Sentences with phrase «much narrower lead»

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Mix 94.5's lead as Perth's favourite radio station narrowed during the the latest radio ratings period with Nova93.7 taking up much of that ground to be a clear second.

So much for Matthew 7:14, «For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.»

So much for Gopnik's argument that Chesterton's «national spirit» and «extreme localism» led him to his supposed anti-Semitism: they were, in fact, precisely what gave him his respect for other nations and other cultures, including that of the Jews, to which the world owed its knowledge of God, «as narrow as the universe».

However, his number is still far too high for Open Doors, a leading advocate for the persecuted church, which uses a much narrower definition of martyr.

But it just goes to prove how much the gaps have been narrowed that a club such as Apoel are not just holding their own in a tricky Champions League group, they are quite fantastically leading the pack.

Much like yesterday's Panelbase poll in The Sunday Times today's poll suggests there might have been some narrowing of the SNP lead in voting intentions for May's Westminster election.

It was in the polls in the immediate aftermath of that launch that we see a much more dramatic narrowing of the Conservative lead among women than among men.

Polls conducted by the Quinnipiac Polling Institute in recent months have shown John Liu has a narrow lead heading into the Sept. 15 primary, but as much as 50 percent of voters remain undecided.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

I don't know what teachers she is observing, but the teachers I see in the schools today are the best and brightest I've ever seen — and are doing heroic work in spite of the most difficult conditions we've ever faced as a profession: meager resources; dwindling budgetary support; a narrowing of the curriculum leading to cuts to music, art and PE; withering attacks from Rhee, Kopp, Gates and Duncan and friends; an obsession with standardized testing; and much more.

In some cases — especially in male cats as they have a much longer and more narrow urethra than females — an obstruction occurs, which can lead to extreme discomfort and eventual damage to the kidneys; it could even lead to rupture of the urinary bladder, if the problem is not treated immediately.

In many cases, longstanding infection and inflammation have led to so much scarring and mineralization of the ear canal that the ear canal has narrowed and ear cleaning is no longer effective for removing accumulated debris.

For average non-acrophobes, it probably wouldn't have meant much, but for those of us with a healthy fear of impending death (including a related fear of snakes, spiders and Abba), the idea the narrow metal staircase leading me to the apex of Sigiriya, the 6 - story - high chunk of rock sitting in the central plains of Sri Lanka, was being held in place by a series of small foundations cemented into the sheer granite rock face wasn't the most comforting.

The May 5 request looks much more narrow, requesting e-mails between two named lead authors [e.g., Briffa].

There are certainly some slight design differences between the V30 and the S8 — the screen curve and back glass side curves are much more dramatic on the S8 leading to a narrower metal frame around the left and right, and the V30 only has volume buttons on the side (you'll find neither power nor Bixby [cue eye roll]-RRB--- but you'd be forgiven for thinking these two phones come from the same manufacturer.

She says she got so much traffic from just posting her resume that she knew she had to narrow down her search to geography and salary and take only leads that met certain needs.