Sentences with phrase «more impediments»

Sadly, there are more impediments to learning in the lives of poor children than there are in the lives of children from more advantaged circumstances.

With all the strategic interests of foreign partners and the various socioeconomic impediments from foreign interests, why is it that Africa still puts even more impediments in our own way by preventing trade between ourselves?

Inter-Africa Trade On intra-African trade, Ex-President Mahama said, «Why is it that Africa still puts more impediments into its way by preventing trade between ourselves?

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That's akin to Uber's surge - pricing model, which charges customers more amid external impediments like traffic and weather.

But while bleating smartphones and constantly chirping social media usually take the blame for derailing productivity, there is a second, perhaps even more insidious, low - tech impediment to actually getting work done: good old - fashioned meetings.

Europe has long been considered a more difficult place for activists due to cultural and structural impediments.

These recommendations were in fact cited by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its 2016 annual Economic Survey of Canada.Naming a lack of productivity as a major impediment to future economic growth, the OECD called for Canada to pursue a platform of deregulation while also reducing interprovincial trade barriers and providing more incentives for small - and medium - sized companies to innovate and invest.

Instead, it's more analogous to a broken leg or diabetes — an undeniable impediment, but a manageable one if addressed.

For the other half, there are Individual Retirement Accounts, but no more than 10 percent of eligible working people start one, due to inertia, impediments to finding and choosing a plan, and uncertainties about making investments.

It wil be described as nothing more than a way to explain the unexplainable resulting in an impediment to progress, and a speed bump on humanity's road to maturity.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

«In more recent times, this opinion has found support from the fact that sight impediment - including temporary blindness lasting from several hours to several days - has been observed as being a symptom or result of an epileptic seizure and has been mentioned in many case reports.»

Though the Church can, for example, abolish certain existing prohibiting impediments to marriage, of purely ecclesiastical law, if it considers this advisable in the changed situation of today, it by no means follows that it would be equally possible for the Church to revalidate and sanction any invalid marriage whatever, if the Church were only rather more liberal and understanding.

And that is aside from the problem that all such short cuts, when lacking a firm and agreed upon definition, are by necessity vague generalizations that can be more of an impediment than a help.

And being united by affinities of character, they move with less impediment and more vigor than any other bodies can move, and constitute, no doubt, that form of the sacramental host by which Jesus Christ intends to give freedom to the world.49

Some of the impediments to more vigorous competition are, first, high barriers to entry due to difficulties new or expanding players have in finding new sites.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Dear Bettina, I certainly understand your skepticism; in fact I believe that the biggest impediment in this issue is the belief system that says healthy food will always cost more money.

Children whose parents have divorced are more likely to experience injury, asthma, headaches and speech impediments than children whose parents have remained married.

Less is More:... But, after two birth experiences in hospitals, I believe I can honestly say that the circus - like atmosphere that occurs in a lot delivery rooms can be a real turn - off, and maybe even an impediment, for a woman in labor.

Oppositely, efforts like affirmative action demonstrate a cognizant and active effort to help correct for institutionalized impediments and make system inherently more evenly available throughout society.

Or is it ready now for government which is more deliberative, and invokes less stridently a one - off electoral mandate as reason to dismiss every impediment to action?

The arguments against paid sick leave, as stated in the Capital Region Chamber's petition opposing Local Law «C» on behalf of its more than 2400 area businesses and organizations, include: the proposal will hurt our economy, reduce jobs, lower the county's sales tax revenue, and act as «an impediment to attracting, retaining and growing jobs.»

Massachusetts is the 21st state to offer online voter registration, a system Secretary of State William Galvin, the state's top election official, said will remove one more administrative impediment to registering to vote.

However, for those who seek a much more deregulated market in schooling, which is publicly financed, but privately provided, Ofsted has clearly become an impediment to progress, and hence the moves by some on the right to question its «fitness for purpose».

This is widely admitted in the U.S., where the impediments to disarmament are being seen more and more as economic, political and emotional in origin rather than as based on operational military considerations.

Data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations, and the National Weather Service reveal another, more fundamental impediment: November skies suddenly turn cloudy.

Note that Dr. Greger generally tries to play an optimistic tune that is more or less directly orthogonal to the «angry vegan» projection, stereotype, and impediment to mass persuasion.

The sicknesses and life impediments that can develop from an untreated hormone imbalance can end up costing much more in the long term.

