Sentences with phrase «than the norm for»

All of that will have to take place under a different matrix than the norm for the profession as the investing world itself faces new challenges.

But there are two things happening in Silicon Valley that are qualitatively different from New York or London (or pretty much anywhere else): First, the sheer density of tech entrepreneurs per capita is 10 times greater than the norm for other cities, and second, there is a far greater level of information sharing between entrepreneurs here.

Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages — this list isn't a value judgment.

Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages.

Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages — this list isn't a value...

Mochida said there is no consensus about where the cut - off is for head size, but it is typically two to three standard deviations smaller than the norm for the baby's gender and age.

In a matter of days, he has gone from talking about «Opportunity Schools» in Baltimore to claiming that «there are organizations in other parts of the country that are operating schools that are succeeding in leading children from low - income families — especially children of color — to reach much higher levels of academic success than the norm for their communities.»

Moreover, EPA - estimated fuel economy numbers are lower than the norm for this class.

Also remember each dog has a unique personality that could be quite different than the norm for the breed.

Or are you rather more thin - skinned than the norm for climate blogland?

It also found that the majority of those surveyed expected that partnership will become the exception rather than the norm for law firms within the next ten years.

After all, we have no difficulty understanding why you must pay considerably more than the norm for a bottle of wine that has won numerous recognised awards or more than the norm for a meal at a three Michelin star restaurant.

Not exact matches

Right now, for the S&P 500, that ratio stands at more than 29, its highest valuation since 2002 and well above its historical norms.

(According to the official population figures, Beijing and Shanghai, often portrayed as the norm for the new China, house less than 4 % of the country's residents.)

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

Other questions genotype analysis could answer include whether a given athlete is at elevated risk for tendon ruptures or cartilage tears, whether her muscles require more or less recovery time than the norm, and why certain diets work for some people and not others.

NET rapidly becoming the preferred platform for Windows development, managed code may soon be the norm, rather than the exception.

Nevertheless, forecasts for no more than 2.7 % annual growth hardly bring performance back to the historical norm.

It doesn't seem too irrational for seed or A deals, just a bit higher than the norm.

So if investors expect short - term rates to be zero for another 4 years, it would be reasonable for stocks and bonds to be about 16 % higher than historical valuation norms.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

In any event, the problem for investors is that whatever increment we could possibly observe in GDP growth pales in comparison to the fact that the most historically reliable market valuation measures are far more than double their historical norms.

Historical norms for the most reliable measures are less than half of present levels.

«He really thrives when he can subvert the norm,» says someone who has known him for more than a decade.

We allow that short - term interest rates may be pegged well below historical norms for several more years, and we know that for every year that short - term interest rates are held at zero (rather than a historically normal level of 4 %), one can «justify» equity valuations about 4 % above historical norms — a premium that removes that same 4 % from prospective future stock returns.

CD options at CIT Bank have a large range of options as well, rather than just one, which is the norm for many other online banks.

This means the FHA loan limit for San Jose and surrounding area is higher than the national norm.

However, overcoming a cultural norm is quite difficult for a group of people who are not well - informed about the advantages and disadvantages of banks, but also of holding virtual money, rather than cash.

One can relate this directly to a 10 - year prospective return by recalling that historical tendency for market cycles to establish normal prospective returns — if even briefly as in 2009 — at their troughs (and it's typical for troughs to reach below average valuations and much higher prospective returns than the 10 % historical norm).

Sources suggest that the process will gain momentum, and could well become the norm rather than the exception for tech unicorns.

Even if you don't believe in a religion or God more than likely the morals you identify do come from a religion at some point that then became the norm for society.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

I think the «sin» is not in being different than the norm, but in trying to force something that isn't right for you — sacrificing, not in a noble way but a harmful way, who you are, remaining in a relationship or trying to be something you simply can not be, because that's what's expected regardless of the consequences to your wellbeing.

The argument is less persuasive, however, when one expands the historical perspective to note that for liberals, especially, the growth of the «50s was more the exception than the norm.

According to this view, the New Deal had a more profound impact on American society than even its most ardent admirers have suggested: it imposed norms of relative equality in pay that persisted for more than 30 years, creating the broadly middle - class society we came to take for granted.

This difficulty lay like a great sorrow upon all theologians whose last norm of belief was nothing more certain than private interpretation of the Bible, and while it broke the faith of some, it serves also, paradox though it may seem, to explain how it was that so many non-Catholic exegetes found it easy to strip themselves of theological vesture and to plunge wildly with the higher critics into the maelstrom of that speculative free - for - all and devaluation of Christian dogma which followed.

Bonhoeffer maintained that interpreting the Bible in terms of the present age is to make man the measure of the Gospel rather than to learn from the Gospel the true norm for human existence.

The traditional norm for this is «tithing», or giving 10 % of your income to the church, but nowadays this needs to be treated more flexibly in two regards: first, the percentage that you give can be shared with more than just the local church, and perhaps should be.

Appealing to the Bible for theological norms is a more difficult thing to do than many evangelicals are aware and I try to be cognizant of that myself.

Matthew Yglesias has gotten some criticism for celebrating Clinton for being «more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas,» and for being the kind of person who «believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best.»

Such a proposal in no way invalidates the search for doctrinal forms that are consistent with the substance of the biblical revelation; it merely means that their discovery will constitute but a halfway house rather than the journey's destination itself These doctrinal forms will then have to be adapted to and translated in terms of the assumptions and norms of the American situation in such a way that the Word of God is preserved in its integrity but affirmed in its contemporaneity.

They now become the norm for experience rather than a canon judged by experience.

This tells me that we have pastors leading congregations and setting the tone for community norms that are less than at an adult level of functioning.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

His idea of a «new synthesis», proposed mainly in his book Catholicism: A New Synthesis and developed in his many theological and philosophical essays, was an attempt to grapple precisely with the issues we have spoken of: the post-Cartesian «turn to the subject» (that is: the loss of faith in the objectivity of knowledge and the subsequent exclusive concern of philosophy with the self and the subjective idea as the norm of «truth») and the philosophy of evolution with its implications for a dynamic rather than a static universe.

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and jFor the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and jfor his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

However, if the kingdom of God — or alternatively, the kingdom of «heaven» — means the state of affairs in which the love and justice of God become the norm rather than the exception in the social actuality that is the world, then there is a fruitful area for dialogue.

I suppose when going against the status quo at the same time the challenge exist for one to do so in truth and love, for the right reasons lest one should slip into conduct that is no better than the unhealthy authorised norms one is up against?

But as Novak points out, at least one reason for this quasi «religious subscription to the norms of modernity is precisely the sense that, in contrast to Christianity, Judaism» as primarily a behavioral rather than a doctrinal religion» is ideally suited to worship at the Kantian altar.

It is to that source rather than in acquiescence to Western norms that we have to trace the roots of historical consciousness, for history does not rise from acquiescence.