Sentences with phrase «bore little relationship»

But often, performance relative to the index bore little relationship to fund expenses.

They bear little relationship to the actual reality,» David Walker, the bishop of Dudley, told the Observer.

The project has been scaled back, trimmed, modified and reinvented so comprehensively it bears little relationship to the proposals that were first put forward.

In many states, teachers must earn additional professional development credits (usually six credits every five years) in order to renew their licenses, but teachers can earn these credits in areas that bear little relationship to their practice.

In almost every school district in the country, teachers are currently paid based solely on their years of experience and degree level, despite a consensus in the scientific community that these two factors bear little relationship to their success in improving student performance.

What school districts do with their funds, staff and time often bears little relationship to their priorities for improved student learning.

This report of the tax consequences of your sales may seem to bear little relationship to the actual activity in your account.

In this sense, Timekeeper may bear little relationship to the mechanical devices with which we mark the actual passing of time, but instead proposes how information is pieced together as we recall and replay our lives.

So Australia's BOM data and NZ's NIWA data, both «adjusted» out of their cotton picking minds whether needed or not and generally butchered [and thats being polite,] around with until it bears little relationship with reality accounts for at least one fifth and close to nearly one quarter of the total global land surface temperature data.

The Met office is some 20 miles from my home as the crow flies (over the sea) and the weather they predict for us often bears little relationship to what we actually get.

Support bears little relationship to the extent of need but is primarily determined by whether the child happens to be in the care system or not.

But that women do more in the home bears little relationship to whether their husbands earn more or less relative to their wives.

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But with the rejection, in the post-Renaissance development, of formal and final causality, and with the increasing importance of efficient causation, moreover an efficient causation that bore little resemblance to Aristotle's efficient causation, the relationship between logic (which was still largely syllogistic) and the world had to break down.

His statement of the gospel is couched too often in language and in a context which bear little or no relationship to the circumstances, the accepted ways of thinking of the world both scientifically and philosophically, in which the hearers live.

(p. 182) These sort of practices, Justin notes, bear little resemblance to the committed same - sex relationships being discussed and debated in the Church today.

Rangers in California's Yosemite National Park are urging tourists to be «a little more assertive» in their relationships with the park's black bears this summer.

When I feed her I often think back to my first attempts at breastfeeding when our son was born, and how strange it was that a little piece of silicone could be both my best friend and the one thing I detested about our breastfeeding relationship.

But I find the question interesting because it bears so little understanding of what the breastfeeding relationship entails, especially once babies become toddlers and then older.

The root of the problem, experts say, is that what Trump says bears little to no relationship with what his administration actually ends up doing.

I am looking for someone who is married and wants a discrete type relationship, someone who is bored at home and wants a little excitement in their lives.

With that in mind, matters relating to age, looks and cultural differences have little bearing on the building of the foundations of a relationship.

Little do couples try to make their relationships interesting and the lack of excitement is what leads to a boring romantic life.

They pay ridiculous amounts of attention to things like looks, which have little bearing on whether a relationship will work.

But in truth, those movies bear little resemblance to our actual, day - to - day relationship with technology.

Wheatley beautifully blends the freaky sound design and unsettling atmosphere of his previous picture to a comedic sensibility that owes a little something to Julia Davis («Nighty Night «-RRB- and Mike Leigh, but the real genius of the piece comes in the way that Lowe and Oram's script (and the hopefully - star - making performances from the duo) is really a trojan horse; underneath the glam - free «Natural Born Killers» overtones, it's a beautifully observed drama about a dissolving relationship — a blood - spattered «Blue Valentine,» if you will.

Previous national studies have examined the relationship between school resources and student outcomes and found little association for students born after 1950.

In other words, each little sound bit in any language bears absolutely no relationship to the thing or concept it represents other than what we have decided it does.

Moreover, the RAND study repeats the finding that teachers» salaries, experience, and whether or not they hold a master's degree bear little or no relationship to student performance.

The relationship lasted too long and bore too little fruit.

This may bear very little relationship to the realized results for tax purposes in a given year.

Because the management commentary seems to bear very little relationship to reality!

The linear relationship between the Great Slave, the Great Bear and the Great Lakes seems a little improbable.

When couples do novel things together — stuff that gets them engaged and takes them a little bit out of their comfort zones — they tend to feel closer to their partners, less bored, and generally more satisfied with their relationships.6 So if you think the relationship might be getting a bit too habitual, then my suggestion would be to mix it up a bit.

The amount and type of support carers receive from local authorities appears to bear little or no relationship to the child's or carer's needs, which is absolutely shocking.

I will complete my first year in April and I am also finding more success than I imagined (although nothing to the scale of the Rookie) because of honesty, history with past relationships and community involvement in our little town where I was born and raised.