Sentences with phrase «as standard means»

Plus, having all - wheel drive as standard means you can have more control over that power in slippery road conditions than you would if the car was rear - wheel drive or, as with the regular Audi A4, front - wheel drive.

Not exact matches

The context is missing; sometimes green is used to brand environmental issues such as Timberland's G.R.E.E.N standard, but other times it's meant to brand financial spaces such as Mint.com.

The acceptance of home - based businesses is on the rise, but that doesn't mean you should relax your standards as an entrepreneur.

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

The smaller size means the retailer can use the 35,000 square foot format to get into smaller markets that wouldn't support a standard Kohl's, such as Marshfield, Wisconsin, a city of 20,000.

The gameplay is somewhat simplistic by today's standards, as are the graphics (clearly), but that doesn't make it a bad game by any means.

Yet the complimentary skillsets each boss brings to the table — with Standard Life's Keith Skeoch focusing on internal asset management and Gilbert preferring external facing lines of work such as distribution and strategy — means this will be a success, declared the Aberdeen CEO.

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

Another negative effect of the sequester on Redhorse has been the mandate that the government put many of its procurements up for bid under a standard called lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA), which as its name suggests, basically means the lowest price possible.

You can argue about which is easier to use or more polished, but at the end of the day, iOS does not have as many features as Android and that means it should not be used as the «gold standard» that all apps are held to.

That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

More than just your standard definition, the emoji pages not only explain what an emoji means, but also dig a little deeper to explain where the emoji comes from and who uses it, as well as examples of the emoji in use.

At Forbes, Marianne Bickle leads the charge for those who feel that bosses need to fight back against the impulse to loosen the rules as the temperature climbs, stressing that keeping productivity up means keeping the usual standards and practices in place.

These measurers do not have a standard meaning prescribed by GAAP and therefore they may not be comparable to similarly titled measurers presented by other publicly traded companies, and should not be construed as an alternative to other financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP.

In technical regulatory terms, this means Facebook is known as what's called a «controlled company» that is exempt from certain standard Securities and Exchange Commission investor protections in exchange for making fulsome disclosures about the fact that if you buy Facebook stock, you are buying into a controlled enterprise.

CEO Jason Goldberg has said those cuts were meant to streamline staffing and costs as the business shifted from a labor - intensive flash - sale model, where tons of new products had to be sourced and prepped every day, to a more standard e-commerce shop with predictable inventory needs.

As growth rates slow, the failure to cut out bad policies will mean continued stagnation or declines in living standards for some.

If you're enrolled in Income - Based Repayment, Income - Contingent Repayment or Pay As You Earn, your monthly payment will revert to the amount you would pay on the standard repayment plan, meaning it will no longer be based on your income.

This means that they offer the same competitive interest rates and terms as standard 7 (a) loans.

What all of this means is that the Parkland gunman, in practical terms, had the same rifle firepower as an American grunt using a standard infantry rifle in the standard way.

A 2014 Standard & Poor's report found that «corporate issuers see green bonds as an alternative financing avenue, offering access to a diversified investor base, plus a means of implementing and maintaining efficiency measures considered environmentally sustainable.»

Virtual currencies, he argued, are valued as highly as they are because of the «oxygen provided by the connection to standard means of payments and trading apps that link users to conventional bank accounts.»

It's when they exceed two standard deviations that investors might want to consider a trade, as the asset could be ready to revert back to its mean.

They measure changes in analyst earnings forecast dispersion (standard deviation divided by mean) based on data from I / B / E / S as the difference between current dispersion and dispersion two months ago.

This means more people will take the standard deduction rather than itemize items such as mortgage interest, which CBRE said will significantly benefit renters in most of the country's largest markets and encourage renting over homeownership.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

Even if you're not able to enjoy the exact same standard of living in retirement as you had while you were working, there is one thing you can do to make retirement enjoyable: find meaning.

In addition to the standard promise to repay the loan (called a promissory note), the bank will also likely require that the business owners sign personal guarantees — meaning that you, as an individual, will be on the hook to pay back the loan even if the business fails.

(That's an overly - simplistic example meant for the sake of illustration; you'll also have other tax deductions such as your standard deduction, loan interest deductions, etc..)

And if you literally mean a flat tax with from the first dollar (which is * NOT * what most flat tax proposals are, by the way — they all include at least a significant standard deduction)-- one with no deductions & credits (not even home interest deductions or charitable deductions or college deductions, etc), then we may as well be discussing what type of pig would fly more efficiently.

Under PSAB accounting standards, such control means that these expenses should be included as part of budgetary transactions.

«Younger generations, especially Millennials, see flexible work options as standard operating procedure and this means a significant shift in the future of HR,» said Sutton Fell.

«Younger generations, especially millennials, see flexible work options as standard operating procedure and this means a significant shift in the future of HR,» said Sutton Fell.

As a reminder, the vast majority of brokers and insurance reps who sell securities products are held to a lower standard of care called «suitability,» which means their recommendations have to clear the low bar of what is suitable, though not necessarily in your best interest.

I can't imagine he's ignorant of the fact that «liberal» is a standard term in theology, and that «conservative,» while lacking the same pedigree, has an obvious theological meaning as well.

This meant that resolutions of synodical conventions, while no doubt offering useful direction and guidance, could not be binding and could not be used as a standard for assessing orthodoxy.

As for the standard of interpersonal relationship you suggest, I would offer in reply the idea that if one is incapable of making one's meaning reasonably plain without taking the steps you recommend then perhaps one should either spend a good deal more time reflecting prior to committing one's words to print or, failing that, consider a full withdrawal from the grind of blogging.

Pace Donald Sherburne's solution (viz. ditching God altogether, positing the multiplicity of actual entities as the only source of a plural «order, meaning and value»), one possible response might run as follows: in the primordial nature there are no general (fixed a priori) standards of value, there is only the capacity to offer «guidelines» relative to already individuated worlds, This, or something very like it, seems to be the solution implicitly adopted by Christian when he says of the primordial nature:

We were not meant to adopt the world of Luther's Reformation or the culture of the Great Awakening or even 1950s America as our standard for righteousness.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

Yet mere «sociality,» even with a conscience grounded in evolutionary imperatives, does not at all mean that nature has created a definite moral standard, such as natural law.

Did he mean to suggest that persons are responsible for bringing as much of the rest of nature as possible into conformity with this standard or was he thinking of a natural process apart from human effort?

This means that you are not — by the standards of humanity, according to the spectrum of what you could do in this life — «as» evil as Hitler.

«Standard» (originally meaning «banner»), nowadays means something that is accepted as a model, and by which other things are also oriented, i.e., a measure, criterion or norm.

In either case, confession of Jesus means recognition of his objective role as a disclosure of God's eschatological standard.

What would that standard mean in a war such as this?

Doubtless a significant temptation to sloth or «accidie» — as this vice was called in older days — is to be found in the frustration a man experiences when he has no clear sense of his duties and no specific standard by means of which to judge himself.

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

Certain standards are adopted as a means of assigning numerical value to observed events.

And it is precisely because we quest for meaning, and therefore establish values, rules and principles by which to live, that we then experience guilt as we violate our own self - imposed standards.