Sentences with phrase «arbitrary cuts»

The dashboard has a color - coded, 25 - square performance grid for each indicator that will create a number of arbitrary cut points between performance levels.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Well, any list of young leaders has to have some kind of arbitrary cut - off for what constitutes young.

«Through his votes and co-sponsorship of key bills, Representative Gibson has fought to preserve the ability of our seniors to have comprehensive choice of physicians to provide their care, fought to limit the ability of the federal government to make arbitrary cuts to the Medicare program that would harm our patients» access to care, and supported efforts to preserve the viability of our health care delivery system by reducing the choking costs of medical liability insurance.

«We can not support arbitrary cuts to future legal immigration levels,» said Daniel Garza, president of The LIBRE Initiative, which is backed by the Koch brothers.

In the early ontology of events the divisions could be made by arbitrary cuts (see D.E. in Dialogue I).

Take extra care to read what the cancellation policy is, since sometimes OTAs give you somewhat arbitrary cut - offs for cancellations.

«This budget will remove the politics and ensure stable funding levels without fear of arbitrary cuts.»

This contribution limit strikes me as an unfair and arbitrary cut - off.

«If Congress rejects my plan and refuses to undo these arbitrary cuts, it will threaten our economy and our military,» Obama warned in an op - ed article Thursday in The Huffington Post.

Which is better suited to interact with and relate to the social buyer will be the new determining factor on this ratio — as opposed to some arbitrary cut off line between large accounts and small accounts.

That hearing, which imposed an arbitrary cut - off point on the events of the afternoon and concluded that the deaths were accidental, was quashed in 2012; this verdict replaces that finding.

But, it seems like an arbitrary cut - off.

Golden said officers who risk their lives shouldn't be denied more generous disability because of an arbitrary cut - off in required years of service.

Given that the tax system is focused on individuals rather than families, the change could lead to perverse outcomes which see an arbitrary cut - off point for families receiving child benefit.

The College Board set an arbitrary cut off, that is a 1550 SAT -LSB-...]

This contribution limit strikes me as an unfair and arbitrary cut - off.

«We've got two large wastelands on there,» he says, «we can cut it into two pieces» but «couldn't make an arbitrary cut.»

In each work, White has intentionally left strips of surface area completely blank, emphasizing the arbitrary cutting, cropping, and breaking of images — a regular feature in contemporary visual language, and one to which we have become increasingly inured.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»

It would appear that this must be for life, unless the Court is to invent some arbitrary cut - off time.

Relationship research has shown that passion decreases gradually throughout a relationship, making 3 - years seems like an arbitrary cut - off (but perhaps not arbitrary in terms of tying in with the movie).

However, the arbitrary cut - off date meant that approximatey 15,000 older adopted children in England would miss out on vital support.

Abstract: In recently published studies on cyberbullying, students are frequently categorized into distinct (cyber) bully and (cyber) victim clusters based on theoretical assumptions and arbitrary cut - off scores adapted from traditional bullying research.

Because it is increasingly believed that mental and behavioral disorders can best be understood as scores on a continuum (e.g., Satcher 2000), we conceptualized pathological gaming as a continuum, instead of using an arbitrary cut - off point to determine if someone is addicted or not.