Sentences with phrase «significant achievement on»

Chairman Bruce Buck said: «It is very pleasing we matched significant achievement on the pitch in 2016/17 with a successful year commercially.

Not exact matches

On tax reform, the most significant legislative achievement of Trump's first year, it's probably not fair to point just at Trump for a policy that tends to pose more harm to Democratic constituencies than Republican.

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 (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

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.

«With adult consumers more conscious about ingredients and dietary restrictions, the TTB approval, enabling Devotion to be the first vodka brand allowed to print Gluten - Free and No Added Sugar on its bottles, is a significant achievement that truly validates our product line,» said Drew Adelman, CEO, Devotion Vodka.

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.

The «Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award» is presented jointly each year by Ken Burns and Old Sturbridge Village to an individual who has made a significant impact on the arts through projects related to history.

Stanford education expert Denise Pope says that the quality of a homework assignment and whether students find it meaningful can have a significant impact on student achievement, homework completion, motivation and even physical health.

«The quality of the homework assignment and whether or not students find it meaningful can have a significant impact on student achievement, homework completion, motivation and physical health, Pope said in a recent interview.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

Table 1 shows clear and highly significant (P <.0001) tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with higher scores on measures of cognitive ability, teacher ratings of performance, standardized tests of achievement, better grades in School Certificate examinations, and lower percentages of children leaving school without qualifications.

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.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

The House plans to vote on the American Health Care Act Thursday, and in advance on Wednesday, President Trump was expected to continue pushing for support of what would be a significant achievement for his young presidency.

The international echo of this achievement has been so significant that even the Google Research Blog, the medium of communication that covers the American multinational's research activity, has published an article (http://googleresearch.blogspot.nl/2015/07/simulating-fermionic-particles-with.html) on the collaboration between Google Inc. and the UPV / EHU QUTIS Group highlighting the work of the team led by Enrique Solano.

Gray says that the team's achievement of breeding these frogs is significant and will bolster similar work on endangered frog species all over the world.

She was selected based on her academic achievements, mentoring plan, rigorous experimental design, and ability to deliver significant findings over the course of a summer.

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».

On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).

In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

The impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 1 students did not differ by a statistically significant amount from the impact of the program on the reading achievement of Cohort 2 students, Carnoy's claim notwithstanding.

The vast preponderance of studies on the use of media and / or technology do not show significant gains in student achievement, at least in regards to what the assessments are assessing.

With the exception of math achievement in one year (2011 12), however, the effect of this turnover on student achievement is not statistically significant.

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.

On four items — school discipline, expectations for student achievement, school building and facilities, and the racial and ethnic diversity among students — we find no significant difference in the variation in satisfaction across sectors.

A recent paper from John Papay and Matthew Kraft found that teachers who were hired after the school year started had a significant negative impact on student achievement.

One of our studies was a randomized trial in a large urban district that found significant positive effects on reading achievement for students who used Accelerated Reader according to the publisher's recommendations.

In a front - page story in the Times in November of 2007, the paper reported «no significant progress in reading and math» and «little narrowing of the achievement gap» on the NAEP.)

In the gender comparison, all of the results show that one gender's idiosyncratic achievement has a positive, highly statistically significant effect on the idiosyncratic achievement of its peers from the other gender group.

«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

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.

«We are not doing any more work... but we are concentrating on doing things well that will make a significant impact on student achievement.

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.

Additional studies reviewed indicated that computer - assisted learning programs also had a significant affect on student participation and student achievement.

And the really bad news is that neither PD program had a significant impact on student achievement, whether measured immediately at the conclusion of the PD or a year later.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

The most significant impact on student achievement comes in the use of cues, which correct errors by getting the student to navigate their way forward using the prompts to guide them.

In response, many states adopted new systems in which teachers» performance would be judged, in significant part, on their contributions to growth in student achievement.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Research on the effect of existing private school voucher programs has not shown significant achievements for students in those programs, the report asserts.

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.

After controlling for student and peer attributes and for selection bias, we still find a substantial positive and statistically significant effect of attending a network school on student achievement.

The educational attainment of parents varies widely across the North American continent, and those differences can have a significant impact on the academic achievement of their children, a report says.

The estimated effects of the private school share on student achievement are somewhat smaller in science and reading than in math, but they remain substantial, positive, and statistically significant (see Figure 2).

Or Los Angeles, where a Boston University doctoral candidate found significant declines in achievement in high - poverty schools after a ban on suspensions for low - level infractions was put in place.

Their most important finding is that school closure has significant positive impacts on the achievement of displaced students.

There is evidence to suggest that making publishing part of the English course and putting Creative Writing at the centre has had a significant impact on student engagement and achievement.

Growing evidence also suggests that the skills and qualities acquired through PSHE have a significant impact on students» academic achievement, employability, and future life chances