Sentences with phrase «believes means testing»

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Founder Cheryl Ng has long believed in building markets incrementally, placing modest quantities with international distributors as a means of testing consumer acceptance without risking a lot of capital on large production runs.

Means - testing will affect certain people who will have believed (rightly to some extent) that they are due their benefits after a lifetime of paying full FICA.

because you know alcoholics and are a Christian / scientist you believe that life is a test of something you can not prove to begin with but something is being submitted... you mean someone is still grading my homework!!?? Crap.

What I do believe is that we need to really know Jesus to know God — Although text meaning can change Jesus who is the word of God — His personality doesn't change...... so when you read behind the text and see the personality of Jesus — you get to know Him for who He is and then I can test anything the bible or text say against His character for truth!

Just because radiocarbon dating has flaws does not mean the dozen other methods for dating objects are automatically bogus which is why the scientific community believes the 4.5 billion year age of the earth, it's because they did not use just a single method of testing to estimate that age, they used several different methods which all confirmed the same approximate age.

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future.

I guess if you are going to believe in an all knowing, all powerful sky daddy, reading an old compilation of 60 different books from 40 different authors put together by a group of supposedly reformed pagans 1600 years ago would just be putting your faith to the test, I mean a person with faith needs no proof.

Field believed in mutual organisations such as friendly societies; he thought the state should only play a small role in the provision of welfare; and he disliked means - testing and non-contributory entitlement to benefits.

He and his wife chose to opt out their fifth grade son from taking the Common Core - aligned exams this year because they believe the tests were used for other purposes than what they were meant for, such as teacher evaluations and school funding.

Most controversially of all, if the government believes that working families should keep more of their earnings (to spend more effectively than government can) then why means - test child benefit - the only remaining recognition in the tax system of the cost of raising a family - in order to preserve free bus rides and winter fuel payments to well - off over 60s?

The tree also provides a baseline to test whether diurnal, or daytime, activity, a common butterfly trait, evolved much earlier than scientists previously believed, possibly at a time when bats» spread across the planet, as a means of escaping these and other nocturnal predators, Kawahara said.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

The first step was when she noticed several papers that contained a mistake in a DNA construct which, she believed, meant the papers were not testing the gene in question, associated with multiple cancer types.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

Don't lead students to believe that contributing to curriculum decisions means that they will have sole power over every assignment, test, and project.

«I believe that the state has a tremendous amount to say about what these tests mean to individual students, schools and districts,» Bernal said.

As any practicing teacher knows, assessment means much more than a one - time multiple - choice test, despite what the media and government seem to believe.

They take the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015, to mean their child must be prepared to succeed by being offered the same opportunities to take high - stakes tests like all the other students, and they believe that should include few or no test alterations.

But now that I am in high school, my peers accept my differences, and I accept theirs, because what it truly means to be «gifted» is not something that can be measured with standardized tests, as the school system naively believes.

I don't Miss Rhee is just looking to improve test scores because that by itself does not mean much I believe her focus is improving performance at all levels and rewarding performance accordingly.

Meaning, within hours of each other, Education Secretary Duncan said the President believes that «No teacher should have to teach to the test,» while the Governor of Connecticut, who said he has no problems with teaching to the test as long as the scores go up, is named chair of the committee developing education policy for governors and their states.

We believe that standardized tests provide part of the picture in determining student achievements, but students must have the time to experiment, make mistakes, and develop their own deep understanding, even if this means it takes them longer to pass a test.

Getting this myth «believed» meant new opportunities to turn tax dollars into profits — profits from, for example, paying a few teachers more and many teachers less; profits from designing standardized tests; profits from renting school facilities; profits from managing schools; profits from data management systems and test - scoring systems; and profits from selling software platforms and computing devices.

Motor Trend believes the absence doesn't mean that Chevy doesn't consider the Viper a worthy opponent but that it probably just couldn't obtain a Viper to test.

We could not believe it but tests on other mean reversion strategies showed the same thing.

Many consumer advocates believe that the Brunner test sets too high a bar and means that most student loan borrowers don't qualify for relief.

International Cat Care believe that wherever registers of gene tests in cats are kept, these should always be linked to a means of permanently and readily identifying the tested cat - ie, an internationally recognised microchip identifying number.

The consequence of this mislabelling of FCoV tests is that a veterinarian inexperienced in diagnosing FIP may believe that a positive result to one of these tests means that the cat has FIP, when, in fact, the test is simply detecting either the coronavirus or antibodies to the virus — not the disease!

Starting with James Lord's observations of Giacometti's intense process, a process that ended in abandonment, Rubinstein tests the theory of «provisional painting,» asking: «What does it mean to believe that in order to create a work of art one must entertain the «permanent possibility» of abandoning and to believe that something called «freedom» inheres in this situation?»

Do you actually believe sonar testing will mean no fish in the sea?

I don't mean the sort of respect that is old fashioned «teaching by authority», where you accept and memorize everything I say because I'm the teacher and I said so; I actually tell my students not to believe what I way just because I'm the teacher, to challenge it, to test it, and then when it makes sense or corresponds to their experiences in the labs (which at least spot check the concepts, although such checks can not be exhaustive) accept it and build a strong conceptual understanding.

Scientists believe that the missing signal means that this Tibetan ice field has been shrinking at least since the A-bomb test half a century ago.

I believe that CREA wants to extract as much leeway / leverage for future operational decisions from the Bureau / Ms Aitken as possible prior to a Tribunal hearing (to leave at least one hand not tied its» corporate back), and thereafter, if need be, to test it's philosophy of what constitutes the meaning of «free enterprise» in the Tribunal's mind.

I would find it hard to believe that a lawyer actually said any of those things.To infer that landlord who doesn't post criteria means we take anyone who walks of the street without checking credit, etc., doesn't pass the reasonable person test.

The Bureau has considered the Small Business Review Panel's recommendation and believes, based on several rounds of consumer testing, that consumers understand the disclosure in proposed § 1026.38 (s) to mean that they are not obligated to complete the loan transaction just because they signed the Closing Disclosure.