Sentences with phrase «against the public at»

Below, we update the results of Betting Against the Public at various MLB Betting Percentage thresholds.

I prefer to go against the public at all times.

After discovering value betting against the public at the 30 % level, our goal was to layer additional filters to improve the overall ROI of our system.

We quickly found that betting against the public at the 40 % level was profitable on the over (173 - 152, +12.92 units), but not on the under (409 - 397, -5.73 units).

The table below displays the returns from WNBA betting against the public at various thresholds:

Similarly, we posted a betting against the public update for the 2014 season which proved that betting against the public at the 30 % level continued to be profitable.

Table 1 shows the results of Betting Against the Public at various levels of «Public Betting Percentage.»

In this mini-constitutional crisis, the Monarchy's Letters Patent can and must be defended on rational grounds, in support of common law and our chater to prevent deception, misrepresentation and / or falsity against the public at large.

Not exact matches

They are completely at the mercy of guards and administrators, who have to balance the safety of the inmates against the public safety risk of freeing dangerous people.

But horror at the public castigation of our fellow humans, some of whom have fallen with little or no apparent vetting of the allegations against them.

In July, Zenefits filed a motion to dismiss, citing California's anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) statute, aimed at preventing the use of legal action to censor critics.

The email came after Kalanick failed to assuage public outrage over Uber's decision to turn off surge pricing at JFK International Airport at a time when taxis refused to stop there in solidarity with a protest against the order.

In 2015, Elaine went on a very public personal battle against her ex-husband to retain her board seat at Wynn Resorts.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

Panama's public prosecutor against organised crime said there was no evidence so far to take action against the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, following a raid lasting 27 hours on its offices.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Pollsters say that at this point in a government's mandate, public opinion has often begun to turn against an incumbent prime minister.

That shouldn't stop exchanges concerned about their reputations and corporate governance standards from leaning against the fashion — perhaps by limiting dual classes to the first five years of public ownership, or capping nonvoting stock at, say, 25 percent of all shares.

Edward Walker, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who focuses on grass - roots lobbying by businesses, said such a public call to mobilize against Airbnb was unusual.

We've also tracked Exabeam's growth against a number of public security companies and the top - line acceleration is well ahead of most other companies when they were at this stage» said Lightspeed Partner Ravi Mhatre, «Exabeam has moved extremely quickly to establish its leadership position in the market and holds all of the promise of becoming a standalone public company.»

The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

«Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust,» from Alaska Public Media: «Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young [R] argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed.

Executives at large corporations have shown themselves to be increasingly willing to take public stances both for (and against) what is now a $ 300 billion token market.

Tens of thousands marched in Madrid at the weekend to protest against drastic cuts, including a 7pc cut in public wages.

That's a tough sell at a time when public opinion has tilted sharply against cutting taxes on the rich, and when a low unemployment rate and Federal Reserve interest rate increases have eliminated the case for fiscal stimulus.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

In the summer of 1941, at the height of Germany's success in the war, Bishop von Galen decided to take a public stand against the Nazis, even if he had to do it on his own.

Torture and public trials resulted in burnings at the stake of poor and working - class women viewed as symbols of rebellion against the ruling church.

When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.

At the September 1933 World YMCA conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, Bonhoeffer warned of the «growing persecution of minorities» in Nazi Germany and successfully influenced the delegates to pass a strongly worded resolution condemning the violence against Jews: «We especially deplore the fact that the State measures against the Jews in Germany have had such an effect on public opinion that in some circles the Jewish race is considered a race of inferior status.»

Elders at Ridgedale Church of Christ told Linda Cooper and two relatives that their public support for Kat Cooper, Linda Cooper's gay daughter, went against the church's teachings, local media reported.

I want to know why the public outcry against these religious leaders is not so overpowering that they are not all flipping burgers at McDonald's by the end of the week.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

The problem of the sovereignty of the nation state will be at the heart of this working area and, closely linked to sovereignty will arise two other questions: that of citizenship (over and above nationality) and of property (struggle against the private appropriation of material and immaterial resources by «intellectual property rights»; the redefinition of state property; the development on an inter-national, supra - national and world level of new forms of socialisation, of public ownership, and of mutualisation of the property).

We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a worker or to the public, and charges brought against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

And there are those who argue — paradoxically with the intention of eliminating discrimination — that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience.

I can not but voice my concern at the increasing marginalisation of religion, particularly of Christianity... relegating it] to the purely private sphere... [such] that Christians in public roles should be required at times to act against their conscience... and the official teaching of the Church.

This practice of legal intimidation, directed at both individuals and organizations who affirm traditional values, we label as SLAPP, for «Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.»

What makes it different from, say, a hate campaign against a public figure is that it tends to revolve around a single incident and inspires people who never had any prior dealings with the individual to focus white - hot anger at them (usually demanding that they be sacked).

If one is inclined, like me, to take comfort in the thought that at least Niebuhr and Paul Tillich had a significant public impact, a certain defensiveness against Sifton's statements on this theme is inevitable.

By giving him eternal rest in the Arabian sea showed consideration for Islam, if we were against the religion of Islam we would have done to him what the Islamic extreamists have done to our service members, strip them nude and drag them through the streets and then hang their bodies in public for passers by to throw stones and garbage at.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

All the more misplaced... are the efforts by some supposedly Jewish organizations to arouse, through their battles against Christmas symbols in public places, the ill will and resentment of Christians» at the very time when the Christian religion, more than at other times of the year, inspires its followers with irenic and philanthropic sentiments.»

The case against Musa has not yet been finalized, said Mohammad Najim Hamidi, director of public security at Zone 3 of the Kabul courts.

«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.

If someone succeeded in their life, and acheived a high station because of it, dissenters could say «look at them, they are so proud of themselves, they obviously think they're better than you all», and turn public opinion against them.

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.