Sentences with phrase «on narrowing the range»

Religious organizations, in turn, come to focus on a narrower range of social functions and are likely to adopt marketing strategies and formal bureaucratic procedures in order to compete effectively.3

Ofqual wants to see pupils encouraged to learn everything on the course rather than concentrating on a narrow range of areas.

The bad news, whether you are a child or an adult, is that schools are arguably more difficult places because the current system is so aggressively focused on a narrow range of metrics.

Inspectors found schools where there was «over-use of worksheets and an over-reliance on a narrow range of textbooks».

Nearly all companies make sure the choices include some high quality mutual funds that are suitable for retirement savings, and it may actually work to your advantage to be able to focus on a narrower range of choices.

Her painstakingly rendered works focus on a narrow range of subjects and are limited to a restricted monotone palette.

They rely, in other words, on narrowing the range of acceptable public debate to the point that even alleged havens of free inquiry like Columbia University begin endorsing the unleashing of legal force against critics of publicly funded climate scientists.

It focuses only on a narrow range of misconduct by a narrow sector of the bar (As I've written about here).

Not exact matches

His narrow range on Musk's business dealings appears to have a single focus: the companies» alleged misuse of government funds.

NEW YORK / LONDON, Jan 18 - Gold was flat in a narrow range on Thursday, first dipping as the dollar rose and then rising as the dollar moved lower, but bullion's gains were limited by higher U.S. $ 12, or 0.9 percent, at $ 1,327.20 per ounce.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

The CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the VIX, traded within a narrow range on Tuesday and eventually settled at 15.49, where it was down more than 2 % from Monday's close.

For instance, a portfolio with an allocation of 49 % domestic stocks, 21 % international stocks, 25 % bonds, and 5 % short - term investments would have generated average annual returns of almost 9 % over the same period, albeit with a narrower range of extremes on the high and low end.

High volatility, on the other hand, has the opposite impact on the optimal corridor bands — riskier securities should be confined to a narrow range in order to ensure that they are not over or underrepresented in the portfolio.

In 1972 the task force concluded that, in a highly qualified way, FOREIGN INVESTMENT had had a moderately favourable effect overall but that problems did exist, eg, «truncated firms» which performed only a narrow range of activities in Canada and were dependent on foreign technology and management.

CPI inflation in year - ended terms should stay in a narrow range around this profile over much of the forecast horizon, though volatility in oil and food prices over the past year will continue to have some effect on the year - ended figures in future quarters.

Stocks stayed in a narrow range, holding on to a better - than 100 - point gain posted by the blue chips by late morning, until about 3:00 P.M., when the market began to drift lower.

Yields on 10 - year US government bonds have remained within a relatively narrow range around 4.2 per cent over the past three months.

Since March, however, the currency has fallen back to around the middle of its recent trading range as the degree of optimism about commodity prices receded and on the expectation that interest rate differentials relative to the US would narrow.

They thought our political establishment adequate to their interests, and they toggled back and forth between Democrat and Republican on the basis of a fairly narrow range of issues.

The position of the Diocese at Westminster appears to be based on the fear that a State School is becoming elitist and restricting its intake of pupils to a narrow middle class range.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

On the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecOn the contrary, it can become difficult during the experience to concentrate on just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single objecon just the ordinary range of things: attention may even narrow to a single object.

Philia, on his showing, may have a wide range of meanings, but, within the circle of those with whom one had affectionate relationships, the ancient Greeks were quite ready to designate some as friends in a narrower sense corresponding more closely to that «abiding image» of friendship we still share with them.

Once we had highlighted the success of road teams, we wanted to narrow our focus on the moneyline range.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Based on Mathematica's prediction within this narrow price range, Food and Nutrition Services extrapolated its own formula in order to respond to the Senate committee's request for an estimate: For every cent the price of lunch increases, students who pay full price will drop out at a rate of.11 percent.

This book is of course a narrow range of information (and frankly very dry if you're not interested in economics), but these types of works will get you much closer to minute details on the everyday realities and decisions ancient governments faced.

They're missing a trick: while a narrow majority voted to leave the EU, it's clear the public want change on a range of policy issues.

«The English Bac, by focusing on such a narrow range of subjects, may prejudice the National Curriculum review and should not have been introduced before this had taken place.

It has already impacted negatively on the uptake of other subjects in schools such as the arts and humanities, with schools being forced to focus on this new narrow range of subjects.

A CC is unlikely to refound the British state if it is set up to function as, in effect, an advisory council to the UK Parliament on a relatively narrow range of issues.

The forms are now posted on JCOPE's website and contain letters that symbolize relatively narrow ranges of earnings.

Students advocating a range of new gun control measures met with Republican leaders apparently set on a package of narrower measures; House Speaker Richard Corcoran said here that he saw AR - 15 rifles as legitimate hunting weapons.

On other issues, Clegg found an ally in then Foreign Secretary William Hague during «behind - the - scenes debates about Israel and Palestine or the Middle East or China, where [Clegg] would customarily push for a harder line than the narrow realpolitik espoused by Osborne» (202), a poorly drafted sentence that makes it unclear whether Clegg's dispute with Osborne ranged over all these issues or solely China.

«There's a danger in overstating the extent of the ideological shift because the range of issues that we tackle at the municipal level are much narrower than those that are tackled at the state and federal level and I find that there's a broad based consensus on most of the subjects that come before the City Council,» he said.

Despite the overall conclusions of the study, within a narrow range of sizes, the way an animal is put together can indeed have a huge effect on a creature's top running speed, Holtz notes.

The study notes that narrowing down that percent range requires particle accelerator experiments on water ice to more accurately gauge the number of chemical reactions that result per unit of energy deposited by cosmic rays and solar energetic particles.

That way, if a processor is relying heavily on data from a narrow range of addresses — if, for instance, it's performing a complicated operation on one section of a large image — that data is spaced out across the cache so as not to cause a logjam at a single location.

Based on that suggestion, the ORNL team hypothesized that it should be possible to measure a nanomaterial's temperature using an electron microscope with an electron beam that is «monochromated» or filtered to select energies within a narrow range.

Some state mandates only require ASD coverage for children in narrow age ranges, even though treatment through childhood and into adulthood can be effective, and place caps on annual coverage amounts.

Used to thriving in a narrow temperature range, tropical insects may be more sensitive to shifts — they already live in conditions that verge on being too hot for them, a recent study finds.

Based on preliminary assessments, the research team suggested M. laterite to be classified as Endangered under the guidelines of the Red List by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as the geographic range of the frog is narrow, within an area of 150 square kilometres in southwest India.

Till now, climate modellers» forecasts of future warming have resembled the famous bell curve, with the most likely result of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase of about 3 °C, and with declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).

«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.

For a narrow range of flow strengths, the molecules were found in either a coiled or highly extended conformation, depending on the deformation history of the polymer.

And instead of focusing on a narrow field of research, it ranged across the whole of science.

«For our approach, we turn on the laser pulse and modulate its intensity, gradually turning it on and then off, and we take the frequency of the laser and sweep it over a narrow range,» Kotru explains.

Especially since most of the fast detectors are limited to a narrow wavelength range and not applicable for large sections of the mid and far infrared range like the HZDR's detector which is based on graphene.

The advantages of this style of work are that you can often base yourself at home, work hours that suit you (so sudden emergencies — like the sickly children I had to cope with while writing this column — can be worked around without your employer realising), and focus on a fairly narrow range of tasks that interest you.