Sentences with phrase «at an acceptable level of»

If you can get by at an acceptable level of comfort without the stresses of work, won't more people be tempted to forgo hard work and content themselves with living off the government instead?

The predominance of low - intensity, long - duration training, in combination with fewer, highly intensive bouts may be complementary in terms of optimizing adaptive signaling and technical mastery at an acceptable level of stress.»

The firms will be evaluated on their performance, after fees, against the portfolio benchmark (Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index) over a full market cycle of highs and lows at an acceptable level of risk.

Your mix of investments should be based on reasonable returns over your desired timeframe and at an acceptable level of risk.

Smarter devices, faster connections, and bigger, sharper screens mean that marketers everywhere can now embrace video, safe in the knowledge that the majority of their audiences can now stream video at an acceptable level of quality.

Not exact matches

Conversely, if that same department finds itself functioning at an acceptable level, you can afford to bring in someone with a broader scope of abilities.

These risks and uncertainties include competition and other economic conditions including fragmentation of the media landscape and competition from other media alternatives; changes in advertising demand, circulation levels and audience shares; the Company's ability to develop and grow its online businesses; the Company's reliance on revenue from printing and distributing third - party publications; changes in newsprint prices; macroeconomic trends and conditions; the Company's ability to adapt to technological changes; the Company's ability to realize benefits or synergies from acquisitions or divestitures or to operate its businesses effectively following acquisitions or divestitures; the Company's success in implementing expense mitigation efforts; the Company's reliance on third - party vendors for various services; adverse results from litigation, governmental investigations or tax - related proceedings or audits; the Company's ability to attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to satisfy pension and other postretirement employee benefit obligations; changes in accounting standards; the effect of labor strikes, lockouts and labor negotiations; regulatory and judicial rulings; the Company's indebtedness and ability to comply with debt covenants applicable to its debt facilities; the Company's ability to satisfy future capital and liquidity requirements; the Company's ability to access the credit and capital markets at the times and in the amounts needed and on acceptable terms; and other events beyond the Company's control that may result in unexpected adverse operating results.

The 40 % rule essentially locks in an acceptable level of regret, while at the same time eliminating the possibility of unacceptable regret.

As a general rule, countries attempt to keep inflation fixed at a rate of 2 percent as moderate levels of inflation are acceptable, with high levels of deflation leading to economic stagnation.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

Greed has been accepted at all levels of society and the portrayal of cruelty is considered an acceptable form of entertainment.

On the other hand, there is capitalism which, in its practical aspect, at the level of its basic principles, would be acceptable from the point of view of the Church's social teaching, since in various ways it is in conformity with the natural law....

If cosmology and evolution are too full of holes to be acceptable, then surely the superior explanation of «divine orchestration» should be understood in at least same the level of detail as natural processes.

For me, it has always been a means of surviving whatever rubbish life has thrown at me and has lifted to an acceptable level, even quite severe depression.

While such simplifying assumptions were deemed acceptable in the past, they can no longer be regarded as a correct reflection of the underlying dynamics of any realistic natural system.12 Above all, we have shown the contingent (or probabilistic) nature of all dynamically evolving systems at both the microscopic (atomic and sub-atomic) and macroscopic (terrestrial) levels.

A third option is to detach itself from its own heritage in part, acknowledging that this heritage absolutizes itself in a way that is not acceptable in a pluralistic world, and then to operate at two levels — one, of acceptance of the heritage, the other, of relativizing it.

But if we decide that it is acceptable to treat humans worse than we treat animals, it should not surprise us if many people at the grassroots level decide that as along as they have to die like a dog, they would rather not suffer the fate of an abandoned stray.

I have some nuts soaking now, and will be trying almond, cashew, and pecan milks later... I am making extremely diluted versions though (6 nuts per cup of water, in order to keep the calories at an acceptable level....

While pressure is on the club to win titles / cups, i think he should have talked about the pressure on himself, i feel the main reason Walcott is not performing at an ACCEPTABLE LEVEL is the fear of getting injured.

This will apply at all levels of the game from 3 January 2017 introducing minimum on - field sanctions for reckless and accidental contact with the head, effectively lowering the acceptable height of the tackle.The guideline will be supported with a global education programme.

A number of our players do not look to be at acceptable fitness levels and some visually look to be carrying too much weight (notably Ayew and Payet).

