Sentences with phrase «less than a reasonable»

When Gina (Michelle Williams) and her husband, Ryan (James Le Gros), sit down with a taciturn neighbor, Albert (Rene Auberjonois), in order to strike a deal with him for a pile of unused sandstone, Gina's silently exasperated struggle not to be made to feel small in polite, sitting - room conversation seems like nothing less than a reasonable update to the horrors borne by the wives and daughters who blazed the westward trail.

Custom Book Scanning shall take steps no less rigorous than those we take to protect our own proprietary information, but in any event no less than reasonable means, to prevent the distribution and to protect the confidentiality of the confidential information.

As long as the market value of the personal residence is less than a reasonable estimate of its equivalent value, I would count it as an asset.

From a practical standpoint this would seem to lead reasonable people to try to learn more and to only implement «no regrets» policies, but people are often less than reasonable aren't they.

In patent infringement cases, the law requires that the patent owner receive from the infringer «damages adequate to compensate for the infringement,» but in no event less than a reasonable royalty.

If the amount is less than reasonable, then it is immaterial whether the same will be paid via salary continuance or lump sum.

In many of these cases, employers offered a less than reasonable amount based on the assumption that many of their employees will just accept whatever they are offered — happy to get anything at all.

Not exact matches

The three - pack is pricey, coming in at just under $ 400, but the single Connect Home is very reasonable for less than $ 120 when it's on sale.

We do not know the increase in the growth of federally regulated workers that make less than $ 15, but given what we know from the Labour Force Survey, federally regulated workplace study and employment equity survey data, estimates of 0.25 - 0.75 % annual growth appear reasonable.

For purposes of the offering in Canada, if all of the shares have not been sold, after the Canadian underwriters have made a reasonable effort to sell the shares at the public offer price, the Canadian underwriters may from time to time decrease or change the offering price and the other selling terms provided that the price for the shares shall not exceed the public offer price and further provided that the compensation that is realized by the Canadian underwriters will be decreased by the amount that the aggregate price paid by the purchasers for the shares is less than the gross proceeds paid by the Canadian underwriters to us or the selling stockholders.

The total amount of fees the Company paid F.W. Cook in 2007 was $ 111,207, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of F.W. Cook's reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout Wells Fargo.

The total amount of fees the Company paid Cook & Co. in 2011 was $ 163,199, which included the fees paid for services provided as the independent compensation consultant to the HRC and GNC, reimbursement of Cook & Co.'s reasonable travel and business expenses, and a fee of less than $ 5,000 for a survey of long - term incentives which is used for benchmarking for other positions throughout the Company.

Utilizing the «factor» test laid out in 506 (c), it seems that «reasonable steps to verify» for a member of a legitimate angel group would be less than that of a random person on the street, which is seemingly who the safe harbors appear to be designed for.

BSCK charges a reasonable fee and recovers a good portion of it, lagging its index by significantly less than its expense ratio.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

In general, despite persistent macroeconomic challenges, the environment for corporate profitability has been reasonable, allowing business profitability to move forward, albeit at a less than robust pace.

Hot Tip: Singapore Airlines premium economy cash fares can often be significantly less than business, and can then be upgraded to business class at a reasonable miles price.

Surprisingly, it did go through in less than a day and the fee was a reasonable $ 10 flat.

After a reasonable interval to seek work in their own occupation, workers are currently expected to take a job «at a rate of earnings not lower and on conditions not less favourable than those observed by agreement between employers and employees or, in the absence of any such agreement, than those recognized by good employers.»

However, if earnings grow by an estimated 18.4 % over the next four quarters, you've got a P / E to Growth (PEG) ratio of less than 1X, which seems reasonable if the world can get along.

Your answer is much less reasonable than any scientific answer that has been given so far.

The probability that some deity exists, given the absolute complete and utter lack of definitive evidence would, by any reasonable calculation, be less than one.

Rather than praise the college for warmly inviting President Bush to give its commencement address, Neuhaus chose to chide the institution because one hundred teachers (less than 30 percent of the faculty) published a respectful letter disagreeing with the very reasonable view that the Iraq War policy is not de-facto «God's will.»

Even the Franciscan St. Bonaventure, while recognising that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was not contrary to Scripture, had opposed it as being less safe, reasonable and common than the maculist position.

We would probably not survive for very long, certainly would have little quality of life, if we did not draw and defend reasonable boundaries in this less - than - perfect, upside down, disordered world that has, in many ways, only begun the process of being healed and repaired by Grace.

