Sentences with phrase «significant than our choice»

Environmentally speaking, the choice of national symbol is ultimately more significant than our choice of pre-game music.

Not exact matches

I would argue that many people who are pro-choice are not big fans of the mandate, but they accept it as a better situation than having a significant portion of the population with no benefits (and no choice).

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

A significant increase in Teacher's Choice, which the Council has funded for more than 25 years, topped his list of requests at the annual preliminary budget hearing.

This plan's main focus is on nutrition choices, rather than only the significant trace to add in more fruits and veggies, but the correct kind of nourishment based on your metabolism type!

Ohio's budget comes less than a week after the Wisconsin budget also included a significant expansion of school choice.

Private schools generate similarly higher levels of satisfaction than choice and district schools in all three types of communities, but significant differences between charters and chosen district schools are not observed in any of the three areas.

The major principles undergirding charter schooling — choice, deregulation, and so - called accountability — had already attracted significant attention long before 1988, and proposals to break up the «monopoly» of school districts had been building for more than a decade.

Thankfully, through the hard work and dedication of thousands of advocates, educators, families, and elected leaders, we've made significant headway toward expanding public school choice and educational opportunity to more American students than ever before.

It is especially significant in light of Nevada's recently enacted education savings account (ESA) and tax - credit scholarship programs, which will make private school choice an option for more than 453,000 Nevada students.

Because charter schools receive less in public funding than other public schools, it forces them to make difficult choices on how to spend their scarce dollars — and because many charter schools don't receive facilities funding, they also pay for their own buildings, which puts them at a significant financial disadvantage.

But at Hope, a parental choice student voucher school that is making a significant difference in the lives of students, families and their community, the stakes for these recruits are bigger than a national basketball championship.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

And this new school year brings significant excitement for more than 1,000 new Connecticut charter school students just months after their families fought and won a battle for a spot in these schools of choice.

Let's leave aside the facts that (1) the survey data represent only a freeze - frame snapshot of Amazon book purchasers in May 2012, and (2) that if 48 % of book choices came from customers» planned searches, then 52 % — more than half — did not; yet the writer calls the 48 % «whopping,» while dismissing the 52 % as «not... significant numbers.»

The honor also marks the second PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award the company has received in just the past month, and is the latest and most significant of more than a dozen honors and favorable reviews Velocity Micro has received for its high - performance, customizable computer systems this year.

Your choice of content flow is actually more significant than you might first think, at least at this stage.

This type of investment is a great choice if you're more interested in protecting your assets, rather than realizing significant returns.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

As the distribution obtained by combining all independent evidence is narrower than any of the evidence separately, the choice of prior will have a lesser influence on the outcome, but it may still have a significant effect.

With some significant exceptions, the choice of energy sources to be built and used has traditionally been decided in the United States by the market rather than by government.

I argued a few weeks back that green lifestyle choices will never save us, and that there is a danger of getting distracted by I - am - greener - than - you - are pissing contests when our real challenge is creating lasting, significant change on a systemic level.

I've written about this here before (see Shifting the Burden) and really my views haven't changed, except in that there is more evidence than ever before that the needs and motivations of those who «choose» to represent themselves in litigation are complex and that this choice is made at their peril and often at significant personal cost.

I read in a recent survey that rather than low fees, predictability was the number one choice for both high - risk / bet - the - farm work (55 percent) and complex, significant work (54 percent).

Instead of employing just one generic design across its many high - end and mid-range Android smartphone families, with minor build quality differences and the most significant distinctions left to the internal department, Huawei seems to understand the meaning of the words «diversity» and «choice» at a much deeper level than other OEMs.

I'm not saying you have to leave or move, but I am saying many couples make this choice, at significant financial risk, and more often than not find themselves in a better position down the road.

Parents should have their choice of preschool in school district programs, community - based child care centers, or family child care homes that meet high - quality standards.13 Research has demonstrated that participation in high - quality preschool has a significant return on investment for children, parents, and state economies.14 One recent analysis estimated that universal preschool for 4 - year - olds would generate more than $ 83 billion per year in economic benefits.15