Sentences with phrase «by means testing»

That comes on the back of this week's Ed Balls speech, which seemed to accept the core tenants of austerity and accept the end of universal welfare by means testing the winter fuel payment.

By all means test as many as you like, but don't stay in 50 places because you think it's good advice.

I've by no means tested every aspect of Kobo's interaction with users of its new Writing Life platform, but I've published a handful of titles, changed prices, sent some inquiries, suggestions and complaints.

Secondly, the PLAP eligibility criteria is now modified by a means test where the applicant must have a net annual practice income of less than $ 50,000 to be eligible.

This is exactly right, and what I share with anyone who cares to listen; you don't have to take my word for it that Yellow letters are more effective, by all means test them yourself against the post cards.

Not exact matches

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

With so many tests available, it's not a surprise that employers use tests meant for other purposes, like Myers - Briggs (which is fine, by the way, for employee development), or even design their own tests.

A big part of what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer patient population — a decision that has meant that doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.

The Slim might not be as zippy as its larger sibling, butComputer Shopper found it was still «the second - fastest drive» of the ones they tested, meaning that if speed is paramount, you'll be well - served by either drive in the Backup Plus family.

You have tested your concept by conducting online surveys, focus groups, trade show demonstrations or through some other means to determine if potential customers will buy your product or service.

A different approach would strengthen individual savings accounts by requiring workers to contribute out of pre-tax income, combined with a redistributive means - tested safety net for those who fall into poverty in old age.

While certainly not a shabby number, that contract also meant Miller's ability to test the open market would be delayed by a year.

It depends what you mean by «test.»

Each bankruptcy court varies by state, and this means that the tests used to evaluate undue hardship also varied greatly.

The solution, it is widely argued, is to cut benefits — either directly by means - testing or indirectly by raising the retirement age or allowing inflation to erode their real value over time.

The unwinding process is only half complete and that means the dollar will test 71.18 on the USDX by yearend and probably by the end of October.

This can be done by means of a reasonable test to find out whether children, spouses, and other family members participate and actually contribute to the family business.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

If you're interested in putting a trading bot to the test, by all means give it a try with some spare satoshis or shitcoins.

He tests this approach by matching actual yield curve data with standardized (normal) R and C distributions that both have zero mean and standard deviation one (such that standardized R and C may be negative).

Unfortunately, the software does not work with demo accounts; meaning that the only way to put the robot to the test is by investing real money.

Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting fact that there is an objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away by the advances of the field.

At one stage Churchill had to be persuaded by diplomats not to send a furious letter complaining about this humiliating means test.

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

«There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do;....

Fasting is the means by which the Muslim voluntarily abandons certain legitimate frivolous enjoyments as a means of putting his soul to a test and promoting its capacity for perseverance.

* I meant to say, I have experienced true joy and freedom by going through all these tests and trials... perseverance is worth it

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.

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This does not mean that the content of revelation needs to pass the specific tests devised by academically critical methods which generally accept only those ideas that pass muster with scientists.

Riddles, optical illusions, and types of psychology tests all contend for means by which one can help understand why it might be beneficial to even question what one questions.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

It can mean, then, the development of those principles which most adequately express what we experience and know, in the full range of our human encounters; and the result is a «vision» which can be tested by reference back to experience and to the world experienced.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

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.

Hypotheses are tested by means of experiments, that is experience derived from carefully designed manipulations.

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.

We can test the revelatory resourcefulness of the symbolism in which our consciousness dwells by asking whether it opens us up to the otherness of foreign ideas and traditions, and thus leads toward deeper and wider integrations of meaning, or instead keeps us locked in the narrow fortress of obsession with our own dogmatic certitudes.

This simple test question can be rephrased as a useful definition of what is meant by the term «alcoholic» in this book.

We noted that Morich produced five blossoms per note more often than the other two — will this also mean a better harvest by the end of our test?

The article also demonstrated the need for proper certification and testing in the single serve coffee market: The PurPod100 is certified by the Biodegradable Products Institute * (BPI) and meets ASTM International ¹ s Standard D6868 for compostability **, which means that it can disintegrate within an established period of time, produce compost that enables plant growth, and is safe for the environment.

In addition, pre-shipment distribution tests aid in optimizing packaging by establishing a means of evaluating multiple designs and materials to a standardized performance threshold.

In a study conducted by registered dietitian Tricia Thompson, Anne Lee of Schar, and Thomas Grace of Bia Diagnostics, 7 of 22 (32 %) samples of naturally gluten - free grains, seeds and flours tested contained mean gluten levels above 20 ppm with amounts ranging from 25 to 2,925 ppm.

This is what I like to call the OG vegan protein powder (that's original gangster, in case you were not in the know), and by that I mean it's my tried and tested brand and flavour that I come back to time and time again.

I have been meaning to make you for the longest time, but got (too easily) distracted by all the other foods on my rather long to test list.

One - way analysis of variance was used to compare the mean number of nutrients that were correctly identified for different labelling systems (continuous data), followed by Scheffe post hoc testing.

I mean, you can tell just by looking at it that it's going to test your portion control and mindful eating to it's limits!

You can test all the various dairy filtration processes by means of our five types of pilot plant.