Sentences with phrase «on broad principles»

The trial judge found the Code and her employment agreement unclear, but the C.A. held simply because they relied on broad principles did not make them ambiguous.
However, the flexibility that comes with focusing on broad principles entails some costs.
For a moment, on this Tuesday afternoon, I want to step back and, for a moment, focus on some broader principles that can serve you well in your quest for passive income.
Instead of focusing so much on food, Dina wants us to focus on broader principles of proportion, variety and moderation.

Not exact matches

In order to meet the deadline, both Alden and Clark said negotiators will likely have to settle for agreement in broad principle on some of the contentious areas, with details to be worked out later.
Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.
The overview presented in this article will focus primarily on these broader concepts that are more generally representative of New Thought and will often rely on the statements of belief from different denominations to illustrate these principles, hence making extensive use of web - based resources.
On the one hand the principle of coherence, by Whitehead's account, seems broader and more profound than that of logical consistency.21 Coherence can be distinguished from its opposite, incoherence, in the following way.
Islam provides broad principles and it is up to the individuals to put them into practice, depending on time and place.
«Certainly something on the broad outline of the principles of the Ryan plan is the right way to go and that is, as he says, we have to get off the path of debt and decline and we have to get on the path of freedom and opportunity... I think the fundamental approach of the Ryan plan is sound,» she said.
On 18 July, diplomats from the four nations said they were no longer insisting Qatar comply with the demands and instead wanted it to commit to six broad «principles».
In her resignation letter, she said: «Although I do not doubt your personal commitment to your long - held principles, I believe that a new leader is needed to take on the challenges ahead: Steering our way through the very difficult period facing this country, exerting a decisive influence on the post-referendum negotiations, and winning broad - based electoral support.»
Although I do not doubt your personal commitment to your long - held principles, I believe that a new leader is needed to take on the challenges ahead: steering our way through the very difficult period facing this country; exerting a decisive influence on the post-referendum negotiations; and winning broad - based electoral support.
PB engages them as resources to give me a broader, deeper perspective on improving the ward's physical environment, at the same time strengthening the accountability, transparency and democratic principles I want to demonstrate as their representative.
Yesterday, Judge William H. Pauley III agreed, calling the law «offensive to free speech principles» and saying it was based on an «overly broad definition of commercial speech.»
«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.
Emphasizing government's determination to drive its economic agenda to achieve the broad principles of restoring and sustaining economic growth, building a competitive economy and investing in the people, the Minister said government is focused on achieving a least 7 % GDP growth; $ 10 billion in Foreign Direct investment; 10 GW of power generation and placing among the first 100 countries on the Ease of Doing Business ranking by 2020.
While the coalition wanted to cut state spending back to a «rudimentary» level, he said his party must be «fair at every possible level» and based on the principle that «the broadest backs bear the heaviest burden».
The principles of geomorphology would also suggest that from the lofty mountain axis bordering the Pacific there should slope downward, across the Pole, a broad plateau to Weddell Sea on the one side and the bight between Wilkes Land and Enderly Land on the other; and this interpretation is borne out by the description of the plateau conditions which were found to exist around the South Pole.
In the 1950s a broad set of principles covering how the instructions for life are encoded and passed on between the generations began to emerge from nascent science of genetics.
Having an overarching principle of life and evolution would give researchers a broader perspective on the emergence of structure and function in living things, many of the researchers said.
So there's this kind of gee - whiz stage of it, and then you also see those ideas seeping into the theories, disproving some, suggesting that others are on the right track, proving some even; and those theories, in turn, incorporate principles, new laws of nature, new principles of nature that will, I think, inform our broader culture.
«Our focus here has been on early heart development, but the basic principles of patterning of human pluripotent stem cells, and subsequently differentiating them, can be readily expanded into a broad range of tissues for understanding embryogenesis and tissue morphogenesis,» said Healy.
The study is «important as a proof - of - principle,» adds human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who himself is on the hunt for rare genes that protect against disease and wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.
«Our focus here has been on early heart development, but the basic principles of patterning of human pluripotent stem cells, and subsequently differentiating them, can be readily expanded into a broad range of tissues for understanding embryogenesis and tissue morphogenesis,» said Dr. Healy.
In an effort to address the urgent need for expanded outreach and communications, a group of U.S. stakeholders agreed to collaborate in the development of a broad set of principles during the 5th Basel Declaration Conference held in San Francisco on February 14/15, 2018.
