Sentences with phrase «lockstep by»

Holman Fenwick Willan is set to reduce the length of its lockstep by one year in an effort to simplify the firm's current partnership structure.

Today, a large fraction of a chip's power is used to keep the chip components marching lockstep by broadcasting ticks of the chip's clock, but there are promising research projects to do that with optical links.

Not exact matches

Regardless of size, companies can maintain their relevancy by following the lead of the more agile and engaged indie brands who are in lockstep with customers» wants and needs.

The prices, gathered by Truven Health Analytics, are in such lockstep that you can barely see both trend lines.

He added that not only did the US effectively hang the UK «out to dry» by not staying in lockstep with the ally from the start, it was also signaling to Russian President Vladimir Putin that «he is free to act with impunity, including by carrying out deadly acts in the UK.»

Interest rates on savings accounts don't move in lockstep with rising interest rates set by the Bank of Canada.

The Canadian dollar has plummeted in lockstep with the price of oil — from 95 cents when oil was trading at $ 100 a barrel in July 2014 to its current 69 cents, with the price of oil having fallen by nearly three - quarters.

You do, however, ooze contempt for anyone who isn't lockstep with your thoughts and opinions, evidenced by your posts to me above.

All candidates are forced to march in lockstep with their respective parties» agendas, no matter how odious some of those positions are perceived by the average citizen.

They'll be limited by the so - called «lockstep», which requires any changes to affect all bands of income tax.

The party was supposed to help Spitzer gather some of the 3,750 signatures he'll need by midnight on Thursday to secure a spot on the ballot, something of a tall order given that the city's Democratic and labor Establishment is in lockstep behind Stringer.

The spectral landscape is revealed by the Meteosat Seviri satellite, which snaps images every 15 minutes as it orbits in lockstep with Earth's rotation.

By the present time, a black hole and its host galaxy have grown in mass by factors of a million or more, roughly in locksteBy the present time, a black hole and its host galaxy have grown in mass by factors of a million or more, roughly in locksteby factors of a million or more, roughly in lockstep.

Butter and its popularity declined swiftly and in lockstep with most other full - fat foods as the hysterical and misguided fat phobia grabbed the Western world by the throat.

The Imitation Game, however, is crystal clear, lockstep in narrative and exposition and careful to leave no child behind as it explains how Turing and his team of irregulars managed to build the first computer and defeat the Nazi war machine by intercepting its communications.

All this is followed by the big game itself, all operating in lockstep as rigid as the clockwork evil island.

Not only do Master Builders Lord & Miller, who crafted the script from a story by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman (Hotel Transylvania) manage keep all those careening bricks in the air with crack comic precision, they sneak in an affecting third act reveal that's absolutely in lockstep with the venerable brand's creative spirit.

They claimed, he said, that under a definite curriculum «individual differences are disregarded, and promotion is determined by a standardized lockstep.»

In the meantime, the leading Republican senators» series of four bills to rewrite NCLB are almost in lockstep with a series of education bills introduced by their colleagues on the House Education Committee:

This is in contrast to today's age - grade lockstep where the curriculum that is offered to students is dependent upon the grade level the student is currently in, and that grade level is determined by the student's age.

The No. 63 Corvette C6.R and the No. 009 Aston Martin DBR9 were in lockstep from the start, trading the lead and separated by less than a lap in the running order for hour after hour.

Of course, it's going to get you shunned and banned by all right thinking lockstep rubber stamp «journalists».

And publishers decided to fight back: not by reimagining the book business with new, innovative, profitable roles for themselves, but by marching in lockstep behind the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a baldly illegal and ultimately futile strategy to wield collusive power to save the past and block the future.

It takes time for data, corrections, and transactions to propagate over the network from system to system — systems that were built at different times by varied teams and not always updated in lockstep.

Interest rates on savings accounts don't move in lockstep with rising interest rates set by the Bank of Canada.

While Treasury yields and mortgage rates don't move in lockstep, they are driven by many of the same things and so they generally move in the same direction most of the time.

