Sentences with phrase «put numbers on something»

In 2013, a team of experts funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wrapped up a three - year, $ 45 million project to identify Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)-- an effort to determine whether it's possible to put numbers on something as complex as teaching.

«There is no judge or jury who can put a number on something as subjective as pain and suffering,» says Darren McKinney, director of communications for the Washington, D.C. - based American Tort Reform Association.

Not exact matches

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

I wont try to put a number on it, but I know your reasons are more often used as an excuse for something deeper.

Could do with a number 2 that dose something like teach our players to put someone on the post to a corner and just get it away

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

This is very interesting.I look at the number of striking options in our team and i wonder how Wenger will be signing a cf.However as i keep saying a cf is a need not a want.And needs are more important than wants.We have needed a World class cf since Robin Van P. Left.Just look at the feeling you get when you have a world class goalkeeper e.g Cech in the team.You feel relieved you know why?Its because the goalkeeper is very reliable, very talented and consistent.Imagine the feeling you would have when having a world class cf in the team.You feel very relieved you know why?its because the cf is very consistent, is super talented, will at most times finish off chances and will mostly create moments of magic.Arsenal need a world class cf so as to have that sense of reliability and to not put too much pressure on the midfield to always create chances for them.We neeed that consistency infront of goal to excel.Right now arsenal's centre forwards are very inconsistent, unreliable at most times and are not very clinical.We need a world class striker so that at least if the team is not performing he can take control and do something out of nothing.You need to understand the benefits of having a world class cf its not just about goals or talent but about being a leader of the attack, a strong scoring mentality and also the will to be consistent.World class cf's give your attack the ish factor.

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

On a final note, Loris Karius put in a decent performance, and dealt well, for the most part, with a number of aerial balls — something he struggled with initially.

United once again played well, creating a number of chances and shots on goal with West Ham's goalkeeper really putting in a performance against the Red Devils, something he really needs to be doing each match for his club, but isn't.

«It's a constant, constant battle» with students «to bring it back, or they forgot something, or the parent doesn't want to put the Social Security card number on, or they haven't signed it,» Taylor says.

People have a vague idea that calories have something to do with putting on weight, but little intuitive grasp of the number in foods or what they do in the body

If you are in that kinda number phase but eventually I want every single person listening to put minimal RAM, you know, just like your computer, minimal resources of your brain — I want minimal resources to be dedicated to worrying and focusing on this stuff, because I want it to be something that just goes on the backburner and you just do it almost subconsciously it makes people neurotic.

There is something about seeing the number of steps on the display that keeps you putting one foot in front of the other.

It's so funny how something so small like not putting numbers on your outfits makes it instantly more your own and less part of the pack (I thought and did the same thing!).

A little black number that is a go - to anytime you a. have no time to figure out an outfit and b. you want to put on something that will make you feel like a million bucks.

He said he would like to see the city «put the same effort into helping whatever (public) schools they think need that help, as to go out and create their own charter school to do something that's going to be limited on the number of students that they can get.»

I'll admit I'm a little leery of the numbers Amazon uses but I'll leave it to those not math - challenged to work out whether they are complete hand - wavium or simply putting a positive spin on something that is possible.

This month, Watson adds to its accomplishments something to put a smile on a good number of indie authors» faces.

I'm curious about something: Do you think putting your book on a blog takes away from the number of people who might buy it?

In light of the staggering number of animals put down just at our Tulsa Animal Shelter here, it is obvious that something must be done to curb the number of stray and unwanted pets that end up killed on our highways, dumped, or killed in shelters.

So far, this could be one of a number of games, but it seems here that real weight will be put on the decisions that you make and the emotional toll, something that hasn't been explored much in video games up to this point, barring hamfisted attempts like Call of Duty WWII's quick photo tour of an abandoned concentration camp.

I don't know what uncertainty IPCC would put on that number (maybe, very maybe something like -0.2 C to + 0.3 within 99 % confidence bands and -0.1 C to + 0.1 C with 90 % confidence bands, but that's just an informed guess from reading what else they've got to say).

If the colder could add its energy to the hotter, then statistically in the «large number of events» the colder could always be giving up its energy to the hotter, and losing what energy it has so itself getting colder; so putting something hotter on ice the hotter will get hotter not colder if there is enough colder to hotter events.

My stats abilities may not qualify me to comment on the number - crunching part of this M&W paper, but putting that aside, firstly, something that struck me was the rather overtly political commentary that went on in places, especially in some of the introductory section — a lot of which seems to have been sourced via areas of media or politics.

To put an actual number on it, you should check around every two to three years unless something is happening to make you unhappy with your current carrier.

But that means before you put a burner phone number on something that would be a pain to change, like a yard sign, you probably want to own the number for a few days to see if it's a clean one.

Or I doubt myself and think that I must have ran the numbers wrong, putting thoughts in my head that if I buy it ill somehow have overlooked something and go from a potential $ 200 cash flow per month on paper to the property costing me money every month and drain me.