Sentences with phrase «on closing the gap between»

So are you excited to face Arsenal at this point in the Europa League, or were you hoping for an «easier» opponent so that Milan could focus on closing the gap between them and the teams above them in the table?

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A second thing is a concerted focus on closing gaps between groups of kids in a meaningful way over time.

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On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings.

«On both Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the gap between mobile traffic and revenue is closing,» Mericle added.

In fact, the stock market drop on October 31 was attributed in part to new polls showing the gap is narrowing between presidential candidates, with Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton.

PageRank scores run from 0 to 10 on a logarithmic scale, meaning that the gaps between the integers increase logarithmically the closer you get to 10.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

Barth's theoretical restrictions on any attempt to close the gap between spirit and nature, however, prevented Updike from exploring a thicker theological foundation for his prose.

The church of the early centuries closed the gap between possible and actual doctrinal tests on several occasions.

Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.

Rennes, on the other hand, took a major step closer to safety by opening up a ten - point gap between they and the bottom three.

The Red Devils face Sheffield United in the FA Cup this weekend, before returning to Premier League action against Newcastle United on January 12 as they look to try and close the nine - point gap that exists between them and leaders Arsenal.

The gap (if there is one) between City and Arsenal has closed significantly over the past few season during which we have beaten them in the league on numerous occasions, and would have won the match at the Etihad last season except for 2 off side goals.

For Tottenham, it's a chance to close the gap on Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table, temporarily at least, while Arsenal will want to move back into the top four and wipe out the deficit between themselves and their rivals.

Arsenal Ladies closed the gap between themselves and league leaders Liverpool to two points after a hard - fought 1 - 0 victory against Chelsea on Thursday night.

Spalletti's men take on Bologna at the Olimpico next Sunday as they try to close the four point gap between them and league leaders Juventus.

Arsenal are set to take on Sunderland in what was their game in hand and it give them oppertunity to close the gap between them and other top four hopeful Liverpool by just 1 point going into the last weekend of premier league football.

In a division which is more accustomed to runaway winners, this is the closest gap between first and fourth on January 3rd since 1992.

Assessing such evidence, Heckman says policymakers intent on closing the achievement gap between affluent and poor children must go beyond classroom interventions and supplement the parenting resources of disadvantaged Americans.

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In 2011, Brian passed legislation and negotiated a deal between the State and the City to create $ 200 million worth of new parkland and open space on Manhattan's East Side, including a mile - long esplanade from East 60th Street south to 38th Street, which will close the last major gap in the greenway circling the island.

The chief worry was - and remains - how to close the gap between a heavily armed gunman opening fire in a crowded place and the moment that an adequate response force can arrive on the scene.

Hammond announced a review by Oliver Letwin on how to close the gap between planning permissions being granted and houses being built.

The Republicans appear to be reluctant to spend on the race unless internal polls show Storobin closing the gap between himself and his Democratic opponent, NYC Councilman Lew Fidler, as the March 20 election day draws closer.

The program consists of counties putting forth a proposal to close the gaps, and with Onondaga County's extensive research on the impact of the gap between Camillus and DeWitt and possible solutions to filling it, Glazier said he believes the county is «well - positioned to compete for some of that (funding).»

In the unlikely event that Heaney closes the presumed double - digit gap between him and Faso, the former Assembly minority leader will remain on the ballot as the candidate of the Conservative, Independence and Reform parties.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — World AIDS Day 2014, December 1, 2014, is focused on the opportunity to it can only be achieved by closing the gap between people who have access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services and people who are being left behind.

Based on the results, the gap in predicted national vote share between the Conservatives and Labour has closed since the council elections last year.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.

He argues that because the technological gap between advanced conventional boats and nuclear boats is slowly but surely closing (another unsubstantiated statement), with the former costing half as much, then the days of the nuclear submarine are numbered and it will be allowed to wither on the military vine.

The panel concluded that «a growing fixation on excellence» at the university and «the aspiration to close the gap between research and its application in healthcare» both played a role in KI's hands - off treatment of Macchiarini.

In papers released July 9 in New York, international scientists advising UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon say closing the gap between developed and developing countries depends on first closing international science, technology and innovation (STI) investment gaps.

«No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before,» Earl Maize, Cassini Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, said in a statement «We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like.

I coach you on the physical exercise that best fits your status now and closes the gap between now and where you want to be.

Bottom line: The quality gap between her work on the little screen and the big may not close anytime soon.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

«By working closely with UK universities to raise awareness of data analytics skills and giving hands on training, we are helping to close the skills gap that exists between today's graduates and the workplace — but we see this is just the beginning.»

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

«We need to hone in on tackling the gender divide that has seen the results of Australia's boys trail behind girls and work to close the performance gap between students from high and low socio - economic status backgrounds,» he said.

Closing the Graduation Gap also maps the intersection between education and the economy, as it relates to the impact of schooling on the key economic outcomes of employment, income, and poverty.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

The gap in basic proficiency on state tests between participating private schools and public schools statewide, for example, has closed from 27 percentage points in 2013 to 18 points in 2015.

Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child housed at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University is a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration committed to closing the gap between what we know and what we do to promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

If policymakers really want to close achievement gaps between rich and poor students, she writes, they should stop focusing on schools and start paying attention to what happens before children ever get to kindergarten.