Sentences with phrase «more consistent standards»

This approach might lead to more consistent standards over time, but it would do so gradually through incentives, rather than quickly through compulsion.

Not exact matches

In addition to drawing on your policies and precedents in your company's history, one way to be more consistent is to have standard templates for documenting problems as they develop.

The OCC's findings are consistent with more recent surveys: The Fed's October survey of senior U.S. loan officers found a growing number loosening standards for commercial and industrial loans, often by narrowing the spread between the interest rate on the loan and the cost of funds to the bank.

However, it is time for the Estimates to be reformed and be more consistent in coverage and accounting standards to those employed in the Budget and in the consolidated financial statements in the Public Accounts.

The ground meat offered a consistent texture throughout the bowl, quicker cooking time, and was more recognizable as standard chili to some.

Using the FLW Standard allows us to report in a more consistent manner and make clear what has and has not been considered food waste.

This comprehensive data collection helps restaurants be more efficient, have less food waste, produce more consistent food, enforce standard operating procedures and simplifying the jobs of management personnel.

Cazorla got injured, no CM to help receive the ball and carry it out of our own half, pressure on CB was allowed to be more consistent... Def started to perform at a lower standard.

Unlike standard photovoltaic panels, Sphelar can absorb light from many directions, providing more consistent power generation as the sun moves across the sky.

«Because thinness is not consistent with dominant cultural standards of masculinity, young people who conform to masculine norms may be more likely than other youth to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as high - calorie food consumption, overeating and sedentary behaviors,» explains Dr. Austin.

A University of Minnesota analysis found that for six types of herbal products, the more expensive the supplement was, the more likely it was that the recommended dosage would be consistent with established standards.

It is the fountainhead of sports entertainment that establishes and maintains a league consistent with the highest international standards of the game.Find news, scores, schedule, standings, stats and much more.

Strong American Schoolswill not endorse specific presidential candidates, but will instead focuson three components the group believes form the building blocks ofbetter schooling: a call for stronger, more consistent curriculum standards; lengthening the school day and year; and improving teacherquality through merit pay and other measures.

This fall, more than 10,000 Chicago public school students faced retention as the school district implemented a program to eliminate social promotion and enforce consistent standards of achievement.

Yet the panel majority concluded, «This finding is consistent with the argument that students with disabilities need more time to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities than the nondisabled students, and suggests that the scores of these students taken under the condition of extended time are more representative of their true performance than are the scores they would obtain from a standard administration.»

The presumption behind having national standards (whether voluntary or coerced) is that having a clearer and more consistent statement of learning objectives across states would tend to lessen the problem of heterogeneous skills that students bring to the labor market.

The Common Core standards, which were adopted by professional educators representing all school levels and approved by governors and the business community, are nothing more than a set of consistent standards for students.

These analyses of CCSS and individual state standards clearly demonstrate that learning standards have become substantially more consistent across states since the introduction of the CCSS, regardless of whether or not states have chosen to adopt the formal CCSS or create their own.

Common standards among the states help to ensure that students will receive a more consistent education from state to state.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers set out to draft clearer, consistent and more rigorous standards.

The goal was to create academic standards that were more rigorous and consistent than existing standards and that would produce globally competitive students.

For example, White students are more than 4 times more likely to be meeting or exceeding standards in Math than Black students, and this has remained consistent since testing began a few years ago.

These new policy instruments are commonly thought to include: new content standards or instructional frameworks; assessments that focus students» and teachers» work on intellectually authentic tasks that are «aligned» with new content standards; more ambitious curricula that are consistent with new standards and assessments; and changes in teacher education that would improve enactment of the new standards (Cohen, 1995).

Subject specific processes allow for more subtle fine - tuning but there is a need for a fair and transparent process that allows standards to be consistent.

And standards - based grading is more fair to students in that course outcomes and the quantity and quality of student work needed to get a particular grade will be consistent across teachers of the same course.

Implementation standards can help new sites more effectively develop their community school strategy, assist existing schools to strengthen their practice and document outcomes, and help provide a consistent language and framework for advocacy, technical assistance, research, funding and policy engineering.

Since the implementation of new, more rigorous standards nearly a decade ago, state chiefs have worked to implement clear and consistent learning goals statewide.

Electric power - assisted steering is now standard on the Navigator, which Lincoln credits with providing a more precise and consistent level of control than traditional hydraulic systems, while Lincoln Drive Control continuously controlled damping is now an option.

The system features standard Corner Brake Control and Brake Fade Compensation, which are designed to automatically increase the hydraulic pressure in the braking system as the rotor temperatures rise to maintain a more consistent brake pedal feel.

