Sentences with phrase «substantial deviation from»

Luiz Simmons, a criminal defense lawyer from Montgomery County, proposes a law that would sentence someone to up to three years in prison for killing a person as the result of a «substantial deviation from the standard of care.»

Second, a reference emergency pathway should not be so vague when it comes to defining overall global emissions allowances, or indeed in specifying what «substantial deviation from baseline» in the «non-Annex I» developing world actually means.

As the study progressed, we allowed the autonomously expressed interest of the group to adjust our course, which resulted in substantial deviation from the original set sequence.

[4] Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations from the tables, leading Bouvard to hypothesize some perturbing body.

Not exact matches

«While the experiment is a beautiful demonstration of how a single atom can be used as a heat engine,» Taylor says, «there is still substantial work to go until deviations from classical thermodynamics can be seen.»

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

The very high significance levels of model - observation discrepancies in LT and MT trends that were obtained in some studies (e.g., Douglass et al., 2008; McKitrick et al., 2010) thus arose to a substantial degree from using the standard error of the model ensemble mean as a measure of uncertainty, instead of the standard deviation or some other appropriate measure of ensemble spread.

The very high significance levels of model — observation discrepancies in LT and MT trends that were obtained in some studies (e.g., Douglass et al., 2008; McKitrick et al., 2010) thus arose to a substantial degree from using the standard error of the model ensemble mean as a measure of uncertainty, instead of the ensemble standard deviation or some other appropriate measure for uncertainty arising from internal climate variability... Nevertheless, almost all model ensemble members show a warming trend in both LT and MT larger than observational estimates (McKitrick et al., 2010; Po - Chedley and Fu, 2012; Santer et al., 2013).

Acting with «criminal negligence» means that the driver failed to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk, and the failure to perceive that risk was a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have observed in the situation.