Sentences with phrase «measured against cost»

The memo seems to suggest that the cost of library materials at $ 273,539 can somehow be measured against the cost of CanLII (to the Society) at $ 57,900.

Not exact matches

The ranking was based on five factors: Tier 1 capital compared with risk - weighted assets; nonperforming assets against total assets; loan - loss reserves to nonperforming assets; deposits to funding; and efficiency, a measure of costs to revenue.

Willy Schlacks told me that he sees an even bigger opportunity in more advanced analytics, such as using predictive analysis to lower maintenance costs, using drones to monitor entire construction sites and aggregating data so that contractors can measure their performance against industry benchmarks.

Value - based care is an emerging payment model that focuses on measuring a patient's health outcome against the cost of delivering the outcome.

«If you apply our tool [and] measure your outcomes against your costs,» she said, «you can clearly make an argument for many of these new advances.»

In addition, lower real wages and declining labor costs are making the country more attractive for foreign business when measured against regional Latin American peers.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

However, if China pushes too hard on this front the U.S. could retaliate with similar measures against Chinese firms in the U.S. and / or encourage U.S. firms to migrate to lower - cost countries at a faster pace than is already occurring.

The governor and legislative leaders have spoken against pension cuts and other cost - cutting measures in the proposal.

As opposed to just measuring energy efficiency — which may be at odds with comfort much of the time — the Thermal Comfort Rating Metric (TCRM) would let buyers decide how important comfort is when weighed against cost and efficiency.

Besides it costs us billions every year to keep the security measures against terrorists.

The Senate bill, like the measure that passed the U.S. House of Representatives this spring, shifts the cost of county Medicaid spending to the state government — a provision Gov. Andrew Cuomo has railed against.

A UK offensive against the cost of maintaining European officials, proposing a series of measures which would see their pay and pension costs cut, met with little support.

In a letter to the entire Minnesota congressional delegation, Pawlenty urges the three Republicans and seven Democrats to vote against the measure in its current form, saying the plan won't contain health care costs or improve quality of care.

Walsh supported some cost - saving measures but said he was against consolidating the Syracuse and Onondaga County governments into one legislative body.

As State Senator, Shelley will stand with the Governor to fight back against Trump's assault on New Yorkers and she'll work with local leaders to promote shared services and other cost - saving measures.

As State Senator, Shelley will stand with the Governor to fight back against Trump's assault on New Yorkers by supporting the New York State Taxpayer Protection Act; and she'll work with local leaders to promote shared services and other cost - saving measures.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, engaged in all - out war against GOP representatives following an amendment that would have relieved counties of paying into Medicaid by 2020, a measure he said would cost the state $ 2.3 billion over four years — and $ 6.9 billion when paired with estimates of lost federal funding.

New York state's comptroller is urging federal authorities to strengthen safety measures against oil spills and require trains to carry sufficient insurance to cover cleanup costs from major accidents.

Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

In this, a carefully structured, mandatory insurance can assign the costs of actual damage in such a way that the economic incentives for mitigation measures against flooding and heavy rainfall are not lost.

Given essentially the same costs, equivalent clean and dirty technologies competing against each other should fare equally well, more or less, in terms of things like patenting, which can be used to measure technological advances.

Companies can log on, cost - free, at http://cyberchain.rhsmith.umd.edu and track developing threats, plus map their IT supply chains and anonymously measure themselves against industry peers and NIST standards.

She added: «By showing sound economic reasons for increasing the use of preventative measures, such as tooth brushing and fluoride varnishing, I hope that they can now compete for resource against other less cost - effective interventions.»

Professor Thomas's team used the Judgement or J - value to balance the cost of a safety measure against the increase in life expectancy it achieves.

Increasing magnesium intake could be a low - cost preventive measure against osteoporosis in people with magnesium deficiency.

Knowing what it costs to edit and design a book and get it to market is the only accurate measuring stick against which you can evaluate a co-publisher's contribution.

Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.

The anticipated monthly mortgage payment plus other monthly costs of homeownership like monthly housing expenses, homeowner association (HOA) fees, property taxes, mortgage insurance and homeowner's insurance will be measured against your gross income from all sources before taxes.

The debate, in a nutshell, goes something like this: Why pay higher fees for an actively managed fund that has a shot at posting much bigger returns than the index it's measured against but which also runs the risk of posting smaller returns, when you can buy a low - cost index fund, such as those that track the performance of the S&P 500 index, which pretty much guarantees that your returns will be in line with the index?

Thus one measure is against the cost of equity, or how much equity in general cost elsewhere.

The index measures the cost of using options as insurance against declines in the S&P 500.

After all, if it is the work of artists that the work of the institution is organized around, then its operating costs are an appropriate measure against which to determine the relative value of artists» labor.

Under the system of regulation, distributors are allowed to charge a price sufficient to cover their «efficient costs», which are determined in large measure by benchmarking against other distributors.

The planners in New York and Miami are planning short - term low - cost mitigation measures, and taking a «wait and see» attitude when it comes to proposals that would protect against catastrophic sea level rise.

The Component Award 2015 will primarily assess the cost efficiency of Passive House windows within the context of building refurbishment; in doing so, the purchase costs will be measured against the potential savings.

This analytical report argues that the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has reduced the effectiveness of the resources spent on carbon reduction and attempts to measure the cost of the ineffectiveness analysing the projects registered under the CDM by measuring their cost of abatement against the price paid for doing the abatement.

-- McConnell has repeatedly voted against Senate bills recognizing global warming, including a «sense of the Senate» amendment expressing «the need to address global climate change through comprehensive and cost - effective national measures and through the negotiation of fair and binding international commitments.»

It is a particularly important one, but other matters such as ways to cost - efficiently challenge bad patents, transparency in ownership, or measures against deceptive demand letters are examples of other priority subjects that even the SCOTUS can't address (but Congress can).

However, in Vaughan, while apparently acknowledging this difference, Lord Justice Wilson suggested that «equality» should have been measured against a total of all the assets, including the parties» pensions (net of costs), in a single balance sheet, which implicitly treated all forms of assets (pensions and capital) as comparable / interchangeable:

Not only does this metric provide insight as to the efficiency of each attorney within the legal function, but it also provides a useful comparison against which to measure outside counsel costs and hours spent per matter.

A few weeks ago, I posted about some of the cost cutting measures that top U.S. law firms have implemented as a hedge against declining revenues.

«An award of double costs is a punitive measure against a litigant for that party's failure, and all of the circumstances, to have accepted an offer to settle that should have been accepted.

Bill appreciates that this area of practice is one of the few within the legal profession where cost can equally be measured against results.

Also, measures may be taken against Country B to offset costs to Country A caused by unfair trade practices of Country B.

The letter made two key points: first, that a public funding certificate provided a measure of protection against adverse costs and second, that once the case had been allocated to the fast track, the claimant should seek public funding.

In other words, costs associated with the execution of legal research must be measured against the risks associated with the quality of legal research.

Usage - based insurance (UBI) also known as pay as you drive (PAYD) and pay how you drive (PHYD) and mile - based auto insurance is a type of vehicle insurance whereby the costs are dependent upon type of vehicle used, measured against time, distance, behavior and place.

Med Pay may not offer as broad coverage as PIP, but its cost can be as low as $ 20 annually for each $ 10,000 of coverage, making it a sound investment and proactive measure to take against potentially expensive auto accident injuries.