Sentences with phrase «substantial measure of»

The original trial judge said that that previous case, in which the Crown took a case against Wallace Duncan Smith, meant «that the Crown Court had jurisdiction to try the appellants for their conduct because a substantial measure of the activities constituting the crime took place in England,» according to the Court of Appeal.

If billable hours are a substantial measure of performance, delegation is less likely to occur, except when more working time is just not possible / practical.

The connecting factor was that a «substantial measure of the activities» of the accused took place in England.

Despite arriving in Canada just two decades back with little to their name apart from their training and education, they have achieved a substantial measure of financial security.

Unlike a dedicated sports car, the XK's harmonious blend of performance and luxury provides a substantial measure of adaptability.

As it turns out, the 2014 Mercedes - Benz B - Class Electric Drive (whew, say that five times fast), has a powertrain to which Tesla has contributed a substantial measure of technology, so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that its 177 hp and 251 lb - ft of torque are enough to produce a little bit of antisocial behavior from what is meant to be a refined but innocuous people - mover.

Tennessee has gained a substantial measure of reform success because of local and statewide public and policymaker awareness of the objectively measured increases in student achievement produced by local schools.

The destruction undertaken constitutes a substantial measure of disarmament, indeed the first since the middle of the 1990s.

Under Omri in Israel and Jehoshaphat in Judah a substantial measure of security was regained in the sister kingdoms.

At any rate it is clear that his mission won a substantial measure of success, so far as success can be gauged by vast audiences, wide notoriety, and an excited following.

Not exact matches

Moreover, they note, Xi knows he has a host of measures at his disposal for inflicting substantial economic and political pain on Trump.

And while its reach may not be broad, Reddit is clearly a substantial digital - media entity when measured by its sheer size: The site gets more than 200 million unique visitors every month, and typically has about 4 million logged - in users every day, looking at or commenting on one of the community's more than 8 billion active pages.

The time frame over which pre-retirement earnings are measured will have a substantial impact on the size of the denominator.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

The International segment reported a loss from continuing operations before income taxes of $ 1.3 million on a US GAAP basis and an underlying pretax loss of $ 1.0 million in the fourth quarter, versus a loss of $ 5.1 million for both measures a year ago, driven by the addition of the Miller brands, volume growth and positive pricing in Latin America and Australia, cost savings in MG&A, and cycling the substantial restructure of our China business in 2015.

First, we've had a substantial rally from the September lows, without any favorable shift in our core measure of trend uniformity.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The imperial authorities, after their custom in the provinces, allowed the Sanhedrin to exercise a substantial, though well controlled, measure of local autonomy.

There are a substantial number of quality checks at every stage, and once we have final approval from the sampling room the product in the bottling vat is then passed through an inert food grade filter as a safety measure to ensure that our product meets the most demanding standards.»

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

But would overseeing the departure of Ozil to league rivals Man Utd in exchange for a suitably likewise playmaker in Mata, plus a substantial transfer fee for good measure, be a good deal for Arsene Wenger's capital club?

«I promised a transparent and open government, and by being here today and laying out the documents and discussing from the beginning to the end what occurred and taking some pretty substantial measures by relieving a long - time employee of his responsibilities here in the County of Monroe, I want the people in Monroe County to know that I will not tolerate this type of behavior,» Dinolfo said.

The Bill also contains clauses paving the way for Making Tax Digital, substantial changes to the rules for fulfilment businesses and a range of anti-avoidance measures, including penalties for enablers of avoidance schemes.

Affected State Entities shall implement a cost - effective portfolio of measures identified and recommended in the audit and shall complete or make substantial progress toward completion of such measures within two years of completion of the audit.

We are concerned that the mayor errs too much on the side of testing to measure school and student achievement, but those tests do show that there has been substantial improvement.

Background on the Warm Front and the successor scheme: Since 2000, when the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme was re-branded as Warm Front, with substantial additional funding and the introduction of heating measures to supplement insulation works, the scheme has formed a major element in fuel poverty policy.

With the Liberal Democrats committed to «a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion», the stage was set for real progress.

This is a «substantial achievement» noted NAO head Sir John Bourn, who says Britain is ahead of other countries in measuring and understanding benefit fraud as a result.

«We have disagreed with that argument throughout the economic crisis since it first began in 2007, and have consistently called for substantial counter-cyclical measures to get people into work and out of the Jobcentre.

Traffic safety advocates hailed the measure as the most substantial Vision Zero initiative of the de Blasio administration to date.

As such these plans would have clearly violated both Lib Dem party policy passed just weeks ago, and both the letter and spirit of the Coalition Agreement that states «We will implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»

Following the May 2010 election, the new Coalition government said it believed the British state had become «too authoritarian» and promised to «implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.»

The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.

«Grain intake in the feedlot is relatively easy to measure and the industry now has a substantial number of feed intake records.

Finally, despite failing to obtain a more substantial salary increase, I was satisfied that I had made a significant effort to change my situation and had experienced a modest measure of success.

We are measuring the effect of temperature on this breakdown and it's quite substantial.

One of those bills should advance this week, in fact, as a Senate panel is expected on Wednesday to approve a measure that includes substantial language aimed at giving researchers some regulatory relief.

«Many prevention measures can be simple, like implement adequate food safety staff training for all restaurant employees and apply sufficient sick leave policies, and can potentially avoid substantial costs in the event of an outbreak.»

The five inner planets are among the smallest whose masses and sizes have both been measured, and these measurements imply substantial envelopes of light gases.

«Memantine induces responses in a substantial number of proteins that we measured, and it does this without impairing or enhancing learning.

Empirical data for the CO2 «airborne fraction», the ratio of observed atmospheric CO2 increase divided by fossil fuel CO2 emissions, show that almost half of the emissions is being taken up by surface (terrestrial and ocean) carbon reservoirs [187], despite a substantial but poorly measured contribution of anthropogenic land use (deforestation and agriculture) to airborne CO2 [179], [216].

Curiosity measured the same pattern in isotopes of hydrogen, as well as carbon and oxygen, consistent with a loss of a substantial fraction of Mars» original atmosphere.

Measuring the thickness of these hanging folds of skin provides evidence that there is still a substantial amount of body fat underneath the skin.

The increase in fecal volume measured as a function of the dose administered was twice as high for lactulose as for fructooligosaccharide; however, there was substantial interindividual varia - tion in the response.

If you Post (as defined below in Section 7) or otherwise send spam, advertising, or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Tubi Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to Tubi and that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to measure.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

States can accomplish this by measuring achievement via average scale scores or a performance index, and by giving substantial weight to a measure of academic growth for all students from one year to the next.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

Aim of this paper is not only to condemn Boko Haram's attacks against civilians but also to put pressure on the Nigerian government in order to take substantial measures to deal with terrorism.