Sentences with phrase «higher than the objective»

Not exact matches

If the objective is to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and avoid the outbreak of war, high - profile military exercises and additional deployments may do more harm than good.

It can be worthwhile to sell a mutual fund, especially one intended to be a core long - term holding, if its management fee and other expenses are higher than those of similar funds with the same investment objective.

The objective of most investors is to pick a property in the right location where it will appreciate in price at a higher pace than the interest rate that must be paid to acquire the property.

NEXUS's objective is to enable members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel groups by combining Florida's community resources, including our vast university systems, with the business acumen of NEXUS members and partners.

«That campaign over-performed on objectives and delivered a much higher conversion rate than what market research had pegged»

Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application; admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal statements are of a somehow higher order of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects of Scripture.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

Our objective is to develop each player to his fullest potential and to teach the fundamentals of his position that are reinforced with hundreds of repetitions at each practice along with emphasizing character development and leadership.Since 1965, the Quarterback & Receiver Camp has been teaching the fundamentals of football to more than 37,500 junior high and high school players.

In addition to helping patients live longer, more patients treated with pembrolizumab responded to treatment and for a longer duration than those treated with chemotherapy; the objective response rate — the percentage of patients whose tumours shrank or disappeared — was almost twice as high with pembrolizumab: 21 % compared to 11 % on chemotherapy.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Our objective was to develop an eco-epidemiological modeling approach to characterize the spatial relationships between areas of higher than expected ALS incidence and lake water quality risk factors derived from satellite remote sensing as a surrogate marker of exposure.

The objective response rate to the therapy was 22 %, with a slightly higher response rate (23 % vs 15 %) among those on a weekly dosing schedule than those on an every -3-weeks schedule.

(By the way, the objective of my book Magnetic Profiles is to have a profile so good that women send you the first message so that your status is guaranteed higher than hers right from the start).

While it is true that many Americans looking for someone in their own country will have a similar objective, I think it is true to say that what might be called this «marriage - orientation» approach would form a higher percentage of members of Asian dating sites than, for example, American dating services.

Pairing two units up to double - team an enemy unit is also gone, and map design is definitely simpler with objectives rarely being anything different than killing all enemy units on the field — which is a shame given the high's the Conquest campaign of Fire Emblem Fates reached with its combat scenarios.

He said: «In high - performing localities, we appear to be confronting problems that don't exist, rather than concentrating on using flexibility and autonomy as weapons to tackle underperformance where standards have to be raised — the original objective of academies.»

A noble objective indeed, but so hard to attain — in a land where high school diplomas signify scant «readiness» and more than a quarter of young people drop out before getting them — that today's push for both universality and readiness impels a lot of folks to cut corners.

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.

I worry that the latest 2017 «it» schools as promoted by themselves or their districts may be more like the collective high school predictions about post-high school life than some definitive objective measure of the schools that will deliver consistent results for kids.

The grades were higher than last year when I did a regular classroom lecture series and a formal objective test.

Teachers reported that rubrics were a better means for assessing higher level thinking than the objective content tests and allowed them to capture evidence for students who struggle with traditional assessments of learning.

If we base our grades on standards rather than attendance, behavior, or extra credit (which often has nothing to do with course objectives), we can actually help students grapple with the idea of quality and walk away with a higher degree of self - sufficiency.

When Chandler originally joined the district as an assistant high school principal more than ten years ago, one of the primary objectives was to develop a plan for improving graduation rates.

As a result of discussions with the Publisher Defendants, Apple learned that the Publisher Defendants shared a common objective with Apple to limit e-book retail price competition, and that the Publisher Defendants also desired to have popular e-book retail prices stabilize at levels significantly higher than $ 9.99.

As you can see, there was a key horizontal level that was just a few pips higher than the 93 pip objective.

Adopting the discipline of rebalancing bond exposures toward fundamental weights, which are linked to the economic size of the underlying issuing companies rather than to the amount of debt they have issued, achieves the dual objective of: 1) tilting holdings toward companies with better debt servicing and higher credit ratings; and 2) taking advantage of mean reversion in securities prices over time.

