Sentences with phrase «arbitrary amounts of»

In «mandatory hearing» Speeding Ticket Cases (those over 30 mph over limit), some Judges are suspending driver's licenses for arbitrary amounts of time, as is currently allowed by Florida law.

You are correct that prediction is impossible when using a model which has arbitrary amounts of positive feedback to the GH temperature increase.

Namely these factors are CAPE, which is Convective Available Potential Energy, which is the maximum amount of energy that a rising parcel (which [is] an arbitrary amount of mass) can have as it's rising through the atmosphere; wind shear, which is the difference in wind [vectors] at the top and bottom of the atmosphere; and specific humidity, which is the ratio of water to the total mass of a moist system.

Trying to use a cookie - cutter approach and work with an arbitrary amount of resistance is likely to result in one of many unfavorable outcomes.

An arbitrary amount of torque at the wheels can be gained by gearing any power source down sufficiently (including a hand crank).

In the end who is anyone to say someone shouldn't publish if their book doesn't jump through some arbitrary set of standards and cost some arbitrary amount of money to be «properly whatevered».

Actually, my carrot and stick approach right now is more towards increasing monthly cashflow rather than building up an arbitrary amount of savings — it's probably really contrarian, but I like knowing that I have a returning supply of funds each month (including the risk that comes with, I know), so I'm focusing on this first — it can also act as an emergency fund in the meantime.

There is no hassle, no claiming your rebate, no earning an arbitrary amount of cash before you see your rewards.

After adding CO2 in Fig 1b, it was too warm but after adding some arbitrary amount of sulfates in 1c they reduced the extreme heat and come closer to the 20th century warming.

Without documented proof of an injury, your own testimony simply isn't enough to compel a jury to award you an arbitrary amount of money, and the defendant's insurance company knows this.

The fact that you have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before you can get your key is absolutely asinine, however.

Not exact matches

One of the things that appeals to me the most about this Cash Reserve method is that the amount of stock assets I have in my portfolio is determined not by some arbitrary percentage, but, instead, by how much I income I spend each month after taking Social Security benefits and pension income into account.

As you know... I have found that employing this powerful literary tool can reveal blind fundamentalism quicker than any amount of speech, censured to meet someone's arbitrary version of «glorifying Jesus», ever could.

How long one shall continue to drink the consciousness of evil, and when one shall begin to short - circuit and get rid of it, are also matters of amount and degree, so that in many instances it is quite arbitrary whether we class the individual a once - born or a twice - born subject) Unquestionably, some men have the completer experience and the higher vocation, here just as in the social world; but for each man to stay in his own experience, whate'er it be, and for others to tolerate him there, is surely best.

The Court of Appeals, in a 5 - 0 decision, rejected claims that the regulations were arbitrary and capricious, and amounted to a retroactive punishment.

The PPP, among other things, was seeking a declaration that Regulation 45 of C.I. 94 which allows the EC to fix an amount as filing fee is discriminatory, arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.

The candidate promised to impose an arbitrary cap on the amount of cash he would take from individuals and interests seeking public benefits.

«The granting of pardon also amounts to an arbitrary exercise of powers, which can only continue to weaken the rule of law, deny justice to the victims of corruption, and entrench a culture of impunity of the country's leaders,» the organization said.

The PPP had protested the collection of the amount of GHc50, 000 and GHc10, 000 for both presidential and parliamentary nominees claiming it was arbitrary.

For example, managing a given watershed may make more sense than managing the amount of global freshwater consumption to stay below an arbitrary, sustainable «limit» of 4,000 cubic kilometers per year.

So don't set an arbitrary goal to lose a certain amount of weight.

But more importantly, the mechanism by which calorie counting works is via you establishing a consistent amount of food take that you can incrementally adjust as you go — your numeric calorie target is actually largely arbitrary.

What an arbitrary choice: Goodbye to Language beats Boyhood for one point, but Linklater doubles Godard's amount of votes as best director.

There was nothing more frustrating than having to try to complete two missions on opposite sides of the map in a short amount of time, and I'm glad that these arbitrary time limits aren't constantly hanging over my head any more.

