Sentences with phrase «point gap on»

A 200 point gap on the SAT scale is huge; statistically, it amounts to two standard deviations.

33 - percentage point gap on the question about whether humans have evolved over time — 98 % of scientists say we have, compared with 65 % of the public.

Mauricio Pochettino admits it will be «difficult» for Tottenham to finish in the top four of the Premier League after Manchester United opened up a six - point gap on them.

The manager is «proud and pleased» with that sequence of results but nevertheless appreciates the scale of the task his side will encounter in trying to subdue a City team that has scored 85 Premier League goals this term and opened up a 16 - point gap on the rest of the division.

With visits to Huddersfield and West Ham United - either side of the final home match of 2017/18 against Southampton - to come, Everton top goalscorer Rooney says the Blues are eager to finish the season on a high, starting by securing victory on Monday night and opening up a four - point gap on their opponents.

Chelsea have lost just once in the last 16 Premier League games, and could potentially end the midweek programme with an 11 - point gap on their rivals with just 15 games remaining.

A win could put the Gunners as high as fourth and will open up an eight point gap on Brendan Rodgers and his players.

Three points for Arsenal would open up a four point gap on our big rivals and so it is encouraging for us fans to see that even pundits that are not usually very keen on Arsenal, such as the former spud Jamie Redknapp, are leaning towards a home win tonight.

Remember last year we had a six or seven point gap on them and instead of playing counter we played invisible.

With Jose Mourinho's Chelsea team in all sorts of trouble, we will head to Stamford Bridge with confidence and a great chance to deepen their pain and open up a nine point gap on the champions.

If Chelsea win as expected, they will open up a nine - point gap on us, making our game on Sunday even more important.

Mancini puts City's title bid apparently failing down to the recent injury of Sergio Aguero who missed their draws with Sunderland and Stoke last month — two games which allowed United to open up a five point gap on their rivals.

The Blues have a seven - point gap on second - placed Tottenham at present, with only seven matches remaining.

It's simple for manager and board really... do we have a best 11 to close the 12 point gap on chelski and the smaller gap on man city when both will strengthen in summer?

In turn, Jose Mourinho would undoubtedly have been a happy man, as he will now hope that it leads to a big run of results to close the eight - point gap on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table, while they also continue to make progress in Europe.

We went on a run of 10 straight wins from March - May in ’98 to win the title, closing an 8 point gap on United.

United will open up a five points gap on fifth place Liverpool, if they are able to win at Anfield on Sunday, and Van Gaal was quick to point out that securing a top four finish remains the extend of the club's aims this season.

Not exact matches

Highlighting scads of studies that have found that a wide confidence gap exists between the sexes, they point out that success is just as dependent on confidence as it is on competence.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

McKinsey further pointed out that such moves helped senior leaders avoid the typical pitfalls that inhibit success, most notably the perception gap pitfall between the top and the rest of the organization about what's really going on day - to - day, and the pitfall of over-planning.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

The report, called Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk, found that nearly 100 percent of vehicles on the market come with wireless entry points or WEPs that could be a way in for hackers.

On a recorded call, the head of Gap Inc's investor relations, Jack Calandra, pointed to a «tepid macro environment» for retail and store traffic problems that worsened in April even as he incredulously claimed that Gap is making «good progress» in righting itself.

«Employers who are serious about their future and about addressing the skills gap need to put more money in the game,» he said, pointing to an OECD report that found Canadian companies have an abysmal record on skills training.

Women Are Dominating Social Media (Pew Research) On average, the proportion of women who use social media is greater than that of men by an 8 percentage point gap.

However, the price action was so strong that Mazor Robotics gapped sharply higher on August 30, well above our planned second entry point (above the two - day high).

Entry point was based on a post-earnings gap up.

Examine how those aspects point naturally to gaps and needs your organization can fill — and how filling them could make a difference on one or more of these social issues

When this happens and as debt levels rise relative to debt servicing capacity, at some point the major stakeholders — including businesses, creditors, household savers, workers and so on — became uncertain enough about how this gap will be allocated that they take steps to protect themselves from this uncertainty.

The difference between the 10 - year and 2 - year Treasury rates narrowed to 47 44 basis points on Monday (April 16)-- the smallest gap since late - 2007.

He pointed to the president's recent decision to impose tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, as well as ongoing renegotiations of trade deals with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, as ways in which the United States would narrow the trade gap.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

The gap between the 2 - year and 10 - year Treasury notes, often considered the heart of the yield curve, held at 46.8 basis points on Thursday.

The beauty is that their motivations stem from various points — sometimes personal interests, professional experience, following through on a passion project, or filling a gap they see as a problem.

Forward - looking data on new wage agreements also point to firm wages growth, and suggest some narrowing of the gap between public and private sector wage outcomes.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

Podcasts that point me back to Jesus in the midst of a crazy world, music that focuses my attention on Him and sermons that keep my mind grounded in truth — these are the types of things I try to fill gaps of free time with.

Everytime science has new insight the god of the gaps must step aside on that point.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

Pointing to the great and growing gap in our acquisition of data on the one hand and our ability to make constructive use of it on the other, some people say that what we have is not a knowledge explosion but an ignorance explosion.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

In the 54 countries where data were collected on Christians» daily prayer habits, Christian women report praying daily more frequently than Christian men by an overall average gap of 10 percentage points.

Greene heightens the suspense just before a death, sometimes by shifting the point of view; he follows the death with the suggestion of a great gap; then he focuses on the survivors at a low point of action.

Recent figures on the growing gap between rich and poor in America offer disquieting confirmation of this point.

They're suitable for those on the paleo, SCD and GAPS diets (grain free) so I shall be making them at some point!

With food sensitivities, if you go on a healing diet like the GAPS Diet, you may be able to heal to the point that you can add those foods back into your diet.

On wednesday every Arsenal fan will be a Totenham fan when they face chelsea... we need them to reduce the 9 points gap between us and chelsea and we also need them to stop chelsea from matching our record (14 game winning streak)..

Instead of being ambitious we are mediocre and only go for these average players because arsene refuses to see a gap, go for the jugular (last season case in point when we were on top and we should have strengthened instead of buying an injured player ffs) It's simple - teams target our snails, Hence why we always get trounced by the better teams THAT HAVE PACE!!!!

I could see us close the gap to 3 or 5 points but to win the PL we would possibly have to gain 9 points on them whilst we have looked inconsistent.