Sentences with phrase «with means testing»

It can be clearly seen that since 2002 — 03 there has been a dramatic drop in volume, although surprisingly the greatest drop (in 2004 — 05) did not coincide with means testing as many had suspected.

Their plans have generated a great deal of controversy which, combined with means testing for winter fuel payments and ending the triple lock on pensions, moves the -LSB-...]

Many on the left see this as another step in a progression from a low interest loan pegged at the inflation rate, with means tested repayment towards a deregulated market valued loan system.

In Meade's model of the Citizens» Trust collective asset ownership is seen as a way of securing a basic income: an income paid to every citizen as of right with no means test or work - related condition.

You don't agree with a means test before breaking the State treasury?

If you have a chronic condition, you'll net extra savings with the means tested safety net — simply start a Safety Net Card and have it updated every time you visit the chemist.

Thanks to the bankruptcy reforms of 2005, debtors seeking Chapter 7 protection must deal with the means test.

Not exact matches

«But while it's a hard one to call, they could put an asset test on it — meaning employee stock options would be taxed more heavily for those employees who work for big public companies with a large asset base, like the Big Five banks.

Extra testing often means people notice something that prompts follow - up tests and potentially treatment, even when there is nothing wrong with them.

Founder Cheryl Ng has long believed in building markets incrementally, placing modest quantities with international distributors as a means of testing consumer acceptance without risking a lot of capital on large production runs.

With so many tests available, it's not a surprise that employers use tests meant for other purposes, like Myers - Briggs (which is fine, by the way, for employee development), or even design their own tests.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

Three might be the lucky carrier group to test out this theory, but don't forget that its U.K. operation is about to merge (pending regulatory approval) with local rival O2, meaning around 40 percent of the country's subscribers might find themselves with network - level ad - blocking on the menu.

This is an unavoidable flaw with means - tested programs that no one has found a way around.

«Tapping them as resources means that your company can come with up better ideas — and have more insight into how to exploit those ideas, test their viability, and put them into production.»

That means they can «fail fast,» testing products with the rapidity of a tech company, and tap e-commerce and digital advertising instead of breaking into bricks and mortar and shelling out millions for TV ads.

A settlement means that we're going to not chance it to the jury to make a decision, we agree to disagree on whether anyone did anything wrong but we're making a practical business decision, we're going to pay this much to be done with this case and not test the waters.

A different approach would strengthen individual savings accounts by requiring workers to contribute out of pre-tax income, combined with a redistributive means - tested safety net for those who fall into poverty in old age.

How can I convince my team that testing our early ideas with customers does not mean they should sacrifice quality or forget about our vision?

It would also increase Medicare's eligibility age to align with Social Security's age, combine Parts A and B, and increase premiums and means testing.

If you're interested in putting a trading bot to the test, by all means give it a try with some spare satoshis or shitcoins.

He tests this approach by matching actual yield curve data with standardized (normal) R and C distributions that both have zero mean and standard deviation one (such that standardized R and C may be negative).

Unfortunately, the software does not work with demo accounts; meaning that the only way to put the robot to the test is by investing real money.

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

the Word - Yes we are supposed to read for ourselves, and test our pastors / preachers with the Bible - but the Bible is meant to be heard, and it's good to have someone exposit it - yes unfortunately there's a lot of bad theology, and even cults claiming to be Christian, we were warned about false teachers.

because you know alcoholics and are a Christian / scientist you believe that life is a test of something you can not prove to begin with but something is being submitted... you mean someone is still grading my homework!!?? Crap.

The principle difference that most people don't understand though is that «scientific theory» means that it's a hypothesis that's been repeatedly tested and supported with multiple pieces of evidence through many different trials and approaches.

With more and more attention necessarily riveted on matters of morality and ethics, it is hardly a surprise that we ask about moral content as a measure of the meaning of any God - talk, and test the potency of faith claims by the difference they make for human well - being and the well - being of the wider creation.

Correspondence, in the sense specified, is the nature of truth, the meaning of truth; yet the test of truth that we most frequently employ in connection with the past is the test of coherence: historians and archeologists have nothing available to them that is not given in the present — this book, the reliability of which must be evaluated; this artifact, the significance of which must be construed — and coherence is the final test of their theories about the past built up from the givens of the present.

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.

We call this process experimental, which basically means that we don't know the answer with certainty at the beginning (nor can we simply accept an answer on authority without testing it), but only when the experiment is over.

It begins with a rationalistic assumption about the attributes of God — as though we know what omnipotence and goodness mean — and then we put that concept of God to the test of our experience of evil.

This does not mean that the content of revelation needs to pass the specific tests devised by academically critical methods which generally accept only those ideas that pass muster with scientists.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

Following your logic (where sodomy is the test), it would mean that the only couples who should marry are women with women or hetero couples who do not engage in sodomy.

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future.

So science brings them into existence with theories, some testable and others we have no means of testing.

One man I know makes it a regular practice to test with selected members of his congregation the meanings they have for certain words he is going to use in his preaching.

Might it have been because he knew the goal was now within his reach, that after three hard years of testing, trial, stress and many disappointments, giving, always giving, pouring out his mind, his heart, his very soul, spilling forth so readily the vibrant life that was within him in acts of healing, feeding, loving, might it have been with some relief he caught sight of the end of his long journey, glimpsed the goal which, fearful though it was to us, to him would mean fulfillment of his task, the long - expected climax and conclusion of his pilgrimage?

I guess if you are going to believe in an all knowing, all powerful sky daddy, reading an old compilation of 60 different books from 40 different authors put together by a group of supposedly reformed pagans 1600 years ago would just be putting your faith to the test, I mean a person with faith needs no proof.

We can test the revelatory resourcefulness of the symbolism in which our consciousness dwells by asking whether it opens us up to the otherness of foreign ideas and traditions, and thus leads toward deeper and wider integrations of meaning, or instead keeps us locked in the narrow fortress of obsession with our own dogmatic certitudes.

And here the term «shibboleth» (meaning a decisive test or snare) was coined in Jephthah's interconfederation feud with Ephraim (12:1 ff.).

What occurred was not a change of meaning but a new way of testing relations among terms with unchanged meanings — velocity, in this case.

I have several autoimmune conditions and have very recently been diagnosed with neurogenic syncope, which means I can't «stand still» for longer than ten minutes at a time, otherwise I will keel over.I originally got told it was POTS but tests show it's actually a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which causes this syncope problem.

Arbonne products left me with 2nd degree burns on my hands, the cream was meant for my face and I'm so relieved I only tested it on my hands — they are highly toxic!

FDA's removal of the «primary business test» from the final rules was a surprise and means that many businesses that were not subject to the proposed rule are now required to comply with the final rule.

Of course there are days when work completely takes over but even when my schedule is jam packed, I try and make time to spend with my partner, cuddle the dogs and see family — it just means we'll be eating recipes that are being tested and they're grilled for feed back!

In a study conducted by registered dietitian Tricia Thompson, Anne Lee of Schar, and Thomas Grace of Bia Diagnostics, 7 of 22 (32 %) samples of naturally gluten - free grains, seeds and flours tested contained mean gluten levels above 20 ppm with amounts ranging from 25 to 2,925 ppm.

I've been meaning to share this large - cluster cranberry almond granola recipe with you forever, but I wanted to do one more recipe test, and I finally got around to it this past weekend.