Sentences with phrase «means of adjusting»

When you first start reading a book, the screen is rather distractingly adorned with no fewer than nine interface elements that surround the text — a button to return to your library, a shortcut to the table of contents, a means of adjusting the font size and style, and so on.

Like all religions it is a means of adjusting life to social reality.

Not exact matches

From the second video, you'll understand: - The different components of CPI data - What «seasonally adjusted» means for monthly inflation numbers

That means peace of mind for diabetes patients, who no longer have to constantly prick their fingers to measure blood sugar and manually adjust insulin doses, and hope for recovering opioid addicts, who might face a relapse if they don't adhere to a strict treatment protocol.

Every 12 - week engineering internship starts with an orientation sprint meant to get newbies adjusted to Facebook's codebase (this is a shortened version of the six - week «Bootcamp» that all new engineering employees go through).

Essentially, I mean adjusting your sales strategy to focus on delivering suggestions based on what a customer needs, rather than presenting a list of products that your customer may or may not care about.

This particular deduction lowers your adjusted gross income, meaning that there's less chance of you being rendered ineligible for certain other tax breaks.

The volatility of the business has prompted some casino operators to report their results on a hold - adjusted basis, meaning they also tell investors what revenue would have been had winnings been more in line with historical norms.

Asking less of the relationship means adjusting your expectations of what your partner is capable of doing for you.

«As 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation, we take a look back at the history of GDP as a means to examine the Canadian economy,» StatsCan said at the end of its latest report on Canada's inflation - adjusted gross domestic product.

So after a set amount of time (anywhere from one to 10 years) that interest rate can «adjust,» and that typically means it's going to rise.

«Parent Trading Price» shall mean the average closing sales price of one (1) share of Parent Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange for the ten (10) consecutive trading days ending on the date that is two (2) trading days immediately preceding the Closing Date (as adjusted as appropriate to reflect any stock splits, stock dividends, combinations, reorganizations, reclassifications or similar events).

Wealthfront and Betterment don't know this, which means they might not have an accurate risk adjusted model portfolio for me since they will think 100 % of my net worth is with them.

The requirement that the ratio not exceed 75 percent — meaning banks can not lend more than 75 percent of their deposits out — would remain the same, but the way ratio is calculated would be adjusted, Wang Zhaoxing, deputy chairman of the CBRC, said June 6.

That means executives can pay employees (and themselves) with stock instead of cash, buy back shares to offset the dilution, and increase these adjusted metrics without doing anything to improve real operating performance.

«That means that trustees need access to passive or systematic indexes that take account of how companies are preparing for a low carbon future and can engage with those that aren't doing enough to adjust.

The BlackRock ® Diversified Income Portfolio is flexible in nature, meaning the investment managers have the ability to adjust or shift its asset allocation as market conditions change in order to find attractive income opportunities with an appropriate amount of risk.

That means you can deduct the portion of your fees that exceeds 2 % of your adjusted gross income (AGI).

It also means that you can only benefit from this deduction if the sum of your miscellaneous deductions exceeds 2 % of your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI).

In the end, this means there will be an IRA deduction of up to $ 5,500 in 2015 (reported on Line 32 of Form 1040), Roth conversion income of up to $ 5,500 to match it (reported on Line 15 of Form 1040), and since both are above - the - line income / deductions on the tax return, the net result is $ 0 of Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) and a $ 0 tax liability, even while getting the whole $ 5,500 in a Roth IRA!

For first - time buyers, it would mean a 6.5 per cent increase of $ 475, «or, at best, the status quo, if the current rebate is not adjusted higher than what is currently being proposed,» says TREB.

A border - adjusted tax would «mean a trade war not only between China and the U.S. but across the whole world,» said Wei Jianguo, a former Chinese vice minister of commerce.

For example, in ancient Rome it took the merchants a few months to catch up following a round of coinage debasement, meaning that it took a few months for prices to adjust to the reduced value of the money.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

The fact that the demand for credit is distinct from the demand for money, and that the two things can change independently, means, among other things, that interest rates, which adjust to «clear» markets for various kinds of credit, can not also be counted on to «clear» the market for money balances.

Under the Act, the net interest deduction is limited to 30 percent of adjusted taxable income, which will generally mean earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the next four years (2018 — 2021), and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) thereafter (2022 and beyond).

