Sentences with phrase «be fair to characterize»

I think it would be fair to characterize your response as an emotional one, What.

It would be fair to characterize Rockefeller as a moderate — or «Rocky» — Republican.

The authors write, «Viewed from a long - run perspective, it may be fair to characterize the real safe rate as normally fluctuating around the levels that we see today, so that today's level is not so unusual.

* SPY is below its 200 - day moving average, so it is fair to characterize this advance as a «rally in a bear market» (no prediction here, just noting that bear market rallies have a way of reversing quickly and painfully);

Also, the Assad regime has received some support in the Syrian Civil War from Iran, so it is fair to characterize Iran and the Assad regime as allies.

Between the self - congratulatory eight - minute video, the radio ad and several radio interviews, I think it's fair to characterize what Gov. Andrew Cuomo is engaged in at the moment as a full - court press to convince New Yorkers that the 2 percent property tax cap he championed and successfully pushed through the Legislature has been a smashing success.

That's within the normal range for postprandial response, so I'm not sure it's fair to characterize that as a spike.

And I think it's fair to characterize him as a lawyer's lawyer that will share some very interesting personal anecdotes about his life journey and what maintaining really high standards of personal and professional integrity look like.

Not exact matches

Democratic capitalism is characterized by a functioning, representative government — that is, it is governed by individuals who are chosen by the populace in free and fair elections and who are then able to freely legislate and enforce such laws and rules as they deem proper.

I think it's important to point that out, as it is not fair to characterize all of us in the Seventh - day Adventist Church by those who are in the fringes.

So uncontrolled is his scorn, that he is entirely unable to characterize their view in anything even resembling a fair way.

I don't think it is quite fair to characterize Ronnei's reply as «business as usual.»

But while the voting process itself has been described as fair by most international observers, the political campaign and the actual counting of the votes — no doubt the most important part of the democratic election process — has been characterized by the abuse of power, the excessive role of money, extraordinary events such as power cuts in the polling stations, fights between party representatives, accusations of fraud and scandals in denying observers access to polling stations.

Campaign Finance Reform Can Help Crack Down on Corruption A 2011 report by the Center for Competitive Politics has been seized upon by opponents of Fair Elections to argue that the public financing system in New York City is characterized by consistent abuse of public funds and corruption.

De Blasio characterized as «fair» a reporter's description of the program's provisions for violent felons as «to be announced.»

Figuring out how to characterize this variation is likely to be a major research area going forward, Fair said, and may lead to more individualized therapies.

Emil: It is not fair to characterize TDW's move as an empty marketing campaign.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Fair Isaac Company (creators of the FICO score) anticipated that around one - third of unscorable credit card applicants could be properly characterized using the FICO XD score.

Condo has been characterized by some as a more affordable, and durational, alternative to art fairs.

Artissima has always been characterized by its dual cultural and commercial vocation, so it is only fitting that the other new element for 2014 involves the part of the fair concerned with planning a cultural programme to accompany the market - based offering.

Focusing on the burgeoning contemporary art movement characterized by its subversive and innovative spirit, the fair is dedicated to spotlighting emerging and established talent.

Bills are rarely only about what they seem to be about and even if they were, the issues are usually complex enough that characterizing legislators by a yes or no vote is really not fair.

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

In holding that fair dealing is not simply a technical defence to infringement, but is more propery understood as an integral part of the act, the court characterized fair dealing as a user's right which, in order to maintain the proper balance between the rights of a copyright owner and users» interests, must not be interpreted restrictively.

(Although, come to think of it, since all of that characterizes normal life for us, perhaps it would be fair to say we're settling into normal life as a family of four.)