Sentences with phrase «of measures like»

It is the introduction of measures like these that will reduce deaths and injuries on the roads.

Supporters of measures like the omnibus crime bill have increasingly been striking back at defence lawyers like me accusing us of having a professional «conflict of interest» and questioning our personal motivation for opposing mandatory minimum sentences.

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I'd take the most effective actions to be the implementation and determined support of measures like the UN sustainable development goals:

We can agree everyone would like cheaper retail prices, but not at the expense of measures like this.

Note that JNJ's varying price does not reflect its quality or consistency of measures like ROE or earnings growth that we saw above.

However, he remains an adamant advocate of measures like the Education Investment Tax Credit, putting him in line with Mr. Cuomo and State Senate Republicans, and at odds with Mr. de Blasio and his teachers» union allies.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

That is, the validation of a measure like the MDI, which explicitly aims to foster practices and decisions in support for children, as a consequence of the measurement process, requires that this aspect be deliberately evaluated (cf. Guhn et al. 2011).

Not exact matches

With an abundance of nine - digit megaprojects, these large players have become less interested in tricky, mid-sized jobs that require finesse and a measure of creativity, like the WeWork conversion.

With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

That way, iSpot can teach its system to search for combinations of words like «Solo» and «trailer,» «commercial,» or «movie» to measure the online chatter about the ad.

Aside from cost - saving measures like staying near The Four Seasons, the most expensive portion of a business trip is often the overnight stay.

In addition, Air Canada has an Altman Z - Score, a common measure of a company's financial health, that assess variables like working capital, sales and earnings as a proportion of total assets, of 0.62, which suggests the possibility of bankruptcy.

Considering the sprawling, federated nature of U.S. medicine, experts warn that a combination of government policies and health IT upgrades — as well as prophylactic human measures like changing passwords — will be necessary to keep patients» data safe and health systems functioning.

Facebook has other persistent problems, like failing to accurately measure the effectiveness of its ads.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

So if we look at a range of market valuation measures, whether it's Shiller CAPE, whether its price - to - book, whether it's price - to - trailing earnings, price - to - peak earnings, when we look at these measures, they look like they're in the, what we would call, the 10th decile, meaning generally, valuations are cheaper 90 % of the time.

For example, measuring the number of monthly visitors sounds like a must - have KPI, but if you measure it, you will not even notice next Penguin!

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

RelSci may have the full measure of a man like Ken Langone, but luminaries in Hollywood or Manhattan media circles may have skeletal profiles, if they exist at all.

You can measure this through traditional metrics, such as the size of your email list or your Facebook audience, but approaching your audience purely as clicks, likes, or views can quickly alienate them.

In our culture that values the «stuff» we can see and measure, like how many awards, titles, fancy cars, and you know, fill in the rest of the goodies that map success, we often forget to factor in the price of well - being and rich relationships.

They do not include statutory measures such as the two provisions Trump said he would consider, or others like the inability of insurers to place lifetime limits on plans.

Harris is an outspoken critic of using engagement — as measured by screen time, click - throughs, likes, and other actions — as a metric of success.

Coaches are a lot like entrepreneurs: both are in the business of talent acquisition, performance is measured on a scoreboard every quarter and job security is contingent on the ability to deliver great results.

There some great publishers and companies doing this that you can look towards for guidance, like Upworthy and Medium, two publishers that churn out a ton of quality content and are now measuring the success of their content with attention minutes.

The Trump campaign said measures like tariffs would level the playing field and help bring «millions of manufacturing jobs back to the United States.»

With so many different ways to measure the impact of our marketing efforts, it's easy to start perceiving customers as statistics like clicks and open rates, instead of people.

None of us have qualities like courage, vision, charisma, adaptability, and decisiveness in equal measure.

Used to measure what percentage of your body is fat, it's a white capsule, like a spaceship escape pod for one.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.

What I like about them is they're not attitudinal measures of sentiment.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, policy makers were unsure whether measures like these would work.

Measuring activity from 5,000 Facebook users during one month, the graphic shows that fans of fashion, automobile, and e-commerce pages take the top three spots when it comes to total interactions, total «likes,» and total comments.

You measure a country's ability to innovate using myriad factors, including registered trademarks, articles published in scientific journals and the size of its export market in fields like electronics or pharmaceuticals.

Some also join industry - sponsored initiatives like Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production, or the more stringent Fair Labor Association, both of which afford some measure of independent validation.

The demonstration Thursday evening in Madrid was one of 80 held in cities across Spain to protest the austerity measures the government says are necessary if Spain wants to avoid a bailout like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

And given Germany's unwillingness to take the most basic measures, like boosting government spending or encouraging domestic wage increases, that would help iron out some of the imbalances in the European economy, the situation in Greece will likely only force Italians to wonder why it is tethering itself to such an uncooperative partner.

If you take internet traffic as a measure of our digital economy, it's clear that it's growing like crazy.

The experiment measured the women's liking and perceived healthiness of the food through written follow - up questionnaires.

The new service, Coinbase Custody, will offer a raft of extra security measures and hand - holding in order to persuade big investors to put their money into assets like bitcoin.

Aside from that, the brewing process involves nothing more than using one of those measured cups and selecting the beverage size you would like.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

«We are always concerned for the safety of aircrews and as such, we ensure appropriate measures are taken to ensure the exposure to threats like this are minimized,» Gresback said.

When you measure the success of your MVP, focusing on generic vanity metrics (things like time on site, conversion rate, revenue per user, etc.) will get you nowhere.

There were also rumors the new watch would complete stand - alone functions like tracking and measuring one's biometrics like heart rate and oxygen levels, as well as control aspects of one's home environment via HomeKit.

But with services like Google AdWords, now you can apply a tiny budget — measured in dollars, not thousands of dollars — for online ads you create yourself, buy on a pay - as - you - go basis and continually tweak based on response rates.