Sentences with phrase «trade off against»

You can not therefore count joules of PE and trade them off against KE at equilibrium.

Its small cost is a good trade off against the value lost in a fire.

Now, they're prepared to trade them off against each other, sometimes regardless of price.

The Indian negotiator retorted that a strong safeguard against such surges was essential to the livelihoods of the world's poorest farmers and «could not be traded off against the commercial interests of the developed countries.»

Various academic qualifications can be and are traded off against one another, but when any one of them is systematically subordinated to the others, it will shortly disappear from the institution.

Chief lobbyist Pascal Kerneis told a meeting on EU investment policy in 2011: «Industry will oppose any deal in which investment protection is traded off against public policy objectives, including human and labour rights.»

This allows the taxable events of each fund to be traded off against one another before distributions are paid out to the investor.

This found that renewable electricity reduces all forms of pollution, with this benefit trading off against the need for larger quantities of a range of raw materials, from iron to copper and cement.

One problem is that many discussants speak as if climate sensitivity were an input to the climate models which is traded off against anthropogenic aerosol forcing which is another input to get the «right answer.»

When you have a problem that requires no discovery then you have a problem which you know can be solved by time and money (which may be traded off against each other).

It's possible for these to be «offset» so that one party keeps their pension and effectively trades it off against other assets.

Not exact matches

The stock market's multi-day sell - off two weeks ago reignited Jim Cramer's battle against the risky, volatility - related exchange - traded products that were responsible for the brutal decline.

At the same time, Xi may be mindful that Trump has held off on trade actions against China that he loudly threatened during the 2016 presidential campaign to give Beijing more time to make progress on North Korea.

Another of Trump's early decisions — to withdraw from the Trans - Pacific Partnership — kicked off a wavering war against trade agreements that has left small business owners either buoyed or blasted, depending on their business models.

A global sell - off in stocks came back around to North America in morning trading after the president doubled down against growing backlash, saying «trade wars are good.»

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»

Game company Looney Labs is winning customers against giants like Hasbro Games with the help of the Mad Lab Rabbits -500-plus fans who volunteer to work their tails off at trade shows, conventions and local appearances.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's hryvnia has dropped nearly 80 percent against the greenback this year, to trade at 15,7085 per $ 1 on Monday, off last month's all - time low of 15,8817, weighed by tensions between government forces and rebels in the country's eastern regions.

Imposing tough sanctions would fulfill the president's promises but could tip off trade wars around the world as other countries seek to retaliate against the United States.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

If the US does actually take actions against China under the provision, it would undermine the global trade system — and could set off a whole wave of economically destabilizing tit - for - tat actions between China and the US.

The hard - line contingent — led by the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro — squared off against the more traditional group, which included two former Goldman Sachs executives, Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.

The world economy was coming off the boil even before President Trump launched an escalating trade war against China.

If against all odds you really are the next Warren Buffett, you'd be better off making millions managing a fund in New York, in The City of London, or from an office in Omaha than merely making a few extra thousand by trading your retirement portfolio.

Making decisions requires trading off one goal against another.»

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The Trump administration took unusual action against what it said were unfair Chinese trade practices on Tuesday, dusting off a weapon last used in 1991 and announcing two investigations into the pricing of aluminum products imported into the U.S.

NEM retreated once again off the 0.000075 level in the BTC pair, although it's trading above the key $ 0.30 level against the USD.

That has blurred the lines over the pending solar trade fight even within the United States, where American manufacturers are squaring off against American installers and users of the panels.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

Kekes concludes Against Liberalism with a suggestion that what is worthwhile in liberalism might best be preserved by a conservative pluralism, one that recognized the incompatibility of human ends, the necessity of difficult trade - offs, and the existence of certain goods - among them, security, civility, and peace - not given much time of day by contemporary liberals.

Moving him and keeping Witkowski off the ice opens a couple of spots; I also think that AA's time with the organization might be coming to an end, even though I'm very against trading him his comments at the end of the year seem to indicate some real unhappiness between him and Blashill.

After coming over in a trade - deadline deal, Mudiay came off the bench on Sunday against the Pacers.

On Feb. 20, the league's trading deadline, Denver was three hours away from tipping off against Indiana when Jackson got a call in his Indianapolis hotel room: He had just been traded to the Pacers.

They're coming off a great offensive performance against the Texans and acquired a key offensive lineman in Duane Brown before the trade deadline.

Milwaukee traded for Eric Bledsoe, a player the Nuggets were rumored to have interest in, during the middle of the season and while he hasn't been scoring as much as he was in Phoenix, he has been scoring efficiently and is coming off a 39 point outing against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Osborne reeled off the numbers — the highest upward growth revision since the millennium, a fall in the trade deficit, action on business rates to counter Labour's focus on SMEs, extending tax relief to regional theatre as an act of punishment against the provinces.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out last night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

It might be, if we had that more engaged discussion of the trade - off, that health would turn out to be the area where there is the strongest public sense that local variation should be rather limited, against national guaranteed minimum standards, and probably in areas like the approach taken to public health and preventive services.

«Michelle Johnston Schoeneman of Citizens Against Collins, part of the Turn 27 Blue coalition, said the potential candidates represented «a refreshing contrast to Representative Chris Collins, who is too busy running to cable television studios, fending off an ethics investigation for insider trading, and fundraising from pharmaceutical industry lobbyists to be bothered with actually meeting with his constituents to hear their concerns.»

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

In a clear warning against making «political trade - offs», he said: «It's very important that a decision is taken on airports.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out Wednesday night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

«Rather than having to fill a fixed number of studentships in any year, a university could trade off a year of lean demand against a year with buoyant demand,» says the EPSRC.

The seeming failure of newborns to muster a robust defense against infections is a trade - off that delivers long - term benefits, a new study suggests.

The social dimension of grandmothering, such as environmental or social knowledge, appears to be a more important benefit in these female - led families than does a female trading off her own reproduction against that of her daughters, as is typically seen in humans.

Other factors will also impact the evolution of adhesion phenotypes, including the relative advantage of highly - adhesive cells against less - adhesive cells in direct competition [54], and the trade - off between competitive surface adhesion and the ability to disperse to new habitats for later growth [38, 40, 83].

Either I listened to the videos of Dr Greger and others and decided against nuts or I missed the trade - off value findings.

If you look at the actual story, which has one of my strongest narratives... the trade - off of one abduction for another... it becomes less about plot than about these two women travelling around together against a swirl of corruption.