Sentences with phrase «as a guideline rather»

Let employees use complaint - resolution policies as guidelines rather than rules.

To a large degree, freedom is granted to the members, but they are still bound together by glad acceptance of the common life, and they use the rule as a guideline rather than as an arbitrarily imposed dictate.

I love this soup, but I have used this recipe more as a guideline rather than following it explicitly.

Think of these as guidelines rather than rules that are set in stone.

Not exact matches

Federal guidelines for destroying guns require the crushing, cutting, or breaking of the gun parts — typically by torch rather than saw or other tool — to prevent its future use as a firearm.

And BitKan, a big over-the-counter (OTC) trading service rather than an order - book exchange, announced it would be shutting down as well.While the cited guidelines initially did not seem to concern bitcoin, it is likely that Chinese officials have made it clear through separate channels that they do apply to the cryptocurrency.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

For both Catholics and Protestants, architectural ideals have often been stated as vague principles rather than definitive guidelines.

Many branches of Reform Judaism hold that Jewish law should be interpreted as a set of general guidelines rather than as a list of restrictions whose literal observance is required of all Jews.»

The ACOG guidelines implicitly view ethics as a matter of private emotion and sentiment, rather than as common rationality and shared practical wisdom.

To make the information easier to understand and use, the revised Guidelines are based on foods and food groups, rather than nutrients as in the 2003 edition.

As said, it's a complex, multi-layered issue, and there could stand to be some guidelines on how to go about treating the era, rather than erasing it through non-votes.

That means the information below should be treated as general guidelines rather than concrete rules.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

But in typical Washington fashion, they totally screwed it up when they used the regulation not as a framework for providing guidelines, but rather as a pulpit to micro-manage the implementation of the solution.

Please know that API's Eight Principles of Parenting are not intended to be standards of perfection but rather to be used as guidelines to help you feel informed, validated, supported and confident in your child - rearing decisions.

According to guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), rather than nursing according to a rigid schedule, you should nurse your newborn whenever she shows early signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting around for your nipple.

By the way, this idea that advice to eat less red meat is some sort of conspiracy relating to politics is rather laughable since, as Marion Nestle brilliantly explains in Food Politics, the national beef association threw a major hissy fit when Dietary Guidelines originally urged the public to simply «consume less red meat».

Rather than a set of hard - and - fast rules, the guideline is intended as an aid to clinical decision making for professionals at all levels of experience in treating opioid use disorders.

The 2015 — 2020 guidelines have also shifted their focus: This time, rather than emphasizing specific food groups and nutrients (such as whole grains and potassium), the guidelines target eating patterns — everything a person eats and drinks over time.

Recent research also shows that levels of dissociation decrease rather than increase — as suggested in the article — during trauma - oriented treatment when following treatment guidelines.

In bringing together global leaders again in 2017 to review advances in the field and update the guidelines, a profound shift in thinking occurred to define Alzheimer's disease biologically, by pathologic brain changes or their biomarkers, and treat cognitive impairment as a symptom / sign of the disease, rather than its definition.

As far as I understand it, China has guidelines issued by the central government, rather than laws governing both research and clinical applications using human embryoAs far as I understand it, China has guidelines issued by the central government, rather than laws governing both research and clinical applications using human embryoas I understand it, China has guidelines issued by the central government, rather than laws governing both research and clinical applications using human embryos.

Thankfully, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released new guidelines in 2014, redefining the start of active labor as dilation to 6 centimeters (rather than 4) and urging doctors to allow women to labor longer, so long as the baby is not in distress.

Current guidelines for asthma discourage the use of this class of drug by itself, rather than as a supplement to other asthma medications.

These ranges are rather flowing and not fixed however they serve as a good guideline when designing power training programs and power training workouts.

According to «E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning» by Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer (Pfeiffer, 2011), the best practice is «don't do it», as videos and music clips rather interfere than enhance learning.

Even if you look beyond the fact that guidelines on «optimum hours» aren't backed by research advice, suggesting set times - as the inquiry committee points out - is about the quantity of work set, rather than the quality.

