Sentences with phrase «higher than the norm»

It doesn't seem too irrational for seed or A deals, just a bit higher than the norm.

These are called intermediate alleles, meaning they won't cause symptoms, but are higher than the norm, which is about 17 CAGs.

When your levels are higher than the norm, your energy is also higher than the norm.

The proportion of instructors with Ph.D. s in exam schools is higher than the norm, and many have had experience teaching at the college level or working in fields related to the disciplines they teach (e.g., engineer - turned - science teacher).

I'd say, in fact, road noise generally seems higher than the norm — lotsa tire noise on the freeway, for example.

Steering effort is higher than the norm, but not unpleasantly so.

Price is important only in that you shouldn't be higher than the norm.

If his chargeback rate is higher than the norm in his industry, they may raise his fees, or ban him entirely from taking Visa / MC.

For that reason, these loans require a substantial amount of documentation and you will pay interest rates that are higher than the norm.

And I also started out at about 65k at 18 which is higher than the norm... only been around 135 for 5 - 6 years (ok, I'm pulling straws now, lol)

Whilst prices are higher than the norm, the service, sunset views and fun vibe definitely makes it worth the spend.

Secondly their self - confidence is usually higher than the norm.

Replacement cost in Virginia is also higher than the norm.

This way, you can find coverage even if it is a bit higher than the norm.

They are under this illusion that in order to issue such policies the premiums have to be higher than the norm.

The FRI was significantly higher than the norm.

Not exact matches

Right now, for the S&P 500, that ratio stands at more than 29, its highest valuation since 2002 and well above its historical norms.

The employees as a whole had higher job satisfaction than industry norms.»

But high - profile rookies like Winston are the exception, rather than the norm.

Ticket prices are nearly 50 % higher, on average, than is the norm in the rest of the country.

So if investors expect short - term rates to be zero for another 4 years, it would be reasonable for stocks and bonds to be about 16 % higher than historical valuation norms.

While these growth rates are already below historical norms, further earnings growth at a rate higher than revenue growth would require profit margins to advance without limit.

This means the FHA loan limit for San Jose and surrounding area is higher than the national norm.

One can relate this directly to a 10 - year prospective return by recalling that historical tendency for market cycles to establish normal prospective returns — if even briefly as in 2009 — at their troughs (and it's typical for troughs to reach below average valuations and much higher prospective returns than the 10 % historical norm).

The affordability pinch will slowly take the heat out of home prices, but even if gains slowed to 5 percent annually, that is still higher than historical norms and still higher than income growth.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

This difficulty lay like a great sorrow upon all theologians whose last norm of belief was nothing more certain than private interpretation of the Bible, and while it broke the faith of some, it serves also, paradox though it may seem, to explain how it was that so many non-Catholic exegetes found it easy to strip themselves of theological vesture and to plunge wildly with the higher critics into the maelstrom of that speculative free - for - all and devaluation of Christian dogma which followed.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

Barry Callebaut, the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, published today its new sustainability strategy «Forever Chocolate» with the ambition to move sustainable chocolate from niche to norm in less than a decade.

We keep the bar of craft execution higher than industry norms or general expectations might otherwise settle for within our craft.

All this is accepted blindly as being the norms of football for no other reason than it is what the Market wants and does (sic ``... like «trading», football is a results business»)-- indeed these values are lauded and held up on high so that we now reach the point here when even a truly great manager is being subjected to a witch - hunt by sections of the media and so - called fans who question his tenure of his post and ask what has he got to do to be sacked.

West Brom suffered the highest number of muscular problems in the division, more than double the league average while neighbours Aston Villa lost the highest number of days (54) per muscular injury — a figure 55 % above the norm.

I'm smiling as I recall our chat on the BabyCenter bus about having more than 2 kids, i.e. in the Midwest (St. Louis where I live) it's the norm while in the Bay Area it's not because of the high cost of living.

It is a significant part of the state's response to the news that hundreds of residents now have high PFOA blood levels, some more than 500 times the national norm.

A generation of young adults raised on electronic devices has a high affinity for the gadgets and engages in less face - to - face contact than was once the norm, he says.

«Because thinness is not consistent with dominant cultural standards of masculinity, young people who conform to masculine norms may be more likely than other youth to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as high - calorie food consumption, overeating and sedentary behaviors,» explains Dr. Austin.

Without prior deviation from the norm (i.e., throwing away the cup), people's readiness to help was more than twice as high at 39.7 percent.

People living in non-industrialized societies have an average intake of fiber that is much higher than the low norms of Western societies.

Given that our bodies are built to deal with sugary foods as a rarity rather than the norm, a condition called insulin resistance develops when we consistently eat foods high in glucose.

While I don't want to gain weight while doing keto, my motivations for doing the low - carb, high - fat (LCHF) diet are different than the norm.

I would suggest that for humans to have developed the ability to stay in ketosis even with more than sufficient protein intake, we must have at least have spent frequent long periods in a condition of very low carbohydrate, high fat access, either exogenously or endogenously, and more than adequate protein as a dietary norm.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

«This is a small teacher education program with very high - quality graduates, who are staying longer than the norm and making a difference in the lives of kids.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

For example, a student scoring at the 51st percentile scored higher than 51 percent of the students in the norming group who also took the test.

Schools with fewer than 20 percent of students meeting norms were defined as low achieving; those with 20 to 30 percent meeting norms were moderate achieving; and those with at least 30 percent of students» meeting norms were high achieving (this created three groups of equal size).

In her introduction to Minow, Casey pointed out that in helping to smuggle Jews out of Europe during World War II, Kohlberg himself was one of the «limited number» of people — along with such legendary figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King — who reach the final plateau, developing and acting on higher principles rather than merely conforming to society's norms.

The proposed changes to the current Policy are minimal and amount to little more than a swap of one high - stakes nationally - normed standardized test for another.

We found teachers «leadership focused on collective responsibility for student learning to be more likely present in high poverty schools than in low poverty schools, but teachers are less likely in high poverty schools to share norms around teaching and instruction.