Sentences with phrase «than we vouch for»

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He said the most people who are denied boarding are happy about it because «the person who paid $ 200 is usually happy because they got a voucher» worth more than what they paid for their ticket.»

When Sarepta Therapeutics nabbed a pioneering approval for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug last year, it won more than just bragging rights and a controversial FDA approval: the firm also landed a coveted «priority review voucher,» which can either be sold off to another company or used to slash the review period for a future Sarepta treatment.

Who better to put money into your brilliant business idea than people who can already vouch for you?

They also see their desires as demands rather than requests («My flight was late so I must have a voucher for a first class ticket!»).

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

I think Italian dressing would work fine, though I've only ever made the recipe as written so can't vouch for the taste / quality if using ingredients other than listed.

I vouch for Pat's honesty above, he is not a holier than thou twat, he gives fans free licence within reason to be constructively criticial about Arsenal, whether positive or negative.

Finally, I have always vouched for Coquelin (he's improved a lot more than we think).

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

The government needs to understand though that more than just cash or vouchers for nursing, moms need a culture or society that helps and guides moms in their breastfeeding journey.

If people ask what they can buy for presents, a voucher for cleaning services is more valuable gift than a set of baby china.

I was a strong - willed child and can heartily vouch for the need of such children to be met with love, respect, and understanding rather than harsh discipline and punishment.

Any vendor expecting payment for that month must send their bill and voucher to the Accounting Office no later than the third Friday of the month.

A trivial benefit will qualify for the exemption if it meets four conditions: it costs less than # 50, it is not cash or a cash voucher, it is not part of a salary sacrifice arrangement and it is not provided in recognition of the employment.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

He said it was no different than a church asking its parishioners for donations — even though the state created the voucher program.

«Insurance companies are experts at assessing risk and should have known better than to vouch for bad institutions that harbor sexual predators,» said State Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal.

Jane Corwin is a Trojan Horse candidate for the GOP, who will be a reliable vote to gut Medicare and repalce it with a voucher program that would not even begin to cover any stay in the ER for anything worse than a hangnail.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

«Who better to vouch for a casino operator with a string of legal problems than David Paterson, architect of the Aqueduct fiasco,» a casino industry insider said.

He falsely certified that he had been in Albany for legislative business on specific days when he had not been in Albany at all, had been in Albany for less time than he claimed on a voucher, or had not stayed overnight.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

Other than GreenFloors PET carpeting, GreenAmerica also vouches for natural fiber offerings from the likes of Contempo Floor Coverings and Natural Home.

Sure, environmentalists, outdoor adventurers, and camping enthusiasts will vouch for the restorative powers of nature any day of the week, but there is no better way to reconnect with the earth than at the dawn of a new year.

Recertification vouchers awarded to ACE Certified Professionals who hold more than one certification will be automatically applied to the next on - time recertification processed, not necessarily the next certification up for renewal.

Second, I can totally vouch for the fact that Target's jeans are sized waaaay differently than most other stores.

This is the first cruelty free brush of this type I have used, so I can't vouch for that part BUT I can say that this works much better than the hair type kabuki brushes I owned in the past.

With our Pointer voucher codes, you can get a pair of these versatile shoes for less than you'd think, allowing you to add some subtle interest to a range of outfits.

And who better to vouch for embracing curves than Khloé Kardashian herself?

My voucher was certainly enough to get me far more than two truffles, and a lot of the joy in my expedition was in deciding what treats to get for friends and family.

I own almost exclusively matte shades, so I can only really vouch for these rather than their satins or shimmers, but several of their shades are part of my go to daily palette.

A hint for the boys... treat your other half to a voucher, rather than a steak dinner tonight, and you might have more chance of adding some B to your S!

They are somewhat tamer than last year's gift bags which contained an array of sex toys and a voucher for a «vampire breast lift».

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

Note also that Goldhaber compared the STAR results with voucher results for just Washington, D.C., where the gains were higher than in Dayton or New York.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, called vouchers «a huge waste of energy» in an interview in late January, and the political climate is even more hostile for vouchers than it was in 2001.

However, an analysis of individuals by political party reveals that support for universal vouchers has increased by 13 percentage points among Republicans (to 54 %) but fallen by 9 percentage points (to 40 %) among Democrats, whereas in 2016, Democrats were more supportive than Republicans of universal vouchers by an 8 - percentage point margin.

Year after year, the results from this second item always show higher support for vouchers than the «at public expense» item does.

Either voucher proponents have very different views of equity than most citizens, or they don't really view vouchers as a replacement model for the current public education.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

African Americans expressed higher levels of support for vouchers than did the population as a whole (57 percent), but support also was 12 percentage points lower among those African Americans told of presidential opposition.

Such a strategy also calls for researchers to ask more nuanced questions than simply whether or not voucher programs are better than public school programs.

PDK finds much less support for vouchers than does EdNext, but the wording of the PDK question is strongly biased against vouchers.