Sentences with phrase «little improvement on»

Unfortunately, Greenpeace reports that the three biggest tuna companies — Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, and StarKist — have shown little improvement on sustainability and social responsibility.

The powertrain, at least for South Korean local market shows a little improvement on the diesel CRDi 1.6 - engine, that moves from 128 hp to 136 hp.

There was little improvement on Wednesday evening at the Emirates but again Arsene Wenger's side came away with a 2 - 2 draw against Paris Saint - Germain despite only having one effort on target all game.

With only two arrivals during the summer, Josh Scowen from Barnsley & Charlie Owens from Tottenham, there may be only a little improvement on the Hoops 18th placed finish last season.

There are probably some little things here and there, and maybe Canadian BC lawyers, there may be some little improvements on accounting or invoice calculations that might be relevant for us.

Not exact matches

When a questioner keen on self - improvement asked the community, «What would you do to be a little smarter every single day?»

«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic about the lower gas prices,» she added, noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.

A CEO on whose watch a company kept getting into one scrape after another would generally be given a little time to fix the situation and then get bounced in the absence of improvement.

We expect 2017 will bring little, if any, improvement on the bottom line.

The sheer economics of the situation suggests that drastic improvement in the lives of the world's poor can be made by using resources that amount to little more than the crumbs on our tables.

Last spring we embarked on landscaping projects which started out at full force but was then followed by little improvements here and there.

We're checking off all the little home improvement projects we'd had on our list, sprucing up the yard and planting pretty annuals, organizing and purging and staging, and top - to - bottom, down - on - our - hands - and - knees - with - a-toothbrush deep cleaning everything.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

I would prefer to spend a little more on an established player than spend 30m on a very slight improvement (who we'd then pay 150k).

However, the truth is State only coaches up a little bit, leaving so much room for improvement on D - Line guys.

It's possible we could see a drop in touches for Tayler but a nice little improvement in his per run average, since defenses will be able to key on him less than last year.

Arsenal have had an inconsistent start to the season, and could do with improvements in a number of areas, including central midfield, where they have become overly reliant on Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla, with little in the way of backup in that area.

Possibly an improvement can be made on the RB position as well — Gibbs and Monreal are little better than average.

There's certainly room for improvement in defense, and the rumor mill has offered up Monaco right - back Fabinho and Southampton's Jose Fonte as possible upgrades on the unconvincing Marcos Rojo and the apparently disfavored Matteo Darmian, but any further improvements will probably have to be made on a one - in, one - out basis, and it seems a little late for that.

«There is a little room for improvement but I think we should take more confidence into the game on Tuesday in the Champions League [against Olympiacos].

Barca missed out on all the major trophies last season which triggered the end for Gerardo Martino but there has been little sign of improvement so far in terms of the style of play.

At the interval Celtic's new signing, 32 - year - old centre - back Marvin Compper, who will officially join the Scottish champions on January 1 from RB Leipzig on a two - and - a-half-year deal, was introduced to the home fans - who saw little improvement in the early stages of the second half.

@ Filipino Dan — arsenal spending small and getting results takes time (which we r not willing to wait any more), and with the likes of man city and real madrid around spending crazy money and becoming a real force, we cant just say that we need little improvement especially on the back of last season.

Jamie says, «After what seemed like forever for my amber necklace and nursing necklace arrived (1 week 4 days) we were excited to receive our pretty blue wrapped bags... prior to wearing the amber necklace my little man drooled and chewed in everything after putting it on him we noticed improvement in the drooling within a day!

Although with a little effort the tasks will get done, the snap - on system could use some improvement.

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So, some of the cloth diapers today, that you will see, they close with snaps or Velcro and then as far as between 10 years ago and now, what you are seeing is, the styles are changing, ever so little, year to year, but there does seem to be slight improvement, so improvements on how elastic works around the legs and better containment and even some different kinds of absorbing fabrics.

