Sentences with phrase «at arbitrary levels»

«Capping credit card interest rates at arbitrary levels would harm the very people that it is meant to help by reducing choice in the marketplace and by rationing credit,» Campbell the crowd.

Not exact matches

This provides an arbitrary level of authority to the Minister which is, at best, concerning.

The only semi-compelling argument behind teams testing for pot is itself a rationalization — that the testing is simply an «intelligence test» to see if the player will follow (or successfully skirt) an arbitrary rule that has no bearing whatsoever on their ability to do their job at a high level.

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

The 400 ppm mark is of course somewhat arbitrary, and more important is the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere and the fact that levels this high haven't been present on Earth in likely about 3.5 million years, said Jason Smerdon, a climate researcher at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

I know this is incredibly arbitrary, solely depending on where your level of fitness and strength are at... but what are Onnit's recommendations for weight of kettle bell to start with?

I wonder if the pressure on US teachers to bring as many students as possible up to some sort of arbitrary «proficient» level on state assessments is exacerbating the problem at the top.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

Some of you might disagree, and look to get the absolute «most» out of your miles — but Milenomics isn't about setting an arbitrary level to redeem at.

If possible, I could see FPS players seeking out particular PvP MMO «generals» with which to align, looking at their play stats and learning their high - level tactics from a worm's eye perspective, while «generals» strive to adapt to the (unknown) reliability of arbitrary FPS players who are drawn to this sort of game experience.

Taken together with the way it locks off so much content until you hit arbitrary levels it feels bizarrely restrictive, forcing players into a grind - like trajectory that gradually dishes out tools that make gameplay more interesting, even as the deliberately limited combinations of rules, maps and modes chip away at the initially intoxicating sugar rush appeal.

But why set the arbitrary level at $ 75b?

The Supreme Court must decide two distinct questions — does FERC have jurisdiction to set rules for demand response at the wholesale level, and was the compensation set by FERC «arbitrary and capricious» as the D.C. Circuit ruled?

Aside from that being a somewhat arbitrary condition prone to subjective opinion, it does frustrate me sometimes that the things I'm interested in studying are either presented at the freshman university level or the PhD postgraduate level and beyond.

I get that the proposed Australian carbon tax goes half to some bumptious government programs and only half to the shareholders of CO2E, and is set at an absurdly low arbitrary level with no real plan for right - pricing this common asset, so is bound to satisfy no one.

I believe the IPCC plans all call for a black box solution where we develop a technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean to drive the CO2 levels or to at least slow the rise of CO2 and give us more time to make fundamental changes in the way we live to limit global warming to some arbitrary level.

Those whose societal injury is thought to exceed some arbitrary level of tolerability then would be entitled to preferential classifications at the expense of individuals belonging to other groups.

Google explained in the July Android security bulletin that BroadPwn could «execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel,» meaning that it could compromise a phone at the deepest level of software.