Sentences with phrase «than substantive changes»

While every state has an endorsement called the HO - 300 which changes the standard HO - 4 renters policy to meet state specific provisions, these are usually matters of simple phrasing rather than substantive changes.

Significantly, these revisions are clarifications rather than substantive changes.

Green J. reviewed the caselaw on the issue, and concluded that in that case, where the intention of the judge was to impose two years (24 months) and not twenty - five months incarceration, and where the error, although not clerical or administrative in nature was «an error, a slip of the tongue or clerical change rather than a substantive change,» he concluded he still had jurisdiction to make the necessary amendment to the sentence.

Not exact matches

I certainly favor significantly increasing the ownership threshold, but I also believe that the rule needs substantive changes to prevent activists from meddling in matters that are appropriately the responsibility of the board and management rather than shareholders.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

Rubio's convention speech, even if it had been much better and more substantive than the one he gave, could not have changed that impression.

Although striking a marginally less bellicose tone than Tony Blair's «ethical foreign policy», he gave little indication of real substantive change and affirmed the UK's commitment to working with American and Europe.

While No Child Left Behind represents the most comprehensive and substantive change to education policy in more than 30 years, there has been some concern that the act overreaches, both in scope and in structure.

Although more than 50 percent of teachers reported substantive changes in their writing instruction since the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), about one - third of them reported little change because their instruction was already in line with the new assessments.

We hope the District has been making substantive (rather than accounting) changes in this area since the ERS report came out last year, and we would love to hear more from District staff on this.

While I may enjoy nothing better than scouring accounting footnotes, most investors would reasonably expect management to telegraph a potentially substantive change in the P&L far more informatively.

But be advised: when they change a substantive element of the game, you may have spent more than a month of real world time earning the skill points to use that item.

Barring a dramatic breakthrough in energy technology, as well as the political will to make substantive changes, things are liable to become far more problematic than Shell seems to realize.

Blair, pardon me if I seemed to be over-reactive, but if you follow the topic of climate change for more than a very short while you'll see that all too often the «argument» of people who disagree with results they don't like is to mount the ultimate personal attack: they try to substitute comments about an author's personal background for substantive comment about the author's work.

A «new class» of epistemic problems emerges from the evolution of democracy, and the intersection of democracy with science, rather than from any substantive change in the scientific method or the nature of the resulting scientific knowledge.

I can confidently predict that of the thousands of «sceptics» who made great play of the CRU email hack, no more than a handful will change their views, either on the substantive issue or on the credibility of people like Carter and institutions like Heartland, over this.

Is less trust than zero some kind of substantive change?

This conclusion supports the substantive hypothesis H2 over H1, where the climate change and variability interact, rather than vary independently.

Indeed, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches like fuel efficiency standards or EPA rules, rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions like an economy - wide price on carbon.25

Indeed, as New York magazine's Jonathon Chait points out, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions such as an economywide price on carbon.

But this fact has far less substantive importance than is being attributed to it, and it may change at any time.

More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.

Terri has published more than 30 articles on substantive law, legal skills, the legal industry, and various aspects of law firm practice innovation, change management and talent management.

After well over nine months, enough has been said and written about the Jackson reforms but little if any attention has been given to what now seems to be a clear picture of the driving force behind these changes: civil justice for personal injury claimants is to be rationed, based upon the simple value of the claim rather than its substantive merits.

Providers will be able to distribute the notice when a patient is seen and will not have to distribute it to a patient more than once, unless substantive changes are made in the notice.

Indeed, the nature of the substantive investment protections will also change in most cases, with the CETA including more modern and sophisticated drafting than will have existed under many of the BITs.

Though the majority of changes might be classified as cosmetic rather than substantive, one of the most significant areas of improvements includes ebooks, whose interface now is both more user - friendly and consistent.

I think Apple originally went with the «number» / «number + s» convention to try and market around the generations where the more substantive changes were internal rather than external.

Davis told delegates she accepts there is «Constitutional reform fatigue» in the community and much concern that recognition will be «just a commemorative plaque» rather than substantive, structural reform that changes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» lives on the ground.

Cheating will likely not repeat when a couple feels that there has been such substantive change that they both feel they now have a better marriage than ever before.