Sentences with phrase «serve as a cap»

Quotas, the study warns, may inadvertently serve as caps for female representation.

To serve as a cap on the wealthy and make them pay for something that would normally go untaxed.

Not exact matches

Another beneficiary of the Tea Party wave, Mulvaney serves on the Budget Committee, and earned conservative cred as a co-author of the Republican «Cut, Cap and Balance» legislation.

To fight the proposed cap, Uber then aggressively marketed itself as a service for minorities and outer - borough residents (two groups taxis are notoriously bad at serving) and as a means for New Yorkers to find gainful employment.

Sure, more people than ever have probably heard about bitcoin, and they may have heard about some of its closest rivals by market cap, such as Ethereum and Ripple, but they don't have the faintest idea what purpose they serve or how they really work.

Hamm, who yesterday cleared a cool $ 3 billion in less than three hours off his shares in Continental Resources Inc. after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that it had finally agreed to cap its production at 32.5 million barrels per day, also serves as the CEO of Continental Resources, which is clearly a full - time gig when he's not busy raking in billions on the back of OPEC deals.

In this post, we will explore in detail the S&P / TSX Capped REIT Income Index, which is designed to serve as an income - producing strategy.

«We serve 6 of the 10 largest private companies, and some of these larger «unicorns» today have stock option plans and cap tables that are as sophisticated as a public company,» Lopez says.

Fundamental Index strategies can serve as a complement to traditional market cap weighted index and actively managed strategies — providing investors the potential for more attractive risk - adjusted returns across various market cycles.

The financial conquest is capped by turning tax policy over to financial lobbyists who claim to serve as objective technocrats.

Before that, he served as a senior portfolio manager with State Street Global Advisors, where he was responsible for managing U.S. Large - Cap Core and Growth equity strategies.

John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.

Because risotto is not easy to eat at a wine - tasting party, we decided to stuff it in mushroom caps so that it can be served as finger food.

1) Peel the grapefruit, and remove as much of the white pith from both the flesh and the peel 2) Using the peel of one grapefruit, slice into strips as thin as you possibly can 3) Roughly chop up the grapefruit flesh into small pieces and put the pieces in a bowl 4) Pour sugar over the chopped up grapefruit and mix sugar with the fruit 5) Allow grapefruit - sugar mixture to rest for about 30 minutes 6) After 30 minutes, pour the grapefruit - sugar mixture into a large pot, add in the sliced peel, and squeeze in the lemon juice 7) Heat over low fire, stirring every few minutes for around one hour to ensure it does not stick to the bottom of the pot 8) Once marmalade reaches the desired consistency, remove from fire and pour straight away into sterilized jars, capping them immediately 9) Allow the grapefruit marmalade to cool before serving with toast or crackers

The development in this larger, wide mouth neck finish is driven by the combination of three factors: - the continuous growth of aseptically processed, shelf stable beverages such as juices, drinkable dairy, Ready - To - Drink coffees and teas, preservative free drinks and water - the dynamic growth of on - the - go beverage consumption in single serve packaging formats - and the increasing consumer demand for on - the - go beverage convenience, hygiene and resealablity provided by a flip - top sport cap with a larger neck finish for superior hydration.

AND I bet you could serve this as a main course by filling the large portabello mushroom caps with the filling.

This could be a barn burner and should serve as a feather in the cap of either an undefeated Baylor with an actual, quality win or an OU that could eventually have as good a résumé as any one - loss team outside of Tuscaloosa.

By the time the quarterback donned his Jets cap on Day 3, he'd been sitting on a couch for 44 consecutive hours, or what's known in Tallahassee as time served.

(Sodas have been served without caps in the stadium since, making them harder to use as projectiles.)

Chris@82: The salary - cap rules are completely self - serving for the top Premiership clubs in as much as they are intended as insurance against the clubs blowing their TV money on hugely increased contracts for players and then seeing those broadcasting - rights fees shrink in the next renewal cycle.

Similarly, Big Food likely also supports the cap on sodium reductions (salt is 1/3 of Big Food's palatability arsenal; see: Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat) as well as the requested change to a la carte rules (who profits from all that frozen pizza schools want to serve every day?)

The Democrat most recently served as Common Council President, a city - wide office, capping a public service career that spans two decades.

