Sentences with phrase «of the lever at»

The NCAA has lots of levers at its disposal to make life harder on programs from the offending state.

A simple flip of a lever at the front of the footrest cone locks the swivel wheel into place and makes going over rough surfaces much easier, or provides better stability during your exercise.

Put the pad of the lever at the back of your leg near your calves.

Not exact matches

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Self - righteous indignation at the alleged wrongs of those who hold the levers of power can be a delicious indulgence.

This type of investing takes into consideration that individuals have many levers — investment portfolios, philanthropy and time and skills — at their disposal to effect change in the world.

«At this point, I am very confident that we now clearly understand and have our hands placed securely on the practical levers that we believe will enable us to continue to drive double - digit rates of unit and revenue growth for some time,» said Chip Perry, TrueCar's president and CEO, in a press release on Thursday.

Concluded Ryvicker: «Given that CBS has been invited to the decision - making party, we are even more comfortable that whatever decision is reached will be in the best interest of CBS shareholders — whether that is: levering Viacom to purchase CBS at a premium, CBS purchasing Viacom at a discount, or CBS concluding that nothing can be done, therefore it will remain independent.»

First, the limit lever has been set at 5: 1, which enabled investors to contract with only 20 % of the cost of CFDs.

At 2.7 trillion euros, it's now levered 33 times to its own capital, versus a leverage ratio of 25 back in September.

Because banks usually lever at least 10 - 1, these $ 2.2 trillion in reserves represent a potentially massive amount of excess liquidity.

The CEO is very confident the company can refinance at a property level, and I think this is true, but I think the company ought to get worse interest rates going forward, given multiple hikes at the Fed, and the levered nature of the company.

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Voice can be a powerful lever for change, said Adam Grant, bestselling author and professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Who would have forecasted that «AAA» assets would underperform «BBB» assets, and if you are levered at 50 to one, it doesn't take much of a decline in your asset values to wipe out your equity and that is exactly what happened to many financial institutions.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own form of idolatry — an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor of the causes we support.

«A globally competitive company tax rate is one of the most direct and effective economy - wide policy levers we have at hand for boosting investment,» the council says in its submission to the hearing.

The Bellagio, the Monte Carlo, Treasure Island, Circus Circus — year round they're filled with people slumped over at slot machines, taking sips of complementary Bud Light between drags of cigarettes, pulling the levers over and over.

The Dekor lid opens with a press of your foot on a lever at the bottom, like a kitchen garbage can.

The one amazing thing is that the wheels at the back, the release lever inside the back of the shaft there for making the wheel removable for service.

For more mobile babies who can crawl and pull to a standing position, usually around 10 months of age, they will love standing at an activity table and activating the buttons, pushing levers and hearing different songs and sounds.

I never considered the complexity of machinery and gears until my toddler found himself trying to push, pull and move every lever and handle along the docks at the North Pacific Cannery.

It is accomplished by raising the lever located at the base of the handle and simultaneously pressing with your foot where it says «Fold».

You just squeeze the levers on the side of the frame at the same time.

Featuring an easy - to - access lever at the back of the seat parents can select each position without disturbing their baby.

If Pakistan feels at some stage that its interest in securing a friendly regime is being obstructed by hardline figures in the Afghan government, then it has the lever of raising the issue of Afghan refugee repatriation to extract due concessions in the process.

Republicans have shown to be adept at keeping power in Senate, their last lever of influence statewide in New York.

Republicans still are sailing into political headwinds this year as they run to keep their last lever of power in state government with Donald Trump at the top of the presidential ticket.

Some such refocusing was natural in 2010 against a backdrop of economic crisis and with most of the macroeconomic levers being operated at the UK level.

At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns with new electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.

With Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos as the keynote speaker at this morning's New York delegation breakfast here in Tampa, talk naturally turned to whether Republicans can hang on to their last lever of power in New York.

I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.

McCain himself has begun to raise the specter of unified Democratic control of all levers of government; at a speech this morning in Cleveland, McCain condemned the «spending spree» that Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)-- a group he called a «dangerous threesome» — would take the country on if elected.

At J.H.S. 190 in Queens, site coordinator Stephen Pheffer said one of the lever machines was down and another was not working very well.

And a stuck lever left the polling site at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on 10th Avenue without one of its voting machines.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has quickly become one of President Donald Trump's leading opponents, using the levers of his office to litigate against Trump's policies, and has put New York at the forefront of efforts to resist the new Republican administration's agenda.

One group, New Yorkers Against Corruption, has begun questioning the cost of a convention — estimated in the tens of millions of dollars — whether delegates would be the same political insiders who pull levers at the Capitol and just what amendments could come out of a convention process.

After two decades of fighting City Hall, the leaders of the Working Family Party are giddy that their candidates will control the levers of power at...

And 72 percent of New Yorkers say subway problems are at least somewhat important when they pull the lever for mayor this November.

In a speech aimed at offering new hope for Britain's economic future, Mr Cameron set out plans for a forthcoming national infrastructure aimed at levering in # 200bn of long - term investment from the public and private sectors.

«He has a tremendous amount of resources, both in terms of money and levers he can pull, and he's very good at using them,» Mr. Tusk said of Mr. Cuomo.

Never far from the action was Mr. Cuomo himself, making the most of the levers of power at his disposal and operating behind closed doors in ways that sometimes appeared at odds with his public statements.

It has a lever to adjust the pressure of the compaction depending on what stage you're at in the juicing process.

In an effort to pull the government lever, in 2007, at the request of friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Aspen Skiing Company filed an amicus (friend - of - the - court) brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on a lawsuit entitled Massachusetts v. EPA.

When they placed the electrode at a particular sweet spot, some rats pressed the lever hundreds of times an hour.

Ramanathan and colleagues will deliver a complementary report detailing the «three - lever» mitigation strategy of emissions control and carbon sequestration on Sept. 18 at the United Nations.

«LEVER 3 - D is amazing, it opens new vistas for understanding the stem cell niche,» said Dr. Sally Temple, a cell biologist at the Neural Stem Cell Institute in Rensselaer, N.Y. who has been using Cohen's software, through the course of its development, as part of her stem cell research since 2005.

To get at the difference between the two types of rewards, I designed an experiment that injected sugar water into the rats» stomachs whenever they pushed the stimulating lever.

«With index shifting, you move a little lever on the brakes and it shifts crisply,» says Chester Kyle, adjunct professor of engineering at California State University, Long Beach.

Inhibition of the neurons only caused this behavioral shift when the neurons were turned off at the time of feedback of results, when the rats found out if they pressed the rewarded lever.