Sentences with phrase «improvement over the majority»

And, if there's one thing I've learned about weight training, it's that «less than stellar» would be a huge improvement over the majority of laughably horrible routines being done by most people.

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This represents only a modest improvement over the party's performance 2015 when they achieved a majority of 12 with a 6.6 point lead.

A transformative programme of housing improvements is needed to get the job done far quicker and a commitment to additional and adequate resources to guarantee we do not leave the majority of the fuel poor households still living in expensive - to - heat homes, over the next five to ten years.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

When it comes to ways to fund improvements to mass transit, the majority of polled residents favor taxing millionaires, a plan proposed by de Blasio, over a congestion pricing plan.

While the scale of the dropout crisis remains troubling, it is worth noting that the majority of the nation's largest cities have seen improvements in their graduation rates over this period and that some of those gains have been substantial.

As we've argued since 2010, Common Core standards are vast improvements over their predecessors in the great majority of states.

«All the participating schools both understand the school improvement model that they are working to, agree that it is an appropriate one to use and think that it is comprehensive; the majority of schools said that they felt they had control over their futures, and plans and a strategy to make positive change happen; 95 % reported that the process made them think about new approaches to school improvement».

I fail to see how this would be any sort of improvement over simple buttons for an ereader, much as I've found that Nintendo's «revolutionary» motion controls for the Wii are not any sort of improvement for the vast majority of videogaming tasks and indeed actively get in the way more often than not.

In a majority opinion authored by Ginsburg (Stevens concurred, Breyer recused), the Court found that the Compact did not give New Jersey exclusive jurisdiction over all riparian improvements commencing on its shores.

This was described as being an improvement over other options because the majority of people using libraries don't understand what the numbers mean, and this helps them find books on subjects they are interested in without having to learn the scheme first.

The majority of the student base is testing well above the state average, which means the school is capable of that improvement and may do so over time.

Took over troubled commercial project that had fallen behind schedule, encompassing 2 separate shell restaurant buildings, 2 - story office / restaurant building, elevators, and majority of tenant improvements.

Children improved over the study period with the majority of outcome measures showing greater improvement for children treated with CBT.