Sentences with phrase «vast improvement of»

The vast improvement of billions of people worldwide over the last 60 - 70 years has come about because of the developments in the «high - emitting» countries since the Industrial Revolution, particularly through the dissemination of innovations and trade and the provision of markets.

«Initially a vast improvement of life for many people after the war, some of these housing estates became social hotspots.

The changes wrought by the green revolution, which I have illustrated by the vast improvement of wheat production in India, have had similar effects in West Pakistan, Ceylon, the Philippines, and Thailand, although the effects in different countries were produced by changes in different crops or combinations of crops.

There has been much debate this season concerning the faltering performances of expensive players such as Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, and the so - called vast improvement of players such as Arsenal's other midfielder, Aaron Ramsey.

Not exact matches

A Wi - Fi router is one of those tech gadgets that exhibits vast improvements in features and speeds every few years.

A few days may seem like an eternity in the world of the Internet, but it's a vast improvement over how long it took BP CEO Tony Hayward to own up to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Those are vast improvements upon past Februarys, which have lost money, while also featuring a higher percentage likelihood of the benchmark being positive for the month (as indicated by the yellow line).

While some studies show high - needs (primarily low - income) children may demonstrate prolonged improvement due to the added attention and structure of the extra half - day, the vast majority of kids derive no pedagogical benefit whatsoever.

Virgin America recorded net income of $ 10.1 million in 2013, a vast improvement from the loss of $ 145.4 million reported a year earlier.

Over a 12 - month period (ended June 30, 2017), global hedge funds, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, delivered decent gains of 6.0 % in US dollar terms.1 That's a vast improvement in the performance of these alternative investments from the prior two years.

Swanepoel thinks bitcoin's cheap international payments could be a vast improvement over existing options and a prime use case of the digital currency for the country.

«It is not a coincidence that American energy security has shown vast improvements at the same time that America's innovative energy industry was able to ramp up oil and gas production,» said Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy, which produces the annual report.

Obama appointed retired four - star General Eric Shinseki, himself a wounded veteran, as VA secretary immediately on taking office in January 2009, with a promise of heightened attention and vast improvement in services.

Of course, my nine year old mixed breed dog would also be a vast improvement.

But the vast majority of Democrats agreed that what would become Obamacare was the best option at the time, and a huge improvement on the status quo.

Both types of socialism can point to accomplishments which include (1) a vast improvement in education and health care for the general populace, to the point where the education and medical care of the poor is in some cases better than that available to them even in advanced capitalist countries; and (2) a reduction in the disparity between the poor and the rich, through supplying goods and services to the poor and also through elimination or heavy taxation of the rich.

So if Royce failed to construct a genuine «community of the saints,» his Beloved Community was certainly a vast improvement on the pragmatic, Darwinian worlds which James and Dewey helped build.

The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills from a wheelchair, and even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.

That's a highly individual thing, however, and I recognize that simply making a good morning meal and eating it mindfully at a table is a vast improvement for many of us.

And yes, it's a pretty good OL class — with the big exception of Day 1 starters at LT.. But that was addressed after getting Solder — who isn't great but is a vast improvement on Flowers.

While sixth, of course, represents a vast improvement on the twelfth they occupied when Hodgson was dumped, it was a strangely vulnerable pair of performances from a team that had notched 13 goals in the preceding three games.

While they're not so far ahead of sixth - place Toronto — this is a tight five - team race behind the Montreal superclub — they still, knock wood, are a vast improvement over last year when they struggled to finish fifth.

Overall, Sánchez's average of a goal or an assist every 97 minutes is a vast improvement to his previous two campaigns.

Arsenal like their versatile forwards, but with the likes of Danny Welbeck, Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez and Lucas Perez all able to play as a forward as well as behind, there may not be room for him in our squad unless he makes a vast improvement.

Fulham go into the game on the back of a 4 - 3 defeat to Leicester in the Carling Cup in midweek, with fans wanting a vast improvement from Martin Jol's men with the Whites winning only 1 of their 4 home games in the Premier League this season.

