Sentences with phrase «more years of conditioning»

The preservice teachers entered the elementary social studies methods course with 12 or more years of conditioning to accept social studies as an uninteresting content area, mainly requiring the memorization of names, events, places, and dates.

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More favourable growing conditions this season should lead to a sharp increase in the number of red and white grapes crushed, while regions such as Swan and Manjimup should continue to see increasingly larger yields over the next five years.

Since the Italian crisis is likely to grind on - with another round of elections a near certainty over the next year - the euro will remain under pressure because the ECB will continue to maintain easy credit conditions while signs of the Fed's less accommodative stance will become increasingly more evident.

The department, conducting an antitrust review stretching more than a year, so far has failed to persuade any of the states to join a potential lawsuit but has sent them a draft of the complaint, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Those with chronic health conditions who are dying for lack of proper care are not counted as official hurricane deaths, but the island's forensics institute reported 472 more deaths in September compared with the previous year.

In talks with fund officials over the past year, Goldman executives presented an analysis of the fund's allocations based on publicly available data and suggested areas it could improve, such as where to spend the risk budget and whether to be more active or passive in certain portfolios, said the comptroller staffers, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

«While active listings are still more than double a year ago, we're seeing a slow tightening of conditions off the mid-2017 lows,» they said, in a note Wednesday morning.

Dixons Carphone remained at the bottom of the European benchmark, down more than 23 percent, after lowering its full - year profit on tougher market conditions.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Due to the conditions, D.R. Horton said it expects per - share earnings for the third quarter of 93 cents, and lowered its per - share view for the year to $ 3.65 or more on 50,000 homes closed.

Looking back over the past fifteen years, in months when high yield credit spreads were widening, indicating tighter financial conditions and more risk aversion, the S&P 500 outperformed the Russell 2000 by an average of roughly 0.45 percent.

Given present conditions, the range of potential GDP growth rates over the coming 4 - 8 year period is much more constrained than investors may recognize.

One year after the rule's publication, in April 2017, the «broader definition of fiduciary will take effect, but to take advantage of the BIC exemption, firms will only be required to comply with more limited conditions, including acknowledging their fiduciary status, adhering to the best interest standard, and making basic disclosures of conflicts of interest,» DOL states in a fact sheet released Tuesday detailing some of the final rule's changes.

One year ago, Whitman was a little more critical of the condition of HP.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

These conditions comprise the following: S&P 500 overvalued with the Shiller P / E (the ratio of the S&P 500 to the 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18; overbought with the S&P 500 within 3 % of its upper Bollinger band (2 standard deviations above the 20 - period average) at daily, weekly, and monthly resolutions, more than 7 % above its 52 - week smoothing, and more than 50 % above its 4 - year low; overbullish with the 2 - week average of advisory bullishness (Investors Intelligence) greater than 52 % and bearishness below 28 %; and yields rising with the 10 - year Treasury bond yield higher than 6 - months earlier.

While overall consumer sentiment levels have risen to the highest reading since the beginning of 2004, the current conditions component is at the highest level recorded since the measure was first published more than 40 years ago.

As the only licensed producer applicant in British Columbia's renowned «Golden Mile», our 290 - acre facility in the South Okanagan Valley is celebrated for its ideal climate conditions, honoring this region's tradition of excellence and a family legacy that has grown here for more than 120 years.

It was estimated that should all conditions remain the same, the industry will grow to have nearly 20,000 personal chefs that will be serving more than 300,000 clients and generating close to $ 1 billion within five years, the periods of 2003, 2008 and present trends have surpassed this estimation.

Financial conditions have returned to their most supportive levels in more than a year while credit spreads have retraced more than half of their widening.

In contrast, the present syndrome of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield conditions is typically associated with abrupt and often steep losses, but is more commonly resolved over a period of months rather than years.

«We expect trading conditions to return to more normal levels, which, combined with the continued rollout of new products and our sustained emerging markets performance, gives us confidence in delivering an improving performance trend during the remainder of the year,» said outgoing chief executive Olivier Bohuon.

According to management, the deal is expected to generate free cash flow of more than $ 4 billion in 2015, and some $ 1 billion in operating and tax synergies three years following the closing, which is currently scheduled for mid-2014 pending shareholder approval and other customary conditions.

