Sentences with phrase «arbitrary standards for»

The program documented other unhealthy changes, brought about by inbreeding and a quest for arbitrary standards for what certain breeds should look like: Dachsund's have been elongated, and their legs made smaller, leading to serious back problems.

The regulations set an arbitrary standard for the «other indicators of student success or school quality» — and then make sure those indicators won't matter anyway.

Not exact matches

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

What is required is the public regulation of the mass media, by reference to standards of worth, in such a manner as to prevent their arbitrary employment for the advantage of private interests, either through deliberate manipulation or through giving the public what it thinks it wants.

If some azzwipe is going to be torturing people (or allowing them to be tortured) for all eternity for some arbitrary standard that only some people understand, then he can svck my b@lls.

We don't criticize anyone's body for not fitting arbitrary beauty standards.

In any case, changing one arbitrary standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or change the fact that a statistically significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical terms.

The CB plan simply distributes retirement compensation more evenly across teachers» careers — increasing retirement compensation for younger teachers, reducing the current large experience premium, and eliminating the penalty imposed on those who teach beyond the standard, arbitrary retirement age.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

Many liberal educators hold that the primary goal for education is for children to become autonomous, to develop fully who they are in the classroom setting without having arbitrary, outside standards forced upon them.

Goal setting based on individuals» relative capacities, then measuring success through change quotient vs an arbitrary general standard is a proven method for adults in a business setting.

«Our professionals don't believe teaching every year should be a scene out of The Hunger Games, fighting for survival against what could best be considered arbitrary standards.»

You set up an arbitrary standard that most indies don't care for and declare all indies failures?

What's important to remember is that a word count that exceeds industry standards is not merely an arbitrary reason for publishers and agents to refuse a query or pitch.

After all, how can anyone realistically generate an arbitrary number score for something like the quality of graphics without comparing the game side by side with every other game in existence, and then with all other games on platform, and then with all games in the genre, and then with games released only in recent history (so it's held to the same standard), and so on?

But your standards for «avid gamer» are completely arbitrary.

Waiting for an arbitrary standard of scientific certainty before changing any behavior is an option the world has, one option among many: the «continue as before» option.

I'll quibble with your choice of the word arbitrary though, for the 1990 standard.

With this new, and pretty much entirely arbitrary hurdle in place, Wahl and Amman were able to reject several of the runs which stood between the hockey stick and what they saw as its rightful place as the gold standard for climate reconstructions.

I take the standard equation for grass growing from the theory as shown in, Journal of Biology January 1951, and substitute one of the parameters in the standard theory to another arbitrary parameter that I found in a different equation, developed for different conditions, in Journal of Grass Growing, March 1972.

Cerqueira v American Airlines indicates a possibilty for cause of action in case a decision is «arbitrary and capricious» (a standard originating in Williams v. TWA 509 F. 2d 942), especially in connection with anti-discrimination law.

We need a decent job agenda that raises standards for all workers, not an arbitrary exclusion of migrant workers.»

Bill 18 will ban recruitment fees for all migrant workers; remove the arbitrary monetary cap on reclaiming unpaid wages and tougher penalties for employment standards violations.

Banning recruitment fees for all migrant workers; removing the arbitrary monetary cap on reclaiming unpaid wages and tougher penalties for employment standards violations announced today means that migrant workers gain a few more protections today, but comprehensive changes are still needed says the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), Canada's largest migrant worker advocacy coalition.

[60] The plaintiffs ask for punitive damages, which they argue are warranted in the present case due to the «high - handed, malicious, arbitrary or reprehensible misconduct that departs to a marked degree from ordinary standards of decent behaviour:» Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18 (CanLII) at para. 94.

The Act failed in a s. 1 analysis because it did not provide sufficiently clear and sufficient standards to avoid arbitrary or discriminatory application for a section of the statute which allows for a protection order where «there are reasonable grounds to believe that the respondent will engage in cyberbullying of the subject in the future.»