Sentences with phrase «than the norm on»

I have a slightly different take than the norm on his performance.

Not exact matches

Boozy barbeques do not appear to be the norm in this tree - lined borough: only 9.9 % of residents drink microbrews — less than most of the other Quebec neighbourhoods on our list.

Whereas the traditional «actives» skewed heavily to the baby boom and senior generations, this new group is driven by members of gen X and Y, and sees more males spending on luxury goods and services than has traditionally been the norm.

Ticket prices are nearly 50 % higher, on average, than is the norm in the rest of the country.

Yet even if companies were to suddenly boost dividends back to their historical norm of 52 % of earnings, and even if current earnings figures were reliable, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 would still be under 1.9 %, less than half the historical norm.

The reason why valuations are so tightly correlated with 10 - 12 year returns is that extreme deviations from historical norms tend to wash out over that horizon, and because interest rate fluctuations have a much less durable impact on market valuations than investors imagine.

Again, the problem is that market valuations are presently more than double those norms on the most historically reliable measures.

Basing critical investment decisions on garbage rhetoric, lies and deception rather than real, truthful and important fundamental information have become the norm.

Conclusion In general, the historical movement of inflation provides evidence that real rates of return on T - bills will revert closer to historical norms rather than what we experienced during the Great Bull Market.

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.

I can again assure you that NP is spot on in most cases, and that what he's experienced over his lifetime is (unfortunately) closer to the norm than the exception.

On my intuitions, this conclusion would be convincing if indeed the very concept of a comprehensive telos implies what the critics assume that it implies, namely, that all moral norms other than the supreme teleological imperative are merely prima facie.

The accent in appropriation should perhaps fall much more on the fundamental values in biblical ethics than on the specific moral norms and directives that we meet on the surface level of the text.

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.»

Berger's answer is that religion has no monopoly on morality, as morality is grounded in human perception rather than norms (i.e., good and bad).

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 job.

[I can think of plenty more, starting with this idea that the Bible presents us with a singular picture of «biblical womanhood» that more closely resembles the June Cleaver culture of pre-feminist America than the familial norms of biblical times - not that I'm biased on that one or anything.

Theologians also point out that, in contrast to the church's teachings on social ethics and justice, its stands on sexual morality have been governed more by absolute abstract norms than by references to the human condition and experience.

He suggests that I think the moral authority of a democratically enacted law rests on no basis other than its existence, that «conscientious reflection on enhanced interrogation need consult neither the norms of international law nor codes of professional conduct,» and that I maintain a «narrow focus on the mere existence of a law (or its interpretation) and not its substance.»

Faithfulness to what gives distinctive identity to the religious community becomes the celebrated norm, rather than openness to participation in the intersections of religious and theological outlooks with other outlooks on the same realities that religion and theology address.

No, these potatoes don't make themselves, and they do take a bit of pre-planning (I baked the potatoes before mixing with other ingredients (which means I had to remember that everyone's going to want to eat before they want to eat) and, since I wanted these to be weight - loss - friendly, I used this Creamy Italian Dressing (which takes about 5 minutes longer than opening a bottle of store - bought (but really didn't take any extra time because I had some on hand in my frig (which, thankfully, is the norm — we almost always have some in our frig because we eat it on nearly everything (salad, broccoli, rice, cabbage, bread, potatoes, and more) and it gets used in lots of recipes (like Garbanzo Pesto Salad and Chickpea Salad Sandwich)-RRB--RRB--RRB--RRB-.

So, as Silicon Valley increasingly invests heavily in its advances on the food and drink industry, tech - to - table may become the accepted food norm sooner than we think.

The Barrel House Series of Blue Mountain beers focuses on our more eclectic offerings, which are often either barrel aged or quite a bit stronger than the norm.

SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS Bill Cooper, Winemaker & Sales, Cooper - Garrod Estate Vineyards Early winter rains and a dry spring fueled speculation early on that the Santa Cruz Mountains harvest might be several weeks earlier than the «norm.»

All this is accepted blindly as being the norms of football for no other reason than it is what the Market wants and does (sic ``... like «trading», football is a results business»)-- indeed these values are lauded and held up on high so that we now reach the point here when even a truly great manager is being subjected to a witch - hunt by sections of the media and so - called fans who question his tenure of his post and ask what has he got to do to be sacked.

Think you should concentrate on the norm rather than the exceptions.

