Sentences with phrase «against the objectives of»

Provide an offline activity or an online assessment to measure the learners» performance against the objectives of the course.

Not exact matches

BAML's list included a price objective for each stock pick, which Business Insider compared against price (as of 30 January) to create a ranking of stocks from every industry which could deliver the biggest return this year.

He said the latest and toughest sanctions resolutions against North Korea «are working, having an effect on the situation... on the capacity of the regime to obtain hard currency because to go along with the military programs or missile or nuclear (programs) you need money, and that's the objective.»

This repeated counting is not an issue, since the objective of the analysis is to measure the number of mini flash crashes in the test window against the number of mini flash crashes in each window of similar duration during the control period.

But many still make monetary policy subject to the overriding objective of limiting the variability in the exchange rate against their major trading partners.

This framework considers the Chairman and CEO's self - assessment of performance against commitments in the year, both qualitative and quantitative, and also considers progress against strategic objectives, an analysis of IBM's total performance over a multi-year period, a competitive benchmark analysis, and other relevant information.

What's more, average EU tariffs against the U.S. currently sit at only 3 percent and further reducing tariffs, including in the automotive and agricultural sectors, was a key objective of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks launched during Barack Obama but essentially abandoned by Trump.

A variety of ways exist to measure the performance of a content marketing plan, but you ultimately need to measure against the goal set for your marketing objective.

Measuring performance — A variety of ways exist to measure the performance of a content marketing plan, but you ultimately need to measure against the goal set for your marketing objective.

We work with all of the teams to help them understand how they can measure progress against their objectives.

The other objective of bankers advising the deal, the people say, is to make sure there is a high - enough volume of shares traded to insulate the company against extreme volatility.

While Fan supported the development of a government regulated digital currency, noting that one objective is, ``... to further intensify reform and innovation, solidly promote the R&D of the central bank's digital currency», he reiterated the importance of protecting the yuan against unofficial virtual currencies.

This goes against the idea of price comparison websites providing objective, impartial information so a consumer can make up their mind on which deal to go for.

Morality has an objective aspect but that objective quality is to be measured against the world God created more so than any collection of inspired writings.

Societies in the late industrial age rely on the free exchange of information; the «objective pressures» to which their controllers constantly appeal are thus turned against them.

But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

The resulting stalemate illustrated the ambivalence with which our contemporary legal culture regards the proposition that there exists some objective standard of right and wrong against which human legal standards can be measured.

what i am pressing against is a view of existence which at the outset denies the reality or knowability of the objective and yet is appealing (knowing or unknowingly) to that very objective in its self - defense.

The only guard against a «parade of horrors» — that is, the corruption, morally speaking, of famine efforts by hidden, alternative and immoral objectives — is for famine relief to be undertaken as a multilateral, globally communal effort involving the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the Peoples» Republic of China, the petroleum - rich countries in the Middle East, and many of the richer western European countries.

Consideration of examples such as this may help to dispel the prejudice against the study of manners within the formal curriculum, by showing that people in other well - developed and successful cultures have considered the refinement of interpersonal relationships the central objective of education.

Only I - Thou sees this wholeness as the whole person in unreasoned relation with what is over against him rather than as a sum of parts, some of which are labeled objective and hence oriented around the thing known and some subjective and hence oriented around the knower.

And it is against this background that all her later speculation must be examined, just as we, too, however secular and objective we seek to make our investigation of the nature of the world and of man, have come to it through a long heritage of the past that accepted fully the personal explanation of the world.

But it seems to me that Dr. Altizer has fallen into a naturalization of historical time, that he has been led astray by his nineteenth - century mentors, who were battling against the rigidity of a mechanistic universe, for there is no doubt that in the mechanistic and objective sense the past is dead and unchangeable.

Then came Trump's attack against District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who Trump called a «Mexican,» and «a hater,» saying he could not be an objective judge (Curiel was born in Indiana, and his Mexican father arrived in the US before Trump's Scottish - born mother) of a lawsuit involving Trump's real estate business education venture.

Ideas with a lot of objective evidence and no objective evidence against it should not be denied.

It helps if one has a reasonably sophisticated and objective view of one's own religious faith, for that makes it easier to guard against attempting to force the religion studied into familiar molds.

Fourth, the prophets saw with utter clarity the persistent fact of sin, and saw it not as maladjustment or even as failure to «hit the mark» of some objective human standard, but as sin against God.