Local school leaders say legislators should restore previously held allowances for districts to shuffle resources as needed at the local level, rather than setting state - mandated guidelines for how dollars are spent.

Rather worryingly, the latest NHS health survey also found that nine in 10 mothers and eight in 10 fathers of an overweight child described them as being about the right weight, and excluding school - based activities, 22 % of children aged five to 15 met the physical activity guidelines of being at least moderately active for at least 60 minutes every day.

The author notes, «Teachers are forced to choose between adhering to grading guidelines they may deem inappropriate and using grades as motivators to reward good efforts rather than achievement.

I don't think anyone can argue that the term eBook (or «e-book» for those of you who prefer to follow certain style guidelines rather than how people search on Google) has come to mean something more than a Word or Powerpoint document saved as a PDF file.

Use the guidelines above as goals rather than stop signs.

Streamline refinance guidelines are rather easy to follow as there really aren't very many.

As HUD explains, «FHA has not changed its underwriting guidelines, but rather its eligibility criteria.»

You should think of this as a starting point rather than a guideline.

Although most veterinarians seem to follow recommendations published by the VAFSTF in 1996 (rabies, right rear; FeLV, left rear), FISS continue to be diagnosed at the interscapular region.9 Furthermore, it appears that most veterinarians prefer to administer vaccines to cats at sites above the stifle, not below, and over the right shoulder, rather than below the right elbow, as recommended in current feline vaccination guidelines (Figure).

Veterinarians don't do a very good job of informing new cat guardians; and sadly, many simply recommend declawing rather than advocating proper tools and training (as they should under ethical guidelines from the American Animal Hospital Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association).

However, just as in a human pregnancy, the 9 weeks is a guideline, rather than a date set in stone for your dog «s gestation.

Use the packet quantities as a guideline and reduce them a little if your puppy is getting fat, or increase them a little if your puppy is looking rather thin.

«Our intervention is a «real - world» diet, designed to a set of guidelines (such as reduction in the usage of tinned foods or foods with high levels of processing), rather than the strict, prescribed diets that have been used in other studies, which suggested that it was possible for participants to reduce their urinary BPA excretion by approximately 60 % in a period of just 3 days.

Guidelines for family participation included: 1) families should reside in the reserve: 2) families should live in the seringal, or forest area, of the community (one exception was made); 3) families could not be acting as marreteiros, or intermediaries, in the selling process, but rather would be traditional extractivist families; 4) families should live within approximately two hours hiking distance from the community center, and; 5) preference would be given to families that indicated experience of household use of at least one of the three palm fruits being studied.

Most communities simply adopt the IRC and IBC as their ordinance rather than use them as guidelines to write their own ordinance.

Under current FDA guidelines, most flavoring agents allowed to be listed as «flavor» rather specified individually, so, this remains a bit of a mystery.

I suppose that, the Honorable Sim Lake, as a committee chair for the US Sentencing Commission, is allowing his personal allegience to the claimed «reasonableness» of the Sentencing guidelines and his personal interest in supporting his own previous ruling of «loss» in this case is getting in the way of his duty to be a judge (rather than the head of the prosecution team in this specific matter).

There is a concern that they will be viewed, by some, as a ceiling rather than a floor when it comes to good conduct, and that party representatives who comply with the letter rather than the spirit of the general guidelines will escape censure for otherwise poor conduct.

But later Greek sculptors deviated from the perfection as outlined in the Canon (also a written treatise), treating it as a set of guidelines rather than hard - and - fast rules.

The difference would be that on appellate review, rather than reviewing a within - guidelines, presumptively - reasonable sentence, the Court would be reviewing a way - above - guidelines sentence — which of course it could still affirm as substantively reasonable.

In child support orders issued under these Guidelines, support amounts for two or more children, are stated as an in gross or total amount rather than on a per child basis.

The Guidelines have not displaced the Divorce Act which has as its objective the maintenance of children rather than household equalization or spousal support (para. 41).