Sometimes Avil may be given random tasks, but they're all generally either save X amount of civilians or prevent X amount of watchtowers from being destroyed, along with arbitrary time limits and the like.

Don't simply operate to an arbitrary time or amount of learning.

The high court rejected all of the charter school claims, finding that the difference in funding between traditional ISDs and public charters was not so arbitrary as to amount to a violation of the Texas Constitution.

Assigning arbitrary, pre-determined amounts of time to specific learning outcomes guarantees that students who need additional time to learn will be left in the wake as the teacher races to cover the material.

The authors urge U.S. policy makers to reduce the amount of testing in schools and to measure student growth during the year rather than arbitrary proficiency thresholds at year's end.

In return for this, they can make their book available for KU subscribers to read without paying for it, and Amazon set an arbitrary amount (usually in the range of two million dollars) to be shared between all the authors whose books are read.

The date however is arbitrary so have your realtor specify a reasonable amount of time for you to qualify and get approved for a mortgage.

When a product will be paid for over years or decades, quoting the fee as an amount payable over an arbitrary fraction of that time frame, i.e. one year, is nonsensical.

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

There are also community challenges, and if the community is successful at destroying X amount of scarabs or some other arbitrary goal, then a prize is delivered to the community chest back in your game's hub.

Always nice to consider the scale of arbitrary dollar amounts relative to other expenditures.

the spread of natural is increased by an arbitrary amount determined by the judgment of the panel; this actually makes the attribution conservative compared to the direct model output.

Not only are the underlying policy decisions mutable and arbitrary, the government doesn't allocate spending as a percent of revenue, but as differing amounts unrelated to receipts.

«We were astonished a few weeks ago to learn that 51 renewable energy projects are being considered in an RFP process, and that many of those projects would have catastrophic consequences for Maine, all to provide insignificant amounts of expensive electricity to meet arbitrary requirements» in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

And that after some amount of time, the molecule does not surrender the heat as an IR photon that can travel either up or down of in any arbitrary direction, some of the time producing «back radiation»?

Now call me picky if you like, but if there's a lot of discussion about the accuracy of the data, the methods of analysing it, and what it all means, then surely it would be more prudent to make clear the uncertainty, and certainly make clear the arbitrary nature of one's scepticism e.g. «I do not see how such large amounts...» Incredulity is not science.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

Framed in this way, total emissions of a trillion tonnes of carbon will lead to a most likely warming of 2 °C, a somewhat arbitrary, but widely accepted limit on the amount of warming that the world can endure without a high risk of catastrophic consequences.

In the images, the central figure seems to be at times hopelessly engulfed in an overwhelming amount of gadgetry — all thrown away after an arbitrary period of obsolescence.

Precisely where we draw the line between «thick» and «thin» is somewhat arbitrary, given that the absorption shades smoothly from small values to large values as the product of absorption factor with amount of CO2 increases.

While Oregon's judicial review ensures that punitive damages are not awarded against defendants entirely innocent of conduct warranting exemplary damages, Oregon, unlike the common law, provides no assurance that those whose conduct is sanctionable by punitive damages are not subjected to punitive damages of arbitrary amounts.

In the absence of evidence of a specific job that was available to the plaintiff, the amount by which damages are reduced seems to be arbitrary.

Caps on awards for pain and suffering establish arbitrary compensation which act as a one size fits all and show to increase claim costs and the amount of administration involved in personal injury cases.

Savings from caps have led to huge insurance industry profits, which «the insurance industry should pass... onto Florida physicians in the form of reduced malpractice insurance premiums, and it should no longer be necessary to continue punishing those most seriously injured by medical negligence by limiting their noneconomic recovery to a fixed, arbitrary amount.»

The applicant in Saadi v United Kingdom (App No 13229 / 03)[2008] All ER (D) 229 (Jan) complained about the conditions in Oakington Reception Centre, and the fact that he was not provided promptly with the real reasons for his detention, which amounted to a breach of Art 5, which prohibits arbitrary detention.