Sentences with phrase «which side of the ledger»

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In its other form, as an open source software, the bitcoin blockchain platform, which serves as a public ledger of all bitcoin transactions, is being used by institutional traders and software developers to transform the operational and transactional sides of the financial industry.

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

On the other side of the ledger, however, lower commodity prices are also helping to take the wind out of the sails of the Canadian dollar, which offers a potentially game - changing opportunity to sectors that have long suffered in the shadow of the resource boom.

The theological side of the ledger was embodied by Harvey Cox's 1965 bestseller, The Secular City, with its argument for a radically secularized Christianity in which the world sets the agenda for the Church.

As a result of careful attention to both sides of the ledger, the county was able to end 2016 with a $ 1.5 million surplus, while simultaneously keeping taxes flat and paying down debt, which dropped by $ 83 million, or 7.5 percent, to $ 1.02 billion.

Back to the socio - political side of the ledger, there are echoes throughout Inherent Vice of Thom Anderson's documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), which focused on the disjunct between the LA presented on the silver screen and the messier, dirtier reality.

On the positive side of the ledger, I can think of no other area of education in which policymaking and discussion rely as much on appeals to evidence.

Part of Hyundai's success is the Metro's absolute lack of any selling points (Chevy is discontinuing retail sales of the car this year and will use it only for commercial fleet sales in the future) and the Toyota's awkward, polarizing style, which leaves nobody ambivalent and quite a few lined up on the «hate it» side of the ledger.

Briefly — and let me say up front, I am both simplifying and not taking sides — Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, added a 1 MB size limitation to «blocks», which, if you think of the Bitcoin blockchain as a ledger, are individual pages.