Sentences with phrase «starting point against»
Tests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as «baseline tests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary school.
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The test is intended to provide a starting point against which to measure future progress through primary schools.
Here is an important detail: The starting point against which those gains will be measured isn't the fund's actual net asset value on March 31, but rather the deeply discounted price the new buyers are paying..
Not exact matches
The development of the Barcelona Principles is a good starting point, but traditional PR must become more data focused to yield better results and compete against other marketing disciplines.
«Jamie Dimon has been the one who has led the charge in order to say, «Nope, no more regulation, fight back against regulation, call the regulation un-American, try to resist, try to put loopholes into regulation, hire an army of lobbyists,» Warren said in an interview with CNN's «Starting Point.»
But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»
Up until this point, the agency has taken few actions, but it appears it's ready to start getting more aggressive against fraud.
It's important to note that industry benchmarks are a bad starting point to measure your business against.
Key Points Bitcoin cash price started a downside correction and traded towards $ 1,350 against the US Dollar.
Key Points Bitcoin cash price started a recovery and traded above the $ 1,300 level against the US Dollar.
Starting from simple, focused and accessible starting points is a guarantee for campaigns to have mass appeal, as was demonstrated both by the campaign against the MAT and the launch oStarting from simple, focused and accessible starting points is a guarantee for campaigns to have mass appeal, as was demonstrated both by the campaign against the MAT and the launch ostarting points is a guarantee for campaigns to have mass appeal, as was demonstrated both by the campaign against the MAT and the launch of ATTAC.
His Politics of Experience (Penguin Book) amounts to a defense of the validity of the individual's internal experience against external pressure — «the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity».
The entire account of the Fall of the angels points to that conclusion: that the decision for or against God starts with an interpretation of God and then all the evidence of the outside world is marshaled to support that conclusion.
Case in point: starting safety and punt returner Eddie Jackson broke his leg against Texas A&M in the Tide's 33 - 14 victory.
What's crazy about the ranieri sacking is the 2nd half against Sevilla vardy scored and they all started to click again, couldn't been a turning point for them.
Look back to the very start of the season, when the knives were out for the boss after Arsenal picked up just a point from the first two games against Liverpool and Leicester, after which we went on an 18 game unbeaten run.
Which obviously means starting tomorrow, and Wenger was asked if it was important to get the three points against the Cherries?
Kentucky got off to a bit of a slow start during Thursday's first - round game against # 16 seed Hampton, and at one point Kentucky was actually trailing.
Arsenal face up against strong opposition, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, at the Emirates this Sunday and will be hoping to start the season off with an impressive three points.
Wit the news that Celtics starting point guard Rajon Rondo has a torn ACL, Boston fans couldn't have been all that happy about Sunday's game against the Miami Heat.
They started off hot and kept the momentum going over the course of the night as they recorded 4 game wins and totaled 12 big points in the Standings against Team Kirshner (Sofia Live Lovely).
3) Team Levine (Sarkis Cafe)-- Currently in 3rd with 90 points - Playoff Scenario: With a Win next Sunday against Team Gambino (Atomic Transport) they will be right where they thought they'd be before the season started..
The home game against Hull City kick started a run of four winnable games in the Premier League for the Wenger's wizards who, owing to their insipid display, dropped two crucial points that surely would have hurt the North Londoners» prospects at the time.
If he starts against JV, Raptors will run 4 - 5 straight plays down low resulting in 2 quick fouls and / or 6 - 8 points.....
Two days later in Lin's first start, the Knicks received just 52 % of public bets as 3 - point favorites against the Jazz.
Nik Stauskas netted 15 points in his first start of the year for the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night against LeBron...
Aaron Brooks will likely start at point guard tonight against the Portland Trail Blazers.
I personally don't, he misses too many chances to be relied on Had it not been for Moses, we'd have dropped points cause he missed a one - on - one, same way we dropped points in the 2 - 2 against Arsenal cause he missed 3 (THREE) one - on - ones I really think we should be looking for a reliable striker, and start considering putting Morata on the bench
Now that Leicester need to collect 6 additional points to the 72 they've gotten already to be certain of beating Arsenal to the title, the Boss starts against Palace and WBA must be such a starts that will out matched whatever these 2 clubs starts have on offer against the Boss» starts for the 2 matches.
