Sentences with phrase «little more improvement»

Yes, it looks cool, but need a little more improvement.

Not exact matches

«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.

After all, we have more R&D, we deserve a little bit more profit because of certain improvements we're making to our manufacturing plants and things of that nature.

So far though (as noted above) there seems to be little sign of improvement, and although the stock is now near all - time lows I won't add to the position unless the current CEO (who has had more than enough time to fix things) is replaced.

If we observe an improvement in market internals and credit spreads, we'll be more tolerant of current extremes with a less defensive outlook (though there's little chance that we would encourage an investment stance without a considerable safety net).

Economic data in the United States have been a little more positive, showing, among other things, stronger - than - expected GDP growth in the second quarter, improvements in business sentiment, a rise in capital goods orders and a small pick - up in industrial production in the past couple of months, though the performance of the labour market has so far remained disappointing.

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.

Improvements: the muffins were not dry, had a slight bacon flavor, rose a little more and had rounded tops.

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).

«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].

wengers job from two years ago was to combine wilshere ozil and carzola... he has finally got ozil and carzola working together and now linking up to sanchez which, along with coquelin «s improvement as a dm, is basically why we have improved so much this year (even though sanchez cooled a little)... if he finds a way of putting wilshere in to the diamond and adding another 15 to 20 goal a game man then we will be able to compete with the best... walcott rambo arteta flamini combos of yesteryear need to be put in to the dustbin of our footballing history... they could never deliver more than 4th place

It's a more straight - forward way of doing it and the names are a little small, but it's an improvement nevertheless.

The team has very little room for improvement because of how it's constructed while we had good pieces to work with but Thibs threw it all away in order to get fast to «positive record» but in the process took the ceiling down multiple layers so we can't ascend a lot more.

Wow finally goals from the new recruits.What a way to start a goal scoring campaign for the season.Diaby looked too good today, probably this guy is getting advice from our AFCB Terry it seems.His improvement is drastic in this game.Giroud looks more desperate to get his first, and someone has to tell this guy to be a little patient infront of goal.For me this guy will come really really good.

You'll get improvements followed by backwards steps, some bits clicking more quickly than others, games that ebb and flow a little more than those of more settled sides.

@ 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.

You may be familiar that Baby Dry is known for keeping baby dry up to 12 hours at night, and this improvement add even more protection for your little one.

My last Champagne toast was for a friends birthday (even though she wasn't really celebrating herself or with me), in the week little dude bought a beautiful piece of work home — we celebrated, this time with a more appropriate child friendly hot chocolate (with whipped cream), later that week we celebrated again with a pizza party thanks to a sticker regarding his improvements in reading.

We dealt with the smells for as long as we could, all the while emptying the trash more frequently and even double bagging the diapers but with little improvement made.

It's a little more casual than the Annie I previously had, but I love the overall look and improvements to the design.

Times are getting worse - much worse - and with Brown - Darling proposing even more borrowing there is little hope of improvement in the next 5 (or even 10) years.

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.

A closed - software team is a human construction that can tie down enough variables so that software becomes just a little more like a hardware chip — and note that chips, the most encapsulated objects made by humans, get better and better following an exponential pattern of improvement known as Moore's law.

«They're a little bit more likely to get some particular types of items right — they have made some small improvements, but it's not an enormous change.»

«Glioblastoma has been treated as one type of cancer for more than 20 years with very little clinical improvement,» said Davis.

So while 10,000 steps is fun and easy to remember and a catchy marketing tool in (at least) two languages, maybe it's time, given just how unhealthy so many people are and how much they'd benefit from moving around just a little more, to embrace an incremental - improvement approach to exercise.

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.

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

There's room for improvement for just about all of us but more importantly if you have an autoimmune condition, you probably don't know it and that's why this kind of podcast is important because if you hear things like, «Gee, I'm a little bit more tired than I should be» other things like that this gives you an awareness and says, «Pay attention» because this might be worthy of exploration for me or someone that I care about or may be you're rocking it and you have tons of energy and your thyroid's just fine.

So there are decent testosterone herbal support formulas out there and frankly, all of them will at least, they give you a little bit of improvement in your mood, in your competitive drive which can help you life more at the gym.

But clearly, ashwagandha is doing more that just preventing this damage because cognitive improvements were seen in as little as 2 weeks in one study.

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

And even though I know you loved my gripping home improvement ramblings, hopefully I'll have something a little more exciting to write about next week;).

Instantly, there I was in the most flattering lighting possible with Bordeaux lips, golden lids and tight - lined eyes — not so far from my usual, but with a little more lash (a fluttery improvement).

The sequel to An Unexpected Journey does bring a number of small improvements to the table, teasing out a little more subtext from the novel and solving some of the tonal problems.

«Transformers: Dark of the Moon» could've been more fun had it trimmed a lot more fat and noise, but as tradition, Bay goes the behemoth, «more - is - more» route and squanders its little improvements.

But if one allows for a little relativism, and places the movie in the context of a franchise with two more movies remaining, it's possible to argue that Insurgent marks an improvement over a far more tepid first installment.

I was expecting a little more from the new 2K scan but there was a nice improvement in quality from the previous release.

While the widescreen transfer leaves very little room for improvement, ditching the crop job would have given it more room to breathe and perhaps better results.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

So since there is little evidence, if any, that the use of gamification returns any significant performance improvement, the fact is that there is more to lose than there is to gain with gamification.

I believed, and believe even more strongly now (with a little more nuance, knowledge, and skill behind my believing), that the best way to sustainably impact student learning is to engage teachers in supportive collaborative investigation and improvement of their practice.

For many teachers there is a very real feeling that the children won't learn well enough without that little extra tweak to planning, having a few more sparkly resources or using 6 colours to highlight improvement points.

Little Rock — Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas last week proposed raising taxes by more than $ 150 million to pay for major improvements in the state's public schools and colleges, and called a special session of the legislature to consider his plan.

I would further resign myself to concluding that 17 - year - olds across all three major racial sub-groups have shown little to no improvement in terms of NAEP scores over the last 30 + years, which suggests that public high schools are not doing a more effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

Perhaps it's time that the debate about how we create the conditions for educational success for all students — through both innovation and improvement — became a little more innovative.

Professor Howson, an honourary Oxford University fellow who runs DataforEducation.info, warned that the cuts to council budgets would see most education departments «stripped back to little more than a statutory service», which could see non-statutory responsibilities abandoned, including the improvement of teaching and learning.

Rather than focusing on firing teachers, it has one of the strongest initial teacher education systems in the world, and leaders credit that system with having produced nationwide improvements in student learning.4 There is relatively little emphasis in Finland on formal on - the - job evaluation, and much more emphasis on collaboration among professionals to promote student learning.