Sentences with phrase «of narrowing the gap»

There are many other ways of narrowing the gap between political promises and governmental achievements.

, have taken on the challenge of narrowing that gap.

«The leaders of Building 21, Laura Shubilla and Chip Linehan, have taken on the challenge of narrowing that gap.

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

At the end of the academic year, our governors will ensure that there is an annual statement accessible to parents on how the pupil premium funding has been used to address the issue of narrowing the gaps in our school and the impact this has had.

Looking to turn that dynamic on its head, movie studios and Apple are reportedly entertaining the idea of narrowing that gap down to two weeks.

The HPPI has been on a trend of narrowing the gap between homeowner estimates and appraiser opinions of home values since April.

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In the report, McGill writes that IoT technology is «narrowing the gap between the physical and digital worlds» and that «retailers are leveraging the enormous amount of data being collected to connect with their consumers in real time, both inside and outside of stores.»

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.

Any narrowing of the gap, let alone a return to contango, would be a sign that conditions are normalizing.

Firstly, Berenberg found that women of all races are narrowing the alcohol «gender gap» between men and women.

Payne said he predicts this gap of beliefs and intentions will narrow over time but not completely disappear.

Pay transparency will be the focus of tonight's PBS debate show, Point Taken, featuring a panel of guests who will clash over whether it could help narrow gaps in pay between genders, racial groups, and socio - economic classes.

Narrowing the gender gap is part of the broader push companies like Cooley are making to create workplaces where everyone thrives.

«Narrowing the gap between the laggards and those at the frontier of digitization could help accelerate productivity and growth,» it says.

Business leaders earning hundreds of times more than their employees are under increasing pressure to narrow the pay gap.

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.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

«As we look out over the course of the next 18 to 24 months, we will stay laser - focused on taking the necessary actions to narrow our gap to market and drive sustained shareholder value.

Professor Vishal Gupta of the University of Mississippi, one of the study's authors, surmises that the pay gap at the top may have narrowed because the chief executive role is so publicly prominent.

38 percent of freelancers are now being sourced through specific freelance worker sites, narrowing the sourcing gap with general online job boards (43 %) and employment agencies (39 %).

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

While shale production has narrowed the gap between supply and demand, it is nowhere close to zeroing out and allowing one to speak of energy independence.

With the advent of short ETFs, new online trading tools and a better understanding of options, individual investors have narrowed the short - selling expertise gap over the last decade.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

He pointed to the president's recent decision to impose tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, as well as ongoing renegotiations of trade deals with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, as ways in which the United States would narrow the trade gap.

But the gap is not narrowing quickly enough to rebalance the economy by the end of President Xi's term in 2023.

Among the 63 economies surveyed in both this and the last report produced in 2015, GEM found that Total Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) among women increased by 10 %, and the gender gap (ratio of women to men participating in entrepreneurship) narrowed by 5 %.

Even if international markets narrow only 50 % of the gap in coming years, I would still expect a sharp rally in broad international markets, such as in the iShares Core MSCI EAFE (IEFA A-95) and the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets (IEMG A-99).

With value at such depressed levels relative to its own history plus this wide dispersion, which tend to be a driver of value's performance, we expect to see a narrowing of value gaps both between and within sectors.

Only by truly engaging the populous can we even begin to narrow the national wealth gap and thwart a looming retirement crisis,» stated Dara Albright, Founder of Dara Albright Media.

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 gap between Canada's 2 - year yield and its U.S. counterpart narrowed by 7.9 basis points to a spread of -17.4 basis points, its narrowest since Oct. 30.

The growing popularity and freshness of the platform had helped Facebook to narrow the gap significantly with Google, in terms of referral traffic share, by the end of 2014.

That gap has narrowed, but the incidence of traumatic injuries in Alabama's auto parts plants remains 9 percent higher than in Michigan's and 8 percent higher than in Ohio's.

The gap between inflation of tradable and non-tradable items persists, though it narrowed further in the quarter.

Forward - looking data on new wage agreements also point to firm wages growth, and suggest some narrowing of the gap between public and private sector wage outcomes.

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.

They are premium quality, 2 - piece double edge single blade razors and fully adjustable, allowing the shaver to change the angle of the blade inside the razor head by twisting the knob at the bottom of the base to create either a wider or narrower gap between the blade and the safety bar.

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

We could expect, however, a gradual narrowing of gaps between different accounts and interpretations, a movement from uncertainty toward certainty, as historians refine their critiques within a common heuristic.

In conclusion, despite my insistence on the irresolvability of these two models, in Pannenberg and in Ford's modified Whitehead we do find a narrowing of the gap.

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.

Rather than attempting to have animals classified as «persons,» which Professor Carlin says would «narrow the gap between humans and the lower animals,» the Christian animal rights movement wants them to be recognized as the sentient beings they are, demonstrably capable of physical and emotional suffering.

He claims Darwinism is the «greatest of all attempts to narrow the gap between humans and the lower animals.»

Fortunately, historic events are narrowing the practical gap between the two forms of postmodernism.

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

Elmer Green reports that the gap between conscious and unconscious processes apparently is voluntarily narrowed during reverie and the creativity of the unconscious made more available to the persons.