Sentences with phrase «method than their failure»

For shooting themselves in the collective foot, Albany's leaders could not have chosen a more effective method than their failure Wednesday night to extend Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools for at least another year.

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It permits him to see the breakdown of authority in structural rather than moral terms: as the incoherence of a shared method rather than a failure of charity.

That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

Natural family planning methods are also an option, though these often have a higher failure rate than barrier methods.

The failure, thus far, to find large substellar objects like brown dwarfs or a Jupiter - or Saturn - class planet in a «torch» orbit (closer than the Mercury to Sun distance) around Xi Boötis A — with even the highly sensitive radial - velocity methods of Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler — bodes well for the possibility of Earth - type terrestrial planets around this star (Cumming et al, 1999).

But the risk of failure per year is less than 1 % for many methods, as opposed to the 85 % chance of pregnancy if you don't use birth control.

While any birth control method can fail (besides abstinence), the risk of failure per year is less than 1 % for many methods, as opposed to the 85 % chance of pregnancy if you don't use birth control.

It usually goes a lot slower than traditional methods of dating so it is easier to get frustrated with slow results or failure.

In addition, this notice addresses the general question of whether carriers may require health documentation for carriage of service animals on flights from the U.S. into countries other than the U.K.. On February 26, 2007, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Aviation Enforcement Office issued a guidance document to assist carriers and passengers with disabilities in complying with both U.S. and U.K. regulations concerning the transport of service animals on flights from the U.S. to the U.K. by: 1) explaining the procedures passengers must follow to comply with the U.K.'s Pet Travel Scheme (PETS); 2) explaining the procedures U.S. and foreign carriers must follow to obtain an approved Required Method of Operation (RMOP) from the U.K.'s Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); and 3) notifying both U.S. and U.K. carriers operating flights between the U.S. and the U.K. that failure to obtain an approved RMOP from DEFRA will be considered a violation of the ACAA by the Department's Aviation Enforcement Office and may subject such carriers to enforcement action.1 The purpose of this notice is to respond to inquiries from airlines and the traveling public since issuance of the February notice regarding foreign requirements for health 1 72

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Paying for your investment is much different than paying for a loaf of bread - and the method used can often mean the difference between success and failure in a real estate investment.

Having more than one product, promotion method, client, employee or income stream you insure yourself against business failure, boost future income and can lead a happier, less stressful life.

I hope the failure to describe the method was sloppiness rather than deception or haughtiness.

Yet, even as we recognize that the work of justice innovation is typically very different than what we've done before, our evaluation methods — which often determine the «success» or «failure» of a project, and the potential for securing future funding — continue to align with business as usual problem solving approaches.

Women requesting ECs within the first 24 hours were more likely to have experienced failure of a method of birth control than women requesting ECs after 96 hours (59.0 % v. 41.7 %).

Another non-hormonal method is sterilization, a permanent form of birth control that has a failure rate of less than one percent.

Thus, it is not surprising that the vast majority of pregnancies (73 %) occurred in the women who reported having unprotected intercourse rather than in women experiencing method failures.

Birth control pills have a higher failure rate than these methods, because women have to remember to take a pill at the same time every day.

Paying for your investment is much different than paying for a loaf of bread - and the method used can often mean the difference between success and failure in a real estate investment.