Sentences with phrase «rather than the disadvantage»

HERERA: What — you know, if you «re waiting to the last minute, sometimes you may not have the time or you may not know where to look for some things that really could put you at an advantage rather than the disadvantage.

You end up with an advantage over the carb using athletes rather than disadvantaged like the free lifter.

You can also be sure that some of the statements and characteristics ascribed to the free dating service sites are either incorrect or can be perceived as advantages rather than disadvantages.

Not exact matches

However, overcoming a cultural norm is quite difficult for a group of people who are not well - informed about the advantages and disadvantages of banks, but also of holding virtual money, rather than cash.

However, the major disadvantage is that the private keys are being stored by the website owners rather than locally on your device and this type of wallet therefore requires you to put a lot of trust in the owners of your online wallet and their levels of security.

Yet the attitudes of our society, family oriented as we are, are such that an attribution of disadvantage — thus making the lot harder than it should be — is the rule rather than the exception.

Beginning with one context, as Latin American theology has, and specifying the hermeneutical principle quite concretely rather than more formally, have the disadvantage that hearing what is said by other radical voices may be very difficult.

It accuses the deliberate egoism of an economy... in which each is the enemy of the other, because his advantage is conditioned by the disadvantage or ruin of the other, and it demands an economy of solidarity of all, and of joy in work rather than in profit.

They conjure up a forgotten era when the disadvantaged constituted a working class, rather than a nonworking lumpenproletariat.

«The argument adopted by consumer groups in the USA is that access is not universal service - that the telephone should be priced at a level which makes it possible for disadvantaged groups to use it for social reasons rather than simply as an emergency service».

Much like the disadvantaged person who is forced into a workfare program and as a result fails ever to gain any marketable skills, Third World countries suffered rather than benefited from incorporation into the world economy.

I think if he were to play with worse rebounders he would rebound more, just the team would have rebounding as a disadvantage rather than an advantage

Rather than folding in the face of a daunting personnel disadvantage, the Crimson Tide cut into Minnesota's 11 - point lead to make it a one - possession game with under two minutes remaining.

The Giants are at a disadvantage, as Zobrist reportedly wants to play just one position rather than be his former versatile self, and that position is second base.

Mark S Kiselica writes in When Boys Become Parents, «For too long our culture has treated boys who become fathers... as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation's problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying to navigate a complex array of difficult life circumstances that place them at a tremendous disadvantage.»

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

While I don't mean to minimize the plight of financially disadvantaged students, I couldn't help but think how much I'd rather have my child eat a simple sandwich than some of the highly processed food my own district regularly serves.

The main disadvantage with the outdated R44 regulations was the way that child seats are sized; with i - Size, seats are sized by the child's height rather than weight, meaning that they progress to a larger size at the appropriate rate for their body, ensuring the highest safety standards are provided at all times.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

«We saw Empire Zones move to cater to where businesses wanted to be rather than have them come to economically disadvantaged areas,» Deutsch said of an economic development program that was a hallmark of Republican Governor George Pataki.

Today's announcement also saw an extension of free school meals to disadvantaged students in further education and sixth form colleges, rather than just school sixth forms.

It's not necessarily a comfortable reconceptualization — but looking at risk from this new angle does pave the way for technologies that benefit many people and disadvantage few, rather than the other way round.

Embryonic stem cells derived from human blastocysts have the key advantage of pluripotency, meaning that they form nearly all cell types but also have the disadvantage of forming tumors in vivo, which may limit clinical application to tissue engineering rather than cell transplantation.

It's Fair Trade Certified and supports rather than exploits economically disadvantaged farmers in Peru.

Killmonger embraces what his father believes — that Wakanda should be spreading its futuristic wealth to disadvantaged black communities around the world, rather than keeping its resources a secret.

In addition, some subject choices seemed to disadvantage certain students — those taking law, for instance, were more likely to be at universities that scored lower on league tables if they had A-level law rather than a subject such as maths or science.

Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones.

Because the technology eliminated the ability to handwrite and draw, it put my students at a further disadvantage rather than supporting their learning.

The most prominent critique is that an emphasis on grit is a way of «blaming the victim» — rather than take up larger questions of social, economic, and racial justice, if only the most disadvantaged kids were a little «grittier» they could make it in...

In his research, the academic found that having someone around to play a «grandmother role» — chatting and offering simple words of encouragement rather than instruction — helped boost student learning and level the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited or no access to education.

Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

Moreover, the cross-school differences in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students argue for enacting school accountability policies that shine the light on the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

More than one district has used extra funding for disadvantaged kids, rather than general grant money, to augment school policing.

«All the evidence shows that selective education creates barriers for disadvantaged children rather than breaking them down.»

After 10 years of running prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children, some Florida districts are planning to get out of the early - childhood - education business rather than dip into their K - 12 budgets to pay for preschool.

Reducing the marks available for this task would disadvantage schools which had opted for this task rather than either of the other two options, said the teacher.

More recently, David Cohen and Susan Moffitt have also argued that political pressures pushed the Title I program to spend money across a wide range of districts, rather than targeting the most disadvantaged places.

Using actual rather than average teacher salaries in site - based budgeting would not solve the problem highlighted in the report, namely, that disadvantaged schools are staffed by cheaper, less - experienced teachers who leave quickly, keeping salary spending low (and inequitable).

Maintenance grants: There will be a strong lobby for a return to grants for disadvantaged students, rather than the repayable loans that replaced them.

How about introducing social policies which raise children out of poverty rather than putting all the responsibility on schools to close the gap between disadvantaged pupils and advantaged ones?

«They look generally to improve performance for lower performing, or lower ability pupils rather than specifically tackling those that are actually disadvantaged by poverty which is the main aim of the grant.»

By the end of fifth grade in France, the relative benefit to disadvantaged pupils who start at the amazingly early age of 2 rather than 4 is over one - half of a standard deviation, quite a large effect size.

Rather than a country of extremes, Canada's results show a very high average, with relatively little difference between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

At any point over at least the last 50 years, a synthesis of available empirical evidence would have suggested, quite unambiguously, that students having difficulty at school, especially those disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, learn more when they are working in heterogeneous rather than in homogeneous ability groups (e.g., Oakes, 1985; Yonezawa, Wells, and Serna, 2002).

Congress has been very clear that funds they provide disadvantaged students must be used to supplement not supplant (i.e., augment rather than replace) state or local dollars.

Under the guise of «fairer funding», Theresa May and education secretary Justine Greening intend only to shift the already inadequate overall school funding around the country, rather than do the right thing — which is to increase it and ensure the most disadvantaged benefit.

The latest figures reveal primaries closed the progress gap by one month (difference between disadvantaged pupils and their peers) in 2015 (represented below by birth years, rather than academic year).

Were there any disadvantages to a background in journalism rather than, say, an M.F.A.?