Sentences with phrase «sets of achievements»

«The combined results from a variety of tokamaks around the world have produced an impressive set of achievements.

High Schools That Work (HSTW) has required participating sites to administer a set of achievement tests in reading, mathematics, and science.

For each state, NAEP 2005 calculates the percentage of students who meet a set of achievement standards: a «basic» level, a «proficient» level, and an «advanced» level of achievement.

As part of the Precision Pedagogy materials we have developed a sophisticated set of Achievement Statements for Reading, Writing and Mathematics which support the assessment of curriculum coverage of the National Curriculum for England's Programmes of Study for the three subjects.

Now that the Denver 2020 Strategic Plan is in place, DPS has a clear set of achievement targets against which it can be measured.

You may well be tempted to play it through again, too, and you'll need to if you want to rack up a full set of achievements.»

Dunwall City Trials also features a whole new set of achievements and trophies as well as a global online leaderboard that will establish the greatest assassins for each challenge.

Microsoft have confirmed that Apps will have their own set of Achievements, called Challenges, which are not...

There are a set of achievements for killing the EPHERMIS droid at the end of every Star Fortress in solo mode.

Each game has its own set of achievements, and the whole package comes with a potential of 10,000 gamerscore.

There's even a whole set of achievements locked into multiplayer for those of you that enjoy that stuff.

Hoping to bring a profound set of achievements and qualifications to Camp Venture, I offer my services as a full charge bookkeeper.

For example, you should understand that business analyst job is different from HR manager position and the employer wants to see a completely different set of achievements.

Not exact matches

Goal - setting actually changes the chemistry of our brains, and studies have shown that that activity can increase motivation and boost achievement levels by approximately 30 percent.

He set a new performance standard through his action and lifted the achievements of those around him.

The achievement far surpasses the record - setting pace of this summer's Jurassic World, which took 18 days to top $ 100 million.

To prevent this, set clear - cut, quantifiable criteria for who wins — and ensure that the tallying of sales reps» achievements is done by an impartial party.

In 2014, Shelton was tasked with setting up My Brother's Keeper, a corporate - and foundation - backed initiative launched by President Obama to address the «opportunity gaps» and «achievement gaps» faced in particular by boys and young men of color.

It isn't always easy to move from «thought to achievement» on the «big, hairy, audacious goals» that so many entrepreneurs are fond of setting.

Other than periodic incentive plans that were historically provided to Mr. McNeill based on the achievement of specific customer - related metrics, including as set forth under the «Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation» column in «Executive Compensation — Summary Compensation Table» below, we do not currently have or have planned any specific arrangements with our named executive officers providing for cash - based bonus awards.

It would highlight India's achievements in the area of civil nuclear energy technology, setting a tone of mutual collaboration between the two countries.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

By an irresistible vision I mean an ideal goal for mankind that is (1) intrinsically desirable, (2) possible of actual achievement, and (3) set forth in a situation where to reject it (or some qualitatively equivalent alternative) would be to court misery and / or destruction.

The text sets forth «a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.»

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

Second, whereas the social gospel had seen a series of social goals that could be achieved, one by one, by mobilizing the loving energies of Christians, Niebuhr saw that the achievement of one set of goals, however meritorious, always led to a new balance of power that would in its turn be corrupted.

«It is creative when an ultimate norm or value is set in judgment over the historically relative and ambiguous achievements of man's existence.

If anything, this protest suggests that the college has excelled in its stated goal of allowing «students to observe different models of achievement, then set their own course with conviction.»

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

But as impressive as Hartshorne's achievement still seems to me to be in clarifying both sets of problems, I have become increasingly convinced that his attempted solutions to them also involve certain difficulties, some of which I take to be serious.

The development of creedal passion, making the achievement of the American creed's values a matter of intense concern, and leading to the refusal to acknowledge any limits on such efforts, set the scene for the assertion of unrealizable political hopes.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

Crowning culinary achievement Third place in a gooey butter - cake contest on the set of The Office

A treble in his first season at Barcelona and another Champions League in just his first three seasons in management was a remarkable achievement, no question, and if anything his struggles at Bayern show that one can not simply inherit a good set of players and let them do the rest, but while he revolutionised the game in 2009, he is now being found out and it is something of a surprise that he has no other European Cup to his name since 2011 given the quality of teams he's had at his disposal since then.

«I know that this upsets custom a bit,» De Gaulle told the French cabinet, «but when athletic champions, through their continued efforts, set an example and enrich the patrimony of France... the government ought to recognize and reward their achievements.»

The sad thing in Arsenal is that nobody supervises Wenger.No target of achievement is set for him.

Hooking up a great qualifying lap isn't particularly easy, so setting a time worthy of the front row is quite an achievement in itself.

There's still time to potentially see the return of Jose Mourinho after he was sacked by Chelsea last December, and with a whole host of clubs hoping to replicate the achievements of Leicester, Southampton and West Ham United, it sets up a thrilling year.

Of course, preparation and set - up is the key for every team, but for McLaren - Honda where simply finishing the race will be an achievement it becomes even more crucial.

Valverde's first season in charge of Barcelona looks set to end in silverware and a double would be a great achievement.

The impossible dream finally became a reality Monday night when Leicester City, 5000 to 1 outsiders at the start of the season, duly clinched the English Premier League title without even playing — and set off the mother of all parties in the English midlands town as they celebrated one of the greatest and most unlikely team sporting achievements of this or any era.

Let's let them know — without a doubt — that school, education, and achievement are very important, and then become involved ourselves by helping them set goals, being aware of their day - to - day assignments and progress, and providing lots of praise and encouragement.

This not only provides them a visual record of their achievements, it can set habits they can expand upon as they get older.

In this time of big transitions, parents» attitudes about achievement, the examples they set by the way they treat other people, and their parenting style can have a significant impact on their development.

It will add greatly to your skill - set, knowledge base and personal sense of achievement!

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Researchers concerned with academic - achievement gaps have begun to study, with increasing interest and enthusiasm, a set of personal qualities — often referred to as noncognitive skills, or character strengths — that include resilience, conscientiousness, optimism, self - control, and grit.

Like lighthouse parents, tiger parents set high standards of achievement for their kids, but unlike the former, they set strict rules and remain extremely involved in their children's lives to ensure achievement.

To support achievement of the SDGs, the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents» Health recommends protecting and supporting exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in all settings, including humanitarian and fragile — a cost - effective and easy intervention that contributes to a child's survival, health and optimal development.