Sentences with phrase «than their colleagues did»

He also sent many more bills than his colleagues did to the Insurance (13.73 versus 3.35 percent) and Banks (7.84 percent versus 0.82 percent) Committees.
Even excluding industrial scientists, scientists in certain disciplines earned far less than their colleagues did.
It's no secret that American teachers spend many more hours teaching than their colleagues do in higher - performing nations.
While the 2015 CR - V is pretty similar to today's model, especially from a design standpoint, the engineers did put a little more effort into this vehicle than their colleagues did.
We have it easier than our colleagues did ten years, or even five years ago, sure.

Not exact matches

«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.
Ask family, friends, colleagues and former managers to share with you two to three things that you seem to do better than anyone else they know.
According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.
It reports that women are «more likely than white men to report doing more office housework than their colleagues» while they «have less access to glamour work than white men do
While Loeb may not like Finke, Cohen's VF piece makes it perfectly clear there are plenty of colleagues out there than don't like him at all.
Our colleagues in Europe have taken this issue seriously for more than two decades, and we should now look to them for guidance in how we can do the same in the U.S.
It's easier to invest someone else's money in an entrepreneur with a proven track record or a talented former colleague than in someone you don't know.
«I thought I had more than 300 horses the entire time, testament to how that V6 in combination with a 9 - speed automatic does a passable imitation of a small V8,» my colleague Matt DeBord wrote in his review of the car.
If it is used to do anything other than make money (like cut grass, play tennis or do yoga), do yourself, and your colleagues, a favour and leave it in the closet.
If you're there overtly because somebody has a quota to fill, I can't help but think you may feel somewhat compromised and your colleagues may feel differently about you than they do about others.
Women business owners still face greater difficulties in gaining access to commercial credit and bidding on government contracts than do their male colleagues, and pockets of resistance to women entrepreneurs remain strong in some industries and geographic regions.
Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.
Other than going to extreme lengths like quitting your job, is there anything else you can do when colleagues» insecurities start making your life miserable?
But just because conflict is inevitable when colleagues of diverse backgrounds and temperaments are thrown together in a high stress work environment, doesn't mean disputes can't be dealt with constructively and in a way that reinforces rather than erodes morale at your company.
Two - thirds of employees with access to free food say they're very happy at their current jobs, and workers who have strong relationships with their colleagues feel 50 percent more satisfied than those who don't.
While it's vital to remember that generational stereotypes don't apply to every member of a particular population, it is true that many millennials are motivated by different things than their older colleagues were as they entered the world of work.
A colleague of mine who works at a pension fund did a study last year in which he concluded that, because of the extreme degree of public pension underfunding, a 10 % decline in the stock market for a sustained period — i.e. more than 3 or 4 months — would cause every single public pension fund to blow up.
Like Rebecca says, link builders from India typically work for wages that are * much * lower than those charged by their colleagues in Western Europe and the U.S., so there is * very * little incentive for them to do serious research and provide top quality work...
«Politics makes for the strangest of bedfellows,» Sanford said of the predicament; he has spoken openly against Trump, yet he sees himself closer to the president on the gun issue than most of his Freedom Caucus colleagues do.
One notes, for instance, that when Stanley Hauerwas, a Methodist, and Robert Louis Wilken, then a Lutheran, were at Notre Dame, they did much more to advance that purpose than did many of their box - checking Catholic colleagues.
As it stands, you've done no better (and in some ways far worse) than your colleagues who have appeared on this thread previously.
My Princeton political science colleagues Nolan McCarty and Howard Rosenthal, together with Keith Poole at the University of Houston, have done a statistical analysis showing that the voting behavior of a congressman is much better predicted by his party affiliation today than it was 25 years ago.
The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that new faculty — though very smart and well read (and probably better educated than most of their senior colleagues), though religiously observant and already experienced in teaching, though flexible, open and good - humored — have not found a vocation, do not know what purpose they want to serve.
And the political reality is even redder than it looks, since a number of the blue dogs who did survive, having observed the cruel fate suffered by their colleagues, will now be less likely to sit and stay at the President's command.
I honor you for speaking your mind, and for doing so with far more decency and kindness than some of your colleagues.
As a matter of fact, E. R. John and his colleagues have been carrying out experiments of this type to test a model of consciousness that links consciousness to the activity of a particular type of neuron.15 It appears that John's model predicts different results than the present model does, and one can think of several feasible experimental designs that would test between the two models.
If my colleague Brad Gregory's historical assessment is true, and if Ephraim Radner's «Protestant version» of the Reformation's purported beneficial effects» that it «gave us back our consciences, granted us freedom, unleashed reason,» etc., and has given rise to modern secular institutions that have exercised caritas even better than have Christian institutions» are arguable if not actually overstated, what then are modern Christians (Protestant and Catholic) to do in the face of contemporary culture's relentless hostility to sacred things?
Naturally, it's more than likely it isn't anything more than two friends and former colleagues catching up, but it's obviously concerned a few Chelsea fans with comments such as «don't leave» and «please don't go» popping up to accompany the image.
Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?
«I think we've been able to do just that because I've had such great help and support from a group of colleagues and friends who have been with me for, in most cases, more than 30 years,» added Hedlund.
A spokeswoman for Golub Capital similarly parried attempts to reach his colleagues at the accounting firm, though a receptionist did observe that her phones had been ringing more often than usual this morning.
Not only did Kolasinac register a better defence score than his Arsenal colleagues last season, while he also registered more goals and assists, suggesting his creativity is also superior to Arsenal's current stock.
To find out what hospitals can do, and what they should avoid, to help promote breastfeeding, Perrine and her colleagues used information from an existing study that followed more than 3,000 pregnant women between 2005 and 2007.
(Now, if there's a doctor who's doing mostly normal deliveries and getting worse than average outcomes, that's a matter for his colleagues, hospital, etc..)
Did she run out of work early to get to the daycare before it closes, but called back in because she knows that her parenting status made her less desirable as a hire and makes her more likely to be fired than her colleagues who don't have kids?
Too often partners feel they do not have to take care with each other and therefore communicate more thoughtlessly than they would with colleagues or friends.
Fathers are cited more than mothers in issues such as psychological maladjustment, substance abuse, depression and behavioral problems, according to research done by Ronald Rohner, director of the Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, and his colleague Robert Veneziano.
The 2005 study by Harder and colleagues (also mentioned in the comments section) looked at risk of obesity but didn't find a reduced risk associated with breastfeeding beyond 9 months: «From 1 month of breastfeeding onward, the risk of subsequent overweight continuously decreased up to a reduction of more than 30 percent, reaching a plateau at 9 months of breastfeeding.»
Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.
You're practically superwoman, and you can get more done than your colleagues in less time.
Has his modernising project really denuded the party of its traditional principles, or does he remain truer to them than many of his own colleagues imagine?
I am more determined than ever to withhold my dues should Janus prevail in the SCOTUS and urge as many of my faculty colleagues to do the same.
Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara, who did President Mahama the honours said he sees him as a brother rather than a colleague Head of State.
Politically, Cable has more in common with Balls than he does with his Conservative colleagues.
I have copied in some colleagues from the 2010 intake who voted for the motion last week, many of whom defied the whip for the first time in doing so, some of whom don't agree with my less than anti-EU views but may well share my disappointment that the vote is being taken down a path that it was not intended.
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