Sentences with phrase «lower than a law»

Also, because our overhead is so much lower than a law firm's, we are able to offer much lower prices, usually a third of the private sector.

Indeed, some companies have insurance limits lower than law firms that perform this work, or different exclusions (including around warranties).

Delinquents have repeatedly been shown to have an IQ that is 8 - 10 points lower than law abiding peers - and this is before the onset of antisocial behaviour.24 Other traits predisposing to conduct problems include irritability and explosiveness, lack of social awareness and social anxiety, and reward seeking behaviour.

Not exact matches

The UWC, which uses a different, lower standard of evidence than law enforcement to reach a verdict quickly, delivered a ruling within five months.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

A combination of the lowered corporate tax rate under the US» new tax law and shipping demand rising faster than the company previously expected drove the aggressive investment strategy.

Because these bare - bones plans do not limit insurance payouts to workers, they meet the letter of the law's requirements that employers provide «affordable» health care coverage to their workers at a far lower cost than more comprehensive plans.

As of now, federal spending for fiscal year 2014 is capped by law at $ 967 billion, even lower than the post-fiscal-cliff $ 984 billion of 2013.

Under federal wage law, employers who pay the tipped minimum wage, which is lower than the standard minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, can't pool and share tips with non-tipped workers.

It's easy to feel nostalgic for Zellers» glory days — the chain was with us for more than 80 years, and at one point, the lowest price was indeed the law.

Schedule your Knee Replacement for 2018: If you itemize, the new law allows you to deduct qualified medical and dental expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income (AGI)-- that's a lower threshold than the previous 10 percent (the level returns to 10 percent beginning January 1, 2019.)

So we have Bernanke essentially bragging that he broke the law and helped create mass unemployment, because it's his only way of defending himself against those Senators who want him to break the law even more egregiously - to create even lower than post-war record low inflation in order to create even higher unemployment.

In addition, our future income taxes could fluctuate because of earnings being lower than anticipated in jurisdictions that have lower statutory tax rates and higher than anticipated in jurisdictions that have higher statutory tax rates, by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities, or by changes in tax laws, regulations, or accounting principles.

Now, the tax law that took effect January 1st allows LLCs and partnerships to have a much lower rate than individual taxpayers and corporations get the lowest rate of all.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

2) Whole industries have moved to places where wages are lower and labor laws and environmental standards less stringent than they are in the United States.

From this Stoeger argues that «special divine action» is really a matter of the «higher laws of nature» as they actually function, rather than as we understand them, subsuming, modifying and marshalling the «lower orders of nature»; those of physics, chemistry and biology.

These laws, known as «Romeo and Juliet laws» provide that a person can legally have consensual intercourse with a minor provided that he or she is not more than a given number of years older generally four years but sometimes some other number of years Romeo and Juliet laws were passed Several ped membership org endorsed lowering or abolishing age of consent laws to legalize fleshly activities involving an adult and a child.

The upper income, well educated Catholic lay - men are much less receptive to clerical guidance as to the practical social implications of moral and religious laws of the church than are the lower income, more poorly educated Catholics.

Recreational «drug» use such as is currently allowed by law here in the U.S. puts upon the general populace many social discords that have tendencies to demoralize the individual welfares thereby lowering the nation's social wellbeing... Synthetically made pharmaceutical drugs can not replace naturally occurring drugs and such synthetics are apt to be more harmful and way more addictive than the naturally occurring ones.

To replace the Vitamin A removed when fat is separated from whole milk, federal law requires Vitamin A to be added to milk that is lower in fat than whole milk — namely, nonfat, lowfat (1 %), and reduced fat (2 %) milks.

The indefatigable Kat Law, a champion of fans» rights, asked about a link between pricing and lower attendances than expected for some games.

If the voters demanded two incompatible things (like much lower taxes and much higher spending) then no government can deliver both any more than they can define Pi as 3 or abolish the law of gravity.

Along with vigilant enforcement of the law, disclosure of contributions, and lower contribution limits, public financing of elections can «end the mad chase for campaign cash that starts some elected officials down the road to corruption and... make candidates dependent on ordinary voters rather than special interests.»

«On average, prosecutors remain the lowest - paid law enforcement professionals in Nassau County despite the fact that most starting ADAs have accrued more than $ 100,000 in educational debt for their training,» Tarek said.

Lawmakers voted to have Rural Law Center handle appeals from people who can't afford their own lawyer at $ 2,250 per case, which is lower than what it's been costing the county to hire local lawyers

There is no huge distinction between a «law» and an «act of Congress» - they may be different in some cases, but one is not higher or lower than the other.

