Sentences with phrase «of meaningful stakes»

It injects some quicktime action into the script by having powerful characters briefly bash on generic Kree mooks, but there's not much in the way of meaningful stakes, so it falls flat.

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Recapitalizing — the reorganization of a firm's capital structure — allows business owners to take cash out of their companies while maintaining a meaningful ownership stake.

The tiny stake gained by American, based in Fort Worth, reflects the sheer size of the companies and reluctance in both countries to give foreign investors meaningful say in how an airline is run.

We believe that Company executives should have a meaningful ownership stake in the Company to underscore the importance of linking executive and stockholder interests, and to encourage an owner - manager and long - term perspective in managing the business.

The objectives of our long - term incentive awards, including equity - based compensation, are to encourage executives to focus on our long - term growth and to incentivize executives to manage our company from the perspective of stockholders with a meaningful stake in our success.

Before being ushered out of view in November, the prince was considered to be one of the world's richest men, with Kingdom Holding owning or having owned meaningful positions in satellite TV networks, as well as in News Corp. (a stake it mostly sold), Citigroup (shares of which it has owned since 1991), and a growing number of tech companies.

I'm thinking that, unless Vitalik subtly managed to telepathically hack everyone's brains so buyers would participate in the pre-sale in an organized fashion, it would appear that a lot of Ether — enough Ether to move markets or, if the system migrates to proof - of - stake, enough to play a meaningful role in determining consensus on a block - by - block basis — was sold to not a lot of people.

In contrast, consider that en route from 10 to 350 and as the upward momentum developed, there were plenty of opportunities to pyramid into Apple shares so as to increase your stake to something more meaningful.

Critics of U.S. schools» heavy emphasis on testing charge that the high - stakes assessments inflict anxiety on students and teachers, turning classrooms into test - preparation factories instead of laboratories of genuine, meaningful learning.

Both technologies are thus converging to offer an immeasurable assortment of information to mine and derive meaningful analytics from, and a growing range of services and resources with applications in any field with a stake in ICT development and innovation.

The Institute's attempted severity is constantly undermined by its inability to convincingly up the stakes through meaningful articulations of place or purpose — and it doesn't help that characters speak in faux - period syntax throughout.

Where the first film got bogged down in a rambling mess of CGI, this sequel establishes that things are at stake, and although some of the backstory feels contrived, it is done well enough that the quest feels meaningful, and the finale can muster up some suspense.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

The book's title, The Testing Charade, captures his point; excessive high - stakes testing undermines the goals of instruction and meaningful learning.

Instead of making the major course corrections that are clearly needed, including backing a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences for students and teachers from state testing, he has labeled everyone and every meaningful recommendation as distractions.»

The Texas Legislature is now in full swing and, of course, the Texas Institute for Education Reform (TIER) is at every table on every significant public education issue at stake, hopefully providing meaningful policy advocacy leadership.

The Notre Dame ACE Academies network of schools was founded in 2010 by ACE to demonstrate what is possible when pastors, bishops, and Catholic institutions of higher education enter into meaningful and lasting partnerships in which all parties have a substantial stake in student success.

Even if a correlation is «statistically significant,» it is possible that the correlation is the result of bias, and that the relationship is so weak that it is not meaningful in practice, especially when the goal is to make high - stakes decisions about individual teachers.

As a fund gets bigger, its menu of potential purchases shrinks; it can no longer invest in smaller companies because buying a meaningful stake could drive up the price.

[It's encouraging to see Argos Investment Managers build a meaningful 6.7 % stake this year — this is Donegal's first new institutional investor for a number of years].

«My experience as a money manager suggests that the entrepreneurial instinct equates with sizable equity ownership... If management and the board have no meaningful stake in the company — at least 10 - 20 % of the stock — throw away the proxy and look elsewhere.»

According to Michael Becker, chief financial officer for Mud Bay, the move toward employee ownership is designed to allow the company's employees to build a meaningful ownership stake in Mud Bay over the course of a career in which they get to think, act and maybe even worry like owners.

«A lot of choices early on won't be that meaningful because they won't know the characters and thus won't understand the stakes.

The stakes also are huge for Obama, who has little chance of pushing major climate legislation through a divided Congress but has vowed to take meaningful action against emissions that raise carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

In (iv) I would be pleasantly surprised if the Local Authority in the original Council Tax matter had devoted much time to the costs order or to the judicial review: — The amount of costs at stake, and the chance of recovery of those costs in a meaningful way, would have been small.