Sentences with phrase «in arbitrary amounts»

Voluntary life insurance is typically offered in multiples of your salary with the company rather than in arbitrary amounts that you can choose from.

Not exact matches

One of the things that appeals to me the most about this Cash Reserve method is that the amount of stock assets I have in my portfolio is determined not by some arbitrary percentage, but, instead, by how much I income I spend each month after taking Social Security benefits and pension income into account.

How long one shall continue to drink the consciousness of evil, and when one shall begin to short - circuit and get rid of it, are also matters of amount and degree, so that in many instances it is quite arbitrary whether we class the individual a once - born or a twice - born subject) Unquestionably, some men have the completer experience and the higher vocation, here just as in the social world; but for each man to stay in his own experience, whate'er it be, and for others to tolerate him there, is surely best.

The Court of Appeals, in a 5 - 0 decision, rejected claims that the regulations were arbitrary and capricious, and amounted to a retroactive punishment.

Namely these factors are CAPE, which is Convective Available Potential Energy, which is the maximum amount of energy that a rising parcel (which [is] an arbitrary amount of mass) can have as it's rising through the atmosphere; wind shear, which is the difference in wind [vectors] at the top and bottom of the atmosphere; and specific humidity, which is the ratio of water to the total mass of a moist system.

Trying to use a cookie - cutter approach and work with an arbitrary amount of resistance is likely to result in one of many unfavorable outcomes.

It amounts to an arbitrary cast and pseudo-amusing cameos standing in circles apparently ad - libbing, oblivious to the cameras nearby.

There was nothing more frustrating than having to try to complete two missions on opposite sides of the map in a short amount of time, and I'm glad that these arbitrary time limits aren't constantly hanging over my head any more.

The high court rejected all of the charter school claims, finding that the difference in funding between traditional ISDs and public charters was not so arbitrary as to amount to a violation of the Texas Constitution.

Assigning arbitrary, pre-determined amounts of time to specific learning outcomes guarantees that students who need additional time to learn will be left in the wake as the teacher races to cover the material.

The authors urge U.S. policy makers to reduce the amount of testing in schools and to measure student growth during the year rather than arbitrary proficiency thresholds at year's end.

In return for this, they can make their book available for KU subscribers to read without paying for it, and Amazon set an arbitrary amount (usually in the range of two million dollars) to be shared between all the authors whose books are reaIn return for this, they can make their book available for KU subscribers to read without paying for it, and Amazon set an arbitrary amount (usually in the range of two million dollars) to be shared between all the authors whose books are reain the range of two million dollars) to be shared between all the authors whose books are read.

In the end who is anyone to say someone shouldn't publish if their book doesn't jump through some arbitrary set of standards and cost some arbitrary amount of money to be «properly whatevered».

Actually, my carrot and stick approach right now is more towards increasing monthly cashflow rather than building up an arbitrary amount of savings — it's probably really contrarian, but I like knowing that I have a returning supply of funds each month (including the risk that comes with, I know), so I'm focusing on this first — it can also act as an emergency fund in the meantime.

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

There are also community challenges, and if the community is successful at destroying X amount of scarabs or some other arbitrary goal, then a prize is delivered to the community chest back in your game's hub.

After adding CO2 in Fig 1b, it was too warm but after adding some arbitrary amount of sulfates in 1c they reduced the extreme heat and come closer to the 20th century warming.

Scientists and environmentalists alike persist in positioning this problem as a «flow» problem to be resolved by a reduction in the «flow», i.e. by cutting emissions by some arbitrary amount.

Incremental scenarios describe techniques where particular climatic (or related) elements are changed incrementally by plausible though arbitrary amounts (e.g., +1, +2, +3, +4 °C change in temperature).

«We were astonished a few weeks ago to learn that 51 renewable energy projects are being considered in an RFP process, and that many of those projects would have catastrophic consequences for Maine, all to provide insignificant amounts of expensive electricity to meet arbitrary requirements» in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

And that after some amount of time, the molecule does not surrender the heat as an IR photon that can travel either up or down of in any arbitrary direction, some of the time producing «back radiation»?

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary poweIn the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary powein possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.

Framed in this way, total emissions of a trillion tonnes of carbon will lead to a most likely warming of 2 °C, a somewhat arbitrary, but widely accepted limit on the amount of warming that the world can endure without a high risk of catastrophic consequences.

In the images, the central figure seems to be at times hopelessly engulfed in an overwhelming amount of gadgetry — all thrown away after an arbitrary period of obsolescencIn the images, the central figure seems to be at times hopelessly engulfed in an overwhelming amount of gadgetry — all thrown away after an arbitrary period of obsolescencin an overwhelming amount of gadgetry — all thrown away after an arbitrary period of obsolescence.

Unless it is on a case by case basis, which would no doubt leave room for significant disputes, setting an arbitrary amount could just end in everyone being unhappy!

Washington LLLT - in - training, Miryam Gordon, explains: «I think the 3,000 hour rule is onerous, arbitrary as a decided amount, and unjustified.

A lawyer shouldn't try to model what will happen if she makes one mistake a year on a file that doesn't exceed $ 400,000 in value or some other arbitrary amount.

In the absence of evidence of a specific job that was available to the plaintiff, the amount by which damages are reduced seems to be arbitrary.

Caps on awards for pain and suffering establish arbitrary compensation which act as a one size fits all and show to increase claim costs and the amount of administration involved in personal injury cases.

Savings from caps have led to huge insurance industry profits, which «the insurance industry should pass... onto Florida physicians in the form of reduced malpractice insurance premiums, and it should no longer be necessary to continue punishing those most seriously injured by medical negligence by limiting their noneconomic recovery to a fixed, arbitrary amount.»

The applicant in Saadi v United Kingdom (App No 13229 / 03)[2008] All ER (D) 229 (Jan) complained about the conditions in Oakington Reception Centre, and the fact that he was not provided promptly with the real reasons for his detention, which amounted to a breach of Art 5, which prohibits arbitrary detention.

There are only two fundamental differences between bitcoin and national currencies: (1) bitcoin is issued by an algorithm rather than a central bank so predictable machines rather than arbitrary humans control the «printing» and the total amount of bitcoin; (2) creditors can sue you if you present bitcoin to settle a debt denominated in national currency but if you present the currency it will be a defence to the creditor's suit under some form of a «legal tender» statute (Currency Act, RSC 1985, c C - 52 in Canada; 31 U.S. Code § 5103 in the US).

While this may seem like an efficient way to save for home repairs, critics of this rule of thumb argue that the amount set aside is somewhat arbitrary, and doesn't account for a wide variety of factors, such as the age of your home, whether most of the value of your home is in the land itself, whether your home is attached or single family, etc..

In «mandatory hearing» Speeding Ticket Cases (those over 30 mph over limit), some Judges are suspending driver's licenses for arbitrary amounts of time, as is currently allowed by Florida law.

The extension, called Zerocoin, works - as NewScientist explains it - by «allowing bitcoin users to leave their coins floating on the network for someone else to redeem, on the condition that they can redeem the same amount of bitcoin, similarly left floating on the network, at an arbitrary time in the future.»