Sentences with phrase «of class membership»

With this test, the probabilistic nature of class membership is taken into account, leading to more unbiased mean estimates and their standard errors.

Not exact matches

Small businesses are no longer at a disadvantage compared to big companies when it comes to project - management tools — you can get a free Trello membership or an affordable Trello Business Class workspace that lets you coordinate the work of your entire team, no matter where they live and work.

Even with the large, diverse new class of invitees, though, the Academy would only be increasing the percentage of minorities that make up its membership from 8 % to 11 %, a slight increase that indicates how much further the Academy needs to go to meet its diversity goals.

This beats having to pay for each studio's monthly membership or individual class fee, which can add up to hundreds of dollars a month.

In September 2017, Recurrent Energy entered into an agreement for the sale of 99 percent of its Class B membership interest in the project to Falck Renewables S.p.A., with closing expected in November 2017.

MILAN, Italy and GUELPH, Ontario, Canada, December 4, 2017 — Recurrent Energy LLC («Recurrent Energy»), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. («Canadian Solar» or the «Company»)(NASDAQ: CSIQ), and Falck Renewables S.p.A. («Falck Renewables»)(FKR.MI) today announced the closing of the sale of 99 percent of the partnership that owns the Class B membership interest in the 92 MWp / 71 MWac IS - 42 solar project.

Zappos is one of those companies that always seems to come up any time you're mentioning corporate culture or employee satisfaction, so it will come as no surprise that the online shoe giant offers gym memberships, nap rooms, and fitness classes.

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement recapitalizes the units currently held by the existing members of SSE Holdings into a new single class of common membership units, which we refer to as the «LLC Interests.»

Adjusted pro forma net income represents net income attributable to Shake Shack Inc. assuming the full exchange of all outstanding SSE Holdings, LLC membership interests («LLC Interests») for shares of Class A common stock, adjusted for certain non-recurring items that management believes do not directly reflect their core operations.

A Christian think tank has said that current proposals to reform Britain's membership of the European Union will make migrants «second - class citizens».

I can almost visualize the conclusion of each week in the Membership classes, where the Pastor (or Elder) teaching the class get everybody to stand and say the pledge out loud, and then collects copies of everyone's pledge to be stored in the person's «Membership File» so that if they ever get out of hand, the pastor can pull their file and say, «See?

While I am not a fan of institutional churches or of the church membership classes that go with them, I do understand that if a group of believers are going to meet in an institutional way, they probably need some sort of membership rolls, and membership classes to go with them.

After years of experimentation and reflection — and membership protocols that tended to err on the side of inclusiveness — our staff came to the conclusion that our membership process could and should be far more than a perfunctory series of classes.

Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to write a book about it, and get 23 prominent church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» classes.

But there are numerous problems with thinking that doctrinal statements and membership classes can keep false teaching out of the church.

Communicants classes would graduate into church membership as their committed response to the call to discipleship or perhaps as part of an Epiphany pageant.

Moreover, churches are a kind of community in which at least in principle (unlike in suburbia) membership is not primarily a function of class or age.

For as Nisbet points out the really important thing about class is that group membership was by itself a sufficient condition of a certain degree of influence.

At the end of the class, you will have to sign our membership agreement and our fishing creed, start giving 10 % of your income to the club as membership dues, and you will also have to get immersed into the fishing fellowship.»

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

All too often a profession of faith is no more than a perfunctory membership ritual identified only with attending confirmation classes.

Thus, membership in the same class is one form of relationship and membership in different classes is another form.

Other myths can be challenged by the data — such as the myth that the membership of megachurches is homogeneous, whether by race, class or politics.

«There's no silencing of Sister Farley in the notification, there's no threat to her membership in her religious community; it's just about the book, which everyone agrees probably shouldn't be taught in Catholic seminaries, certainly shouldn't be taught in religious education classes for young persons.

In so doing, however, they will be increasing the pool of middle - class blacks and decreasing the membership (at least relatively) of middle - class black churches; for it is common knowledge that the faster blacks become middle - class the faster they leave the church.

The erosion of middle - class church membership could be explained away as just another indication that blacks are no different from whites.

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

It is the ambiguous history of a middle - class, white church in the last decade, during which its mainline denomination declined in membership and influence.

We offer four classes of membership, each with benefits tailored to the group.

Over the course of ten days, this exclusively virtual auction encourages fans of Paso Robles to bid on a range of Wine Country items including: a stay and dinner at Tobin James Cellars and JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery, a helicopter tour of Paso Robles Wine Country with a private tour of Hearst Castle, a collection of magnums from L'Aventure Winery, dinner with Robert and Jason Haas of Tablas Creek Vineyard with a one year membership in their Collector's Edition Wine Club, a private cooking class at Brigit Binns» Refugio, a year of tickets to the Central Coast's most popular events, a guitar lesson, and zip lining over the vineyards at Santa Margarita Ranch, just to name a few!

Instead of paying for a session of classes at a time, parents instead pay a monthly membership fee, which includes five open play sessions a month and a class of their choosing.

For the non-material gift, we love a gift membership to a nearby children's museum or zoo or a semester of a music class like Music Together.

I especially love the idea of pairing movie tickets, a zoo membership, a music class, ice skating or something similar with a related book.

While senior Labour politicians seem to feel comfortable speaking to pro-EU middle - class voters who have seen the visible gains of EU membership, they have little to say to Eurosceptic working - class voters who have suffered on the other end.

Clause I — Name — The Labour Party Clause II — Membership — There shall be two classes of members, namely a) Affiliated members b) Individual members.»

Writing on his website, Mann said: «Hidden from the discussion of Labour's big increase in membership is any analysis of who has joined as fee - paying individual members, but a deeper examination will show that it is overwhelmingly the middle classes who are joining.»

The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working - class and left - wing organisations — trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates.

Labour is a party that has alienated a large body of working class voters, and though it wants in principle to build up its working class membership and its proportion of working class candidates, it is much less willing to offer policies bold enough to win working class voters back.

Sensitive to the class warfare criticism of its effort to assist Gov. Andrew Cuomo that has emerged in recent weeks, the business - backed Committee to Save New York is trying to diversify its membership by employing the services of a well - know lobbyist for the small business set: Richard Lipsky.

«Hidden from the discussion of Labour's big increase in membership is any analysis of who has joined as fee paying individual members, but a deeper examination will show that it is overwhelmingly the middle classes who are joining.

«When Labour's membership was last this high in 1997, there was a very different picture with a good mix of members coming from all backgrounds and classes.

Yet the unions still cling to yesterday's working class rhetoric, despite having less power in the workplace, because of stagnant membership.

New Labour have successfully and completedly voided it of its rank and file working class membership.

My estimate of overall membership is based on an assumed attrition rate of ten percent a year from death, defeat or retirement, and includes the 14 from the Class of 2009 who departed with downsizing.

Under the proposals, each of the roughly 200,000 Labour members will get a single vote in choosing the leader, but so will a new class of so - called associate members, who will pay a membership fee of # 3 a year.

Each of the roughly 200,000 Labour members will get a single vote in choosing the leader, but so will a new class of so - called associate members - paying a membership fee of just # 3 a year.

Admission to each of these five classes of membership shall be in accordance with the provision of Section 2 of this Article and with such relevant rules as the Council shall have prescribed.

The Council may establish additional classes of membership.

This means that today's high school kids being forced to watch Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» — some of them 4 times in 4 different classes — will be nearly eligible for AARP (age 50) retirement group membership by the time warming resumes if these new studies turn out to be correct.

Except as otherwise provided in this Article, all classes of members shall be elected by the Membership Committee.