Sentences with phrase «catch up to the standards»

Although formula manufacturers here in the U.S. are slowly catching up to the standards set by our friends from across the Atlantic, there's really no comparison to the level of quality European formula makers are producing.

Low cost abundant energy is the one thing that can make people in poor countries catch up to the standards in rich countries.

Android devices are getting safer all the time, but they still have a long way to go before they catch up to the standards of Apple's iOS.

Not exact matches

I'm not doing too well by these standards, but I have only recently begun to take control of my finances (instead of having them control me), and I am still sort of young, so hopefully I can catch up.

Workers need a big pay raise to catch up for a period where their standard of living has lagged, and the economy benefits from their increased purchasing power, says Paul Meinema, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, with 100,000 members in Ontario.

Now I will have to try and raise my blog's standards to catch up to yours with a PR5!

She says Canada has some work to do if it wants to catch up to countries where both government and industry fully understand the value of standards — countries that are quickly becoming standards «makers» rather than «followers».

Today, approximately 80 per cent of the world's trade is affected by standards and countries around the world are catching on to the fact that using — and developing — standards can give them a leg up.

Once you reach age 50, contribution limits on IRAs increase by another $ 1,000, allowing those who may have put off starting to save for retirement to «catch up» on their savings by contributing an amount over the standard contribution limit.

If you start standing up for what is right according to Biblical standards in our church, in our families, in our neighborhoods, in our city, in our state, in our nation, and in our world, again, I guarantee that you will catch some flak, you will be slandered, you will be persecuted.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

If manufacturers need more time to get up to speed, then maybe we need to relax the standard for short time until they catch up.

The cost for the industry to catch up with the EU standards is enormous.

Of course, they didn't meet the standards before coming to you, so you need to not only do this year's work, you also need to catch them up from the past 3 years» work.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

While much of Pumpkinhead is standard stuff featuring the dumb rich kids getting picked off at moments of high hubris, a few of these dumb rich kids reveal themselves to be complex, kind even, just caught up in a bad event and trapped within its consequences.

Standard is freed, but his past catches up to him, as his former cronies expect him to make good on money owed, eventually threatening the lives of Irene and Benicio if he doesn't help in a robbery.

Visually the series looks like it's finally catching up to current gen standards and the amount of interaction you can have with the world around you is looking impressive.

To catch up to the leading countries would require gains of at least half of a standard deviation, or roughly two years of learning (see «Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?&raquTo catch up to the leading countries would require gains of at least half of a standard deviation, or roughly two years of learning (see «Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?&raquto the leading countries would require gains of at least half of a standard deviation, or roughly two years of learning (see «Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?&raquto Compete?»

With a strong emphasis on spelling and grammar, timetables and long division, the new National Curriculum has been heralded as a return to high standards and rigour as we strive to catch up with the world's best performing nations in terms of educational performance.

The report shows that around one in five children left primary school without having reached a sufficient standard in reading and writing, and that these children then struggle to catch - up and fall further behind at secondary school.

I believe that the American people want these national standards of excellence and are waiting for the Congress to «catch up.»

About 25 percent of those teachers produce the level of gap - closing, life - changing growth that students need consistently to catch up and leap ahead to rising international standards.

Without excellent teachers consistently, students who start out behind rarely catch up, and students who meet today's grade - level targets rarely leap ahead to meet rising global standards.

That is to say, their students are making impressive gains — catching up, even — but not yet at «grade level» in terms of meeting academic standards.

[2] They began to catch up to others statewide over the next year: In spring 2012, Haitian earthquake refugees scored 0.98 standard deviations below the state mean in reading and 0.67 standard deviations below the state mean in math.

In these sad situations, some teachers bring student work to grade or plan to catch up on their emails, anticipating they won't learn anything during a standard PD session even before it begins.

Some secondary students might take very few or no electives in order to catch up and meet standards in core academic areas.

Different approaches have been used to address student progress and help strug - gling students catch up to the academic standard and master the curriculum for that grade.

The standards have to contend with the skill level of students and declining school budgets, which allow for limited education resources to help them catch up.

Janice Gorlach, head of standards at the Carmel Education Trust which includes St Gregory's, said the school was considering changing the structure of its classes in response to what it had learned from Shanghai, by introducing a shorter lesson in the morning with more time later in the day for practice and catch - up sessions for pupils needing extra help.

The standards have been in place in many districts for three years, but most textbooks, curriculum and teacher training have yet to catch up to the Common Core's grand vision.

Expecting 5th grade teachers to play catch - up and apply these standards to students who have no base from previous grades is unrealistic.

«Despite the fact that the district hadn't yet established a strategy district - wide for implementing standards, we're not trying to play catch - up,» Cheatham said.

«We are playing catch up and can not afford to waste a single moment in raising standards for all pupils and schools,» he said.

The plan is to introduce the changes starting from next year with the aim to improve teaching standards and results and to identify more quickly children needing help to catch up.

It's easy to get caught up in the Reading Wars [phonics vs whole language] and Math Wars [basic skills and algorithms vs mathematical power] and Science Wars [basics / facts vs hands - on learning] that Peter Schrag wrote about 15 + years ago when the 1997 standards were being debated.

This means that our students have to work much harder to not only learn grade - level standards, but they also have to catch up on the foundational skills which they should already have acquired.

Perhaps most heartening to me at the GEII summit was the refrain we heard from national - level education ministers and policy makers around the world: that national policy makers are beginning to catch up to the need for establishing standards for social - emotional competencies in education.

I would think running a catch can set up would prevent this (local emission standards would need to be researched) obviously I speak of cars out of warranty.

The standard for premium pickup interiors has been set by Ram's Laramie Longhorn, and it'll be exciting to watch competitors race to catch up.

The dealer network has some catching up to do if it's going to match the «brand standards» of BMW and Mercedes, but that's unlikely to matter to Alfa Romeo customers.

«As the competition has caught up [to Lexus) in many ways, we needed to set new, higher standards,» said Bryan Bergsteinsson, Lexus Division general manager.

Its competitors from the class below are catching up, and I don't think the company is up to German luxury standards yet.

SAN FRANCISCO — Chrysler Corp. has added passenger's side air bags as standard equipment in its 1994 minivans to try to ensure that neither age nor the competition catches up with them.

Lastly, they obviously don't want anime to catch up to the manga so yes, I'm well aware that they didn't wan na stop it suddenly especially where it left off but know some things had to be done so that things went nicely; especially since as it is the second season wasn't meeting Mashima's standards and whatnot.

For a long time, I was just waiting for technology to catch up to what I thought was a minimum standard for even considering this.

Shocking levels of illiteracy in London's primary schools prompted the Evening Standard to act by trying to help children who had fallen behind with their reading and were in danger of never catching up.

In addition to the standard HSA contribution limit, if you have attained age 55 before the close of a taxable year, you may also contribute an additional amount known as a «catch - up» contribution, as shown in the table below.

GMAC was originally founded in 1919 and grew over the course of time, but like many banks a few years ago, got caught up in the financial crisis due to loose mortgage lending standards.