Sentences with phrase «by weak standards»

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

Not exact matches

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

Wages are rising at about the same pace as inflation, which is weak by historical standards, and suggests that households have limited spending power.

In fact, this recovery has been weak by any standard measure.

It did so by reminding its readers that the SEC's efforts to apply the fiduciary standard to brokers «have been stymied by financial - industry opposition and weak Congressional support.»

NEW YORK (AP)-- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its rating on Target Corp. following weaker - than - expected fourth - quarter results that were dragged down by a massive data breach and a disappointing foray into Canada.

So not only is your argument weak, so is the method you take for your arguing by the same standard that you judge religion to be false.

Today the most intense competition in the globally integrated market is not between the gigantic Transnational Corporations, but it is between governments that find themselves competing with one another for investors by offering the cheapest and most compliant labor; the weakest environmental, health, and safety standards, the lowest taxes; and the most fully developed infrastructure.

Colem — That's weak even by creationist standards.

Emirates stadium and huge sponsor deals we finally have had two poor years by his standards at the helm we always havent been so great and are we weak supporters or strong give him a contract i mean hes won with ants for money let him spend for once cause even if we do get new manager inflation has occured and no body else will win with the small amounts we gave him to spend and in 20 years actuall more it seems the club is finally willing to spend give him a contract let him spend and if we do nt improve which i think we will i think that the club is finally willing to spend shows were on an upturn because as long as top four the owner and board weren't and after we spend big or somewhat big for once and auba and mkhitaryan arent the big im hoping for i want more if liverpoodlians can pay 75million for a cb let wenget spend a bit and if we still do bad we can always sack him or ask him to leave wouldnt be uncommon but we owe it to him and do nt say we do not because emirates london colney that will bring in high talent here for years to come and we have never spent for him just gave little and hes always done big things with little i think he can do bigger things in his final years if we give him big i do nt see us in decline but if we sack him we will be for a good three maybe four years

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Also, most players are physically weak and slow by modern standards.

He said if weak governance and weak teaching was not tackled, «just [by] changing the name badge we can't expect to get the same increase in standards.»

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said Buffalo Niagara's job growth «is not impressive at all... By national standards and compared to similarly sized metropolitan areas, it's been relatively weak.»

«Integrated photonic circuits are hampered by weak and inefficient optical energy confinement in standard silicon waveguides,» said Yang Li, a postdoctoral fellow in the Mazur Group and first author on the paper.

At this distance, which is astronomic by the standards of the quantum world, the magnetic interaction is very weak.

Your declaration that anonymity is a «moral weakness» is of course only your opinion, but raises an interesting question, which is perhaps best considered rhetorically: Why do you — how can you — lower your moral standards to post on Retraction Watch, a website that, by embracing the anonymity of its posters, is by your definition «morally weak?»

The Resolution for Men by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Randy Alcorn Edited by Lawrence Kimbrough B&H Publishing Group Paperback, $ 36.50 272 pages ISBN: 978 -1-4336-7122-7 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is an unapologetic call for men to live courageously for their faith and their families... We believe there is a rising movement of men who are disgusted by their own mediocrity and dissatisfied with the weak standards of our dark culture... Men who want to make the most of the rest of their days... Throughout history, men who lived incredible lives and left great legacies did it intentionally.

Results of a poll released on Tuesday show strong public support for the idea of shared academic standards, but much weaker support for the standards that have been put in place by 43 states and the District of Columbia: the Common Core State Standards.

Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.

«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.

This standard is by far our weakest area or area with the biggest potential for growth.

Because they grow slowly, year by year, it is easier to maintain high standards even for the weakest pupils.

Knowing that my students are weakest in Literary Response and Analysis (one of 5 clusters «assessed» by multiple - choice on our state's HS exit exam) is not particularly helpful in light of the fact that there are 12 theoretically distinct standards at that level, and each one can be broken down into several * more * interdependent concepts.

By comparative standards, America has a weak welfare state, a decentralized education system, a segregated and unequal social geography, an underprofessionalized educational field, and very high expectations for its schools.

By contrast, one standard deviation increase in standardized test scores has a very weak, often non-existent, relationship to these outcomes.

The «box in the standard Clio 200 was, by far, the weakest part of the car; the up - shifts were infuriatingly slow and down - shifts rarely happened on the first pull of the paddle.

Although the 200 - hp version of the VW 2.0 T is weak by today's standards, the Volkswagen Group has other applications where the 2.0 T produces more than 260 hp and 250 lb - ft.

In principle, having one common set of standards sounds like common sense, but in reality this Act, endorsed by huge food conglomerates such as ConAgra, Dean Foods and Hormel, provides for the weakest consumer and small farmer protection.

It has the standard trappings of the genre: Weapons that get stronger from power - ups dropped by enemies, a secondary screen - clearing super attack with limited charges, and boss battles where you hammer away against a beefy target with patterned attacks you have to learn how to dodge while watching for exposed weak points.

It's supposedly not a «big boy» system, and so it seems like many people are willing to judge its games by a different (and much weaker) standard.

In it's weakest configuration, we can expect it to be more powerful than the Wii U — that much is supported by the impressions coming out of the public - facing events of the last two days — but even at it's strongest, it's almost certainly going to come off weaker when compared to the standard Xbox One and PS4 models.

While the Whitney's collection proves a wonderfully comprehensive and inclusive history for the first forty years — that there's even a section dedicated to black history is, by museum standards, sadly progressive — weak sections of the collection later on stand out.

Even by the standards of an Old Masters sale, the sell - through at Sotheby's evening sale yesterday was a weak 62 %.

It is also a subject which is often counter-intuitive and the standard «meme» arguments, prepared by climate scientists and regurgatated by advocates, are incredibly weak.

By today's standards, though, the renewable energy targets in the AEPS are extremely weak and long overdue for revision.

«Not only would most of the existing plants be allowed to pollute several times more than could be achieved by adopting the best clean technologies available,» the environmental NGO said, «but EU standards would also be significantly weaker than those imposed in other parts of the world, including China.»

Unfortunately, the current standards used by ENGOs in Canada are such that we could have a policy that was 4 - 6 times more stringent than those imposed or proposed anywhere else in the world and have it be seen as weak, modest, and lagging behind.

* Everyone knows that the state's finances are a lot weaker than they looked six months ago, and that this has very little to do with the government * No - one who has been watching the news could possibly place any weight on ratings issued by Standard & Poors (or Moodys — Fitch has been marginally better).

HomeKit suffers from Bluetooth's frailties, and though Apple has taken steps to improve the performance of Bluetooth by including the latest standard, Bluetooth 5.0, in the Apple TV 4K, Bluetooth is still the weakest link DIYers will have to confront.

That's not much by modern standards but if you're in an underdeveloped area with a weak signal, it can really add up.