Sentences with phrase «not marginal»

Make a weekly or monthly creativity meeting a routine part of doing business at your organization, not a marginal activity.

This was not a marginal case.

Heating accounts for 47 % of total UK final energy consumption and 46 % of carbon emissions, so it's not a marginal issue.

And yet research showing CO2 20 times higher than present levels millions of years ago is not marginal.

Another example is the so - called feedback mechanisms, which are introduced to amplify an effect which is not marginal but does not exist at all.

This example is not a marginal inconsistency, it's a head - on collision.

The fact that there is a large portion of the populace uncertain or unsupportive of the current environmental movement vis - a-vis climate change reflects not the marginal free - thinker, but the more - or-less mature consideration of people from all walks of life and political persuasions.

And, if anything, these countries are more insistent than ever (see China's stance discussed here) that the heavy lifting, not marginal Obama - style cuts, needs to be done (or somehow paid for) by the world's established powers, which built their prosperity on decades of unrestrained coal and oil combustion.

Go and look at your tax return, look at the total income line and look at the total you had to pay both in federal and provincial tax, that's your total tax rate, that's not your marginal tax rate, which is the tax on the last dollar you owe, or sorry, earn.

When you withdraw this money in retirement then you are paying the AVERAGE tax rate on the withdrawal — not the marginal rate (assuming no other income).

Also, «The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt» is not a marginal book, as the post might suggest, but was actually an award - winning work that ended up on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list.

«These are not marginal or trivial changes, these are transformations that go to the core of the coal industry,» she said.

The Afenifere - Obasanjo antagonism, for which I mostly blame Obasanjo, ensured the West derived modest, if not marginal benefits from Obasanjo's eight years in power; and the Afenifere - Bola Ige conflict destroyed the AD and culminated in our recent drift and risk of political subjugation!

This is not some marginal view.

But not all marginal seats are the same.

Yes their job is difficult, but handball is not marginal.

«These theologies are not marginal,» he says, «although they arise out of the experience of the marginalized.

Of the symposium's quest for the historical Schubert, the reviewer wrote, «The view of Schubert as a «marginal» composer is itself not a marginal view, but in the mainstream of contemporary interpretation.

So it is not some marginal voice speaking when Ms. Trunk informs us that «journalists who think they are telling «the truth» don't understand the truth,» because what we call truth is just our individual construction of reality: We each have «our own story,» and «our own truth.»

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

In reporting on the mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Wilson believed that he was getting closer to the heart of history: the workers and their default leaders weren't marginal losers — they were the prophets of the future.

Not exact matches

If they've saved up a large nest egg, or are still bringing in income — either through a job or pension — they could be forced to pay the top marginal tax rate (46 % in Ontario, for example).

I am not sure we have the evidentiary base to be sure that an increase in marginal tax rates at the top will raise tax revenue.

But if you don't take time away to enjoy life, and you're always just saving and running on the hamster wheel to try to get ahead, eventually you're going to have a phenomenon called diminishing marginal productivity.

By promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reduction.

You can think of the obvious problem with that: Imagine if you're a marginal high school student and you know that when you turn 18 or a certain age you're going to get an income whether you graduate or not.

A 21 - year - old who invests $ 100 every month in a Roth IRA could see her / his nest egg grow to more than $ 200,000 (assuming a 5 percent annual return and a marginal tax rate of 25 percent) by age 67, according to Bankrate's

Nike's pro forma surely doesn't account for the impact of the Pro Hijab sales as anything more than marginal against its $ 34 billion top line.

Redford did not make that argument, perhaps because she thought that 75,000 jobs still sounds better than a marginal decrease in the price of gasoline.

«The problem with this is when you have zero money for so long, the marginal benefits you get through consumption greatly diminish, but there's one thing that doesn't diminish, which is unintended consequences.»

The report itself makes no such claim and, in fact, its marginal - cost approach to parenting (that excludes fixed costs such as housing) reinforces its own stated neutrality on the issue of the decision to have, or not to have, children.

This year, as I probably don't have to tell you, the top marginal tax rate bumped up to 39.6 percent.

So, it's not obvious the marginal rates for high - flying top earners is currently much worse in Canada compared to talent - magnet locales such as Silicon Valley or New York City.

If you haven't read Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century, if you haven't read The Zero Marginal Cost Society [Jeremy Rifkin's account of how extreme gains in productivity are disrupting capitalism by rendering many goods and services almost free], you can not even have a conversation with me about what the future is holding.

These new businesses weren't ill - advised experiments or marginal side projects either — the numbers show they contributed meaningfully to household income.

I say marginal because you simply can't look at it as enabling 1.1 million barrels per day of new production which would otherwise not occur — you have to look at the impact on profitability between the two scenarios and ask whether that impact is sufficient to have an influence on the pace of development.

Some fields showing marginal gains (for men and women)-- such as journalism and pre-law — haven't been great job producers of late.

If the marginal barrel is moving by pipeline, the difference between oil in Alberta and oil on the east coast is likely to be comparable to the shipping tolls on Energy East, and so running Canadian oil would not save refiners any money at all relative to running imported crude.

«If Dodd - Frank was written exactly as it's written except there was no Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, no Title X of the law, community banks really wouldn't feel much of the impact from Dodd - Frank — it would be marginal at the most,» said Camden Fine, president and chief executive of the Independent Community Bankers of America.

New York's top local rate is 3.648 % (so, the top marginal tax rate for a New York City resident isn't 43.97 %, but 47.618 %, higher than Ontario's and almost as bad as Quebec's).

And using offshore accounts or holding companys aren't particularly effective methods for shielding income for tax purposes (since offshore accounts are subject to a whole whack of anti-avoidance rules and holding companys are typically subject to more or less the same tax rate as people in the top marginal tax bracket - the Tax Act has tightened up a lot since the 1960s so there really aren't that many «loopholes»).

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Lower marginal rates won't create opportunity in impoverished rural towns, but universal access to broadband would.

Despite being one of the world's sunniest countries, Saudi Arabia does not generate much power from solar, which makes up just a marginal amount of its largely oil - fired power production.

If venture investors across the spectrum could pull back just a little — resist investing in that marginal deal, maybe not stretch quite as much on valuation or perhaps provide a little less capital to a financing (giving the entrepreneur a chance to build a business with more capital efficiency); it certainly would be of significant help.

These are called «marginal tax rates» — they do not apply to total income, but only to the income within a specific range.

Having said that, the capital gain rates are pretty low, so we're historically, when you look at capital gain rates — Jackie could probably talk to this even more historically — but if you're not in the top marginal tax bracket, your federal rate is 15 %.

The marginal benefit of bonds vs. cash is so small, at current yields, that one can argue it just isn't worth it.

If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.

Phaseouts, however, not only claw back these benefits from the more affluent, they also increase the effective marginal tax rate these taxpayers face, decreasing the after - tax gains of earning more income.