Sentences with phrase «escape valve»

This is a more conventional effort on nearly all levels, with room for some titillation, comedy relief, and other escape valves.

(And, if you think there is an excessive expense escape valve when your financial consultant does not use funds and instead tries his or her hand at being a stock and bond picker, think again.

«It looks like the temporary foreign worker program in many cases is serving as an escape valve for many employers,» who resort to imported labour rather than raise wages to attract Canadian candidates, he says.

An escape valve such as beating up the pillow while making the bed, or «knocking the guts» out of the punching bag hanging in the garage can often help to drain off violent, angry feelings while the issue is being resolved.

Therefore, cabinet changes can be used as an «escape valve» for the president in order to regain control, credibility or inject a moral boost to the presidency.

There's a proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot to put a stop to this escape valve for lawmakers, and voters should check a resounding «Yes» on the ballot.

For many, this is the escape valve party for a ragtag army of none - of - the - aboves.

The magnetic poles on a neutron star act like fountains, an escape valve for charged particles that get trapped in the star's enormously strong magnetic field.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

Kress would retain two escape valves and pressure points that are currently in the law, but that the Obama administration wants to take out: private tutoring services and parental choice.

We were naïve to think that we could thread the federalism needle — that because the standards had been developed by the governors and state superintendents, and because there was no federal mandate to adopt them, and because there was an escape valve (states could develop their own college - and career - ready standards), we would avoid the political problems that sunk previous attempts at «national standards.»

And it could allow an escape valve for some of the overheated debates in which we're stuck.

Now that charter schools comprise large portions of many cities» public schools, school choice advocates can no longer defend freewheeling and fragmented governance as necessary to create an escape valve from a broken system.

This plan is derailed by three occurrences: thirty - six - year - old sales representative for Knightley Press, Amelia Loman makes her first visit to Island Books to present the publisher's Winter List (and is treated rather shabbily by A.J.); A.J.'s escape valve, a rare and valuable edition of Tamerlane, a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, is stolen; and a bright two - year - old girl named Maya is left in his bookstore.

Moreover, even if something unexpected happens and tax rates end up not rising in 2013, you have an escape valve.

This week on The Next Segment, there was no escaping Valve's latest shifts.

The net effect is essentially that CO2 acts as an escape valve for ozone - trapped heat.

Onus on party moving to set it aside could be set relatively highly, making it likely that the default position remains the case, but providing an escape valve for extreme situations.

When it comes to value - based fee structures, the models range from flat and fixed fees to target or fixed fees with success bonuses, escape valves, and holdbacks.

By building SteamOS and porting more games to Linux, the PC gaming industry gains an escape valve if Microsoft ever decides to remove the desktop from Windows or restrict it to only programs from the Windows Store.

The Supreme Court says that copyright requires «escape valves» like fair use to comply with the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression.

«This is an escape valve so that a consumer knows something negative was reported about them,» Rosen says.