Sentences with phrase «as narrow a set»

The AMT is a parallel income tax system with fewer exemptions and deductions than the regular income tax as well as a narrower set of tax rates.

Lots of book buyers have just as narrow a set of preferences, but they're different from mine and one another's, and you can't turn that into a realistic business opportunity because the stock / customer ratio is too large.

Not exact matches

The problem in both cases lies in seeing capitalism as embodied in a particular narrow set of practices, or in the behaviour of a handful of monolithic multinational corporations.

This means that as long as the PBoC intervenes in the currency, it can not provide debt relief to struggling borrowers, and to the economy overall, by lowering interest rates without setting off potentially destabilizing capital outflows as the interest rate differential narrows.

Third, the founder's ability to focus intensely on a narrow set of objectives can become a hindrance as his or her company grows.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Thee good soil represents someone who; * admits and understands that they are indebted to God because of their sinful nature * that sin equals eternal damnation hellfire * they turn to Jesus as our own saviour to abide in his covenant to fully repent of sins and become holy enduring right to the end * remember Jesus said you can not serve the world and God, or money and god you can not be a master to both * the path to eternal life is very narrow and strait and only few are able to find it you have to let go of your desires and dictates of the flesh and always embrace and find happiness serving god set your eyes on Jesus... crucify your desires..

Clearly, the negative reality over which the Nicene ecclesiology sets the confession of the church's «catholicity» is the tendency of all human communities, including religious as well as national, racial, sexual and other communities, to build protective walls against «the outsider,» and so to become parochial, provincial, chauvinistic, narrow.

«Since there is no Supreme Arche as source of meaning and value, there is no need to set the world right... Unless we free ourselves from the bias that forces us to conceive the Cosmos as a single - ordered world which it is our responsibility to recreate in social and political dimensions, we shall surely not escape the temptation to exploit the instrumental power born of our narrow and perverse anthropocentrism for totalitarian ends (EI 251).

In proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of life.

No viable theology, however, will ever be forthcoming, on the one hand, without a very considerable logico - linguistic propaedeutic, and, on the other, within so narrow and club - footed an affair as physicalistic set - theoreticism.

Within the more traditional framework, fundamentalism has been described as a «world - view,» a rather tight (or narrow, or simplistic) view of the world — an orientation that is perhaps hierarchically organized around the ultimate value of otherworldly salvation, an orientation that supplies totally encompassing normative expectations for how people should behave, a set of beliefs and assumptions that are deeply meaningful to the people who hold them and that give meaning to these people's lives.

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

We know there are as many chili recipes as there are chili cooks, so we narrowed our focus and set out to make the perfect pot of Texas chili.

On Tuesday, the women's field will be narrowed down to four as the quarterfinals are set to take place.

For all their differences, both face similar international threats and see the military as the main force to address them, highlighting how the perceived choice set or «common sense» has narrowed down, irrespective of who occupies the White House.

A CC is unlikely to refound the British state if it is set up to function as, in effect, an advisory council to the UK Parliament on a relatively narrow range of issues.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

As a result of the narrow focus of the investigation a «huge amount of material that could have identified other perpetrators and victims was in effect set to one side,» the committee wrote, adding that «the decision taken not to properly investigate led to serious wrongdoing.»

It has set off an avalanche of speculation about the narrowing gap between the Tories and Labour, about the rise of the minor parties, about the Liberal Democrats as kingmakers, and about the way politics and government would change.

Students advocating a range of new gun control measures met with Republican leaders apparently set on a package of narrower measures; House Speaker Richard Corcoran said here that he saw AR - 15 rifles as legitimate hunting weapons.

The Cuomo administration told the Times it viewed the order as applying only to those appointees who could be fired by a governor at any time, not board members with set terms, which would be a narrower interpretation than previous governors».

Businesses can also utilize DOL professionals to help find a location for a recruitment, set an agenda to ensure the time is used efficiently, advertise and market the event, identify the most qualified applicants to narrow the candidate pool, as well as provide staffing and other support services and more.

Generating laser light at such a small scale is possible because of localized surface plasmons, sets of electrons that collectively oscillate as one from within the narrow gap between the triangles.

We focused on a conservative set of 125 loci that were identified by at least two of the above methods so as to limit method - specific bias and narrow the list of candidates.

Comparing multiple subspecies of Band - tailed Pigeon to a larger set of Passenger Pigeon genomes will help narrow down which mutations are truly unique to Passenger Pigeons as a whole species.

