Sentences with phrase «than a strategy adopted»

At the schools that have made the transition, competency - based education is part and parcel of their overall approach to educating students, rather than a strategy adopted in a spirit of compliance.

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This goes some way towards explaining why more than 90 percent of B2B sellers have adopted it as a strategy, according to GEB Global.

When you consider that more than half of workers are willing to leave their current jobs for companies that show their appreciation to employees, adopting a culture of gratitude becomes your most valuable retention strategy.

As the nation's economy emerges from recession, many companies are adopting a more cautious bird - in - the - hand strategy - working to retain the customers they have rather than continually pursuing prospects.

And he warns of the need to check out the advice received: «There are times when customers try to persuade you to adopt strategies that are in their best interests rather than yours.»

For example, we analyzed more than 2,000 product experiments run on our platform to highlight the strategies that organizations adopt to generate user insights.

The guiding considerations of an effective U.S. strategy for addressing China's inroads in Europe should be to 1) include Europe in its own thinking and considerations about China, 2) avoid adopting contradictory economic policies that target European allies rather than China, 3) work with Europe to shape and advance a proactive, joint transatlantic agenda to address shared concerns about China.

What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance, with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.

There are more than countable strategies adopted by investors with the aim of making maximum profits and reducing risk as much as possible.

But it is also more complicated than ABC» it requires remembering more words» and we are not aware of any country in Africa or elsewhere that has adopted SLOW / STOP as a national AIDS policy, whereas ABC (partly because of its simplicity) continues to be widely used in Africa, including in national AIDS policies and strategies.

No one has been more concerned with this problem than Hartshorne himself, who has lately adopted the desperate strategy of Henry Pierce Stapp, in which all events are simply serially ordered in terms of before and after (PS 7:183 - 91).

The former camp were highly concerned with packing as much theological and biblical knowledge into each song as possible, while the latter adopted the strategy of reaching hip - hop culture by fitting into it, and there's more great Christian - focused hip - hop being made, which will appeal to more fans, than at any point in the genre's history.

The legalization of sod by way of minority Status is the secret to understanding why pro-sod activists adopted the strategy outlined in The Gay Agenda So I challenged to where this was wrong none of you have provided any proof that any of what you said is more than one quote on top of another.

One might somewhat figuratively say that they had «chosen'to inhabit one type of environment rather than the other, and to adopt one type of strategy against predators rather than another.

In statistical language, one would say that an underdog must be willing to adopt a strategy whose outcome has a larger - than - average variance.

For many teachers at M.S. 45, the Turnaround coaches told me, embracing this part of the Turnaround model was much more challenging than adopting the new classroom - management strategies.

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In the last parliament, with the Labour party looking more divided and disloyal than ever, some consultants adopted a strategy of picking off moderate MPs and Blairite factions within the PLP in a bid to get support for an issue or policy.

Notably, to win the primary and general election contests, the Obama campaign adopted strategies from MoveOn.org and the 2004 Howard Dean campaign.52 Dean had used the Web to recruit thousands of «Deaniacs,» organize face - to - face gatherings of his supporters, and raise more than $ 25 million.53

Cuomo's proposal, which the SUNY Board of Trustees adopted at his urging last Thursday and which he hopes to codify in state law, deals largely with encouraging reporting and improving prevention strategies rather than reforming colleges» investigative and disciplinary strategies.

Expansionist visits were more effective than Labour's defensive strategy, but it should be taken into account that even if Labour had adopted an expansionist pattern of leader visits, it is questionable whether they would have reaped the same rewards.

We must put these behind us and look forward to the future with optimism, adopting a pro-active strategy for influence, rather than fall back on tired old solutions.

However, writes Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen), within an environment where private companies frequently adopt nudge strategies, public policy nudges need not have greater implications for democracy and transparency than other forms of government intervention, and can be one tool in exerting democratic control over private sector nudge tactics.

At least since the Lisbon strategy was adopted in 2000, the people who hold the purse strings of European science have been trying to figure out how to convince ambitious and successful researchers at the start of their independent careers to put down roots in Europe rather than North America.

