Sentences with phrase «hard measures against»

It has not taken hard measures against ICOs or Bitcoin itself or other cryptocurrencies.

A few months earlier, Ritter resigned from UNSCOM, allegedly because he was dissatisfied that the UN wasn't taking harder measures against Iraq.

Not exact matches

A credit freeze is one of few measures affected Americans can take to protect against identity theft, or at least make it very hard for potential thieves, now that their personal information could be up for sale online.

However, if China pushes too hard on this front the U.S. could retaliate with similar measures against Chinese firms in the U.S. and / or encourage U.S. firms to migrate to lower - cost countries at a faster pace than is already occurring.

After a week, Job opens his mouth and begins his long, caustic complaint against God, with a good measure of hard questions mixed in.

All well and good, but facts are facts (everyone seems to have a hard - on for stats right now) and that Man City performance was the only significant win against the top 6 this season — it's not a measure of how we typically perform in these games.

(To be pedantic, it's really hard to say that any protective measure actually «prevents» a what it protects against.

That's because their legs are curled up against their torso during the first half of pregnancy, so they're hard to measure.

Like a flyweight amateur getting in the ring against the heavyweight champ, the ballot measure calling for a state constitutional convention hit the canvas hard and fast: Voters rejected it by a ratio of 5 to 1.

When it was voted upon in 2010, I voted against this measure, and I have been fighting hard to eliminate this unfair policy since that time.

It is hard to say, when there is no external yardstick against which to measure progress.

Nick Tsinonis, managing director of Recsys Ltd, sees the partnership as an important step both for Cupid's brands and for the online dating industry: «Both our teams have worked hard to attain these important measures in the fight against scammers.

It's clear she has the physicality for it, and given she is a woman playing in a genre thats dominated by men, it's hard not to measure her against the likes of Linda Hamilton (the Terminator films), Sigourney Weaver (the Alien franchise), Charlize Theron as Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road, and several others.

Like the Weinstein - backed movie itself, which will cruise its way into the Best Picture lineup in a manner similar to that of Les Misérables (another ensemble piece that's easy to endorse but hard to adore), Streep will fill a predestined slot, earning kudos for a performance that's fine, but not stellar when measured against her better work.

Also, it's important to point out we work very hard to press back against the inclination that is shared by leaders in philanthropy, government, and education, that the best metric for measuring the success of our students and alumni is recidivism rates because it frames our work overwhelmingly in the context of criminal justice in a way that reduces our students to simply the people that have been incarcerated for a criminal offense.

The team has developed an innovative method of comparing results for charter students against their «virtual twins» in district schools, and translating hard - to - understand standard deviation measures into a more easily digestible «additional days of learning.»

The critics are many, including the state's dominant teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association, which has lobbied hard against an over-reliance on the SGP or any other measure.

Pushed hard, the C63 reveals a multifaceted purposefulness we can't wait to measure against the new M3.

Once up, the hard - top provides a measure of security against vandalism and theft.

Given that Chevrolet decided to keep mum on the performance details, it's hard to measure just how the new Colorado stacks up against the competition.

So the release may well be Ford getting in the first punch against a survey that started out measuring manufacturing defects in the first 90 days of ownership and now, because there are so few defects, also lets owners vent about things they don't like: uncomfortable seats, brake dust, cranky Bluetooth, or hard to use navigation.

She felt its commanding logic, both internal and external, powerful enough to keep her tethered to home, to silence the fears that she would never write again, eliminate the horrid daydream in which she sometimes indulged, about simply walking away from this alternative life she was living, filled with its soft poetry and hard tediousness, its spectacular, love - ridden times measured against meaningless hours and days and weeks and months, a life where her past accomplishments were long forgotten, where she was called, most often, Joan Manning, leaving her tongue - tied and wishing she could say, «I'm not Joan Manning, I'm Joan Ashby, the writer.»

And since value is hard to measure, why not wait for Mr. Market to extend to you the insurance against you own ignorance by offering you the goods at a juicy margin of safety.

For very thick, hard tails, you can measure a little of her tail if you wish - this is because when she wags, it will hit against the crate.

A lot of mischief in making up the data would be much harder to justify when each station can easily be checked against trends in real measured values.

The stylus could also get a «grip sensor» that would sense the amount of force with which the user is gripping it along with a pressure sensor that would measure how hard the user is pressing the stylus against the device.

If you drop your laptop, the hard drive automatically stops spinning as a preventative measure against data loss.

But if that's all it did, the Smart Tape would have a hard time competing against dumb tape measures that cost a fifth of its price.