Sentences with phrase «as meaningful a reason»

However, the data suggests that the number of titles releasing at retail is as meaningful a reason as any (perhaps even the most meaningful) for the change in retail sales.

Not exact matches

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

As intrinsic value and market value tend to align in the long run, the trick is to spot meaningful differences by analyzing the reasons the market may be currently undervaluing a stock, and act before these windows of market inefficiency close.

Many military spouses cite their mobile lifestyle and children in need of care as reasons they have given up their job search or dreams of having a meaningful career.

In fact I suspect the reason credit growth in the past year or two has not slowed nearly as sharply as it should, or as sharply as required by the economic analysis implicit in the Third Plenum reform proposals, is precisely because of the expected impact of meaningful credit constraint on GDP growth.

Sit back and watch as Reachify generates new leads and meaningful reasons for you to reach out to customers and prospects.

If reason tells us that «John 1800» engraved into a rock must have an intelligent mind as its source, should not also the infinitely more complex and meaningful information found in our DNA point toward a Supreme Designer that gave us life as well as creating all the universe?

It isn't good reasoning to just dismiss what many people throughout history have experienced as real and meaningful, just because you haven't.

The representation of time has something in common with that of color perception, so that both the one and the other can be considered as representations of sense.6 For in a certain sense the experience of time and color can not be meaningfully communicated, and for that very reason there can be scarcely any meaningful explanation of them.

'' [T] he research offers no reason to believe that students in high - quality classrooms whose teachers give little or no homework would be at a disadvantage as regards any meaningful learning.»

Washington (CNN)- In his retirement announcement, Republican Sen. Saxby Cambliss cited «the dearth of meaningful action from Congress» as one reason for not seeking re-election next year.

But instead of reducing their number of sexual partners or changing their sexual behavior as advocated in government and NGO health campaigns, they have developed a tactic, which is embedded in locally meaningful modes of reasoning.

For this reason, Liver plus Spleen should be considered as a second line supplement option to provide the cofactors that support endogenous iron production and blood building... to provide a more significant and meaningful amount of dietary heme iron... and to support one's own spleen.

Online Dating is for Relationship Rejects By this, I mean people that have trouble sustaining meaningful relationships and who are seen as the reason previous unions fail.

People join the site for various reasons, such as casual dating partners, meaningful.

There are thousands of people who have found meaningful relationships online, and there is no reason that it wouldn't work for you as well.

In the absence of a compelling reason to retain control centrally, school leaders, as the primary agents of change, should have freedom and flexibility over how best to use their resources (time, people, and money) to create meaningful changes that directly impact students.

For this reason, it's essential to look for a system that offers advanced reporting features, such as data visualizations which help your L&D team detect trends that lead to meaningful change.

Not only will this put in place an awful evaluation system that we oppose for the reasons stated in our letter, it is also an affront at collective bargaining and our ability as educators to have meaningful input into the governance of our schools.

One possible reason behind our students» perceptions of the Ning as an add - on rather than an essential tool is that both our class and the teacher education program as a whole promoted meaningful, deep, and ongoing interpersonal collaboration about questions of praxis.

Science Sela PCS's science program will: 1) develop students» science literacy and provide meaningful and engaging learning experiences to enhance students» intellectual curiosity and build students» proficiency in science; 2) teach students how to manipulate scientific tools as they expand their science vocabulary; and 3) strengthen students» logical reasoning and critical thinking skills, as well as their abilities to apply scientific methodology and inquiry to make connections between books, and between texts and their own experiences.

This system is solely used to determine the opponents you'll be matched against, though offers no rewards for progression and no meaningful reason to improve your score as a result.

As a result, hopefully, players should always feel nice and situated in the world, doing something meaningful, for reasons they understand.

«After spending a good chunk of time in the game in the state it is in I am nervous it won't ever really launch in any meaningful way — or by the time it does, Monster Hunter is already reigning so big and supreme (as it already is) that there is little reason to go to Dauntless.

As such, the game's story has to retain a somewhat neutral personality for the characters, and perhaps that's the reason why there's little in terms of meaningful storytelling.

Subquests and side content are always among the most controversial aspects of role - playing games, and for good reasons, as they are sometimes used only to artificially increase a game's length without offering anything meaningful.

These are all reasons why any meaningful global energy quest, as I see it, starts with conservation and efficiency but still has to pursue new energy sources that can work for the long haul.

Given the total irrelevance of volcanic aerosols during the period in question, the only very modest effect of fossil fuel emissions and the many inconsistencies governing the data pertaining to solar irradiance, it seems clear that climate science has no meaningful explanation for the considerable warming trend we see in the earlier part of the 20th century — and if that's the case, then there is no reason to assume that the warming we see in the latter part of that century could not also be due to either some as yet unknown natural force, or perhaps simply random drift.

And I would offer a similar criticism of that as well, as IMO, you neither ground that form of analogizing in a scientific manner; as I have told you, I think that your inclusion and exclusion criteria selection process is quite arbitrary, and I don't think that it is coincidence that it confirms your distinction of a group you belong to («skeptics») from a group you criticize («realists») in ways that (1) reaffirm a superiority in the group you belong to and, (2) I consider to be superficial and not meaningful as compared to the vastly more important underlying similarities (e.g., the tendency toward identity protective behavior, motivated reasoning, cultural cognition, confirmation bias, emotively - influenced reasoning, etc.)...

The reasons as rendered by the judge did allow for a meaningful appellate review.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.

For these reasons alone, I «believe» that the best course of action going forward is to somehow «abdicate» my duty as a «forceful» judge by using words (I, Brian Martindale, call the following words «weasle words») such as «seems» and «properly» to allow Mr. Dale's (again, according to my personal, singular decision - making process) action to proceed to the next, actually «meaningful» stage of legal proceedings.