Sentences with phrase «against criteria for»

Semple Fraser Finally, tribunals are sometimes tempted to challenge the way employees have been selected for redundancy, in particular the way in which employers have assessed employees against criteria for selection.

Still, Lars» portfolio is really designed for accumulators whereas Michael has gone a step further by taking a range of lazy portfolios and testing them against his criteria for retirement.

Not exact matches

Weingarten cautions against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such measurements because of Statistics Canada's criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new methods and ideas.

With so much of the CRTC's criteria for mandatory carriage focusing on making an «exceptional» contribution to the promotion of Canadian values, the event would appear to be a strike against the network.

Sit down for 15 minutes and measure one of your goals against each of the S.M.A.R.T. criteria until you have a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time - bound goal.

A phased approach to due diligence provides investors with a structured process for evaluating each investment opportunity against standard criteria.

Separately, the SEC said it would initiate a case against an S&P executive for allegedly fraudulently misrepresenting how S&P calculated some ratings criteria.

An algorithm learning the wrong lessons or formulating responses based on an incomplete picture, and the lack of transparency into what criteria are reflected in a decision model, are especially problematic when identified correlations function as inadvertent proxies for excluding or discriminating against protected classes of people.

On this point, then, I look forward to Smith's continued work on articulating a criterion for identifying the secular liturgies that cut against the Gospel.

Both are weighty issues that deal explicitly with «high cosmic justice,» so if he argues that a government overreaches its authority to execute justice by attempting to «balance the books of the universe» in repaying blood with blood, then does that mean there can never be any just criteria for one nation to retaliate against another after an unprovoked attack» an attack that in essence would repay blood with blood?

My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.

In this sense Whitehead is closer to a mathematical physicist than a pure mathematician (PW 47/43); the metaphysical system must be tested against experience and «depends for its truth upon its empirical verification, and not merely upon its logical criteria» (PW 51/47).

(Happiness, by itself, is not an adequate criterion for measuring mental health because some people defend themselves against unconscious feeling of despair by a facade of «happiness.»

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

It is wise for the minister to check his sermons frequently against mental health criteria (such as are described in Chap.

He even indicates that Lutheranism articulated criteria for the people taking up arms against tyrants.

By the criteria the scripture sets for us for what is godly life, and by the reasoning scripture asks us to employ, homosexuality can not be described as against God's law.

Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a criterion for application of the category of actual entity that retains many of the distinctive features of the philosophy of organism while dealing with some of the objections raised against that system, and including aspects of the Buchler - Wallack approach.

If this were the criteria for determining an actual «contact» why would you subjectively censor out information unless you already have a bias against it?

These various statements of the limiting criteria differ from one another, and Ignatieff's readers must figure out for themselves where they come from, why these criteria and not others should be employed, and what it might mean in practice to design defenses against terror that involve evil actions whose punishment may be mitigated by the extreme circumstances.

The comment said that inclusion of multiple «gluten - free» symbols on the same food or any restriction against continued use of third - party «gluten - free» certification program symbols / logos could make it more confusing or difficult for consumers to identify foods that met the criteria of those third - party «gluten - free» certification programs.

Rainforest Alliance Certified farms are audited annually against rigorous environmental, social, and economic criteria that protect biodiversity and foster a culture of respect for workers and local communities.

When you drop that public betting percentage to 30 % — which is typically a key number for betting against the public — the number of games which fit the criteria drops sharply, as do the units earned.

They also fit the criteria for our 2015 NFL Betting Against the Public system which has gone 7 - 3 ATS this season and 118 - 68 ATS all - time.

Teams receiving less than 30 % of moneyline bets represent the optimal threshold for betting against the public during the regular season, but teams rarely fit that criterion during the playoffs.

The Clippers are being hammered by sharp money and fit the ideal threshold for our betting against the public criteria, but there's yet another reason to like LA's other team this evening.

