Sentences with phrase «so than some of his peers»

Perhaps more so than any of their peers, Ubisoft have defined the shape of the modern major publisher.

A central figure of the British art scene for almost half a century, David Hockney is remarkably wealthy (with a net worth of some $ 40 million), yet still less so than some of his peers.

This is also why his works are so often conceived as comments about art (much more so than those of his peers, even though they all shared the same meta - artistic impulse).

Not exact matches

I would tend to give more credence to the competency of their views than those of housing bears who post analyses and charts at the click of a mouse, all the while unconstrained by due - diligence standards or even such things as the peer - review process that serves academia so well.

Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, is known for having a more advanced fashion sense than some of his Silicon Valley peers, so his sneakers by the avant - garde designer Rick Owens certainly fit his style.

It's far easier to practice in the relatively non-threatening environment of your family, peers, local coffee shop baristas, and so on, than to automatically make these adjustments during the interactions with someone you find intimidating.

That plan had failed to so far lift the company out of its revenue doldrums; its year - over-year revenue losses have come in a little worse than the its peers.

My goal is to max out the IRA ($ 5,500) every year so that when I am out of college I will already be more than 5 years ahead of my peers.

Once the momentum of this flow of money gets into full speed, public fund managers search for ways to produce returns that are better than their peers, so the window begins to open for IPOs.

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

Overall, the findings tended to confirm our hypothesis: Those who are using paid methods and finding them effective do so with wide experimentation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, a meaningful budget, and more focus on building an audience as a measurement of success than their less effective peers.

This has largely driven the development of so - called «decentralized exchanges,» which operate on a peer - to - peer network rather than a central server operated by a company.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

Statistics so far indicate than on May 21st, life will go on, and these folks will join their peers in the history of apocalypses that never were.

I was always younger than my peers, and I was short to begin with, so I was extra extra extra short for most of my schooling.

There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

Our breastfed babies spend so much MORE time physically in our arms than the time their bottle - fed peers spent in the arms of their own mothers (regardless of what is in the bottle).

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

Although it seems in others eyes I will not get the * faith points * I realize doing so would be more of giving into peer pressure rather than my personal faith.

After all, it's well documented that the number - one trusted source of information is our peers, so where better to find out what they think than the digital social space?

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Cameron would also support further encouragement of peers to stand down, according to the source: «More than 120 peers have stood down this year, but there is certainly room for finding ways of encouraging more to do so.»

«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok, lead author of the study and former chair of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Things are worse now, and things are worse still for the members of the underrepresented groups we're so interested in recruiting, because they — we — are more isolated than our peers, by definition.

Peering into the far reaches of the universe, astronomers have spotted seven galaxies so distant that they appear as they did less than 600 million years after the Big Bang.

«The so - called «trick» was nothing more than a statistical method used to bring two or more different kinds of data sets together in a legitimate fashion by a technique that has been reviewed by a broad array of peers in the field,» the panel said.

Studies show that young people who spend most of their time with responsible adults rather than with peers — one of the hallmarks of homeschooling — seem to be able to avoid the turmoil that is so typical of American adolescence and, in turn, the immaturity and uncertainty of the post-teen years here.

Compounding the lack of adequate social and cultural capital is the fact that they have had to work so much harder than their peers to get to university in the first place.

You'll see many of your peers going to the City and into industry, earning much higher salaries than you, and who also seem to have more time off, says Greenfield, «so it's vital that you have a real passion and belief in your work».

So strong, in fact, studies say that it might actually pack more of a nutritional punch than its perfectly polished peers.

I'm very thankful, though, that the NF website provides reviews of peer - reviewed journal articles, which gives the WFPB diet so much more credence than anecdotal evidence.

In fact, women who strength - train have much lower levels of intra-abdominal fat, the deep, visceral kind that's so hard to get rid of — in some cases, up to one - third less than their less - fit peers.

«Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours.»

Danny is more sensitive than his peers — he's a budding artist who really doesn't want to wind up working alongside his dad at the local metal plant — so, of course, he meets a nice girl (Samantha Basalari) rather than a seductive siren.

Naively I'd like to believe that since Hoult is not pure Hollywood, and has spent so much of his life at home in England not absorbing the f-cking bullsh-t that surrounds you in LA, he's less driven by ME than some of his peers.

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

If so, remaining KIPP students would be surrounded over time by an even stronger set of peers than the initial cohort.

However, among the various influences that schools and policymakers can control, teacher quality was found to account for a larger portion of the variation in student test scores than all other characteristics of a school, excluding the composition of the student body (so - called peer effects).

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

For example, DPI changed how it measures the closing of achievement gaps so that it now compares minority groups with white peers statewide, rather than at the same school.

Many gifted students may be so far ahead of their same - age peers that they know more than half of the grade - level curriculum before the school year begins.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it throPeer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Additionally, requiring attendance when age eligible circumvents redshirting, the practice of holding a child back a year so he / she enters kindergarten about a year older than peers and, presumably, more advantaged in skills (for more information on redshirting, see statement # 10).

Sweet noted that students with disabilities continue to be suspended at significantly higher rates than their peers, and said her office sees «so many cases of kids with disabilities who get caught doing something bad because of their disability.»

At other times, they may require a greater amount of time with a given study than less advanced peers so that they may explore the topic in greater depth and / or breadth.

With this in mind it's more important than ever for content providers to ensure they have a constantly updated web presence, which could encompass any number of elements, from a well - structured and consistently updated website, a prominent and professionally maintained blog, good social media links, competitions, peer review sites and so on.

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