Sentences with phrase «by definition pretty»

We have four divisions, 34 brands, 140 countries, and digital is by definition pretty decentralized, so you have hundreds of initiatives and experiments.

Not exact matches

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A leaked White House memo supporting a fiduciary definition for brokers selling retirement investments proposed by the Department of Labor was «pretty shocking,» according to former SEC chairwoman Mary Schapiro.

By almost anyone's definition, Avant had a pretty rockstar year.

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Religion and god is a by product of fear, Isn't killing people in the name of God from the beginning of man kind up to now a pretty good definition of insanity.

Rev. Wright may be a controversial pastor (and there's some pretty good evidence that he's anti-white people, anti-Semitic, and anti-American), but he's still a Christian by definition.

And by the way the definition of Christianity is to believe in Christ and the New testament, Mormons believe in both of them... so they sound pretty christian to me.

You can do whatever you want, but as a FOX employee (and a Dana / UFC puppet by definition), he can't just resort to childish Twitter skirmishes with UFC fighters, it looks pretty bad.

And there is an obvious fatal flaw to this in any event; if say 5 teams embark on this allegedly «risk - free» business model and spend, spend, spend then pretty much by definition 4 of them come unstuck every year because only one team can buy the PL.

Most of us have our own definition of love based on our experiences and desires, and pretty much all of share a vague idea of it, but much of that is influenced by society and culture.

By definition, a complication free birth can pretty much be done anywhere just as successfully.

That makes you pretty amazing and, quite honestly, superheroes by my definition!

But when those special interests are deeply entwined with the government — which, under state capitalism, is pretty much true by definition — it's exponentially more difficult.

I pretty much agree with our definition, but wonder about what you mean by egalitarianism for (3), it seems to mean different things to different people.

A truly extreme diet like fruitarianism is orthorexic almost by definition — it does not provide nutrition compatible with health, and in order to become a fruitarian a person must have already gone pretty far afield on the path of obsession.

The definition of instinctive training is pretty loose; some people define it as coming to the gym and going completely by feel.

By definition, a Sugar Baby is younger than her Daddy; that's pretty much it.

The movie's tonal gear - shifts from docudrama to comic drama and back again are elegant, but it's a bit of a cold shower to go from the effervescence of Goodman and Arkin's Mutt and Jeff act to scenes dominated by the Embassy Six, who are by historical definition pretty drippy company.

They cherry - picked (if you'll pardon the expression) their method to ensure that the positive results for vouchers wouldn't achieve statistical significance, as was established pretty convincingly not only by Howell and Peterson's devastating response in Ed Next but also by Caroline Hoxby's observations in an NBER paper on their manipulation of the definition of race — Krueger and Zhu use a definition of race that is not currently used by the Census, NCES, or anyone else I know of, and that doesn't accurately reflect the way children really identify themselves by race — and they applied it selectively to only some of the students in the data set, not all of them.

As long as this majority goes along with the status quo (which is pretty much what happens by definition), the publishing companies will be able to keep chugging along with their current model.

Which is pretty much part of the definition of bullying, that an unequal power dynamic is being exploited by the stronger player.

Books from Pragmatic and O'Reilly are by definition aimed at pretty tech - savvy readers.

Risk can be defined as reducing the variability of outcomes, so since calls / shorts etc. reduce potential losses and also slightly reduce potential gains, they pretty much by definition reduce risk.

The reason is that because they are short lived (by definition, 5 weeks or less), once you get away from the top 20 or 30 symbols (by volume) the open interest in the weeklys is pretty small.

If you accept that there are tens of thousands of pit bulls have rewarding lives, then the idea that they possess some type of gene that causes them to snap seems pretty ridiculous — because if there is a breed - specific gene that causes this, then they would all, by definition, have to have it.

These killer shots are, by definition, only able to be blocked by players of the same element (fire / ice / poison / etc), but in reality they're all so crazy that once they've been shot off, there's pretty much no stopping them.

But with the confetti cleared, it's apparent that the Whitney is still pretty much what it has always been, apart from a few years in the 1980s and 1990s: an institution often flat - footed in its programming and compromised by its narrow definition of «American.»

The mixed layer of the ocean is mixed (pretty much by definition) thus the net fluxes at the surface (latent heat, sensible heat, long wave up and down, short wave down) warm or cool the whole layer.

In terms of the implications for low carbon innovation, this is very important. Because if we just limit our our consideration of innovation for low carbon to high technology, not only are we setting ourselves for some pretty difficult tasks, we also exclude ourselves from all sorts of other possibilities which could have profound influence on a shift to a low carbon system. In terms of what we mean by low carbon definition, therefore, the «low carbon» bit does not just refer to more efficient use of greenhouse gases.

Pretty much by definition, the thing «commonly called «free expansion»» is what I meant by «free expansion».

However, if one converts the total effects of all greenhouse gases, aerosols, etc. into an equivalent increase in CO2 concentration (by reference to their effective radiative forcing RF, that from a doubling of CO2 being F2xCO2), then what you suggest would be pretty much in line with the generic definition of TCR in Section 10.8.1 of AR5 WGI:

The impact of infilling is pretty much trend - neutral (rather by definition since it mimics spatial interpolation).

The problem with this approach is that legal definitions are by necessity general in nature, which means they are pretty useless when you're trying to figure out which facts really matter to your case.

NB: I've not received any consideration of value for the remarks below: I've been dealing with e-discovery pretty intensely now for several years, and though it's a professional niche and thus fascinating by definition, one would hope, I've never had anything on the subject cause me to actually laugh (not out loud, mind you, but quietly, to myself) as this piece has.

You may not need that kind of definition from a speaker that you're going to set out by the pool, but if you love really good sound, it's pretty nice to have it at your disposal in any environment.

Moreover, there's an argument to made that any space on a job seeker's resume is actually pretty precious so a good resume objective (particularly a long one), by definition, means less space for you to sell your career summary, job skills, or work experience to your future hiring manager or prospective employer.

Because alternate jobs in my industry are, by definition, jobs with competing companies, being «out» as a job searcher is a pretty major step.

Our definition of Australian crime fiction is pretty broad so we try to cover all the sub genres of books written by Aussie authors (set anywhere) and books set in Australia (written by anyone).

Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential with the Growth Mindset is by Dan Winkler and provides a pretty good, and short, definition of a growth mindset.