Sentences with phrase «poor quality of the standard»

In addition, the poor quality of the standard U.S. diet — including high levels of red and processed meat and low levels of fruits and vegetables — is a major factor in a number of preventable diseases.

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In January, for example, Beijing's poor air quality was labeled unhealthy by World Health Organization standards and was the topic of discussions at several online forums.

The Paul Martin government proposed to create thousands of new day - care spaces and had also negotiated deals with most provinces and territories to turn a patch - work of often poor - quality services into a system of early learning and child care with national standards.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

There's a lot of underhanded business dealing, unfair treatment of employees, poor safety and quality standards in products, fudging on taxes, and so on done in the name of «the cost of doing business», or «remaining compet.itive.»

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

Unfortunately there is a TON of poor quality seed being sold and seed selection standards are not used uniformly in the industry.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

It said that, in the light of poor nutritional quality of some food and beverages marketed to infants and young children, the WHO guidance also indicates that foods for infants and young children should be promoted only if they meet standards for composition, safety, quality, and nutrient levels and are in line with national dietary guidelines.

Selling poor quality meat to public schools (lower standards than those met by fast food industry — where 3/4 of the meat is positive for things so heinous I shudder), as an example.

Earlier, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Anthony Elujoba, who declared the conference opened, however expressed worry over what he described as poor report on the quality of standard English language spoken and written in the country.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

Additionally, due to other medical issues or poor performance status (a measure that considers a patient's quality of life and ability to function during treatment), some stage III NSCLC patients are unable to receive the standard treatment of concurrent chemotherapy and RT..

They found that some sperm DNA methylation regions were also associated with poor blastocyst stage of embryo quality as defined by the IVF clinic's standards related to embryo quality before transfer into the uterus of the female partner to establish a pregnancy, Pilsner says.

The poor quality of most CCTV footage makes it almost impossible to trust standard automated facial recognition techniques.

However, because M. barkeri has a complex cell wall, produces a thick outer layer of polysaccharide, and grows in large aggregates of cells rather than as individual cells, standard RNA extraction protocols give incomplete lysis of cells and result in low yields of poor - quality RNA.

Fortunately, in a sea of poor quality and lowered standards, there are a few companies that stand out and have stepped up to the responsibility of producing safe and effective products.

The standard B - reel of interviews are, however, mini-masterpieces of unconvincing enthusiasm (not surprising given the quality of the performers), the bulk of which is given over to a poor dear who actually dies before anyone actually gets to the titular pool.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

Among those failings were the poor quality of content standards and assessments and the variability in content expectations and proficiency targets across states, as well as concerns related to the economic competitiveness of the nation's future workforce.

Certainly the challenges to high - quality standards from traditionalists as well as from others who have low expectations for poor and minority kids are part of the problem.

«It would mean turning the future of our schools over to an industry that has poorer quality control than pet food manufacturers, who at least have to meet federal content standards.»

First, as Jay Greene has pointed out again and again, the objection to national standards is not that the proposed CCSSI standards are of poor quality (though not everyone, certainly, agrees with Finn's glowing assessment of them).

The quality of teacher preparation is crucial to helping students reach high academic standards, but in the late 1980s there was concern that many teachers were entering the profession unprepared, having received poor - quality training.

The latter point is a reminder of the car's Chinese origins and the poor reputation for build quality, reliability and engineering standards that come with that.

The sound quality of the standard stereo is poor too.

The standard six - speaker audio system features a good array of sources, but poor sound quality.

In the past self - publishing had a poor reputation because of poor - quality production, low editorial standards and little access to the market.

They either do it for the sake of finishing it, putting in only half - hearted effort and producing poor quality that will not win the hearts of their professors, or they make a smart decision and ask a professional research paper writing service for assistance of the highest standards.

The quality standard at AssignmentHelp.ae is extremely high; therefore, any of our customers has never been catered with poor quality material.

The majority of essays they deliver are poor in quality and do not meet even high school standards.

Asus hasn't ripped the standard camera app out of the Fonepad, so you can take standalone video and photos with the front camera, but as you'd expect photo quality is poor.

The credit quality of securities in the Fund's portfolio is derived from Moody's and Standard and Poor's.

S&P Earnings and Dividend Rankings: The Standard & Poor's Earnings and Dividend Rankings (also known as «quality rankings») score the financial quality of several thousand US stocks from A + through D with data going back to 1956.

A high quality bond rating of AAA from Standard and Poor's, for example, means the bond is of the highest investment quality, suggesting the company will have the ability to pay both principal and interest at maturity.

Bond rating firms, such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's, use different designations consisting of upper - and lower - case letters «A» and «B» to identify a bond's credit quality rating.

On the other hand, extremely high quality blue - chip dividend paying stocks such as found on David Fish's lists of Champions, Contenders and Challengers or the Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats, have historically at least, provided a high level of protection against income risk.

He then tests each of these fundamentals using twenty years of high quality backtesting data from the Standard & Poor's Compustat Point in Time database.

Weiss requires that firms have Standard & Poor's earnings and dividends quality rankings of A — or better.

To help investors determine the quality of these types of bonds, most are rated by outside investment agencies, such as Standard and Poor's, Moody's or Fitch.

This helps stop poor quality breeding and insures high standards of the breed.

However, in a standard litter there may be 4 - 10 puppies and a photoshoot requires considerable preparation because a breeder will not want to produce poor quality pictures of their puppies.

They'll breed poor quality dogs that don't meet the standards of the breed.

These breeders are commonly referred to as «puppy mills» and «kitten factories» and documented problems include: over breeding; inbreeding; veterinary care that doesn't meet the same standards as other breeders; relatively poor quality of food and shelter; lack of human socialization; and overcrowded cages; and

The USDA does not have strict standards on the ingredients used to make pet food, so many manufacturers choose to use GMO's, animal by - products and other protein sources that are of poor quality.

Information provided to city council members states» [d] ocumented problems of puppy mills include over breeding, inbreeding, veterinary care that doesn't meet the same standards as other breeders, relatively poor quality of food and shelter, lack of human socialization, and overcrowded cages.

In addition to the higher fees, Valve intend to introduce a more stringent application process but still aren't looking to implement the quality control standards to prevent a mass of poor quality games making it onto their platform.

My mind reminded me of how Ohio went to Bush and how, when governor of Texas, there were all these big political contributers who were also industrialists with poor air quality standards and how Bush would let them slide even though the health of many was sorely affected.

If one compares the quality of life, standard of living and average life expectancy at birth of those of us who are fortunate to live in nations that have profited from this access with those poor, unfortunate souls in the nations that have not done so, it is clear that inexpensive energy from low - cost fossil fuels have brought us far more benefits than the damage, which climate models could imagine for the future, even in the worst CAGW incarnation.