After all, I have admitted that a free - will theodicy will be inherently more «defensive» than the process theodicy — that a free - will theodicy will be at points less able than the process theodicy to offer explanations for evil that flow in a natural, intuitive sense from the theistic tenets on which it is built — and isn't it reasonable to assume that the theodicy which is least defensive in this sense should be considered most plausible?

Bryan sounds at least reasonable when he argues, «If the results of evolution were unimportant, one might require less proof in support of the hypothesis, but before accepting a new philosophy of life, built upon a materialistic foundation, we have reason to demand something more than guesses.»

You have 1 1/4 cups total of barley or other grain: less than 2 tablespoons grain per pint serving, and lots of deliciousness and creaminess: very reasonable!

Now, we're in an offseason where a potential superstar like Shohei Ohtani is only getting the league minimum after signing with the Angels for a capped international bonus figure; where one of the very best hitters in the game, J.D. Martinez, still can't find a reasonable offer with less than two weeks to go before spring training; where Yu Darvish can't sign with either of the teams he would like to (the richest out there, the Yankees and Dodgers), despite their having a need for a starter of his caliber, because they «need» to clear salary in order to avoid paying the luxury tax.

Welbeck has great acceleration, reasonable heading ability and will improve but at the moment his shooting is less than great and his balance / control is suspect in tight areas.

So it is reasonable to believe that a lot of Arsenal season ticket holders are going to be less than ecstatic about turning up at the Emirates for the game on a cold Thursday night and may make their tickets available for sale, while the Germans are going to be very excited about this tie indeed.

With that in mind, it's reasonable to assume UCLA will suffer much less damage than the other teams that lost.

Are his goals any less important if Ozil puts it on a plate for him than if he scores a screamer from outside and what should be a reasonable target for him?

Both are extremely reasonable considering how the market has jumped since Hamels signed his extension: Jon Lester is Hamels» equal, less than two weeks his junior, and just signed a six - year, $ 155 million deal, while Max Scherzer is likely to sign one even richer and longer.

The French club are unwilling to part with Boufal for less than # 18m however, but given his age, Wenger may feel that's a reasonable fee for such a talented player.

I never ever thought we'd be able to afford to stay at a hotel as wonderful as The Grand Floridian, but Virgin Holidays managed to find us a great deal with the dining plan included so it was actually quite reasonable, and because the rooms are so spacious it meant all 5 of us could stay in one room, which cost less than two rooms elsewhere.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

Since these «BPA - free» bottles leached less than polycarbonate plastic bottles under conditions designed to simulate repeated normal use, the government researchers concluded these bottles made of polysulfone, polystyrene or polypropylene (non-PC) are a «reasonable alternative» to the banned polycarbonate (PC) bottles.

Lansinoh has a decent breast pump that sells for about $ 140, which is quite a bit less than others of reasonable quality.

Slightly more reasonable as the starting bid is currently less than the last one sold for...

It teaches how to prevent and manage PPH in settings where skilled obstetric care can be reached within a reasonable period of time (less than four hours).

It is certainly far more reasonable and less damaging than any of the three other cases.

A # 3.7 k tax on a # 400,000 profit (less than 1 % overall) sounds reasonable to me — and the homes of most elderly people in care are typically sold well within three years.

«Because we can not conclude that the (instruction) error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we are obliged to vacate the convictions,» the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, less than three months after reversing former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's separate corruption conviction on the same grounds.

And contrary to the government's claim that the post was a «low - show» job — «Percoco taught the curriculum less than a dozen times on average, with each class typically lasting less than [two] hours,» the government said recently — the defense maintains that her «compensation was reasonable,» an opinion shared by an economist it intends to call as an expert witness.

FERC ruled that the state acted in a reasonable time, and a second application was filed by Constitution less than a year after one dating from May 2014.

He cited Chicago as an example, noting that Chicago may need more reasonable suspicion stops «to deal with their problem than New York, which is having much less problems.»

FSMC documents acknowledge that the lease is for «less than fair market value,» but that «there is no reasonable alternative to the proposed below market transfer that would achieve the same purpose.»

Such caution seems reasonable given NASA's less - than - perfect manned spaceflight record and the frequent failure of satellite launches.

Importantly, however, survival was equivalent in the two arms of the nivolumab study, with less serious toxicity than in the chemotherapy arm, so it also represents a reasonable option for patients with lower PD - L1 expression in their tumors.