Sentences with phrase «spent over progress»

Fourth, the billable hour model values time spent over progress achieved.

Not exact matches

«Fitch believes that the province will also be challenged in restraining ongoing capital spending to make progress in lowering the high debt burden and accumulated deficit over time,» it said.

Your life coach should be able to answer your questions in a way that you understand and offer you a clear sense of what kind of progress you can expect over the time you spend working with them.

In 2014, the Center for American Progress estimated that a typical worker who starts saving at age 25, earns $ 30,502 and pays a 1 percent investment fee will end up spending nearly $ 140,000 in fees over his lifetime.

She echoed Mayor Mandel's oft - heard comment that Edmontonians should not settle for «good - enough» and spent much of her speech praising his progress on infrastructure, transportation and arts issues over the past nine - years.

(Obvously the world has progress for the good also I not slamming the progress in health care & with immunisations etc with knowledge but with knowledge becomes power and at what level do the people with power rule how we grow as a society, I know it's not all cloak and daggers, not conspiracy theory's but taking control of what we spend our money on in the market and take away to demand to buy chemicals) buy In the past 50 years us humans have introduced over 75,000 chemicals into our world!

At The Grove in Watford he had mulled over those ankle injuries which have so often tripped up his progress, his mind drifting from months spent anchored in the treatment room to the times he had been outed, often on social media, with a cigarette in hand.

These scores highlight the importance of a Senate Republican majority in moving this state forward, and is further proof that, if given the opportunity, Senate Democrats would increase spending, raise taxes, place obstacles in front of businesses and roll back all of the progress we've made over the last 19 months.»

«It's interesting that the Governor would be willing to raise money for the same cabal of Democrat Senators who in 2009 raised taxes... and are now itching to do away with the property tax cap, go on a massive taxpayer - financed spending spree and roll back all of the economic progress we've made over the last six years,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans.

«We formed the Senate majority coalition because we believe that it is the best way to continue to build on the progress we've made over the last two years in ending government dysfunction, bringing spending under control, enacting a property tax cap and helping businesses create new jobs.

Oversight committee Chairman Herb Litts of Highland said he's asking the administration for weekly or at least biweekly progress and spending reports over what will be a 16 - month construction period.

Much progress has been made in the NHS and public services over the past few years, it would be self - defeating to throw all that away by cutting spending now.

Hein, who in his speech of just over 40 minutes spent some time highlighting the progress Ulster's made in the national health rankings and the reputation for being one of the most environmentally friendly counties in the nation it's built for itself, noted that 2018's county property taxes are lower now than they were in 2009.

Sharp - eyed reader Paul Marks spotted the following interesting paragraph in the Office of Science and Technology's Forward Look report on government spending on science: «Despite enormous progress over the past decade, software engineering still suffers from being too much of an art and not enough of a science and much remains to be done to establish it on a firmer scientific basis.»

And progress over spending bills — including the Zika supplemental funding, the fate of which is still to be determined [Sept. 30 update: Congress has approved $ 1.1 billion in Zika funding as part of its continuing resolution]-- has been marred by policy riders on a wide range of topics from both parties in both chambers.

If you're already spending hours at the gym, slaving away over rusty iron day in day out, you might want to know how to increase the effectiveness of your training so that you can see better progress in less weeks.

After discovering Circular Strength Training, Adam spent several weeks debating whether to give it a try, until the frustration of progress - limiting aches and pains finally won out over the fear of trying something new.

You want to accomplish as much as you safely can over your cut so that you don't spend maintenance regretting your slow progress or get tempted to continue the cut after that 3 month mark and end up in a dysfunctional, inefficient, eternal state of dieting.

If your relationship problems stem from a difficulty in adjusting to new circumstances and the changing balance of the relationship, Salama suggests «making an effort to be inclusive of one another as you progress in your career and to be honest about your spending to avoid arguments over money.»

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

We boys spent much of our considerable energy trying to get our girlfriends to abstain from abstinence — measuring our progress in the smallest of increments over the longest periods of time.

«When I became Director of Teaching and Learning here, we spent a great deal of time analysing our long - term results for our system and noted that there were a group of schools who, for various reasons — it could be that they are regional schools, had a lot of new staff and transient populations, they could be a school that are in low socio - economic areas or they could be schools with new principals — but consistently over five or six years, the Year 9 - 12 results in literacy were not showing that students were making enough progress with the amount of time they spent in a school,» Doyle shares.

