Sentences with phrase «means testing as»

It can be clearly seen that since 2002 — 03 there has been a dramatic drop in volume, although surprisingly the greatest drop (in 2004 — 05) did not coincide with means testing as many had suspected.

«EI benefits should have a more stringent means test as there are far too many abuses of the system,» wrote one.

By all means test as many as you like, but don't stay in 50 places because you think it's good advice.

Some college fund payments made by the filing adult, on the other hand, may have to be included in the means test as income instead of expenses.

Legal Aid in the Crown Court is now means tested as well and the same information is required as for the Magistrates Court.

Not exact matches

MoviePass described the new plan as a way of testing a new model, and said «this does not mean that our unlimited subscription will not be offered in the future.»

Putting all three public pensions together is important because, as I mentioned, higher CPP income can mean lower benefits from the income - tested Guaranteed Income Supplement.

In some cases, those side effects are riskier than the tests themselves, and as Dr. Kyle Fischer notes, that means more people will be hurt than helped.

A special needs trust lets parents, other family members and other interested parties contribute funds for the benefit of a disabled person, while also enabling him or her to still receive means - tested benefits such as Medicaid and Security Supplemental Income (SSI).

Founder Cheryl Ng has long believed in building markets incrementally, placing modest quantities with international distributors as a means of testing consumer acceptance without risking a lot of capital on large production runs.

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

Even if the company were to remain as is, the fact that it has publicly tested the waters in this way means the sharks will be circling.

The Slim might not be as zippy as its larger sibling, butComputer Shopper found it was still «the second - fastest drive» of the ones they tested, meaning that if speed is paramount, you'll be well - served by either drive in the Backup Plus family.

«Tapping them as resources means that your company can come with up better ideas — and have more insight into how to exploit those ideas, test their viability, and put them into production.»

The account, known as @SwiftonSecurity, also said the uproar among security professionals on Friday occurred because Microsoft did not include the patches among its most recent test software — meaning the Shadow Brokers hacking tools worked in test situations:

The company wanted to offer value - added services as a means of establishing a point of differentiation between itself and the hundreds of low - cost software testing factories in south - east Asia.

If, on the other hand, you're one of the tens of millions of able - bodied Americans who have benefitted from record welfare spending that's not nearly as means - tested or fraud - free as it should have been, it's time to take your hand out of the taxpayers» pockets and get to work.

Besides, most child - care benefits in Canada are already means - tested, including municipally and provincially run child - care subsidy systems, as well as the federal government's Universal Child Care Benefit.

That meant expanding all - day breakfast tests to Nashville, as franchisees found out the next week in an internal webcast.

«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

This means that, while Litecoin's SegWit implementation and anti-spam measures have made the currency's blockchain relatively small and allowed for fast transaction times, LTC has not yet had the opportunity to be tested on the same scale as Bitcoin.

In their October 2017 paper entitled «Mean - Variance Optimization Using Forward - Looking Return Estimates», Patrick Bielstein and Matthias Hanauer test whether firm implied cost of capital (ICC) based on analyst earnings forecasts is effective as a stock return forecast for mean - variance portfolio optimization.

Well not only do we have Homer's Odyssee and Iliad which gives us a description of this historically accurate places, but its withstood the test of time AND been verified to have been written during that time period, which means all the contents must be true as well.

In his post, Piper says, «submission does not mean you do not try to influence your husband» and suggests that a good test of proper male headship in a relationship is to examine who says «let's» most often — as in, «let's go out to eat, let's try to get our finances in order, let's get to church on time next Sunday.»

D. Martyn Lloyd - Jones (1899 - 1981)[in an excerpt from Romans: The New Man, An Exposition of Chapter 6, Banner of Truth, 1972] said: There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do; you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will redound all the more to the glory of grace.

«There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than this, that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this, that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do;....

if we mean to have those appointed to public offices, who are sincere friends to religion, we, the people who appoint them, must take care to choose such characters; and not rely upon such cobweb barriers as test - laws are» (IV: 640)

Fasting is the means by which the Muslim voluntarily abandons certain legitimate frivolous enjoyments as a means of putting his soul to a test and promoting its capacity for perseverance.

What is meant is putting God's power and goodness to a test, acting rashly and expecting him to extricate us from the results of our folly, as the Israelites did on the occasion referred to in the verse Jesus quoted (Deut 6:16; cf. Ex 17:1 - 7; Ps 95:8 - 9): «as you tested him at Massah.»

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

There is no tested evidence of these natural explanations, much less proof, but the existence of multiple natural possibilities negates the Big Bang and Inflation as proof of God (that doesn't mean it proves No God, it means that it can't prove God did it since there are other alternatives).

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

The justification of premarital sex experimentation as a means of preparation for marriage and as a test of sexual compatibility for prospective mates is a rationalization for license and self - indulgence.

Just as fresh atmospheric conditions mean that the ice surface must first be tested afresh to see if it can be judged as safe, so our knowledge and working conclusions must be continually re-tested in the light of fresh data to see if we may still trust ourselves to them.

The strict scrutiny test you're referring to here would apply under a direct challenge of the const - itutionality of the ACA as well as under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, i.e. Compelling State Interest, Narrowly Tailored to the interest, and Least Restrictive Means.

Archbishop Longley dismissively tells us that «The Church does not, as it were, have a moral means testing».

It begins with a rationalistic assumption about the attributes of God — as though we know what omnipotence and goodness mean — and then we put that concept of God to the test of our experience of evil.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

A story's making the rounds today that acts as sort of a Rorschach Test, in that everyone who hears it seems to have a different take on what it means.

If you mean «free - thinker» as in someone who gathers their own information, tests it against experience and makes up their own mind, then resoundingly so.

Like a Rorschach test, the meanings we attribute to scripture are often as much a reflection of our psyches as they are God's intentions.

The significance of the historical Jesus for Christian faith is that knowledge of this Jesus may be used as a means of testing the claims of the Christs presented in the competing kerygmata to be Jesus Christ.

This simple test question can be rephrased as a useful definition of what is meant by the term «alcoholic» in this book.

This means the company has undergone testing and is certifying their foods as safe for consumption.

In our study, we found that habitual chocolate users performed better in all cognitive tests and had significantly reduced risk for poor test performance in most tests, whereas the mean intake of chocolate among users was as little as < 8 g / d.

As you can probably imagine, we do a lot of dinner research in our house.And, when I say «research,» I mean trying new recipes, testing times to make sure tasty meals are under 45 minutes,...

New hires have one year to qualify as an operator, meaning they have taken a test and demonstrated their high level of skills to get to the next level.

According to a spokesperson for the Administration, «All or almost all of the sunscreens available in Australia that have zinc oxide as their only active ingredient have a claimed SPF of 30 + (which means that their SPF test result was 31 or higher) and they typically contain between 15 % and 25 % zinc oxide.»