Sentences with phrase «set at a high standard»

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Perfectionists tend to set high (or in many cases, unrealistic) standards and strive to be the best at everything they do, but this desire to be perfect all the time can turn into a fear of failure, causing perfectionistic individuals to get stuck in the status quo.

Negotiators are now said to be settling on a system that sets the regional content standard at 75 per cent, and helps car companies get credits to meet that standard if they invest in high - value research and pay workers more than $ 15 an hour.

Wisotsky sets his standards high, donating only to charities in which the percentage is at least 75 %.

Setting a higher standard for human behavior (including what our governments do), though we may never reach that standard, at least there should be a goal set.

To ensure the purity of their oils, the team at Young Living set the highest, beyond organic standards for planting, harvesting, and distilling on the very farms they own and co-op all around the world.

At Eddie Merlot's, we have our standards set very high and we expect nothing but the best for each and every guest that we have the opportunity to serve.

Retailers like Costco, Trader Joe's, Kroger, Aldi and Lidl have set a high standard by offering award - winning quality at reasonable prices.»

The City captain was not at his best during the campaign as he and the club fell short the high standards set in the 2013/14 season, where they won a domestic cup double.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The problem with Wenger is that he is a man with a very high set of personal standards — the most laudable and at the same time damaging being loyalty.

Ferdinand went on reveal that it actually turned out to be a very important moment in his career at Old Trafford, as it was a reminder that he had to set an even higher standard to the one previous.

Getting cech would mean years of stability at gk department and more importantly he will set the standards high at arsenal like ozil and Alexis did.

At the end of the day, Arsenal fc are supposedly a Big Club, Where Wenger set high standards when winning the premier league in his first year or so in charge and achieved further success in the following seasons, up until the invincibles era!

Swansea now find themselves in a bit of a slump in comparison to the loftily high standards they set for themselves earlier in the campaign, having won just two of their last five league matches, this degree of inconsistency within their league form has however come at the time when the added pressure of fixture congestion that comes with a long cup run can really effect a squads fitness and consequently their performances.

Predictably, then, Mark Hughes is targeting nothing less than a flawless finish from his team, hoping the lure of a top - half finish and making club history will be enough motivation to maintain the high standards Fulham have set at home this season, especially of late.

It is in fact far below the ridiculously high standards he has set for himself, and, when looked at more closely, nowhere near what is expected of him.

In 2012, the home birth rate in Oregon was 2.4 %, which was the highest rate of any state; another 1.6 % of women in Oregon delivered at birth centers.11 Before licensure became mandatory in 2015, Oregon was one of two states in which licensure was not required for the practice of midwifery in out - of - hospital settings.12 Although the 2003 revision of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth distinguishes planned home births from unplanned home births, at the national level there is still no way to disaggregate hospital births that were intended to occur at a hospital and those that had not been intended to occur at a hospital.

The Lux seat has tons of thoughtful features, like one - hand recline and a seat height that's set the same as a standard high chair, so no matter where you are, your little one can easily have a place at the table without leaving the comfort and security of the stroller.

I guess his comments are borne more out of arrogance and the realisation that the standards set by Professor Opoku - Agyemang at the Education Ministry are far higher for him to stand up to, let alone surpass.

Possibly unfair to any other New York governor, I set my standards by my former boss, and it's a pretty high bar when it comes to that character I mentioned at the start.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

He said: «With this in mind, I shall be guided at all times by the highest standard of the operational ethics the Commission has set for itself and for which it is well known.»

Quality assurance auditors (QAs) make sure the paperwork, both at the setting up stage and the records kept during the trial, are completed to a high standard.

At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for High Performance Fortran, a programming language used for parallel computing, and published a library of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.

The 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Vayusha Yoga follows the guidelines set out by the Yoga Alliance, ensuring the highest educational standards of quality, integrity, and professionalism.

When our brains do not work at high capacity, we can not achieve the standards of excellence we set for ourselves.

For those daters who set high standards and want someone on their level, we've highlighted two elite matchmaking sites where upper class singles feel at home.

By educating the world about what being a sugar daddy is, and by setting a higher standard for what being a sugar daddy means, I am hoping to attract more women to this lifestyle... and at the same time to dissuade the bad apple sugar daddies who are simply looking for a free ride.

The Duggars» Rigid Rules for Dating and Marriage Have Always Been «About Setting a Higher Standard» In Part II of our series on dating younger women, we look at just what it takes to get them attracted to you as an older (or younger) man.

didn't really where they'd take the story, the first season set a high standard in execution and this carries forward into this season, everything you expect from the first is in this second with the dial turned up, with the characters developed from the first season this season just allows the writers to build up on that, the story is well crafted, less of Rinoa Rhyer's over the top screaming which did amazing things for my ears and sanity, great story progression, although slow at the start it ended with a bang.

Working at HPZ for the past 12 years, I am also well aware of the high standards for quality and relevance of research that David Perkins and Howard Gardner have set and maintained over their more than three decades as co-directors.

In exchange, states had to agree to set standards aimed at preparing students for higher education and the workforce.

Although performance standards — how high a student must score to be proficient — are still being set, the bar will likely be at the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) «proficient» level.

Our schools» emphasis on and devotion to standards - based instruction and high - stakes testing reflects a desire for students to become proficient at memorizing terms, and facts as well as and mastering various sets of skills.

At the most, national standards will help our system be more coherent, efficient, and rational, and will help set expectations for our students higher.

Last year, at their national summit, 16 governors agreed to work with Achieve, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, on setting lofty standards for high - school graduation, increasing the rigor of high - school curricula and tests, and aligning standards and tests with the demands of work and college.

¦ The goal is to set standards at such a level that virtually all students who graduate high school will be both ready to do successful college work or to enter a 21st - century high skill / high knowledge career and be successful in that.

Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»

Even though both of her parents set high standards for achievement — her father earned a masters degree in education at Harvard — high school was difficult for her.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

Decades of research on effective schools conclusively demonstrates that setting high standards and expectations for all children, but especially those most at - risk of academic failure, creates a more positive, inclusive school culture and raises their level of achievement.

Effective instruction is at the heart of meeting the high expectations set by the standards.

The report looked at states» standards on exams and found that some states set much higher bars for students proficiency in particular subjects.

The leadership team at Nathan Hale High voted Tuesday not to give its juniors the new tests which are tied to the Common Core, a set of learning standards in reading and math that many states are starting to use.

The release cited Okolona's progress: the district met all but three state accreditation standards and every senior at Okolona High School was set to graduate that month.

At the same time, new educational policies like the Common Core State Standards, intend to increase the «college and career readiness» level of high school graduates through a set of «fewer, higher, clearer» standards.

The thought and effort you put into establishing high standards at the beginning of the year, and your reinforcement of them throughout the year, will help set your students on the path to high marks.

Of course not, but we can certainly set the bar higher than it currently stands and I would hope that we could make this expectation the default standard and incrementally increase expectations to meet it to a level of at least 60 % in a decade or so.