Sentences with phrase «of equivalent changes»

Not exact matches

Compared with some larger mining operations that can make several whole coins a day, that's the mining equivalent of looking for loose change on the sidewalk.

In the opinion of the Company's management, adjusted book value per share is useful in an analysis of a property casualty company's book value per share as it removes the effect of changing prices on invested assets (i.e., net unrealized investment gains (losses), net of tax), which do not have an equivalent impact on unpaid claims and claim adjustment expense reserves.

Nather noted that it was interesting to see that the attackers had not changed their IP addresses — the equivalent of street addresses on the Internet — since its earliest beginnings in 2012.

Having a plan gave managers the equivalent of a dashboard to work with as my company navigated sudden change.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Ideally, you will be looking at the change in cash (actual cash or cash equivalents) over a specific period of time.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

Leveraging inside information about upcoming initiatives, current pain points, and leadership changes is the equivalent of having a triple double in your sales cycle.

«The anticipated increase in longevity and resulting [aging] populations is the financial equivalent of climate change,» said Michael Drexler, one of the report's editors.

For instance, Charlie Munger points out that Disney is able to adapt to technological change better than any other company he had ever studied in his life, calling it the equivalent of «an oil company that can put the oil back in the ground after it is done drilling so it can drill it again.»

Certain changes to U.S. tax laws, including limitations on the ability to defer U.S. taxation on earnings outside of the United States until those earnings are repatriated to the United States, could affect the tax treatment of our foreign earnings, as well as cash and cash - equivalent balances we maintain outside the United States.

Additionally, in each scenario, we assume ACHC's invested capital increases $ 2.37 billion in year 1, which is equivalent to the change in fixed assets after the acquisition of Priory.

Instead, it has everything to do with the massive quantities of equivalent metal changing hands by two different groups of speculators in an orgy of private bucket shop trading that is dictating silver prices to the rest of the world.

Proposed changes in a plan supported by Paul Ryan, Speaker of the house, would levy an 8.75 % tax on cash and cash equivalents and 3.5 % on other profits, spread over an eight - year period.

These choices, the evidence says, will change Alberta from a world - class commercial competitor into the economic equivalent of a second - or third - string hockey player.

This seems more efficient than working to reach many individuals in order to create an equivalent amount of change.

Canada would experience some dilution of its benefits in terms of preferential access to the CPTPP markets, but that might be small change compared to resolving access to the US market on terms at least equivalent to NAFTA.

«As of today, this doesn't materially change the investment thesis for cable stocks,» says Mr. Casey, who has the equivalent of a «hold» rating on both Shaw and Cogeco Cable.

Tradestation publishes its spreads and offers fractional pips (pips are the smallest price change that a given exchange rate can make - for most pairs this is the equivalent of 1/100 of one percent, or one basis point).

In some circles, using the word «Christian» is the equivalent of saying you're a racist, homophobic, climate - change denying ignoramus ready to storm a women's health clinic to murder a doctor.

Likewise, he who makes the confession has his name changed from Simon, the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Simeon, to Peter, which means rock.

«God hath exalted Christ with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel» (Act 5:31) To give repentance — The word «repentance» here is equivalent to «reformation» and «a change of life.»

However these lives end, there are maternal bodies that initiate hormonal changes equivalent to those of women who give birth to living infants.

In an equivalent light, a civilized society is constituted as an enduring, i.e., historically continuous, entity which manifests a definitive set of social relations that transcends the invariable changes in its membership.

Studies that prove that prayer really changes things, beyond being the mental equivalent of an aspirin.

«Substance» is often used as the equivalent of «nature», yet substance denotes what remains the same in accidental change, e.g., although a man changes in size, weight, position, age, etc., he remains substantially the same man.

Just as an astrologer» «please explain to me how science proves anything» «Religion is based on what someone stated a long time ago and can not be changed» «book of rules, which once it is written down it can't be changed» «Religion is equivalent of magic» «met a few rational atheists, but not many.

