Sentences with phrase «as a buffer for»

Coffee farms of various sizes ring the reserve, acting as a buffer for the natural forest and preventing the land from being converted to row - crop agriculture or ranches, which quickly degrade and erode the thin tropical forest soil.

S.K. - Anyway I am getting sick of making all this money by charging the Arsenal fans through the nose and putting all the cash in the bank while using that wrinkly old Frenchman as a buffer for their occasional explosions of anger.

Marchione, a former Halfmoon town supervisor, previously said she purchased the land «legally, ethically and honestly» for $ 30,000 as a buffer for her private residence.

Natural habitats such as coral reefs, marshes and dunes can act as buffers for waves, storms and floods.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a buffer for fossil fuel emissions (SN Online: 9/28/17).

* Carnosine is a dipeptide (Beta - Alanine plus Histidine) that functions as a buffer for the hydrogen ions (acid) produced during strenuous exercise, thus helping to maintain optimum muscular pH. * NOW uses CarnoSyn ®, a patented form of Beta - Alanine that has been clinically tested and shown to increase muscle carnosine content, allowing muscles to work harder and longer during intense exercise.

Amyloid beta 1 - 40 is generally believed to play a beneficial part in the brain, acting as a buffer for amyloid beta 1 - 42, the insoluble and harmful kind.

The purpose of that workout is to have fun, add some variety, and it can work as a buffer for days where my body feel tired — in which case the workout will just be some yoga or foam rolling.

For example, NCB Development Corporation used its $ 6.4 million grant to create the Charter School Capital Access Program; the grant dollars comprise a «first loss reserve» - money that serves as a buffer for lenders in case payments fall through - on a $ 45 million loan pool that NCB and the Reinvestment Fund raised from large financial institutions.

Our findings also suggest teachers can not rely on a fixed positive «set - point» of motivation and engagement among their students as a buffer for poor quality instruction and activity.

This is certainly an interesting addition that will force you to play smart and tactically, using your teammates as a buffer for excellence.

So the rainwater collected serves as a buffer for during the dry season and when the municipal water system is down.

The less cloud formation the more heat is absorbed by earth (the oceans act as buffers for this energy).

The above video comes from Waiheke Island's Fabulous Fruit Tree initiative, which is aiming to plant 20,000 fruit and nut trees to act as a buffer for community resilience in case of food shortages.

Only a block away is the very busy Corrientes Avenue, and the huge trees inside the inner park of the complex acted as a buffer for street noise.

An umbrella liability policy is for general liability coverage, so it would work as a buffer for your car insurance as well as your homeowner's liability protection.

These features work by allocating a certain amount of memory on the local device and using that as a buffer for the video.

«In principle, investors should prepare money as a buffer for price movement around 20 - 30 % above the margin.»

Conversely, active coping seems to function as a buffer for psychological distress with elevated scores on the active coping strategies indicating fewer symptoms of psychological distress.

Parental and school support were assumed as protective factors that might interact with one another in acting as buffers for adolescents against the risk of peer - victimization.

In the hurly burly of buying or marketing a home, the swirl of activity spins around the real estate agent who efficiently organizes the steps, outlines the service needs and acts as a buffer for the shills that come out of the woodwork ready to take advantage of the home owner seller or buyer.

This means that more equity will be required to remain sitting in the home as a buffer for contingencies and as a protection against market volatilities that would affect expenses and sales prices for defaulted HECM loans.

Not exact matches

As Buffer has expanded from 25 employees to 64 (63 full time), so have costs for its (virtual) office supplies.

That's one of the best indicators for how self - driven they might be as part of Buffer.

But, as this is a full time job in itself, Buffer allows you to batch the social media marketing process by allowing you to do all your composing in one go, and schedule it for a later date.

I joined as Buffer's first Culture Scout in October 2015, when we went from growing the team by 1 to 2 people per month to being on the lookout for 30 to 40 team members between September 2015 and April 2016.

