Sentences with phrase «little less knowledge»

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The actual state of knowledge of the impact that the minimum wage has on employment in North America, and especially in Québec, leads to the conclusion that a minimum wage that is greater than 50 % of the average wage is harmful to small wage earners and that a minimum wage that is less than 45 % has very little risk for this group of workers.

Less than a decade later, he stunned those same fans by turning from football to auto racing, setting up shop in his native North Carolina with admittedly little knowledge of what he was getting into.

Both batches left me less than enamored... Oh - well, we bake, we learn... Now armed with a little experience and the knowledge of what I didn't want, I felt empowered to try things on my own.

It has little foreign contact, which means both less leverage against it (has no foreign trade to lose if an embargo is placed) and less knowledge of its internal politics (what things are they interested in and which things they see as threatening).

«We hope these recommendations will provide healthcare professionals with enough knowledge to make that call a little bit less anxiety - provoking in the future.»

Nevertheless, nature allows a barter trade: If the particle has been appropriately prepared, then one of the quantities can be measured a little more exactly if one is willing to accept a less precise knowledge of the other quantity.

Throughout the world there are those with little or no access to the telecommunications revolution or the Internet, much less to advanced education or technical knowledge.

Our East African knowledge is also quite extensive, but much less is known about the birds of Central and West Africa, where relatively little detailed ornithological research has taken place.

«One of the biggest challenges facing conservation today is our inability to step back and admit that there are animals that would take a little bit less work and a little bit less money but have the potential to survive for their genetic diversity into the future,» says John Fraser, chief executive of the New Knowledge Organization in New York city, a think tank and advocate of a triage response to species conservation.

Telling people that adding cumin to beans and lentils will make these legumes less gassy is an unfounded old wive's tale which you claim as truth (with little knowledge, I dare say).

To be honest, I had little knowledge about global water issues and how it disproportionately impacts women, who have less time for school or work due to hours spent collecting clean water from miles away for their families.

Being structured as an inspirational story, there is little surprise that the likable protagonist does indeed secure a chance to shine, but this knowledge does not render her journey any less enjoyable for the viewer.

Civics courses in particular appear to have little effect on civic knowledge and even less on civic values.

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

Now these schools, who largely serve urban students, will be increasingly staffed by faculty with even less experience and knowledge and who are chosen more for their capacity to be molded into the kind of people who have no qualms about turning 8 year olds into «little test taking machines.»

If teaching students to become «little test taking machines» does not require deep knowledge, meaningful experiences, and professional discernment, then it really does not matter if preparation to teach requires less time than obtaining a cosmetology license.

According to the Employment Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of Americans have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement — often because many people have little knowledge of how to invest in retirement plans wisely — which could lead to more elderly citizens on welfare.

The standard for student learning is being lowered, not raised, and those students who struggle the most are even less likely to be served by curriculums designed with little knowledge of the unique needs in a given school and community.

While I have little knowledge of Citroen (other than odd steering wheels and a shared hydraulic system)-- and even less about the C5...

Since Qt support also underpins the native application development support present in PlayBook 2.0, former Qt developers will have little trouble porting existing applications to the PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 devices in the future owing to its basis in C / C + + in comparison to current SDKs which require knowledge of Adobe AIR / Flex and are considered less flexible and powerful.

Thus TAM has less need to diversify than finance academics and traders, most of whom study only markets and security prices, and have little or no knowledge about companies and the securities they issue.

I have talked with people who have 401k accounts available to them yet don't contribute because of lack of knowledge on the subject or because they don't want to take home a little less money.

It's easy to get sucked into horror stories about things like foreclosures and student debt, but a little knowledge and preparation will make your own loan story a lot happier and a lot less dramatic.

Dogs with just the basic training are less likely to be turned into shelters, and with a little knowledge, their owners can find out what they are doing to cause reactive behaviors in their animals.

However, with a little bit of knowledge, you can make the situation safer for your pet and less frightening for you.

He passed on a lot of knowledge and to see someone already out there doing it, first hand, made it all seem a little less intimidating.

I've always flatly denied that GW has any impact on EARTHQUAKES and VOLCANIC ACTIVITY to those little people with even less knowledge than myself.

Put simply, these trial courts are faced with lengthy dockets with the pressure of trying to complete them in a sitting, often litigated by unrepresented defendants with little experience or knowledge of the substantive and procedural law, some quite upset about the perceived injustice in their case, in a crowded courtroom with perhaps less than ideal staffing or facilities.

The defensive protection is less controversial, where advocates of traditional knowledge protection are trying to stop people from acquiring IP rights over traditional knowledge — for example, if a pharmaceutical company goes into an indigenous community, learns about the use of a certain plant for treatment of disease, does a little more research, and then patents the knowledge.

The good news is with a little knowledge of how the industry works; choosing the correct company is a lot less complicated than it appears.

This little nugget of knowledge made me wonder what other lesser - known benefits car insurance offers relevant to road trips, so I asked Ava Lynch, a licensed insurance agent at The Zebra, what drivers should know about their insurance coverage before heading off on a road trip.

Yet, little is known about what differentiates effective couple, marital, and family therapists from those who are less effective, what innate therapy skills they possess, how they learn, and how they operationalize their knowledge in the therapy room.