Bandshell at Forest Park in Woodhaven • $ 300,000 to improve lighting along the shorefront facing Queens in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island • $ 1.5 million to renovate the baseball fields at Glen Oaks Playground in Glen Oaks • $ 1 million to renovate Hallets Cove Playground in Astoria • $ 975,000 to improve the asphalt field at Hoffman Park in Elmhurst • $ 1.3 million to construct a meditation garden and upgrade Rachel Carson Playground in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing • $ 322,000 to construct a skate park at Laurelton Playground in Laurelton • $ 850,000 to upgrade Lannett Playground in Far Rockaway • $ 600,000 to renovate Maple Playground in Flushing • $ 1.5 million to install new play equipment and to upgrade the sprinklers and surface at Mauro Playground in Kew Gardens Hills • $ 350,000 for landscape improvements along the Merrick Boulevard Mall in Springfield Gardens • $ 700,000 to enhance the lawn area, install new walkways, decorate pavers, install new benches and plantings, create a new entry and repair the retaining wall at Newtown Playground in Elmhurst • $ 2 million to upgrade to existing benches and equipment in Norelli Hargreaves Park in Jamaica • $ 300,000 for a mall enhancement and tree plantings along the Northern Boulevard Mall between 62nd Street and 102nd Street in Woodside / Jackson Heights • $ 400,000 to renovate Kingsland Homestead in Flushing • $ 3 million for the preservation of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 480,000 to replace the aviary mesh and marsh bridge at the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 2 million to renovate the asphalt field at the World's Fair Playground in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 800,000 to formalize the picnic grove, add gravel pads and grills, install new fences and benches and upgrade the basketball courts in Rainey Park in Astoria • $ 1.5 million for turf and track upgrades at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica • $ 1.4 million to renovate Sandpiper Playground in Rockaway Beach • $ 600,000 to renovate the museum building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City • $ 500,000 construct a dog run at Triborough Bridge Playground B in Astoria • $ 375,000 for pavers and accent lighting at Tribute Park in the Rockaways • $ 250,000 for site acquisition to add to Udalls Cove in Little Neck • $ 175,000 to improve sidewalk and perimeter of Veterans Grove in Elmhurst • $ 1.6 million to resurface the baseball field and upgrade the play equipment at Vleigh Playground in Flushing • $ 300,000 to support the borough's Tree Stump Removal Program.

On the key metric of «fit to govern», where they might have expected to have seen some sort of improvement, there has been very little progress.

Year on year we have seen above inflation increases, with little improvement to local services.

The study also found that if people consumed on average more than 20g of nuts per day, there was little evidence of further improvement in health outcomes.

After training, the older adults showed improvements in their multitasking skill, measured by how little their performance dropped when the driving task was added on top of the symbol task.

«Given the market has seen little improvement since that time, the Ranger 3 Deeps decline and associated infrastructure has remained under care and maintenance,» CEO Paul Arnold said, adding that the Ranger 3 Deeps mineral resource, based on an updated resource model, equates to 43,858 t U3O8.

They focused their search on expression levels of two sets of genes, those that remained largely unchanged across all four species, suggesting that there was little room — or need — for improvement, and those that changed most dramatically, usually in the human lineage — an indication of powerful incentives to adapt to a changing environment.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

While I may be perfect, my children could certainly use a little improvement - so I thought up a few resolutions for them to work on in the coming year.

Don't expect miracles though — from this point on - wards, every little bit of improvement will take even greater and more intensive work than before.

The taboo is so entrenched that the Mayo Clinic doctor who prescribed a ketogenic diet for the aforementioned four year old boy, kept him on those pharmaceuticals until it was obvious that very little improvement was taking effect.

But... there are two areas of improvement I would really recommend and they are 1), the pads are so delicate that they sometimes break in the little container before I even put them on, which forces me to kind of patch them to my face.

Gittleman tells us that individuals affected by chronic bacterial infections are found to have copper that's low or unavailable, while conditions of chronic viral infection are more typically connected with low zinc and high copper levels.56 Such patients often struggle on for years with little improvement, but may benefit from a copper - balancing program.57

If you worked with an appropriate dietary professional, adhered strictly to the requirements of the elimination phase, and kept it up for a good six weeks and still saw little improvement in how you feel, give yourself a pat on the back for trying your best.

However, after reflecting on the rapid improvements in blood glucose and speedy decreases in insulin need that many of our clients experience, it became obvious that rapid increases in insulin sensitivity are possible in as little as 24 - 48 hours.

Real improvement involves the ability to let go of past failures and focus on doing a little better today and tomorrow.

That means that in just 2 weeks on a low carb diet, the amount of fat in the liver was almost cut in half on a low carb diet while little improvement was seen when they just tried to «cut back their calories».

On a slightly different note, I really hope that you're all enjoying the new blog, I think we're finally nearly there in terms of making the little tweaks and improvements!

Shoes on Tuesday, bc it rhymes and the TBT with Alice and then my home improvements over the last little while will be my posts.

They all came within three weeks of ordering and although the material was a little sheer and improvements can be made on the stitching, I was actually super pleased with them when they arrived!

Peter Rabbit still looks OK and most kids won't pick up on any problems, but there's certainly a little room for improvement here.

With little to no hope of improvement, they embark on an adventure.

I honestly was extremely impressed with all of the little improvements that Climax did to this game to really make it the ultimate motorcycle racing game on the market.