Sentences with phrase «other robust measures»

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While the size of an organization is not necessarily the prime measure for success on the Internet, a robust and strategic use of funds and other resources to sell a nonprofit's message to legislators, business leaders, potential donors and the general public, using all the online tools at one's disposal — even in conjunction with other communications media, like direct mail — is mandatory.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

«This new, more robust way of measuring attenuation is a breakthrough that can be applied in other systems around the world.

Our coral experts have the skills to measure how different species are responding — some are susceptible and others are robust».

However, our observations may also indicate that the CRP measurement is exceptionally stable and measured by robust, well - standardized immunoassays as compared with other inflammatory markers (36, 37).

Back in 2002 a group of educational travel companies came together and pioneered a robust verification scheme which featured an audit of all members every year by independent experts By measuring against a comprehensive code of practice that had been developed with, amongst others, health & safety experts, teachers» unions», head teachers» associations, outdoor advisors and top legal advice, the audit ensures all aspects of a company's business was examined, this includes worldwide health & safety management, financial security, consumer protection, fair terms and conditions and, for when it does go wrong, a commitment to independent arbitration.

Student achievement remains a far more robust measure of teacher quality than many others available.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

School climate is also commanding greater national attention under the Every Student Succeeds Act as groups work to include school discipline practices and other measures that can help make new ESSA accountability systems more accurate, robust and reflective of the daily challenges and opportunities in education.

In this article, we present evidence that the relationship between current relative valuation and subsequent performance for both factors and smart beta strategies is robust over horizons shorter than five years and using valuation measures other than price - to - book (P / B) ratio.

Most other measures of financial health also improved, with net worth hitting an all - time high on the strength of rising home values and robust strong equity markets.

It is by no means clear that the four or more bedrooms test can be made robust, and some other measure related to gross area may be designed for the purpose of phasing.

Our submission called for increased civil legal aid funding and for a robust Court Challenges Program to support legal challenges defending equality rights, among other important measures.

Andrew Langdon QC, Chair of the Bar, said: «Whilst plans for flexible courts have not been dropped, it is encouraging to see HMCTS not only take on board the Bar Council's concerns about the plans, which include the impact they will have on barristers with child and other care responsibilities, but they also commit to ensuring robust evaluation measures are in place before proceeding with the pilot.