I don't like how you frisco talked about Wilshere.What I've come to realize is that we always seem not to criticize some players.Let me give you examples.They are: Monreal, Cazorla, Ozil etc. I've watched several matches where Cazorls has not been efficient and at Arsenal lack of efficiency from players and inconsistency is the norm of the day for this club.Wilshere has not yet fulfilled his potential but the guy I admire him for his fighting spirit and he always shows signs of the old Wilshere when he gets a run of games.I expect Wilshere to be better than Ozil and Cazorla when fulfills his potential.When you watch him when he was 16 and compare to other players at the same age who are now stars he was far far better.The guy's potential is really really huge and of there's anyone Arsene must persist with then it's Jack Wilshere.He should play this week in my opinion because he looked good when he came on and we can't keeo that momentum on the vench.Arsenal fans are too interested in one player being better than the other to start.Okay well if you want me to say it like how it is then i'll say it.Ozil and Cazorla are much better than Jack Wilshere but in terms of potential Wilshere was more blessed than them.

Apart from Xhaka who is nowhere near the finished article that we really needed, the rest of Wenger's signings will struggle to get much game time and are more than likely to be sitting on the bench for a while, as that seems to be the norm with wenger and his way's of easing the players into the team.

One of his few deviations from the behemoths» norm is that before he starts his skip - and - spin trip across the ring, he is balanced on two legs rather than one, which makes good sense when you remember that his brawny body, nourished by «meat, milk, eggs — all that good stuff,» would strain a steel pillar.

Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?

The Gunners are once again blowing any remaining hope of ending their barren run without a trophy at the business end of the season, as is the norm with them nowadays, and there is probably no better time to be playing Arsene Wenger's rattled men than just three days after another unsatisfying outcome, but also on the back of their exposed form.

The group started by listing the some of the reasons that pumping is less than pleasant — lack of user education (on suction level, positioning, importance of having the correct size flanges), difficulty with milk let - down (no cute baby there to help, the pumping mom is often under a time crunch), too many parts to sanitize and clean, the motor is loud and mechanical, some women find the process degrading, and social norms (breast pumping is seen as something to be embarrassed by and hidden).

Rather than placing the blame for unjust institutionalization on an oppressive patriarchy, the author points out that women were, and are, often complicit in the creation and social enforcement of oppressive social norms.

Rather than relying on sodas, candies, or refined carbohydrates, make healthy snacks the norm:

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

Therefore, parents should do their research on this before hand and make a decision based on the best interest and well - being of their baby, rather than a societal norm.

But painting a one - sided picture of breastfeeding as an ideal gold standard gift means many mothers think it's an unattainable ideal — on a par with never eating sugar or using silk diapers — rather than the biological norm, something that is simply meant to happen.

I'm smiling as I recall our chat on the BabyCenter bus about having more than 2 kids, i.e. in the Midwest (St. Louis where I live) it's the norm while in the Bay Area it's not because of the high cost of living.

The fact that statistics on the number of suicides of adopted persons or natural mothers are not widely advertised does not change the fact that they occur with greater frequency than the norm in society.

Parents are choosing to deviate from the norm much more than ever before when it comes to baby names and an alternative gender spin on a classic name is one way to do this.

Erie County's on - time completion rates are much lower than comparable counties upstate and on Long Island, where rates of 70, 80, and 90 percent are the norm.

New evidence highlights that there could be hundreds of thousands more people on zero - hours contracts than previously thought... Flexibility works for some, but the danger today is that too often insecurity at work becomes the norm.

Toilets using 20 % less water than today's norm — 6.06 liters per flush — are already on the market.

A generation of young adults raised on electronic devices has a high affinity for the gadgets and engages in less face - to - face contact than was once the norm, he says.

On average the girls developed breast buds by 9 and pubic hair by 11, notably earlier than what used to be the norm.

Circular orbits, which make for steady conditions on a planet, are the norm rather than the exception, they say.

Again the lab establishes a norm to which we don't pay a lot of attention to, so we'll base it more on symptoms rather than numbers in the lab test.

Besides, adapting to the norm is nothing else than being on a comfort zone and mediocre.

Neutrality on political issues was once the norm, but millennial spending power and political polarisation mean it's now riskier to be neutral than to take a stance.

I would encourage you to share your fashion philosophies and style on Instagram, as it's less expensive and less intense than blogging but you can still impact people and get them to reconsider fast fashion as the norm.