Sentences with phrase «on than those in the middle»

The most effective principals are more likely to remain in the same position than those in the bottom quartile, but are considerably more likely to move on than those in the middle of the quality distribution.

Not exact matches

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

Rather than popping up in the middle of the screen and interrupting whatever it is you're doing, like what happens on the iPad, notifications are stacked unobtrusively in a bar at the top of the screen.

After the purchase, refreshing the Leon's brand became more crucial than ever in order to differentiate from The Brick, which also relies on sales promotions to push middle - of - the - road furniture.

Having spent much of last spring touring the remarkable and little - reported - on tech startup communities in the Middle East — from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai — I was excited to see that no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.

Speaking at Tmall's Super Kitchen event, an offline expo of home goods held by Alibaba Group's business - to - consumer site, Stewart said she saw an opportunity to expand her brand into the world's second largest economy as rising incomes in the middle class there were increasingly being spent on lifestyle and experiential purchases rather than staple goods.

For more than thirty years he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

In 2014, an upper - middle income household with three people lived on about $ 126,000 to $ 188,000, and a highest - income household lived on more than $ 188,000.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

In addition, many upper - middle - income taxpayers who face the Alternative Minimum Tax — a higher tax than their regular income tax — will not be able to claim deductions that may be allowed on a regular tax return, according to tax analyst Mark Luscombe of CCH, part of Wolters Kluwer.

U.S. refineries invested more than $ 100 billion in the past two decades on upgrades to handle heavy crudes from Mexico, Venezuela and the Middle East, according to Michael Wojciechowski, a Houston - based refining analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an industry research and consulting company.

As a general rule, borrowers that need loans with balances consistently larger than $ 2 million are too big for about 80 % of the banks in the U.S. Surprisingly, only about 6 % of the banks in the U.S. are larger than $ 1 billion in size and have the capital base to concentrate on middle - and lower - middle - market businesses.

Gold, on the other hand, has not reacted to the extent that crude oil has to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, although the precious metal, which is still considered a hedge against political instability, is up by more than 10 percent this year.

The problem with the Arab spring is that the media and others are boxing the upheaval going on in the Middle East under a single term even though what happened in Tunis is completely different than Egypt, or Libya, or Syria or any other surrounding countries.

It is no different from what when on in the middle east, when their uberlords realized it was much easier to control stupid zealots than intelligent, sentient beings.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

Answer No article describes the History of Islam in more detail than the article «World History and Developments in the Middle East» listed on our website http://www.aworlddeceived.ca We only invited you to read it, we did not inform you that you had to.

It is interesting that this study focused on evangelicals (in the Christians most of the five were prominent evangelicals and most of the five atheists are almost evangelical in their atheism) rather than more moderate middle of the road individuals.

In the Middle East, they pick names based on different criteria than we do.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Just think if that had been spent here on American's health than thrown away in the middle east.

The importance of this quest for middle - class respectability based on merit rather than politics can not be overestimated in the new black conservatism.

If, on the other hand, being Christian continues to mean little more than being predictable middle - class liberals with a tinge of something called spirituality, then the few exceptional things that congregations occasionally manage to perform ethically will lack any foundation in repentance and faith.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for suppeIn the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for suppein the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

Muslims surveyed in South Asia and the Middle East - North Africa region are more likely than Muslims elsewhere to consider suicide bombing justified,» according to the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, a survey of 38,000 Muslims in 39 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Its passing from the Middle Kingdom was even more complete than in the ninth century, for in that former eclipse it had continued among the non-Chinese peoples on the borders of the empire, whereas now even these latter had abandoned it.

But they wore their youth and bright future so carelessly, and I found myself applauding until my palms tingled for the men and women like my brother - in - law who had to battle through school with so many other demands on their attention, for the women older than my mother who have finally finished their degree long after their nests emptied, the middle - aged men with a circle of whiskers on their shining bald heads.

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

But, when their overcrowded boat broke down in the middle of the Agean Sea on its way to Greece, Mardini and three other passengers — the only ones on the boat who could swim — did something truly heroic: They jumped in the water and pulled the boat through open water for three hours, saving more than a dozen lives.

Me too Roger — I had enough of these politicians on a mission for God with George W. Bush and his three wars in the Middle East that cost us blood far more precious than the neocons made in money off those wars — not to mention the grief he cost us with his NAFTA and TARP set up to bail out his Wall Street cohorts.

Ironically, then, Israel's prime minister is being harmed rather than helped by this employing of biblical proof - texts on the part of Christian evangelicals to answer political questions in the Middle East.

A second blow to deism came in the middle of the nineteenth century with Darwin's alternative explanation of the design of nature with its emphasis on chance and struggle rather than on beneficent design.

Those who are on the upswing, who have cut their racial moorings and learned to live by mind rather than emotion, can find a resting place neither in lower - class religion, which offers only emotion, nor in middle - class religion, which offers neither mind nor emotion.

we criticize the middle east for their mistreatment of women based on their religion, but we are no better than them in the way we treat gays / lesbians in this country.

Still, some varieties hold up better than others even in the middle of winter (more on that below).

If you were to ask me on any given day what my favorite cookies are, it would (more than likely) be some classic, crispy on the edges but soft in the middle chocolate chip cookies.

Pour the mixture on top of the biscuit base, use the back of a spoon to smooth a small hollow in the middle, leaving about 1 ″ at the edge which is higher than the middle of the cake.

If some of your slices are thicker than others, put the thicker ones on the outside of the pan and the thinner ones in the middle.

Hey Taylor, As I mention in the recipe, if your top seems to be cooking faster than the middle of your loaf, simply cover it with foil and allow it to keep on baking until the middle is cooked through.

** Sometimes the crackers on the edges finish baking sooner than the crackers in the middle.

Note: I enjoyed this book in spite of the narration on audible - the narrator's tone sounded like a high class 40 year old rather than a middle school / high school kid.

Hi Dina, what I mean is that it is moisture than most Italian cakes, which tend to be on the dry side (not wet at all), in my opinion a really good middle of the road cake.

Scott has the ability to play anywhere in the middle of the park, with the 20 - year - old even being deployed on the left - hand side on more than one occasion.

When I put a two -, three - or four - iron in my hand, my left hand instinctively tends to get stronger on the club than it does when I grip a wood or a middle or high iron.

Maybe to accommodate Jack Wilshere or Santi Cazorla in the middle, but the Spaniard seems happier on the flanks than Ozil.

I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.

IMO I have seen Chaimbers perform better in the middle as a CD than as a right back, so to move him just infron of the central defenders might suit him better then playing out on the right.

A hit on a kicker who's in the middle of a kick will be judged differently than a hit on a player who's trying to make a tackle, for example.