Sentences with phrase «further than those of my peers»

Not exact matches

Conservatism and consistency are the hallmarks of successful banks, and Canada's financial institutions demonstrate these traits far better than their international peers.

(If you use the ratio of market cap to sales, Snap is still valued at nearly 28 times sales — far more than its tech company peers.)

A 2013 Deloitte study found one - third of business executives and owners felt they were spending equal to or more than their peers on R&D, when actually they were spending far less.

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

It's far easier to practice in the relatively non-threatening environment of your family, peers, local coffee shop baristas, and so on, than to automatically make these adjustments during the interactions with someone you find intimidating.

«Experienced leaders are more likely to overestimate their abilities,» writes Eurich, «Similarly, older managers tend to misjudge their performance relative to their boss's ratings of them far more than their younger peers do.»

However, the company's business model hasn't been centered on monetization, and Twitter has far fewer users to monetize than either of its peers.

That plan had failed to so far lift the company out of its revenue doldrums; its year - over-year revenue losses have come in a little worse than the its peers.

The public believed it, rating the brand far more trustworthy than any of its peers of a similar size.

Eva also shares with Anthony Lacavera how a group of peer founders helps support her entrepreneurial journey and proves far more beneficial than finding one key industry mentor.

Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market cap of their much larger - cap mining peers that had much stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree than their larger - cap peers that were not huge risks.

Fanuc's capex as a proportion of sales is far higher than its peers.

The only other comment I'd have is that whilst he meets a much higher standard of scientific approach than the snake oil dressed as financial advice elsewhere, the core testing methods used are opaque and (as far as I can tell) not peer reviewed or made available for scrutiny.

Statistics so far indicate than on May 21st, life will go on, and these folks will join their peers in the history of apocalypses that never were.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

Most women had little knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of giving birth at home and in hospital, although there was substantial demand for further information, and a minority who were better informed than their peers.

Sadly, most commentators enthuse about the House of Lords only because they despair of the tribal party antics and unrepresentative voting system for the commons, which places MPs even further down the popularity tables than peers.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Cameron would also support further encouragement of peers to stand down, according to the source: «More than 120 peers have stood down this year, but there is certainly room for finding ways of encouraging more to do so.»

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Peering into the far reaches of the universe, astronomers have spotted seven galaxies so distant that they appear as they did less than 600 million years after the Big Bang.

The first clear detection of primordial gravitational waves allows us to peer back further than we thought possible - and could unlock many cosmic secrets

And few people have peered farther than University of California, Santa Cruz, astronomer Greg Laughlin, science's leading soothsayer.

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

We have sent robots to places humans could never have survived and peered into the cosmos with instruments far more capable than our human senses, all for a small fraction of what it costs to send a living, breathing person into Earth's orbit.

And while peer review has got its problems, as any system would, I think it is far better than any of the alternatives that have been placed on the table.

Webb's sharp and powerful infrared vision will allow it to peer farther into the Milky Way with greater clarity than infrared telescopes before it — uncovering parts of the galaxy that were once too dim, too distant, or too concealed to study.

My only concern with climatedebatedaily is that no attempt is made to differentiate peer reviewed science from a wide range of opinion pieces, leaving the reader with the impression that mainstream science is far less resolved on the climate change issue than is actually the case.

This allows for far larger reassurance and comfort than conventional Tooth White lightening kits allow, which is especially helpful for teenagers that face the daunting pressure of their peers on a daily basis.

Far less noxious — and much more crossover - friendly — than most of their peers, writer - directors Jay and Mark Duplass had established a comfy little niche in the Amerindie landscape, imbuing films like The Puffy Chair (2005) and Baghead (2008) with a shaggy - dog humor that's an antidote to all that SXSW - sponsored mopiness.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

Boston — Public - school teachers are far more likely to perceive student absenteeism, use of alcohol, and tardiness as serious problems at their schools than are their private - school peers.

And while scattered projects using computers to help limited - English - proficient students have shown positive results, such students and their teachers typically make far less use of technology than their peers in regular classes, the report concludes.

The new study is far less definitive than advertised because it addresses, at most, only one of the three ways in which peer influences might make a difference in KIPP's success.

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers.

Though her comments on literature were generally more factual or summary than analytical, Sandra showed far more willingness to participate in class discussions and group work than some of her peers with more «innate» ability.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

While teachers pay only 5 percent of their salaries into the PSRS — far lower than the 14 percent paid by teachers in the statewide plan — they also pay Social Security payroll taxes, unlike peers in the state retirement system, who do not participate in Social Security.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

The perfect evaluation system doesn't exist yet, but we do have access to measures of teacher performance that are far better than seniority: teacher ratings, classroom management, teacher attendance, specific licensure, peer or principal review, value - added student data.

Significant differences were also noted between the scores of the average ability and moderately gifted students, with the moderately gifted scoring at levels which suggested that they had progressed further through Selman's hierarchy of friendship conceptions than had their average ability age - peers.

Instead, the lawsuit says, districts across the state suspend and expel special - education students at more than twice the rate of their peers — and further, school officials often send the children to «time - out» rooms or have their parents pick them up early, which results in their exclusion from an educational setting.

Without access to quality preschool, students of color, and children from low - income families, are far less likely to be prepared to start kindergarten than their peers.

The inequalities of the national digital divide are well known — English language learners (ELLs) are far less likely to have computers and Internet access at home than their mainstream peers, and they are much less likely to have access to online technology beyond drill - and - skill testing programs in their schools.

Students of color are disciplined in far greater numbers than their white peers, according to research released by The Equity Project at Indiana University.

My teaching practice and that of my peers asks students to do far more than these exams do.

Many gifted students may be so far ahead of their same - age peers that they know more than half of the grade - level curriculum before the school year begins.