Sentences with phrase «standards are a step in the right direction»

The idea of a new standard is a step in the right direction but has limits, said Mike Blackhurst, who recently accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Texas, Austin, in civil, environmental and architectural engineering.

The new standards are another step in the right direction towards our goal of ensuring that all children have access to appropriate amounts of energy and nutrients at school.

Schmidt didn't help write the Common Core, but he thinks the new standards are a step in the right direction if the United States is going to remain competitive on international tests.

And while new federal and state standards are a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done.

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U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson's bill is a step in the right direction to mitigate fraud while protecting legitimate asylum seekers, and the House should immediately act to pass H.R. 391, which will increase the evidence needed to meet the standard, and include it in any appropriations bill before Congress effecting homeland security.

While eye for an eye is crude by today's standard, it was a step in the right direction at a time when people killed others for a lesser transgression.

For someone coming from a typical Standard American Diet, filled with processed foods and trans fats, a homemade whipped cream using organic canned coconut milk is still a step in the right direction over the highly - processed versions.

There is a lack of consistency in selection, and while Xhaka's signing was a step in the right direction, central midfield reinforcement had been long overdue and the team has not played to a consistently high standard since his arrival.

A number of new technologies that meet this standard are now being tested in various environments, and most experts agree they are a step in the right direction.

100g per day is a significant reduction vs the standard american, or western diet and would be a huge step in the right direction.

More subversive and inspiring than Marston's lineage, which includes the Gal Gadot led reboot (a formidable step in the right direction, especially as concerns box - office standards), a film also robbed of its source material's original enlightened subtexts on sexuality and gender norms, Robinson's take on the material is effective, even if it stops short of being exceptional.

For many states, moving to NAEP - based standards would clearly be a step in the right direction, at least in the long term.

«These new standards will be mandatory from January and will apply to all new academies and free schools, which is a step in the right direction.

Although the increased demand of the standards has been a step in the right direction, the teachers who are responsible for implementing these standards have been left to search for and create their own curriculum with supporting materials.

«While I would like to see them include adaptive cruise control as standard as well, it's certainly a step in the right direction,» said Sam Abuelsamid, senior analyst at Navigant Research, «and ACC will be offered as an option along with more capable lane centering systems.»

I'm not sure whether to be excited or deeply fearful at the news that Resident Evil 6 is set to make some pretty major changes to the standard set - up of the previous games in the series, so I'm going to fall back on the hope that it's a step in the right direction!

The move makes a lot of sense because of the geographical proximity of the countries and because the Tier 3 standard is a pretty good step in the right direction.

With the standard turnaround time of 4 - 6 weeks for a traditional, fully underwritten life policy, this is a huge step in the right direction for both insurance companies and consumers alike.

«Ford has taken a fair amount of criticism for lagging behind in the autonomous race, and making more of these features standard across its full model line is a big step in the right direction.»

Increasing the standards for those who will be new to the business is definitely a step in the right direction.