Sentences with phrase «with earlier standards»

Not exact matches

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

Because there isn't a well - accepted industry standard, good advisers lay out their fee structure early on in conversations with a new client.

The road map to 5G is still in the early stages of development, but with network operators, equipment suppliers and standards bodies beginning to run tests, its unique capabilities are becoming more apparent.

Attendance at the event costs $ 10,000 for a standard ticket (first - time, early - career attendees can get a discount), which means the in - person TED experience is filled with notable leaders in science and technology.

May 2 - The Trump administration has invited a group of U.S. senators to the White House early next week to discuss biofuels policy, the latest in a series of such meetings aimed at helping refiners cope with the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

When he began to consolidate his power in the early 2000s, Putin's deal with the Russian people was simple: They would receive economic stability — and, critically, much higher standards of living — in exchange for a loss of freedoms.

The Department of Labor passed a new rule earlier this year requiring that financial advisors who work with clients on retirement plans abide by a fiduciary standard.

We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal, published a fascinating story on the market for corporate bonds that comply with the standards of Islamic law.

The high standards that make for a great early - stage employee tend not to be at all compatible with a comfort with failure.

As an entrepreneur, it is important to instill values and ideals earlier in the game, so as your business grows, these ingrained standards stay with the company.

Our survey determined that demand for customization falls off precipitously if consumers think they could be stuck with something they don't like — even though early adopters of product customization have found that return rates are lower than for standard products.

If the PLAAF follows now the usual procedures, a first unit equipped with these LRIP J - 20As of the current interim standard will enter service within the PLAAF at around the year's end or early 2017; much earlier than expected.

This is in line with the earlier measures to tighten lending standards.

Although low by historical standards, early delinquency flows deteriorated somewhat — with student loans, auto loans and mortgages seeing moderate increases.

«If you're on the standard 10 - year plan or Public Service Loan Forgiveness, then you'd be on track [to have paid off your loans by your] early 30s with an undergrad degree or late 30s with a grad degree,» said Galen Herbst de Cortina, a financial planner with Buff Your Finances.

Three years ago, we launched Primary Venture Partners with the goal of building a firm that would set a new standard here in New York City for how early - stage investors engage with and support the operations of their portfolio companies.

The Paul Martin government proposed to create thousands of new day - care spaces and had also negotiated deals with most provinces and territories to turn a patch - work of often poor - quality services into a system of early learning and child care with national standards.

The company first released a statement early Monday afternoon defending its decision to share the information with the third parties, stating that «the inclusion of HIV status information within our platform is always regarded carefully with our users» privacy in mind,» and that the company, like any other mobile app company, «must operate with industry standard practices.»

Trends Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

These conditions comprise the following: S&P 500 overvalued with the Shiller P / E (the ratio of the S&P 500 to the 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18; overbought with the S&P 500 within 3 % of its upper Bollinger band (2 standard deviations above the 20 - period average) at daily, weekly, and monthly resolutions, more than 7 % above its 52 - week smoothing, and more than 50 % above its 4 - year low; overbullish with the 2 - week average of advisory bullishness (Investors Intelligence) greater than 52 % and bearishness below 28 %; and yields rising with the 10 - year Treasury bond yield higher than 6 - months earlier.

By delaying Social Security benefits, and dipping into your retirement portfolio early on, you can help to ensure the longevity of your funds along with a proper standard of living so you can enjoy the retirement you deserve.

Only about 12 % of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have reported earnings thus far, but the early results are promising, with 72 % of those companies beating earnings expectations and 56 % beating revenue expectations.

These standard term sheets for early - stage startup investment in Canada are the result of NACO's cross-country consultations with founders, funders, legal experts and other community partners throughout Q1 2017.

All three enable early adopters of these standards to begin designing with the new specifications immediately, ensuring compliance with the standard and achieving the fastest path to IP and system - on - chip (SoC) verification closure.

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Thus, mainline churches continue to offer what Becker calls the «standard package» of family ministries that were institutionalized earlier in the century for married couples with children.

