Sentences with phrase «by a certain amount»

This is not an easy task for them and it's often accompanied by a certain amount of distress for both the adolescent and the rest of the family.

The game starts with each player making an initial proposal to reduce emissions by a certain amount.

Within each event there'll be different ways to accomplish the objective, and these range from winning a timed match to winning by a certain amount of goals before your opponent does.

This may be accompanied by a certain amount of hacking and coughing.

Many readers today will not be offended by a certain amount of profanity in books, but shocking words often pull readers out of the story.

A dependent will provide you with an exemption (it reduces your taxable income by a certain amount).

Muscle weakness — According to some experts, in order for the skeletal muscles to perform properly, their receptors should be supported by certain amount of vitamin D.

Many schools will offer parents a discount for paying in full by a certain amount.

Also, the A / C is making sounds, and again, I do wonder if it was designed to fail by a certain amount of usage.

Having a good strategy for paying down outstanding balances is key, especially if you wish to become debt free by a certain amount of time.

The basis of the property is equal to its cost adjusted up or down by certain amounts.

But when a government makes long - dated promises, the future has to be better by a certain amount, and if not, there will be trouble.

If there are rent control laws in your area, you may only be able to increase rent by certain amounts per year by law.

Each point will increase your auto insurance by a certain amount, and an accumulation of points will designate you as a habitual offender.

The most prestigious achievements are for creating a level that is played and «hearted» by a certain amount of players.

Many lenders have a provision that allows you to re-lock your rate if it drops by a certain amount before you close, often a quarter of a percent.

It also included a patently absurd enforcement mechanism, whereby schools were required to improve their students» test scores by a certain amount (AYP, «Adequate Yearly Progress»).

Your MAGI is your AGI increased or decreased by certain amounts that are unique to specific deductions.

Reason: If a trader is writing options, generally the market can move «against» the trader by a certain amount before the trader sees his option's strike price hit and he starts to lose money.

You might not understand the math... but the impact of these deals was that Goldman would get a return of up to 300 times on its money if the stock market fell by a certain amount.

Vanishing deductible reduces your deductible by a certain amount (usually $ 50 - $ 100) at the beginning of the policy and then the same amount annually until it reaches zero.

For each point you buy, your rate is reduced by a certain amount, usually one - eighth to one - quarter of a percentage point.

Perhaps your team must contribute a certain number of pieces per week (a quota based on frequency) to be eligible for a bonus or they're expected to grow the readership by a certain amount each month (a quota based on readership).

Chiao said this moment would feel «a bit dynamic,» describing the experience in terms of G - force, the equivalent of gravity at Earth's surface multiplied by a certain amount.

I think all religious killings are also informed by a certain amount of personal megalomania

«What may happen is that you twist up the field lines by a certain amount, and then they snap back,» Begelman speculates.

The third paragraph on the other hand achieved the same goal by using a style formatting, telling the word processor to automatically indent the first line in every paragraph by a certain amount without requiring any typed characters.

If the debtor's income exceeds these combined expenses by a certain amount, the debtor may be able to pay a reasonable portion of his debt, and filing Chapter 7 is likely to be considered abusive.

In terms of providing borrowers with poor credit an alternative to the gouging APRs offered by auto title lenders, Finova is cheaper, but only by a certain amount.

About once a year — or when your portfolio's target allocations are out of whack by a certain amount — it makes sense to trim the best performers and use the proceeds to prop up the winners to get the portfolio back to its targets.

Secured Credit Card: A secured credit card is backed by a certain amount of money you deposit to the card company in order to use the card.

If you underpay by a certain amount (a % of what you owe, probably) you pay a penalty.

The service also supports tax - loss harvesting and automatic rebalancing if your portfolio diverges by a certain amount from your selected asset allocation.

A new Fitch study measures risk based on the «payment shock» borrowers would experience if interest rates rise by certain amounts.

«When we finally got that list,» Jefferson explains, «we knew that if we saved an animal that was definitely going to die, then at least for that day we had changed the kill rate percentage by a certain amount.»

Killing certain enemies raises the player's karma by a certain amount, and if a player's karma is too high, priests in churches will refuse to grant level - ups.

Mr. Werner saw to it that there were Penck shows all over West Germany, and also Switzerland, in the 1970s, so Mr. Penck was protected by a certain amount of fame; this meant that the secret police, the Stasi, didn't touch him; its agents just watched and harassed.

The study used the concept of a «stabilization wedge», in which «a wedge represents an activity that reduces emissions to the atmosphere by a certain amount.

«In December, countries will pledge to decrease the production of greenhouse gas by a certain amount in Copenhagen.

In addition to a hierarchy, China needs an overall goal — that by a certain year we will reduce our plastic waste generation and use of natural resources to produce plastic by a certain amount.

Preferred plus applicants pay the best rates, while applicants with a substandard rating pay the most, usually calculated by increasing the standard rating premium by a certain amount.