Sentences with phrase «against test cases»

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Their first test case is in support of a small business owner named Melanie Kohler, one of the first #MeToo women to post allegations of assault against director Brett Ratner.

In arguments before U.S. District Judge William Alsup, attorneys for both parties laid out their case related to Waymo's request for a temporary injunction against Uber that would force the ride - hailing company to stop testing its autonomous cars.

Mr Jardin told The Australian Financial Review he was «dismayed» that the major retailers had mounted such a strong case against an effects test.

See also Lucy Barbour, «Competition watchdog ACCC head Rod Simms (sic) denies claims an «effects test» would be «economically dangerous» (ABC Rural, 18 August 2014), in which the ACCC Chairman defends the ACCC's proposed effects test (and is also reported as saying that the current case against Coles was brought under the unconscionable conduct provisions rather than under s 46 because the misuse of market power prohibitions is a law that exists only between competitors...)

The case will be a test for the Democratic governor, but also for federal prosecutors in New York, where former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought a parade of indictments against people in state politics.

The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparAgainst Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government deparagainst the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.

August 9, 2011: Arkansas Green Party Loses Lawsuit Against the 3 % Vote Test to Remain on the Ballot July 20, 2011: Arkansas Green Party gets Ready to Petition to Get Back on Ballot May 11, 2011: Eighth Circuit Hears Arkansas Green Party Case May 2, 2011: Hearing Set in Arkansas Green Party Ballot Access Lawsuit

Among his many failures Blair did not establish clear ministerial oversight of post-conflict strategy, or ensure ministers took decisions to address it, or seek adequate reassurances that the UK could meet its obligations, or test British strategic objectives against anything but best case scenarios, or press Bush for definite assurances on US policy or seek advice on the absence of a satisfactory plan for UK objectives.

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

Prosecutors will face one of their first major tests in the case against Sen. Robert Menendez, D - N.J., whose trial is scheduled to begin in September.

One can very easily make a case for one or the other method (Chris Hanretty has a good go here) but really that's only theorising, we can't know which way is better unless you test it against some actual elections, and at previous elections constituency polling has been a rare commodity.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

He also pointed out that the cases we had highlighted involved customers who had only tested one father, which goes against the lab's recommendation to test all possible fathers.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)-- not part of WADA — for instance, built a 2004 doping case against sprinter Michelle Collins in part on indirect evidence, including years of urine tests that showed «extreme fluctuations» in her testosterone levels.

In 1996, these structures were even used to test and help refute the case against «microfossils» in the Martian meteorite ALH 84001.

This will freeze a patent infringement action which Kodak had filed against Sony as a test case before seeking royalties from the other major manufacturers of VCRs and camcorders.

In another case, a 13 - year - old girl was tested against her will.

When it comes to statistical significance and hypothis testing, I do not recall whether the trends have been tested against a null hypothesis, but the short - term variability is quite high compared to the trend in the WM2003 case and the series is short, so I doubt the «trend» is significant (just by eyeballing).

Presumably in this case you'd start with a model that's already been tested against a lot of data and thus serves as a compact proxy for that information.

This new session provides a unique opportunity to test your applied knowledge in adult respiratory medicine against 30 high - quality, case - based...

Bryan's group has designed a BiTE against the EGFRvIII tumor - specific antigen, which is expressed in a majority of glioblastoma cases, and has performed preclinical tests to determine its efficacy against EGFRvIII - expressing glioblastoma.

This new session, linked to the Summer school of adult respiratory medicine, provides a unique opportunity to test your applied knowledge in adult respiratory medicine against 30 high - quality, case - based multiple - choice questions, selected from the question pool of the ERS HERMES European examination in adult respiratory medicine.

so sorry to the comment under mine, but one or two, or even ten bodybuilding vegan isn't a case against this, and if were to test their DNA you would see little to no expression of the myostatin gene.

And that will essentially test your mileage with «The Case Against 8.»

The required inquiry into «entanglement» has been modified and questioned, and in one case we have upheld state action against an Establishment Clause challenge without applying the Lemon test at all.

