Sentences with phrase «narrow measure in»

A more narrow measure in the report, used to indicate shadow banking activity that may give rise to financial stability risks, grew to $ 34 trillion in 2015, up 3.2 % from the prior year and excluding data from China.

Not exact matches

The narrow M1 measure of cash and checking accounts — sometimes considered as heralding short - term spending — rose at a hefty annual rate of 11.7 % in September.

European bond markets initially welcomed the deal made at the July summit, although the narrowing of spreads for peripheral bonds over German Bunds was relatively muted, perhaps signaling a measure of skepticism among investors about the ability of the eurozone to survive in the absence of a formal mechanism that ensures the sharing of liabilities among member states.

Be sure to measure how well each type of post performs in order to narrow down your posting strategy.

As students across the country walked out of their schools for the National Student Walkout in honor of the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, House lawmakers passed a narrow gun violence prevention measure with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Consequently, there may be greater labour cost pressures than are evident in narrower official wage measures which do not capture these forms of payment.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

Camus was able to walk that narrow path where we may seek to do justice and to exercise freedom in a measured way.

In addition, this narrow view of a moment in time decision for Christ is necessary to be able to «count» conversions, which is the only way to measure our success as a church, organization, or ChristiaIn addition, this narrow view of a moment in time decision for Christ is necessary to be able to «count» conversions, which is the only way to measure our success as a church, organization, or Christiain time decision for Christ is necessary to be able to «count» conversions, which is the only way to measure our success as a church, organization, or Christian.

He does so because he fears with good reason that with the promise of restoration, the narrow, short - sighted, vicious pride of covenant Israel will return in full measure.

You believe that if something can not be touched, seen, heard, or measured in some way, then it must not exist, yet you fail to see the irony of your calling Christians «narrow - minded».

Hibberd, whose Caprice measures a full 15 inches narrower in the beam than Finisterre's extreme 11 feet three inches, actually did get as much room in his main cabin by combining a couple of pet theories.

If you are looking at the UK situation, please also bear in mind that Nestlé and Danone break the narrower UK measures and we have won cases against them for misleading advertising before the Advertising Standards Authority.

Since it measures only 21.5» in width it is a breeze to maneuver it especially through narrow doorways.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

This Britax B - Agile stroller measures 31 inches in width, which is pretty narrow for a side by side stroller.

Republicans in the Senate, who hold a narrow majority, have questioned the voting measures as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the budget.

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

The NYCO measure was approved by voters statewide 53 - 47 percent — a vote that Protect the Adirondacks noted was the narrowest margin in a half - century on a question involving the forest preserve.

However, he said the Senate would work on a narrower measure ensuring that the lesser penalty applies when police order someone with a joint in his pocket to bring it out in the open.

Wooden timbers from the sunken ships are kept submerged in narrow rectangular tanks measuring some 10 to 30 feet long and housed inside the warehouse as well as in an adjacent lot.

«By greatly narrowing the specific genes involved in social disorders, our findings will help uncover targets for treatment and provide measures by which these and other treatments are successful in alleviating the desperation of autism, anxiety and other disorders,» says Korenberg.

By combining two chemical techniques — narrow capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry — Moini figured out how to measure that ratio in just 20 minutes using microscopic samples of silk.

By measuring those waves using hundreds of seismic stations installed on the surface, near places such as Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone National Park, researchers can deduce whether there are narrow mantle plumes or whether volcanoes are simply created from magma that's absorbed in the sponge - like shallower mantle.

Through an exhaustive process of taking chimp stool samples all over Africa and measuring the rate of mutation in the viruses they found, scientists narrowed down the location of «spillover» to a remote corner of present - day Cameroon in the early 20th century.

You'll want to improve your overall baseline fitness first, and then narrow in on the specific areas that will be measured during testing.

I've measured my HRV for several years and it has never varied much and stayed in a narrow range.

However, the mean muscle activity of the narrow grip bench press in the measures by Boehler (2011) measured 62 % of the muscle activity displayed during a close grip push up.

For two different cuts of pants in the same size, a higher - rise style typically measures narrower across the waist opening than a lower - rise style, which sits lower near your hips.

Armed with a tape measure and dressed only in your best under wear, measure your bust at the fullest point, then for your waist choose the narrowest point above the navel..

Assessment focuses on shifting from too narrow measurement of skills in the past to measuring what truly matters today.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

Moreover, the authors «oversimplified development by dividing it into two categories,» Fischer said, and then used a narrow set of tasks to measure «capabilities and contexts» in the two categories.

Topics discussed were Measuring Achievement, Calibrating Gaps and Monitoring Progress; How Identity and Culture Affect Achievement Gaps; What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Schools; and What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Non-School Hours.

The district's schools have also narrowed the achievement gap in test scores, which NWEA MAP measures show are trending upward.

A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.

The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose performance has the greatest impact on the headline accountability measures».

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

The latest performance data for primary schools shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and others in a combined measure of English, reading and mathematics has decreased in each of the last six years, narrowing by 1.3 per cent in the latest year and 10.5 per cent since 2011.

So - called accountability measures in Louisiana, including the statewide testing mandate, ironically enough may have discouraged high - quality providers from entering the market, thereby narrowing the options available to parents of students using the scholarships.

To be sure, these accountability measures, which are as much the product of Bush - NCLB as Obama - RTTT, left much to be desired and C3S often argued, at times to the displeasure of other charter advocates, that the accountability to which we were being held was overly narrow and poorly aligned with the needs of a 21st century democracy drowning in real - world problems.

Critics say that using annual state test scores to rate teachers is too small and narrow a measure and that results fluctuate so much a teacher easily can go from excellent to failure in a year.

The trend in education policy, exemplified especially by NCLB, has been to combine narrow measures with high stakes, thereby damaging schools» capacity to meet larger goals and often undermining the quality of education.

Tests are one of the few objective measures of performance — for schools, teachers and students — and while they should never be used in isolation, we would be narrow - minded to believe that they can be thrown away.

By taking this path, we have boxed ourselves in to an assessment system that measures a quite narrow amount of learning, excluding learning that is of increasing importance in today's world — complex higher order thinking including reasoning, analysis, synthesis, problem solving, communication, creativity, and collaboration.

Even though our test scores were rising in all academic areas these tests measure only a narrow band of knowledge, a band far too narrow to prepare students for the real future.

Government accountability measures such as the EBacc have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum in schools, with many seen to be prioritising more academic subjects at the expenses of creative areas.

In reality, it will not be possible for most states to both intensify narrow testing such as that proposed by Bush and to improve the quality of assessments while adopting multiple measures.