Sentences with phrase «more objective standard»

Section 61 may appear to be fair but it has replaced the previous system of having to prove negligence to secure damages or losses where goods or services have been provided, which was a more objective standard due to an element of reasonableness being required.

Not exact matches

«The agreement forces the companies to observe objective non-discrimination standards that are more comprehensive than the usual legal demands,» said Gilvandro Araújo, the Cade councilor in charge of the case.

See Section VIII (d) of the BIC Exemption As set forth in the preamble to the BIC Exemption, 81 FR at 21028 (April 8, 2016), this definition «incorporates the objective standards of care and undivided loyalty that have been applied under ERISA for more than forty years.»

However, provided appropriate underwriting standards are maintained, the benefits of more efficient and objective underwriting and broader access to credit should outweigh the downside.

I think you'll find that more and more younger people in ministry are rejecting that «standard» of «objective distance.»

Demanding strictly scientific precision to guarantee Scripture's trustworthiness, requiring something more objective than the internal, personal witness of the Holy Spirit through the text itself, scholars like Lindsell end up testing the truth of the Bible by an extra-Biblical standard.32 As with Davis, externally derived «good reasons» become the ultimate criterion for judging the gospel.

The current generation (20 - something and younger) in the US is infected with a particularly virulent strain of a lack of belief in an objective reality, that anything goes, that it is more rude to criticize than to do the rude behavior that is being criticized, that there are no and should be no objective standards because who are we to judge?

Teacher evaluations are now significantly more objective, there's less room for local bargaining to undermine standards, the state has power to set a consistently high bar, and tests have been reduced.

«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

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The first objective is to ensure that interoperable standards are available across all data resources and services shared by two of more ESFRI infrastructure.

While «Crooked Arrows» certainly isn't a good film by any objective standard, it has a good heart, and proves far more tolerable than many blockbuster sports movies.

Raids and invasions on opposing provinces encompass the standard Dynasty Warriors hack and slash gameplay, while quests provide smaller, more goal directed objectives to accomplish that provide welcome respite from the extended button - mashing grind of the game's much larger battles.

In the standard Capture game mode, teams earn points by completing tasks such as destroying enemies in an area, or more interestingly, by capturing objectives.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

If more governors had exhibited Mark Warner's excellent grasp for what it would take to improve the teaching profession, terms such as «Highly Qualified Teachers» and «High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation» might not have entered our lexicon («Netting an Elusive Breed,» Feature, Fall 2004).

The presumption behind having national standards (whether voluntary or coerced) is that having a clearer and more consistent statement of learning objectives across states would tend to lessen the problem of heterogeneous skills that students bring to the labor market.

The worst thing I have witnessed in education in 2008 is the continuous action based on personal interests and advantages of many local and global economic and political players losing the main objective of «education as a fun activity,» and thus of encouraging and inspiring young children through play and simple but innovative teaching methods that foster critical thinking, teamwork, and the urge to learn more for the sake of learning and not for meeting set standards.

However, they did note a principle concern for parents was that «there is a lack of objective standards [in student reports] that parents can use to determine their children's attainment and rate of progress», suggesting a desire for more than grades, scores and marks to be able to monitor their child's growth in learning over time.

This standard says you need to use two or more instructional methods to support the objectives and provide new information to the learner.

Otherwise, these tests are designed to align with state or more local standards, objectives, outcome statements, and the like.

We make them more concrete, easier to make into objectives, and we add standards from previous grades that our incoming students often lack.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Gifted and talented students can be truly challenged in a standards - based classroom because if they show early mastery of fundamental skills and concepts, they can then concentrate on more challenging work that is at higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy or that seeks connections among objectives.

The designation is earned by divisions that exceed all federal achievement objectives for two consecutive years, have all schools fully accredited for two consecutive years and graduate more than 80 percent of students with Standard or Advanced Studies diplomas.

West Point Public Schools and Poquoson Public Schools earned the Highly Distinguished Title I School Division designation by exceeding all federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) achievement objectives in English and mathematics for two consecutive years, having all schools fully accredited for two consecutive years and for graduating more than 80 percent of students with Standard or Advanced Studies diplomas.

Yet we are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing New York standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee said in a statement.

These published materials provided the framework, objectives, standards alignment, assessments, and more for many teachers, guided the curricula, and served as the daily concrete teaching materials to the students.

Observations have become a more objective process by following predefined criteria or standards within SchooliP and these are completed in real - time.»

A more objective assessment of the standards maintained by states can be inferred by comparing the percentages of students designated as proficient by the state with the percentages found by the NAEP's independent assessment.

«Recently revised standards in science, mathematics and English all include more rigorous objectives for learning in the middle grades,» said Board of Education President Eleanor B. Saslaw.

Replacing the politicized pro-suburban standards for evaluating schools with standards based on reliable research will also help give a more objective evaluation of the quality of schools, rather than skewing scores in favor of suburban schools for no reason besides benefitting those with stakes in the real - estate industry.

We need more stats, more facts, more objective proof of the efficacy of standard processes, not only to convince disgruntled Writer Beware readers that they should regruntle themselves, but also to confirm that what are subjectively assumed to be best practices based on experience and professional culture really hold up to objective scrutiny.

That benchmark lies somewhere in the intersection between your savings objectives (retirement, education, a new car), the performance of widely - accepted benchmarks (the US Standard & Poor's 500 index, the DAX, the price of gold and more) and your investments.

The WUSV objective is to ensure a uniform breed standard applies across its member organisations and more specifically; Harmonisation of assessment of German Shepherd Dogs in breed and performance Provide clarity of direction regarding breeding, training, upbringing, temperament, character and control of hereditary diseases.

Their objectives are to continue raising awareness, to demand high standards, to demand more regulation on the pet food industry and to demand that the Pet Food Industry along with the FDA be held accountable for the current pet food recalls.

Each is a variation on the more standard Turf War, except you'll need to ink specific zones or moving obstacles in order to achieve your objective.

The objective is similar to the standard Checkers / Draughts i.e., to capture all opponent \'s pieces or to force the opponent to have no more legal moves.

While emissions standards have a noble objective, what we need much, much more than legislators setting an arbitrary standard is a gas tax.

Stripped of the jargon, the paper uses an MIT model, with all the bells and whistles, to conclude that vehicle fuel efficiency standards are an arbitrary, blunt instrument that harm consumers far more than is necessary to achieve a given environmental objective.

Obviously, the Insight vs. Prius comparison isn't very satisfying from a more objective perspective, with Honda's hybrid being a small aluminum two - seater and Toyota's hybrid being a mid-size «family» car, but PR and marketing are rarely based on objective standards, so it is not so surprising to learn that Honda is finding that the «halo» effect of having the fuel economy leader is worth keeping in production a car that sells about 2,000 units per year.

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In many respects, though, that's a good and desirable thing as more often than not there are no objective standards of quality such as those of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

The defence applies only where the action meets the proportionality test; the harm avoided must be more serious than the harm caused by the act in question (measured according to an objective standard).

At the Global Blockchain Financial Summit in Hangzhou, EEA China said that its main objectives are to «explore and develop new standards and technologies using blockchains, so that Chinese enterprises can more easily meet domestic market needs.»

In a more recent case, Globetrotter Software, Inc. v. Elan Computer Group, Inc., the court elaborated on the decision in Zenith by holding that an allegedly «bad faith» patent assertion must pass the «objective baselessness» standard to survive federal preemption of state - law counterclaims for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition.

This may be a few sentences in length, but it provides more valuable information than the standard objective.

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