Sentences with phrase «best value argument»

If you spend the best part of your time talking about how much you charge, then that is your best value argument, by your own admission!

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It's a good argument for shareholder value.
Buffett has also wielded the bubble argument against Bitcoin, as well as stating that BTC can not be valued because «it's not a value - producing asset.»
I can't say I understand the Z of Z theory, or the theoretical approach you are taking, but I'm interested — as one who values argument (from arg — to shine, build up a shared «shine» — initially argument had positive connotation) I am impressed by the gap separating the «good» that we know and can say, and yet are unable to practice.
He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The theoretical roots of these studies tap directly into Weberian arguments, but the studies provide insights about religion and ideology that should be of value well beyond the Weberian school itself.
These conclusions suggest that the «public square» has never been — and can never be — denuded of values, despite the best efforts of some groups to promote the historically false argument that American society is based on a strict separation of faith and public life.
At best my argument has shown that certain problems can be solved while accepting perception more nearly at face value than Whitehead did in his later theory.
Fundamental to this task is the search for an objective ground for value claims — a well - reasoned argument for external standards which resists the ever - present tendency to reduce ethics to the subjective whims and passions of personal self - interest.
In Minority Party, Scripps Howard newspaperman Peter Brown cites the Sumas to support his argument that the Democrats simply abandoned the middle class, the values as well as the people.
It was the basis of his argument for eloquent sermons as a counter-force to the malevolent uses of rhetoric: «While the faculty of eloquence, which is of great value in urging either evil or justice, is in itself indifferent, why should it not be obtained for the uses of the good in the service of truth if the evil usurp it for the winning of the perverse and vain causes in defense in iniquity and error?»
You can certainly make an argument that there are better values out there.
If i recall exactly we had a whole argument over the valuation of Sterling, you refuted on numerous ocassions when i stated that Sterling would cost more than 35 million the point i made over 2 months ago and still make now and im sure most fans would agree is not that gnabry is better its just he is promising talent, and for the value City paid for Raheem (which is almost criminal considering Di Maria, cost PSG less) it would have been better to see Gnabry given a run out or sign someone actually worth 50 million
Julian Glover's assumption that senior Tories might well benefit from improved clarity as to their intentions might result in an ideological war that Labour may think it can capitalise on (by taking the Coalition's necessity argument at face value, Labour will be able to uphold the seemingly reasonable position - that there are no social democratic ends by stateless means.)
This would seem to preempt your questions by answering the precise nature of the values espoused and defer arguments about the best means for advancing these values.
We believe that there are big political arguments to be had between the left and the right of politics, and the left has every reason to be confident about our values and ideas, which have done much to change Britain for the better over the last century and which are in the ascendancy internationally after three decades in which anti-government arguments have often dominated.
«There are other arguments regarding the value of biodiversity, but these are a good initial two to ponder.»
We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.
Cognitive psychologists tell us that we deal better with discrete entities and integers, but the world (and particularly the world of probability) is more continuous... my soapbox argument against limiting discussion to values that are «convenient».
Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an argument to be made for dramatizing the story with expensive production values and well - known actors portraying the characters.
Here we are engaged in the the argument of whether an expensive price makes for better art, or whether the value of art is intrinsic irrespective of it's monetary value.
In our recent article for Education Next, «Choosing the Right Growth Measure,» we laid out an argument for why we believe a proportional growth measure that levels the playing field between advantaged and disadvantaged schools (represented in the article by a two - step value - added model) is the best choice for use in state and district accountability systems.
Included in the PowerPoint: Macroeconomic Objectives (AS Level) a) Aggregate Demand (AD) and Aggregate Supply (AS) analysis - the shape and determinants of AD and AS curves; AD = C+I+G + (X-M)- the distinction between a movement along and a shift in AD and AS - the interaction of AD and AS and the determination of the level of output, prices and employment b) Inflation - the definition of inflation; degrees of inflation and the measurement of inflation; deflation and disinflation - the distinction between money values and real data - the cause of inflation (cost - push and demand - pull inflation)- the consequences of inflation c) Balance of payments - the components of the balance of payments accounts (using the IMF / OECD definition): current account; capital and financial account; balancing item - meaning of balance of payments equilibrium and disequilibrium - causes of balance of payments disequilibrium in each component of the accounts - consequences of balance of payments disequilibrium on domestic and external economy d) Exchange rates - definitions and measurement of exchange rates - nominal, real, trade - weighted exchange rates - the determination of exchange rates - floating, fixed, managed float - the factors underlying changes in exchange rates - the effects of changing exchange rates on the domestic and external economy using AD, Marshall - Lerner and J curve analysis - depreciation / appreciation - devaluation / revaluation e) The Terms of Trade - the measurement of the terms of trade - causes of the changes in the terms of trade - the impact of changes in the terms of trade f) Principles of Absolute and comparative advantage - the distinction between absolute and comparative advantage - free trade area, customs union, monetary union, full economic union - trade creation and trade diversion - the benefits of free trade, including the trading possibility curve g) Protectionism - the meaning of protectionism in the context of international trade - different methods of protection and their impact, for example, tariffs, import duties and quotas, export subsidies, embargoes, voluntary export restraints (VERs) and excessive administrative burdens («red tape»)- the arguments in favor of protectionism This PowerPoint is best used when using worksheets and activities to help reinforce the ideas talked about.