The details of the capital requirements under Basel III are complicated, but generally speaking, deposit - taking institutions such as Canada's banks will have to maintain tangible common equity, which includes things like cash, equal to 4.5 % of their assets plus an additional buffer of 2.5 %, for a total of 7 %.

Gold miner Millennium Minerals has received firm commitments for an $ 8.1 million capital raising to provide a working capital buffer as it ramps up to full production at Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara.

As the good guys here are Buffer mention on» The everything guide for Twitter success» e-book, posting the same (valuable) content more than once won't annoy your followers.

From video resumes to business development pitches, job seekers are expected to distinguish themselves from the outset because startups usually do not have HR managers to serve as buffers before top candidates meet the busy executives they will be working for.

Conventional wisdom quantifies that buffer of time at roughly a generation, for the simple reason we often grow up to buy — or at least aspire to buy — those very same cars we lusted after as children.

You can go the Feedly > Pocket > IFTTT > Buffer route as highlighted above, or for a really fast solution, you can go straight from Feedly to Buffer.

But the issue escalates far beyond preference for many consumers, even going so far as «buffer rage», a condition described as, «a state of uncontrollable fury or violent anger induced by the delayed or interrupted enjoyment of streaming video content from over-the-top (OTT) services.»

As for overall transparency at Buffer, it's only increasing.

Buffer for Business provides an export of this data that includes the specific number of potential users who saw the tweet (e.g., 104,383 as opposed to 104k).

How to find this for your profile: In the Analysis Report of your Buffer Analytics tab, you can get graphs of several metrics such as clicks, Likes, and followers.

It's also very useful for brands that post content more than once throughout the year (which we find very successful here at Buffer with our Rebuffer tool) as it helps to avoid duplicating poor - performing content.

City staff told the council a wider 200 - foot buffer between dispensaries and homes would eliminate almost all commercial areas as potential sites for dispensaries.

For us, we post every 15 minutes or so, as that's a decent buffer.

With this in place, you can then use an IFTTT recipe that calls for every article in Feedly that you mark as Save for Later to be added to your Buffer queue.

For example, from: 1) the replenishment of foreign exchange buffers large enough to protect the economy against a protracted shock; 2) a significant reduction in government debt metrics; 3) a successful diversification of the economy and government revenues that will become less dependent on oil receipts; 4) continued improvements in governance and institutional strength which act as long — term constraints on Angola's rating.

I originally came on board as a Happiness Hero in late 2015 and currently lead our Customer Success team in delivering happiness to all of our Buffer for Business customers.

He also didn't account for social security pension, preferring to leave that as a buffer in case the market changes.

Instead, Beijing prefers to maintain the North as a buffer state, a diplomatic bargaining chip and a tool for indirectly threatening the United States.

You can use Buffer as a browser extension or handle your social media on the go through the mobile app for iOS and Android.

The limitations of macroprudential policies reflect the potential for risks to emerge outside sectors subject to regulation, the potential for supervision and regulation to miss emerging risks, the uncertain efficacy of new macroprudential tools such as a countercyclical capital buffer, and the potential for such policy steps to be delayed or to lack public support.14 Given such limitations, adjustments in monetary policy may, at times, be needed to curb risks to financial stability.15

They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»

Key steps along this path include completion of the transition to full implementation of Basel III, including new liquidity requirements; enhanced prudential standards for systemically important firms, including risk - based capital requirements, a leverage ratio, and tighter prudential buffers for firms heavily reliant on short - term wholesale funding; expansion of the regulatory umbrella to incorporate all systemically important firms; the institution of an effective, cross-border resolution regime for systemically important financial institutions; and consideration of regulations, such as minimum margin requirements for securities financing transactions, to limit leverage in sectors beyond the banking sector and SIFIs.

Tip: If you are using Buffer for Business, you could add your guest as a team member of your organization and let them add posts to your Buffer queue.

To add an @ - mention to your Buffer for Instagram caption, simply type it as you would any other text, and when pasted into Instagram's text field on your device, Instagram will recognize it as a mention.