Sentences with phrase «least by the standards»

This clip from CBC's Power & Politics gets fairly heated, at least by the standards of Canadian politics (skip to around 6:30 in the video):

And maybe he is, at least by our standards.

Christ was a liberal, at least by your standards.

«For example, Ireland's young adults are - contrary to recent reports - still remarkably religious, at least by the standards of other highly developed European nations.

Now as it turns out, I mean, again, you said no spoilers, so incredibly all these threads are, to Shakespeare's credit, everything works out okay a few scenes later and there's actually a happy ending, at least by the standards of — I mean it's actually lumped in with the tragedies.

Just as Zac and Miri Make a Porno is actually very tame (at least by the standards of Boogie Nights or John Waters films), so Accepted is not a new Animal House or American Pie.

True Grit is a sentimental tale, at least by the standards of the genre, and the Coens are not — to put it mildly — sentimentalists.

Instead, it's a sporty, road - going SUV that, at least by the standards of the class, is surprisingly agile.

Occasionally, my Mid-Western, Swedish mother would refer to their house as the «Ottoman annex of the Metropolitan,» because it was - at least by the standards of Westchester County in the middle third of the twentieth century - so exotic.

In my own case, as I've already confessed, I'm an unethical investor, at least by the standards of many so - called ethical types.

Since its release about 18 months ago, Apple's ambitious smartwatch — its first new hardware category under CEO Tim Cook — has been a disappointment, at least by the standards of the giant hardware maker.

Not exact matches

Or at least helped along to their doom by a double standard.

She said the deduction is typically claimed by families who earn at least $ 60,000 annually, since below that income level most families do not itemize and instead claim the standard deduction.

That's still very slow by modern standards — it's much closer to 3G than 4G — but it's at least a little more usable.

Chen is an eccentric man by any standards — he owns at least one lime green suit — and his announcement was met with shock.

Though its risen recently, the real yield on the ten year Treasury hovers below 1 % (the 2.48 % rate, minus projected inflation of at least 1.5 points), an extremely favorable number by historical standards.

Last but by no means least, standard economic theory predicts that increased trade will grow the economy but hurt some specific social classes.

Fortunately, the type of annuity you're asking about — an immediate annuity — is (by annuity standards at least) the easiest to understand and, to my mind the type with the greatest potential for helping people who want more guaranteed lifetime income than Social Security alone will provide.

Measures to identify and verify each customer shall be in line with and shall be at least of the standards set by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for capital markets services licence holders in relation to the prevention of money - laundering and terrorism financing

Despite all of it, some argue that buying a home today is still affordable at least by historical standards.

Importantly, no vulnerabilities have been detected in the ERC20 token standard itself and, as noted by one reddit user, at least one of the two similar bugs was a function added to an EDCC.

This initiative creates a nationally recognized gold standard in certification for veteran - owned businesses of all sizes and enables corporate America to proactively source and confidently utilize businesses that are at least 51 % owned, operated and controlled by U.S. military veterans.

Considering the rather standard practice of marketplace operators in releasing stolen data gradually in order to avoid oversaturation of the market and to minimize the chances of identification of stolen records by the banks, it will take at least several months before the entire archive is offered for sale.

The recent Basel III pact, an international accord under which central banks across the world — including the U.S. Federal Reserve — agreed to regulatory standards, requires banks to increase their equity funding to at least 7 % of their «risk - weighted» assets by 2019.

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There are at least four factors that can be identified: reset shock, poor assessment of the risks by the lending institution, a decline in underwriting standards and, more recently, the decline in house prices (although this is somewhat endogenous).

Well, for sure there is room for more people in our cities, at least by international standards.

These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more of bond assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below.

And if you literally mean a flat tax with from the first dollar (which is * NOT * what most flat tax proposals are, by the way — they all include at least a significant standard deduction)-- one with no deductions & credits (not even home interest deductions or charitable deductions or college deductions, etc), then we may as well be discussing what type of pig would fly more efficiently.

All of the major banks have increased their standard credit card interest rates by at least 25 basis points, with a couple announcing slightly higher increases.

The best way of making certain you pay the least taxes possible is to take them to certified public accountant (CPA), a designation used only by accountants who have passed a very difficult exam and are held to high standards of ethics.

To the cynic who might suggest that I come to terms with the differences within myself by taking a trip to Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow up.

But while these few powerful leaders draw in the big crowds, there are countless servant leaders out there drawing in smaller, (perhaps less cool) crowds that are being transformed by Jesus Christ, who served, who sacrificed, and who — at least by the world's standards — failed.

Also I'm most of the time very good at judging others to some kind of standard that I expect people to live by, meaning I want to put them into religion or at least have some kind of control over them.

For Luther, knowledge of God comes into being at what is by all human standards the least likely place, namely, the cross of Christ.

It is the obligation of parents to maintain at least minimal standards in the home by appropriate regulation of the reading, listening, and viewing diets of their children.

Considering legendary jazz musician John Coltrane a god by musical standards may be nothing new, but at least one church in San Francisco has honored the late virtuoso's memory by canonizing him their patron saint.

Considering legendary jazz musician John Coltrane a god by musical standards may be nothing new, but at least one church in San Francisco has honored the late virtuoso's memory by...

As the U.S. Catholic bishops acknowledge, churches must judge themselves by moral standards that are at least as rigorous as those to which they would hold other corporations accountable.

But here's a clue: almost NOBODY believes that killing is absolutely wrong, as some subset or other of the standard exceptions, ie acts during times of war, executions for at least some crimes, the unborn, euthanasia, even self defense are credited by almost everyone.

The churches in Canada and the United States were still full (at least by contemporary standards); bishops and moderators had influence in high places; and the clergy were the bright, affable, well - spoken and of course (ostensibly) heterosexual young men (yes of course, men) who had chosen theology over law and medicine.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

Then on a larger scale, consider the human condition, that every person is wicked, by nature, their natural inclination is toward evil to begin with, at least when compared to God's standard.

This is to say, then, that the classical prophet, although highly creative and proclaiming a new word, was debtor, and certainly conscious debtor, to a core tradition already long established.1 This is also to say that one must of necessity define the essentially prophetic quality in pre-Amos Israel by the standards of classical prophetism, and further that no history, and perhaps least of all biblical history, may be appropriated in sterile chronological fashion.

Rather than saying that Whitehead was very deficiently Christian by orthodox standards, Morris B. Cohen and Bertrand Russell complained that he was excessively Christian, or at least too Christian to be a rational philosopher.7 Whitehead, from a purely rational point of view, was, as Pascal and James before him, a defender of emotion and feeling, or in Biblical terms, a defender of the heart, the raison.

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Most of my male friends would roll their eyes when the girls tried to elevate the party standards by bringing plates of hors d'oeuvres — stuffed mushrooms, bacon - wrapped scallops and and at least one spinach artichoke dip were always present.

I've actually never found it in my standard grocery stores here in Canada, but I've made it (or at least a tasty approximation) by soaking 5 or 6 dried ancho or guajillo chilies in hot water (I get mine from a Latin American grocery store in Toronto, but I bet you could use dried cayennes in a pinch, which seem to be more common), draining them, and blending them with toasted cumin seed, coriander, garlic, sundried tomatoes, and sometimes a tablespoon or so of chipotles in adobo sauce.

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All of them had at least one container of oats that tested above the safe gluten limit as defined by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, an international organization that creates gluten - free standards.