Sentences with phrase «larger than his peers»

A baby in a high weight and height percentile would be considered much larger than his peers.

WVLEX was also handicapped by an international stake (21 %) that was five times larger than their peers.

All in all, with the Nokia Lumia 630 and Motorola Moto G, we're looking at some of the best affordable handsets out there - both offer larger than its peers screen sizes, snappy performance with a quad - core chip inside on both, and decent cameras.insertAd...

Not exact matches

Smaller South Korean steelmakers will be more negatively affected than their larger peers, according to Nomura.

More than three - quarters of active managers in the U.S. Large Cap category lagged the equal - weighted composite of their passive peers during the ten years ending December 31, 2014.

The Mexican chain also has a large peer network of 350 franchisees, and 35 % of them have more than 25 years of experience.

Scotiabank, whose expansion strategy has a larger focus on Latin America than its peers, has said it is expecting a charge of roughly $ 5 million to $ 10 million.

Real - time landing page click data, peer reviews, product ratings and other metrics are helping companies at large become better decision - makers than any individual CEO could ever be.

Several of the comparable industry peer companies are our competitors and are generally larger than us in terms of total net revenue and assets.

Historically, early - stage venture returns for small funds — defined as those with less than $ 250 million of committed capital — have outpaced those of their larger peers.

SnappCar is the second largest international peer - to - peer car sharing company in Europe with more than 250,000 customers sharing over 30,000 cars available on its platform.

Today, these arguments are even more applicable, and one can find junior gold and silver mining companies that are much better bets than their larger cap peers.

Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market cap of their much larger - cap mining peers that had much stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree than their larger - cap peers that were not huge risks.

The country that needed a bailout in 2011 can borrow for less than its larger peer.

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

If you look at Page 3 of C's Y - 9 performance report, you'll see that C's yield on loans is 2 % higher than the large bank peer group, yet the bank has a spread on earning assets half a point lower than other large banks.

With many regional banks at present grouped alongside bulge brackets under the current minimum, increasing the threshold could grant regional banks more operational freedom than their larger peers.

Listed companies are larger and better connected than their unlisted peers, and often have access to state - bank funding, so the mounting backlog hits smaller outfits hardest.

Specifically, STORE Capital retains a larger than average proportion (most peers retain just 10 % to 20 %) of AFFO to fund growth.

Rather than using large amounts of local cash to make certain transactions such as for cars or equipment, they are doing instant peer - to - peer bitcoin transfers using the Wirex mobile wallet and using virtual payment cards for USD purchases online.

Here, then, are two pitchers who were excellent year after year, who were recognized as such, who pitched better and lasted longer than almost all of their peers, and who did it all when ballparks were lively and hitters were unfathomably large.

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Most of his peers are much larger than him.

With a deep double walled side impact protection, orthopaedic inner cushion, and anti-rebound technology, the Doona is also larger than most of its peers meaning that your infant can remain in the safest form of car seat for longer.

Years of research have shown that babies who use sign language develop verbal language skills sooner than their peers and develop a comparably larger vocabulary.

Play with other children is especially important because children learn these large motor skills better from peers than adult instruction.

With a deep double walled side impact protection, orthopedic inner cushion, and anti-rebound technology, the Doona is also larger than most of its peers, meaning that your infant can remain in the safest form of car seat longer.

The results show British children are less likely than their international peers to read for pleasure, instead spending one of the largest proportions of time playing computer games.

«Happily, the size of the Commons majority seen tonight — much larger than for most normal government business — will make it very difficult for peers to suggest that the Bill should be rejected.»

The researchers found that the so - called mushroom bodies, the lobes that underlie learning and memory in insects, were larger in dominant wasps than in their subordinate peers.

As director of the thyroid oncology program at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ain has one of the largest single - physician thyroid cancer practices in the country and more than 70 peer - reviewed publications to his name.

«While females who identify with being more masculine are at risk for a higher BMI than their more feminine peers, males who identify as being masculine face a larger challenge: both higher BMI and more rapid BMI gains.»

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Thanks to the patented nanotechnology - based structural and reactivity control competent Material (Metamic HT), our SNF casks have a larger payload and greater heat dissipation capability than their peers in the industry.

Studies show that women who exercise at the same rate throughout their pregnancies have larger placentas than their more sedentary peers.

This allows for far larger reassurance and comfort than conventional Tooth White lightening kits allow, which is especially helpful for teenagers that face the daunting pressure of their peers on a daily basis.

No longer limited to terse radio transmissions, Metal Gear 2's plot played a much larger role in shaping the flow of the action, and turned Solid Snake and his peers into legitimate characters rather than mere pixel avatars.

Over the last 30 years, a large body of work has shown that children who are skilled at recognizing feelings, dealing with conflict, and exercising self - control are more likely than peers to succeed in school and to do well in life.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

This discrepancy combines with hunger ~ illness (and a lack of health insurance) ~ mobility and other issues that impact disadvantaged students at a much greater rate than their wealthier peers to form a large opportunity gap.

Predicted spending increases are also associated with greater probabilities of high school graduation, with larger effects for low - income students than for their nonpoor peers.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

It neatly captures the heart of the issue: Privileged children come to school on day one with larger stores of knowledge and vocabulary than their disadvantage peers.

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.

We find substantially larger effects for the proportion of peers with unreported domestic violence (that is, those whose parents had not yet filed for the injunction) than for those with past domestic violence.

We examined whether larger networks are more effective than smaller ones and found that, both with and without correcting for student and peer socioeconomic characteristics and selection bias, students at schools that are part of networks of three or more schools consistently outperform students at schools in networks of only two schools.

African - American students are far more likely than their white peers to receive a subpar education, in larger classes taught by unqualified teachers in decaying buildings, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).