To be sure, they wanted to improve their economic standards, but in these early years religion usually triumphed in a clash with profits.

By our performance standards, it might seem a little early for Jesus to be commended as one with whom God is well pleased.

Expanding from a Jewish to a Gentile world the early church concluded that no legalism, Judaic or Gentile, was adequate to fulfill the gospel standard of agape, that the Kingdom of God was already present and yet to come, and that in living the gospel in this world with its political, economic and social challenges would require faithfulness and patience.

The Jesus Seminar adopts the standard two - source theory as a solution to the synoptic problem: Mark is the earliest of the three synoptic gospels; in composing their gospels, Matthew and Luke used Mark along with a hypothetical common source Q (short for the German Quelle: «source»), consisting primarily of sayings of Jesus.

Problems with this standard are described in, among other places, the journal Early Human Development.

We have seen in an earlier chapter that in our concern for rethinking, reconceiving, restating, we must be aware of and concerned with contemporary ideas; yet we are never to regard the patterns of thought (or what, following Professor Alexander, we styled the «ordinary knowledge» of our time), as if these gave us the last word, the final criterion, the absolute standard.

Until the new standard is published, which is expected to be early 2019, both programs will continue to provide you with the same services we currently offer.

Their new brewery opened earlier this year and the beers they produce have been bottled in Beatson Clark's standard 330 ml amber beer bottles with a standard crown neck finish.

With this investment, Danone will capitalize on strong and growing demand for its international early life nutrition brands, including Aptamil and Nutrilon, for both standard and specialized products.

They plan to come out with a new standard, codifying the requirements for certification, in early 2019.

Public submissions in regards to the draft national standard closed on December 9, with the issue expected to raised again early next year.

In the early years, most of Eric's tantrums featured the standard kicking and screaming, with an occasional paddle - stomping.

Head coach David Shaw was also very much opposed to the early signing period because, with the school's admissions standards, it takes longer for him to get the green light to offer kids.

While he produced a timely reminder of his qualities with a great strike in the FA Cup win over Derby County earlier this week, the Evening Standard claim that Tottenham will revive their interest in him this summer as he has only seen limited minutes this year.

The coverage for the final round is a standard five - hour block, with GC taking the early portion before handing it off to their Comcast sister NBC for the conclusion.

Swansea now find themselves in a bit of a slump in comparison to the loftily high standards they set for themselves earlier in the campaign, having won just two of their last five league matches, this degree of inconsistency within their league form has however come at the time when the added pressure of fixture congestion that comes with a long cup run can really effect a squads fitness and consequently their performances.

Along with the early midday kick off and Arsenal's inability to get much possession in Spurs» final third, it felt like quite a subdued start by the standards of North London derbies.

You are, as I said earlier, doing yourselves no favours with your whining, and double standards.

They will be delighted with how it has gone so far, and early murmurs about the Pulis style of play have evaporated as they have climbed the table with a reasonably attractive style of football (well attractive by Pulis standards, anyway).

Standard had two good chances early in proceedings, with Frederic Bulot heading against the crossbar before Igor De Camargo...

A mid-table finish would appear the likely destination of Fulham at the end of the season, with the Cottagers neither here nor there with regards to standard of their performances, while early results would indicate that Mark Hughes, despite doing his best to retain Fulham's dogged qualities which were instilled by former boss Roy Hodgson, who was undoubtedly the most successful manager the club ever had in the Premier League, that Fulham will struggle to win matches this season let alone the hearts of the entire nation as they did last season when Hodgson guided an average English team to the finals of the Europa League to the amazement of a nation and a continent.

In fact, I think that's the perfect way to sum up their current situation, thoroughly enjoying the early euphoria of a couple of stunning results against Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United before some hardhitting reality against two of the Premier League's most consistent sides, with the always title challenging Chelsea handing out a free lesson in how to play the beautiful game as Blackburn provided a much needed reality check that this league is brutal, that half - decent performances in front of your own fans still get severely punished if your own game isn't up to the high standards the Premier League demands.