What we need is a change of heart such that ecological issues have for us «the moral equivalent of war».

Other than the intended production of provitamin A in the grains, GR2E Golden Rice was found to be compositionally equivalent to conventional rice and there were no observed unintended, unexpected, changes in nutrient composition as a result of the genetic modification process.

I made one change, instead of the spices called for I substituted an equivalent amount for Chinese 5 Spice.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

That kind of money, whilst eye - watering and jaw - dropping to you and me, is the equivalent of pocket change money down the back of the sofa to the executives at Old Trafford.

and frankly we might deserve this fate because we've let it go on so long... Gazidis is the equivalent of a prison bitch, Kroenke is the destroyer of all sports teams he touches and their are way too many complacent fans who believe we are the only club in the world that can't find a suitable replacement (try explaining to fans of clubs like Bayern, Barcelona and Real, who have had more manager changes in the last 4 year than we've experienced in 35 seasons)

It wasn't quite the equivalent of throwing the kitchen sink at White Hart Lane on Sunday, but in the last seven or eight minutes, Mauricio Pochettino went for two strikers up top, and you have to say that this did change the game in the closing stages, despite us losing 2 - 1.

• 45,000 men in the UK don't sign the birth certificate when their child is born (equivalent to 7 % of all births — and double the rate in Australia) and a simple change in the questions asked of parents at birth registration is likely to reduce this statistic substantially.

When the English translators of the King James version of the Bible encountered the Hebrew words hupakouo / hupakoe and shema / lishmoa they discovered that there wasn't an exact English equivalent, so they chose the word hearken in their translations which subsequently became an archaic term and was later changed to obey.24 So, what exactly do the original words in the Bible mean?

That would've been the equivalent of a part - time job... in diaper changing.

You're in the trenches and what the staff officers are doing doesn't really make much difference...» — in Do No Harm he writes that governments turn the life of clinicians into a game of musical chairs, with the coalition's controversial NHS reforms the equivalent of changing the entire orchestra.

«To them, he looks like the UK equivalent of a Rockefeller Republican, embracing the opposition party's big government agenda, advocating more of a change in management than of direction.»

The total loss of civilian lives equivalent to 27 separate 9/11's can not be outweighed by minor changes on the ground.

The introduction of grammar schools, reducing other schools to the equivalent of secondary moderns, is an example of a tumultuous and contentious policy change that requires the verdict of the voters first.

The most ridiculous part of this morning's Today interview with Nick Clegg was when he tried to claim that those opposing change were lickspittles of the British establishment, while he and his band of heroic rebels were the modern equivalent of the liberators of the Bastille.

The main changes to the School Teachers» Pay and Conditions Document since 2010 include: (a) the introduction of a 25 per cent limit to the discretionary payments which can be made to a head teacher (b) a # 250 payment to those unqualified teachers who earn a full - time equivalent of # 21,000 or less

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

In the second case at an Abuja Federal High Court, Adoke and Abubakar were alleged to have on September 16, 2013 conspired to commit money laundering when they directly took possession of the sum of $ 2, 267, 400 and converted it to the Naira equivalent being the sum of N345.2 million using one Usman Bello, a bureau de change (BDC) operator.

From being equal at the last election, Labour now have a nine point lead — the equivalent of a 4.5 percent swing from Conservative to Labour (the swing is the relative change, divided by two).

«I'm the equivalent of the independent candidate, the independent voice the voice for change... the voice for transparency... the voice for ordinary citizens having someone fighting for them at the Capitol, shaking up the status quo.»

He said if there was no change it was equivalent of «sending us over the trenches at the Somme with nothing to fire with».

Testifying, Ibrahim (PW6) told the court that, he was given the sum of $ 1m (one million dollars) to change and pay into the account of Destra Investment Limited, a sum whose naira equivalent amounted to N103m (one hundred and three million naira).

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on track.