Sentences with phrase «significant achievement as»

It's a pretty significant achievement as it just goes to show how many people are actually making use of the feature, and just how much time they are actually spending enjoying the games from yesteryear.

A display of work created by the pupils is put on show and attendance certificates and special prizes are awarded to recognise significant achievement as the pupils «graduate».

The unmanned magnetically - operated pod managed to reach a top speed of 240 mph and obviously, this is a significant achievement as its previous record stood at 192 mph.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

The best way to answer these questions is by providing examples of your day to day work as well as telling about your significant achievements as a nurse manger.

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Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

In particular, AIC payments, LTI payments and stock options represent a significant portion of our executive compensation program, as shown by the chart below, and this variable compensation is «at risk» and directly dependent upon the achievement of pre-established corporate goals and stock price appreciation:

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

As Felt (PS 10:57) has pointed out, what needs to be done is to elucidate how the ontological aspect (achievement of subjective aim) of an actual entity might be connected with significant interaction of that entity with others (the epistemological aspect).

As the world's leading specialist food and agribusiness bank, Rabobank sees its role in the support of significant achievements in this arena as an important one and has been recognising excellence in leadership in this field since 199As the world's leading specialist food and agribusiness bank, Rabobank sees its role in the support of significant achievements in this arena as an important one and has been recognising excellence in leadership in this field since 199as an important one and has been recognising excellence in leadership in this field since 1996.

Coutinho's hat - trick was his first for the club and he hailed the achievement of making the latter stages of the Champions League as a significant moment.

Coutinho's hat trick was his first for the club and he hailed the achievement of making the latter stages of the Champions League as a significant moment.

That's also why lots of breastfeeding mamas post nursing selfies, not because they are «showing off» or being an exhibitionist, as some claim, but because they are proud of their significant achievement.

As with the IQ scores, the relations between breastfeeding and achievement scores were significant after inclusion of social class and maternal education but not after inclusion of maternal IQ and the HOME scores.

Our collaborative relationships with the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry, as well as the Erie County Executive and Erie County Legislature, have allowed us to make a number of significant achievements to enhance the state of the park.

He listed the following as Regents» achievements: winning $ 700 million through the federal Race To The Top competitive grant program, raising standards, achieving a significant new investment in pre-kindergarten and increasing graduation rates.

«Ghana played a significant role in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa... and the appointment of President Mahama as the co-Chair of the Sustainable Development Goals can not go without recognition,» she said.

Centenary patrons are people who have played a significant part in BASC's achievements and in some cases continue to do so, as well as those who are well known and will, through their patronage, promote shooting to a wider audience.

Highlights were policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to reduce class sizes — as well as one key Brownite policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as City regulator.

The New York State Assembly's Disability Awareness Day is an annual event in which Molinaro and his colleagues join together to celebrate the significant achievements of New Yorkers with disabilities, as well as those who advocate on behalf of the state's disability community.

As President Obama said, this is the «most significant achievement, to date, in our nation's effort to defeat Al Qaeda.»»

Party figures point to the National Infrastructure Commission - an arms - length body which would take a «strategic» approach to Wales» infrastructure and have access to new financial resources - as a significant achievement and something that was not in Labour's manifesto.

In addition, Borough President Katz will recognize the nine Queens high schools that were recently designated as «Reward Schools» by the New York State Commissioner of Education for having made the most significant progress or have the highest achievement in the state with no significant gaps in student achievement.

In 2009, she cited the case in a profile of powerful attorneys as her most significant achievement.

Although many scientists worldwide are engaged in efforts to achieve quantum efficiency as close as possible to 100 % for solar hydrogen production, Yan's achievement in directly exceeding this threshold is a significant fundamental breakthrough.

The AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement honors AAAS members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students working toward completion of a Ph.D. in STEM and / or are significantly affecting the climate of a department, college or institution, or field in such a manner as to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing Ph.D. s in STEM fields.

In addition to its Breakthrough of the Year, Science named nine runners - up as significant scientific achievements of 2015.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Another significant achievement of TRANSVAC in its first funding period was to develop a roadmap to define a coherent and strategy - led approach to address the existing fragmentation of European vaccine development, based on the unification of leading European vaccine experts, so as to establish a «European vaccine R&D infrastructure».

These are significant achievements, but in the process the healing professions have lost sight of man as a dynamic, integrated, and complex system with marked capacity for self - healing.

One of the most significant achievements of adopting ketogenic diet is that as the carbohydrate level of consumption is minimized, the triglyceride levels also drop significantly.

Platoon is rivaled possibly only by JFK as the most significant achievement of Stone's career to date.

But by extending the action - packed conclusion for several minutes and seemingly tying it into world of Cloverfield, in which aliens are real and really are attacking us, 10 Cloverfield Lane devolves into a mere franchise tie - in when it could have easily operated instead as a significant artistic achievement in its own right.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

• «All of which» means «some of which,» as the multi-year Louisiana study cited (of which I am co-author) reports no significant achievement impacts of the program after three years and the Indiana study cited reports that the initial negative results of that program turn positive in reading by year four.

Critics will continue to point to the fact that no impacts of the program have been observed in math, or that applicants from SINI schools, who were a service priority, have not demonstrated statistically significant achievement gains at the subgroup level, as reasons to characterize these findings as disappointing.

Over the coming 12 to 18 months, as successful conversions take place at schools using the parent trigger, we are confident the new school leadership will bring significant improvement in student learning and achievement.

On the other hand, we did not meet our goal to shrink by a significant margin the achievement gap (as measured by state - level standardized tests) as was our hope.

Research has identified teacher feedback as a significant influence on student achievement in the classroom (Hattie, 2008).

Persistent disparities in educational achievement and lifelong health as a result of significant adversity early in life impose enormous burdens on individuals, communities, and societies.

The costs of extra planning time are offset, however, by significant rewards, as evidenced by students» successes and their improved confidence and attitudes, as well as their achievement on standardized tests.

While measures of teachers» general academic skills, such as SAT scores and college selectivity, are often statistically significant predictors of teachers» effectiveness in raising student achievement, their effects are modest in size.

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

Give more authority to states to design their own accountability systems as long as they make «significant» progress in the proportion of students at or above the proficient level and are closing achievement gaps.

«Instruction was aligned with standards, and as a school we made significant gains in student achievement.»

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

The achievement growth in math was not statistically significant relative to the achievement growth of the matched district - school students, but the study concluded that Milkwaukee district - school students were «performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

As in the case of preschool, there is some research evidence that suggests class - size reduction can yield significant gains in student achievement in the early grades.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factoAs I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factoas a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factoas a significant factor.

«Boston has made a significant investment in early childhood education as a key strategy for closing the achievement gap,» said Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools.