Sentences with phrase «about changes to the standard»

As highlighted in the CIOB response to the consultation about changes to the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP), the Institute supports an approach that narrows the gap between calculated design energy performance and as - built performance of structures.

Not exact matches

The change, meant to address lingering concerns about pilot fatigue, has been welcomed by pilots» unions and others who say safety standards in Canada have fallen behind many other countries around the world.

When listing standards changed in the wake of Sarbanes - Oxley, board members who complained publicly about the proposals were happy for the cover the requirements gave them to meet without executives present.

But it's hard to talk about the effect of changes in the relative prices between two goods in the context of a standard single - good macroeconomic framework.

Will this latest storm of strum and drang about «corporate welfare» and tax reform, a standard sound bite of every new White Administration — or at least every new Democratic Party White House Administration — actually result in any meaningful changes to the tax codes.

While the level of mortgage arrears is still low by historical standards, a rising debt - service ratio could signal that's about to change.

That is about to change, thanks to the ERC20 token standard introduction.

In order for the traditional wedding feast to occur, the king had to change his standard about whom he would consider desirable company.

What I like best about this parable is that even though the king had to change his standards about who is desirable company and who is not, he did not relax all standards.

But the increasing number of two - salary homes has tended to make clergy less concerned about salary standards, and this change has a negative effect on the family in which the wife wishes to remain in the home full - time, for one reason or another.

(II, 1.2, # 18) This judgment, offered in the context of his larger teaching about the irresistible authority of common opinion in democratic times, indicates that despite their adherence to the Bible and other standards of doctrinal authority, the Americans could abandon or adapt Christianity whenever the gradual working of democratic currents made such changes attractive to a majority.

That is a very important point you raise David about anything that is a preconceived standard that needs to change.

«I spoke to the manager about the left - back situation and he assured me that if he still wanted a change, he'd come to speak to me first, which is great,» Rose told the London Evening Standard.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The Evening Standard goes even further and talks about the changes to the Arsenal starting XI as though they have been granted special knowledge from Arsene Wenger himself.

«The great thing about the current Bayern squad is that I can make three, four or five changes to the starting line - up without standards suffering.

It includes an adjustable chain so you can change the height as your child gets older, and it's approved for safety standards that ensure your child will always be able to swing without you having to worry about him or her in the process.

But what I and many others continue to find perhaps most disturbing about the mandate is that it was a policy change made by FHSAA in complete disregard of the unanimous recommendation of its own Operations Committee, US Lacrosse staff, nationally renowned sport medicine doctors and the Florida lacrosse community that it hold off until performance standards for helmets were established.

While parents hail the QuickZip Sheets as lifesavers because they spare so many from the back pain associated with the struggle around changing standard crib sheets, C - Section mamas have something else to cheer about with the product's ease of use.

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With three kids now, I've had to set some standards for lunch time to avoid creating different meals for each child or squabbles over the kids changing their minds about what they want to eat.

Many parents change their baby's seat for a forward facing one too soon, in general when the child is round about 9 months old or weighs 9 kg due, in part, to the confusion caused by the ECE R44 standard recommendation.

But when we're talking about rolling back a requirement that kids take fruit / veg with their meal, and instead go back to the «beige old days,» or when we're talking about reinstating the ability of schools to easily sell a la carte items like pizza every single day (instead of tying such sales to the menu on the reimbursable line), that is a per se «weakening» of nutrition standards — regardless of how pure SNA's motives may be in asking for those changes.

But my point is about this conversation we are having today, and that we need to have the highest standards for elected leaders, and we have to change what's happening throughout society, and we have to allow people to tell their stories.»

But green groups haven't hesitated to take aim at Trump online, with the Natural Resources Defense Council criticizing his recent move to rescind climate standards for federal infrastructure and the League of Conservation Voters praising Miami's Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, for saying it is time to talk about climate change.

If it turns out this is a systemic problem, rather than just the standard story of the prison service being slow to respond to change, they'll kick up a fuss about it.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he would consider «legislative changes» to address parents» concerns about the rigorous Common Core standards, on which New York schools started testing some students last April.

«The Chief Inspector is right to send a clear warning about the Government's obsession with further structural changes as being the way to raise standards for pupils; what matters is creating the conditions in which teachers can focus on teaching and learning, without unnecessary and wasteful distractions.

Regent's Chancellor Emeritus Robert Bennett echoed King saying the state will continue to tweak the standards as necessary and advise the legislature about changes to the teacher evaluation law.

Sir Christopher's committee on standards in public life carried out a six - month inquiry in the wake of the scandal about MPs» expenses and made a series of recommendations earlier this month to change the system.

The P2D2 - 8 has all of the things we love about the company's subwoofers: They offer VAST design (Vertical Attached Surround Technology) for additional cone surface area without changing the dimensions of the frame, conforming to the CEA - 2031 industry standards — plus, lots of features designed for durability even under a heavy load.

In any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical terms.

That standard approach might be about to change.

Density estimates provide significantly more information about species» response to climate change than only studying their ranges, which has been standard practice in these kinds of studies until now.

«It took PCA about 25 years to get the standards changed to allow 5 percent limestone [in the Portland cement mix].

To create healthier model diets, the researchers altered the standard 2,000 - calorie - a-day U.S. diet, changing the sources of about half of those calories.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

«For a long time, the standard answer of climate scientists to an extreme event was «we can't attribute single events to climate change», which when you think about it is an incredibly naive position.

The Food Standard Agency has announced a change to its advice about eating eggs — infants, children, pregnant women and elderly people can now safely eat raw or lightly cooked eggs that are produced under the British Lion Code of Practice.

US, UK and Australia About Blog Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis promotes the integration of diet and lifestyle changes into standard medical management in a program that has been shown to improve the health and lives of people with Multiple Sclerosis.

Similarly, once the Gates - Fordham - AFT - USDOE coalition settles on the details of nationalizing standards, curriculum, and testing, it will become extremely difficult to change anything about education.

Our guests — one a researcher on the committee that helped develop the literacy standards, the other leading a group to help teachers implement them — talked about the research behind the standards, and how to make sense of the changing literacy landscape.

We identify strengths and weaknesses of the different entitlements (rights, responsibilities and obligations) in order to develop an action strategy which will help bring about a change in the standard of living of the most vulnerable populations.

For that reason, even standards that are developed locally should be humble about what they can accomplish and the extent to which schools and educators ought to change their practice as a result.

About 25 percent of those teachers produce the level of gap - closing, life - changing growth that students need consistently to catch up and leap ahead to rising international standards.

But it is also clear that the NBPTS has changed the conversation about teaching within the profession by setting and gaining acceptance of its high standards and by persuading teachers and their unions to begin to accept performance evaluation and differential certification and pay for teachers.

As policymakers and practitioners think about what changes may be required to meet the new standard, they should not overlook the role of general education.

We should use the results to educate parents and students about the Common Core standards, explaining how schools and the nature of instruction should be changing.

«We are at a time in education when teachers, administrators and students are grappling with the changes brought about by many states» move to new, more rigorous standards that will prepare our students for college and work,» said George Bohrnstedt, an AIR Institute Fellow and chairman of NVS's expert panel.

In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure 1.