Sentences with phrase «substantial by any calculation»

«My sense is that the money to pay for the bridge, which though substantial by any calculation, is actually a secondary hurdle when compared to mustering the political will to build the bridge.

Not exact matches

Because I think China's nominal GDP growth has been overstated by a substantial amount because of its systematic failure to write down bad loans, I usually have subtracted 2 - 4 percentage points from the nominal GDP growth rate before I did my very rough calculation.

In both cases, there is substantial uncertainty about the things we most care about and in fact, in the case of climate change, Martin Weitzman's Dismal Theorem concludes that calculations of the expected economic cost of climate change are dominated by the mathematical details of the low - probability / catastrophic - consequence tail of the probability distribution.

The trial judge's rejection of the [employee's] argument that the [company] had converted [his] bonus structure from non-discretionary to discretionary, and [the trial judge's] finding that the disagreement over what constituted income for the calculation of the [employee's] bonus was not an alteration to the contract, let alone a substantial alteration, were supported by the evidence.

To accept the assumptions advanced by the plaintiff and used by Mr. Benning in his calculations runs contrary to the principle in Perren v. Lalari at para. 30 that a future or hypothetical possibility will only be taken into account ``... if it is a real and substantial possibility and not mere speculation».

It can often be difficult to determine whether the 40 % threshold is met in situations where a child spends substantial time with each parent, because there is no standard method of calculation used by courts.