Perhaps the best two pieces I've come across are from the Newark Star - Ledger's Tom Moran including an opinion piece on where things stand that notes district progress along with charter school improvements and reformers» misguided focus on the parts of the story Russakoff leaves out (Newark students are better off, despite the political noise) and also a Q & A with Russakoff in which the author rebuts a deeply flawed NYT review, proposes a forensic audit of Newark's $ 23,000 - per student spending, but calls the Zuckerberg - funded reform efforts a «wash» over all (Author Dale Russakoff discusses new book).

20 Over the course of a year, Sodexo trains and monitors the progress of mentors and mentees, who meet monthly.21 A survey of participants found that for every dollar spent on the mentoring program, there was $ 2.28 realized in retention and increased productivity.22 A similar study also found that 72 percent of mentees and 79 percent of mentors cited increased job satisfaction as a benefit of the mentoring program, while 72 percent of mentees and 74 percent of mentors cited increased organizational commitment.23

Their PLC spent time analyzing student - specific data on local assessments and tracked progress for those individual students over time.

Most school districts in Washington State will likely have less control over how they spend money during the next academic year, and those that were already under sanction for failing to make progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law will face more severe consequences.

Progress in reading proficiency rates has stalled: Tennessee has seen a move of just three points (on a 500 - point scale) over the past 20 years despite a major boost in spending during that period.

But Gerard Liston, an enterprise and employability consultant, told Schools Week he had «real concerns» about a «lack of progress and lack of sustainability» at the CEC, and said its funding — # 70 million over this parliament — would be better spent on training teachers to deliver guidance in classrooms.

Click over to the Q&A to find out which literary character he'd like to spend time on a desert island with, why he never talks about a work - in - progress, and more.

Spending day after day by yourself, creating and revising, chopping and agonizing over the perfect turn of phrase, it's easy to get lost in the process and forget that you're actually making progress.

Once setup, you will be able to monitor the progress of your financial plan and wealth over time, make adjustments to planning goals, monitor your cash flow, develop spending budgets, review insurance coverages, estate plans and more in a single location.

Your best, bet for simply progressing through the game and keeping up with the level requirements is to... well, it's to spend real money, but if you're not willing to do that, then it's to repeat a single race over and over, grinding away, like YouTube user rubhen925 lays out in this video:

As we told you over the summer and when we pulled back from Steam Early Access, we found ourselves spending way too much time supporting the game - in - progress as if it were a live product.

Kiryu doesn't like to waste time (ironic, considering all the time he spends hanging out in arcades and chatting with hostesses), so all the progress that you make in the demo will carry over to the full game!

I can not say what it is specifically about this release that got me back into spending nights when I should be getting rested for school, hunched over my PC trying to figure out how to progress to the next year in the shoes of Manny Calavera, whose job is to sell the recently dead the best (and most expensive, I mean exclusive...) ticket to the Ninth Underworld, the infamous Number Nine.

Since players are bound to spend countless hours on a single play through, it is very rare to replay the game from the beginning since progress here is incremental and starting over would also mean starting from scratch again.

The biggest step facilitating progress in Paris actually came just over a year ago in Beijing, when President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China unveiled a joint package of pledges and plans on climate change after the countries had spent years locked in a «you first» standoff.

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

Over the last two years, fossil fuel interests spent more than $ 700 million to shape a Congress that would champion its priorities, according to a December report by the Center for American Progress, based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics and Kantar Media Intelligence / CMAG, as published by the Atlas Project.

Members support and accept the CPD Program including the philosophy and the CPD Plan implementation There is a growing capacity of lawyers to self - evaluate the progress of the CPD activities and learning 100 % of lawyers identified and planned professional development activities 91 % of lawyers followed through on their learning activities as planned 1/3 of respondents (32 %) spent over 50 hours on CPD activities over the last 12 months 90 % spent over 15 hours on CPD activities — over the minimum hourly requirement of other CPD programs Recommendations: Integration of competencies into the CPD planning material available to lawyers Develop a competency profile that includes the quality of legal services provided to clients including not only substantive law but ethics, practice management and workplace health / stress issues More support to lawyers in the development of their CPD Plans Development of best practices in the development of CPD Plans Submission of CPD Plans to the Law Society Embedding the CPD Alberta website content onto the LSA website Review the accountability strategy for the CPD Program CPD as a proactive program.

In one situation, you have control over the budget, visibility into how spend is progressing over time, and tools to analyze where and how overages are occurring so you can react to them in a timely manner.

A spokesperson for BlackBerry claims the company has spent «several years» in talks with Facebook over the alleged IP infringement, apparently without any progress in the matter.

I gave a peek into the progress over perfection in our home, and we spent Valentine's Day doing home improvement projects.Read the -LSB-...]