While conceding that he saw no artistic merit in some violent video games, King also opined that such games reflect the violence that already exists in society, which would not be lessened by such a law, and would be redundant in light of the ratings system that already exists for video games.

The ratings reflect the performance, comfort, utility and reliability of more than 280 vehicles that the magazine recently tested.

The ratings reflect an overall measure of esteem that combines data on the institutions ' reputation for research and teaching.

Typically, raters are motivated to give higher ratings because of the lack of organizational sanction concerning accurate / inaccurate appraisals, the rater's desire to guarantee promotions, salary increases, etc., the rater's inclination to avoid negative reactions from subordinates, and the observation that higher ratings of the ratees reflect favorably upon the rater.

The on-paper power ratings reflect the change in power measurement undertaken by the industry for 1972.

The phenomenal success of the album-oriented rock and the highly competitive battle for ratings likely contributed to the format splintering to reflect different stylistic perspectives.

However, the latest fall 2010 BBM ratings reflect that Global Edmonton has returned as the most-watched newscast.

Ability ratings may also reflect a self-rating compared to job-rating, suggesting that self-presentation will be more likely with ability statements.

The extent to which ratings of interviewee performance reflect certain constructs varies widely depending on the level of structure of the interview, the kind of questions asked, interviewer or applicant biases, applicant professional dress or nonverbal behavior, and a host of other factors.

The move is believed to be in response to an ad run during a June 3 airing of an episode of Mad Men urging Dish Network customers to inform the company to keep the three AMC Networks channels on the satellite provider with Dish Network stating that the relocated channel positions better reflect the channels ’ ratings.

KODJ, apparently getting killed in the ratings by KRLA and K-Earth, moved their oldies up to the ' 70s and changed to KCBS FM to reflect their ownership.

Examples of this include the series ' tendencies to refer to its own struggle for ratings, its competition from Sex and the City and the fact that the second season was cut from 22 to 18 episodes.

These requirements may be direct, such as requiring certain assets to bear certain minimum credit ratings, or indirect, by the central bank lending to counterparties only when security of a certain quality is pledged as collateral.

), for example, describe certain criteria that bank regulators should look to when permitting the ratings from a particular CRA to be used.

Following this approach, if a CRA ( or investment bank or broker-dealer ) were interested in using the ratings from a particular CRA for regulatory purposes, the SEC staff would research the market to determine whether ratings from that particular CRA are widely used and considered " reliable and credible.

The purpose of these " ratings triggers " is to ensure that the bank is able to lay claim to a weak company's assets before the company declares bankruptcy and a receiver is appointed to divide up the claims against the company.

Prosecutors described Routier as a pampered and materialistic woman with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank who feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end.

The bank launched a separate internet-only operation known as Smile in 1999, which, according to surveys, has the highest satisfaction ratings among UK banks and has received many awards in recent years for customer service and online banking.

* 1997 – Alfa Bank draws US $ 40 million syndicated loan ; Euromoney declares Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia in 1997 ; first credit ratings received from Moody's and Standard & Poor's ( S & P ); Alfa Bank places the first issue of US $ 175 million, 3-year Eurobonds, becoming the first privately owned Russian bank to issue Eurobonds ; branches in Saint Petersburg and Samara open ; the value of total assets passes US $ 1 billion ;

* CAMELS ratings, a bank rating system

These ratings are designed to provide color for prospective clients or investors regarding the relative risk that one assumes when engaging in business with the bank.

HSBC Bangladesh is rated ‘ AAA ’ in the Long-term and ST-1 rating in the Short-term, which are the highest level of ratings for any bank or financial institution in Bangladesh.

The rating was based on long-term foreign currency ratings from Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor ’ s and the long-term bank deposit ratings from Moody ’ s Investors Service.

Under this approach, if a CRA ( or investment bank or broker-dealer ) were interested in using the ratings from a particular CRA for regulatory purposes, the SEC staff would research the market to determine whether ratings from that particular CRA are widely used and considered " reliable and credible.

