Sentences with phrase «promoted over your peers»

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I've walked the fields of mega-tournaments, watched countless instructional DVDs and books, appeared on television to promote new football helmets, and, over the years, have turned down the chance to promote hundreds, if not thousands, of products, many making claims that could not be backed up by peer - reviewed studies, some whose advertisements were later found to be misleading by the Federal Trade Commission.

Malcolm Wicks is taking over as science minister, with Ben Bradsure promoted to minister of state, Labour peer and former MEP Lord Truscott has become a parliamentary under secretary at the DTI, and Alistair Darling has taken over sole responsibility for energy policy.

In a sense, the rise of this important peer group dovetailed nicely with the changes that educators had introduced in high schools over the previous 30 years: namely, downplaying the role of academic subjects and promoting the subjects and activities that appealed to teenage interests and lifestyles.

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us.

The great is is that it acts merely as an interface and promotes peer - to - peer trading without taking any sort of control over the user's funds.

Typically, in this setting, music allows clients to explore feelings, promote positive behavioral and emotional changes, foster feelings of control over the environment, manage conflict and develop problem solving strategies, whilst strengthen peer relationships.

A meta - analysis of «peer mediated interventions» examined 45 distinct studies conducted over several years and concluded that teaching typically developing kids to both mentor and befriend those with autism was «highly effective» at promoting lasting positive social interactions.