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