And against Hume as well as Dewey, Whitehead insists that human experience includes the intuition of eternal ideals functioning as objective, yet individualized, standards for action: «There are experiences of ideals... entertained, of ideals aimed at, of ideals achieved, of ideals defaced....

Fortunately, many of the more thoughtful members of our society can recognize these biases and check them against the more objective stance of the university.

In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.

In a couple of presentations on the benefits of narrative truth over against objective or absolute truth, I have urged people (in the midst of vision - centred territory) to scrap vision and mission statements in favour of a narrative.

The alternative is nothingness which is falsified by existence — anything and everything is objective evidence against a reality of nothingness.

Against the background of David's sexual adventures with Bathsheba and the elimination of her husband, Uriah, Nathan's story was not objective but carried the punch line: «Thou art the man!»

Pope Urban II declared the objective of the Crusades to be the rescue of the holy places in Palestine, the defense of the Christians of the East against the Muslims, and the rolling back of the tide of Muhammedan conquest.

Again, what is your objective in Afghanistan and as Afghan predict you come with an agenda again to make the lives of Afghans miserable... The center of Terrorism, Pakistan, was created by Britain and the 1890 - 1920s British policy blueprint to use «MAD Mullahs» against Afghanistan has been adopted by Islamabad.

Our next strategy was to fill up capacity and our purchase of the Seagram RTD business in March in addition to retaining our existing co-pack contracts will certainly deliver directly against this objective, opening the door to every provincial liquor board to expand distribution of our beers.

By Brian Salgado fill up capacity and our purchase of the Seagram RTD business in March in addition to retaining our existing copack contracts will certainly deliver directly against this objective, opening the door to every provincial liquor board to expand distribution of our beers.

The objective of this study was to compare the in vitro antimicrobial activity of Berringa honey and silver when tested against Psuedomonas aeruginosa and methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cultures.

Mr Sims also warns against privatising infrastructure assets with the wrong objective in mind and discusses the regulation of monopoly infrastructure.

4.66 The objective of the proposed options is to enhance the protections against anti-competitive acquisitions, to limit or prevent potential harm to competition and, consequently, consumer welfare.

Its principle is to conduct equivalence assessments of each standard against a single international reference: the COROS - Common Objectives and Requirements for Organic Standards (also called «IFOAM Standards Requirements»).

I'm glad some of us can express their true feelings about our beloved team faith.It is nothing to do with the loss against BARCA but we (the objective ones) know long ago that a change is needed in our team.

White hot: Alvaro Negredo plays against DC United on Real Madrid's US tour Real sold the player to Almeria last summer but brought him back on a similar buyback option for # 4.25 m purely with objective of selling him on at a higher price following an impressive season that saw him score 19 in 35 appearances.

Indeed a striker's primary objective is to score goals not hold up play like Giroud, we need Giroud on the bench against Chelsea to increase our chances of winning

We do need one more thought Flamini might move to accommodate le Coq and aWC DM like let's say Scheinderlin or Llaramendi for example... to fulfill our objectives next season and not lose so many points so early & also be more solid against big teams consistently... but given room for Coquelin to keep improving and getting is a testament of the manager trust that he can be that guy for us until the end of the season and play a big role the next one even with a DM purchase.

Wenger obviously believes that we can bounce back, and this is his blueprint for regaining our confidence: «First of all by analysing everything in an objective way.The game [against Man City] was not all negatives — there were a lot of positives in that game.

Luciano Spalletti has vowed ahead of Inter Milan's midweek match against Cagliari that «our only objective tomorrow is to win».

tafadzwa, it would be easy to be bitter... im dissapointed not bitter, if we wer a bitter nation wed hav gone around thrashing stadiums and wrecking bars and restaurants when we feel aggrieved, iv tried to be dignified and objective but some of the comments really are ridiculous and for you to applaud what happened last night just on the basis of robbie keane playing for spurs was enough to drive me to react, and if you can truly begrudge the other 15 honest sportsmen in that squad what they earned and deserved against the odds last night solely because keane plays for those tossers, im sorry then you truly are an idiot

I would not criticise the admission of a mistake in the market if it was dealt with quickly, rather than watching the hierarchy banging their head against a brick wall for years with players that clearly aren't good enough to achieve the club's supposed objectives.