But this mysterious quality, status, has bewildered, and irritated, many Japanese manufacturers who set out to take on the world.
Shadow schools minister Kevin Brennan said Labour supported efforts to raise the quality and status of teachers, but that other measures were needed.
'Student motivations, quality and status in adult higher education in China.
Hull has been awarded Purple Flag status for the quality of the city's nightlife.
Both black and white are seen as denoting status, luxury and quality, she says.
As all the American chefs elevating humble cheeseburgers and pizza to haute-comfort status have proved, quality ingredients go a long way.
The IRS makes the decision on what entities quality for such tax-preferred status, which can significantly reduce the cost of operations.
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He expressed his commitment in improving the quality of teaching and in raising the status of teachers in the society.
How could the quality of their relationship, or the status of the individuals involved, change the nonverbal message being sent?
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The state of preservation and quality of its architecture earned it the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
The collaboration notably focused on improving the service delivery capacity of the Ministry, encouraging cultural entrepreneurship, improving the quality of cultural products and improving the status of artists.
And the idea that foundation status should be a reward for quality and thus a spur to better performance has been binned, because that might lead to some hospitals getting better than others.
Questions were presented that asked them to give their relationship status and rate their health and the quality of their sex life from poor to excellent.
What we have not done is integrated the goals of actually providing best care, quality of care, regardless of your social and economic status.
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This will require improvements in the capacity, knowledge, communication and networking available to enhance the flow and quality of information available for informed decision-making on the status of coastal resources, and their effective management in light of climate change impacts.
In addition to quality considerations, Chinese consumers believe that Western products elevate their social status.
Teacher status and education are considered fundamental for the improvement of educational quality.
These democratic countries occupy a privileged position that gives them unique prerogative to address the quality of Burma's electoral processes, and they should use their status to full effect in the coming months.
To qualify for "highly-trusted" status, an institution has to demonstrate its teaching is of a sufficient quality, its students regularly attend classes, and that it complies with a range of other factors.
Newman University College in Birmingham will now be Newman University and the vice chancellor Professor Peter Lutzeier said that the quality of the institution had already been established, but the change in title would clarify its status, particularly for overseas students.
To qualify for "highly-trusted" status, a college has to ensure students attend classes regularly, its teaching is of sufficient quality, and it adheres to a range of other factors.
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Concentrating on volume, while maintaining quality, the vodka is looking to subvert a long-standing equation of consumption as a marker of social status, as was eloquently explained by Pierre Bourdieau in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment Of Taste.
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