Sentences with phrase «generally high marks»

Eight of the dozen winners gave the department generally high marks for their help.

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Public safety services like the fire and police departments received high marks from business leaders in Orland Park, who also said they generally felt safe around town.

The shadow communities secretary, Andrew Gwynne, told the Guardian last week that the polls had been «incredibly unhelpful» to Labour because they raised expectations when the last time the councils had been up for election four years ago the result was generally regarded as a high - water mark for the party.

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

While generally winning high marks, the draft rules from the Wellcome Trust are likely to spark controversy by broadening the definition of misconduct beyond the U.S. government's standard and by offering relatively little protection to whistleblowers.

Working with Santa Fe Institute postdoctoral fellow Marcus Hamilton and collaborators from MIT and elsewhere, and examining more than five million pairs of members, Andris found that the period from 1949 until the early 1970s was marked by generally high levels of cross-party cooperation.

My blood ketones are generally around the 3 mark and my urine reads as high as 8 sometimes during the day.

Citadel wears its budget on its sleeve, and this 1080p transfer does the best with that material: Shot digitally and with the eye of a competent amateur, the image is often clean, unfussy, but generally uninspired (the opening shot of the highrise sets a high - water mark that's never again matched).

The survey of 6,350 students in Chicago, Houston, Oakland, Calif., Philadelphia, and St. Louis during the 2003 - 04 school year showed that students generally give their teachers high marks, but say they need stronger relationships with members of the school staff.

A Globe review of state monitoring reports shows the schools built generally positive climates during the last school year, receiving mid - to high - range marks for student behavior.

The chassis generally received high marks, although, as one driver said, «from behind the wheel the Cherokee still seems more Dart than Grand Cherokee.»

While the Nooks have consistently received generally good reviews (including the Nook HD +, which received high marks from us just a few months ago), they have failed to stay a major player in either the e-reader or tablet markets against furious competition from Amazon, Apple, and various Android tablets.

As well, fundraising organizations generally have lower overhead costs (as they are not running programs directly), so we held them to a higher standard, awarding top marks only if 90 % or more of their expenses go to other charities.

While college graduates generally have half the overall unemployment rate of high school graduates, there has still been a marked increase in unemployment for more recent college graduates since 2008.

A «symposium», on the other hand, we have learned from reading Mark Forsyth's excellent A Short History of Drunkenness, was generally a rather less high - minded affair — although it does offer us one interesting angle on value investing.

Reagan and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker took on double - digit inflation with double - digit interest rates, inflation was pronounced dead, striking air controllers were simply fired in a no - nonsense way, and the Reagan years generally got high marks.

It flies new Boeing 787 Dreamliners on its current transatlantic runs — and generally earns high marks from travelers.

Generally the script is humorous — the boss name inspired by the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise will be immediately recognisable to kids of the»90s — and it hits its marks by playing up to its crazy approach, like a fan - fiction written when high on sugar sherbet.

Video game critics have generally given high marks to Bioshock Infinite.

The manufacturers (sony, microsoft, nintendo) generally sell the console at a minimal profit, or even at a loss and get the stores to not mark up the consoles too high, they make most of their money on the games.

In the high - octane art market of recent years, the first hours of the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair have generally been marked by a frenzied stampede at the door followed by fierce competition in the more than 200 booths that fill the convention center.

However, in the USA and the UK, where skeptical voices generally appear in much higher numbers, the differences are more marked.

Muddle or mess, the high court's pre-emption cases bear «broad consequences for all regulated industries,» which generally prefer uniform, national regulation over varying state regulations, said Mark I. Levy, chairman of the Supreme Court and appellate practice at the Washington office of Atlanta - based Kilpatrick Stockton.

Faster transaction times and generally increased acceptance of the blockchain technology used to exchange cryptocurrency has seen several high - profile investors including Mark Cuban, John McAfee and even actress Gwyneth Paltrow.