Sentences with phrase «higher than the other agencies»

«First, because it's a very limited downgrade, only on two out of three banks, and especially since Moody's rates them better than the other two agencies (Standard & Poor's and Fitch), so, in reality, it put them at the same level or even slightly higher than the other agencies.»

Not exact matches

According to Growth Devil, a consulting agency that helps startups grow, Pinterest boasts a 50 percent higher conversion rate than any other social media site that directs people to products.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

Though some agencies have higher profit margins than others, as a general rule, you get what you pay for.

Thus, while a case for government - supported mass media may be made, other independent agencies should coexist in the field with them, and safeguards should be provided in the system of government to insure that high professional standards prevail and that the media are used for the general good rather than for partisan advantage.

We are moving toward the close of the 20th century with a religious community largely adjusted to the status quo — taillight behind other community agencies rather than a head light leading men to higher levels of justice...

In its product pricing template released on Sunday, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, stated that the N83 per litre price applies only to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), meaning that other petrol stations and dealers can sell higher than the stipulated amount.

Borax is banned for food use by the FDA and the ECA (European Chemicals Agency) considered a substance of high concern but didn't provide any documentation other than soil level dangers

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

During the more than two - hour meeting, the Mayor, Schools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate setting,...

In 2009 a higher percentage of U. S. students (than those in the other six countries) told PISA, the international testing agency, that they came from a family with few books in the home.

It comes more than three years after Ofsted warned, in its August 2012 report on progression of high - needs learners, that schools, local authorities and other agencies did «not work together sufficiently well to ensure that learners were adequately prepared for transition between school and post-16 provision».

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.

The stated goal was to mandate retail prices for Kindle books, and all other ebooks under the agency model publishers» control, at levels that would be 30 to 50 percent higher than the $ 9.99 price that Amazon had previously set for Kindle Store new releases.

But PRH is also choosing to list - price their books far higher (in both sales - weighted and non-weighted terms) than most of the Agency 4 are now (other than Simon & Schuster, who is pricing nearly as high as PRH on average but getting pretty much no Amazon discount at all.)

Here's the issue: the agency that can see my mortgage has my score 10 - 20 points higher than the other two.

In the bucket, High Yield, Int «l, Agency, Zero Coupon, and All Other Bonds, international bonds are used more than high - yield and emerging market bonds for conservative investHigh Yield, Int «l, Agency, Zero Coupon, and All Other Bonds, international bonds are used more than high - yield and emerging market bonds for conservative investhigh - yield and emerging market bonds for conservative investors.

This includes wind, solar, and other renewable energy supplies, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates will grow by 75 percent between 2011 and 2035, a rate higher than the growth in coal, natural gas, or oil over the same period.

Summing up: My question for sTeve is: why would you choose the GISS estimate of temperatures, which shows parts of the past decade as higher than 1998 and considerable average warming, over the other three monitoring agencies, which show much less or no warming for the decade?

They stated a case for consideration of the High Court in relation to s 33 «where the only issue in dispute is whether payments of child support maintenance in question have not been paid, are the magistrates obliged to make [the] order if they are satisfied that payment was made but by a method other than that notified by the Child Support Agency»?

However, one local news agency reported that a fourth sign near the bridge indicated a higher clearance height than the other three signs.

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One study found considerable variability in the quality of the home environments; higher - quality environments were found with families who had increased economic resources.72 Another study also found variability in the home environments foster children experience and reported that unrelated foster parents had higher - quality home environments than kinship foster parents.73 In this same vein, foster children need caregivers who can work with child welfare agencies to ensure that children's individual needs are met by the child welfare system and other social institutions charged with meeting these needs.

Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has higher rights than other creditors and can garnish wages and pensions and file a lien against real property without issuing a Statement of Claim, and that lien becomes like a mortgage.

The Federal Reserve Board has joined with five other federal regulatory agencies in proposing a new rule to impose appraisal requirements for loans secured by a borrower's home and bearing interest rates higher than the average prime offer rate (APOR) for comparable properties and mortgages.

The Federal Reserve Board, along with five other federal regulatory agencies, issued a final rule to impose appraisal requirements for loans secured by a borrower's home and bearing interest rates higher than the average prime offer rate (APOR) for comparable properties and mortgages.

Dual Agency - you didn't tell us that the agents in your office could not get us the highest price Competitors - you told us you were better than the other agents and would do a better job.