Sentences with phrase «of thumb which»

Rule of thumb You might be inclined to use the rule of thumb which says you should opt for a cover worth 10 - 15 times of your annual pay.

You'll want to adhere to the kitty rule of thumb which is to have at least once more litter box than the number of cats in the house (i.e. if you have three cats, you should have four litter boxes).

Often, they are collections of subjective rules of thumb which require years of investment experience before the techniques can be applied with any degree of confidence.

There is a rule of thumb which says, to get greater torque, you increase the displacement.

One idea is that they are based on heuristics — mental rules of thumb which, applied in appropriate situations, allow us to make fast decisions with minimal cognitive effort.

So before we all stampede straight off to talking about specific tools like usual, let's think instead for a minute about some basic guidelines — rules of thumb which can apply equally whether we're working on behalf of a candidate or a cause, and that'll stay relevant as technology evolves.

In answering her query I pointed out that it is often difficult or even impossible to be absolutely certain that a given person is afflicted with the alcoholic sickness, but that there is a useful rule of thumb which often gives one a valid clue.

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The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

Facebook, which has long only had its thumbs up «like» button, recently began to introduce new options to let users show a wider range of reactions to content, such as a smiley face, surprised face, and a heart, among a few other ones.

For example, the iOS version of Twitter has menu buttons on the bottom, which makes them easier to tap with your thumb.

I have a couple of rules of thumb that I would live by which I think are very helpful as you're doing that planning.

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

It's oddly reminiscent of the «1 % rule» - a rule of thumb observed as far back as 2006, which states that if you have a group of 100 people interacting online, then one will generate some content, nine will provide feedback, and 90 will simply consume it.

At Toronto's Eaton Centre on a busy Friday afternoon, outlets for Bell, Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) and Telus are bustling with twitchy - thumbed consumers eyeing the multitude of mobile options.

A good rule of thumb is to give leeway to employees who have personally discussed a conflict in which in - office appearance has reduced their productivity - something that can be measured over time and revisited after a few work from home trials.

People who use their smartphones heavily to text and email are prone to muscle fatigue and «Blackberry Thumb» (or Android thumb, or iPhone thumb) which is a type ofThumb» (or Android thumb, or iPhone thumb) which is a type ofthumb, or iPhone thumb) which is a type ofthumb) which is a type of RSI.

Price Rationale: In industries like this one, in which nonprofits and mom - and - pops compete with national chains, there's only one rule of thumb: buy a business that has already proved its ability to earn money.

The New York native former Olympic rower twins broke the big news, which is a welcome relief on an otherwise brutal news day for Bitcoin, on their own Winklevoss Capital blog today, complete with a celebratory «thumbs - up» pic of themselves bookending Branson.

To find out which methods have been most effective for my peers, I asked thirteen entrepreneurs to share one special way they get more word - of - mouth referrals and thumbs up.

If you don't have a specific benchmark in mind (which you really should), a good rule of thumb is to consider the amount of capital it takes to sustain your operations for 18 months, then add 25 - 50 percent for added flexibility and seek to raise that amount of money.

Another rule of thumb for SaaS companies, some focus on «the Magic Number», which is the ratio of new sales to sales and marketing expenses.

Instead of a simple «thumbs down» button, which Facebook claims would be ineffective and possibly abusive, the social network has added a range of reactions, including love, haha, wow, sad, and angry.

But do simple rules of thumb such as this, which are particularly alluring to fall back on during political and policy uncertainty, really work?

[6] This «rule - of - thumb» allocation is consistent with a «threshold» approach, in which industries are allocated to the tradable sector if either their exports or competing imports are greater than a certain share of their gross output (generally 10 per cent; see Table B1 in Appendix B).

As a rule of thumb, we often recommend variable rate loans, which tend to have the lowest interest rates, to folks who plan on aggressively paying off their loans (5 years).

The rule of thumb I hear ranges from using 120 to 100 as the base number from which you subtract your age to figure out your allocation towards stocks.

I am blogging off of my galaxy note two which despite its size is still snug for these thumbs so excuse the grammar

So that the delusional people in each parish can find a sense of relief when the CC comes a runnin» with an exorcist to cast out their self - created demons??? Having an exorcist in each parish will just help to add more delusion to the faithful (which would of course benefit the CC as a whole as a means of psychologically wrestling their believers further under their proverbial thumb).

