Sentences with phrase «compared with other states»

Even though per capita government spending is tame compared with other states — 7th lowest in the country — Texas and its localities must still find a way to fund government obligations.
A higher proportion of children were registered with the HCWAP in Victoria compared with other states.
Maryland, compared with other states, allows medical assistants to perform sophisticated medical tasks.
Colorado sees an average amount of criminal activity as compared with other states.
These minimum rates are not particularly strict when compared with other states» minimums.
Those minimum limits for liability insurance are low compared with other states, perhaps not enough to protect a driver who owns a home or has other assets.
Senior judges also receive a boost to the pension payment, which is already generous compared with other states.
On average, California schools have just one computer for every four children — a situation that prompted Education Week to give the state a D - minus this year for its use of education technology compared with other states.
power are now installed in South Carolina, a small amount compared with other states nationally and regionally.
With the prevalence of both types of schools, a culture of choice in K - 12 education may be more established in Delaware, compared with other states.
The state has a higher percentage of 4th and 8th graders in schools where officials report that physical conflicts are not a problem, or are only a minor problem, compared with other states, based on data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey.
And it would enable state leaders to see precisely how their twelfth graders are doing when compared with other states and with the country as a whole.
The state's showing indicates that, compared with other states, West Virginia has few differences in education spending per pupil across districts.
«While the wage gap is smaller in NYS compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.
The chairman added that the committee was impressed that the peace and security in the state have continued to thrive, recalling with applause the recent verdict by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, which listed Enugu as the state with the least criminal cases compared with other states of the federation.
«While the wage gap is smaller in New York state compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.»
Soglin blasted Fitzgerald, Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for the state's weak economic performance over the past five years compared with other states.
The Education Trust gives an overview of how Washington truly compares with other states, and answers your questions on how we can make our education system better for every student.
The report also suggests that state faith schools take fewer poorer pupils compared with other state secondaries.
How does this compare with other states?
Then, you can compare it with other states to determine which 529 savings plan will allow you to minimize costs and access the best investment options.
In addition, the Justices asked where Wisconsin's cap compares with other states with similar caps on noneconomic damages.

Not exact matches

Schroepfer said that Facebook took 3.5 billion Instagram photos, adorned with people's hashtags to describe them, and was able to «produce state of the art results» on the popular ImageNet computer - vision benchmark, used by AI researchers as a gauge of their project's effectiveness compared to others.
«We think it would be very mild, and we think if you compare the States with other advanced economies around the world, we still think the States is going to be in quite a good position to take the appropriate monetary action and cut interest rates,» he added.
Compared with other developed countries, our parental benefits rank somewhere between the United States» measly 12 unpaid weeks and, say, Sweden's 16 - month paid leave.
Though the stores and shipping facility have a physical presence, Amazon pays a lower state sales tax than other retailers (8 % compared with 10 %).
«In so doing, researchers will be able to use the state - of - the - art analytic methods of the GDC, allowing them to compare their findings with other data in the GDC.»
Compared with other parts of the country, «we think the Washington / Maryland area [is especially stable], because of steady state revenues and governmental revenues,» CMIT president and chief executive Jeff Connally said.
So California could have a disproportionate number of homeowners who claim the mortgage interest deduction, compared to other states with lower home values.
I think that means European bonds are potentially positioned to perform well — especially relative to other bond markets in the world — because the ECB is very much on a heavy easing cycle, compared with other countries where there is talk that rates eventually will rise (namely the United States).
«Compared with other regions, sub-Saharan Africa experienced the largest increases in both government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion in 2015,» Pew stated.
Surely Charles Manson, Gary Gilmore and the other former and present inmates of state prison Death Rows — there are presently more than 300 Death Row occupants nationwide — can not be compared with Jesus.
The second and related stipulation is that we are not comparing an ideal depiction of the state of Catholicism with less flattering depictions of other communities — or vice versa.
But compared with the number of refugees in other countries around the world — and considering the resources of the United States — it's remarkably small.
Jesus stated that during our time period (that is called his invisible «presence» at Matthew 24:3, the KJV and other Bibles inaccurately reads «coming»), pseudo Christians or false Christians would be busy (along with the rest of the «world») with the mundane affairs of life, getting married, having children, eating and drinking, in which Jesus compared to the «days of Noah», and with the exception of Noah and his family, pseudo Christians would «take no note» that they were living during a critical juncture in human history.
But Hertzberg holds that Israel should not be judged differently from other nations, and that in the exercise of nationalistic power Israel's record compares quite favorably with that of other modern states.
«The online assessment provides Australians with a simple and trusted way of self - assessing the quality of their diet and how they compare to others of the same age, gender, generation, profession as well as people from the same State and across the country,» Professor Noakes said.
There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.
SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.
NICE (2015) discusses a study by Landon et al (2006) that showed no significant difference in the rates of uterine rupture in VBAC with two or more previous cesarean births compared with a single previous cesarean birth, and states that these findings are consistent with «other observational studies,» (p 7).
Each participating hospital receives an individualized report † showing how its practices compare with other hospitals nationally, in the same state, and of a similar size.
· Loss relief — that UK law on group relief discriminates against companies resident in other European Economic Area states with UK permanent establishments as compared with UK resident companies.
Whether one might agree or disagree with the arguments used by Mikhail Efremov, his parody suggests that Russia still considers the United States to be an important Other (to use Neumann's phrase) for Russia to be compared with and defined against.
So, how exactly does Ba'athism compare with movements like Integralism, Fascism, National - Socialism, National - Solidarism, Juche, Maoism, Stalinism and / or other movements that promote Authoritarianism and / or a one - party state in combination with Socialist principles and Nationalist principles?
The archaic word for United States is «The Country with the Patterned Flag» and stems from the fact that the American Flag was frequently in port cities and was rather distinct when compared to other nations.
When compared with the previous tally (from June 2012) the new tally shows that the two minor parties tallied by the state grew at a faster rate than any other type of voters.
When the Saxbe fix was used for Hillary Clinton, who had the same problem, there was some debate over whether it would be valid, due to the timing of when the raise by the Executive Branch took effect compared to exactly when Clinton resigned from the Senate and when her term of service began at the State Dept.. The Constitutionality has nothing whatsoever to do with Clinton's personal actions and these particulars would hold for others too if the timing was similar.
«Under the past year, headlines have talked of Ghana as the seventh dirtiest country in the world and then we are going backwards compared with other countries,» he stated.
It's worth noting that, compared with other rural states, Vermont derives a lot of its economy from tourism, niche agriculture, and handicrafts.
Still, no one along the way compares the requests with other needs across the state.
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