Sentences with phrase «failed the one group»

But for the time being, anyway, let's keep in mind that Cuomo's big - picture thinking represents a big departure from the failed group think of the past couple of decades.

Unfortunately, Chase's failed group is no more interesting than one you or your friends might have played in.

trying to convince the self - exiled Jedi master Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill, whose sandblasted face becomes truly iconic in close - ups) to overcome his grief at failing a group of young Jedi trainees and rejoin the Resistance.

When it is evident that we as teachers are failing a group of students, new ideas and new approaches are called for.

Moreover, using Greene's methodology of narrowing the comparison to the highest performing schools in the failing group and the lowest - performing in the next group, we still find that failing schools improved more.

The fail group included 4.5 percent of schools receiving the moderate fail rating and 1.5 percent of schools receiving the severe fail rating.

A lower - achieving student does not need to be anxious about failing her group because her ability is not as great as her team members.

My 15 - card portfolio was like one of those failed group projects in high school: Everyone got the assignment, but only three did most of the work.

Not exact matches

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

«This «split the baby» approach fails to accomplish one of the critical requirements of net neutrality because it allows paid prioritization,» says David Pashman, general counsel for Meetup, a startup that provides a network for local groups to gather.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

Another group to issue a cautious outlook for this year was France's Carrefour, with the retailer's shares dropping 6 percent after it posted earnings that failed to match market expectations.

UNITED NATIONS / TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters)- The United States threatened unilateral action against Iran on Monday after Russia vetoed a western bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Tehran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of Yemen's Houthi group.

You either recalibrate and start engaging with a new consumer group or you fail forward, eliminate the brand, and use the learnings to develop consumer relationships with different products.

The covert group actually «designed our test to fail,» one GAO official said.

In March, a music - publishing group and a musician sued Tidal for $ 5 million for allegedly failing to pay them royalties.

A Quebec Superior Court judge awarded a group of Dunkin' Donuts franchisees $ 16.4 million in damages, plus legal costs, after ruling that parent company Dunkin' Brands failed to heed 15 years» worth of warnings that Tim Hortons was poised to topple the U.S. chain's long - held dominance of the Quebec market.

What I wish I knew before I failed: A group of bankrupt business owners share their stories on what not to do.

Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa has rejected an unsolicited bid approach from U.S. - based International Paper Co, saying the proposal «fails entirely» to reflect its growth prospects and attractive industry outlook.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

These eight ad fails probably needed another testing group before they were made public.

While corporate employees can afford to bury themselves in very specific, rigidly segmented responsibilities, small business employees succeed or fail based on the collective efforts of the entire group.

Facebook has faced fierce criticism from governments and rights groups in many countries for failing to do enough to stem hate speech and prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism, stir sectarian violence and broadcast acts including murder and suicide.

Failed property investment company Westpoint Group and its director Norm Carey have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling $ 133,000 for making false or misleading representations regarding a residential property development in Rivervale.

In early January, Ant Financial, the electronics payment affiliate of China's Alibaba Group, and MoneyGram, a Texas - based money transfer company, announced that it had been forced to abandon a proposed deal after failing to win approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a congressional panel that reviews foreign purchases of American companies.

This accord -; one of the few provisions welcomed by environmental groups -; allows groups and ordinary citizens to accuse member nations of failing to enforce their own environmental laws.

Last month, Swiss regulators announced that the group had failed to disclose that company executives held stakes in the conglomerate during HNA's $ 1.5 billion takeover in 2016 of airline caterer Gategroup.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has also criticized President Trump for failing to strongly condemn the hate groups.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

The cases of the Angola 5 — a group of men who failed to escape from the maximum - security prison and killed a guard in the process — have caught the attention of Louisiana lawmakers who are studying the costs of capital punishment in their state.

This disconnect between consumer 3 - D printing's usefulness and the flurry of media coverage it continues to generate helps explain why, according to the research group Gartner, the technology is about face a backlash when it fails to live up to our collective expectations.

U.S. - based Global Eagle Entertainment and China's HNA Group have called off an investment pact after failing to get regulatory approval.

Qualcomm and Broadcom round out the subsector's top five companies by market cap, making a failed merger between the two companies particularly painful for the group, according to Scott Kessler, lead tech analyst at CFRA Research.

Two major groups who carry some sway with conservative lawmakers — the Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America — said the Boehner plan failed to address the fiscal mess and they urged members to contact lawmakers and express their opposition.

Trump worked with the real - estate firm Sater was an executive at, Bayrock Group, on at least four projects that ultimately failed, including the Trump SoHo in Manhattan.

Take it from Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, who has seen many of his business ventures, including Virgin Cola, Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Cars and more fail.

Many health care reformers, including those behind President Truman's failed 1948 universal care proposal, hoped to develop the medical economy around prepaid groups.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

FOUR years ago this month, failed vegetable grower Sumich Group relisted on the stock market with new management, a new business direction and a $ 2.8 million capital raising under its belt.

You can read the organizer's diversity statement here, but I'll cut to their chase: «We acknowledge that society and scientific institutions often fail to include and value the contributions of scientists from underrepresented groups.

Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page reGroup after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page regroup and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

Puzder, the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, has been widely criticized by labor rights groups for underpaying workers, failing to offer benefits, and attempting to prevent employees from organizing.

The group said that it would release the supposedly stolen information if the agency failed to fix its vulnerable systems and pay an undisclosed sum by Friday.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

When prom - related plans fail to be anything less than perfect — the prom group falling through, realizing your dress is all wrong the night before the dance, getting a date who doesn't understand what a «corsage» is — it can often seem a lot worse than it really is.

Most recently, the group accused RBI of failing to help Ontario franchisees offset a roughly 20 per cent increase to the minimum wage with a 10 per cent price hike on all menu items.

The company's endorsement of the Privacy Shield comes amidst criticism of it by privacy groups for failing to address concerns about U.S. surveillance practices.

The trade group contends the regulation imposes «sizable compliance burdens» and fails to «yield useful information on discrimination.»