While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

While medical licensure sets the minimum competency requirements to diagnose and treat patients, it is not specialty specific.

While not all of these languages are adequately attested, it turns out that Sursurunga instead has both a " lesser paucal " ( labeled " trial ", but in fact referring to small groups, with typically three or four members ) and a " greater paucal " ( misnamed the " quadral ", as it has a minimum of four, e. g. a pair of dyadic kin terms )— the distinction is along the lines of " a few " vs. " several ";— and that what Marshallese actually has is a trial and a paucal.

While optimal aperture can be determined mechanically, how much sharpness is required depends on how the image will be used – if the final image is viewed under normal conditions ( e. g., an 8 ″× 10 ″ image viewed at 10 ″), it may suffice to determine the < var > f </ var >- number using criteria for minimum required sharpness, and there may be no practical benefit from further reducing the size of the blur spot.

While this is not illegal in the UK if employees live in, Paxman, known for grilling interviewees on workers ' rights issues, was criticised when his employees went public, claiming to have been paid " the bare minimum ".

While each party attains one seat for 1 in 120 votes, there is a minimum threshold ( recently increased to 2 %< ref >

While trade unions, minimum wage laws, fire safety codes, and labour laws have made sweatshops ( in the original sense ) rarer in the developed world, they did not eliminate them, and the term came to be increasingly associated with factories in the developing world.

While the phrase " age of consent " typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts.

While the architecture was compliant overall with the DirectX 9 specification, it was optimized for performance with 16-bit shader code, which is less than the 24-bit minimum that the standard requires.

While the command retained a minimum peacetime force and the Air Ministry had every intention of maintaining it as such, the fleet was further reduced and suffered from procurement problems.

While the Senate Finance Committee under John Sherman disagreed, being of the opinion that the $ 356, 000, 000 was a maximum as well as a minimum, no legislation was passed to assert the Committee's opinion.

While there is still no formal requirement for a minimum salary, the sponsor must provide evidence of income in the form of their most recent T4 Income printout from the Canadian Revenue Agency as an attachment to their IMM 5481 Sponsorship Evaluation.

While a hacker strives to understand the mechanisms behind what he or she uses, even when such extended knowledge would have no practical value, a lamer only cares to learn the bare minimum necessary to operate the device in the way originally intended.

While the minimum age requirement applies to both WAG and MAG, it is far more contentious in WAG.

While the terms of the Treaty were the bare minimum that the British government could accept, Napoleon Bonaparte would not have agreed to any terms more favourable to the British, and the British government had reached a state of financial collapse, owing to war expenditure, the loss of Continental markets for British goods, and two successive failed harvests that had led to widespread famine and social unrest, rendering peace a necessity.

While a partially ordered set can have at most one each maximum and minimum it may have multiple maximal and minimal elements.

While this was taking place, the Argentine Small Arms Commission contacted Mauser in 1886 to replace their Model 71s ; since they wished to keep retraining of their armed forces to a minimum, they went for the Mauser 91.

While all protein molecules begin as simple unbranched chains of amino acids, once completed they assume highly specific three-dimensional shapes ; that ultimate shape, known as tertiary structure, is the folded shape that possesses a minimum of free energy.

While the range may be decreased when using subsonic rounds, this may be acceptable for specialized situations, where the absolute minimum amount of noise is required.

While serving as a Texas state representative for twelve years, Wilson battled for the regulation of utilities, fought for Medicaid, tax exemptions for the elderly, the Equal Rights Amendment, and attempted to raise the state's minimum wage.

While the previous CBA had a salary floor, the new CBA initially does not have one until 2013 ; at that time, each team will be required to spend a minimum of 88. 8 % of the cap in cash on player compensation in each season.

While an Energy Star label indicates that the appliance is more energy efficient than the minimum guidelines, purchasing an Energy Star labeled product does not always mean you are getting the most energy efficient option available.

While there are minimum standards for worker participation in the management of any occupational pension, the terms of people's pensions may be very different particularly regarding who bears the risk of workers having a long life after retirement.

While they are not major teratogens, uncertainty remains as to whether they cause cleft palate in a small number of babies and whether neurobehavioural effects occur as a result of prenatal exposure ; they are known to cause withdrawal symptoms in the newborn.

While this would still have resulted in Millikan's having measured the charge of e < sup >−</ sup > better than anyone else at the time, the slightly larger uncertainty might have allowed more disagreement with his results within the physics community, which Millikan likely tried to avoid.

While many explanations have been suggested, it has been recently shown that bubbles appear even without uncertainty, speculation, or bounded rationality.

While this would still have resulted in Millikan having measured e better than anyone else at the time, the slightly larger uncertainty might have allowed more disagreement with his results within the physics community.

While it is algebraically possible to approximate the effects of anatomy ( the three-equation method ), disease states introduce considerable uncertainty to this approach.

While it is known that radiometric dating methods can only provide approximate dates ( see also this discussion of radiocarbon dating ), the uncertainty associated with each method is known and limited.

While considerable momentum has been achieved in terms of media coverage, these events turn out to be difficult to organize to achieve real success ( perhaps requiring significant reorganization of the host city's transportation arrangement ) and even a decade later there is considerable uncertainty about the usefulness of this approach.

While uncertainty analysis studies the overall uncertainty in the conclusions of the study, sensitivity analysis tries to identify what source of uncertainty weighs more on the study's conclusions.

While the club did achieve UEFA cup qualification by finishing in sixth place, uncertainty was more than tangible.

While the poem itself is signed Larry Wall, the original message was posted with forged message headers, causing uncertainty of authorship.

While a set of equations, known as the Liouville equations, exists to determine the initial uncertainty in the model initialization, the equations are too complex to run in real-time, even with the use of supercomputers.

" While admitting the work was " full of melodic warmth and sincerity ", Laroche criticized its programmatic aspects, which left " an impression of mystery and uncertainty cribbed from Liszt, though cribbed not in a mechanical fashion but with the addition of some of the technical sequins which cost our deft and resourceful composer so little effort.

While this showing would normally have entitled Judd to delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, state officials expressed some uncertainty as to whether Judd had completed the required formalities, such as filing a slate of delegates and completing paperwork.

While many of these are well constrained by observations, there are many which are subject to considerable uncertainty.

While fear, uncertainty, and doubt is spread through military and economic crisis, “ as individuals they are defenseless ; as groups, they are politically indifferent .” Even though most relate ( and wrongfully so ) power with knowledge and ability, some have given in to the immorality embodied in accomplishment.

While more distinct at the species level, there is uncertainty and disagreement with regard to the genus level of taxonomy.

While there is natural uncertainty over whether all these criteria fit all alleged victims of SHC, the circumstances are broadly supported by circumstantial evidence in the best cases for the SHC hypothesis.

While a set of equations, known as the Liouville equations, exists to determine the initial uncertainty in the model initialization, the equations are too complex to run in real-time, even with the use of supercomputers.

While it is true that many expectancy violations carry a negative valence, numerous are positive and actually reduce uncertainty because they provide additional information within the parameters of the particular relationship, context, and communicators.

While there is uncertainty about her place of birth, Holmes stated in an interview that she was born on a farm in South Bend, Indiana, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

While perfect forecasts are rarely possible ( this is also true in most sciences ) forecasts models can reduce uncertainty about what supplies or services will be needed, where and when they will be needed, or the best way to provide them.