Sentences with phrase «become less the rule»

This exception, while still present, seems to have become less the rule even for electric utilities.

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That means employees who are currently exempt from overtime pay who earn less than this threshold will become nonexempt — employers will suddenly be required to pay overtime to over four million more employees within the first year of implementing the new rules.

While it is somewhat arbitrary, I use a rule of thumb that anything that involves a timeline of less than a year should be considered a tactic; anything longer than a year becomes a strategy.

«With people living longer, the 4 % rule has become a lot less safe than it used to be,» he says.

As Twitter changes the rules, they also risk becoming less of a cultural statement and more of a has been.

So - called bonus depreciation is set to expire this year, and rules (in Section 179 of the tax code) that allow small companies to take big deductions for many expenses are set to become much less generous.

With technology and social media ruling our lives, we are becoming less opportunistic in developing our listening skills, and less socially aware of its effect on business as a competitive advantage.

By the early 1960s, the 20 - year residence rule had been reduced to 10 years and regulations applying to the payment of Old Age Security pensions to people who were absent from the country had become less restrictive.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

While the Jewish community grew under British rule, Britain also became less than enthusiastic about a Jewish national home....

As the countries become relatively poorer and there is less of a surplus for the ruling classes, there is a tendency for them to resort to other forms of manipulation of the people.

But societies that successfully introduce non-religious cooperation - sustaining mechanisms like a rule of law, trustworthy police, less corruption tend to become more atheistic, another corroborating point of this theory.

Having effectively ruled out a move to the Chinese Super League after the FA Cup final on Saturday though, it's seemingly becoming a less likely option for the commanding forward, and that's where it becomes a tricky situation for Chelsea.

After running the rule over Roberto Soldado and Emmanuel Adebayor, it soon became clear to the Argentinian just how much of a waste it would be to do anything but play the younger, less experienced player who quickly proved himself to be irresistible, initially in Europe and then in the league.

It's also important to note that the survey took place in the 2014 - 15 school year, which means children have since had an additional year and half to become accustomed to the new rule; arguably, the more fruits and vegetables become the norm, the less likely kids are to spurn them.

Additionally, my rules and boundaries were becoming less clear.

Morever, somebody must justify how each new top level of the ruling hierarchy becomes progressively less democratic or accountable.

As a general rule, the use of military force to resolve territorial disputes that haven't arisen «imminently» (i.e. hours or days or weeks or maybe even a few months ago), is frowned upon, and the more less imminent the threat, the more problematic intervention becomes.

Erna Solberg, who is coming to the UK for the first since she became prime minister last year, said staying out of the EU but within the single market gave her country even less chance to set the rules.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

I do think that those traditional rules of whites with seafood and reds with meat are becoming less and less important.

In time, as the dress shirt has become less reserved for formal occasions or business wear; the rules of what to wear with a dress shirt have also become more relaxed.

In march the Japanese declare French rule at and end in Vietnam and Emperor Bao Dai proclaims «independence» in Once a lesser - known destination, Vietnam has become widely popular in recent years.

Incidentally, the movie becomes a memoir of the 1970s, a time at once more innocent and yet more daring, less fearful about breaking rules.

And school districts, concerned about the competition, are pushing their schools to become more like charters — moving toward rules that make it easier to release teachers and that pressure principals to staff their schools with younger, less expensive instructors.

It's amusing that the less necessary Publishers become the more rules they want to enforce and set --

If you spent 1 / 28th of your portfolio in the first year of retirement, you would be withdrawing 3.6 % of your portfolio's value, less than the 4 % withdrawal rate that has become a popular rule of thumb.

«What we've seen the last couple of times is those rules are becoming less and less effective,» she says.

Once these dogs are trained to learn the rules of the game though, they become more focused and less aroused.

And yes they Knows the rules, make less mess, Walks the walk, quickly become one of the family, and less destructive than the younger pets.

Being chronically late is bad for team morale, as associates who do follow the rules become resentful and less willing to help out, negatively affecting the customer experience.

With this new rule change by Hyatt, and while the Gold Passport program insists on only issuing the suite upgrades on 1 March and not upon renewal of status, Diamond Suite Upgrades will become a lot less useful for those planing spring / Easter vacations.

