Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary cut»

The dashboard has a color - coded, 25 - square performance grid for each indicator that will create a number of arbitrary cut points between performance levels.

Well, any list of young leaders has to have some kind of arbitrary cut - off for what constitutes young.

Golden said officers who risk their lives shouldn't be denied more generous disability because of an arbitrary cut - off in required years of service.

Not exact matches

«We can not support arbitrary cuts to future legal immigration levels,» said Daniel Garza, president of The LIBRE Initiative, which is backed by the Koch brothers.

«While the recovery was gaining traction before sequestration took effect, these arbitrary and unnecessary cuts to government services will be a headwind in the months to come, and will cut key investments in the nation's future competitiveness,» Alan B. Krueger, the chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement.

Get ready for more years of gridlock and uncertainty in the world's most important economy, all because Republicans wanted to secure a big corporate tax cut before an arbitrary deadline of Christmas 2017.

In the early ontology of events the divisions could be made by arbitrary cuts (see D.E. in Dialogue I).

Is human compassion alone ever sufficient to produce the initiative to cut off such an existence as this, relatively protected from coercion, from the ills of human temper, from arbitrary authority, from far - reaching and unremitting responsibility» Will human compassion alone serve to terminate such an existence in favor of the fearfully vexed, dangerous, and apparently hopeless role which Moses is soon to assume»

This list of 5 reasons moms continue to breastfeed their babies after the arbitrary acceptable cut - off date enforced by random strangers or other individuals such as family members and friends who aren't actually whipping their boob out for their 3 year old «infant» to suckle may shed some clarity on the matter.

In an apparent distraught against this considered loud mouth vituperations, the party took arbitrary steps particularly at the regional levels to suspend a handful of supposed deviants upon receipts of petitions which rather flowed copiously like the river Jordan from all manner of party persons who particularly were enthusiastic about the cutting to size, those who were perceived to have overgrown their wings against the very much revered flagbearer.

It is absurd to suggest that someone at risk of arbitrary incarceration and torture would stay put if only we cut asylum seeker benefits.

Labour MPs also made the fair point that cutting the number of MPs from 650 to 600 is an arbitrary gesture of appeasement to anti-politician sentiment.

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Justice, delivered by the lowest bidder, coupled with arbitrary rate cuts will create an unviable system of legal aid that fails to grasp the importance of client choice, competition and quality.

Luo Huiqian, another researcher at the Institute of Physics, says that most big science projects in China have suffered from arbitrary cost cutting; as a result, the finished product is often a far cry from what was proposed.

The only responsible course of action is to invest in our research agencies like the President has proposed, not hamstring them with arbitrary sequestration cuts.

Matthews and Weaver make the point that this is a little arbitrary and that the true impact of climate inertia would be seen only with emissions cut to zero.

This superparamagnetic material can be cut into arbitrary shapes and is suitable for applications such as multiphase catalysis and the removal of heavy metal ions and oil from water.

They often say that high fat diets have more than 30 % of calories from fat or that high - carb diets have more than 50 % of calories from carbs, or some other arbitrary cut - off.

We then cut to a group of arbitrary and pointless characters who are filming a new internet show where participants will spend the night locked in the old Myers's house.

As it appears largely arbitrary which scenes made it into the film in the first place, it's likely that any cuts were for the sake of length.

Focusing on a single data source — for example, an arbitrary proficiency level or cut point — can lead schools to focus on a single group of students who hover around this point and ignore those far above or below that point.

Average scale scores are a better measure of central tendency compared to percent of students at proficient or goal because scale scores do not lump students status levels at arbitrary cut points.

This week the Florida Board of Education is holding three workshops to set arbitrary pass / fail cut scores for the troubled 2015 Florida Standards Assessment.

[As an aspiring applicant to a «reach» college, I would not want to explain to an Admission Officer that, even though I had obtained respectable scores, I had failed to meet the arbitrary cut - score established after the fact to maintain this fiction of Common Core rigor.]

And, to make matters worse, the former Education Commissioner agreed to set a cut - score which establishes an arbitrary level of proficiency such that only 30 % of students taking the test will meet that passing standard.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

If you cut past the arbitrary labels and clever massaging of words, what you have is an eReader that excels at its primary purpose while offering enough extras to justify the price.

The arbitrary compositions, cutting off one's sense of place, allow the objects and interiors to slip easily into a vague and more luxurious past.

In each work, White has intentionally left strips of surface area completely blank, emphasizing the arbitrary cutting, cropping, and breaking of images — a regular feature in contemporary visual language, and one to which we have become increasingly inured.

For his Project Space residency, Smith will be working on a 7 × 7 inch square book designed to be cut from the spine to form a reversible square, 7 pages by 7 pages, as a way to both manifest the site of the square and call into question the (arbitrary) borders of the visual page.

Vaughn seems consumed by what the rest of us perceive as arbitrary, going to great lengths to mount the skeletal fabric on beefy, custom - shaped plexi that mimics the existing industrial cuts.

The 2100 cut - off is somewhat arbitrary, more cat 5 hurricanes could be avoided in the 22nd century, but also most of the climate action for that could occur late.

Matthews and Weaver make the point that this is a little arbitrary and that the true impact of climate inertia would be seen only with emissions cut to zero.

I have to say that in your situation I'd be doing everything possible to include all of that information related to travel and work that lands before the arbitrary cut off date.

Law Society President Joe Egan said: «After decades of legal aid cuts by successive governments we have no choice but to act against an arbitrary cut that will do little if anything to drive down the legal aid bill — but could have a very detrimental impact on justice.»

However, Grech's endorsement of the Taskforce's proposals differed from Briton's in two ways: The first difference was that Grech was concerned that «from a practical perspective the requirements may prove unnecessarily cumbersome» for sole practitioners or small firms, and thus he proposed «an arbitrary cut off point as a definition of small firm,» for whom the implementation of AMS would not be required.

Costs can be cut by hiring cheaper in - house lawyers or outside firms, requiring firms to give arbitrary discounts, refusing to pay the legal bill, directing the firm to settle early regardless of cost, and so on.

Using tertile cut points meant that the proportions of parents allocated to each parenting style were essentially arbitrary, but this does not negate the strong internal relationships, which were the prime concern of this article.

The 2 studies used different measures as proxies for the parenting dimensions of warmth and sensitivity, both with arbitrary cut points to dichotomize the parenting dimensions, so that they could have measured different underlying constructs.

Relationship research has shown that passion decreases gradually throughout a relationship, making 3 - years seems like an arbitrary cut - off (but perhaps not arbitrary in terms of tying in with the movie).

Because it is increasingly believed that mental and behavioral disorders can best be understood as scores on a continuum (e.g., Satcher 2000), we conceptualized pathological gaming as a continuum, instead of using an arbitrary cut - off point to determine if someone is addicted or not.