Appropriately weighted and adjusted arithmetic mean of all companies in a portfolio.

Most of those that survive will do so by tempering their beliefs with the realities science discovers, and evolving to continue giving their life meaning by adjusting to the facts.

He explained that Bill's attempt to adjust his neurosis by means of alcohol had lead to an obsession which condemned him to go on drinking and, further, he had a physical sensitivity — an «allergy» — to alcohol which guaranteed that he would go insane or die, perhaps within a year.

Whitehead suggests that teachers should facilitate what he calls the student's «concrete vision» by allowing the student to utilize knowledge: «By utilizing an idea I mean relating it to that stream compounded of sense perceptions, feelings, hopes, desires and of mental activities adjusting thought to thought, which forms our life» (AE 3).

There are also the «well - adjusted» folk in comfortable circumstances who have not even begun to learn the meaning of Christian love in racial and other group relations.

«What is inexorable in God, is valuation as an aim towards order»; and «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts.

Certainly, such a bankruptcy would mean a drastic lowering of our standard of living, a further loss of control over international affairs, a sudden need to adjust to the rise of other powers, including China and India, and a further discrediting of the notion that the United States is somehow exceptional compared to other nations.

Many, perhaps most, atheists are agnostic atheists, meaning they don't know that gods do or do not exist and don't believe in them, but would likely be willing to adjust their perspectives if evidence of gods made it possible for them to know that these gods exist.

Now if the population in 2014 was 318.9 million and 83 percent claim to be Christian, that means there are 264,687,000 Christians in the U.S.. Now, let's adjust that for the average family size of around 3.14 people.

As the natural sciences have helped man to understand his place in the totality of the universe, so they have also given him means by which he can adjust himself to the natural processes and by which he may even control them.

god doesn't come down and su ck your di ck... everything after conversion is the same only with a sense of meaning... basically, you lack an ability to adjust outside the age of reason so you require a «god» that replaces your parents as the rule maker and enforcer... wow, thats sad

Not only the spontaneous self - creativity of the individual but the social order which makes possible that particular exercise of spontaneity is essential for intense value - experience Indeed Whitehead says that» «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts» (PR 244 / 373f.).

The response of one who truly believed in reason would have been to explore more carefully what the word «cause» really can mean and how it can be justified, and then to adjust its use in science accordingly.

This meant that the «barbarians» who conformed to the Eastern wing of the Catholic Church had to adjust themselves to a regime which, while profoundly alerted, kept much of the pattern inherited from pre-Christian days with its domination of religion by the State.

You may try to adjust the meaning of the words to make them fit your doctrinal bias but you will have to disregard the most elementary principles of hermeneutics.

I think that brown miso (I assume you mean «aka miso») has a more intense / salty flavour so simply use less of it and adjust to taste.

Adding additional (or different) wet ingredients may mean you need to adjust your dry ingredients accordingly, so unless you're simply shaking a bit of cinnamon into your batter, you'll want to follow a recipe to make sure your flavored pancakes turn out perfectly.

It's a new year and that means more good gluten free eats, right?As How is your year starting so far?As I'm trying to adjust back to our routine, but it's also a bit busier -LSB-...] The post The Week's Good Eats — Week of January 8th appeared first on Better Batter Gluten Free Flour.

What makes them especially kid friendly, and as fun as eating tacos, is that you can load the wraps with your favorite toppings, and adjust the amount to your liking (in our house this means lots of peanuts, and avocado).

This means you always need to taste the batter and adjust amounts of things (yes, I know there are raw eggs... but buy cage free farm eggs and you don't need to worry about the salmonella thing).

Close the lid and smoke brisket for 3 hours adjusting the dampers to maintain a cooking temperature of 225 degrees F. (For my Grill Dome ET, this means having the bottom damper open about 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch and the top damper open about 10 percent.)

The mean total aisle length of snack foods (adjusted for store size) was greatest in supermarkets from the UK (56.4 m) and lowest in New Zealand (21.7 m).

I mean, other players take months and sometimes seasons to adjust to the «speed and physicality» of the prem.

He's leaner & meaner than he was, his heart is being treated properly (hard to underscore this enough — could be the single biggest factor in his resurgence, his energy level on the court now is a powerhouse), and Pop is adjusting to him and allowing him to be LaMarcus instead of forcing him to be a random PF in the Spurs machine.