Sentences with phrase «lower than most of its peers»

The share of Nintendo's revenues from digital products and channels was only 16 %, far lower than most of its peers.

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The company emerged from the 2009 financial crisis more easily than most of its peers, helped by stronger digital firepower and the weakness of lower - end rivals like J.C. Penney (jcp) and Sears.

The most recent state testing data showed that the percent of Erie County black students considered proficient in English was 31 percentage points lower than their white peers, compared to a 20 - point gap statewide.

Of the schools we examined, most are racially and economically segregated: the students enrolled are overwhelmingly black and Latino and are 1.5 times more likely to qualify for free or low - cost meals than their peers nationwide.

Most recently, a 2011 study of the AfterZone program in Providence, Rhode Island, showed that middle school students participating in the program had an absence rate 25 % lower than their peers.

Children from low - income families are also less likely to participate in preschool than are their peers, and if they are enrolled, they are the most likely to participate in low - quality programs and the least likely to participate in programs of higher quality.105

After you get over the brutal front, you'll immediately notice that the Ssangyong Actyon Sports has a lower ride height than most of it's pick - up peers to facilitate easier entry and exit into the passenger cabin.

The importance of increasing access to books in schools was highlighted in the most recent Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report which found that children ages 6 — 17 from lower - income households are more likely to read books for fun in school and far less likely to read books outside of school than their higher - income peers.

A post by children's publisher Scholastic outlines some of the benefits to children's audiobooks, most notably perhaps being the erased stigma of a student reader having to use lower - level texts; once a student is listening to an audiobook, his peers have no way of knowing what he's reading and if that book is far easier than books read by the rest of the class.

That is particularly true, they say, if the active fund has a good long - term track record and charges lower management fees than most of its peers.

Physical, verbal and relational aggression have been identified as distinct entities in many cultures and countries.16, 17,18,19,20 Typically, physical aggression is viewed as unacceptable by parents and is associated with peer rejection in most countries.21, 22,16,23,24,25,8,26 Nevertheless, meta - analyses have demonstrated that cultures characterized by collectivistic and Confucian values generally show lower levels of aggression, regardless of type, towards peers than their Western counterparts.27