The NFL loves the athleticism of a small forward who guarded Kentucky star Tayshaun Prince in an SEC hoops game, who in a game against Florida dunked over current Miami Heat starting forward Udonis Haslem and who had a seven - point, seven - rebound, seven - assist, zero - turnover game against Tennessee.
With Reath nursing a sore ankle and playing only nine minutes earlier this week against Vanderbilt, Sims started in Reath's spot and combined with Aaron Epps for seven dunks and 31 points - but they had nine between them this time.
Before Saturday's game against Manchester United, we looked at Palace's appalling start in the context of their goals scored (before: nil; after: zero), their points gained (before: none; after: nada), and their hope for the future (you get the idea).
The Chicago Bulls have ruled starting point guard Kirk Hinrich out for Game 1 of the second round series against the Miami Heat, head coach Tom Thibodeau announced prior to the game.
Hull meanwhile, will be hoping to build on a sluggish start and bounce back from the disappointment at not being able to claim all three points against West Ham on Monday.
It's even more important for us to win now because of Chelsea result to start building up points against our rivals.
Wenger still started the season trying to bomb forward against our opponents leading to some silly points dropped.
If anyone should be seriously worried about Sunday's game it is the City manager Pep Guardiola, who started the season so well but now find themselves slipping down the table after defeats to Chelsea and Leicester, before finally getting some points last night against Watford.
Three points against Bournemouth this weekend is a must but after that we need to start picking up points and moving back up the table because we simply can not let the pace setters get too far ahead.
If you think about their fixture, they had a difficult start to the season, I mean they played against Everton and managed to beat them 6:3 on their home, they played City at the Etihad and they managed to take a point and they also played against Arsenal and took three points.So in terms of fixture it is the same as Arsenal.
The Blues have made an awful start to the defence of their Premier League title this season as back - to - back defeats against Crystal Palace and Everton has left them 11 points behind current leaders Manchester City and could fall even further behind if they fail to take all three points against the Gunners.
Giroud said: «For me, the most difficult moment was after scoring an important goal against Manchester United, I thought I had scored some points and would start against PSG... but no.»
However, the team he put out got a good point as with the league win against the saints this team has shown that without a first team starting they are capable of getting results last season and in previous seasons would have lost both those matches.
Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.
I'm not going to go all out and say that Leicester are also going to start slipping up in the coming weeks, but I would not be surprised to see them drop points against Southampton tomorrow, who are known to bring some of the toughest games to even the strongest opponents.
Despite a somewhat misleading flying start (a string of four - goal victories against relegation fodder), the Red Devils» form has taken a hit since then, leaving them eight points off the pace in the title race.
Arsenal are on one of their worst runs of form for many years, with 5 defeats out of their last 8 games, and the only wins have come against low - ranking teams in Lincoln, Sutton and Hull, so Arsene Wenger will be desperate to start picking up points again to try and keep pace in the race for the Top Four.
After the way they lucked their way to all three points against Swansea, Man City should start marketing their own brand of jam.
As for the transfers, I said he could have done better, but we are starting to buy the world class players that arsenal deserves... My point is that on the day it's arsenals 11 against the opposition 11, and it's up to the players to get the win... Wenger plays a big part in the tactics and formations yes... However ultimately it's down to the players to come up with the result... I think the players get away with poor performances too lightly as wenger gets the brunt of the criticism, ultimately it was a poor performance by the players yesterday not by wenger
Walcott's two goals could possibly earn him a start in the Three Lions next game against Switzerland at Wembley on Tuesday night, where a point will be enough to see them qualify for Euro 2016 as winners of Group E.
if the Ox was played to either showcase his skills or to increase any potential bids because of his perceived importance to our starting 11, this was an incredibly risky move that could have cost us dearly... imagine if he was injured or played poorly, like he did, and this negatively impacted our ability to get the best available deal... more importantly, why was Wenger willing to play someone who obviously wants out in such an important game under false pretenses... this kind of behaviour might be less offensive in April, when things are done and dusted, but to do this following a loss against a supposed main rival that pipped us for fourth by a point last year, could be considered at best inappropriate and at worst treasonous... we can't afford to let this coach make business decisions on game day, which has gone on for far too long