Sentences with phrase «on narrow groups»

«Today's reforms allow our hardworking police officers to concentrate their efforts on the narrow group of individuals driving violent crime in New York City.

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.

You said, «Lumping President Dan Cathy and yours truly into a group based on your narrow opinion.

Lumping President Dan Cathy and yours truly into a group based on your narrow opinion.

On the whole, the focus of those groups tends to narrow into a demand for censorship.

«In this case,» says Steinfels, «the news media tended to bestow credibility heavily on a rather narrow set of experts» lawyers, therapists, and leaders of victims» groups, who had long been locked in legal battles with the bishops.»

One group from Narrows and Giles have ordered t - shirts to express their opinions on the issue.

The obstacles that the new proposals face are depicted as the expression of narrow vision and corrupt self - interest on the part of small groups who are willing to risk the wellbeing of the whole for the sake of retaining the unjust advantages they now enjoy.

Coming out of the first transition, a small group of women instantly joined together on the bike, but as Learmonth slowed down in the first 12 - kilometre countryside lap to wait for compatriot Non Stanford, the lead group lost its connection and narrowed down to only four riders.

Voluntary groups are now in a very dark moral place, «imposing zero - hours contracts on staff, asking unpaid volunteers to take on additional obligations they feel morally unable to refuse, and in many cases, prioritising core services around a narrower spectrum of people in need».

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

Focusing in on M23, it's fair to say that the group has a narrower social base than previous armed groups.

Anti-tax cap groups, including the state United Teachers, are disappointed in the Democratic - led Assembly's version of the cap, which keeps the 2 percent ceiling on the growth of taxes, but does include some narrow exemptions for pensions

The leader of the Lib Dem group on Bedford council, Nick Charsley, lost his seat by the narrow margin of just 48 votes.

Felder is a constituent - focused legislator popular with his Orthodox Jewish base, relentlessly focused on narrow issues affecting this group.

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.

This group of small countries constitute roughly five percent of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in narrow and sometimes submerging portions of land.

«This reassessment narrows the probable range of sea level rise based on the latest science,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and chair of the group of experts that assembled the report.

Additionally, Dr. Kissler's group narrows in on genes such as RGS1 that help to regulate cell migration.

As the working groups narrowed in on their specific recommendations, the chairs of multiple groups also met to discuss cross-cutting themes and to merge similar topics into joint recommendations.

You may have large - scale RNA - Seq data, and don't know whether technical effects are relevant; or you may have large grouped cohorts of DNA - Seq data, and need to narrow down your variant list to a few significant ones, associated with disease; or you may want to do an integrated study on a dataset containing RNA and ChIP - Seq samples.

I'm on the hunt for the perfect gray for the walls, thus the vast quantity of paint chips (and those are the ones that are part of the «narrowed down» group).

Depending on the type of relationship you are looking for, you can narrow down your search to one specific group of daters.

Narrow your search to couples and groups and you're on your way to threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes!

You can begin to use filters on your email box so that you only receive emails and winks etc from people of a certain age group and location if you prefer to narrow your search.

Gold membership features: • There are advanced search features, so you can narrow down the list and increase the chances of finding the right match in your case; • You can look at any other profile on the site, when you want and which one you want; • You can receive messages from others, reply to these messages, or initiate new messages; • You can see full - size photos and video, plus to leave any comments for the ones you like; • You can watch any webcam you like, without any limits; • You can send friend requests and flits to the people you like; • You can create a hotlist that can hold up to 1000 members; • Customer support is provided with priority, via phone, and via e-mail, if you want, with an answer received in approximately 12 hours; • You can see when there is a contest of photographs, and you can participate by commenting, viewing and liking your favorite photos; • You can upload photos and videos to your own profile; • You will enjoy access to the available groups and blogs; • You can use chat rooms or IMs of the members to communicate in real time with them;

For other dating - related activities, we focused on a narrower subset of the population: specifically, those who are «single and looking» (Group 3 above) and those who have been in a committed relationship for ten years or less (Group 1 above).

Facilities There are campsites in the Narrow Island Group, the Glen Island Group, and on Long Island, some accessible by boat only.

Eventually, it all narrows down to the same dozen or so films, judged not so much on what they mean to the writer, but on what they might mean to a group of people not even in the screening room.

After their first two releases provided broad surveys of our planet's landscapes and waters, Disneynature seems to have settled on a narrower format: spending extended time with a small group of photogenic animals.

If in the case of malicious activation and you don't know who the culprit is — this is your way of finding out which group of pupils it may have been, especially if you can narrow it down to a particular corridor on a particular day.

Most rope structures are suited to all age groups — juniors can play on sections of the structure where there are narrower distances between ropes, while seniors can use more challenging sections with large distances between ropes.

Two revision quickies with solution A worksheet on negatives with solution in the context of school Communicative drills A set of narrow readin texts with comprehension questions A bilingual translation aimed at year 10 - 11 groups of good proficiency level, It covers a comprehensive range of school - related vocabulary recycling key vocabulary over and over again, As prep work use my free website's (www.language-gym.com) work - outs and / or the boxing game in the GAME ROOM section (they drill in the same vocab found on these worksheets) Translations A sentence puzzle

Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.

«On the other hand,» Fager continued, «a K through 8 arrangement might not be able to tend as specifically to the developmental needs of a particular age group as schools with narrower configurations can.

Streamlined tools like TNTP's Core Teaching Rubric and the Insight Core Framework from Insight Education Group can home in on a narrow, prioritized set of instructional expectations to more effectively focus the observation process.

Recent results on our Nation's Report Card (the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP), for example, tell us that during the NCLB era, student achievement in reading and math improved for African American, Hispanic, and white students alike, and achievement gaps among these groups narrowed.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

It required schools to publish their scores on state tests not just as averages, but broken down by students» race, sex and other groups, a rule that most educators agree has focused attention on narrowing achievement gaps.

Measuring student growth without relying solely on narrow standardized tests involves looking at multiple measures of student learning, such as essay exams, portfolios of students» work in various subjects, and group projects that require analysis, investigation, experimentation, cooperation, and written, oral, or graphic presentation of findings.

There is every scientific reason to predict that an intensive focus on oral language development during the classroom reading period in early grades will not only raise reading achievement for all students, it will also help narrow the gap between social groups.

When James Coleman, the great sociologist of education, analyzed the school characteristics that had the greatest impact on educational achievement and equity, he found that schools with greater academic intensity — a persistent, goal - directed focus on academics — produced not only greater learning, but also narrowed the achievement gap between ethnic groups.30 That such academically focused schools would raise general achievement is obvious since an intense focus on academics is self - evidently the most likely means to raise academic achievement.

When I spoke for a community group of women in NY in the early 90s, several nurse executives heard me and encouraged me to focus on healthcare — lots of women still, just a narrower group than all working women.

The title sponsor, along with its self - publishing imprint CreateSpace and publishing house Penguin Group USA have narrowed down the field of novel entries from 5,000 to just six, with the grand prize winners in both the general fiction and the young adult fiction being announced on June 13.

As of today, the judges have narrowed down the field of entries to the quarter finalists, leaving a pool of one hundred titles in each category; the semi-finalists, which will be announced on April 16, will bring that group of books down to a mere twenty - five entrants.

«Those who have criticized low - down payment lending as excessively risky should know that if the past is a guide, only a narrow group of borrowers will receive these loans, and the overall impact on default rates is likely to be negligible.

To narrow down your selection, it helps to divide all of the reward cards on the market into four groups: