Sentences with phrase «meaningful increases in»

Going forward, keep in mind that robust job creation and meaningful increases in income levels will help propel home prices.

Existing - home sales and contract signings both experienced meaningful increases in February despite higher mortgage rates, rising home prices and subpar supply levels in much of the country.

As I noted, meaningful increases in legal aid are politically difficult if not impossible.

Particularly, at a time when the gaps in access to justice continue to grow, when there are no meaningful increases in funding for Legal Aid, and as litigants and accused increasingly represent themselves in court, it is essential that protections are in place to ensure that every citizen has access to equal justice regardless of income level or ability to pay.

In schools with populations of greater than 80 % poverty rates, students who were taught by teachers in our program achieved statistically significant and meaningful increases in writing performance and critical thinking skills.

Findings from this large and comprehensive evaluation show that KIPP schools lead to educationally meaningful increases in student achievement, not just in basic reading and math, but in a broader set of subjects, including science and social studies.»

A study by Kirabo Jackson published in the Fall 2008 issue of Ed Next found that a program that paid students and teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement tests produced meaningful increases in participation in the AP program and improvements in other critical education outcomes.

We find strong evidence that this system causes meaningful increases in teacher performance,» said James Wyckoff, professor of education at the Curry School and co-author of the study.

«Without a meaningful increase in employment, it makes it difficult to power strong growth in the future.»

So any meaningful increase in mortgage rates could make life difficult for highly leveraged home owners.

U.S. stocks are flat year - to - date and have experienced a meaningful increase in volatility, but defensive stocks have offered little protection: Utilities and staples are down 4.5 % and 8.5 % respectively year - to - date.

During the most recent quarter, oil production was lower than estimated primarily due to weak production in the Permian Basin, which declined despite a meaningful increase in capital allocation.

Furthermore, any meaningful increase in loans will probably continue to be more than offset by the continual destruction of liquidity as writedowns, chargeoffs, elimination of derivatives, etc. persists for years.

The problem is that no such programs yet exist (although this is going to be a key objective of our SmartTeams program, and our pilot program for the NCAA and Department of Defense under our Mind Matters Challenge grant), and even if were implemented on a widespread basis (which, once again, I hope will happen once we launch the full SmartTeams program in 2016), it is unclear whether such a shift in emphasis in concussion education will achieve any meaningful increase in rates of self - reporting, at least in the short term.

Quality of life was significantly higher in participants randomized to the intervention group, who demonstrated a statistically and clinically meaningful increase in QOL at 12 weeks (P <.05 using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test).31, 32 Median survival was almost 5 months longer in the intervention group.

Nor do we find that schools with a larger share of white students have a meaningful increase in their WSI.

With similarly impenetrable and convoluted prose, the union's report clearly showed how collective bargaining trumped the simple goal of providing a meaningful increase in instructional time.

On mountain roads outside of Palm Springs, California, these upgrades don't seem to result in any meaningful increase in driving performance.

«There are a range of income options that can offer a meaningful increase in income; you could potentially increase the yield on your savings by a significant amount,» says Richard Carter, a vice president of fixed - income products and services at Fidelity.

U.S. stocks are flat year - to - date and have experienced a meaningful increase in volatility, but defensive stocks have offered little protection: Utilities and staples are down 4.5 % and 8.5 % respectively year - to - date.

As a result, chances are that CAPE will decline going forward as we go to a period of higher interest rates, since there is not much scope for a meaningful increase in earnings growth expectations.

Yet making a simple shift in the networking attorneys are already doing may result in a meaningful increase in referrals, without an additional spend.

Corporate venture capital, for example, is nothing new (even though it has gotten more attention in recent years thanks to a flood of new companies getting involved and a meaningful increase in the number, and total value of, investments being made, thanks to the likes of Google Ventures, Intel Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures).

«If access to credit improves, we could see a much more meaningful increase in home sales and broader stabilization in home prices with modest gains in areas with stronger job growth.»

Even if there's no meaningful increase in internet sales over the next 10 years, Platt said empowering states to collect taxes from online transactions could generate $ 260 billion in local revenue.

The June employment report showed significantly fewer hires compared to the first quarter monthly average, and ongoing concern regarding the European debt crisis and domestic financial markets may suppress a meaningful increase in private payrolls before the end of the year.

«Now, in 2012's first - quarter results, we see a strong increase in sales volume and a meaningful increase in the median price.

Assuming there are no changes to the tax code that hurt homeownership, the gradually expanding economy and continued job creation should set the stage for a more meaningful increase in home sales in 2018.»

Not exact matches

Further, both Enbridge and TransCanada had been expecting increases in refinery throughput in Ontario, but there has not been any meaningful increase.

And, that's great for us, because what we're trying to do is build up the overall ecosystem, and having those increases in revenue coming in on that side allows us to invest in the professional players, the teams, and it allows these players to make a career out of this in a really meaningful way.

«We did that review by increasing engagement with communities, by meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples, by looking at the science and the evidence and also looking at the project in the context of our climate plan, and we approved that project,» she said in Victoria.

This has yet to happen in any meaningful way, as both OPEC and non-OPEC countries have seen their production increase by a million barrels a day since then (to 33.9 and 46.8 million barrels per day respectively), with much of the OPEC increase coming in the last few months.

Subjects treated with Addyi consistently reported «meaningful improvements» in satisfying sexual events and increased desire.

However, trying to deliver meaningful reform in the UK's relationship with the EU is an almost impossible task, especially given that what Cameron claims to want — a little less EU interference in British affairs — is completely at odds with what the eurocrats in Brussels want — ever - increasing EU interference in everyone's affairs.

Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face - to - face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self - esteem through unfavorable social comparison.

Setting aside time in the morning to do meaningful tasks can help boost your productivity and increase your willpower.

It is important to understand how debt payments are managed in order to recognize that whether or not China's debt burden is socialized has very little to do with the resolution of China's debt burden (aside from the fact that it never was «off» the government balance sheet in any meaningful way), just as analysts must recognize that an unsustainable increase in debt is embedded into China's current growth model, and is not an accidental bit of bad luck.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

That's a meaningful acceleration from the 57 % increase in the fourth quarter, and the 43 % increase Amazon saw for the full year last year.

If there is to be «a meaningful improvement in liquidity,» she says, the ratio of overall FX transactions to underlying commercial trades has to increase.

In contrast, consider that en route from 10 to 350 and as the upward momentum developed, there were plenty of opportunities to pyramid into Apple shares so as to increase your stake to something more meaningful.

Given the growing scarcity of available collateral among bond dealers, a collapse in repo liquidity, and increasing frequency of delivery failures, all of which is shorthand for a bond market that is becoming less liquid — it seems that QE has begun to create, rather than relieve, meaningful constraints.

We believe that only if the investigation into intellectual property issues leads to material increases in the tariffs the U.S. imposes on telecommunication and semi-conductor imports could this potentially translate into a more meaningful dent in China's exports of around 0.8 pp.

There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.

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If your goal is to increase your sense of being in charge of your life or to decrease the amount of time you waste, plan and implement a realistic, meaningful schedule for yourself.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

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However, an increasing number of Protestant ministers in this century have complemented attention to the sermon with concern for meaningful worship, pastoral care, religious education, and other avenues of ministry.

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