Sentences with phrase «policy based off»

It's good to try several different life insurance companies because each company may price your policy based off of a different criteria.

This means your premiums are quite a bit cheaper compared to a whole life policy based off your true age of 50.

With technology, you can monitor vehicle speeds and create a speeding policy based off of frequency and severity of violations.

Not exact matches

For example, instead of basing the amount of paid time off you award, on a salaried or hourly status, consider companywide policies or offer paid leave based on tenure and job level.

If they involve sexual or gender - based behavior, dust off the company's policy for further guidance.

«Tighter global monetary policy is needed in order to contain inflation pressures and ward off financial stability risks,» the Basel - based central bank of central banks warned in its most recent annual report.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Industrial and political leaders throughout the world have been so anti-labor that there is little thought of raising domestic living standards via higher wage levels and a tax shift off labor and industry back onto property where progressive tax policies used to be based.

The point of the chart above is to illustrate that those with an agenda to ride the trend and look smart are correct when they state that the US stock market is not particularly over valued... if one shuts off one's brain and accepts policy (blue Monetary Base line, which is but one of several money supply measures) as being at all normal or healthy.

When all of this is generated by policy that is so far off - base, you don't know when confidence is going to break, but when it does, things will unwind very rapidly.

Seriously though, you're basing everything off a proposition with no evidence, and the rest of us are kind of astounded that it's still viewed as sufficient justification for policy, especially policies of persecution

Studies that have claimed the safety of out - of - hospital deliveries by using higher mean or high cut - off 5 min Apgar scores and reviews based on these studies should be treated with skepticism by obstetricians and midwives, by pregnant women, and by policy makers.

Based off the «Inter-Association Task Force Document Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics» document, the policies outlined on this website were evaluated directly from publicly available resources such as state high school associations and legislative websites.

And so Britain finds itself outside the EU on the basis of a competent communications operation - working off large - scale public concern about the prospect of continued membership - but without significant intellectual policy work on which to draw on.

Labour's focus on campaigning on rail fares, then, is essentially a policy offer based around political popularity which would benefit better - off voters, possibly in marginal constituencies.

The instant - runoff voting for the House upsets the apple cart if and only if one of the major parties fails to be broad - based enough to siphon off third party policies in a given electorate (i.e. a majority party swaps places with a minority party).

As I have long argued, on the basis of plentiful research, the answer has relatively little to do with policy, and constructing a UKIPesque manifesto would be not just ineffective but counterproductive, putting off potential voters who might otherwise be attracted from other parties.

«And I think that the voters of the entire state would be better off served if they heard more policy - based arguments and discussion in the debates.»

«This has potential to cut off collaboration with a country on a rapidly rising science and technology trajectory,» says Richard P. Suttmeier, a retired expert on Chinese science policy based in Keene Valley, New York.

«This paper is a transparent effort to take the focus off the actual scientific debate and instead engage in race baiting, class baiting and other sociological devices to win a science argument,» said James Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

E-security is not something that can be «fixed» on a one - off basis; the changing nature of the threat landscape means that e-security policies and strategies require regular review and update if they are to remain effective.

If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

«If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce,» Goldhaber and Theobald concluded.

Last week I wrote about structural barriers inhibiting competency - based education from taking off, even when policy shifts away from seat - time requirements to welcome innovation.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

The school district had no choice but to let her go as a result of a policy dictating that teachers be laid off based on seniority, not according to performance.

The New York City - based Educators 4 Excellence said nearly 200 Los Angeles teachers had joined the group and signed a declaration calling for linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and ending policies that allow the least veteran teachers to be laid off first.

The policy on teacher lay - offs was based on seniority, or «Last In, First Out».

About 750,000 of those children attend Defense Department - run schools on base or local public schools off base, according to a policy brief the foundation published Friday.

The PSEA also works against the best interest of its teachers by supporting «last - in, first - out,» a policy that lays off teachers based on seniority rather than good performance.

