Sentences with phrase «generally good purpose»

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Uber considers adjusted earnings before taxes as a better indicator of its financial performance rather than net earnings based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which include losses for accounting purposes.

Moreover, those well «known scientists who have shown interest in anthropic coincidences generally see them as having an explanation that does not invoke purpose in nature.

But, generally speaking, most people involved in educational consortia are reporting renewed enthusiasm for their work, as well as a feeling of wider comradeship and a redefined sense of purpose in their educational vocations.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

For while the media, and particularly television, serve mainly as mediators of the culture, the political and economic interests of the media controllers pass the culture through discreet but generally well - defined filters which are effective in serving their own purposes, namely reinforcing the economic status quo and suppressing challenge in the form of specific critique or overall diversity.

The all - purpose flours seemed better at making plain white breads, giving a generally superior taste, with very good texture.

Because of this, it's generally considered better to consume malt beverages or non-alcoholic beers if you're planning to drink for milk production purposes.

Most new parents get a rubber bulb syringe in their newborn kit from the hospital for this purpose, and it generally works pretty well.

Hillis: So, what we're thinking about is, rather than trying to prop up the current, shaky system — which actually works very well for many purposes — build a simplified system to the side, which has these other properties of robustness and uses the bandwidth differently, as Bill said, for robustness, security generally; things that the Internet doesn't do well.

Maybe clinical research, while not resting on a rigorously logical foundation, is generally good enough for most practical purposes.

In fact, in every study — including the «gold standard» for evidence, randomized controlled trials — VLCKDs perform at least as well and generally better than low - fat diets for this purpose.

Good news is that Statham generally picks action scripts that try to have a purpose instead of the ones that employ «less talk, bigger body count.»

The belief has been that smaller, specialized schools — known generally as charter schools — whose principals are given a great deal of autonomy, will give parents and children a great deal of choice and that they should replace the large, amorphous, all - purpose public schools that, in any case, haven't been doing a good job.

Shelton's superintendent of schools knows perfectly well that if parents «insist that the child not be testing» then «In these cases, the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as «absent» (for purposes of testing).»

When it comes to the Connecticut Mastery Test, local superintendents are well aware that if parents «insist that the child not be testing» then «In these cases, the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as «absent» (for purposes of testing).»

I'm not generally a fam of supernatural stuff in literature, but the first Mrs Hockaday seemed to me to serve a good and useful purpose.

Both VantageScore and the proprietary scores offered by the individual credit bureaus are great for educational purposes; in other words, they'll tell you if you have generally good credit or bad credit.

Generally, for tax and asset protection purposes, it is better strategy to have the ILIT purchase the life insurance rather than transferring an existing policy to it.

This can be an especially good purpose for a mortgage life insurance policy, because employer plans generally do not provide enough coverage to provide for many of your family's needs upon your death.

Generally speaking, comic books based on separate properties for the sole purpose of promotion aren't very good.

The standard mileage rule is generally best for attorneys who work primarily from home and frequently drive to meet clients, go to court, or for other business purposes.

``... good or bad, myths drive us much of the time, in my view, and so we'd be best off knowing them as well as we can, retelling them consciously, and generally mixing them up to suit our own purposes.»

But good or bad, myths drive us much of the time, in my view, and so we'd be best off knowing them as well as we can, retelling them consciously, and generally mixing them up to suit our own purposes.

Generally, for tax and asset protection purposes, it is better strategy to have the ILIT purchase the life insurance rather than transferring an existing policy to it.

Term life insurance policies generally work the best for this purpose.

This can be an especially good purpose for a mortgage life insurance policy, because employer plans generally do not provide enough coverage to provide for many of your family's needs upon your death.

They are usually unprepared for the purpose can happen, as well as not aware of the way the results will affect their license, insurance, in addition to their life generally speaking.

Employment is generally beneficial to mental well - being, providing purpose, social connection and financial independence.

Provided the custodial parent is relocating in good faith, for legitimate purposes — such as remarriage, availing herself of more family support, or a substantial employment opportunity — and not for the sole purpose of denying parenting time to the non-custodial parent, the court generally permits relocation.