Sentences with phrase «average limit on»

When workers in the private sector are facing pay restraint, a 1 % average limit on annual increases is necessary to minimise public sector job losses.

For example, under the Basin Plan, the Basin - wide long - term average limit on surface water use is 10,873 GL (billion litres) per year.

Not exact matches

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

But this time, the ripples aren't getting beyond city limits, even though in Vancouver prices for single - family homes rose 11 % over the past year and now average around $ 2 million on the city's west side.

After a summer of low gas prices, the price at the pump looks set to soar above $ 2.50 on average for the Labor Day holiday, as supplies of products and low pipeline traffic limit access.

The average perceived likelihood of a credit application being rejected, conditional on applying, increased for credit cards and credit card limit increases but decreased for mortgages and mortgage refinance applications.

As China's economy rebalances over the coming decade, average growth of 3 - 4 percent is likely to be the upper limit on what Beijing can achieve.

For instance, we could grow our way out of our debt problem if we grow our GDP by 7 % per year for the next 10 years while keeping the average interest rate on our debt below 3 % and limiting inflation to 2 %.

Pre-opening trading saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average down the maximum limit of 550 points (largely on foreign selling) before bounding back to lose «only» 312 points as the dollar soared against European currencies.

A year and a half on from OPEC's original deal to limit output, the surplus oil stashed in storage tanks around the world are nearly back to average levels.

The average uneducated dolt stands up on its hind legs and spews venom at «socialists», labeling progressive attempts to limit pollution as top down intellectual dominance of their tiny minds, and by golly nobody is going to tell them how to behave or think!

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

Appointments can last longer — 30 minutes or more on average — because instead of seeing 3,000 to 4,000 patients, concierge doctors usually limit their practices to a few hundred.

The disadvantages associated with these lots are higher - than - average interest rates, a limited selection of vehicles to choose from and possibly having to make payments on a weekly or biweekly basis.

Researches found that most of the ISIS accounts had, on average, 300 - 400 followers, but their interactions were mostly limited to people within their same circle and not potential new recruits.

The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the theory.

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

Instead the SDLs represent limits on average water diversions over the long - term.

(3) The copy must be given together with the Authority's advice to the Murray ‑ Darling Basin Ministerial Council on the likely socio ‑ economic implications of any reductions in the long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limits proposed in the proposed Basin Plan.

I really do feel for AW he knows that Giroud's goalscoring abilities are very limited this puts him in a very tricky situation to either go for another average striker and hope he can complement Giroud or jump into the pool (falcao, cavani and Co) and fight to spend bigtime big on either of them

John Wall is averaging 26 points per game for the Wizards in the series, but Toronto has done a good job in limiting Bradley Beal to 14 points per game on 39 percent shooting.

That limited their ability to put consistent pressure on Manning, who averaged around 2.5 seconds per throw.

The 10 - vote limit was a hindrance for many, to the point the BBWAA voted to increase it to 12 in the future, but the average voter used just 8.4 spots on their ballot: there are still a whole lot of voters out there who don't see an obvious backlog even as it repeatedly hits them over the head.

But now what we do have is a core of young players, the average age squad on a matchday is 25, who are very talented but with limited experiences.

If your child is getting below - average grades in school, yells when you ask him to do homework, seldom comes home on time and has lied about where he was, or has even become verbally abusive or intimidating when you tried to give him a consequence, he is going to need more limits and checking - up on to ensure his safety.

On average though, the johnny jumper weight limit is around 5 - 25 pounds.

Limit alcohol use to one drink or less a day on average.

This may be due to the fact that the mother's milk takes a longer than average time to «come in», or because hospital routines limit breastfeeding or because, most importantly, the baby is poorly latched on and thus not getting the milk which is available.

For a limited time if you order from keenz.us the cooler and cup holder are free with the wagon, but delivery time on average is 5 - 6 business days.

The average weight limit on baby swings is 20 - 30 pounds, but each model of baby swing will have its individual weight limit specified on the packaging or in the user's manual.

Moreover, even under a very stressed scenario — in which Spain is forced to finance the $ 200 - 220 billion it needs from today until early 2014 at yields of 8 - 9 per cent — the effect on the average interest rate of the total outstanding debt would be limited, rising from the current 4.1 per cent to about 5 per cent.

But the exclusion is a carefully limited one, effectively raising the cap by an average of 1 to 1.5 percentage points (depending on how high pension costs spike in the next few years).

The programs costs, on average, about $ 17,000 per child per year — significantly cheaper than the nearly $ 300,000 the state spends to house a child in a limited - security prison, the mayor has said.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Teachout, who has made limiting the influence of money on politics a core campaign issue, has said that she was focused on grassroots fundraising efforts, with contributions averaging just $ 19.

A statewide public financing system to elevate average New Yorkers» voices in our elections, buttressed by other comprehensive reforms — like lower limits on how much one person can contribute to a political candidate (now at an outrageous $ 60,800 for statewide candidates per election cycle) and strong independent enforcement of campaign finance laws — will reduce the power of big money special interests.

Maffei said it's one reason why he is supporting the two bills that would put dollar limits on donations, provide public financing of campaigns and amplify the impact of grassroots donations from average citizens.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

The message on the sign was not informed by any particular behavioural theory, and the researchers found it had limited impact, with only about 20 per cent of motorists routinely switching off their ignition while waiting for an average of two minutes.

On Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.&raquOn Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.&raquon Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

The researchers collaborating on the report are still gathering data to set limits averaged across 24 hours.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

But the different tariff plans, limited - time promotional rates and other products on offer can be confusing to the average consumer.

Many scientists believe that average human life span has an inherent upper limit, although they don't agree on whether it's 85 or 100 or 150.

He said that lifestyle modifications such as healthy eating, physical activity and behavioral modifications during pregnancy have had limited benefits on improving adverse perinatal outcomes, with the exception of reducing excessive gestational weight gain, on the average of two to five pounds in obese women.

Over a three - year period, Charles Santerre of Purdue University and his colleagues tested metal levels in catfish, trout and crawfish grown in aquaculture facilities across the southern U.S. Levels of mercury in these fish measured on average 40 to 100 times lower than the one - part - per - million limit set by the Food and Drug Administration.

Mrs. Walters sent us samples from her home, and we found lead levels that on average contained over 2,000 parts per billion (ppb) of lead — more than 130 times the EPA's maximum allowable limit of 15 ppb.

Published in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the study shows that, on average, the percentage increase in prices is 4 - 4.5 times higher when entry - limiting deals are made and a generic is not available in the market, compared to when the generic is available but the branded and generic firms jointly set their profit - maximizing price.

Using occupancy modeling to control for variation in detectability, we show substantial (∼ 500 meters on average) upward changes in elevational limits for half of 28 species monitored, consistent with the observed ∼ 3 °C increase in minimum temperatures.