While a low unemployment rate can indicate tight labour - market conditions, the 2017 average hourly wage of full - time and part - time employees combined grew by only 1.7 per cent — the lowest year - over-year growth since 1998 and more or less at the same rate as consumer price inflation.

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

However, the tightening of US monetary conditions has started to have noticeable effects and these effects should become more pronounced as the year progresses.

The spread between 10 - year bond yields and the cash rate is currently around 45 basis points, compared with more than 100 basis points on average over the past decade (see the chapter on «Assessment of Financial Conditions»).

It is very reasonable for us to «feel» this correction more acutely, particularly when we are conditioned to be optimistic for the beginning of a new year.

From thousands and thousands of years of history, you are trying to make a case based on an incident that might have been little more than an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.

As for the somewhat chaotic condition in the Vatican in the latter years of the pontificate — not to mention the poor preparation for the 2012 pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, which seems to have had an impact far beyond the Caribbean — why did Pope Benedict not ind himself a more competent «prime minister» than Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose record as Secretary of State the pope emeritus continues to defend in Last Testament: a defence that may be admirable as personal loyalty, but is inexplicable otherwise?

More than I realized, the experience of the last four years had raised profound questions about the human condition.

Under these conditions, holding up the banner of the Protestant Reformation is less about affirming the theology of Italian Reformed Protestants (as de Chirico's commentary implies) and more about past issues over religious freedom for Pentecostals who had only been in Italy for twenty years in 1928.

He told the publication that during his priesthood of more than 42 years, he had «always found priests very compassionate in meetings with people who have had this difficulty and have suffered from this condition».

If the marriage has been neglected in favor of the children during the previous fifteen or more years, it is faltering by this time and in no condition to provide the couple with resources for facing the empty nest years.

The entire nation embarked on a campaign in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century to control rapacious business, to clean up government, to democratize more fully our political institutions, to protect labor with better hours and pay, safer working conditions, and anti-child-labor laws.

The 79 - year - old Bright has limited his public appearances and interviews because of pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating condition that doctors confirmed in October and say give him only a few more years to live.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

Dollar said the mark on his daughter's neck is more than 10 years old, the result of eczema, a skin condition.

Conditions varied, of course, from parish to parish, but even George Herbert's model parson was not expected to summon his people to the table more than five or six times a year — at Easter, Christmas, Whitsuntide, before and after harvest, and at the beginning of Lent.

Under ideal conditions, the same amount of land used for growing corn could produce up to 25 times more protein from microalgae in part due to continuous harvest year - round and significantly higher protein content found in microalgae

If farmers cop a price cut, it couldn't come at a worse time, with Australia's top dairy producing areas facing dry conditions and the least amount of grass growth in more than 40 years.

The aim is stay relevant for longer with big customers who want more than just the offer of Australian east coast grain in the years when seasonal conditions smile on GrainCorp.

Children (n 49; mean age 5 · 4 years) in the food advertisement condition were more likely to identify real fruit foods when advertisements had fruit images compared with when no image was included, while fruit images in advertisements for sham fruit foods significantly reduced accuracy of responses.

In the food label condition, χ 2 analysis of within fruit content variation differences indicated children (n 58; mean age 4 · 2 years) were significantly more accurate in identifying real fruit foods as the label's informational load increased and were least accurate when neither a fruit name nor an image was on the label.

«The State of Texas grows more than 100 varieties of chiles in its various climates and soil conditions throughout the entire year.»

«But when a player comes back in the condition Tony was in and performs like he has this year, then he takes more of a major part.

In fact, our entire season this year is one big «moment of truth», considering this is such an open season (it's almost new year and Leicester are top of league!!!!) and the condition for us to win the league are more in our favor than before.

He has the frame to add more muscle and will do so after a year of NFL strength and conditioning training.

Today, conditions seem more fertile.Unlike the NASL, the 12th - year, 13 - club MLS has seven teams (and counting) playing in soccer - specific stadiums; four new national TV contracts; a countrywith 42 million Hispanics, many of them soccer lovers; a base of competitivehomegrown players feeding a U.S. team that has reached five straight WorldCups; and a single - entity business model that prevents teams from spendingthemselves into bankruptcy by bidding against each other for free agents.

Thus citizens of Kroton became the classical world's most physically fit, and 500 years later, «more healthful than Kroton» was still an expression signifying top - notch condition.