Sentences with phrase «much as an incentive»

But I responded that by making them responsible for all students, this was not a punishment as much as an incentive to make sure they were on par to support all their students.

Around town charging stations serve as much as an incentive for emission - free vehicles, as well as a psychological backstop against range anxiety, as they do as a genuinely necessary piece of infrastructure.

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Rewards and incentives are also a great way to increase productivity in the workplace — if they know they have a chance of being rewarded with, for example, a small bonus for their hard work, they will be much more driven as they will have something to work towards.

Nor do they have as much of an incentive to go overboard with insuring mortgages because of their bottom - line discipline and the fact 90 % of what they insure is government backed compared to the CMHC's 100 % backing.

Jerry McAdams, author of The Reward Plan Advantage, suggests that you focus as much on explaining your incentive - pay system as you do on designing it.

The state and the city are offering as much as $ 101.8 million in incentives and subsidies for the project, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp..

Now that the plan has gone bigger — with 3,000 Indiana jobs by 2023 — the overall financial incentives from the state are expected to be worth as much as nearly $ 34,000 per worker hired.

Customers are charged a small percentage based on how much money is in an account and as an added perk, they will also give you an incentive to invest more by reducing fees.

In theory, that means financial institutions should have an incentive to make the loans, as they're free of much of the risk.

Addressing that, as much as whatever package of tax incentives he might muster, could be key to a successful application.

Economic development incentives don't create jobs as much as they shift them around, pitting communities against one another for who can pony up the most corporate welfare.

Once small businesses have access to the same interest rates as foreign banks to finance their own growth, there will be more incentive for investors to invest their money into domestic small businesses, and not as much incentive for them to invest in foreign banks.

It also meant the company didn't need to spend as much to refurbish aging restaurants; instead, it offered incentives and lined up loans for franchisees to revamp their locations, replacing dull old plastic countertops with shiny metallic surfaces and futuristic stripes of neon.

But as long as that minimum rate is lower than the U.S. corporate income tax, there is incentive for companies to move as much of their profits as possible to low - tax countries.

Make sure human beings reach out to those who can get your invoice paid, and be willing to offer incentives to get as much money in the door as quickly as possible.

It's a competitive process, with one miner receiving the award, currently 12.5 bitcoins, roughly every 10 minutes, so there's a strong incentive to throw as much processor power — and thereby electricity — at the mining effort.

Every bit you save now means you're that much closer to retiring early — and the best part is that most retirement accounts offer tax benefits as an incentive to help you save for the future.

The following strategies below offer extra incentives for paying your bills while making your money work for you as much as possible.

Although Greater Vancouver also earns an «A» grade on KPMG's Total Tax Index, as local businesses enjoy relatively low statutory labour costs, the region is much less competitive when it comes to the marginal effective tax rate on capital, an indicator specifically designed to measure incentives for business investment.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquas the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.&raquAs for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

Hussmann explains that refrigeration systems, HVAC and lighting are responsible for as much as 90 percent of the energy used in a store, and refrigeration systems can be as much as 60 percent of that total — giving an industry that operates on tight margins greater incentive to reduce energy consumption.

«The incentive travellers are spending six times as much as normal tourists,» says Lewis - Smith.

It's no surprise such money - driven competitions have surged in popularity, given that multiple highly credible studies have underscored the value of employing financial incentives and peer support to positively influence weight loss. HealthyWage.com's own diet - for - dollars program allows participants to make a wager upfront ranging anywhere from $ 20 a month to as much as $ 500.

As an accomplished 37 - year - old NFL quarterback, Brady doesn't have much incentive to keep his freak flag furled.

And besides it gives every single team the incentive to win as much as they can without having the insurance of a franchise talent.

In my opinion, not much at the present time, given the incentives that drive Big Food and some food service directors into each other's arms, as well as the food industry's influence over the SNA and Congress.

The «breeder males» don't have much incentive to change anything or even question the way things work as they're getting their sexual needs met per the list of 20 points above.

«We plant trees in the town and bungalows in the country,» complained the architect Clough Williams - Ellis, «thus averaging England out into a dull uneventfulness whereby one place becomes much the same as any other - all incentive to exploration being thus removed as the great network of smoothed - out concrete roads is completed.»

As the committee chairman, Bernard Jenkin, rightly points out, they might not have much incentive to tell the truth when asked about their intentions when quizzed by officials.

In particular I urge the government to provide as much certainty as it can to you about the incentives and support that are available.

Furthermore, a recent episode of House Hunters in Germany added some information about the high - efficiency water heaters used in Germany that take up a large amount of space in homes and therefore, are an incentive to not use hot water as much.

as to how much «incentive» the potentially - better - off can require for doing the work that makes the poor better - off.

That works out to as much as $ 61,500 per job, a relatively costly subsidy compared to most job creation incentives offered companies.

But five years later, as comptroller, he said the program was much less effective at cleaning up polluted sites than programs in other states that offered far fewer incentives.

He cites as evidence Taiwan and Singapore, which share an Asian cultural background with China, South Korea, and Japan and «have pursued the same sort of intensive drive to give incentive for blockbuster publications, with monetary rewards,» but haven't seen nearly as much scandal.

But Wara discovered that offset sales from destruction of the gas were far more lucrative than the sale of the refrigerant responsible for creating the pollutant in the first place, giving factories a perverse incentive to produce as much waste as possible and then create projects that sell offsets to destroy it.

In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

An important finding, Tyner said, was that the analysis showed a carbon tax and the ability to depreciate an investment in solar would give as much incentive for adopting solar energy as the current federal tax credit does.

We are in the process of training our puppy, and as any well - trained dog owner knows, it's much easier to train when using treats as an incentive for good behavior.

Considering the discount incentive, I didn't walk out with as much stuff as I thought I would.

After doing that for so long, it is no longer considered an incentive, so much as a required transaction for support.

Teach First says universities spend over # 700 million a year on access agreements, but much of this is on schemes with low effectiveness or as recruitment incentives for those who have already decided to apply.

However, Rajan (2009) debates this breaking down of the financial model while underestimating the political, social and economic risks should not have been very much of a surprise while the models relied entirely on hard information and ignored soft control variables such as the incentives of lenders to collect information about borrowers, which was one of the fundamental causes for their failure (Rajan et all., 2009).

Thinking about schools as social organizations, as James Coleman once did, will likely prove a much better approach to addressing problems of motivation than pursuing solutions that focus on using incentives or information to change outcomes.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

«Reduce uneven incentives and avoid «incentive cliffs» by increasing [school performance score] points more gradually as students move to higher performance levels,» notwithstanding the fact that no research to date has evidenced that such incentives incentivize much of anything intended, at least in education.

In its report, Ofqual says: «The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking.»

Selling a mix of old steel - bodied and new aluminum - bodied Ford F - 150s in the first half of 2015 probably didn't hurt, as the old models carried a much lower cost burden, and thus high profit margins, no matter the incentives to clear them from dealers» lots.

So might the Challenger as well; or, maybe Dodge dealers were so busy shoveling incentive money at Caliber and Avenger shoppers that they didn't have much time for the Challenger.