Sentences with phrase «relatively weak state»

The relatively weak state of overall labour demand over the past couple of years has been evident in measures of employment intentions, job vacancies and advertisements.

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Taking emotion outof the equation, however, one is left to assess WAC champion Boise State (13 — 0) based also on a relatively weak regular - season schedule, which includeda seven - point win over Wyoming (6 — 6) and a three - point victory over San JoseState (9 — 4).
Despite a rapid expansion of state - sanctioned gambling in recent years, revenue has been relatively weak, a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government found.
Given current relatively weak performance — and the difficulty in shifting performance — the aspirations of the secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, for England to be among the top five countries of PISA in 2020 is most probably unattainable.
When we drink green tea the alkylamines present act as relatively weak antigens that don't fully activate the immune system but get it in a ready state.
One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»
Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296
Florida and Texas are mostly Republican - run states, where teacher unions are relatively weak and policy makers have tried to introduce more competition and accountability.
Unfortunately, Kentucky's animal cruelty laws are relatively weak and poorly - defined compared to other states.
Typical temperature reconstructions for the late Pliocene however [see one at the top of this story - 3.3 - 3.0 Ma] already show an Earth in which a warmer climatic state is indeed [through for instance ice albedo feedbacks] relatively strong around the poles, and (on average) weaker around the equator, exactly the pattern that is monitored under the current climate warming.
Even a relatively weak male can climb to be head of state by grooming (literally) the electorate, if he can win enough support, he can bring about a popular uprising to remove the current leader, so I suggest that politics is in our genes.
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