Sentences with phrase «little capacity»

Unfortunately, these same 1,000 people have very little platform to connect, very little capacity to meet and know one another.

Introducing such competition is the best hope for American schools, because today's public schools are showing little capacity to improve on their own.

I like being so immersed but I have little capacity for multitasking, for managing many deeply interesting things, for operating on different planes at the same time.

The film's grosses aren't cataclysmically distant, but in an industry with little capacity to surprise those who follow it closely, these defied expectations will go down as one of 2013's bigger shocks.

In fact, in the past Ontario had too little capacity because of under - investment when we had price caps, which resulted in brown - outs in the 1990s.

Natural feline social behavior leaves little capacity for reconciliation, and the fragility of feline social relationships can be distressing for owners.

«24 And the suburban church proved for Gibson Winter to be a middle - class enclave possessing little capacity for coherent belief distinct from that of the society that holds it captive.25

Yet human beings expend vast resources to defend forms that have little content and therefore little capacity to nurture, and religious authorities are among the most culpable.

They responded well to the deliberate facilitation, but observed how time - consuming the work was, and how little capacity they had to focus on this work during the allotted time.

«Less thought is being given, in the housing finance reform discussions and elsewhere, to the question of whether it is wise to concentrate so much risk in a sector with such little capacity to bear it,» the paper concludes.

The report said that when Parliament does engage on tax issues, most scrutiny focuses on new proposals; there is very little capacity or appetite to look at the effectiveness of past measures, or the coherence of the system as a whole.

Colorado and Denver need to stop throwing money at schools with little capacity to improve.

In Russia, on the other hand, corruption has run rampant during the past 20 years, and the public shows little capacity to rein it in.

«Violence is an emotional cue that dominates memory, leaving little capacity for more peripheral cues like brand names.»

Dobson and Hindson are quite capable of being self - critical about fundamentalism, and they present one five - page, ten - point passage about fundamentalism's «little capacity for self - criticism,» its resistance to change, «overdependence on dynamic leadership,» «excessive worry over labels and associations,» absolutism, authoritarianism and exclusivism.

Ms Nance said companies had little capacity to opt out of a master trust they were unhappy with, unless they obtained the consent of their staff.

Granted that a failed policy would also weaken presidential credibility, but it would not do so nearly as much as the spectre of presidency that has little capacity to act.

In the larger society, though, they exhibit an ethos that has little use for extra-familial loyalties and that has little capacity to inspire the creation of a civil society.

The reason for this is that while all children are likely to be affected by this election — by the rancor and division — it is young children who have little capacity to understand the flurry of distressing feelings around them.

Africa has little capacity to adapt.

During heavy rainfall or irrigation, Florida's soils have very little capacity to retain nitrogen and phosphorus in the area of the soil around the plant that touches the plant's roots.

«The big question has been how the microbes can survive when there is little water, the soils are very low in organic carbon and there is very little capacity to produce energy from the sun via photosynthesis during the winter darkness.

It was late in the evening after the typical LONG day, so we both agreed we had little capacity for deep thoughts.

Seven key points from Greening's talk include: GTS will not be scrapped; bidding has opened for the teaching and innovation fund; NPQs will be revised; the school system had little capacity to share good practice; there is a challenge in teacher recruitment; flexible learning could solve the retention crisis; and SEND training should be included in mainstream training.

Unfortunately, there are few incentives and little capacity for improving the city's charter schools.

Most school districts — especially those that serve high - need populations and hire the most new teachers — have little capacity to train and mentor novices uniformly and unilaterally.

ethno - national groups that have been traumatized by repeated suffering at the hands of other groups seem to have little capacity to grieve for the hurts of other peoples, or to take responsibility for the new victims created by their own warlike actions» (in Redekop, 2002, 157).

In addition, there is little capacity to create the structures and develop the human resources to make systemic change successful.

Successive funding cuts have also impacted on support services in LAs to such an extent that they have very little capacity to watch school budgets closely, in order to identify proactively when schools might fall into deficit, let alone take over decision making on the school's spending on a day to day basis when delegation is withdrawn.

Attorneys expressed concern that the district had little capacity for overseeing K12 but could be held legally responsible, for example, for guaranteeing K12's instruction of special needs students complied with federal law.

It thus remains to be seen how states that have little capacity and few infrastructures in place to support English learners and their teachers will be able to develop assessment and accountability plans that build on the linguistic and cultural assets these students bring.»

So if a company is drowning in debt and has little capacity to pay it back, its bonds will get a junk rating and they won't make into indexes that hold only investment - grade issues.

When consumers have little capacity to increase indebtedness, monetary policy is useless, leaving aside helicopter tactics.

The catch is that lenders without capital have little capacity to buy back much more than a cup of coffee and three guitar strings.

All of this means that they have little capacity to build resilience.

Many cities served by private utilities think they have little capacity to encourage local renewable energy development.

Moreover, we have little capacity to estimate how emissions reductions may benefit human society.

Applications for hundreds of different project types are submitted to a single U.N. panel with little capacity to evaluate «additionality» — to determine whether projects would have occurred in the absence of offset funding.

It is counterintuitive for ACO2 to be so different from natural CO2 to the extent that there is no or little capacity for sinks to reabsorb the human emissions; it is also problematic that there should be a situation where temperatures have slightly increased and yet the ocean remains a net absorber and not emitter of CO2.

Before the age of three or four, a child has little capacity to frame the episodic memories that are necessary to provide a sense of time.