It has one of the highest bank credit ratings in the region.

It is because of that evidence that Urban Bank argued that it was baseless for the BSP and the PDIC to label the subject loans as " garbage " and " trash " when it gave favorable ratings towards those loans two months before the closure of the bank.

Fast Forward was commissioned by Seven Network in late 1988 to take advantage of the ratings success of the Australian sketch comedy demonstrated by the high rating Australian sketch comedy show The Comedy Company, broadcast on Channel 10 in 1988.

An S4C spokesperson responded that 90 % of these programmes were aimed at children, whose viewing isn't fully measured by BARB, the organisation that compiles television ratings in the UK, as they only take into account viewers aged four years and over.

At a time when there were no TV ratings -- the A. C. Nielsen Company would not begin measuring TV ratings until 1950 -- Anacin aspirin decided to take a chance and sponsor the show.

With the cancellation of the only show that generated any ratings for the station, management decided that the station needed to take a new direction.

* Even though one can take help of different ratings published by ranking agencies but often these ratings will be different.

Unlike many broadcast networks, FX is willing to take risks with their programming and push the envelope of what can be shown on television, having high, TV-MA ratings.

Although the show received outstanding critical reviews, it did not take off in the Nielsen ratings, and was therefore cancelled.

Even though Stempel agreed to take less money, that actually made no difference: his ratings were dropping and the producers decided he had to go.

In mid-1996, Nitro began to draw better ratings than Raw based on the strength of the nWo storyline, a metafiction event built around the idea of former WWF wrestlers forming their own anarchist organization in order to take over WCW.

From 2006 to 2009, Netflix sponsored a competition, offering a grand prize of $ 1, 000, 000 to the team that could take an offered dataset of over 100 million movie ratings and return recommendations that were 10 % more accurate than those offered by the company's existing recommender system.

Later studies showed that his design had failed to take into account the increased g-load caused by the pendulum action of the jump itself, exceeding the ratings on the components and leading to catastrophic failure of the structural integrity of the bungee cable.

On the following year, Globo purchased another television station, São Paulo-based TV Paulista, expanding its operations, and beginning to take over the national television ratings.

On March 26, 1989, the network's own Sunday variety program, Domingão do Faustão ( Faustão's Big-Sunday ) was launched as the network started to take over the Sunday afternoon TV ratings, then led by SBT's Programa Silvio Santos.

While American television networks have both the financial scale and the diversity of programming to take a loss on an unpopular series by cancelling it early, CTV had little choice but to air the entire series, regardless of its ratings or quality, in order to recoup as much of its investment as possible.

He survived legal controversy early on in his career to become only the third South African to take 300 Test wickets after Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald, and to reach second place in the ICC test match bowling ratings.

The ratings take into account multiple factors affecting a route, such as the slope of the ascent, the quantity and quality of available handholds, the distance between holds, ease of placing protection and whether advanced technical maneuvers are required.

Although Michael Grade had left the BBC in 1987 to take up a new position as Chief Executive of Channel 4, Doctor Who remained in its poor slot opposite Coronation Street and continued to suffer in the ratings.

A blood tank focuses purely on being able to take many hits, through either higher than usual HP pools, heavy defense ratings, or both.

Although the duo increased the show's ratings their stint at the show ended in 1973, when CBS chose to take the show off the air.

In order to take knowledge tests for all pilot certificates and ratings, the applicant must have a sign-off from a ground or flight instructor.

In order to take practical tests for all pilot certificates and ratings ( except Airline Transport Pilot ), the applicant must have proper logbook endorsements from their flight instructor.

) A speculated reason for the format change is that while they could not beat competitor WQHT (" Hot 97 "), they could take enough ratings away from them to keep them from being number one, which would leave Power 105. 1's sister station Lite FM with a comfortable lead in that race ( prior to the change Hot 97 and Lite FM had alternated at the top spot ).