They also fared only slightly better than the other species, with just five of the 26 human pairs adopting the maximum - reward strategy (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1016269108).

Americans, however, appeared more wary of such strategies than Canadians or Brits: Forty - one percent of U.S. respondees opposed ever adopting geoengineering techniques, compared to just about 30 % of Canadian and U.K. residents.

And players who adopt his strategy end up spending much less time in prison than their opponents — in collaborative games, both players end up spending roughly equal time in prison.

To increase their odds of detecting these weak genetic signals, the team of researchers from Harvard / Massachusetts General Hospital, Pfizer Inc. and 23andMe Inc. adopted a strategy of studying much larger samples than had been used in the earlier studies.

«Social media has changed the landscape so an encounter with you is valued more as a social - media currency than a genuine interaction,» says Blunt, explaining that she has adopted a selfie - combating strategy when approached while with her young children: «Frances McDormand told us — she just makes my teeth ache I love her so much — when someone asks her for a picture, she says, «You know what?

Rather than articulating a broad, theoretical case for reforms that have been embraced by policymakers, the books of the «aughts» were more likely to engage in debates over evidence, articulate a strategy that had not been adopted, or do battle against the strategies that policymakers did adopt.

Many localities trying to imitate Anthony Alvarado's striking success in New York City are finding that it is easier to adopt some of the surface elements of a strategy than to reproduce all its active ingredients.

Educators have been experimenting with and adopting new learning models now more than ever, as these innovative teaching strategies have the potential to enrich and advance student outcomes.

TURNAROUND MODEL: Replace the principal, screen existing school staff, and rehire no more than half the teachers; adopt a new governance structure; and improve the school through curriculum reform, professional development, extending learning time, and other strategies.

Although many districts and professionals are understandably feeling the pressure of the impending Smarter Balanced assessments and will be tempted to rely exclusively on the scope and sequence of the textbooks they adopt, this strategy may be less than ideal in the long run.

«As decision - making shifts away from the federal government, it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the skills and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that truly make a difference for kids.»

«It's more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the skills and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that truly make a difference for kids.»

Personnel management: More than half of districts report adopting personnel management strategies.

And, as decision - making shifts away from the federal government, we recognize that it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the leadership abilities and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that will truly make a difference for students.

Hyundai also adopted a similar strategy with the new i10 which has a longer wheelbase than the international model.

The 2018 Ghibli adopts a similar trim strategy to the updated Quattroporte that debuted more than a year ago.

There is no one stock allocation that everyone following a VII strategy should adopt any more than there is any one stock allocation that everyone following a Buy - and - Hold strategy should adopt.

According to Diamond, by adopting a balanced drawdown strategy, rather than drawing on all their non-registered accounts first, the Franklins can expect to save a lifetime total of about $ 170,000 (in 2011 dollars).

My point is simply that it's possible to adopt an RESP strategy that is low - cost, broadly diversified, easy to implement, and fully capable of meeting your goal, even if it is less than optimal.

Paying more often than just making the scheduled payments is a unique strategy that you can adopt to become debt free sooner.

Whether you're trying to buy low to sell high or whether you have adopted a cash flow driven strategy, the goal is to wind up with more money than you had at the outset.

Whether you're trying to buy low to sell high or whether you have adopted a cash flow driven strategy, the goal is to wind up with more money than you...

By adopting investment strategies that track passive indexes rather than requiring active management, ETFs don't have to pay as much for frequent trading expenses, and they generally don't pay managers as much to implement those strategies as they would to come up with their own independent investment ideas.

If you're married, you and your spouse may be able to ramp up your potential lifetime benefit even more than individuals can by adopting any of a number of claiming strategies.

You can adopt a strategy that is much safer than CCW.

[They prefer active involvement in the management & strategy of their investee companies — presumably, that proved a non-runner here, so the tender was an opportunity to exit, rather than build a far larger holding & adopt a more aggressive stance].