At the same time, the school groups support ending the provision that essentially caps levy increases at less than 2 percent: Currently, the cap law limits increases to either the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is lower.

In that elderly, minority and low - income groups are less likely to have these documents, they are correct in that voter ID laws will be more of a hassle for these groups than others.

The campaign started after the National Employment Law Project released a 2009 survey showing that restaurant workers, grocery baggers, household cleaners and other low - wage workers complained their bosses paid them less than promised, if at all.

The arguments against paid sick leave, as stated in the Capital Region Chamber's petition opposing Local Law «C» on behalf of its more than 2400 area businesses and organizations, include: the proposal will hurt our economy, reduce jobs, lower the county's sales tax revenue, and act as «an impediment to attracting, retaining and growing jobs.»

I don't know how Margaret Chen is going to write the law when key money is being mentioned now in litigation for 68a Mott Street which means true market rents are much higher than reported (and that my mother is really charging a very low rent for an ongoing vacancy) but the fake rent is going to be used to claim so many things about owners.

With the low minimum requirement of signatures for Council candidates as required by law this year, it is more feasible to stop their name from appearing on the ballot than, say, for Mayor or Borough Prez due to the volume of signatures and the small window allotted to file such objections.

The legislation requires each county to pass a local law to authorize the award of bids by best value rather than low bid.

In 2015, the de Blasio administration worked to significantly reform the 421 - a law to increase the amount of affordable housing required of every developer receiving the subsidy, require affordability for lower incomes than ever before, and demand affordable housing everywhere in the City.

The government is rushing the bill through parliament's lower House in a bid to see it become law by the summer recess, now less than three weeks away.

The report outlines a series of first steps, including holding fewer people on bail; expanding diversion programs for drug offenders and those with mental illness; and changing state law to treat some low - level offenses — like fare - beating, marijuana possession in public view, prostitution and possession of so - called gravity knives — as civil rather than criminal matters.

This enhanced growth of the strength of gravity means that the true energy scale at which the laws of gravity and quantum mechanics clash — and black holes can be made — could be much lower than the traditional expectation.

For example, Missouri has the lowest cigarette excise tax in the country and weak statewide clean indoor air laws, and we have 50 percent more smokers than New York, which has the highest cigarette tax and strong clean indoor air laws.»

Results reveal that on average, the 13 states allowing the use of medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose mortality rate after the laws were enacted than states without the laws, indicating that the alternative treatment may be safer for patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer and other conditions.

On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws.

But in the contemporary era, when industrialized states exert the rule of law, violence is lower than our evolutionary heritage would predict, hovering around 1.3 % when combining statistics from across the world.

From 1982 to 2002, states with restraining order laws that bar offenders from buying guns had rates of intimate partner homicide that were 10 percent lower than in states lacking the laws, researchers reported in 2006 in Evaluation Review.It's a stark result, and suggests that tough laws can have big impacts.

That's an even lower threshold than the levels in existing labeling laws in Europe and Japan.

The MF can be fitted by a power law in the low mass regime with a slope of Gamma ~ 0.54 - 0.75, which is much shallower than the Salpeter value of 1.35.

But there's also a law of diminishing returns — and you need far less exercise than you think to lower stress or lower risk of chronic disease.

im not against low carb at all, keto or original atkins are not my favorite ways to approach it, but Im very much in favor of certain types of low carb diets, particularly higher protein, diets with moderate carb restriction... i use low carb, hi - protein for contest prep myself... unfortunately, what pervades much of the low carb world still today, is this belief that calories do nt matter or calories do nt count or what you alluded to, that you can have a calorie deficit and not lose fat... whats really happening is that low carb / higher protein can be a very good way to automatically control appetite and calorie intake, and is also often important for some peoples health given their metabolic status (not very carb tolerant, etc)... its also unfortunate that many in the low carb community are among the ones to suggest that exercise is a waste of time, etc etc, which is also not true and does great disservice to many who listen... low carb does nt work due to some voodoo or because the law of thermodynamics does nt apply... it works mainly because it controls calories and for some people, helps them achieve calorie deficit better than other diets... when folks show up here and suggest «i was in a calorie deficit but wasnt losing» or «exercise does nt work» thats when we cant help but grimace... or chuckle...

In addition, some subject choices seemed to disadvantage certain students — those taking law, for instance, were more likely to be at universities that scored lower on league tables if they had A-level law rather than a subject such as maths or science.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

The system would not meet the letter of the new ESSA law, which requires that academic indices weigh more heavily than non-academic ones in identifying low - performing schools.