One of the most exciting and unique things about the xenosaga series is that you can look foward to seeing different character models with each new game because appearence of the characters change with each game, not because the characters have aged but for other reasons.There is one special thing that xenosaga episode three has that should have been in the other xenosaga games is the swimsuit mode because it allows you to watch movie scenes with the characters in there swimsuits but for some reason not all of the movie scenes in xenosaga 3 can be viewed in swimsuit mode, I guess it would have made the movie less serious or something.My favorite movie scenes in xenosaga are blue testament, white testament, KOSMOS verses Black Testament, any movie with Luis Virgil becaus ehe is my favorite character in the game because he's passionate and i don't think that he is a bad guy since he was able to brek free from being a testament and the only real reasons why he became a testament was because he wanted to be able to visit that old church on miltia and to gain power to prevent death.I also love Luis Virgil and all of the movie scenes that he appear in becaus they are very dramatic.The best thing about the xenosaga series is thst the story is very dee, interesting, and shocking and anyone who has played the game in order from episode one through three will definitely say the same thing.There is no doubt that anyone who has completed episode one and two will be stunned when every secret and mystery is unraveled in episode three.The one thing that I can't seem to under stand is why do some of the characters have to travel back to the earth in the end, will shion and the gang make it back to earth or will there descendants finish the mission and find earth in the end, Chaos and Nephilim told the group that the key to saving humanity lies on earth, what I want to know is what is it and how will it be used to save the universe, Even in the end new mysteries arose and remained unraveled.If there is any one outher who has has the awnswer to any of these questions please let me know when you write you're review or else there has just got to be a xenosaga four on the way, (crying) they just can't leave the story end this way.The only thing that dissapointed me about the game at first was the battle system because on the back of the case of xenosaga three said that the best aspect of the previous battles systems from episode one were combined to form a new battle system, If namco had really done this Xenosaga episode three would have had a better battle system in my opinion because I belive that the best aspect of xenosaga episode one were the special atacks wich are better than the those of episode three and the best aspect of episode three as the break system wich was also better than those of episode three.I think that namco should have given xenosaga episode 3 the battle system of episode 2 combined episode ones style of special attack, but doing this would have probably made the battle system of xenosaga episode three boring because the same old tactics would have to be used in a new game and the battle system most likely would not be as realistic as it is but it would probably be cooler.However the ability to summon all four Erde Kaisers including the new Erde Kasier Sgma my most favorite summon in the world at will and use new Ether and Tech attacks along with the new Counter and Revenge abilities gave xenosaaga episode three more than boost that it needed to have an descent battle systemThe E.S battle system of xenosaga episode 3 is way more better than those of episod one and two though, I must say that Namco really outdid themselves with the E.S battle system of xenosaga episode because the other E.S battle system from the two previos games weren't good, luckily they made up for it with the character battle system.In episode one I never really wanted to use anA.G.W.S, lucky for me they were optional but in episode two sadly it is manatory that you pilot an E.S to progress in the game in Episode three you piloting an E.S is also mandatory to progress in the game but the difference between the three episode is that will be sorry in episode three you will ge glad that you are using an E.S because their battle system is extremely cool.Xenosaga is most definitely one of the besrt RPG games in the world andit is far more better than any final fantasy game that Square Enix has ever made but for some reason it still score lower than Some Final Fantasy and other Sqare Enix games on this site.I bet that if xenosaga was actually named Final Fantasy and had a subtitle it and if it wre made by sqare Enix it would have probably been more famous and it would have scored higher even though it is still the same gameIn the end with every thing being written said and done all i can say is that I feel more at peace now that I have defended this underated game.All I have to say now is that TURN BASED GAMES RULE!

Rules about the CDM and its reform remain to be negotiated, so that unless future Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings give the CDM a longer lease on life, it is likely to become a less attractive trade option for investors.

Gradually, oral discussions became less important than written documents, until finally the parol evidence rule largely prohibited the introduction of evidence of oral discussions regarding the content of a legal agreement.

Ultimately, there may be negative externalities with strict rules and enforcement being made to reduce net migration, with a risk the UK becomes less attractive for foreign students or foreign employers.

The thumb rule to every asset is, the more available it is, the less valuable it becomes.

If these rulings stand, district courts may become much less likely to apply Alice early in litigation.

The one - page, two - page or multi-page rule has become less hard and fast and really is dependent on the person's background and industry.

Additionally, my rules and boundaries were becoming less clear.

As relations between you become less tense, it's possible to relax these rules.

You seem to imagine that the majority of the legal profession is in abject opposition to that which it was collectively / religiously trained to avoid... degradation of the rule of law at the hands / minds of rogues who would not go through the rigourous requirements to become lawyers or judges in the first place if they could screw people in a much easier, less up - front expensive and mentally taxing manner over a fairly long period of time (when budding lawyers are young and could be having more fun making money making than studying and articling for peanuts into their late twenties).

Alba says commercial loan processing is becoming less flexible as a result of the rules.

With recently MLS rulings of allowing more competition in; you can bet listing on the service will become less and less expensive.

Capital and mortgage financing rules being drafted in Washington and elsewhere raise the possibility that the United States will become increasingly split between affluent home owners and less affluent renters, because lenders will be constrained to stay within tight mortgage underwriting rules that many households won't be able to penetrate.