Sentences with phrase «narrowing the gap for»

He caught his second touchdown pass of the game in the fourth quarter, narrowing the gap for his Baltimore Ravens against the Patriots.

New preliminary data released today by the U.S. Department of Education shows that states continue to increase high school graduation rates and narrow the gap for traditionally underserved students, including low - income students, minority students, students with disabilities and English learners.

I want us, together, to narrow the gap for the places left behind and provide better opportunities for the children who have the hardest start in life.

It is also possible that a focus on oral language will narrow the gap for children from impoverished communities and those who are learning English as an additional language.

The Pupil Premium has become a vital tool for narrowing the gap for children from families with lower incomes.

The narrower gap for the younger age groups suggests that women are now placing a higher priority on careers than did previous generations.

Not exact matches

The gap between the percentage of men and the percentage of women who work or are looking for work is the narrowest in the G20, according to a 2014 report by four international institutions, including the World Bank.

Earlier this year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions of items to its online assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S. sales are six times greater than Walmart.com's.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

Out of the 25 metros, the narrowest gender wage gap overall is in Tampa, Florida, where women make approximately 89 % of the median salary for men — higher than the national average.

«This is significant, as this will allow the government to assess whether tariff elimination can help narrow the price gap for consumers in Canada, and will help inform future decisions on tariff relief.»

The government took a stab at cross-border price differences in the 2013 budget when it eliminated tariffs on baby clothing and sports equipment — rates as high as 18 per cent for skates — to try to narrow the gap.

We urge the Government to provide further detail on its proposals for the UK's future trading and regulatory relationship with the EU, and to iron out its initiatives to narrow the skills gap and enhance business productivity through the Industrial Strategy.

Uber has a narrower gap with local rival Ola and the country can serve as a good test - bed for new ideas.

Our research team works to identify companies that are priced at a substantial discount to what we consider to be their underlying business value — what a rational investor would pay to own the entire business — and then we patiently wait for the gap between price and value to narrow.

Second, and perhaps more interestingly, they're more bullish on their own companies» relative performance: we have the narrowest gap between forecasts for the world and for CEOs» own organisations.

As value investors, we patiently wait for the gap between a company's stock price and our estimate of intrinsic value to close, and over the past 12 months, the gaps have narrowed.

The bottom line is that policymakers and advocates who have pushed for more testing in part as a way to narrow the gap between rich and poor have undermined their own efforts.

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

It's the only poll with a lead for the Yes campaign, but many others have shown a narrowing of the gap between the two sides.

How much that gap has been narrowed in this book is for each reader to decide.

There is a «Latinos / Hispanics for Donald Trump» Facebook page with more than 25,000 likes, and some polls reveal he has narrowed the gap with Clinton among Hispanics.

DHA for a brain - nourishing nutritional profile that narrows the compositional gap between formula and breast milk.

As a result, Martinelli's competitors have to pay a higher price for concentrate, and the price gap between Martinelli's juice and competitors» products has narrowed.

Detroit returned the punt for 17 yards to set up a scoring drive that narrowed the gap to 27 - 23 with almost the entire fourth quarter left to play.

I believe you noticed when last season that when Lallana was injured or unavailable, Liverpool were forced to play narrow and take other players from their natural or «best fit» positions to cover for the obvious gap.

Since three points for a win was introduced in 1995 - 96, the gap between the 14th and 18th - placed sides never has been so narrow.

... We maintain that using the AP program alone as a tool for narrowing the achievement gap is insufficient.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

To narrow the gender gap at work, women need support to combine their productive and reproductive roles, and this support must incorporate the time and structures necessary for continued breastfeeding.

It is my goal, and the collective work of our team here at the Nature Museum, to narrow that gap in Chicago by increasing inclusivity and access to nature for all.

Health (i.e., pregnancy) outcomes for this group can be improved by narrowing the information gap and offering customized care with specific attention to their medical, psycho - social and social problems [2].

That represented a narrowing of the gap for Ed Miliband's Scottish MPs, who are moping and moaning around Westminster that they are all doomed.

The fairness case for levying VAT on private school fees is this: whenever # 10,000 is spent on private school fees, # 2000 would go towards narrowing the gaps in opportunity and mobility.

The latest ComRes / Independent poll confirms that the gap in support between the main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, with the public deeply confused about what passes for David Cameron's economic policy.

... And given that the drive for additional funding to the most deprived regions is to close the gaps in health, child poverty and economic performance we need to find ways of ensuring that the additional investment does narrow those gaps and not simply cushion the running of revenue based services.

Even the Nigerian government had to postpone its $ 1billion Eurobond which was slated for 2016 to 2017 when a better investment environment had begun to emerge with rising oil prices, larger foreign reserves, a new economic policy document and CBN policy refinements which have significantly increased the supply of foreign currency and narrowed the gap between the various exchange rates.»

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

This report details the context for the cuts — a decade of underinvestment — and makes the economic case for supporting public higher education: it helps families through the current crisis, stimulates growth in the local economy, narrows racial gaps in income and education, and helps build a solid middle class for New York's future.

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A new Quinnipiac poll in the Florida Senate race shows former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) narrowing the gap against Gov. Charlie Crist (R), numbers sure to embolden national conservatives who are already casting the primary as a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican party.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

Test results for this target have been rising for disadvantaged pupils so the attainment gap has narrowed.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

The gap should be narrowed so as to remove incentives for one status over another from a tax viewpoint.

In other words over the course of the campaign Corbyn increasingly appealed to voters who had previously been unimpressed, helping them win new support for Labour, dramatically narrowing the gap to the Conservatives.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

Liberal groups hoping to narrow the «enthusiasm gap» with the Tea Party and other conservative organizations before Election Day are mobilizing for a big rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

And yet the pitch that snatched the party leadership for him centred on narrowing Britain's financial gap.

Bloomberg has long patted himself on the back for narrowing the gap in academic achievement between the city's white and Asian students on one hand and blacks and Latinos on the other.