Sentences with phrase «general public better»

PARCC has released a set of test specification documents, including high - level assessment blueprints and evidence statement tables, to help educators and the general public better understand the design of the state summative assessments.

Test specification documents help educators and the general public better understand the design of the PARCC ELA / literacy assessments.

Therefore, we can sum up it up this way: When eLearning practitioners use eLearning platforms to build, create, and promote artistic and creative activities in instructional practices, one of the benefit of copyright law is that it seeks to secure a fair return for an original author's creative labor and at the same time stimulate artistic creativity for the general public good.

It is put together by Montreal ad firm John St. for Cieslok Media, which happens to own the billboard and who says «it made sense to leverage our digital sign on the Gardiner to amplify this message for the general public good.»

Not exact matches

According to Holly deGraaf, Interim General Manager and Director, Retail Operations and Public Relations at Ten Thousand Villages Canada, «The highest [impact is made] when what [bloggers] share and write doesn't look like --[or better yet, isn't]-- a paid endorsement.

But the effect of such critique and disagreement is amplified in a world in which your customers as well as the general public can post online messages about you, more or less with impunity.

Well, the general public is not their target audience.

Attendees will also be able to donate to Planned Parenthood through a special fundraising page, which is, of course, available to the general public as well.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

Even among the general public (who do not own small businesses), 28 percent believe Amazon is good for small businesses and 47 percent say it is bad.

But it's significant considering that, unlike other major American CEOs who have spoken out about Trump's approach immigration and racial policies, Frazier's response was aggressive and he's not necessarily as well known by the general public.

What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.

Collection agencies don't have the best reputations with the general public.

TripAdvisor looked at the busiest U.S. airports and user - generated reviews to see which ones were rated the best by the general flying public.

Not only will this make it easier to market a brand to the general public, it will make it easier to bring the best people into your company.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

Although public companies do not necessarily have general partner ownership, those with limited partnerships may have general partners, as well.

Imagine Uber or AirBnb, instead of going to big institutions for capital, now offering their stock directly to their drivers, riders, renters and tenants as well as the general public.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Regulation A of the JOBS Act (also known as the Mini-IPO or Reg A +) allows a company to use online equity crowdfunding to raise up to $ 50,000,000 in new capital, online, from anyone in the general public, not just the rich and well - connected.

MileCards.com makes an effort to include the best deals available to the general public, but makes no warranty that such information represents all available products.

It is disturbing not because of Bitcoin Core's lack of enthusiasm for standing against Segwit2x, which is the way it appeared, but rather it was the fact that the people who support Segwit2x went to great lengths to confuse the general public about Segwit2x, what it meant, what it would do and even spent a good deal of time convincing people it was not an option, but a requirement; a simple software upgrade.

«That said, having too many will confuse the general public so it's not a good thing if there's too many.»

In every industry, there are always brands that perform better or are better regarded by customers and the general public than others.

The problem is there are a lot highly technical / legal facts involved, which we are trying our best to present them in a format that is comprehensible to the general public.

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That comparison, the SFMTA told TechCrunch in January, will entail opting for the place the city should promote stationless bike - share, the impact stationless bike - share has on the general public correct - of - approach, «including maintaining accessible pedestrian paths of shuttle, as well as the enforcement / renovation burden on metropolis staff.»

The general public will be able to see the total number of CTK tokens currently sold, as well as the distribution of all CTK tokens between the participating crypto - currencies.

While this may be true initially for projects funded by the general public or unsophisticated retail investors, the average investment and risk in these securities will be small (i.e. max $ 2,500) enough to seriously negatively impact investor well - being, and investors will become more savvy at managing their personal portfolios and investment selections over time.

Again, religious groups are well advised, as a general rule, to avoid political partisanship — but not because the Constitution prohibits their active engagement in public debate, nor because they might get in trouble with the IRS.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

The situation is even more lamentable for the general public, which is fed a constant stream of propaganda by specialists in environmental issues from the mainstream media and well - funded alarmist blogs.

Easily the best «Jesus book» of our time, this has to be read with the consciousness that its author was writing for the general public rather than specifically for theologians or theological students.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

It is the onus of those who want to legalize the drug to show what value it will bring to society, and so far, I have yet to see a good reason to legalize marijuana to the general public.

Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

In addition, the conference had excellent support and cooperation from the major religious groups in Honolulu; the addresses were well attended by the general public.

With the addition of more and more services, including research of public wants, needs, fears and hopes as well as follow - up studies of advertising effects on sales, votes, or simple acceptance, the more general term marketing has grown in use to signify all the varied parts of an orchestrated campaign to «move» any entity, from soap to Senators, into a market.

The most obvious way is for the government to operate its own general press, radio, and television services for the public good.

This is what the general public must do as well.

As a major interpreter of our country's founding, Wood reflects the influence of his teacher Bernard Bailyn, who in two important new volumes provides the best general access to the period in which the Founding Fathers — yes, they were all men — debated their Constitution of 1787 and sold themselves, each other and the public on its ratification.

It's been done for many years and the general public, not just Sikhs, are well aware of how these ppl operate.

On the other hand, as «professional» education for a socially necessary practice, it is public in the sense of contributing to public welfare, the general good.

The objective here is to humanize the structures which govern the media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and economic powers of the industry must be counterbalanced by governmental power which politically expresses the concern of citizens for the general public welfare.

He is a bigot, a woman hater, delusional at best and I would agree a risk to the general public - someone who needs supervision in the safety of an asylum.

Dr. Dobson is less well known to the general public, but he may be fully as important as Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed, maybe more so.

these fools could go on forever, indoctrinating their stupidity on the fool audience that know no better, if the general public did not step in, demanding some civility and intelligence.

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