Sentences with phrase «large gains they have made»

It would not be unusual for prices to give back some of the large gains they have made over the past five years, especially if interest rates were to rise more rapidly than expected.

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The French economy — the third largest in Europe — has struggled in recent years, as the U.K. and Germany have made relative gains.

The theory is that if the merged firm did stop providing Turner programs to company A, the merged firm could convince some of A's customers, who will no longer get Turner networks, to switch to DirectTV, which would be carrying Turner, and that the gain from those switches would be large enough to make the threat to walk away from the table credible.

It gained currency in large part as a result of an unusual decision Mr. Bollea's legal team made: It purposely excluded a claim that would have allowed Gawker's insurance company to help pay for its defense as well as damages.

Crude oil prices have been unable to build on the large gains made during Monday's sessions.

These efforts made us feel good because we were doing something but the programs were not producing significant, measurable results.At the same time, drawing on publishing experience I had gained in my prior position as Asia marketing director for the online division of Knight - Ridder, at the time one of the largest newspaper companies in the world, I quietly created content - rich marketing and PR programs on the Web.Against the advice of the PR agency professionals we had on retainer (who insisted that news releases were only for journalists), we wrote and sent dozens of releases ourselves.

While I agree with Steve that our very best investments have been unique insights, we've made some large gains from investment ideas that we «poached».

The second largest crypto by market cap, Ethereum, has made gains of approximately 60 % over the last fortnight, rallying from the local low of approximately $ 370 USD during early April to test the $ 600 area in recent days.

The larger the home they bought — with the largest mortgage loan — the more gains they would make.

But, if you are going to make a donation anyway, especially a large one, giving crypto where you have a big unrealized / untaxed gain is a very efficient way of doing so.

Now, to be fair, as Michael Sivy points out, it is precisely the large, bluechip stocks in the S&P 500 that have gained the most in the bull market's latest surge, which makes them vulnerable now.

Dr. Skousen created this brand - new service to provide individual investors the rare opportunity to invest in the private equity market, where some of his largest gains have been made over the years.

Because such price action occurred after an extended, four - week rally, we made a judgment call to raise the stop to just below the two - day lows, which would enable us to lock in a very large gain in the event of another pullback.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

Fourthly, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, through all the ironies and strange turnings of the human spirit there persists the ineradicable dialectical condition wherein every advance makes possible greater destructiveness, and every gain brings new opportunities and larger temptations.

Here were the largest gains in territory and in numbers that Christianity had made since the winning of the Roman Empire.

Last year market research company Mintel predicted that savoury flavours - from olive oil to cheese and bread - would gain mainstream popularity as they made their way from upmarket foodservice outlets to small - batch artisan producer and then to larger retail outlets.

It has made it increasingly difficult for small and medium distributors and importers to gain the traction in the market as larger distributors either buy out smaller ones or figure out ways to create mini-divisions to compete with and win over retail shelves.

The team that wins will start to gain back a little respect from the NFL community at large, and the loser will have to take a long look in the mirror and decide whether it wants to, or can, play like a team that deserves to make the playoffs.

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The release from Siena stated Schreibman has made gains among Democrats and independents, while Gibson has retained his large margin among Republicans.

Smaller national parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respectively).

For example, since the squat trains so many large muscle groups at once, your body naturally responds by increasing testosterone production and allowing you to make splendid gains even from gym sessions that otherwise wouldn't count as anything spectacular.

Having spent the majority of my career working in Corporate America, I have gained a thorough understanding of what makes very large corporations successful but also learned a great deal about their shortcomings.

J.R. gained fame for his large - scale photography exhibits / installations featuring people he happened to meet; Varda has earned acclaim for making movies about characters who are humanly flawed and realistic.

We have also gained exclusive access to a large collection of archival interviews, and are in the process of making these available.

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

Research has demonstrated that students just below the bar were most likely to make large gains in the NCLB era, while high achievers made lesser improvements.

... [There] are some bright spots, but the reforms didn't deliver the large gains in learning that would make us more competitive in international comparisons.»

Continued participation would depend on a teacher's students continuing to make larger - than - normal gains.

And, finally, do students who attend traditional public schools subject to competition from charter schools make larger achievement gains than they would have in the absence of charter schools?

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

Nor do the researchers find evidence that students who attend middle schools make larger achievement gains than their K - 8 peers in grades 9 and 10, by which time most Florida students have entered high school.

Just how important alternative certification was to the recruitment of highly qualified bilingual instructors is unknown, but it can not be ruled out as a potential explanation for the particularly large gains Florida's Hispanic students have made.

If American students were making gains as large as those made by students in Germany, he notes, our country would experience much greater GDP growth over the next decades.

Such low scores indicate that the majority of students will have to make large gains in achievement before they are able to pass the test.

For example, gains have been made in the number of superintendents but these women are often singletons among a much larger pool of men.

Making those academic gains would yield large increases in GDP, Peterson and Hanushek explain, which could allow the U.S. to address major social problems.

Fourth - graders have made greater gains than eighth - graders, and eighth - graders have made larger gains than twelfth - graders.

More recently, researchers have demonstrated that Kentucky and Texas made substantially larger gains on state tests (the KIRIS and TAAS, respectively) than on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

As testing opt - out loses steam and students make large gains in reading and math, advocates of the Common Core State Standards have greater confidence that more students are achieving to higher standards.

Had competition between private schools been maximising the quality of education each provided to its voucher students, we would not have observed such a large gain in test scores once schools knew their results would be made public.

That is, upper track students seem to have unobserved traits that make them likely to achieve larger achievement gains.

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His platform claims that «National studies show virtual learners make larger learning gains and have higher course completion rates.»

While they've made academic gains in struggling communities, KIPP and other large charter networks have come under fire recently for high student attrition rates, discipline issues and failing to meet states» standards.

Students who have the most effective teachers make gains three times as large as those with less effective teachers, according to experts such as Stanford University's Eric Hanushek, whose specialty is economic analysis of educational issues.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

On some tests, low - achieving students can easily make comparatively large score gains simply because the test has a large number of easy items.

Edison's annual reports have repeatedly indicated that students enrolled in the firm's schools are making large and substantial achievement gains.