Overall, the committee found that «to optimize the science return for the decade 2012 - 2021 within the anticipated resources, [the United States should] focus on three science objectives» — searching for the first stars, galaxies and black holes; seeking nearby, habitable planets; and understanding scientific principles — «while also considering the discovery potential of a much broader research program.»
Our laboratory has very broad interests in principles of proteolysis in humans, and we take multi-pronged approaches to research on proteases and their inhibitors.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.
We focused on including elements from Articulate Storyline that would meet with our broad development principles, that suited the firm's learning environment, and which would lead to efficient, high quality output.
Yet, while the partnership developed broad principles, it was never able to agree philosophically on what needed to change or provide the specifics about what would change.
Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic republic.
However, working on the principles of quality rather than quantity and less can be more, we should be making sure that we do plan properly for and provide and protect time (even if not as much as we would like) for the broader curriculum.
In it, I took a broad view of value investing, because there are many common principles to value investing employed by all, but many variations on implementation.
These key principles also serve as buffers to the outside chaos on the other side of the precious garden wall and, in a broader sense, the chaos we all experience in day - to - day life.
I'm not sure about that «brilliant, principled, and likeable» thing, but on the broader point Judith Curry did try to warn Michael Mann a year and a half ago:
while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.
A better statement would be, «Climate scientists are in broad agreement on the elementary principles of their subject, which nonetheless is far from settled.»
It is simple in principle to take the initiative on the broad front of population, development, energy technology, land degradation, conservation and restoration of agricultural lands and ecosystems and building resilient communities.
It is simple in principle to take the initiative on the broad front of population, development, energy technology, multiple gases and aerosols across sectors, land use change, conservation and restoration of agricultural lands and ecosystems and building resilient communities.
To elaborate on these two broad criteria, we propose a set of principles for ecological indicators informed by our analysis of the EF.
A straightforward matter such as requesting the IMO to proceed to design a levy, to put a price on carbon consistent with its own principles and that of «common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities» with a rebate system has, we hear, been made unmanageable by constraints behind a discussion of a broader framework.
The following people tweet on a broad range of subjects that may be of interest to those who value the principles of the Original Green.
Although the chapter requires the reader to have a more than basic knowledge of the enforcement system in the European Banking Union and of prudential banking regulations, it manages to demonstrate the difficult balancing acts, for example, between broad administrative provisions on the one hand and the different aspects of the legality principle on the other hand and between administrative enforcement on the one hand and the principle of the separation between investigatory and adjudicatory powers on the other hand.
70 While the principles of fairness and flexibility have informed the modern approach to the application of proprietary estoppel, as adopted by this Court in its jurisprudence (see Idle - O Apartments Inc. v. Charlyn Investments Ltd., 2014 BCCA 451 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 49; Sabey v. von Hopffgarten Estate, 2014 BCCA 360 (B.C. C.A.); Scholz v. Scholz, 2013 BCCA 309 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 31; Sykes v. Rosebery Parklands Development Society, 2011 BCCA 15 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 44 - 46; Erickson v. Jones, 2008 BCCA 379 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 52 - 57; Trethewey - Edge Dyking (District) v. Coniagas Ranches Ltd. [2003 CarswellBC 657 (B.C. C.A.)-RSB- at paras. 64 - 73; Zelmer v. Victor Projects Ltd. (1997), 34 B.C.L.R. (3d) 125 (B.C. C.A.) at paras. 36 - 37), there remains a necessary balancing between an overly broad application of the doctrine under the general guise of «unfairness» and an overly narrow application of the doctrine that places excessive weight on the technical requirements of the doctrine.
And the existing «extortionate credit» test will be replaced with a broader test based on the principle of unfairness.
By opting for this broad reading of the ERTA principle, the ECJ places itself on a collision course with several Member States.
The Court did, however, accept the Parliament's argument based on Article 218 (10) TFEU, and considered that the principle of democracy calls for a broad interpretation of that provision.
The last two chapters of part V focus on European Equality Law after accession, which Panos Kapotas sees — despite EU law being more sophisticated and broader than the ECHR — as the driver for greater conceptual clarity and interpretative convergence (pp. 292 and 307); and on the principle of European consensus, which the ECtHR applies in its reasoning.
The civil law system is systematised and structured relying on declarations of broad, general principles.
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