The Canadiens are currently receiving just 18 % of moneyline bets as a road underdog, which means they fit the criteria for our 2014 NHL Playoffs: Betting Against the Public article.

-- Both the Oklahoma City Thunder -LRB--5.5 vs. Los Angeles) and the Indiana Pacers -LRB--4 vs. Washington) lost their Game 1 matchups and fit the criteria for our updated NBA Playoff Zig - Zag Theory — After losing their first round series against the Clippers, the Golden State Warriors have made a major change:

Based on this information, Montreal fits the criteria for our 2014 NHL Playoffs: Betting Against the Public article.

Note: If the Giants finish with less than 25 % of spread bets they would fit the criteria for our 2014 NFL Betting Against the Public Report.

Bettors may also be interested to know that Miami fits the criteria for our 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17 NBA Betting Against the Public systems.

Even after the two - point line move, Wake Forest currently fits the criteria for our 2014, 2015 and 2016 College Football Betting Against the Public system.

It's also interesting to note that Toledo fits the criteria for our 2014 College Football Betting Against the Public report which has produced a 215 - 177 ATS record (54.8 %) with +27.33 units won and a 7 % ROI.

BC fits the criteria for both our 2014 and 2015 College Football Betting Against the Public reports.

Another strength of the present study is the identification of cow's milk allergy cases through the Special Reimbursement Register, as the requirement for the special reimbursement was based on clinical diagnosis made by a pediatrician and further reviewed against diagnostic criteria by another clinician.

For 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not availabFor 294 women (13.8 %) the birth notifications indicated obstetric referral before the onset of labour, which was an exclusion criterion, and for another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not availabfor another 171 (8.0 %) information from the midwives could not be checked against birth notifications because they were not available.

Once a child is four or five years old and meets the criteria for ADHD, also keep in mind that the AAP states that «In areas where evidence - based behavioral treatments are not available, the clinician needs to weigh the risks of starting medication at an early age against the harm of delaying diagnosis and treatment.»

On the threats of a legal action against the EC, O. B Amoah held the view that, the plaintiffs may hit a snag because the EC appears to have acted within the ambit of the law as it clearly spelled out the criteria for the candidates.

Albanese believes he's met the criteria for the debate, and filed a lawsuit against the city's Campaign Finance Board (CFB) in hopes of participating.

His latest salvo is an on - line petition against a plan, introduced just as the 2014 session drew to a close by Bronx Sen. Gustavo Rivera, called the New York is Home Act, which would enable nearly 3 million noncitizens who meet specific criteria to apply for citizenship with New York's Office for New Americans.

From 2013 - 14, working - age individuals in receipt of DLA will be reassessed against the new eligibility criteria for PIP.»

The criteria used by academia to select candidates for a research job are very specific, and the time you haven't spent developing your CV accordingly will count against you.

Suitable and sufficient food sources for the hungry larvae and protection against predators and parasites are important selection criteria for the best oviposition substrates.

This assessment means that species have been checked against a list of criteria published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a time - consuming process that has been completed for only three per cent of marine species, with no assessments at all in three quarters of the major groups of marine animals and plants.

The Association encourages its affiliates and all other institutions that employ, support, or educate scientists to develop policies that affirm the dignity of all scientists and their right to engage in scientific inquiry free of unlawful discrimination; to sponsor programs that sensitize people to the seriousness and unacceptability of discrimination based upon criteria unrelated to individual abilities; and to design procedures that guard against such discrimination in a prompt and fair manner, and which balance the requirements of due process with proper regard for the sensitive nature of the issues.

In this excerpt he rails against the criteria supposedly used by Phil Jones for choosing contributing authors (CAs) for the AR4 WG1 chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change.

For that category you won't match against any man who leaves the criteria blank or who chooses anything but Methodist.

In order to gain the Quality Mark, suppliers will have been assessed against a number of criteria, showing they have the experience, products, business standing, and ethical practices suitable for a supplier to education.