Acura has been a little more consistent in what gets shown on what display now, meaning the standard - fit Android Auto and Apple CarPlay get to dominate the upper screen while the lower one stays dedicated to the car's core features.

The ever consistent and pedestrian Toyota Camry is getting more standard equipment, but keeping the same price for the 2017 model year.XLE and XSE trims now receive Toyota's Entune multimedia...

Wheels and tires: New, lightweight forged aluminum wheels are an inch wider but an inch smaller in diameter, front and rear, than standard ZL1 wheels and are used with new Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3R tires that deliver max lateral grip of 1.10 g. Developed exclusively for the Camaro ZL1 1LE, the 3R tires are designed to warm up faster to help maintain more consistent grip and speed, lap after lap.

The technology provides dynamic advantages in the form of reduced unsprung mass with a brake that is lighter than a standard cast iron brake, has better thermal stability, improved cooling and produces a more consistent pedal feel.

Though there are some ways that IFRS are better than GAAP, (more consistent in the way they treat financial assets and liabilities), I think that the change will make accounting slightly more opaque, and lower comparability, until all US firms are forced to use one standard or the other.

If the market were to tank, leaving borrowers underwater equity-wise, what's to stop the banks from requiring more people to pay down their mortgage renewals in order to keep the loan - to - value ratio consistent with normal standards?

JL: Perhaps more than any popular portfolio manager on Seeking Alpha, you have been a consistent early proponent of ETFs offering alternatives to standard market cap weighted funds.

It is the fountainhead of sports entertainment that establishes and maintains a league consistent with the highest international standards of the game.Find news, scores, schedule, standings, stats and much more.

I generally liked the Choice hotels like Quality Inn or Comfort Inn better than the Wyndham competitors — they seemed to manage brand standards more tightly and are more consistent from property to property!

Newly built hotels, for example in Asia, have to follow much tighter standards, down to furniture and equipment packages, ensuring a much more consistent experience.

It is the fountainhead of sports entertainment that establishes and maintains a league consistent with the highest international standards of the game.Find news, scores, schedule, standings, stats and much more.

Nevertheless the result appears to provide a more realistic global picture than Royer / Veizer, consistent with the standard view of Cretaceous palaeoclimate ³.

Even if the thermometers don't meet BoM instrumentation standards, more than half still show a neutral to cooling trend for 20 years within their own unacceptable but consistent parameters.

The Canadian Constitution has often been described as more consistent with, and more influential upon, prevailing global standards and practices than the U.S. Constitution...

My impression is that its outlets are mostly storefront law practices that have adopted the QS brand but haven't substantively changed how they practice or (more importantly) aligned how they serve their clients to a consistent standard.

[2] These programs attempt to achieve more consistent behavior across the firm by relying on specifically designated ethics experts who take the lead in establishing standard procedures that coordinate and reduce reliance on individual discretion.

US defamation law allows private persons to prove and recover actual damages using a negligence standard (rather than the more stringent actual malice standard) 172 on the basis that private persons are more vulnerable to injury than public figures and their reputations are more deserving of protection.173 That recognition is consistent with the argument advanced herein, namely that there is something qualitatively different about individuals who possess reputation as celebrity: their discursive power to yoke the media to their reputation - constructing ends.174 Discursive power is the ability not just to erect a website putting his or her version of the story online (which virtually anyone can now do), but also the ability to cause mass media outlets to devote attention to his or her side of the story.

As there is now more confidence in different business structures, and in accordance with the Taskforce's desire to simplify the legislation, the Taskforce proposes a new system that applies consistent standards to law practices of all kinds, while seeking to ensure that legal service providers can not hide behind the corporate veil.

Doctors are less inclined to direct a patient to stop taking statin medication because of the former two symptoms (since heart disease and strokes are much more serious afflictions), but developing diabetes is obviously problematic also, so good awareness and consistent checkups and blood sugar testing should be standard when taking these medications.

If sample size is not masking a significant correlation, the greater readability advantage in federal courts may be explained by the factors that depress the summary judgment success rate in state courts: more restrictive state summary judgment standards, the lack of state court resources compared with those in federal court, and state court judges» relative reluctance to grant summary judgment.111 Although greater readability could still influence the outcomes in some state cases, which would be consistent with the slight readability advantage in our sample, on the whole the anti-summary-judgment factors would reduce the potential readability effect on summary judgment outcome.

Should prospective lawyers be scrutinized more stringently than existing lawyers when it comes to professional ethics or should the standards be consistent?