Sentence examples for percentage system from inspiring English sources

The percentage system has had some unlikely social side effects.

Next month, Onondaga County will scrap its flat tax and return to the percentage system.

We conclude that the early Wyoming uses, the return flows, and the greater storage water rights which Nebraska appropriators have in this section as compared with those of Wyoming appropriators tip the scales in favor of the flat percentage system recommended by the Special Master.

Your Grade Scale (also known as: grading system, score system, or percentage system) tells us what your grades mean.

By the 1990s, there were over ten Nordic skiing classes and a percentage system was developed to allow skiers with different disabilities inside one of three groups to compete against each other.

By the 1990s, an integrated classification approach was tried in Nordic skiing had been developed using a percentage system that would allow for multiple classes to compete against each other in the same event using a formula to create a time finish that would enable fair comparisons for skiers of different functional ability.

As a result, these states are keeping a close eye on California, Texas and Florida, where "percentage systems" have sprung up to replace affirmative action.

It's too soon to tell whether Ms. Hudson will have an impact on this year's race, but her predecessor, Bruce Davis, sure did: He recommended changes that included a sliding-scale field for best picture nominees, so that anywhere from 5 to 10 films may be chosen, based on a new percentage voting system.

Open image in new window Fig. 4 Percentage of system load for case 2. Figure 5a depicts the hours most affected by the reliability assessment.

The majority of BART's service area, as measured by percentage of system length, consists of low-density suburbs.

When faced with potential for stock collapse in orange roughy and the need to reduce this valuable quota by large percentages, the system was changed so that ITQ were denominated as a percentage of the TAC, rather than as a specific tonnage.