Sentences with phrase «high a threshold in»

In their dissents, Liu and Cuéllar wrote that the appeals court set too high a threshold in concluding that an identifiable group of student, with common characteristics, had to be harmed — the basis for bringing a challenge involving a fundamental right to an education under the state Constitution.

Professor of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School Ian Ramsay says the Minerals Council would face very high thresholds in proving whether any anti-coal activists had broken the law.

Not exact matches

The dilemma for Fidelity and Hartford, says Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of Hightower Advisors in San Diego, is whether to make subsequent investments at their own price threshold, or to use Blackrock's 20 percent higher valuation, which means a dilution of their own shares.

Meanwhile in the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average finally edged above the elusive 20,000 threshold and continued higher as investors digested a host of earnings reports.

Its shares were 2.8 percent higher as the French media giant Vivendi said earlier this week that it intended to extend its share in the Italian company until the 30 percent threshold.

They understand that when mobile device and tablet penetration in a given country reaches a certain threshold, subscriber demand for high - quality indoor reception spikes and the carriers have to respond.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional threshold.

In a federal trademark infringement case, for instance, a plaintiff seeking a quick injunction would encounter at the threshold the high hurdle of showing «irreparable harm» — a standard that won't be met if money damages will provide the plaintiff with adequate recompense for any damages incurred — and it might also have to post an expensive bond (a major hurdle for a nonprofit).

Percentage rent clause Herb Weitzman, CEO of Weitzman Group and Cencor Realty Services in Dallas, says tenants agree to pay higher rent when their sales exceed a certain threshold.

His tests employ a higher threshold for hypertension and don't require participants to fast for 12 hours before taking a glucose test (which is seen as important when testing one individual but is impractical in doing a companywide screen).

The latest proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules from the United States would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor rules.

The latest proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules from the United States would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 per cent regional value threshold as well as new labour rules.Tuesday, May 1, 12:01 am ET

Housing markets of course don't look the same in every city or state, so for some places the maximum threshold is even higher, particularly if an area has been identified as a high - cost community.

WASHINGTON, April 30 The latest U.S. proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 percent regional value threshold as well as new labor content rules requiring substantial work at hourly wages of at least $ 16.

This seems like a high threshold now, given that lumber prices fell below that for only six weeks in 2004 and four weeks last year.

From wondering in 2012 whether the federal estate and GST thresholds would drop to $ 1 million or be compromised at something higher (the compromise was $ 3.5 million) to now be at $ 11.2 million per individual is dramatic change in a relatively short period of time.

«We were particularly encouraged to see fiscal discipline in light of the continued economic uncertainty seen elsewhere in Canada and the world, the establishment of a commission on tax competitiveness to evaluate current taxation instruments like the provincial sales tax, and proposed changes to the property transfer tax to start addressing housing affordability by increasing the exemption threshold and introducing a third tax rate on higher - valued properties.»

We have minimum thresholds in our mind that are a whole lot higher than government rates.

With inflation well below its longer - run goal and high unemployment, the FOMC decided at its March meeting to maintain a «highly accommodative» policy stance: a federal funds rate in a range of 0 to 25 basis points with forward guidance based on economic thresholds.

More than half of Millennials (56 %) agreed that a quality benefits package influences their choice of employers, and 63 % say that benefits are an important reason in staying with an employer.W6 While managers believe Millennials put the highest priority on salary, W17 research indicates salary has become a threshold issue for this generation of workers.

And without dimensionalizing that too much, it's a substantial change in terms of the balance of items on the menu are $ 15 or below, which we've determined to be sort of a threshold point for affordability for high - quality seafood in casual dining.

As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.

Following the decrease in value to roughly $ 5,500, bitcoin has quickly managed to regain its value, and even hit a new all - time high, hence surpassing the $ 8,000 threshold for the first time ever.

This volatility is likely to lead to a situation in which companies with a high level of risk meet the threshold conditions for inclusion in indices solely as a result of exceptional trading, even before they have any business activity whose results can be evaluated.»

In other words, you owe the 3.8 % tax on the amount by which your investment income exceeds the income thresholds, or, if your wages alone already are higher than the income thresholds, you'll owe tax on the lesser of net investment income or MAGI that exceeds the thresholds.

