Sentences with phrase «faced less pressure»

In the long run, we might all be better off if companies faced less pressure to generate returns for shareholders — and more incentive to invest in the next generation of great products.

Facing less pressure around standardized testing, OST settings can offer greater freedom for independent exploration without fear of earning a «bad grade.»

As a result, properties in the suburbs often have less competition from new construction and face less pressure to keep their rents low.

Not exact matches

Facing activist pressure, Connolly shed the struggling private - label business, unwinding a merger that was less than three years old and had weighed on profit.

When cash begins to pile up in surplus, many men and women find themselves facing a constant pressure to spend it, even if spending it would be a mistake or lead to less optimal outcomes.

For the residents of Buffalo, the pressures Tesla faces are less of an immediate concern than their need for a job at the Gigafactory 2.

The same would be said about stocks in Asian developed markets though they face less extreme pressure than Europe this year.

Part of the reason for this older generation's view may be due to their belief that, by comparison, their children's generation faces more financial pressures (61 per cent) and is less prepared for retirement (59 per cent).

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has faced intense pressure after 400,000 Rohingya people fled to Bangladesh in less than a month.

Food companies and restaurants could soon face government pressure to make their foods less salty.

And with the injury situation at the club as good as it has been for many a year, the boss is perhaps under less pressure than usual when it comes to selecting his starting line up to face Aston Villa at Wembley.

With that defence, Szczesny not only faced more shots at him, but easier shots for the attackers — they were able to get much better chances, and had less pressure from defenders.

This left Sneed, who was merely trying to win his first major title, to face up to the pressure of protecting his lead, as he had been doing more or less successfully all day long — and the result was three terrible putts and three consecutive bogeys.

Sarkisian inherits the NFL's No. 1 scoring offense, with plenty of both young and veteran talent, and likely a bit less in - game pressure to score than Shanahan faced at times, considering the rapidly improving Atlanta defense.

His greater value is in his positioning though: he's good at making himself available for a pass from the defenders (which is particularly useful with Holgate, who is brave on the ball but also has a tendency to play the first pass he sees, so having Schneiderlin as a simple option makes it less likely he gives it away cheaply) although more useful at distracting opposition players, moving wider to drag them away from the middle and opening up passing lanes for the defenders to pass into the feet of Rooney and Sigurdsson, or playing one - twos with Gueye so the Senegalese has space on the ball and can turn, face play and stride forward without immediate pressure.

Now, much like Skywalker's journey, Pulisic faces a hard road of pressure and potentially crushing expectations — at a time when U.S. soccer's need for a talisman has never been more urgent, no less.

For some car seats, rear - facing car seats in particular, another advantage of installation with the lower anchors is that the car seat is less likely to tilt to the side due to pressure from the shoulder portion of the vehicle's seat belt.

One; returning to work too soon: - Working mothers face the pressure to rush back to work when new mothers return too quickly, they have less time to establish their breastfeeding schedules, so the question becomes, how do we ensure that new mothers maximize their maternity leave.

Even countries such as Germany, where fiscal constraints have been less severe, faced increasing pressure on the visibility of national aid spending and have become more suspicious of channelling aid through multilateral channels, especially the EU.

During Wednesday's press conference de Blasio was asked whether he felt pressure to accelerate improvements given that he will have to go back and face the legislature to win renewal in less than a year.

Intense pressure to do more with less, especially in the face of uncertain career prospects, is likely to inhibit creativity, not enhance it.

«This is understandable in some regions where less developed countries face competing pressures for limited financial resources, but it is notable that this threat is not addressed in design codes for at - risk European countries,» the final paper says.

But faced with danger and pressure to find food, their wild counterparts tend to sleep less.

While traditional online dating sites let singles search for The One in a mostly solitary endeavor, Tandem is one of a growing number of Internet matchmaking sites like Circl.es and Acquaintable trying to make online dating a little more like it is offline: a social experience with more face - to - face interactions and less pressure to find a soul mate in every stranger.

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However care should be taken to ensure that these messages are not left too late — in our study it was those in Year 8 rather than Year 10 that appeared more worried and confused about the sexual and sexting pressures that they faced, but due to their youth were less likely to receive support from their parents and teachers.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

Although that ensures that the competition measure is not itself affected by postpolicy test scores, it does give a less accurate view of the competitive pressures faced by schools in subsequent years.

First, the authors dismiss the pressure schools face from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which requires near - universal student proficiency less than seven years from now.

These schools also clearly faced pressure to improve in order to avoid the voucher threat, even if that threat was less immediate.

Today's «tweens» — young people ages 9 through 13 — face new challenges: increasing academic pressure; less stable societal structures; and a pop culture pushing sex, violence, and materialism.

Lack of proficiency in reading and writing in social studies is exacerbated by the fact that schools are spending far less time on social studies instruction in the face of increasing pressure to improve standardized test scores in reading and mathematics (Manzo, 2005).

Because the coaches were now accountable to district leaders — who were shielded to some extent from the accountability pressures that principals faced, giving them more freedom to invest in long - term instructional improvement — district - hired coaches were less likely to be assigned to non-coaching duties meant to help boost test scores.

Teachers were more likely to leave schools facing increased accountability pressure; even more likely to leave schools shocked downward to a grade of «F»; and less likely to leave schools facing decreased accountability pressure.

Starwood's CFO said in October that New York faced «pressure» from fewer international travelers «due to the strong dollar,» and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in April reported that with the majority of its onboard prices in U.S. dollars, international passengers were buying less while sailing.

There's less need to destroy (or avoid making) records when the government limits how much exposure a wrongdoer faces from individual litigants, as in Europe, so less pressure to, say, «simplify» laws by removing requirements to document at all.

However, in - house legal teams are facing trouble keeping up with the increased workload and feel the same pressure that other lawyers feel to deliver more with less.

Put simply, these trial courts are faced with lengthy dockets with the pressure of trying to complete them in a sitting, often litigated by unrepresented defendants with little experience or knowledge of the substantive and procedural law, some quite upset about the perceived injustice in their case, in a crowded courtroom with perhaps less than ideal staffing or facilities.

But could the proposed Charter's (intended) effect of reducing perceived undue pressure on Muslim women to cover their hair or face be achieved in some less drastic and punitive way?

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More importantly, when you're facing a crisis, you'll feel less pressure knowing:

The advantage of this design is a better distribution of weight and less pressure directly on your face, which is nice when you want to use the headset for a long time.

But, when you get it on your head, you quickly realise that the weight is better balanced and distributed, making sure that there's less pressure on your face.

The Windows Blog post didn't list a lot of specifics for the head - mounted display (HMD), but it did say that it weighs in at less than 400g, «featuring a balanced - crown design that that reduces pressure on the nose and face».

Adolescents face increased academic and social pressures just at a time when they are often less open to parental advice.

Investors are facing a different market, where there is less upside on yields and income growth and there is also some upward pressure on interest rates.

Those with less than ideal energy audit ratings will face pressure from homebuyers to either spend thousands of dollars to improve the energy rating of their home or lower their sale price.

60 % of seniors feel that the financial pressures faced by many young Americans these days is much worse than what past generations face, and young Americans are likely to be the first generation to live less well than the generations that preceded them.

Less - indebted apparel names, while still facing the same secular pressures, are better equipped to adapt.