Sentences with phrase «better than in the past»

There are good reasons to be hopeful that the church can function better than in the past as a community for the moral education of persons.

While I agree the West is quite a bit more interesting, the East first round will be much better than in the past.

And there does seem to be some correlation between parts of the state where the convention vote received the most attention and places where Democrats performed better than in past elections.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins is poised to do better than in the past, and possibly better than the left - leaning candidate has ever done in New York.

However, while there is no room for complacency and the Muslim community is still under pressure, one recent poll has given a positive picture; YouGov has found that prejudice against Muslims is «both more complex and more positive» and young Britons» perception of Muslims is getting better than in the past and significantly more positive than the old generation.

On the other hand, if a parent expected a child to do better than in the past, it didn't seem to affect that athlete's physical anxiety

In the end, we found that the sectors now communicate with one another better than in the past, and some even share instructional strategies.

Teachers might be even better than those in the past, but they are presented with an impossible situation, that of having to teach too many children who are resistant, disrespectful, and distracted by all the noise in the world.They are forced to meet over the top certification requirements and mandates set by those who would not survive long in the modern classroom.We have a Secretary of Education who has never taught or led a school.

Overall, American schools are doing better than in the past; but quality is highly uneven — varying among states, districts, and among groups of students.

interior materials are better than in past versions.

Mileage earnings on Delta flights will soon be a lot better than in the past (across most fare bookings) and the cost of most Economy Class transatlantic award have come down....

The balance between infantry and vehicle combat should certainly be much better than in past games.

The AI is better than in the past Battlefield series but still predictable and pretty much idiotic.

Actually, as you can see it is even getting better than in the past, it is some sort of garden of Eden for winter lovers.

His traditional «ground game» was incredibly lacking, but he made up for it with loud media savvy (either by accident or by design) and a quiet and unprecedented online campaign that understood the power of your data better than any in the past.

It isn't as fluid as you'll find in stock, but considerably better than in the past.

Not exact matches

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

Not only is Canada doing well compared to other countries, it is performing better than it ever has in the past.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

Nearly half of HR professionals claim their organization previously had a policy against rehiring former employees — even if the employee left in good standing — yet 76 % are more accepting of hiring boomerang employees today than in the past.

The company has completed more than 10 acquisitions over the past year, including assets in Mexico, Russia and Brazil, as well as the Edmonton - based maker of Cold - FX, Afexa Life Sciences.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

He expects that next year, as large companies negotiate their benefits contracts, they will be asking much more than in the past «will a carve - out option look better, or does the carve - in option look better?»

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

The New York Times (nytab) has been criticized in the past for remaining family - controlled, and some have argued that the newspaper would be better off if it were run by a regular corporation rather than being operated in the interests of a specific family.

The 14 - member OPEC cartel has also boasted better adherence to output limits than in the past, according to analysts.

Thus far, The Artist has grossed more than US$ 30 million in theatres, making it the second - lowest grossing best picture winner of the past three decades.

The seldom - acknowledged upside to these numbers, however, is that not only are Canadians living longer than in the past, they are living better.

«We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in - store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,» said Best Buy Canada president Ron Wilson in a release.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

«We can get a glimpse of what may be in store for the United States by looking at Japan, where in a somewhat frightening parallel, economic growth has averaged 0.9 % annually over the past two decades, and just 0.7 % in the 2001 to 2010 period,» BlackRock's paper says, though Koesterich adds that U.S. demographics are considerably better than Japan's.

For example, if your boss has immediately fired a past employee who told them about another job opportunity then it may be in your best interest to start your new job sooner rather than later to avoid missing out on pay.

«Today, rather than create results we won't be able to carry out like in the past, we should make good results by talking frankly about current issues, issues of interest,» Kim said.

He argued that the Fed's inflation record over the past 15 to 20 years has been as good as or better than central banks in Europe that have only a single price - stability mandate.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.

In times of economic instability and deflation (falling prices), bonds have performed better than stocks in the pasIn times of economic instability and deflation (falling prices), bonds have performed better than stocks in the pasin the past.

The good news is both alternatives exist, providing investors looking for a managed portfolio solution with additional options than in the past.

We can all easily build a portfolio of stocks, bonds and speciality ETFs through an online brokerage like Motif Investing for way less than in the past with much better risk parameters.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

While we have to say, and we actually believe, that past performance is no guarantee of future returns, we believe that Woodstock represents our clients» best opportunity to capture that equity - like return into their own accounts rather than negotiate it away in purchasing an investment product, because we believe we have done it.

And they are, but a new world that Windley thinks will solve some of the incentive problems that have made centralized systems better bets than decentralized systems in the past.

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

Fox's guest stint didn't just reinforce how much the show has evolved past its initial premise — if anything, losing Jess made the show better than it had been in years.