Sentence examples for specified percentage from inspiring English sources

The state should stabilize the manner in which needs are addressed, like setting tuition as a specified percentage of what it costs the university to educate a student.

The law school's interest is not simply "to assure within its student body some specified percentage of a particular group merely because of its race or ethnic origin".

Investment credits are similar to investment allowances, which permit businesses to deduct a specified percentage of certain capital costs from their taxable income.

The nominee withdraws, becomes ineligible or does not receive at least a specified percentage (most commonly 25%) of the votes cast at his or her election.

He noted that the specified percentage is usually based on all of the outstanding shares of the co-op, not just the percentage of the shares represented by those who attend the meeting or vote by proxy.

He explained that with some shared-equity loans, the borrower agreed that at the end of the mortgage, instead of paying accumulated principal and interest, he or she would pay a specified percentage of the home's value at that time.

Computers can be ordered to transfer votes from one candidate to another, to add votes to a candidate's total, to determine an outcome in accordance with a specified percentage spread.

Rather than tying executive pay to a specified percentage of the value of the common shares of the bank holding company, compensation could be tied to a specified percentage of the aggregate value of the common shares, the preferred shares and all the outstanding bonds issued by either the bank holding company or the bank.

He suggested one appropriate measure could involve limiting "the nondeposit liabilities of financial firms to a specified percentage of U.S. gross domestic product".

Finally, we keep a user-specified percentage of nodes with the lowest f(x) values and then reconstruct the priority queues evenly, in which nodes are stratified by their heuristic function values.

In three studies, the rate of adherence or attendance was not reported, but instead participants were required to attain a pre-specified percentage of attendance, which differed in each study 21, 27, 28.