Sentences with phrase «up against some peer»

How did he stack up against his peers?

That is especially important when you get into your teen years and you are up against some peer pressure.

The 2015 Chrysler 200 represents a quantum leap over its predecessor, but in the ultra-competitive mid-size sedan segment, buyers will want to know how it stacks up against its peers.

Before you buy any REIT, make sure you know how it stacks up against its peers.

In these contests, users are put up against their peers to see who can craft the best portfolio possible using stocks, commodities, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies.

But there's a problem: in a best - case scenario, you and your résumé are going up against your peers — people who have had the same job titles, responsibilities, and training as you have (worst case — they have more experience than you have).

As we examine the top four responses, do an honest assessment of how adept you are at each and how you stack up against your peers who are also looking to build their careers.

Not exact matches

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

IOTA is still advancing against most of its peers but is giving up ground to the dollar, which has extended this week's...

It seems to me the issue is the apparent silencing of people who were speaking out against what seems to be cover - ups, concealment of evidence, and the protection of leaders by their peers.

Not all peer pressure is bad, but you need to know what you're up against should your child feel pressured to smoke, drink, or break your family rules.

We know how difficult it can be to resist the power of a group and go against the tide, and we know that even parents have a hard time standing up to peer pressure.

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

If you want to pick an expert, you judge people by their current knowledge — and have you noticed any peer who is against elections suggesting instead regular expertise exams to check peers are still up to the mark?

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

His considerable diplomatic skills might yet be stretched to breaking point if the party leadership's support for a more democratic Upper House comes up against the Tory peers» opposition to any big change.

Scotland Yard said officers have looked into whether there are witnesses who would speak to police and are now investigating if there is corroborating evidence to back up claims against the peer.

Labour proposed a motion to set up a committee on trade unions and party funding, which attracted 327 peers in favour and 234 against.

The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has taken up Monnett's cause, calling the apparently criminal investigation a politically - motivated «witch hunt» against a scientist whose research threatens the government's ability to drill in the Arctic.

What keeps the movie from becoming nihilistic are its moments of kindness: Logan caring for an ill Xavier, a family standing up to shelter their guests from the authorities, Laura and her young mutant peers fighting back against their abusers and working together to turn a comic book fantasy into a real community.

Determined to stand up against Paine and his corrupt peers, Smith takes his case to the Senate floor.

Atari's story touches American exchange student Tracy (Greta Gerwig), who wants her Japanese peers to rise up against a terrible government policy.

Data on 16 - to 34 - year - olds, for instance, found even workers with college degrees and graduate or professional degrees don't stack up favorably against their international peers with similar education levels.

They are not necessarily easy to fix, and even some proposals that try to address them, like peer - review programs, have bumped up against those realities.

Jeffries railed against the approximate 50 percent graduation rate in Newark's high schools, as well as the fact that 9 out of 10 Newark students who reach college require remedial instruction to catch up with their peers.

Although the fund's 10 % annualized return since its inception through February 2014 roughly matches the category norm, its low volatility has allowed it to stack up well against its peers on a risk - adjusted basis.

On the valuation — looks to be trading when issued up near there, I was comparing against the larger diversified peers in the post, but here might be the best comparable: http://www.yetanothervalueblog.com/2017/04/cutting-into-lifetimes-value-lcut.html

I've been breeding many years but still look to my mentors & peers for advice when I come up against something new or different as does every other breeder I know!

British tax - payers should not be asked to foot the Bill to set up an alternative to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) unless there are tangible benefits to the quality of justice, a Bar Council Brexit expert has told Peers as he warned against «reinventing the wheel.»

Terrie Best points to a website, www.Fija.org (Fully Informed Jury Association) where the public is encouraged to read about jury nullification, its history and why our forefathers set up the jury of twelve peers trial system in order to protect against tyranny of government.

To further fuel this ranking frenzy, Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Blog took this latest Leiter ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputations.

Our founder Chad Hemmat personally handles each of our trials and he has the experience you need to have a successful outcome while up against savvy insurance or corporate attorneys in a courtroom full of your community peers.

Although laws against cyber-bullying are often justified by the need to protect young persons (especially children) from attacks and harassment by their peers, the parties in Crouch were adults, former partners in a technology start up who had had a falling out.

When stacked up against the S7, the Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) is a mere mid-range clone — but standing amongst its mid-range peers, the device more than holds its own.

Ethbet is revolutionizing the way gambling on the blockchain works by becoming the first project to support peer - to - peer betting, allowing players to cut out the middleman and works by matching up game players against each other.

This hardware should keep the benchmark scores fairly even, though it will be interesting to see how the Millennium's single Titan X stands up against its dual - card peers.

Here again, these realities are not meant to discourage so much as they are to reiterate what you are up against as you peer across oceans via USAJOBs.