Sentences with phrase «by my peers on»

Legislation that would allow terminally ill people in England and Wales receive help to end their lives is due to be discussed by peers on Friday.

It was by their peers on a level playing field.

For example, in 2011, I wrote a post about impoverished students here in Houston being photographed with cell phones in the lunch line and shamed by their peers on social media.

Millionaires are likely to be influenced by their peers on their choices of sites to join.

These organizational experts can answer questions posed by peers on their own time.

Currently, 90 % of millennials — the largest demographic of pet owners — trust medical information shared by their peers on social media.

This focus on transparency was reinforced by the launch of the States and Regions Climate Tracker and Sub-National Climate Analytics Navigator tools with CDP, which help governments make informed decisions on their climate policy thanks to the data disclosed by their peers on development, target setting and GHG reduction.

If the scheme reaches UK shores, we calculate that a London - based NQ — again based on the same 33 % reduction — would receive roughly # 52,600 compared to the recently improved # 78,500 earned by their peers on the standard hours deal.

Ken has been recognized for Corporate and Commercial Litigation by Best Lawyers of Canada and has been rated as AV, or pre-eminent, by his peers on Martindale - Hubbell.

Ken has been recognized for Corporate and Commercial Litigation by Best Lawyers of Canada and has been given the highest available rating of AV, or pre-eminent, by his peers on Martindale - Hubbell.

I have been honored by my peers on several occasions.

They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.

Last week: This past week, Bernie Navarro and Marili Cancio were elected by their peers on the MDC Board as chair and vice chair and retired MDC Provost Rolando Montoya was appointed by the Governor as a Trustee, joining recently appointed Jose K. Fuentes and Juan Carlos Zapata.

Not exact matches

That means superseding physical constraints like having an actual hospital by harnessing the power of mobile technology, making the act of taking your medicine less of a hassle, and peering into our very biological building blocks to wage war on the most intractable maladies.

The introverted students gave lower ratings to their extroverted peers compared to their introverted ones, whereas the ratings by extroverted students didn't vary based on the personality of the person they were evaluating.

Royal Dutch / Shell and BP on Tuesday joined peers in reporting higher than expected earnings by making further deep cuts in spending to cope with an oil price downturn now in its third year.

Nobody wants to be the first idiot to buy knives as gifts and get laughed at by peers, so I decided to get samples made with each CEO's name — and spouse's name — on the product, along with the CEO's logo.

If we don't pay attention to what's really going on in our heads, we risk misjudging our peers — by giving them too much credit, or too little — for all the wrong reasons.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

We're conditioned by our teachers, peers, parents, uneducated coaches and everybody else pumped to give advice that you must «learn to work on your weaknesses,» and «strengthen your weaknesses,» but all young millionaires focus 100 percent on their best skills and strengths.

CEO salaries, to some extent, have been inflated by SEC filings on «peer group pay.»

Situated on the Blagdon Estate owned by Matt Ridley, a peer and Conservative politician who has said climate change has done more good than harm, Shotton has been mined by Banks since 2008.

By examining the link between the subjects» dispositions and how much they earned, the researchers found that men who were slightly more agreeable than the mean earned 18 % less on average — that's US$ 9,772 less than their more disagreeable peers.

Gould told me that the team is already working on a 2.0 version that's powered by peer - to - peer communication, which should significantly increase the distance the Flyer can fly without losing communication with your phone.

Companies like Microsoft and KPMG have caught on to this need and responded by giving employees exposure to peers in different divisions, to provide fresh ideas and new ways of thinking.

Many CEO peer groups are run by certified coaches who are great at answering questions but who also have limited experience running and scaling companies on their own.

By looking at how each legislator voted on every roll call vote compared to the member's peers, DW - NOMINATE is able to show how liberal or conservative a Congressman or Senator is.

If your own people are active and willing participants, it's also likely that, in some cases, they've been encouraged by their managers and peers (theoretically within the bounds of reason and good taste) to create some of this material on their own in order to «authentically» help to tell your company's story.

Customer - centric founders have found that interactive coaching and mentoring by experienced peers is more effective and positive in keeping everyone up to speed on trends, competition, customer demands and technology.

By saying it will be a decade before change occurs, Williams has dealt a psychological blow to her peers who are working on diversity and to the few minorities and women who are already in the industry.

On the flip side, avoid bombarding your manager with petty questions that could be answered by your peers or a quick Google search.

«We found that increasing the size of lunch tables... significantly improved performance by over 10 percent, as measured by peer reviews,» writes Humanyze CEO Ben Waber on re: Work.

That's according to the latest list of top business schools by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked 131 MBA programs based on criteria that includes job placement, starting salary, selectivity, and assessments by peers and recruiters.

Mersch, a Luxembourger who is highly regarded by his peers, had been expected to get the job on the European Central Bank's all - male board anyway.

Anybody can become a Bitcoin miner by running specialized computing tools that help process and confirm transactions on Bitcoin's peer - to - peer network.

They gradually impressed the other students, and by the end of the seventh meeting they had nearly caught up with the outgoing smart people on their peers» evaluation forms.

«Canada's ability to outperform has relied on the strength of household demand, as consumers have held fast to the credit - financed spending patterns abandoned by their peers in the U.S. and Europe,» Moody's said in a September report.

Too many CEOs are «not paid based on performance» but by boards who want to ensure their CEOs do «as well as their peers,» he says, which creates «an obvious ratchet effect.»

For one, it's not caused by CEOs explicitly colluding with their peers who sit on their company's compensation committees.

First, as happened in Australia and New Zealand, if ISPs and content providers believe they can reduce costs by peering (i.e. not have to pay transit to exchange traffic) they can use this as a competitive tool to pass on zero - rated content to their customers, as opposed to those ISPs demanding transit payments to deliver traffic, which was particularly common when the countries could be reached only via one company, the incumbent operator.

The robo advisor operates in a manner similar to its peers by creating a customized portfolio based on account type, income, risk tolerance, and more.

«Statistics show if you have a meaningful percentage of ownership and some communication that the employee's job impacts the value of the shares they have in their accounts, these companies outperform their peers by a factor of 10 percent on a compounded annual revenue and [EBITDA] growth basis,» says Josephs.

Europe's retailers continued to claw back some ground having been clobbered along with U.S. peers like Wal - Mart and Target on Friday by net - giant Amazon's $ 13.7 billion deal to buy upscale grocer Whole Foods Market.

Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income excluding (i) franchise agreement amortization, which is a non-cash expense arising as a result of acquisition accounting that may hinder the comparability of our operating results to our industry peers, (ii) amortization of deferred financing costs and debt issuance discount, a non-cash component of interest expense, and (gains) losses on early extinguishment of debt, which are non-cash charges that vary by the timing, terms and size of debt financing transactions, (iii)(income) loss from equity method investments, net of cash distributions received from equity method investments, (iv) other operating expenses (income), net, and (v) other specifically identified costs associated with non-recurring projects.

The peer - reviewed paper — titled «Safely Interruptible Agents [PDF]» and published on the website of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)-- was written by Laurent Orseau, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, Stuart Armstrong at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and several others.

By helping B2B companies gather better data on their customers, AI will help them catch up with their B2C peers.

The HRC considered the fact that, despite credit write - downs in its home equity loan portfolio and a Visa - related litigation expense accrual, the Company's business performance for 2007 was strong, as exemplified by one of the highest returns on equity and returns on assets in our Peer Group.

The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.

However, rather than rely on a central monetary authority to monitor, verify and approve transactions, and manage the money supply, Bitcoin is underwritten by a peer - to - peer network akin to file - sharing services like BitTorrent.