Sentences with phrase «as margin for error»

Eventually the AT was calibrated to differentiate hydrogen peroxide from wine, water, shaving cream, and contact - lens solution — and, as margin for error or if terrorists tried using many small bottles, to detect it even in minuscule quantities.

Hope dwindles as the margin for error contracts.

If they are to mount a comeback, and it would be some uturn considering how depressing the last two months has been in west London — Chelsea have won just twice in the league since the beginning of November, then their renaissance surely has to burst into life immediately, as the margin for error is fine to say the least following yet another underwhelming performance at the weekend.

Starting with 1 Loss in the Playoffs really handcuffed these guys as their margin for error was even smaller but they fought hard in two straight Playoff Games.

By hitting at the center of the fairway and trying to split the watering - system pipeline you leave yourself only half the fairway as the margin for any error that may occur in your swing.

Not exact matches

Experts have found that multi-tasking reduces productivity by as much as 40 percent, lowers the person's IQ and creates a larger margin for error.

Budget 2015 left very little margin for error when it came to balancing the books, with a projected surplus of $ 1.4 billion plus an additional $ 1.0 billion as a contingency reserve, giving the federal government a $ 2.4 billion margin for error.

Using those 16 companies as a representative sample for the entire Fortune 500 cohort would result in a pretty wide margin of error: 24.3 %.

The statistical margin of error for the sample of n = 1,507 Self - employed workers is + / - 2.5 %, assuming that participants are the same as non-participants.

There is little margin for error if something goes wrong as free - money comes to an end.

Margins of victory and the room for error have been razor thin, with the final play of the game often standing as the deciding factor.

We find out on Sunday as the defending Super Bowl champs face the Baltimore Ravens with their margin for error sliced to nothing.

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With some margin for error against a service academy, Ohio State made a concerted effort to throw the ball down the field with some efficiency after the previous week's debacle against Oklahoma, and it worked as J.T. Barrett completed 25 passes and threw two touchdowns.

It was lost when we went down big and as is always the case there is no margin for error It was lost because NO took us out of our game and imposed their will upon us.

Hope, as is rises just now, when we won, when I tell myself, come on, it's not impossible, it's NEARLY impossible, that margin of error in an otherwise solid judgement based on facts, the irrationality behind it, the fact that right now I am happy for this victory and I'm already starting to build up hype for the next game, and put pressure on myself so I can utterly be even more disappointed when the lads screw it up.

But, as hungry as we are for some kind of trophy this year, we all know the margin of error is very little.

For the 2013 local elections however, the margin of error is so wide as to cover almost the entire range of probabilities — perhaps the statistical equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and admitting you haven't got a clue.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points, meaning the results for either candidate could be interpreted as 5 points higher or 5 points lower.

For Republicans to have any margin for error in their longshot quest for the Senate majority this fall, they need Thompson as well as serious candidates in Washington State and against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to take the opportunity this election cycle affords the parFor Republicans to have any margin for error in their longshot quest for the Senate majority this fall, they need Thompson as well as serious candidates in Washington State and against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to take the opportunity this election cycle affords the parfor error in their longshot quest for the Senate majority this fall, they need Thompson as well as serious candidates in Washington State and against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to take the opportunity this election cycle affords the parfor the Senate majority this fall, they need Thompson as well as serious candidates in Washington State and against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to take the opportunity this election cycle affords the party.

For many foods, such as fish and certain vegetables, the margin of error is quite narrow.

This becomes particularly problematic as you get leaner and your «margins for error» with your calorie intake become very slim.

But as that's not 100 % foolproof the net result is a +2.8 point bias for released films vs pre-released films, a margin of error small enough to have negligible impact on our research, as you'll see below.

But they have less margin for error, too; they can't offer as many courses and extras; and their costs - per - pupil tend to be higher.

The margin of error cuts both ways, however, as the 2007 statewide averages for all students in Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas all fell within two points of Florida's average for Hispanics on the 4th - grade reading exam.

«The race is again very physical and it's a hard, aggressive race with no margin for error as it's a circuit that will really punish you.

