Sentences with phrase «measured against the amount»

This enterprise led him deep into the relationship between economics, physiology, and longevity, where he analyzed variables such as the amount of food consumed by the average slave (or freeman) measured against the amount of work he produced.

Performance outcomes are measured against the amount of imprisonment money saved, reduction in imprisonment, reduction in recidivism, and indicators of community wellbeing and capacity.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, as a general rule, identifying as a heterosexual person today amounts to declaring oneself a member of the «normal group,» against which all deviant sexual desires and attractions and temptations are to be measured.

The West is sick — it is measured by the amount of attacks it aims against the Christian churches.

IgE specific Blood and Skin Test work identically Contributed by Anke Tillman A RAST (Radioallergosorbent test) is a way of measuring the amount of IgE antibody in the blood stream made against a specific allergen.

Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos acknowledges that the state's Conservative Party, which cross endorses many GOP Senators for reelection, is against the measure, but he says he was opposed before that because the amount 25 grams, is set too high.

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.

The researchers also measured the amounts of compounds involved in buffering fibres against the build - up of lactic acid.

The scientists also questioned global health authorities» willful recommendation of large amounts of polyunsaturated fats into the human diet without accompanying measures to ensure the protection of these fatty acids against heat - and oxidative - degradation.

This conflict should be avoided with the Common Core State Standards because an equal amount of effort is going into the development of next generation, computer - adaptive student assessment systems that will more robustly measure student learning against the standards.

To make sure that students are given the minimum amount of standardized tests to see what kids are learning well, or not well, and to measure students against each other.

The HOME investment amount may be reduced pro rata based on the time the homeowner has owned and occupied the home measured against the required affordability period; except that the City's recapture provisions may not allow the homeowner to recover more than the amount of homeowner's down payment, principal payments, and any capital improvement investment.

A home's loan - to - value ratio (LTV) measures the market value of the home against the amount currently remaining on the loan.

The repayment of principal plus interest is measured in real terms compared against the buying power of the amount at the time it was borrowed, lent, deposited or invested.

These proportions measure your amount of available credit against your debt, and serve as an important indicator of your responsibility as a borrower.

It is one of the pieces that make up this piece of your FICO score and is a measure of the total amount of debt on your credit card accounts against the total limit allowed on those accounts.

In humans, a test now exists that measures the amount of antibodies (or autoimmunity) a person has developed against his own adrenal glands (21OHAb antibodies).

This is a highly produced event, but super adoptions can be put on for a modest amount when measured against the lives saved, awareness generated, and volunteers engaged.

We've measured that amount against our list of the best cash back credit cards of 2017, to show just how much you could save.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Even for the Senate, where members are well - known to prefer talking to listening, the amount of unilateral jabbering on the climate change bill has been remarkable, with lawmakers both for and against the measure arguing repeatedly over how much time was allotted for them to speak.

Countries develop a «baseline» that estimates the current amount of emissions from a forest region, against which conservation progress can be measured

If measured against the average U.S. car mileage, it would increase carbon emissions the equivalent of adding 15 - 27 million cars to the road, an amount that would prevent South Korea from achieving its Paris climate commitments.

«The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half - century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the epidemiological data showed no negative association; saturated fat's effect on LDL - cholesterol (when properly measured in subfractions) is neutral; and a significant body of clinical trials over the past decade has demonstrated the absence of any negative effect of saturated fat on heart disease, obesity, or diabetes.

Although we have extensive trial experience against the government, we believe — particularly in heavily - regulated industries or when government contracts are at issue — that it is equally important to engage in early efforts with regulators to pursue alternative solutions that impose only the most reasonable burdens on our clients, using measures such as consent agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, and nonprosecution agreements to amicably resolve disputes, including those in which the amounts at issue reached nine figures

Second, discovery requests must now be relevant and «proportional» to the needs of the case, with proportionality being measured against the importance of the issues and the amount in controversy, among other factors.

- The key measures law firms should be trying to benchmark themselves against; - How firms are getting more out of their staff; - The huge amounts of annual income sitting as unpaid invoices; and - The prospects for the next 12 months.

Representation of investor in expropriation claim against the Russian Federation in BIT arbitration in Stockholm that secured the first award holding that the Russian measures taken against Yukos Oil Company amounted to expropriation

In addressing the plaintiff's case, the court found that the Department of Transportation could be held liable only if the plaintiff could prove that the Department had actual or constructive knowledge of the dangerous condition for a sufficient amount of time prior to the time of the accident so that measures could have been taken to protect against the dangerous condition.

76 As regards the legislation at issue in the main proceedings, it is clear from the explanation provided by the Austrian Government at the hearing that, although the amount of the compensatory supplement depends on the financial situation of the person concerned as measured against the reference amount fixed for granting that supplement, the mere fact that a national of another Member State who is not economically active has applied for that benefit is sufficient to preclude that national from receiving it, regardless of the duration of residence, the amount of the benefit and the period for which it is available, that is to say, regardless of the burden which that benefit places on the host Member State's social assistance system as a whole.

The stylus could also get a «grip sensor» that would sense the amount of force with which the user is gripping it along with a pressure sensor that would measure how hard the user is pressing the stylus against the device.