Sentences with phrase «as an escape valve»

«It looks like the temporary foreign worker program in many cases is serving as an escape valve for many employers,» who resort to imported labour rather than raise wages to attract Canadian candidates, he says.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

In essence, stratospheric CO2 acts as an escape valve to space for ozone - induced heating.

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Now that charter schools comprise large portions of many cities» public schools, school choice advocates can no longer defend freewheeling and fragmented governance as necessary to create an escape valve from a broken system.

As the downstroke begins the pressure in the cylinder is high allowing the exhaust gases to escape and forcing the intake reed valve closed.

The Guidelines provide escape valves that allow the court to depart from the tables of quantum when: a dependent child is an adult; the payor's income is more than $ 150,000 per year; the payor is a stepparent; each parent has the primary care of one or more siblings, known as «split custody;» the parents share the children's time equally or near - equally, known as «shared custody;» or, a parent would suffer «undue hardship» were the table amount to be paid.