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!
Not exact matches
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 incide
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 incide
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 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»).