«We envision that these photo - responsive polymer - capped gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.

On other occasions the dome was transformed into a giant beanie cap with propeller (1996), banded with a giant ring engraved with Elvish calligraphy from the opening of the Lord of the Rings movie (2001), and has served as pedestal for a full - scale model of Kitty Hawk, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers» flight (2003).

The control system could serve as a technically simple and feasible add - on to other devices, with EEG caps and hardware now emerging on the consumer market.

The amendments also envision submitting the cap - and - trade regulations to U.S. EPA to serve as California's compliance plan under the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants, if the Supreme Court stay of the federal regulations is lifted.

In one VA - funded study, he is using a type of electroencephalography (EEG)-- in which veterans wear an electrode - studded cap on their head — to trace brain patterns that may eventually serve as biomarkers.

In the study, Wei - Qi Yan and colleagues implanted tiny 2 mm by 10 mm CaP / gel / Ti and CaP / Ti rods into the thigh bone of rabbits, while pure Ti rods served as controls.

During the 1980's she served as Aerospace Officer of her local CAP squadron, conducting classes and the occasional seminar.

He has previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Medical Genetics Foundation and as Member of the ACMG / CAP Biochemical and Molecular Genetics Resource Committee and many other roles in various professional societies.

Roasted portabella mushroom caps serve as a great vehicle for pizza toppings.

Serve as a dip with crisp celery sticks, cucumber slices, green and red pepper strips, mushroom caps, and cauliflower florets.

These specially designed plastic caps are joined securely to the ropes and are designed to serve as a stop point for your hand.

From bright fluffy coats and swimsuits as tops to cool newsboy caps and eye - catching boots, the most ingenious dressers in the industry are serving up some major winter inspo right now.

Gold accents served as her accessories, including drop earrings, gold - capped pumps and a gilded box clutch.

A striking Maison Michel mini straw and lace trilby hat with polka dot veil, a striped clutch, and black shoes with white cap - toe detail all served as accessories.

«We are celebrating Pride this year by highlighting bars that have been so essential to the social life of New York... Now more than ever, we stand behind these establishments that make our community strong,» Opening Ceremony co-founder Humberto Leon added in a press release.The range includes tees, sweatshirts and caps featuring the insignias of five LGBTQ bars that have served their patrons as much more than watering holes.

It is easily the studio's most ambitious undertaking short of The Avengers, artfully knitting together Cap's WWII history and the present - day Marvel - verse, while also serving as robust connective tissue to next year's Avengers sequel.

For example, in 1996 CMU saw the need for charter schools to have representation in the state capitol and with the media, which led to the founding of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, which now serves as the unified voice for Michigan's charter schools and was a major advocate for removing the cap.

Such bills would cut funding for charters serving elementary - and middle - school grades, or subject charters to onerous state - approval processes for facilities, or eliminate the charter - friendly State University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union likes.

The Church of England, which did not oppose the cap as strongly and which has already pledged to open 125 new free schools, said it remained «committed to ensuring our schools serve the local community».

CAP Tulsa has administered OECP for the State since 2006 and acts as the fiscal agent and a grantee, partnering with other early childhood providers to serve an additional 943 children in high - quality programs across the state.

She also previously worked at CAP as the associate director for domestic policy, and served as chief counsel and senior policy adviser to former Sen. Jeff Bingaman and special counsel to former Sen. Tom Daschle.

Prior to joining CAP, Sargrad served as the deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, where he had the primary responsibility for key K - 12 education programs and initiatives, including the Title I program, Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility, and School Improvement Grants.

If the request is approved, the school will use the School Improvement Plan (SIP) to develop a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) which will serve as the school's operating plan for improvement.

CAP serves as some of the content for the Master of Education in School Counseling program at Lipscomb University.

DOT also serves as the agency co-lead for the Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal on open data.

Take some time to identify who your ideal reader is and then put your thinking cap on as you give thought to who serves your target audience.

Illustrated with a mix of portrait photos and a few paintings in childlike or abstract styles, and capped by suggestions for related classroom activities and a short resource list, this book will serve as both an effective consciousness raiser for middle - grade students and a strong lead - in to Deborah Ellis» powerful Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees (2009).

In the next blog, we will explore in detail the S&P TSX Capped REIT Income Index, which is designed to serve as an income - producing strategy.