Sentences with phrase «state than any other factor»

While this is not an unreasonably short standard compared to similar laws in New York or Germany, my research on administrative litigation in China (based on 178 interviews) suggests that this simple limitation derails more cases against the Chinese state than any other factor.

Not exact matches

Reznik said the bill is timely — and the economy is a factor for why more than a dozen other states are considering similar measures.

«One reasonable interpretation is that other factors matter more than RTW in determining the size of the manufacturing industry in a state,» he wrote.

Both the federal and California state Equal Pay Acts authorize employers to consider a «factor other than sex» in setting salaries.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On average, home buyers in California cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco make larger down payments than buyers in other markets across the U.S. And when you factor in the relatively high housing costs in the Golden State, this initial investment can seem like quite a hurdle.

The factors that most impact timing are how quickly you file the necessary paperwork, the speed at which your current custodian (the firm that handles your original retirement account) releases your funds and which state the corporation is filed in (some states are faster than others).

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

During a news conference at Glens Falls Hospital Wednesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said that the environment is one of the factors they'll look at, as they study why Warren County and three other regions of the state have higher cancer rates than the rest.

How many hours a person slept, it turns out, was one of the strongest predictors of whether or not they got sick — even more than other factors like a person's age, body mass, stress levels or emotional state.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

Despite ample research indicating that teachers matter more to student achievement than any other in - school factor, 32 both the Trump - DeVos budget and the House appropriations bill proposed eliminating the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grant program, often referred to as Title II grants after the section of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that authorizes the funding.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

• Congress, in passing the Every Student Succeeds Act, also is requiring that states use factors other than test scores to determine which schools must receive state assistance.

• To identify a direct and thus causational relationship between teachers and students, all other factors impacting student achievement, including out - of - school factors, would have to be controlled, resulting in a process that would cost more money and time than the state can fund.

When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $ 15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report.

The 90 percent goal is a key element in a 387 - page ESSA plan the Illinois State Board of Education submitted last month to the federal government, outlining how students of all backgrounds will be assessed and grow academically, as well as how schools will be rated under myriad factors other than test scores.

Under the new law, test scores, graduation rates and other such academic factors are still required to comprise much more weight than non-academic factors in a state's school rating system.

While global equity funds can be volatile and involve more risk than Canadian investments — depending on the state of world affairs, currency fluctuations and other economic and political factors — they diversify against any type of country or political risk an investor might encounter.

In most states, your credit score can play a larger role in the price of insurance than many other factors do.

Owners of safe breeds who insure with State Farm and the other companies covering pit bulls, in particular, are paying correspondingly higher premiums, if all other factors are equal, than they would if insuring with one of at least 13 major U.S. insurance groups that do not cover pit bulls.

However it must be stated that it is unclear in many cases how these factors were derived and they have not been tested to determine if they are more accurate than any other approach.

A factor other than AGW affecting the ocean heat state in 2000 was the Pinatubo eruption in 1991.

Looking across the totality of the evidence, what we see is that the climate variables tend to be weaker predictors of security troubles than other factors, like ethnic divisions, failed states, war in neighboring states that spills over, etc..

That is, (1) there is dO18 measurement, which I claim should be fairly precise, but you stated has large uncertainties, and then there is (2) derivation of temperature from dO18 values, where you have indeed pointed out that there could be a number of possibly confounding factors in that analysis if other variables than temperature are not controlled.

To date all operating nuclear power plants were developed by state - owned or regulated utility monopolies [2] where many of the risks associated with construction costs, operating performance, fuel price, and other factors were borne by consumers rather than suppliers.

It can also be achieved by understanding that the argument relies on ignoring factors that matter as known by people who do understand the complexities of the system (in other words, that the argument springs from too far into the confident incompetent state described by Dunning & Kruger), although I find it's rare that people exhibiting the characteristics of denial rather than mere ignorance who start out there will admit to themselves that that's where they were - perhaps because I don't follow the incremental approach Jonathan recommends?

News reports have indicated that poor road design or conditions played a role in more than half of all fatal automobile accidents in the United States, resulting in more deaths than any other single factor, including speeding, drunk driving, and not using seat belts.

For all the reasons stated above, I conclude that the petitioners have failed completely to demonstrate that it is «more probable than not» that the MMR vaccination can be a substantial factor in contributing to the causation of autism, in individuals suffering from regressive autism or any other type of autism.

Burglaries are less common in Kentucky than in other states, which is one factor that helps keep the cost of home insurance low.

So, without evening considering all the many other factors that determine your rates (which we'll get to in a minute) cheap car insurance in a state with high minimums (like, say, New Jersey) is going to look very different than cheap car in a state with lower minimums (like Iowa).

Depending on your vehicle's worth, your lifestyle, and other factors, you'll likely want more coverage than the state minimum requirement.

Researchers from University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data on premature deaths, self - reports about health and factors such as smoking rates, obesity, teen births, the percentage of children in poverty and number of liquor stores vs. grocery stores to rank more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their state.

Part of the problem is a higher number of claims than the national average, but other factors particular to the Nutmeg State influence Connecticut insurance quotes.

Although drivers looking for good deals on insurance premiums start out in a better position than residents of many other states, the actual premiums they'll pay for their for Indiana automotive insurance will depend on several factors, including age, sex and driving records.

States» best interests lists usually involve at least 10 factors, however, and judges can give some factors more weight than others.

Scientists at The Ohio State University knew that people with sleep disorders or serious sleep deprivation have higher levels of inflammation in their bodies — a risk factor for diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic conditions — than those who sleep normally.

Second, Lazarus» model emphasizes the subjective experience of stress and states that the identification of individual factors is crucial to understand why some individuals suffer more stress than others under similar environmental circumstances.

There are probably too many factors related to our society's changing attitudes toward marriage to identify a single one that rises above the rest, other than to state that society's increasingly strong move away from traditional marriage is real.

On average, home buyers in California cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco make larger down payments than buyers in other markets across the U.S. And when you factor in the relatively high housing costs in the Golden State, this initial investment can seem like quite a hurdle.