As Saint John indicates, if gatekeepers are the impediment to change, not the people knocking to get in, the onus to make a difference should be distributed more realistically.

Seems more like they want to manufacture an impediment and if saturated with it, they may succeed.

Both Michael Sheen, as the repressive - turned - obsessive Boldwood, and Tom Sturridge, as the capricious soldier Troy, more than compensate for the impediments of the two leading actors, commandeering each scene they are in and striking the perfect balance between fear and self - loathing and compulsive desire and manic obsession.

Its plot is so thin that Allie's fiancé is never a convincing impediment because he doesn't get any more screen time than the war, although McAdams» heartfelt romantic bewilderment makes up the difference.

A film more sure of itself would have dispatched this impediment to happiness with quick dispatch, but the makers of Hitch - a film that overstays its welcome by a good half - hour - seem to be the only filmmakers in Hollywood to not know how to put together a fast happy ending, preferring instead to pile on the false climaxes and unnecessary plot wrinkles.

The none - too - bright West Virginian Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), who has recently been laid off as a heavy equipment operator, and his equally dim Iraq War vet brother, Clyde (Adam Driver), who has a prosthetic arm and tends bar, engineer the heist with the help of a gang that also includes bank vault opener extraordinaire Joe Bang (Daniel Craig, with close - cropped blond crewcut), who is set to serve five more months in prison — a minor impediment to his involvement in the robbery, as it turns out.

Firth and Rush's lingual jousting is the highlight of the film and more than able support is given by Guy Pearce as Edward the abdicator, Bonham Carter as the future Queen mother and Timothy Spall makes for a very believable Winston Churchill — who also happened to suffer a speech impediment at one time.

While Colin Firth won an Oscar for portraying the monarch as a man flabbergasted by his own stammer, Mendelsohn's performance underplays the speech impediment; in the way he handles his unfiltered cigarettes, he reveals more character than Oldman does in two hours of gesticulating with cigars.

In this forum Linda Kaboolian says that collective bargaining is here to stay, but offers ways to make it more educationally productive; Howard Fuller and George Mitchell lament the impediments that collective bargaining has imposed on the learning process and call for more transparency; and Eva Moskowitz, a former New York City councilwoman, wonders if the system isn't «too broke to fix.»

But these courses — in which students are effectively paying college - level prices for high - school classes — often don't count toward degree requirements and can significantly delay a student's progress, making it more likely that impediments will arise.

States can create a more agile, more American, system of governance that eliminates impediments to improvement, empowers schools to innovate, and uses data to help families find the right schools for their children.

He now believes that «these conversations are the [school's] project,» not impediments to some other, more distant goal.

Though we've begun to recognize these as major impediments to important reforms within today's brick - and - mortar world, they turn out to be even more constraining — and damaging — to education in the online realm.

When you look at the things that successful organizations are doing, you have no idea whether each one of those things caused the good outcomes, had no effect on success, or was actually an impediment that held organizations back from being even more successful.

A novel or movie may depend on this linearity to convey the narrative arc, which is essential to its form, but this can present an impediment to more instructional kinds of media.

It is now clear that unless and until we make a more active effort to mitigate the impediments to learning that are commonly associated with poverty, we will still be faced with large numbers of children who are either unable to come to school or so distracted as not to be able to be attentive and supply effort when they get there.

This raises the possibility that, if career - ladder teachers were more effective, it was simply because better teachers were more willing to negotiate the bureaucratic impediments to advancing on the career ladder.

A simpler, more fruitful course is to emphasize observable actions, particularly those that remove obsolete impediments or regulations.

Part of the point I was trying to make the other day, with my «More money to the parents» post, was that plenty of these parents, including poor parents, are a lot smarter than we — the system — gives them credit for and that if they had more choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schoMore money to the parents» post, was that plenty of these parents, including poor parents, are a lot smarter than we — the system — gives them credit for and that if they had more choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schomore choice (or the money to exercise those preferences) and fewer structural and institutional impediments to overcome, you'd see big changes in some of our slackard schools.

Experts from scholars to Education Secretary Arne Duncan are calling for more focus on bullying not only because it is linked to high rates of teen suicide, but also because it is an impediment to education.

As more and more Democrats come to see that the teachers unions, with their rigid work rules and insistence on preserving the failing status quo, are the biggest impediment to education reform, the unions can either become more conciliatory or they can double down.