Having started with many sets of mice, Capecchi narrowed the search to a single set that now serves as an animal model of synovial sarcoma.

For example, most training programs consist of multiple sets, but all sets are done with reps in a range of 5 - 15 reps.. This, in my opinion, is too narrow of a range in order to train as many fibers as is desirable or practical.

Narrow things down by typing in a location as well as setting an age limit.

Just as in the supermarket, not everyone likes broccoli but if you want to find specific characteristics you can set your profile searches very narrow.

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 4 out of 4 stars Set in wintry Montana, Certain Women — the sixth full - length feature from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff)-- offers a narrative scope as majestic as the mountains we glimpse in the distance, with a focus as narrow... Continue reading →

Things look like they're setting up for an epic opening battle, the kind we've seen in most of the MCU movies, but right as the tension rises and their behemoth alien opposition arrives to the party, the focus instead narrows in on little Baby Groot, who kicks on the tunes and starts grooving.

The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

Speaking of likely unreliable casting rumors, the live - action Akira remake has reportedly narrowed down its choice of actors for the two lead roles of Tetsuo and Kaneda, and yeah... I'd go ahead and set your teeth to gnash, as the rumored names include Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix the supposed contenders for Kaneda.

However, as The Hunger Games film series ran its course, and Divergent tanked before it could receive a final installment, The Maze Runner was originally set to debut its trilogy capper amid a dying - and incredibly narrow - genre of movies.

Standing at the bottom of the steep, narrow staircase in Georgetown that served as the setting for the final moments of his classic tale of demonic possession, William Friedkin took a moment to apologize.

Education reformers who are reflexively critical of DeVos are framing a narrow set of policies — the ones they prefer — as the very definition of «school choice,» «justice,» «morality,» or «accountability.»

The Chinese national educational system has won high praise as an efficient system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.

The whole thing brings to my mind the collateralized debt bubble, in which incredibly complex models were built atop a pretty narrow set of assumptions and the simple conviction that assumptions could be taken as givens.

Two revision quickies with solution A worksheet on negatives with solution in the context of school Communicative drills A set of narrow readin texts with comprehension questions A bilingual translation aimed at year 10 - 11 groups of good proficiency level, It covers a comprehensive range of school - related vocabulary recycling key vocabulary over and over again, As prep work use my free website's (www.language-gym.com) work - outs and / or the boxing game in the GAME ROOM section (they drill in the same vocab found on these worksheets) Translations A sentence puzzle

Equally worrisome is that today's assessments emphasize narrow skill sets such as geometry and grammar, and omit huge chunks of what educators and business leaders say is essential for modern students to learn: creative thinking, problem solving, cooperative teamwork, technological literacy, and self - direction.

Veteran teachers who work in other settings may wonder what all the fuss is about, and Lemov's definition of effective teaching as getting big test gains in low - income schools may be too narrow for some.

The news comes as critics have argued that the curriculum is a reflection of the government's «obsession with a narrow set of subjects in a rigid framework» and is likely to damage the chances of young people who do not follow an academic route into work.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

For primary school students it was a narrower set of choices: «high school», «TAFE», «university» and «I don't know»; for the secondary students it was a little bit more detailed in terms of postgraduate study and things as well, but we collapsed it into those four key categories for this particular analysis.

The law creates a process known as the Parent Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.

This is what it boils down to: many of California's school districts thought it was unfair to judge their schools as failing because they served large numbers of challenged students whose growth and progress wasn't fairly measured by a narrow set of tests.

While I understand the intent of this sentiment and the concern it expresses, this real world conversation can devolve into an overly cynical perspective from which to examine the experiences of our students and seems only to serve as a justification for punitive practices along a very narrow set of circumstances.

As a result, teachers are pressured to teach a narrow set of test - taking skills and a test - limited range of knowledge.

As Tucker points out, «none of these jurisdictions — Finland, Japan, Ontario (Canada) Shanghai (China) or Singapore — is focused on the pursuit of narrow test results, market - based reforms, a deskilled teaching force presumably motivated by threats of firing, or a competitive approach that sets up some schools, teachers, and, consequently, students as winners, while setting up others as losers.&raquAs Tucker points out, «none of these jurisdictions — Finland, Japan, Ontario (Canada) Shanghai (China) or Singapore — is focused on the pursuit of narrow test results, market - based reforms, a deskilled teaching force presumably motivated by threats of firing, or a competitive approach that sets up some schools, teachers, and, consequently, students as winners, while setting up others as losers.&raquas winners, while setting up others as losers.&raquas losers.»