Sentences with phrase «gained significant points»

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«We do strongly feel that there's significant opportunity for us to gain more share through the launch of more mass appeal devices in the category... most importantly all at the right price point.»

The FTSE 100 snapped its short but significant run of gains from the first half of the week to decline by 8.12 points, 0.1 percent, to close at 6504.96.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

The poll of likely Syracuse voters shows Walsh gained significant ground since October, when the poll showed Perez Williams held a 7 - point lead, 35 percent to 28 percent.

A new poll suggests Democrats in 12 Senate battleground states have made significant gains with their messaging to key demographics, putting the races at a «tipping point» where the opinion of women — specifically unmarried women — may provide the path for Democrats to maintain their hold on the Senate this November.

Although there have been significant gains in women's representation in life and physical sciences since 1990, the share of women working in computer occupations has gone down 7 percentage points.

Some people get bigger a lot faster than others because they have good genetics, however the point is that everyone can gain a significant amount of muscle mass if they have a good plan and are consistent.

Critics will continue to point to the fact that no impacts of the program have been observed in math, or that applicants from SINI schools, who were a service priority, have not demonstrated statistically significant achievement gains at the subgroup level, as reasons to characterize these findings as disappointing.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

A simple comparison, examining only those elementary schools with significant bilingual - education programs (more than 120 students enrolled before Prop 227), reveals that the schools that eliminated their bilingual education programs had a 10 - point gain in reading and a 13 - point gain in math, but those that maintained some form of bilingual - education program had only a 6 - point gain in reading and a 14 - point gain in math.

When pressed, the main evidence they point to in support of PM is a study by Doug Harris that shows that New Orleans made significant gains post-Katrina that can not fully be explained by changes in the composition of students in the district.

Their relative gain on the Stanford - 9 was a statistically significant 1.7 percentile points.

Always - D schools made no statistically significant gains on the FCAT or Stanford - 9 reading tests, while sometimes - D schools experienced a decrease of 1.1 points on the FCAT and no significant change on the Stanford - 9 reading test.

The four - point scale score gain in fourth grade science is not statistically significant.

Here are the scale score gains, on a 500 - point scale, over the last four decades (* signifies statistically significant):

Of course, a 3 point gain on the NAEP falls short of statistical significance (just barely — a 4 point gain would have been statistically significant), so one should not draw extreme conclusions.

All of these gains by racial / ethnic groups were significant, and all exceeded the insignificant overall change of 2 points in math and 1 point in reading at age 17.

In the very next sentence, he points out that the MET project has two stated premises guiding its work — that, whenever feasible, teacher evaluations should be based «to a significant extent» on student test score gains; and that other components of evaluations (such as observations), in order to be considered valid, must be correlated with test score gains.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development.

Eighth - and ninth - graders gained 4 percentage points in math, a significant shift in a district so large.

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

Sixth, seventh and eighth grade students achieved significant gains of 5.5 points, 5.9 points and 5.5 points respectively, while ninth and tenth grade students achieved gains of 0.8 points and 1.7 points respectively.

Including the omitted children, Krueger found a gain of only 1.44 percentile points on standardized tests, a figure that is not statistically significant.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos pointed out in a statement Tuesday that Florida was the only state that showed significant academic gains.

The Broad plan points to three of LA Unified's largest charter operators that have received Broad largess — Green Dot Public Schools, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP Public Charter Schools — and says, «These organizations have turned our investments into significant academic gains for students.»

With a 1.7 percentage point gain and representing over 10 % of the total North American smartphone and tablet Web traffic, LG should be counted as a significant player in the mobile market.

Overall, it seems the Amazon range of products saw significant gains over previous years and generations and Amazon believe this is likely to continue and especially in regards to the price point that they have managed to hit with their Fire tablet.

As for generic Adobe DRM, at this point B&N adopting it would gain them nothing significant (ADEPT hardware market share runs in the single digits, most going to Kobo) and it opens up their walled garden ebook market share (15 - 20 %, these days) to poaching by Kobo.

Thus, as you gain experience you can try to enter «blindly» at one of these tests of an event area, I also sometimes call event areas «hot points» in the market as they are important «hot» areas where a significant price action event occurred recently.

I'm not saying that you are wrong, but to see yield seeking investors make a significant move into stocks to gain 100 or even 200 basis points of yield scares the heck out of me.

As you'll see in this article, the performance of the SMI strategies, properly combined, has been such that any marginal benefit gained from timing isn't worth the significant emotional toll, not to mention the high probability that a person will make some mistakes identifying appropriate exit and re-entry points.

Not only does redeeming your Ultimate Rewards points for travel through Chase's portal gain you significant value — up to 1.25 cents per point with the 25 % discount for travel redemption — but you can often get even more pow for your point by transferring them to any of Chase's 10 travel partners.

There are many cases of traders who failed at some point but ended up producing significant gains in some time.

Not only does redeeming your Ultimate Rewards points for travel through Chase's portal gain you significant value — up to 1.25 cents per point with the 25 % discount for travel redemption — but you can often get even more pow for your point by transferring them to any of Chase's 10 travel partners.

Amanda M. Fugazy, a partner in our Labor & Employment Practice Group, has developed significant experience in representing International humanitarian medical, relief and development organizations, having enjoyed a uniquely close professional relationship with these organizations and from that vantage point, has gained in - depth insight into the complexities and challenges that face International NGOs, their Boards, management and employees.

The point is that significant improvements in the delivery of public services are unlikely without the support of those who principally fund them, and that to gain this support, the improvements must be pitched to a broader constituency than those who are most obviously in need.

A tipping point is «the point at which an issue, idea, product, etc., crosses a certain threshold and gains significant momentum, triggered by some minor factor or change.»

The interim report finds that there are «time and quality» benefits to be gained from the use of concurrent expert evidence, and that there is no evidence of significant disadvantages from the point of view of the judiciary, counsel, solicitors or experts.

As expected, the price of Bitcoin on all of the markets also enjoyed significant gains and at one point, although briefly, Bitcoin surpassed the $ 20,000 mark.

Though the A10X is nowhere near the A11 chip that's powering the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X, MacRumors points out that consumers can still experience significant performance gains across the board.

It can also help students make significant gains in academic achievement — on average, a gain of 11 percentile points in reading and math, according to a 2011 review of more than 200 studies published in the journal Child Development.

This growth in graduation rates was driven in large part by significant gains in Hispanic and African American graduation rates, with Hispanic rates achieving the greatest gains, jumping 10 percentage points from 61 percent in 2006 to 71.4 percent in 2010.

And because new household formation is the critical first step toward home ownership, the population gains point to robust demand in the years ahead, especially since a significant portion of the increase is fueled by immigrants, who arrive at the rate of one every 30 seconds, the Census Bureau says.