While it does already show favoritism to urban charter schools, not non-urban, from a purely performance - based point of view, Massachusetts» balance still is off; if the state designed the policy exclusively to maximize academic gains, it would raise the cap in urban areas and lower the cap in non-urban areas.

Contemporaneously with the approval of the spin - off, the Board also approved a policy of paying dividends at an annual rate of $ 0.60 per share of common stock of the Company, payable in four installments of $ 0.15 per share of common stock of the Company, with such quarterly dividends to be declared on a quarterly basis by the Board.

These can pay a benefit based on a percentage of death benefit (as you said, 2 % or 4 % and other options as well), and the benefit deducts right off the top of the policy.

Most insurance providers put their employees on heavily commission - based pay plans, which incentivizes them to get you off the phone and to move on to the next policy.

If you purchase a permanent life insurance policy on your child before all these factors even come into play, they will never have to worry about having increased rates or having their application denied based off of one of the factors stated above.

While it is the job of central bankers to set the short - term overnight interest rate — a rate off which the rest of the curve is theoretically set — policymakers can sometimes error or make policy independent of a data - based standard (e.g., political pressure).

When she spotted a job opening with a Kingston - based public policy group that specializes in environmental issues, she sent off her résumé and landed the position.

Winograd is also the man behind the documentary, «Redemption,» a film, based off his novel of the same title, that follows the historical development of the animal shelter system, discussing the pitfalls of shelters that blindly abide by a high - kill policy, and celebrating the success that No Kill programs have had across the United States.

Science has a tremendously important role to play in guiding environmental management, not as a decider, but as a resource for deliberative, evidence - based decision making by the public, policy makers, and interest groups on the challenges, trade - offs and possible courses of action in negotiating the environmental challenges of societal development (DeFries et al 2012).

• Provide a clear, evidence - based explanation of the role played by different parts of the energy sector in causing air pollution • Present detailed projections of the energy sector and related air quality pathways in different countries and sectors, based on known energy, climate and air quality policies, and the key implications for policymakers • Identify additional policy measures that can materially improve the outlook for energy - related air pollution, examining both the co-benefits and trade - offs with other energy and climate objectives • Based on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymbased explanation of the role played by different parts of the energy sector in causing air pollution • Present detailed projections of the energy sector and related air quality pathways in different countries and sectors, based on known energy, climate and air quality policies, and the key implications for policymakers • Identify additional policy measures that can materially improve the outlook for energy - related air pollution, examining both the co-benefits and trade - offs with other energy and climate objectives • Based on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymbased on known energy, climate and air quality policies, and the key implications for policymakers • Identify additional policy measures that can materially improve the outlook for energy - related air pollution, examining both the co-benefits and trade - offs with other energy and climate objectives • Based on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymBased on analysis of different policy options, distil the key findings of the report into a clear set of implications and recommendations for policymakers

And, from the Harvard Business Review: There was a time a decade or two ago when society could have made a choice to write off our massive investment in a fossil fuel - based economy and begin a policy driven shift towards... Continue reading →

A price mechanism would help to make the trade - offs transparent and make evidence - based policy more likely to develop.

There are no good reasons to make public policy based on predicted anthropogenic warming, I look at the past, as recorded, to find a warming off some 1 °C since 1910.

We skeptics will back off as soon as they admit their projection and policy prescription is not yet justified based on the data so far.

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«My religious beliefs would compel me to refuse to take off my veil in the context of a citizenship oath ceremony, and I firmly believe that based on existing policies, I would therefore be denied Canadian citizenship.

The Court has also upheld a suspension in Morse v. Frederick in a school - sponsored activity held off - campus for statements related to drug use, largely based on public policy for preventing student drug involvement.

A contract cleaning employee who alleges he fell off his ladder after receiving an electric shock from exposed bare wires has stated claims for negligent supervision and for negligence based on defendant's internal policies and procedures, but the Norfolk Circuit...