Sentences with phrase «better against programs»

Do teams that have experience staying focused with an extended layoff play better against programs that didn't play past the regular season the year before?

Not exact matches

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

For now, the best response is that a program such as the above — applied when necessary beyond Iraq, Syria, and ISIS to other challenges against the international order — would buy the Middle East time for the modernization and internal transformation needed to anchor the nation - state principle and provide homegrown disincentives to violence and upheaval.

«This is a conversation that obviously needs to be had,» Franco said on the program in reference to the issue, as well as to the criticism he received online for wearing a pin advocating for the Time's Up movement of women in Hollywood working against sexual misconduct and gender imbalance in the industry.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

For smaller retailers to have a better chance against these giant brands, SMBs are recommended to leverage their marketing efforts early, focusing on social media, email and loyalty programs.

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

You should take time to compare Payoff's loan program against others that you may qualify for to determine which option is best for you.

The Board recommends a vote AGAINST a stockholder proposal seeking to have us adopt a policy requiring that senior executives retain a significant percentage of stock acquired through equity pay programs until reaching retirement age because our existing stock ownership guidelines and other compensation policies already effectively facilitate significant stock ownership by our executives, and establishing holding requirements based on a particular retirement age would not be in the best interests of our stockholders.

For my good friends at the Georgia Family Council, I wrote a post on a recent decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Jennifer Keeton's suit against faculty and administrators in the graduate counseling program at Augusta State University.

They decided that people who preach hate against a minority are not good people, and thus denied them a program on their network.

Supporters of the need for Trump's plan often cite the well - documented fact that ISIS has committed genocide against Christians and other minorities, yet the US refugee program has resettled far more Muslims than Christians from Syria, as noted by Kirsten Powers and others.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Those very good vintages were also now benefiting from a program to strip extra costs out Treasury's supply chain in Australia and may also result in the prospect that the company may release more higher - end wines from previous vintages during 2018 - 19, because there was now no longer any need to hold back wines as insurance against the 2018 vintage having potentially been lower in volume.

As well as his commitment to the highest - quality, native, sustainable produce, he has also lobbied against GM crops and taken part in educational programs to improve the diet of children in his country.

IIMAR» I THOMAS Sacred Heart Cathedral - S.F. — Basketball — Senior Thomas was the SportStars NorCal Girls Basketball Player of the Year, as well as a Cal - Hi Sports First - Team All - State Elite selection, after posting a double - double average of 25 points and 13.4 rebounds for an Irish team that finished 18 - 9 against what many computer programs determined to be the most difficult schedule in the country.

And is Meyer doing any better against top programs in other states than coaches of those programs are doing against him in his state?

But when he sat down with Time Warner Cable SportsNet's Kevin Frazier for a program titled «Connected With... Dwight Howard» that aired after Tuesday's game against the Orlando Magic, he revealed that his surgically - repaired back was nowhere close to where it needed to be for him to be at his best, and it may have contributed to his issues early on.

Bosco moved to 2 - 0 against the fabled Spartans program, also besting it in the 2013 Open Div.

Despite the epic comeback against Texas A&M to open the season, things never got as good for the program in 2017 as they were that first game.

Any advantage the best programs in the country have from talent / coaching would be neutralized against a ranked opponent.

He has defended the AP program against such criticisms in the past, but has also acknowledged their validity; in 2011 he conceded that «for schools that are expanding access to AP among unprepared students, they are probably using resources that could be better used elsewhere.»

I invite all parents to visit my website to see how your child's league or high school football program can start better protecting him better against needless injury.

While the school initiative was in place well before the industry was put on the defensive against the proposed taxes, the promotion of the program is certainly well - timed.

Maybe «Wilma» and others like her, who are the real heroes in the fight for better school food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming odds.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, voted against the new program, saying it would be better to cut taxes across the board.

Both parties have chosen Malliotakis as their mayoral nominee and both parties, as well as their respective chairmen, are against the City matching funds program.

Leon County School Superintendent Rocky Hanna is applauding a lawsuit against the state's «Best and Brightest» teacher bonus program.

Asked why he was voting for the legislation, Skelos cited the complete ban on smoking marijuana, as well as protections built into the program to guard against fraud and abuse.

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Mount Vernon Councilman André Wallace dropped by the People Before Politics Radio Show, Sunday to discuss the graduation of the latest class in his construction training program and to address his lawsuit against the city as well as the allegations from Mayor Richard Thomas and a recent article in the Yonkers Tribune, which accuse him of not paying working prevailing wages and not finishing the project he is requesting to be paid for.

The 2.5 million members of the New York State AFL - CIO applaud Senators Schumer and Gillibrand as well as Representatives Maloney, Nadler and King for leading the fight against the sequestration of funds that support 9/11 Health and Compensation programs.

If elected, he plans to reduce property taxes by $ 1 million in four years and do away with the trash tax completely — which he says he voted against three times in the Common Council — by creating revenue through programs such as housing incentives and a traffic division as well as his plan to «rededicate existing resources.»

In fact Cuomo had cracked down on the member item program when he was attorney general, and in 2010 campaigned against a practice that good - government groups said invited corrupt conflicts.

The preliminary budget assigns $ 4.2 million for bulletproof vests and $ 10 million to expand the Police Cadet Program, as well as $ 3.2 million to change how the Law Department handles «frivolous» lawsuits against officers.

But his own characterization of them is not much better, as when he says that the government programs against poverty and illiteracy «seem completely wrong.»

In March, the program will put its skills to the ultimate test in a match against Lee Sedol, currently considered the best Go player in the world.

«Certainly a lot of people paid attention to it, and it sparked a very good conversation about what we're up against,» says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

On top of uncovering the long - range signaling mechanisms the researchers were astounded by another aspect of the programming which revealed that signals can not only program the monocytes to protect against the infection, but also to change to a repair function when they come across the good (commensal) bacteria in the gut.

Like this, the researchers from Jena, Berlin and Duisburg - Essen were able to conclude that lifespan extension in rodents can be attributed to changes in their defense against free radicals, iron homeostasis as well as cellular respiration and translation as central parts of the growth program.

«One of the best safeguards against cuts is strong public support for a program,» he explains.

The NIST study, conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the federal Joint Fire Science Program, documented and assessed the chronology, behavior and outcomes of the fire, as well the firefighting activity against it.

Joseph Kable at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues have tested the popular Luminosity brain - training program from Lumos Labs in San Francisco, California, against other computer games and found no evidence that it is any better at improving your thinking skills.

«We had to make sure the game is safe and well tolerated — to see that kids wouldn't get bored and throw the iPad against the wall,» says psychologist Scott Kollins, who directs Duke's ADHD program and helped run Akili's pilot study.

Goal priming - accountability What it does: Planning exercise sessions can work against piking last - minute, as in the act of crafting a well - articulated plan, you're effectively programming your mind to follow the script.

Aerial spraying is part of a comprehensive mosquito - control program that also includes encouraging people to get rid of standing water on their property and protect themselves against mosquito bites as well as using ground spraying in hard - to - reach areas, Frieden said.

Unwilling to write prescriptions for what she considered «poison pills», Dr Pensanti decided to «kick it up a notch» and became an «activist» against synthetic hormones by taking her message to the radio waves as well as her weekly TV program.

A fully - comprehensive treatment program can be effective in the elimination of these symptoms as well as providing protection against future, more serious, ailments that can come about when the condition is untreated like obesity, heart problems, diabetes, and Alzheimer's Disease.