Sentences with phrase «over past practices»

As as highlighted in the The Santa Fe New Mexican, he testified that he viewed the new system as «an improvement over past practices [namely the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measures written into No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-RSB- because [he believed the new system gave] him more information about his teachers.»

The results announced today constitute a vast improvement over past practices.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

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But over the past few decades the burdens on medical practices have drastically increased.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

Traditionally, Ottawa has raised the ceiling anytime CMHC approached it, a practice that has allowed the institution to grow exponentially over the past decade.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

He took over his practice from a dentist who retired, and inherited many patients who were near or past retirement themselves.

Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now runs Amplify, an employer branding and search consultancy, points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned with business, as well as more automated and data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.

Over the past few months, I've tested ad copy that instilled each of these four emotional drivers across various sectors and industries — really running the gamut from medical practices to online clothing retailers to personal disability lawyers.

Although it's changed over the past few years, the pattern reflects the Love Trade in practice.

Over the past five years, the best practices of anchor text optimization have considerably evolved.

Also, much has been written over the past 2 - 3 years about the importance of buyer personas, but these articles, books, and blog posts have stressed them as profiles or lead - generation tools as opposed to a best practice that informs on business, sales, and marketing strategies that help best identify and reach buyers.

In the podcast, Garry shares key principles from the book and how he has put them into practice over the past ten years at WD - 40 with remarkable impact.

Forecasting higher bond yields has been a practice fraught with error over the past...

Over the course of the past week, a spotlight has been firmly fixed on the sales practices of Toronto - Dominion Bank (TD).

As another example, in the past twelve months, Coca - Cola has experienced both widespread panic in Europe over a supposedly tainted product and protest marches in the United States over purported discriminatory hiring practices.

Research on these pastures also shows that the management practices developed over the past 80 years has resulted in higher levels of biodiversity and soil quality than in comparable privately - owned lands - factors that may become increasingly important with the advent of climate change.

The nature of the insults have changed, but insults have been around forever and bad as they are, they sure beat people killing each other over political and religious differences, practices frequent in the past and common around the globe today.

These focused on changes that had occurred over the past three decades in culture, church and educational practices.

Though I still have bad running days, my running has been on a gradual incline over the past few years, which came about through practice and by educating myself through running books, blogs and seminars.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

As I've participated in conferences and events over the past couple years, I've noticed that some of the wisest and warmest people I've met have been Mennonites, so I've been trying to learn more about their theology and practice.

Over the past few months, Ahava has offered valuable insights on everything from interpreting Proverbs 31 to celebrating Passover to practicing family purity.

The practice has become more prevalent over the past 20 to 30 years, Ottolenghi says.

Lindsey has dedicated much of her time over the past several years to unlearning conventional practices and implementing Traditional foods and natural remedies in her home.

3) Over the past 2 months, I've started a daily gratitude practice which I really feel has made a tremendous difference to my wellbeing.

This was one of my first recipes I tweaked and mastered over the course of the past year, inspired as a pre - or post-workout snack in between practices for my husband.

While Zanzi talks, I can see Francesco Totti over his shoulder, tapping balls to teammates and, at one point, leaving the ground to catch a volley with his shoelaces, sending the ball careening past the practice goalie.

We've seen various types of helmet cam get developed over the past few years and lots of footage from practice and test sessions, but this year in the USA we've started to see them regularly fitted to drivers in races.

After a whole summer of practice, Walcott may have been able to rediscover some of the form that he has lost over the past few years.

This practice has been around for centuries and over the past several years has been gaining ground in the US.

The irony is that — especially with all the domestic skills I've been practicing basically daily over the past decade — I'd accept being the SAHD in a marriage with a career woman (I trained as a historian; we're paid in pittances anyway) in a heartbeat!

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

Although Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss company, when Baby Milk Action has written to its Chief Executive over past years and decades regarding company practices, responses generally came from Nestlé (UK).

Over the past few years he has grown his skills, income, and ability to lead others, while still maintaining an active private practice in Traverse City, MI.

Over the past decades, the evidence of biological requirements for appropriate nutrition, recommended feeding practices and factors impeding appropriate feeding has grown steadily.

I'm so pleased for all the people that have dedicated their talents and energies to promote Baby - Friendly practices over the past few years — our staff, our board, our global sponsors, technical assistance providers, professional organizations, government agencies, and the thousands of committed individuals on the front lines of our hospitals and birthing centers.

In many European countries, home visiting is a routine part of maternal and child health care, although the practice is less established in Canada and the United States.7 Over the past 30 years, one of the most promising prevention strategies targeted at decreasing rates of child maltreatment has been to provide health services, parenting education, and social support to pregnant women and families with young children in their own homes.

Fathering practices have changed significantly over the past two decades in order to adapt to the changing economic, social, and cultural needs.

Although I have stuck to this vow while in private practice for the past ten years, it has been discouraging to see the rate of C - section deliveries continuously climb over the years.

Over the past decades, evidence for the health advantages of breastfeeding and recommendations for practice have continued to increase.

[Updated below] A big change in the world of campaign advertising: over the past six months: the practice of targeting online ads directly at voters in a particular district has gone from being exotic to being a standard part of the political toolkit, with serious implications both for the...

The Fleet Street - based agency specialises in financial communications but has been focused on building its policy advisory practice over the past few years.

Over the weekend, Senate Republican counsel David Lewis issued a memo asserting the payments are legal, constitutional and consistent with past practices.

New York Insurance Association President Ellen Melchionni said she was «highly disappointed that the court did not stop this back - door tax on New York businesses... This is a secretive practice that the state employs when they want to fill budget gaps — amounting to more than $ 1.8 billion over the past seven years.»

Mr. Jackson gave thumbs up to journalists in the country, saying there had been great improvement in journalism practice in the country over the past two years.

About two - thirds of said they had encountered one to five patients with BDD in their practice over the past years.

But we're practicing, using the tools we've developed over the past decade to understand them.

Reduction of critically important antimicrobials is something the University of Bristol has been working hard on, and over the past six years their farm animal practice has reduced prescribing of these critical antimicrobials, using none in recent years.