Lukaku scored 17 Premier League goals last season, which was 4 more than Jelavic and Anichebe managed between them and converted 21 % of his chances which is a vast improvement on Jelavic (10 %) and Anichebe (13 %).

I read somewhere that some said we're not clinical enough that is a culture at wenger has become too friendly with the players at Arsenal the players position are seldom under treat you play poorly for two weeks and you still make the team you missed a look at almunia retrospectively don't understand that hey if i get a chance to score i must take it the first time cause i may not get a next one and you want the players to be clinical it must start from the top good work or none As was said on a website to day Arsenal should parade through the streets of london in an open top Bus at the end of the season the accountants of the club and i will through wenger in there too cause to most of you he can do no wrong I love this club with all my heart and i can support no other club in football but to see for 5 seasons we can't show any vast improvement and keep making the same mistakes every year is hard to swallow it makes me sick but as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL......................

It was a well disciplined defensive effort from the team yesterday that makes it just 5 goals conceded in the last 7 league games (we will conveniently overlook the cup mauling by Manchester City); a vast improvement on the average of two goals per game we were shipping previously.

Both teams will need to show vast improvements if they're to come out on top in this beleagured contest between two teams who seemingly have no idea how to win games of football.

Some City Council members said all aspects of the proposal weren't to their personal liking, either, but they agreed the design was a vast improvement over past proposals for the beach.

Their mother goes on a diet to make her milk void of the offending protein (s) and there is a vast improvement with baby's reflux!

The State Education Department today is expected to present the Board of Regents with regulations to conform with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind, under which the vast majority of NYC's transfer schools would be designated as «in need of improvement» and could be at risk of being closed.

New York State is working through its Parks 2020 plan, a $ 900 million shopping list of renovations and improvements for the state's vast network of parks.

That is why we have acted so swiftly to implement the vast majority of the improvements recommended.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

Spitzer is, of course, right in one way — this shake - up, because it is so embarrassing to all involved and because there will be so much scrutiny over how it pans out, will likely result in a bit (but not a vast amount) of improvement.

But she says she's happy with the vast improvements the renovations at the buildings have brought to the block, compared to how things were a few years ago, when the properties were in the throes of foreclosure.

They also saw vast improvement in the monkeys» symptoms during four months of study.

The team showed that support ratios of over 1.0 were achieved for all six LLFPs tested, representing a vast improvement on previous findings.

Further, computational explorations of visual acuity show that these expansions, though not particularly helpful for improving underwater vision, would have conferred vast visual improvements in air.

The seven - gene test is a vast improvement over earlier tests that look at the activity of hundreds of genes, the researchers said.

«Given the absence to date of alternative therapies for patients with genotype 2 or 3 who have failed interferon therapy or for whom it is not an option, treatment with the new sofosbuvir regimen offers a vast improvement,» Dr. Jacobson says.

The seamless integration of the electronics and biology, Lieber said, could open the door to an entirely new class of brain - machine interfaces and vast improvements in prosthetics, among other fields.

These new suggestions are «a vast improvement over what we — pediatricians — have done in the past,» says pediatrician Michael Rich of Harvard Medical School.

Co-first author Dr. Emily Partridge, a research fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, acknowledged the concern, but said that even though it might look weird, the medical care that infants would be getting in these biobags would be a vast improvement over currently available technology.

A study coming out in Science Translational Medicine and led by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers has shown that cats with NPC — which mirrors the human version of the disease — show vast improvements when treated with a compound called cyclodextrin.

Carl Chalmers, Michael Mackay and Aine MacDermott of Liverpool John Moores University, explain how the implementation of the smart grid brings many improvements over the traditional energy grid by making use of the vast interconnected infrastructure that allows two - way communication and automation throughout the entire grid, from generator to consumer and back.

Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of «35 with the superbly splendid long cars now running on several of the eastern roads, and he will find it difficult to convey to a third party, a correct idea of the vast extent of improvement.

But with diligent treatment, the vast majority of my acne patients report dramatic improvement.

Ripe, frozen strawberries and bananas form the base of this frosty favorite, making it a vast improvement over the cream - based classic.