Sentences with phrase «own narrow sets»

Following news of the IRS tax probe, one virtual currency lawyer said the agency's demand simply represented an opening gambit for negotiations — and that it that would end with Coinbase providing a far more narrow set of information.

The problem in both cases lies in seeing capitalism as embodied in a particular narrow set of practices, or in the behaviour of a handful of monolithic multinational corporations.

The AMT is a parallel income tax system with fewer exemptions and deductions than the regular income tax as well as a narrower set of tax rates.

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

Third, the founder's ability to focus intensely on a narrow set of objectives can become a hindrance as his or her company grows.

Outside of a very narrow set of institutions that are subject to compensation limits, just watch how much of the public's money - which benefitted several major investment banks following a very direct route - gets allocated to Wall Street bonuses in the next few weeks.

That 9 % refers to a really narrow set of founders.

This isn't to say that stocks can't deliver adequate returns between now and some narrow set of future dates, but to expect that stocks purchased at these levels will deliver attractive long - term returns in general requires the assumption that current valuations will remain elevated into the indefinite future.

Sadly, the noble legacy of Christian progressivism and the Social Gospel movement has devolved to a narrow set of priorities that has everything to do with upper - middle - class preoccupations and very little to do with the needs of the poor.

We engineers design things to meet a narrow set of requirements.

Since one - hundred - foot spans were difficult for the ancients to roof over (long enough timbers being rare and expensive), the builders raised a narrower set of walls on colonnades, dividing the floor into a central nave under the raised roof and two side aisles under shed roofs.

«In this case,» says Steinfels, «the news media tended to bestow credibility heavily on a rather narrow set of experts» lawyers, therapists, and leaders of victims» groups, who had long been locked in legal battles with the bishops.»

«Mammon Ascendant» deserves a paragraph - by - paragraph refutation, but in the interest of space, I'll limit my comments to a narrow set of observations — some of which David Bentley Hart will likely find heretical.

Adjust the machine to the next setting and continue to roll out the pasta dough, 2 passes for each setting, all the way down to the last and narrowest setting.

Fold the pasta sheet in half each time it is fed through at a narrower setting until the pasta sheet is very thin but does not tear.

Generously dust the pasta sheet with gluten free flour and feed it through the next narrower setting on the pasta machine.

If chocolate is more than 1/16 inch thick, run through next narrower setting.

Adjust machine to next narrower setting.

We've been very focused on this narrow set of cognitive skills that get measured on standardized tests.

For a smaller baby, you simply button the wings at the base of the panel to the narrow setting.

You can wear your baby on your front in three positions: newborns use the fetal position, with arms and legs tucked in; for infants under 6 months, the seat adjusts to a narrower setting so legs can be out but hips are still properly supported; babies 6 months and older use a wider seat setting, with legs wrapping around your body.

Current law allows trustees to examine only a narrow set of criteria, including «sound fiscal operating practices» and «safe and adequate service» in considering rate hikes.

This limits innovation to a narrow set of ideas that are compatible with the autocratic ideology and stifles economic growth.

(http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/renewing-public-ownership) The paper examines three decades of privatisation, and argues that it has resulted into the economy falling into the hands of a narrow set of vested corporate and financial interests.

Zhang opted for a «less selective» strategy that does not try to weed out all the multiples but instead eliminates a narrower set of multiples.

Because the metal coatings absorb a lot of light, reflecting only a narrow set of wavelengths, Capasso suggests that they could also be incorporated into optoelectronic devices like photodetectors and solar cells.

But there is also room for faculty members who lack tenure and have a narrower set of responsibilities, he believes.

One of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom can be found in species of stomatopod crustaceans (mantis shrimp), some of which have 12 different photoreceptor types, each sampling a narrow set of wavelengths ranging from deep ultraviolet to far red (300 to 720 nanometers)(1 — 3).

«Instead of spreading losses evenly across many items, consumers prefer to focus a shrinking budget on a narrower set of preferred products.»

But over time we start to home in on the sounds of our native language, in effect «tuning» our ears to a narrow set of frequencies, at the expense of others.

«These sequences then become the targets for a far narrower set of follow - up gene function studies in F. graminearum by reverse genetic experimentation to pinpoint the genes essential for the disease - causing abilities of this pathogen.»

They also perform only under a narrow set of conditions, making them challenging to use in energy applications.

From these comparisons we should be able to identify a narrow set of genes involved in the immune system to fight plague.

They've gone down the Facebook direction, so at this point they're solely a Facebook app company and focused on a very narrow set of functionality.

The film never really aims at a level of insight beyond a garden variety message of female empowerment within a narrow set of pretty suburban circumstances.

Based on a crime novel by James Sallis, a disciple of pulp writers like Jim Thompson and David Goodis, Drive squares nicely with Refn's previous work, particularly the Pusher trilogy, which is about tough, low - level hoods who scrap their way through a narrowing set of choices.

What good is a feminist film when it speaks to only to a narrow set of experiences?

Dwight may lack foresight, but the key to Blue Ruin is that he's not dumb, just a weak, desperate man who's scrapping his way through a narrow set of options.

GOPNIK: What happened is that in the 19th century, we started developing a system of school that was designed to get children to learn a narrow set of skills needed for the industrial age.

A broader agenda for education advocates might be more justifiable if we had actually accomplished our more narrow set of goals.

Education reformers who are reflexively critical of DeVos are framing a narrow set of policies — the ones they prefer — as the very definition of «school choice,» «justice,» «morality,» or «accountability.»

Moreover, the authors «oversimplified development by dividing it into two categories,» Fischer said, and then used a narrow set of tasks to measure «capabilities and contexts» in the two categories.

The whole thing brings to my mind the collateralized debt bubble, in which incredibly complex models were built atop a pretty narrow set of assumptions and the simple conviction that assumptions could be taken as givens.

But, if states and school districts continue to insist on using state standards and tests to judge school performance, then the for - profits will be pushed to compete for contracts and clientele on the basis of a narrower set of criteria.

But there's a very narrow set of outcomes.

This is a notable limitation because many believe that career - focused education involves a tradeoff — namely, learning a narrower set of technical skills that can provide short - run benefits at the expense of learning more fundamental skills that will better serve individuals in the long - run.

The news comes as critics have argued that the curriculum is a reflection of the government's «obsession with a narrow set of subjects in a rigid framework» and is likely to damage the chances of young people who do not follow an academic route into work.

By leveraging both in - person and video observations, engaging regularly with teachers in the feedback process, providing bite - sized feedback on a narrow set of expectations, and focusing on the formative growth of her teachers, she has blurred the line between evaluation and support.

For primary school students it was a narrower set of choices: «high school», «TAFE», «university» and «I don't know»; for the secondary students it was a little bit more detailed in terms of postgraduate study and things as well, but we collapsed it into those four key categories for this particular analysis.

The law creates a process known as the Parent Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.