Sentences with phrase «least gain a point»

Although strange things can happen, the chances are that Brazil will at least gain the point needed against Cameroon to make it through to the last 16.

Not exact matches

He predicts that the crunch will slow earnings gains to at least a point below GDP growth over the next decade.

Jeff makes the point that the classic bubbles of yesterday gained 1000 % or more, but they did so over at least 10 years, which is why they became so embedded in the economy and so widespread across investor portfolios.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Experimental groups have proved the point, at least to their own satisfaction — witness poet Gary Snyder, whose writing reflects a vision gained in part from participation in such groups.

To say that sin at least harmed men is beside the point; for what harm did it do to harm men, parts of a system of reality that as a whole or in its ultimate reality was incapable of loss or gain?

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us gaining more points than any other EPL team in the final two months of the season, over the past few years at least.

Granada on the other hand go into the final three games still battling for their LA Liga lives, and must be looking to gain at least a point off of Sociedad.

Huddersfield Town Head Coach David Wagner felt his side's performance warranted the point it gained at the very least after the Club's 1 - 1 draw with Southampton.

I ate better than I ever had before and made a point to exercise at least three times a week doing yoga, squats, arm weights and walking, and ended up gaining just 25 pounds from my first appointment to my last.

I'm not sure if these ideas have any traction in the Labour party, but they're gaining increasingly widespread acceptance in the Lib Dems (at least amongst the opinion - forming bloggers, for whom LVT is a common debating point).

It's worth point out that the map in the Telegraph does seem to take into account either the potential for SNP gains in Scotland or for Conservative gains against the LibDems — in fact the map doesn't seem to show a single Conservative gain from the LibDems, which seems a little odd, as (at the very least) some «churn» between the parties is almost a given.

The thing I like about that is that, at least at a later point in the film, they bring up the boss of the cartel and how Flores (and Davis) can gain access to him to exact their plan of revenge on him.

According to Sanders's analysis, «On average, the least effective teachers produce gains of about 14 percentile points among low - achieving students; the most effective teachers posted gains that averaged 53 percentile points.

High - achieving students gain an average of only 2 points when taught by the least effective teachers but an average of 25 points when taught by the most effective teachers.

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

Middle achievers gain a mere 10 points with the least effective [teachers] and in the mid-30s with the most effective.»

They say that employees that learn on a gamified Learning Management System will not be truly engaged, at least not in the long term, because they are only working hard to gain badges, points and achievements — and as soon as the novelty wears off, so will their engagement and good work ethic.

the school has failed to demonstrate, over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision, at least a 25 point gain in its performance index for the «all students» group in each English language arts and mathematics measure for which the school is held accountable; and / or

Overall scoring patterns in New York State remained largely unchanged, with black and Hispanic students making small proficiency gains but remaining at least 20 percentage points behind white test - takers.

Students in classes of teachers classified as least effective can be expected to gain only about 14 percentile points over a year's time.

Estimates suggested a one per cent funding change in primaries was associated with an up to 0.071 percentage point fall in the proportion of pupils gaining at least level 4.

If we note that students increased their scores by an average of 20 words correct per minute per year (see Table 7) and that school scores on the collaborative leadership scale ranged from 1.1 to 1.9 with a mean of 1.7 (out of a high score of 3), then we can surmise that, at least in principle, a school gaining one additional point on the collaborative leadership scale could make up a year's worth of fluency performance.

She chose the University of Virginia program because it promised results, telling Cincinnati that it would be able to help schools make AYP — or gain at least 10 percentage points within two years.

Each feature provides secure tie - down points for various accessories, and you can gain at least 75 pounds of additional cargo capacity.

Personally, I prefer how the A4 drives, and while Acura points out that only the TLX offers an enthusiast - favored V6 in that bracket, the counter-argument is that turbocharged four - pots have gained traction not least for their economical gains.

The only point I do nt agree with author is holding period coz if the trend is strong and I am in the direction of the trend then hold at least 33 to 50 % of position for 15 to 20 % gain (in stocks).

Your death triggers a «deemed disposition» of the business, which means that your heirs have to pay tax on the capital gains that you and the company have (at least theoretically) enjoyed up to that point, even though you haven't actually sold the business.

So I ask myself, is it possible that Kalani or a proxy is shorting the shares in an attempt (very successful to this point) of gaining the majority of the equity at the least price?

«Freak on a Streak» (20 points): Gain at least 15 population from a single wave in a Reinforcement game «Living Loving Bug» (30 points): Obtain a Scarab during a Reinforcement game

- 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

Practice programmes include track acclimatisation which involves positioning at least part of your car within a small gate on the track to effectively learn the track and gain points in the process towards a green target, although you can also attempt to achieve a purple target which actually requires each gate to be approached at the optimal speed.

Snake will just have to procure all the ingredients in the right amount, matching up at least four of them together, in order to gain points.

Add to this the fact that you can spend app points to greatly expand the amount of demons you can keep with you at any given time and the fact that all party members gain at least some xp even when you don't use them, and you end up with a grind that doesn't feel like a grind, because something new is constantly happening.

I actually think you miss one important point in your favour which is this — in order to work on those 9 million homes, you need to gain some sort of consent from at least 9 million residents.

When at least one control point of a krigged surface has uncertainty, i.e. error bars, the krigged surface itself is fuzzy — every point of the uncertain control point influences the surface gains uncertainty.

The current designated target, online at least, seems to be her putative «experience» gained from having overcome various difficulties in her life, something President Obama made a point of praising.