Sentences with phrase «opportunities than the former»

Not exact matches

«I can think of no one more deserving of this extraordinary opportunity to win a 7 - Eleven franchise than one of our military veterans who has given so much for our country,» DePinto, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point and former U.S. Army officer, said in a statement.

After all, there are more than 44,000 documented legal restrictions on vocational and educational opportunities for former prisoners.

The same principle of nonrandom selection is responsible for part of the non-Christian presence in the U.S.. For example, the population of India is about 12 percent Muslim, but because of both «push» factors in India and «pull» factors (especially economic opportunities) in the U.S., the proportion of Muslims among Indian Americans is probably higher than that for the same reasons — push and pull factors — Jews are greatly over represented among migrants from the former Soviet Union.

Newcastle appear to also have an opportunity to sign Carroll but it is unknown whether the club are willing to bid # 15 million for him, even though Carroll would more than likely prefer a move back to his former club than a move to Upton Park.

It is time for Conte to show a bit more trust in Danny Drinkwater, with the former Leicester City midfielder showing at every opportunity that he is better than Bakayoko.

The opportunity is there but the means by which the Lib Dems capitalise on that opportunity are far from clear — especially when an anecdote about a curious boy and a dead pig gets more coverage in a day than the Lib Dem conference does over a week (having said that, Lib Dem conference delegates did squeal with excitement when they read about it, including myself, when I sent some late night trolling texts to my former Tory SpAd colleagues).

He, however, was optimistic that with all the good works that President Mahama has done and his economic vision for the country, he is more than convinced that Ghanaians will give Mahama his second term just as former President Rawlings and Kufuor were given the opportunity to complete their works respectively by serving two terms.

«The opportunity to elect candidates on the basis of competence and ideas, rather than party and geography, can have a seismic impact on the way state government functions,» said former Mayor Ed Koch.

Due to the tinkering done to term limits by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council, there will be more than 30 «open» seats in the 2021 cycle, making for a lot of opportunity to address the Council gender balance.

Former defence secretary Liam Fox has turned down an opportunity to return to the government as a Foreign Office minister, more than two years after he resigned over a controversy about his unofficial adviser and friend Adam Werritty.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

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Former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan suggested that a model of flexible staff deployment would «give a clear path to career progression that will keep [teachers and leaders] engaged rather than looking for opportunities elsewhere».

As a former district public school teacher, administrator and PTA president, I'm deeply disappointed that the nation's teacher unions chose to battle rather than seek the enormous opportunities for teachers, as well as families and students, in the charter idea.

They said «Over the course of the author's reporting, Amazon facilitated meetings for him with more than half a dozen senior Amazon executives, during which he had every opportunity to inquire about or fact - check claims made by former employees.

A former president of the Canadian Booksellers Association, and a previous board member of BookNet Canada, Mark's experience in the publishing and bookselling industry spans more than three decades where he has worked at almost every type of brick and mortar, online and digital bookstore.He thrives on innovation, particularly in relation to digital publishing opportunities, and has run a successful POD business as well as his own publishing and digital consulting business (Stark Publishing).

Marston's tried to talk them out of it before, but there is no dialogue tree imaginable that provides an opportunity for John to put himself in a different category than his former friends.

Howard Rachofsky, a Dallas - based collector and former hedge - fund manager, saw an opportunity in postwar Italian art more than decade ago and began chasing undervalued names including Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Piero Manzoni.

The Legal Social Mobility Partnership (LSMP)-- a joint enterprise between a number of leading law firms and in - house departments offering work experience to sixth - formers — will now provide opportunities to more than 200 students across 40 participating law firms and corporates in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester.

The point, said Agarwal, a former global head of product marketing at Google (s GOOG), is to help kickstart college students» careers by pushing opportunities to them, rather than by forcing them to search for or seek out alumni and opportunities they probably don't even know exist.

The latter is perhaps even more important than the former, as it provides us with an opportunity to self - analyze our abilities — even if we do not ace the actual interview

The majority of high - level executives find job opportunities through second and third degree network connections rather than from friends, family members, or former coworkers.

The former seeks to enhance opportunities for women researchers through redressing the structural barriers within the NHMRC grant processes that have denied women a research career, rather than insisting that they lack «capacity» or even for that matter, that capacity might be built by someone — possibly men — doing research on women.

Rather than preparing for and focusing on an adversarial legal battle that destroys relationships (with your former partner and potentially with your children) and drains both your bank account and your mental health, you can engage in a constructive process where you have the opportunity to present your needs and priorities and have them addressed.