If Apple and Microsoft stock prices were to move together in lockstep, you wouldn't be getting much in the way of diversification by owning both.

A conservative investor who holds 60 % to 70 % in bonds, for example, may be able to lower volatility by including a some U.S. and international exposure, since interest rates in various countries do not move in lockstep.

Kerry will likely face resistance in seeking lockstep commitments, of course, given that India's prime challenge is bringing reliable electricity and affordable fuels by any means to its billion - plus citizens — some 400 million of whom were unaffected by last year's blackouts because they have no access to electricity at all.

Regarding fine aerosols, as suggested by David, there are huge increases in industrial activity in SE Asia since 1975, but that is a rather linear expansion, where SO2 emissions are in lockstep with more dirtier aerosols.

is no surprise and suggests lockstep going the motions by the members, i.e., a preamble for other things.

Emails released by conservative legal group Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show state attorneys general are not in lockstep with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into Exxon that's ensnared groups labeled as skeptical of man - made global warming by environmental activists.

«What is going on right now is a desperate last - ditch Battle of the Bulge type effort by the forces of darkness, which is relying heavily on the lockstep / groupthink scientific community.»

IOW we have both the magnitude and the sign of water vapor feedback still in question (except, of course, by the IPCC orthodoxy, which assumes positive feedback at a rate high enough to essentially maintain constant relative humidity in lockstep with Clausius - Clapeyron).

As a smaller fraction of the excess CO2 goes into the oceans, a larger fraction may remain in the atmosphere, and the chemical changes in seawater that can affect organisms will continue to grow in lockstep with the relentless increases in the excess CO2 in the overlying atmosphere caused by human activities.

The overhaul, ushered in by managing partner Gideon Moore and which will take effect from May 2017, means partners in London will take a minimum of 12 years to reach the top of the lockstep, compared to 10 years under the current system.

The magic circle firm, which overhauled its three - tier lockstep system in 2015, has long had the ability to reward top - performing partners by moving them above its core 100 - point plateau, but has previously opted against such a move — even for lateral hires in the highly competitive US market.

The decision to litigate locks the parties into the processes prescribed by the Rules of Court and a lockstep march through interim applications, disclosure and discovery, case conferences and trial.

Reforms voted in by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partners last week make the firm the latest to radically overhaul its lockstep — with partners approving changes that usher in a # 3m top of lockstep for a handful of stars, while empowering management to better control the progress of those lower down through the use of three gates.

Two weeks ago Clifford Chance's (CC) 581 - strong global partnership gave its permission to the streamlined management team introduced by managing partner Matthew Layton to overhaul the firm's lockstep structure.

After all, the logic for promoting a high performance culture by rewarding the most deserving lawyers over a traditional associate lockstep is clear.

The planned overhaul, which has not yet been approved by partners, will add an additional 10 points to the top of the lockstep, taking the plateau to 75 points for star performers.

By contrast, it is difficult to achieve maximum benefit from personal work plans in firms that have lockstep or other seniority - based compensation systems.

The two firms currently operate pure locksteps, the traditional compensation system employed by U.K. law firms under which an equity partner's profit share automatically rises each year based on seniority, rather than on merit.

Several of these firms are in the process of converting the current methodology for granting associate increases from lockstep (by class for the first several years) to a meritocracy.

While exceptional American firms such as Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Debevoise & Plimpton still use the relatively inflexible lockstep model, the bulk of US - based businesses can lure partner recruits or retain rainmakers by elevating them in the pay ranks and deal appropriately with less profitable partners by limiting what they earn.

We also discuss the movement away from lockstep promotion and compensation to an individualized merit - based system by examining one firm that has done it and another about to make the switch.

The traditional salary model for law firm associates is lockstep compensation, in which associate salaries go up by a fixed amount each year from the associate's law school graduation.

In contrast to the lockstep system, which is still used by a dwindling number of law firms, albeit some of the most prestigious, Kirkland's approach is a star system known somewhat pejoratively as «eat what you kill.»

Group chaired by litigation head Michael Bennett set to report back on ongoing plans to overhaul lockstep in May