As a result, Amazon would seem to have less room for error than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.

And when they are priced as cheaply as they are today, there is certainly margin for error if earnings reports are a little on the aggressive side.

In contrast, I've often quoted the Shiller P / E (which essentially uses a 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) as a simple but historically informative alternative, but I should emphasize that we strongly prefer our standard methodologies based on earnings, forward earnings, dividends and other fundamentals, all which have a fairly tight relationship with subsequent 7 - 10 year total returns (see Lessons from a Lost Decade, The Likely Range of Market Returns in the Coming Decade, Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings, and No Margin of Safety, No Room for Error).

As you know from reading, I love cheap stocks, and many of them are unloved cheap stocks with temporary problems, but I'd rather own a business that can grow its intrinsic value over time, because my margin of safety increases over time and gives me more room for error in my analysis work.

Obviously, one should allow for a bigger margin for error when trading zones as opposed to single lines.

You build in margins for error if you are a pricing actuary, as I often was, and review actual results when setting assumptions.

Of course, with such a small footprint, Idzi does not have much margin for error, so she sticks with best - selling categories such as collars and leads, toys and gourmet treats — all of which reflect a nautical, coastal sensibility.

As technology gets better, there's more margin for error until we -LSB-...]

If the game is too hard in any one area, FIFA - like sliders let you increase the margin of error for important tasks such as shooting, blocking or stealing.

But as you progress further and the margin for error gets smaller and smaller, you'll realize that even with some of the best tilt controls on the iPhone, maintaining control of the car is frustrating when you're getting rammed.

«The fish, as a subject, has a large margin for error.

Of course, if one uses a smaller difference as like between the 18th and 19th century (about 3:1 / 4:1), that increases the error margins (the error margin is up to 50 % for the 18 / 19th century difference, 5 - 20 % for the others).

Whilst there will always be some margin for error and projects may not perform as expected, the best carbon offset programs mitigate the risk by establishing a «buffer pool» — a portion of offsets held in reserve to cover any potential underperformance or impermanence issues.

More exact for the partitioning between oceans and vegetation are found in the oxygen balance, but with large margins of error, as oxygen change measurements (a few ppmv in 200,000 ppmv) are extremely difficult, at the edge of the accuracy of the methods used.

i think that's inaccurate shx, the scientists did their work, and from what i could gather tried very hard not to overstate their case, the media did the scare - mongering and the media have then turned like the whores they are in the other direction, al gore's film upped the tempo and although it seemed like a good thing at the time, i think with hindsight it was a poisoned chalice, but lets be clear, doing research in multiple areas and having the results point to potentially catastrophic climate change and asking for changes to be made to avert this is not scare - mongering, its common sense, accepting that their is margin for error but erring on the side of caution since the stakes are life on earth as we know it is not scare - mongering, it is the application of the precautionary principle and common sense

But the error margins for the period since 2000 mean that for the short period there is a 95 % chance that the trend is as much as warming 0.22 °C / decade or a cooling trend of as much as -0.04 °C / decade.

Scientists, statisticians and mathematicians have several terms for this concept, such as «precision», «margin of error» or «confidence interval».

Climatologists generally feature a «margin of error» in their analyses to account for inadvertent variations such as volcanoes and other weather activity.

These have returned age dates of 4.54 billion years with a precision of as little as 1 % margin for error.

This leaves a smaller margin for error as highly informed consumers have become acutely aware of how to seek out information, poll their networks and complete transactions across a plethora of interactive channels.»

From such bell curves, Jaar claims firms can determine fixed fees, including builtin margins of error, that remain true for as long as the underlying assumptions remain the same.

As mentioned, the automotive industry uses machine vision for two main purposes: to inspect the quality of the sundry items comprising the vehicle, ensuring that they pass muster, and to provide guidance to otherwise «blind» robots in the assembly line, such that the margin of error is further reduced

Premiums for a participating policy will be higher than for a comparable non-par policy, with the difference (or, «overcharge») being considered as «paid - in surplus» to provide a margin for error equivalent to stockholder capital.

A medical resume should be written with great care as there is absolutely no margin for error in this profession.