretty costly, however, an incredibly important endeavor that requires early and frequent investment in order to bear fruit.

But last year, the RCMP told a group of OECD officials it had more than 20 CFPOA investigations in progress, and early signs indicate some are bearing fruit.

Earlier this month, Rio Tinto Group raised its dividend and said it's on its way to becoming a «cash machine» as a cost - cutting drive starts to bear fruit.

We are not the first Christians to struggle with the issue of wealth, but it would be hard to find an earlier generation whose struggle has borne so little fruit.

At 99, the year before she died, she insisted on getting two blueberry bushes for our front yard: one bears fruit earlier than the other, and when it's about finished the other has its fruit to offer.

If their early attacking efforts bear fruit, their superior passing and movement will bring further goals against opponents obliged to come forward, and all will be well.

But it still seems odd that, just as so much of his earlier work was beginning to bear fruit, Paddy should pack it in.

But eyebrows were raised at the idea that those modest changes were enough of a trade - off to disband the commission after the body had issued its preliminary report only months earlier and all signs pointed toward subpoenas ready to bear fruit.

DOE has requested a 15 %, $ 80 million increase for its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program — the largest boost in the Office of Science — to help accelerate the effort, which Moniz said could bear fruit as early as 2022 or 2023.

Hall was born in New York in 1945, and grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.. His scientific relationship with Drosophila, the humble fruit fly, started early.

The seeds of inspiration were planted early on, yet they never bore fruit, and while we can't feel cheated because The Good Girl provided solid entertainment, we still have a nagging feeling that something is missing by the time the credits roll.

We hope that our efforts in fostering these children's talents will bear fruit in the near future and believe that the provision of education and care for children from early childhood will help them develop their skills and abilities when they get older.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

A growing body of rigorous evidence suggests that policy interventions aimed at early childhood bear fruit for decades.

This includes canvases of a sensuous boy holding a basket of dewy fruit, the thoughtful St. Jerome lost in sacred study and, most dramatically, his early 17th century canvas of David bearing the head of Goliath.

As early as 1852, folks were already proclaiming Endicott's pear tree as «probably the oldest cultivated fruit bearing tree in New England.»

Efforts to open up this secrecy are now bearing fruit, and the Internet Governance Project has released what appears to be an early WCIT - 12 preparatory document (TD - 64) that shows some of the proposed changes to the ITRs.