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Not one can have a rear facing car seat without significant stuff beinf put under back portion of any seat that we have tried to make it at the acceptable level.

CHICAGO — All swimming bans were lifted early Wednesday afternoon at Chicago beaches after test results showed acceptable levels of E. coli bacteria in the water, said Chicago Park District spokesman Julian Green.

Many folk would deem it an acceptable level of risk to take, though they might, at least, think twice if death was a consequence.

Suffolk County Health Department officials testing water from private wells near East Hampton Airport have found levels of chemicals at one residence above the Environmental Protection Agency's acceptable level for lifetime exposure.

He asks if the RBS demand for being able to give bonuses at double the level of income is acceptable.

That should guide decisions as to the levels of acceptable risk, he says, so that the research can proceed «safely, and in a way that does not put the world at potential risk».

«We need to come to terms with what an acceptable level of risk is when it comes to terrorism,» says William Banks of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University.

At a 13 June event at AAAS headquarters in Washington D.C., experts described examples of harmful drugs and devices that had reached the market and suggested that the bar to public safety has dropped below an acceptable leveAt a 13 June event at AAAS headquarters in Washington D.C., experts described examples of harmful drugs and devices that had reached the market and suggested that the bar to public safety has dropped below an acceptable leveat AAAS headquarters in Washington D.C., experts described examples of harmful drugs and devices that had reached the market and suggested that the bar to public safety has dropped below an acceptable level.

Donald Fabian expresses confusion at changes over time to the levels of blood cholesterol considered acceptable, and the link between...

«Since we get most of our precipitation from October to May, we really need the melting snow in the dry summer months to keep streamflows at acceptable levels for fish, water supply, recreation.»

A conclusion from the study was that doing unilateral exercises helps a person in fast recovery after the workout and the risk of injuries is at an acceptable low level.

Kresser rebutted the attack at the time, arguing that the levels of lead found in bone broth were lower than what the EPA deems acceptable in tap water.

As you can see from the data graph below, THC metabolite levels go down much more slowly using the expensive detox kit (priced at $ 125) and failed to reach acceptable levels (below 10g / ml) even after the end of the experiment 65 hrs after detox began,

In addition, total testosterone levels may be at an acceptable level, but free testosterone could be low; leading to symptoms of low T.

Almost 2/3 of singles believe it is at least somewhat acceptable to see more than one person at a time, although their comfort levels vary.

Commitment in a relationship has to be a pathway that is mutually acceptable to both of you and at levels that you can both honour and fulfill.

Dead Rising 4 is the best Dead Rising has ever operated and the worst at maintaining an acceptable level of personal engagement.

When school policy presents «clear expectations about the range of acceptable quality in the delivered curriculum, a broader range of students learn at higher levels.»

One of the pillars of the Florida accountability reforms has been the policy, introduced in 2003, of not promoting 3rd graders unless they perform at a minimally acceptable level on the reading portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

While it is a worthwhile goal to train preservice teachers as «savvy consumers of technology,» teachers are rarely in positions of authority to make purchasing decisions and are often limited by acceptable use policies set at the district level, including filters and insufficient technology support and maintenance or access to computer labs.

By ruling that the state is currently providing sufficient levels of funding to meet its obligation to «make suitable provisions for a general diffusion of knowledge,» the court has put its stamp of approval on low expectations such that schools where half of the students are failing state assessments are considered to be performing at acceptable levels.

The legislation allows entire school districts with at least an acceptable accountability rating to decide, via their district - level site - based decision - making committees and the school board, to be exempt from major provisions of the Education Code, including teacher rights and benefits, student discipline laws, parent rights and more.

(3) If one views middle level education as anti-tracking and anti-ability grouping, then how is grouping at the middle of the pyramid ever acceptable?

At primary level, the definition will apply to those schools who have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving an acceptable secondary - ready standard in reading, writing and maths over the course of 3 years, and who have seen insufficient pupil progress.

And a test of a drinking fountain near the gym at San Marcos Middle School had «higher than acceptable» levels of lead, the district revealed in early March.

In 2014 and 2015 that level will be set at 60 % of pupils achieving 5 good GCSEs or an above - average proportion of pupils making acceptable progress.

Sorting through all these apples and oranges is essential if we want to focus our attention on the true set of charter high schools that are not performing at acceptable levels — those that should face stiff questioning at renewal time.