That skill, says Georgetown professor William T. Gormley, consists of three elements: a capacity to spot weakness in other arguments, a passion for good evidence, and a capacity to reflect on your own views and values with an eye to possibly change them.
Whilst we can never know for sure, there is certainly an argument that the «games» played by some schools such as using continual resits, sitting exams from more than one board or entering students for meaningless low value qualifications that did not «build the individual» or «contribute to the welfare of society by providing well rounded educated people to enter the workplace» have contributed to someone upon high saying «Enough»!
At least in some cases, and especially in the instance of Sir Dan Moynihan of Harris - with its unblemished record of good or outstanding Ofsted reports and its at - face - value impressive performance in league tables - the argument can go along the lines of «they're worth it».
In this case, the argument is that value - added estimates can and should be used to make decisions about where to position high value - added teachers so that they might have greater effects, as well as greater potentials to «add» more «value» to student learning and achievement over time.
This argument claims competition ensures unions «keep on their toes» — providing a good service and offering value for money.
You would be better off getting a hold of either a Sport, Willys Wheeler, or Rubicon as the value argument works for them.
This is, in fact, the best argument for the Outlander: its combination of ruggedness and value.
Between its seating capacity and fuel economy the Pathfinder makes a good argument for its value.
As much as there might be an argument to include a cheapie like the Nissan Versa Note in this list of 10 best value hatchbacks, a low price of admission doesn't necessarily translate into a good deal.
Still Ford has an argument that the F - 150 is the better value.
A good beast was prized and the arguments over its value could last from early morning sunrise to dusk when the market closed.
This might be good for an extremely small demographic that might use this software, but this adds to the argument that RIM is losing sight of its core business values and is spread out to thin trying to compete against the iPad.
Valuations are high, and a statistical argument can be made that it is better to stay on the sidelines for a time and then return to stocks when they offer a stronger long - term value proposition.
Dirk Cotton gives a good argument that this is not the case because duration measures the expected change in value for only very small changes in interest rates.
If you are planning to keep the stock after you exercise, you could still apply the same argument: Assuming there is some time value, you'd be better off selling the call and then buying the stock at its current price than you would by exercising.
The argument states that Term Life is the best value.
A lot of people think bonds are safer than stocks but Nick Murray in Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth makes a very good argument that bonds are actually more risky — the risk being that inflation will eat up portfolio value and you are more likely to outlive your investments.
It's too easy on a messageboard to be distracted by debates and arguments that have little value, better to set the agenda and as you say invite criticism of your investment case.
Thus, goes the argument, price - to - book value gives a more reliable picture of a company's usual business performance, which in turn leads to better investment performance.
Moreover, something that gets lost in the arguments about credit quality is that the second - best predictor of mortgage default was how much skin in the game these buyers had, and even if Canada is not as risky as the US on lending to people with poor credit scores, we are awash in high loan - to - value lending (with its explicit government backing).
However, what's good value for money and what isn't is a whole separate argument, and I'm here to review the machine, not figure out market potential, what you might want from a computer or console and what you should be spending on it.
A text that is almost entirely, rather than only momentarily, diagnostic in orientation is Barbara Rose's excellent, and unfortunately little remembered, «The Value of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incideValue of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidevalue and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidental.
Cognitive psychologists tell us that we deal better with discrete entities and integers, but the world (and particularly the world of probability) is more continuous... my soapbox argument against limiting discussion to values that are «convenient».
There may be good arguments for very low discount rates but that's of little value as it's totally impossible to estimate the sums to discounted far in the future.
If you don't want to live near a road, power station or wind farm, surely that's as good a reason as you need to challenge the argument for their construction near you — to ask why it was necessary, rather than take the claims that it is necessary at face value.
Willis — I suppose you can make the «within the uncertainty range» argument, but that still suggests that one of the best values of either the UAH trend or the Watts et al. trend is pretty far off.
If you value science it is wise not to brush aside broadly accepted scientific insights too easily, lest you have very good arguments for doing so («extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence»).
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