One of the objectives of low volatility strategies is to provide higher risk - adjusted returns than their respective benchmarks over the long run, primarily by reducing drawdowns during market downturns.

A dividend fund is one that buys stocks with higher than average dividends with the main objective of generating income for the owner.

1) Start saving early by setting realistic goals 2) Ensure the asset allocation in your portfolio remains in sync with your level of risk aversion and overall investment objectives 3) Keep costs and taxes to a minimum by avoiding most high turnover actively managed mutual funds and opting for tax - deferred savings whenever possible (not only do their investments grow tax - sheltered but for most people their MTR at retirement would be lower than it is during their working years) 4) Balance your portfolio at least annually (some individuals may choose to do so semi-annually) 5) Hammer away at your debt first — for example, when it comes to contributing to an RRSP or TFSA vs. paying down your mortgage, ideally you should do both.

Diversifying cashflow in my portfolios is a primary long - term objective and I have to be prepared to look beyond common equities as an equity class since we've witnessed that they are much more vulnerable to dividend cuts than senior equity or debt higher up on the capital food chain.

The emphasis is on using an active approach that has an edge and hence a higher probability of growing the «satellite» portion of capital by more than the «core» portion, or passive portion, in a timeframe that meets the investor's objectives.

The GAINX managers set a high and objective initial bar: firms must be paying a dividend and must have a CFROI greater than 10 % in each of the past 10 years.

A further form of XP is reputation points which are earned by the race weekend position, achieving team objectives, winning the rider challenge, achieving a holeshot in races and the difficulty of your chosen game options which is all important as the higher amount of reputation points accumulated will result in an increase in the interest received by sponsors and teams during Career mode, therefore you have to earn the next step up with better results rather than it just being handed to you automatically for completing a season.

I am sympathetic with the objectives of the forum and wish you and other attendees more success than the Aspen Strategy Group and Miller had in working out the problems in the Middle East, but please next time something like this comes up consider reporting on it (if you feel that is warranted) rather than simply facilitating a high - end environmental salon.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

Above all, remember that scientific uncertainty is only an obstacle to achieving your pre-existing policy goals if you allow people to assign higher value to objective truth than they afford to your subjective feelings about what the truth might be, or what you believe the truth should be.

Small wind turbines remain more expensive than large turbines, especially if the objective is to produce electricity for the grid, since the electrical connection and maintenance are a much higher proportion of the capital value of a distributed system.

The use of a standardized range would be objective in the sense that it would cover a range of potential price outcomes (both higher and lower than prevailing market prices) and provide a useful supplement to current reserves guidance provided by SMOG.

Instead of setting the first tier bar low, so as to catch the majority of breaches that might be of interest in light of the objectives identified above, Bill C - 12 is carefully designed to ensure it imposes neither a higher, nor a lower standard than that found in tier two.

As far we are concerned, we not only deliver the highest technical quality, but our objective is mainly to facilitate the life of our clients by becoming part of their team: trust, transfer of know - how, responsiveness and support, rather than time spent.

Colossus also gives higher values for objective injuries measured by diagnostic testing than soft tissue injuries.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Accomplished and energetic Program Manager, with more than 24 years of experience with an ability to identify opportunities for revenue growth and build high - performance teams to support company objectives.

The role of a Professional Headhunter requires a much more testing set of skills, objectives and tasks than that of a Recruitment Consultant, therefore the rewards are much higher.

In ordering your resume, if your skills are more closely related to your career objective than other parts of your background, place this section higher on your resume page than other less - related sections.

A high school student's resume should not be more than one page as one page is all that a student will need to provide information such as an objective, academic accomplishments, volunteer or part time work history and skills.

With over $ 1.2 trillion in outstanding educational debt, affecting more than 40 million Americans, we have partnered around a simple message and a clear objective: Higher Ed, Not Debt!

Maxine is a consummate professional who is more than able to deliver objectives on - time, within budget and to the highest specification.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

Objective To test whether patients with BED require specialty therapy beyond BWL and whether IPT is more effective than either BWL or CBTgsh in patients with a high negative affect during a 2 - year follow - up.

Objective: To examine whether managers» perceived stress and work strain is higher than perceived stress and work strain among employees.