The three boards that reached high thresholds numbers needed: B.C. Northern Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 89 per cent of agents voting were in favour); Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV)(67 per cent needed and 69 per cent of votes in favour); and South Okanagan Real Estate Board (75 per cent needed and 79 per cent of those voting favoured a merger).

The limitation on itemized deductions (sometimes called «Pease» after the Ohio congressman who proposed it) reduces deductions for high - income taxpayers by 3 percent of the amount by which their AGI exceeds a threshold — $ 261,500 in 2017 ($ 287,650 for heads of household, $ 313,800 for married couples filing jointly, and half of that for married couples filing separately)-- but not by more than 80 percent of deductions claimed.

The participation of accredited investors at higher levels will provide non-accredited investors with added value as they are more likely to do greater due diligence then if they were only investing the minimum threshold amount in a campaign.

Right - of - center parties in Western democracies perceive a very low threshold (each piece of welfare state legislation another step on «the road to serfdom»); left - of - center parties believe in a very high threshold, and some in that camp seem to think that there is no limit at all.

The threshold throughout nature in general is, however, very high, so the consciousness that gets over it is of the discontinuous form.

Many people estimate that the actual threshold for poverty is far higher than this income line used by the Census Bureau, and poverty is on the rise in the present recessionary economy.

The physical thresholds are in fact low and smooth, but they coincide with moral thresholds that are so high and hard that few of us cross them.

«This new process will eliminate the risk of TCA in natural cork at levels as low as 1 part per trillion, a level far below sensory threshold — all at higher production volume and lower cost, providing customers with the finest quality cork at an unprecedented value.»

COPPELL, TX (Jan. 26, 2016)-- Fresh on the heels of a major re-branding launch, Cicis announced its 11th consecutive quarter of systemwide SSS growth, its highest annual average unit volume (AUV) in at least two decades — breaking the $ 1 million threshold — and the highest weekly AUVs in the chain's history.

Compound fractures and shattered ribs are small discomforts in the credo of Kansas City Linebacker Sherrill Headrick, a man of joyous recklessness and a high pain threshold

Although government statistics list over 23,000 craft businesses in the UK, that number will be significantly higher when you consider that most makers are sole - traders who fall beneath the tax threshold.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

The number of allowable pitches was based on the pitcher's age and the rules now mandate specific rest periods between pitching appearances when a pitcher reaches higher thresholds of pitches delivered in a day.

Unfortunately, these thresholds are unrealistically low, especially in areas with high living costs.

My threshold is so high, in fact, that when I broke my nose at age 12 and the doctor tried to reset it, I barely flinched.

They can also be very sensitive at picking up on the moods of those around them while others, with higher sensory thresholds, seem better able to ignore these stimuli in their environment.

Physiologic studies have demonstrated that, in general, swaddling decreases startling, 301 increases sleep duration, and decreases spontaneous awakenings.310 Swaddling also decreases arousability (ie, increases cortical arousal thresholds) to a nasal pulsatile air - jet stimulus, especially in infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein general, swaddling decreases startling, 301 increases sleep duration, and decreases spontaneous awakenings.310 Swaddling also decreases arousability (ie, increases cortical arousal thresholds) to a nasal pulsatile air - jet stimulus, especially in infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddleIn contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddled.

This is an increase; in fact, it is the first cash increase in the higher rate threshold in this Parliament.

Critics contend the price threshold for mansions in New York, especially in the pricier precincts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, should be far higher.

Albeit this is the highest so far recorded by Ghanaian women in legislature, it is worthy of note that it falls far short of the 30 % threshold by the UN following agreements and satisfactory targets reached at the fourth UN World Conference of Women in Beijing 1995.

The CIOT's six challenges are: End the disparity in registration rules To support a healthy SME sector, and minimise compliance burdens, a high registration threshold is preferred.

Top - level and sidebar ads run in the same auction, with top - level placement for ads with highest CTR — must meet a certain threshold or else no ads appear at the top.

In Scotland, dissolution of parliament requires a two - thirds majority — significantly higher than 55 % proposed for Westminster, and that threshold was set by Labour - Liberal coalition.

The threshold is 10 per cent of Labour MPs and MEPs, a higher level than those who actually voted for Corbyn in 2015.