Sentences with phrase «relatively low marks»

Americans give relatively low marks to public K - 12 education in STEM subjects compared with other developed nations; 43 % rate it as average, 30 % as below average, and 25 % either as above average or the best in the world.

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Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has warned that the biggest risk to the financial system is now household debt, even if it's still «relatively low» and unlikely to reach levels that could cripple banks» balance sheets.

I go to SEARS because usually, i find all the stuff that i need and relatively at the lowest price, it has all the good brands and quality of Items is up to the mark, also the working staff there is very friendly and helping.

The chairwoman of the City Council's finance committee keeps a relatively low profile, but the Queens lawmaker is quietly one of the most influential council members and a candidate to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as speaker.

Communication and navigation for most spacecraft in low - Earth orbit is relatively straightforward, said Human Spaceflight Network Director Mark Severance, who manages the communications services from all networks during human spaceflight missions.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.

To investigate quantitatively whether there are restrictions on cell movement and / or differentiation along the a / p axis, we marked stem cells at a relatively low frequency to avoid generating two adjacent clones derived from different regions.

Way back in Chapter 3, I talked about how Mark Sisson gives an excellent perspective on the conundrum of stress and endurance training in his book «The Primal Connection» — in which he describes how a major factor at play in the success of some pro endurance athletes is relatively lower amounts of work stress, deadlines, office obligations, etc. in the life of those who are able to devote most of their time to training.

Veteran screenwriter Goldsman (an Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind, and definitely not one for Batman & Robin) has given himself quite a challenge for his directorial debut, taking on Mark Helprin's epic fantasy novel set in an alternative, magic - filled New York City (and spanning the entire 20th century) with a relatively low sub - $ 50 million budget.

However, the most important thing with the new iPad 3 is that it will allow Apple to position the current iPad 2 to take on the relatively lower priced competitors by pricing it around the $ 399 mark.

The relatively low violent crime rate and the fact that the median income approaches the $ 70,000 mark combine to make residents good - humored.

Furthermore, the recent market environment has been marked by low levels of market volatility and relatively few severe pullbacks.

As Mark Jaccard and colleagues at Simon Frazer University in Vancouver have shown, carbon pricing tends to reach a political resistance point at a relatively low price.

NOAA is first of the three main indices to be off the mark with June 2009 at 0.617 deg C, bouncing off the relatively low values of 2008.

Claimant alleged that TfL had failed in their duties to maintain and properly repair the bridge and to ensure that the pier buttresses (and the relatively narrow low water channel through the arch) were sufficiently marked to enable vessels to transit safely (the Defendant denies any breach).

Having concluded that the evidence before him satisfied the relatively low threshold a registered owner must meet to demonstrate that a mark is in use, the judge found that the owner's registration should remain valid.

A lower number with a green marker shows that the keyword is relatively easy to rank for; the more competitive terms are marked with orange or red.

The market demonstrated a necessary rebound from the $ 250 billion mark, and major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have been able to sustain their resistance levels, even though volumes still remain relatively low across all cryptocurrency exchanges.

Marks, like cohorts at Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investor Services, looks at the debt side of the equation, where he maintains that shopping center REITs have healthy balance sheets and relatively low leverage levels.