Sentences with phrase «large points gaps»

In the past years, we have had large points gaps with the champions, and it will be a significant improvement if we're are off the top by just a few points.

Not exact matches

Strikingly, the gender pay gap is even larger at the top — a point underscored by the recent news that NBC «Today» stars Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are paid about 28 % of what Matt Lauer previously earned.

The presumptive Democratic nominee enjoys the largest gender gap in recorded history, with a recent Pew Research poll showing her leading among women by 24 points.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

Yet given that both are multi-millionaires, the gap is hardly large enough to become a sticking point in what has become an unusually contentious and public campaign for the central bank's leadership.

Not so fast... certainly we can draw lines that may point back to that, but those lines go through large gaps that have yet to be filled in.

So for me, the tier 2 (Guice, Michel, etc) are closer in skill level / value and can be had in the top of the 2nd, while if we miss out on someone like Derwin, there likely will be a much larger gap in skill in rd2 (in fact, it would be a mistake to draft one in round 2, and we may as well wait until round 4 at that point).

Sunday sees United head to Stamford Bridge to face the Premier League champions Chelsea, as they look to prevent allowing leaders Manchester City from opening a larger gap at the top than the five - point advantage they already possess.

The chasing pack of clubs are currently five points adrift, with the gap seemingly too large to close, especially due to the obvious difference in quality between the two sets of clubs.

To lose today would see the gap at the top solidify at six points, a margin that for fans and critics, is simply too large if you want to be regarded as a true contender this season.

1 large flat (this one is an unbleached GMD, not organic) Fold All corners to the middle - notice the gap at the top corner, where it doesn't make a point?

Hawkins pointed out that recent polls show that the 35 % difference between Cuomo (59 %) and Astorino (24 %) is twice as large as the gap between Astorino and Hawkins (6 %).

The Americans outscored the British on average by 1.4 points out of a maximum of 24, with the largest gap in those over 85, where average scores were 10.1 and 8.3, respectively (BMC Geriatrics, DOI: 10.1186 / 1471 -2318-9-23).

«The next largest gap was a 21 percentage point gap in responses to those with an Indian male name, followed by a 19 percentage point gap for those with an Indian female name.»

The gap was large: A black scientist's chance of winning NIH funding was 10 percentage points lower than that of a white scientist.

The 53 percentage point gap between Democrats and Republicans on climate change is one of the largest for any issue.

Even in the earlier stages of the game, some level gaps between main missions are as large as eight points, rendering them impossible.

The «attainment gap», categorised as the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils, is the largest for Irish and white British teenagers, standing at 46 percentage points and 32 percentage points respectively.

The gender gaps are largest in Finland (48 points), Sweden (42), Australia (41) and New Zealand (41).

As can be seen in Figure 2, the schools that have larger kindergarten readiness gaps also have larger test score gaps in third and fifth grades: as the kindergarten readiness gap increases by 10 percentage points, the test score gaps increase by around 0.06 of a standard deviation.

It would be important and valuable if Heckman's recent work filled in some of the large gaps in knowledge on this topic and pointed to the critical research that still needs to be carried out to increase the likelihood that new public investments will achieve their desired result.

This is larger than the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students on either scientific literacy (76 points), mathematical literacy (70 points) or reading literacy (71 points).

Australia's Indigenous students achieved an average score 97 points lower than non-Indigenous students — a larger gap than in scientific literacy (76 points), mathematical literacy (70 points) or reading literacy (71 points).

Since the employment gains attributable to each first - wave reform were roughly 2 percentage points larger for black males than for white males, states that implemented them closed the black - white employment gap by roughly 11 percent.

This 36 - point gap in support between teachers and the public is the largest observed for any item on our survey.

The attainment gap — the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils — is largest for Irish and white British teenagers; the attainment gap for Irish pupils stands at 46 percentage points while for white British pupils it is 32 percentage points.

While this response rate is far from spectacular, it serves as a starting point for filling a large gap in the state education policy - making literature.

But when half of respondents were told that the average teacher earns $ 72,800 in California, support for a pay increase was only 27 percent, a difference of 41 percentage points and the largest gap in the nation, Peterson wrote.

And the 38 - point gap between those two groups in 8th - grade math, the same as it was in 1990, is the 4th - largest among states.

«Including these children in large - scale assessments is so new that there is a large gap between what students need and what educators know about addressing students» needs,» points out California State University - Long Beach researcher, Jana Echevarria.

Primary school academy trusts have the largest pay gaps between men and women according to new national data — and senior figures are pointing to the high numbers...

That means the 83 - point gap in expectations was substantially larger than the 46 - point gap between what the average fourth and eighth graders can do!

Boulder isn't far from that large a gap with a 49 percentage point difference between the two groups of students.

The negative difference is larger for students who end up at low - performing schools, with roughly a four - point gap for both reading and math scores between displaced and non-displaced students by the fourth year after a closure.

Obama to Launch «My Brother's Keeper» Pointing to the large achievement gap between black or Hispanic boys and their white peers, the Obama administration announced a collection of public - private initiatives called «My Brother's Keeper» to help improve the lives of boys of color.

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.

Black students showed the largest improvement, closing the gap by 7.5 percentage points compared to white students between 2005 - 06 and 2011 - 12.

In response to this gap, it emphasizes that indicators should be relevant to district priorities, provide actionable points of data, and contribute to a component of a larger system of supports.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.

So coming to the point, when you have a very very large gap between the car and motorcycle sales, there is no point in developing a dedicated protocol to govern the connectivity, it simply does not matter.

Some would argue, however, that you can't mention an Alfa Romeo without pointing out the brand's history with reliability and quality, and my example had an uneven and large panel gap that was clearly a mistake.

Over the past year, the average U.S. large - cap growth fund has risen 18.2 %, while the average U.S. large - cap value fund is up 10.4 %... from 2003 through 2013, the average gap between the two styles of stock - picking for large - cap stocks was 0.75 percentage point... it's a similar story among small - company stocks, where growth - stock funds -LSB-...] are up 16 % over the past year.

This pattern consists of a relatively large bearish candle, followed by a small real - bodied second candle that is either slightly bearish or a doji (since there are rarely gaps in Forex), and then a third candle who's real body pulls into and closes past, at least, the halfway point of the first candle's real body (see the image above).

This comparison table shows up to a 6 - point range with the largest gap on the lengthiest repayment period.

Where other industries saw gaps as large as 200, the online trading world experienced only 33 points separating today's leaders from those at the bottom of the rankings.

That gap is among the widest of any large bond fund; at the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund, for example, investors have earned returns only 0.4 point lower than those of the portfolio itself.

An extra large home designed for housing several cats or kittens, exceptional engineering makes our cat cage easy to assemble and provides a paw friendly design — no gaps or pinch points!

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing