Sentences with phrase «than a letter of»

Preserving the author's integrity is not a bad guideline, if the spirit rather than the letter of the intent is followed.

That would not be literally obeying Jesus, but it would still be loving, and would therefore be keeping the spirit of the text rather than the letter of the law.

Do we not say the police need to follow the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

«What resulted was overly broad legislation that would prevent the county from reimbursing any municipality in the county for any fees that are on their tax warrants, and so the response from not just myself, but the mayors of Cohoes and Watervliet and Supervisor Paula Mahan was that this legislation changing a decades - old way of making municipalities whole for their tax levies was really thrown in to complete and utter confusion and disarray, with legislative leaders saying that the legislation or the resolution meant something different than the letter of the resolution, and all of it really could have been addressed if the leadership of the county legislature had simply reached out, sent us a letter, picked up the phone to have a conversation about their concerns with respect to the trash fee.»

«We've abided by the spirit rather than the letter of the law,» says the HSC spokesman.

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

Equity enforces the spirit rather than the letter of the law alone.

NB: We caution that if the letter had been a reprimand in substance, rather than letter of direction, the outcome of the case would likely have been different.

I need to know what is needed from me other than a letter of invitation to help expedite his travel papers.

Not exact matches

(He's also the kind of leader who took the time to reply to a 6 - year - old boy who sent him a letter asking if a Navy SEAL is quieter than a ninja.)

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein last week highlighted the client - coverage push in his annual investor letter, noting that it had resulted in more than 75 new mandates across a variety of industry groups and that the firm was 30 % of the way toward reaching its goal of covering 1,000 new clients.

If you don't get top grades, remember there's a lot more to life than some letters on a piece of paper.

Keep files on your computer instead of in file cabinets, review documents on your screen rather than print them out, and send emails instead of paper letters.

More than that, a non-provocative political discourse is vital to carry messages effectively to other cultures; Trump's childish use of capital letters and exclamation marks («SAD!»)

In a series of orders last week, Alsup disclosed that a former Uber security analyst's lawyer sent a letter to an Uber in - house lawyer more than six months ago.

More than 800 companies and venture firms signed their names to an open letter sent to the head of the FCC.

But more important to Switch than the sale itself was the fact that Japanese distributors, eager to sign on with potentially big players, were willing to pay 50 % of their order value up front, with the balance on a letter of credit.

«The CFPB's structure is based on the idea that government is unlimited and rights are dependent on the special dispensation of the experts who know better than the American people,» Republican Sens. Ben Sasseof Nebraska and Mike Leeof Utah wrote in a recent letter to the White House.

If you've ever had any health issue that required more than a simple doctor visit, you will know that it precipitates a seemingly never - ending series of forms, bills, and letters.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.

A photo of the letter shared on Twitter by @WentRogue with the caption «Heidi is sick of your bulls ***» has since been retweeted more than 3,500 times.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney warned in a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke the rule could actually «reduce global financial resilience rather than increase it.»

Because these bare - bones plans do not limit insurance payouts to workers, they meet the letter of the law's requirements that employers provide «affordable» health care coverage to their workers at a far lower cost than more comprehensive plans.

I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of «helpers» would leave their clients - again in aggregate - worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low - cost index fund,» he recapped, writing in Berkshire's annual shareholder letter.

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

More than 2,000 current students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business have condemned Donald Trump in an open letter to the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee.

On Thursday, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R - S.D., sent a letter to Musk asking Tesla to brief committee staff by no later than July 29 on details of the incident.

Last month, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), which represents more than 95 percent of the U.S. refining sector, sent a letter to President Trump, in which it argued that refineries along the Gulf Coast have made substantial investments to process heavy crude, particularly of the Venezuelan variety.

Traction: Advyzr raised nearly $ 20,000 from business - plan competitions, acquired roughly 30 pre-launch letters of intent from higher - ed administrators, and gathered more than 500 student requests on its website in the past three months.

More than 16,000 associates have joined since its inception with roughly three - fourths of the employees residing in the U.S. Commercial truck driving, health care, and information technology are the program's most popular fields of study, Bezos noted in the letter.

More than two dozen domestic solar mounting equipment manufacturers and their domestic suppliers told the ITC, in a letter sent in August, that the tariffs requested by Suniva would more than double the price of solar panels in the U.S. and undercut the cost - competitiveness of solar and reversing its high growth trajectory.

Honda keeps sending me letters offering to update the built - in GPS for $ 150, which is more than the cost of a new GPS, even if my phone didn't do GPS, which it does.

The lawyer also claimed in the letter that the timing of the Times article, coming less than a month before Election Day, is evidence that the report «is nothing more than a politically - motivated effort to defeat Mr. Trump's candidacy.»

One study conducted at UC Riverside found that Anglo - Americans benefitted more from happiness - increasing activities; however, researchers did see a small trend that Asians gained more from activities directed toward benefitting others» happiness, like writing a letter of gratitude, than activities strictly intended to benefit the self.

Entering letters, like your name, is different than entering numbers, like your phone number and you can tell which one you're able to do by the context of the text.

The U.S. can borrow until Aug. 2 after reaching the US$ 14.29 - trillion limit because of «stronger - than - expected tax receipts» and «extraordinary measures» such as suspending the sale of bonds for state infrastructure projects, Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.

Think of it as another market reality check; if you can manage to get more than a form letter from this group, you may actually be onto something.

But it should be paying a brand - name product rate of at least 23.1 percent, as well as an extra rebate because it has hiked the price of the device faster than the rate of inflation, according to the letter from acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt to the Senate Finance Committee ranking member Wyden.

«Women saved more than $ 1.4 billion in out - of - pocket costs for birth control in 2013 alone,» the senators wrote on May 25, in a letter to Mulvaney.

The Oracle of Omaha said in his letter that the five funds Seides selected had invested their money in more than 100 hedge funds, which meant the results wouldn't be «distorted» by the performance of a single manager.

This conversation is also a good point of reference for the employee in case «you worded the letter more harshly or more leniently than you intended to,» Williams says.

Zuckerberg's letter was «a bit more ambitious and a bit more of the 30,000 - foot view than I see from most tech company CEOs,» Peter Micek, global policy and legal counsel at Access Now, an international digital rights group, said in a phone interview.

Your survey can be as simple as a postcard or as elaborate as a cover letter, questionnaire and reply envelope Keep questionnaires to a maximum of one page, and ask no more than 20 questions.

Best Buy began opening these stores more than a decade ago, before Apple Inc's iPhone was launched and when margins in the business were high, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly told employees in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

Contrary to Trump's and Republicans» claims that Page became a subject of scrutiny only because of the dossier and his work on the Trump campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported last week the Page had been on counterintelligence officials» radar since 2013 — more than three years before he joined the campaign, and the same year he sent the letter touting his Russia connections.

Tesla said in its third - quarter earnings letter that it had more than 7,000 Superchargers by the end of September.

Although there are no guarantees that anyone other than the taxpayer involved will receive the promised treatment, private letter rulings serve as useful barometers of the IRS's thinking.

Phillips then moved quickly to secure a letter of intent to supply an annual 4.8 million tonnes of Greater Sunrise LNG to El Paso for the next 20 years, an amount representing more than half of Australia's current LNG exports.

For example, 37signals admits to spending less than 30 seconds scanning a potential hire's application, honing in on the cover letter because of Fried's and Hansson's insistence that remote workers need to be excellent writers.

You're «identified» by nothing more than your Bitcoin wallet address — a string of randomized letters and numbers.