Sentences with phrase «far lower marks»

The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

Not exact matches

That's the lowest mark since the fourth quarter of 2013 — so marketers likely feel that their dollars are going further.

Second, we like yield and with rates as low as they are, one way to get yield is to move further out in maturity to the ten - year mark.

The solid early performance thus far marks a stark contrast from the low expectations, where analysts were expecting aggregate earnings to decline by 4.5 % on the back of the strong U.S. dollar.

The laser either ablates or phase - changes a wide range of specialty label substrates, delivering all the advantages of highly - durable laser label marking but at a much lower cost and with far greater simplicity than ever before.

West Ham had the better of the early chances, as Manuel Lanzini struck just over from a free - kick, before Mark Noble missed the far post with a low effort from inside the area.

The Italy international then turned provider for El Shaarawy to mark his home debut with a goal, shooting low across Handanovic and in off the base of the far post.

Bloomberg sank below the 50 percent mark for the first time in five years in an August Marist poll, but he so far hasn't dropped any lower, in spite of the strong feelings on the mosque issue.

The 2017 cap marks the lowest increase the state has allowed for Southold Town so far.

«We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people — mostly low - income black and Latino males — are locked up at Rikers,» said Mark - Viverito.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

The closest I've found to a definitive, current, heavily referenced guide to the «why's» of plant - based nutrition is Mark McCarty's regularly updated Low - Fat, Low - Salt, Whole - Food Vegan: Staying Lean and Healthy into Ripe Old Age, which has about 1200 pointers for further study.

Women usually experience menopause between the ages of 45 to 55; and this natural process of aging is marked by a decline in the production of estrogen, testosterone (women produce testosterone but in far lower levels than men and it is VITAL to the correct functioning of a woman's body), progesterone and other hormones.

Nine may have gotten lower marks, lesser returns, and far fewer awards than Rob Marshall's first musical film, but I found it to be considerably more appealing than Chicago.

Or just look at Mark Duplass» unnerving Creep, a low - budget, low - risk endeavor where the established indie guru and young buck Patrick Brice (The Overnight) could experiment with form in the shadows, far away from studio lots.

However, if the mark needed to pass, or the boundaries for certain grades are lowered substantially, the SQA is likely to face further questions.

The study, «From Adoption to Practice: Teacher Perspectives on the Common Core,» shows that while far more teachers are attending common - core training, they're giving the sessions low marks for quality.

But Americans have long been of two minds about the quality of the nation's schools — with most giving their local schools high marks but education in the United States far lower levels of approval on the whole.

Then there is the case of Rebecca Sellers, who received low marks during her two observations so far this year, but the top rating, 5, based on her students» test score progress last year.

Since then, he's further made his mark on the legislation through successful amendments that would allow states to develop their own turnaround models for the lowest - performing schools and permit students in each state's bottom 5 percent of schools to transfer to other schools.

Reliable Rutgers University scholar, Mark Weber, in his «Final Debunk» of Perry, further shows how Perry's charter has lower increases in student performance when measured against comparable schools.

As you might expect, Bentley hasn't gone too far out of its way to mark the car out as a diesel, with only a new exhaust tailpipe design (dubbed «twin quad»), a subtle V8 Diesel badge low on the front door, and a black matrix grille with a chrome surround.

Now, on the seventh generation car, the red stripe marks the lower edge of the radiator grille, but for the first time it extends further to the left and right, up to the housings of the bi-xenon headlights.

The distinctive light edge in the lower part of the bumper adds a further touch, while a diffuser finished in black marks the gap between the rear valence and the road.

So in effort to make the society «indigenous», hurdles were put in front of ethnic Chinese students, meaning it was far harder for a non-Bumiputera (look it up, Google is your friend) student to get in to medicine and to graduate, whereas Bumiputera had fantastic support and needed lower marks to proceed.

While they were among the last of the bank - owned discount brokerages to lower their pricing under the $ 10 mark (down from $ 28.95 + per standard commission trade), Investor's Edge took things down much further than their competitors by lowering their standard commission price to $ 6.95.

Landlord Mark Raponi said he can't further lower the rent but was considering making regular donations that he could write off in his taxes.

Marked only by a large sign with the street name and number, the unpretentious 10000 square foot (~ 929 square meters) building is located on a low traffic road in an average industrial park not far from the local Lockheed Martin facility.

Mark Bush presented on the ecology of prehistoric Amazonia - with intensive land use along waterways but far lower levels elsewhere (Bush et al 2015).

Further, when they detailed different climate forcings, the forcing from changing solar irradiance was a trivial rounding error (though they had the good grace to mark their understanding of this as «low») meaning the sun has very little effect vs. what the sun had in 1850 (in the Little Ice Age!)

Quite off the mark, surface temperatures are mostly average because there is still some ice reflecting sunlight, but sunlight is very intense due to low cloud extent and high sun elevations, and does not show immediately above the ice, but further up.

The Echo Show is being marked down to $ 159.99, a $ 70 discount and the second - lowest price we've seen on it so far.

Stocks closed sharply higher in a major reversal that saw the Dow rally more than 700 points from its session low, assisted by some short - covering activity that further accelerated the upward move in the major averages to their best marks of the day.

As for the pricing of the ceramic back model, you won't have to drift too far ahead of the $ 400 mark, but the prices are getting lower each day.