Translation of "Schlechter abschneiden" in English

And - never the less - this cat would loose against the cat to the left.

We cannot be at a disadvantage compared with the criminals in dealing with these matters.

We now know that seniority does not serve women, that written tests often put them at a disadvantage and I am convinced that it is more to do with the way the tests are compiled rather than the fact that it is women sitting them.

There is no information in the country reports to demonstrate that, in general, any countries are in a worse position than others.

Those countries that have implemented reforms and changes are coping that much better with globalisation and managing to be that much more competitive. Those that have not introduced reforms are faring less well.

In fact, they rank higher than other governments, like my own, the U.S., or Switzerland, that have higher average levels of income but lower rankings on work-life balance.

The per student expenditure on education, for example, is less than $100, with the result that students within ARMM schools generally score poorly, in comparison with other provinces, on standardized achievement tests administered throughout the country.

Universities typically have quotas reserved for ethnic minorities, even if they have lower admission test scores.

The US experience is consistent with OECD evidence that students from countries with greater income inequality score lower on academic achievement tests.

It seems unlikely, but when it comes to securing actual concessions, at least Merkel cannot do much worse.

This would explain, at least to a certain extent, why Member States following the harmonised definition tend to rank lower with respect to indicators V.1.a – V.2.

In terms of social cohesion, it is likely that the concentration of activities would favour those countries and groups that are worse off in terms of skills development, in particular through the new emphasis on basic skills.

It is expected to have rather negative impact on stakeholders as well as perform poorly in terms of effectiveness and efficiency compared to other options.

Positive discrimination (not allowing any room for manipulation) and a requirement that partners with recent transition experience should be involved in development projects are needed to place players with backgrounds scoring lower in current evaluations on an equal footing.

In science subjects generally, EU pupils seem to do less well in standardised tests than pupils in the USA or Japan.

One thing the Greek presidency can be sure of even now : it can hardly do worse than its predecessor.

Research shows that kids who do not have consistent nourishment, particularly at breakfast, have poor cognitive function overall.

We should compare the actual situation in these countries with the reality in our own countries rather than with our perfect legal texts, otherwise the candidate countries will always come off worse in practice.

As these groupings were realised for each of the defined stratum — i.e. for each of the defined sectors and employment size classes — they allow determining different enterprise micro-groups which performed rather better or worse than the sector considered as a whole.

As far as profitability is concerned, however, analysis of the gross operating rate does not lead to the identification of enterprise micro-groups performing better or worse than others did.

Furthermore, recent evidence seems to suggest that Italian students attending upper secondary school perform poorly in comparison with their European EU peers when tested on their specific functional abilities.