Sentences with phrase «minimum than nothing»

It is better to have at least a bare minimum than nothing at all.

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As employers do not deal with the day - to - day matters of hiring, firing or paying employees, for franchisors to decree a franchise - wide minimum wage may violate the franchise model, making franchisees nothing more than employees.

«Due to technological improvements, it is quite possible that future downturns will be shorter than cycles in the past, which argues for nothing more restrictive than a one - quarter minimum duration.»

There is no additional cost other than the minimum deposit and, as we mentioned previously, there is nothing to download.

Since it didn't «work,» it seems like nothing more than gratuitous evil on the part of God, or at the bare minimum, some sort of childish temper - tantrum when the people He created stop doing what He wants.

He will win a SAG Award, at a minimum, for convincing us that there is absolutely nothing better than wearing shorts and an M&M's outfit while bobbing in a warm reservoir of chocolate.

Those governments have kept the minimum wage below a living wage, allowed private social care companies to pay less than even the inadequate minimum wage, done almost nothing to enforce the quality of private rental accommodation and nothing to prevent gouging rents.

This has been largely a response to disturbing reports about the cruel treatment of animals in «factory farming» - one of the most controversial and emotive issues - where the maximum number of animals are crammed into the minimum amount of space, unable to move freely, denied any kind of normal life and reduced to nothing more than products on a factory production line.

«Nothing would do more to lift New Yorkers out of poverty and move our economy forward than raising the wage... We welcome the Governor's support for a $ 15 minimum wage — and New York City stands ready to help make it a reality,» de Blasio's statement reads.

Nothing shall preclude the University from appointing or reappointing Postdoctoral Scholars for durations longer than the minima required in this Article.

Avoiding it completely would be nice, but just keeping it to a minimum and / or going with the lower calorie versions when you can is still better than nothing.

Anything is better than nothing of course, but I'm surprised to see Mark discussing the idea of minimum effective doses of movement, as opposed to continuing to advocate for lots of movement spread throughout the day, week, month, year, life.

That by doing nothing more than putting down just the minimum towards your debts, you won't be retiring your loans anytime soon, thereby costing you more in interest over time.

Doug Hoyes: Yeah, if I do nothing, I keep paying my 1,500 bucks and I'm covering my minimum payments and a little bit, so I'm going to be paying for a lot more than five years.

According to research, brushing your pet's teeth a minimum of 5 days per week is considered effective, but anything is better than nothing!

It means nothing that they have been able to fit the models to past data other than that would be a minimum requirement of a model that could even be considered as a possible contender.

What is clear is that the old TSI reconstructions based on the Opinions, of course differ, but what is clear is that the variation since we have satellite observations has been minimal, nothing at all if we simply look at changes at the solar cycle minima, and less than 1 W / m2 from valley to peak.

It might have been in the 18th and 19th centuries that the argument was made that a minimum wage regime is better than nothing, but the minimum wage always was and is tied to other social programs: food banks, volunteering, homeless shelters, child benefits, etc..

It is a world where jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; where employers do not pay overtime for 60 - hour weeks, and deny meal breaks that are required by law; where vital health and safety regulations are routinely ignored, even after injuries occur; and where workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize.

Killing off both minimum and partial harmonisation as hinted at in Tobacco Advertising I would have left the EU legislator with nothing but full harmonisation; allowing both would have run the risk of rendering harmonisation under Article 114 TFEU into no more than harmonisation attempts, which would soon be undermined by ever more divergent national rules.

A policy with only the state minimums is better than nothing, but to protect your assets it's wise to carry more coverage and higher limits.

Such OTC - centric companies have set a minimum limit on the number of bitcoin purchase required which ranges nothing less than $ 100,000 to $ 10Mn on a per order basis.

• The NRA's hysteria over raising the minimum age a mere three years lays bare an uncompromising fanaticism in which nothing matters more than guns.

Critics say that the chain's vow to pay $ 1 above minimum wage was nothing more than a publicity stunt.

Being a result - driven professional and an excellent team builder who settles for nothing less than «profitable», my team has always exceeded the annual set sales targets by minimum 30 %