In the rite of confirmation, which acknowledges the presence of the Spirit in a believer's life, a thumb to the forehead reminds God's children of their mark: the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.

My favorite is «Man's Thumb Bleeds for Three Years,» in which a man who installs auto glass finds unbearable the silence of the «millions of car windows / resting on their sides» in the shop.

Finally, 10 out of the 11 of Muhammad's wives were either close to his age, or older than him; if he really were a pedophile, this would NOT be the case — you would expect more child brides, which DID NOT happen, making the claim that Aisha was 9 stick out like a sore thumb.

Merely giving a thumbs up or thumbs down about such things is absurd, presumptuous and dismissive — which I must say, feels close to an apt description of much of the contemporary theological ethos.

For an example, he employs «a typical case in which we would say a mental event causes a physical event a sharp pain in my thumb causes a jerky withdrawal of my hand» (SM 103).

Dr Aviad Stollman, head of collections at the National Library of Israel told The Time of Israel: «The term «thumb Bible» refers to abbreviated Bibles like this, which were popular in early 19th - century America, where they were used to educate children.»

You compound the problem by furthering the fraud of religion, the best deception by which to keep you under someone's thumb.

Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out of nothing nothing happens, but of course it would take the nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.

A general and easy rule of thumb for making sure the cheese you buy is lactose - free is to meet ALL of the SCD legal cheese tenets which are: Purchase a block of cheese that is on the below GREAT listing of SCD legal cheeses (based on the BTVC book and BTVC website list of permitted cheeses) and make sure the package says it is 1) aged at least 30 days AND 2) contains only SCD legal ingredients.

Instead of the usual ball shaped macaroons, I pushed my thumb into the middle to make it nest like, and then added a tiny bit of creamcheese frosting and a few «eggs» which can be jelly beans, Jordan almonds, yogurt raisins, or any other egglike candy.

The cheesecake has the perfect amount of banana flavor which garnered me two thumbs up.

* 8 cups organic chicken stock, preferably homemade * 5 kaffir lime leaves * 1 thumb - sized chunk of fresh ginger, peeled * 2 tablespoons «Dates and Tamarind Cooking Sauce» (I used the one from Stonehouse 27 which is a great combination of sweet and spicy; if you can't find it, I would add a tablespoon or two of palm or brown sugar to sweeten the broth and some minced fresh hot chile pepper / dried Thai chiles / hot chile sauce to spice it up) * 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce * 3 medium carrots, peeled if not organic and cut lengthwise into strips a few inches long * 1 red pepper, preferably organic, seeded and thinly sliced lengthwise * green tops from 1 bunch of green onions / scallions, cut to approximately same length as carrots and peppers * 12 oz.

All three products earned big thumb's up from me when tasted separately and prepared as part of a specially - created recipe, including my Vegan Hot Chai Cocoa prepared with the Cacao Powder and my utterly decadent Salted Caramel and Chocolate Ganach Tarts prepared with the coconut sugar which I will post soon.

My kids who are fussy eaters gave the Tunisian Shakshuka two enthusiastic thumbs - up after eating it, and that really was all the motivation I needed to create a variant which includes eggplants — one of my favourite vegetables.

The general rule of thumb is that a serving of chicken is 4 oz, which equates to a 1/2 cup of shredded / chopped chicken.

Davidnz, not sure why you are getting thumbed down for a rumour which is as accurate as 95 % of the rumours in the media.

My rule of thumb with Wenger which has been for many years past too, from bitter experience, is to decide for myself what a proper manageR would do and then expect Wenger to do the opposite.

In his efforts to armor himself against the cold, many a fisherman has turned to long underwear of quilted Dacron, or of materials which incorporate thousands of insulating air cells, and to heavy woolen «feel gloves» — so called because both thumbs and forefingers have panels of thin nylon which permit the angler to remain sensitive to the reel.

would like to know the reason who gave thumbs down... may be there is something to look forward to which others are not aware of... please let us all know

The cheaper glove has cotton - and - horsehair padding, the more expensive one just has thin cotton; the first has a thumb spoon (a piece of plastic inside the thumb which keeps the shape), the second does not.

But: nw, hav, cud, Hw, nt, sum, thre, bhnd, 4me hs, beta, thn, wu, shud, b, nd, wit, tht, luks, wit makes your comment so difficult to read I just prefer to give you a thumbs down instead of having to go through it slowly to see what you mean (which I did this, and only this, time!).