Sentences with phrase «lowest common denominator»

After an overview of the Employment Tribunal regime in chapter 1, it launches into a consideration of the need for advice, thus openly pitching to the lowest common denominator of the litigant in person while in a balanced and unbiased manner (bearing in mind that it is written by seasoned practitioners) considering whether professional assistance is necessary.

At the beginning of the process, the Taskforce appeared optimistic that it could do so not by lowering standards to the lowest common denominator, but, instead, by raising them to the highest.

As was discussed in Huysmans» post on this blog, EU secondary legislation regarding procedural safeguards is very often a result of the Member States» lowest common denominator and that usually comes close to the minimum standard of the ECtHR.

Keeping the bar high on disclosures and screening, rather than dropping to the lowest common denominator to ensure uniformity, would go down well with many people in the field.

Exposure is the first element obviously, but not at the expense of lowering yourself to the lowest common denominator!

This indecision led to the lowest common denominator strategy of «digitise and it will be worth it — somehow».

It's an appeal to the lowest common denominator of society.

What survives is frequently lowest common denominator work that doesn't unduly ruffle the collective partnership feathers.

I've already spoken of the lowest common denominator phenomenon that hinders legal marketing.

Both of these outcomes are difficult to achieve in the partnership model, where too often decisions are weighted toward the interests of the individual partners rather than the interests of the business, and where standards gravitate to the lowest common denominator.

If States would be free to restrict the accessibility of information in other parts of the world, eventually only the lowest common denominator would remain.

«I've found it's the lowest common denominator.

In a jurisdiction that has prided itself on the importance of «doctrine» in interpreting the law, the fact that the major French language university opts for content with the lowest common denominator, while a foreign owned commercial publisher offers an authoritative work by leading academics and legal practitioners, is a remarkable case of role reversal, as well as a reflection on how times have changed.

We agree that banning lawyers, writing and speaking inside the courtroom sounds ridiculous, but if we use the lowest common denominator approach towards ODR, we should be coherent and apply it to all the tools that are currently at our disposal within the legal system.

That is, design with the lowest common denominator in mind so your emails will display cleanly to the largest number of subscribers.

Unfortunately the negotiations are likely to go for the lowest common denominator and result in the least ambitious combination possible that can be spinned as success in the eyes of media and public.

The conservatism is built into its consensus structure, which tends to produce a lowest common denominator on which a large number of scientists can agree.»

China is proof of that — in the absence of nuclear power or subsidized alternative sources, they've simply resorted to the lowest common denominator for energy in the form of coal plants.

The latter sees science reduced to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of extrinsic social - engineering ambitions it would seem.

The politicians could get on with the process of gradually working towards whatever lowest common denominator position they can get everyone to agree with, in the Kyoto or a new post-Kyoto framework.

Their paymasters use the outsourcing model of journalism, and it infects everything with the lowest common denominator effect.

At worst it leads to «lowest common denominator» statements — how diluted does the statement need to be before it can attract consensus.

Let's just hope domestic political squabbles — cough, complete and utter inability to enact meaningful national renewable energy and climate policies, even if not EPA's fault at all, cough — doesn't reduce that aspiration in practice to polluting corporation's lowest common denominator.

RE «Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator science» and claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those reports.»

Hank Roberts # 229: Thanks for direction to the IPCC review and approval process... which nevertheless gives the impression that the reports, prior to publication, must be substantially «de-fanged» and / or brought into accord with the lowest common denominator.

We know very well that there are many countries in the G8 grouping that share our ambitious expectations, and therefore it is regrettable that the lowest common denominator in the G8 determined the level of ambition in the G8 Declaration on climate change.

With most of the other G8 countries already committed to significant cuts, the United States is once again proving to be the lowest common denominator in global agreements to cut heat - trapping emissions.

You know, maybe the most important Surrealist publication was a magazine called Surrealism at the Service of The Revolution, and if one searched for the lowest common denominator in all these relations I would think it would have to be that everyone in some sense, on some level — and the senses would differ and the levels would differ — that we were all involved in a revolutionary enterprise.

The exhibition was blamed for cheapening and commercialising British art, thereby reducing artistic values to the lowest common denominator.

Beyond that all the promo spots for the film that focus on her being a «nymphomaniac» appear as nothing but a lowest common denominator spin, a crude tool aimed at bringing in the unsuspecting masses.

In science's search for the essential and the lowest common denominator, there were the significant late 18thC advances in optics and color theory.

Bernard Buffet, for instance, has long been held up as the lowest common denominator in French painting, but, as the current exhibition «Cher Peintre: Painting the Figure since Late Picabia» reveals, a lineup of Buffet's anguished stick figures and sloe - eyed gamines can look quite marvelous in the company of Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin.

This was one of the essential messages of the revolution, a revolution that asserted it had discovered the lowest common denominator in the entire discipline of painting.

In his objects he defines the dot as the lowest common denominator.

Produced neither by nor for individuals, mass - produced art and entertainment were designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

More often than not, PlayStation Mobile games are designed to accommodate the lowest common denominator: the non-Vita owners.

It's a mess of tropes and clichés liberally borrowed from the early Zelda and Final Fantasy games written in a style aimed at the lowest common denominator.

At the end of the day, Call of Duty and Battlefield play to the lowest common denominator, and friends and family across all platforms can relate to one another with it.

That should benefit PC's the most as we are oftentimes help back by the lowest common denominator.

Smiling as they accepted the award, the developer's representative thanked the players, who are either extremely switched - on and discerning gamers that would only play the finest entertainment, or mindless consumer pigs who will swallow whatever lowest common denominator bullshit is spoonfed to them.

In going for maximal sales, the target market broadens, leading to a pursuit of the lowest common denominator.

How can a truly progressive and forward thinking game developer be discovered in this increasing sea of capitalist opportunists who pander to the lowest common denominator of human desires?

Being known as the lowest common denominator of video games is something Call of Duty has dealt with for a while, but with games with much more depth getting a lot more attention from casual gamers, it's hard to imagine Call of Duty not slowly dying, regardless of what changes they make.

For a game about superheroes, it does seem a touch odd to power them all down to the level of the lowest common denominator, then spend the game powering them up again.

I don't care HOW well it sells, this is lowest common denominator bullshit.

Of course, multiplats will be developed roughly the same in most cases (to the lowest common denominator) with PS4 likely having a somewhat tighter Performance and Image Quality.

I want some gameplay in my game, not this lowest common denominator crap.

«Sod this, trying to make it work for the lowest common denominator — I'm just going to try and push it,» he said, and Origin was happy to hear it.

we have a racer designed to fit in the lowest common denominator of games.

Now the lowest common denominator will be 10x higher, and that's incredible.