These are familiar arguments against testing, cases of individuals who do not «test well» or who fall just below a cut - off score for qualification.

Nicholas Lemann, in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, builds an even more challenging case against the dominance of standardized tests in education.

We know of no legitimate statistical text that argues it is irrelevant to use tests of statistical significance to guard against random fluctuations in the data - in this case, scores on tests of student performance.

In each case, students are assessed against our oracy framework and take part in carefully designed tests to measure improvements.

In a series of important posts, Jay Greene made a strong case against accountability systems that lean too heavily on test scores.

«Governments have seemed unwilling to have a key school reform rigorously tested against the evidence, and too often the critics have also wanted to make their case without reference to the emerging data on how structural change is impacting on attainment and value added.

A federal judge is questioning whether a new exam for aspiring teachers in New York is discriminatory against minorities, a case that could derail the state's efforts to create a more rigorous set of tests for entry into the profession.

Much of what is wrong with test - based accountability is explored in articles found under The Case Against High - Stakes Testing

Because accountability depends greatly on the proper use of high - quality assessment, you should also visit The Case against High - Stakes Testing and The Case for Authentic Assessment.

The firms, Larson King, Zimmerman Reed, and McSweeny & Fay, have already successfully settled in a case against Pearson involving incorrect scoring on a Minnesota state test

We realize it's a lawyer's job to throw everything against the wall in an attempt to get a case tossed without even having to fight it on the merits, but New York's arguments fail a basic smell test.

All the speakers for our «The Case Against High - Stakes Standardized Testing» forum were outstanding.

In 2010 Kentucky was the first of 45 states to adopt the new standards, making the state a test case that others are watching closely as they roll out Common Core and try to manage a growing backlash against the standards.

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.»

During our follow - up conversations with districts, we found cases where teacher recommendations are biased against high - achieving minority students; we also found cases where teacher recommendations are advancing minority students who do not test well on standardized tests.

The case against standardized testing: Raising the scores, ruining the schools.

A small group of teachers picketed a screening at Oakland's Piedmont Theater, distributing fliers defending unions and tenure rights and making the case against charter schools and standardized tests.

His many books include Punished By Rewards, No Contest: The Case Against Competition, and The Case Against Standardized Testing.

In May 2015, the online article, The Case Against Standardized Testing — Harvard Political (harvardpolitics.com/united-states/case-standardized-testing/) explained, again, how standardized testing focus negatively impacted curriculum and student learning as well as how it compromised teacher evaluTesting — Harvard Political (harvardpolitics.com/united-states/case-standardized-testing/) explained, again, how standardized testing focus negatively impacted curriculum and student learning as well as how it compromised teacher evalutesting/) explained, again, how standardized testing focus negatively impacted curriculum and student learning as well as how it compromised teacher evalutesting focus negatively impacted curriculum and student learning as well as how it compromised teacher evaluations.

NYC teachers have been warned against sharing their professional analyses of the educational appropriateness of state tests and former Chancellor Farina told parents at a private meeting in District 15 that she herself would in fact opt out in certain cases yet declined to share this with all NYC parents, despite D15 parents» strong urging that she do so.

Through their accounts, Rizga makes a strong case against test scores as a way to monitor individual learning and for teachers being in charge of school reform and accountability.

For purposes of the means test, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code defines current monthly income as including: «any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor (or in a joint case the debtor and the debtor's spouse), on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor's dependents (and in a joint case the debtor's spouse if not otherwise a dependent)...» Benefits received under the Social Security Act, payments to victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity on account of their status as victims of such crimes, and payments to victims of international terrorism or domestic terrorism on account of their status as victims of such terrorism are excluded from the means test.

This culminated in a judgement against DM in early 2011, which they promptly appealed (sent to the European Court of Justice as a test case).

Adoptions include everything you'll need: all animals are spayed or neutered, examined by a veterinarian, vaccinated against disease, tested for FIV and FELV, microchipped in case they get lost, and are treated for worms and fleas.

This test measures factors similar to the Coombs test — evidence that your dog or cat is producing antibodies against its own tissue (In this case, antibodies against components of the nuclei of its cells).