Sentences with word «stake»

We know how much is at stake in high net worth divorces and what the potential is for costly and time - consuming litigation.

They apply standards, yes, but less to principles, procedures, historical backgrounds, and political effects than they do to individuals they can identify as at stake in the outcome.

We're kicking off the summer series by taking a look at the effects of high stakes testing in our schools.

The nation has responded, and continues to respond, to the undue emphasis on high stakes testing in a number of ways.

He is presently handling an arbitration with a value at stake of # 500 million.

But it's long past time to acknowledge that reading tests — especially tests with stakes for individual teachers attached to them — do more harm than good.

He eventually sold a majority stake in the company in 2011, though he remains its largest shareholder to this day.

The raised stakes of the sequel were palpable; they were right there on screen.

It's hardly surprising with so much at stake on issues such as funding, teacher recruitment and school standards.

Once the investment amount has been repaid, investors will then receive a share of the company's net profits in proportion to their ownership stake for the lifetime of the company.

She had heard that she could pay down the loan to an amount that would give her a 20 percent equity stake in the house so that she could drop her mortgage insurance.

It's not as intimidating as approaching someone at a bar and not as high stakes as messaging someone on a dating site or app.

When stakes increase, the tension of a story increases as well.

Given the many modern - day marketing challenges, it's likely that more companies will seek to leverage existing brand equity rather than stake out new territory.

He has a 4.3 per cent stake in the company.

* do readers think for 1 second wenger does nt know whats at stake by failing to add quality to the side?

Through a secondary investment process, the technology investing company is taking a significant minority stake from existing investors in the consumer credit monitoring and financial health startup through a secondary investment process.

So warned that another concern for market had been be the lifting of a ban on major shareholders from selling stakes in Chinese companies.

But there is more at stake here than the simple application of a biblical text out of context.

Now each investor is permitted to hold at least 5 percent of no more than two commercial banks, or a controlling stake of no more than one lender.

The billionaire businessman's empire of phone, construction and banking companies often expands by buying stakes in small companies.

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high stakes standardized tests.

Do they impose on high stakes decision for children or teachers or schools?

Writing skill can be a predictor of academic success and is a high stakes assessment for acceptance into college and career.

But here, the two phone it in, and play a low stakes game.

The agreement will see the German, Japanese and French car manufacturers take stakes in each other to share technologies and build smaller, electric - powered vehicles.

A carrying bag with a shoulder strap is included, but you'll have to get your own stakes for a more «permanent» tent installation.

One for bond management advice at his bank, and management of two balanced funds, and another to analyze four insurance companies that he owns big stakes in to get a second opinion.

If you are looking to move around or you are willing to pick up stakes for your job, you should consider renting.

There is a need to balance high - stakes accountability with ongoing support and feedback, focused on improvement.

Certainly, with stakes so high for students and their teachers, these Smarter Balanced tests should not be administered.

Consider customer training: it's table stakes if your product or service has any sort of learning curve.

Before the latest count began, members of the team offered predictions for what they would find — just a little friendly competition among colleagues with no real stakes involved.

Along with designing efficient systems, IT Analyst may be required to interact with stake holders to understand their requirements.

It has many hours worth of activities and encourages progress through low stakes testing and spaced learning, as well as providing sample answers and vocabulary and key language support.

We have successfully represented clients and defended clients in several high - stakes claims where the compensation awarded or sought was in excess of a million dollars.

As trusted adviser to some of the world's leading organisations, we advise on many of the world's largest, most complex and high - stakes litigation cases.

All the while his ownership stake got squeezed down.

Big - budget genre pieces appear to be raising emotional stakes across the board, even in the sort of films where you might not expect such resonance to be.

Are K - 12 students ready to begin taking high stakes exams online at a nationwide level?

Since straining out of the rack position was feeling like someone was driving a wooden stake into my chest like I was a vampire, I just didn't do strict press.

But slice the data slightly differently, and you'll find an unexpected trend: The group of business owners who are really putting stakes in the ground are women veterans.

Certainly there are those within the state who are working hard to eliminate the tests altogether and / or eliminate the high stakes attached for students.