Sentences with phrase «bigger score gains»

Adding to this are combos that build up the quicker you gather the stars or knock things over, which accounts for bigger and bigger score gains.

Not exact matches

Students who no longer needed their books would gain extra cash and their peers would score big discounts.

Commonly called the «debt snowball,» this strategy can help you win the crucial psychological battle of overcoming debt: Paying off the smallest balances first means you'll score some «big wins» and start gaining momentum right away in what can be a long, discouraging process.

That score came as L.A. home prices surged 15.9 percent in two years — No. 32 biggest gain; per - capita homebuilding of 6 houses per 10,000 population was fourth slowest nationally; and business output rose 4.9 percent last year, No. 51 fastest.

The biggest gaining Purchase Consideration brands with the biggest gaining Index scores comprise our list of Momentum brands, in order by Index score gains.

Washington gained just 230 yards and scored a single touchdown in a big ASU upset.

Arsenal were bad but not as bad as Hull and wolcott was useless throughout the match yes he scored 2 beautiful goals and i am happy for him but beside his goals he was awful his corner kick were very bad most of his passes didn't come through he is a senior player i respect him for that but if he cant take corner kicks why take them I am glad he scored and I hope he will gain confidence and do better cause he is a senior player and an Arsenal player and will always support him but he got to do better for his own sake and ours I was very nervous trough the game as we were losing players throughout the game but well done Iwobi campbel and the big daddy12 and wollcott for the win and well done Arsenal for keeping it clean Its a big win for sure and very happy with it we need this fighting spirit and goals to continue on to the end come on you Arsenal

And out of nowhere, New Mexico State gained 316 yards (9.6 per play) in its first four drives against Louisiana - Lafayette, scoring touchdowns on all four drives and building a big lead; the Aggies gained just 134 yards (3.0) and scored seven points after that, eventually succumbing, 49 - 35.

At the time, this felt like a big shift for Oregon State as they gained possession and were once again within one score.

Still, the home side managed to smash two past Navas and the Los Colchoneros gain a big advantage in the first leg match and Real Madrid will face a tough task scoring at least 2 and not conceding any in the second leg match.

UKIP have scored big gains in several council areas over both Labour and Conservatives.

• Twelve countries improved their GAPPD scores since 2015, with Niger making the biggest gain, up 11 points.

In other words, those who achieved the biggest gains in knee strength also saw the biggest gains in MMSE score.

If Tarantino fails to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which would be understandable after all the shade his controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the Best Picture field isn't big enough to support this, the film should likely still compete for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Sony announced today that their upcoming music game scored a big exclusive by gaining the rights to three never before released tracks by Beck...

Focusing only on charters making the biggest achievement score gains would miss those charters with more modest achievement results but truly impressive attainment outcomes.

... Improving nutrition might bring a bigger test - score gain....

Perhaps the big economic gains made by blacks in the 1990s didn't show up in improved test scores until the 2000s.

So I would expect more steady - state on NAEP scores for the time being, with our next big chance for major gains coming in 2015.

Democrats had scored a big upset in New Hampshire and gained control of Montana's highest office, while Republicans had won hard - fought contests in Indiana and Missouri.

Classrooms with relatively big gains on this year's test and relatively small gains on next year's test will score high on this indicator.

(Actually, his biggest claim is that Bush's fourth - grade reading performance is «infinitely» better than Obama's, but that's because there's been no gain under Obama, not because under Bush scores were numerically much better.)

LAUSD kids under @DrDeasyLAUSD outpaced other urban kids in gains on NAEP in reading & math, but raw scores still well behind big - city avg

San Diego, Fresno and Los Angeles lead the nation's cities in showing the biggest gains in fourth - grade reading scores.

In 2011, Bill Turque, then The Washington Post's D.C. schools reporter, wrote that Rhee's focus on test scores did indeed bring «big gains — and more big headlines — for the city.»

The San Diego - area Barona Indian Charter School, for example, posted big gains in student performance on standardized test scores in the 2003 - 2004 school year, besting the state average.

The biggest gains scores in DC came in the very first year of her tenure, and are arguably attributed more to the changes made by her predecessor than to anything that Rhee did (or could have possibly have done given her hiring date).

It will name «model schools» — those with the highest test scores, biggest year - to - year gains, strong performance across student groups and, for high schools, best graduation rates.

You will notice that the students who started with the lowest scores in the fall made the biggest gains from fall to winter.

Asian charter students showed the biggest gains in English and math scores when compared to the state average for Asian students, scoring 12 percentage points higher in ELA than their peers and 11 points better in math.

Several of the schools that made big gains still have relatively low overall test scores, with less than 20 percent of students scoring at the levels of proficient or advanced on state assessments.

An inflated resume alone may be forgiveable, but Rhee's lies about the test score gains under her teaching played a big role in how she did her job as the D.C. school chief.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

If enough of their test scores make big gains, add a bonus point.

The city's public charter schools, which had higher scores than the traditional system, made their biggest gains since 2009.

Learn about the significant change Adams Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona made in their writing instruction and the big gains they experienced in their state writing assessment scores.

Assignments writing is not a difficult task for many students but writing high quality assignments to gain best score in the assignments could be a big deal.

The two big consumer credit scoring companies are FICO, whose scores are most commonly used in lending decisions, and VantageScore, a company created by the three major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) whose scores have been gaining ground among lenders.

When I first purchased my Xbox 360 way, way back in 2008 I came across a simple little twin stick shooter that, despite a relatively steep learning curve, enthralled me to the point where I would eschew big triple A titles like Gears of War in order to spend time trying to master the Robotron: 2084 inspired gameplay, frantically diving back into the fray time and time again in an effort to top my previous score and gain one of the coveted top spots on the global leaderboard.