Sentences with phrase «reducing end use»

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He points out that: «Total has set ambitious goals for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, notably by ending continuous flaring and using the associated gas locally.

Yahoo ended up having to give Verizon a $ 350 million discount on their deal, reflecting concerns that people might reduce their use of Yahoo email and other digital services because of the breach, decreasing opportunities to show ads.

When something is intangible and therefore difficult to judge, we sometimes use easier to perceive shortcuts to get a rough sense of where someone stands — that's how something as subtle as «success» can sometimes end up reduced to who drives the fanciest car, for example.

The other thing that can reduce or eliminate the chaos is using a 1099 program that is designed to eliminate some of the year - end drama that can occur when processing 1099's.

While many investment management firms only offer tax - loss harvesting at year's end, Strategic Advisers uses this and a number of other strategies throughout the year designed to help reduce your tax liability and help reach your goals as quickly as possible.1

Running a business in Canada gives you a whole new world of potential tax deductions that you can use to reduce the amount of income tax you have to pay at the end of the tax year or even, perhaps, to get a tax refund.

While many investment management firms only use tax - loss harvesting at year end, your Investment Team uses this and a number of other strategies throughout the year in an effort to reduce your tax liability and help you reach your goals as quickly as possible.

Significantly reducing the advertising budget of the government of Canada, and ending the use of government advertising for partisan activities.

The primary justification for the proposed tax changes was that high - income individuals (e.g., doctors, small business owners, farmers, among others) were using the tax system to reduce their income tax by incorporating CCPCs to conduct their businesses or carry on their professional practises This meant that individuals with the same income could end up paying different taxes and this, according to the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister was «unfair».

In your election platform, you committed to ending the practice of using omnibus bill to reduce scrutiny of legislative measures.

Twelve of our companies, just over 20 % of our holdings, used their cash flow to achieve all four goals: they increased the dividend, reduced the share count, made an acquisition and still ended the year with a stronger balance sheet.

People who require reduced taxes on income may choose a closed end fund that uses a tax - fee income strategy, which invests mainly in municipal bonds.

The windfall revenue has been used to repay an advance taken by the central bank and to reduce arrears by E 250 million as of end - September 2012.

After reducing the just causes for resort to force to one, self - defense (§ 2308), the Catechism further limits this in § 2309 by four prudential conditions, all of which it says must be satisfied: «the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or the community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective [last resort]; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

Also there's really not much point to reducing the sugar for this because the less sugar you use, the more you'll have to cook it dow, so really you're not ending up with a less sweet end result unless you thicken it with some starch, which some people do.

If you have a smaller roast reduce the cooking time from 7 minutes to 5 minutes on 400, and use the lower end of the cooking time given at 300.

Use of Plant - Based Material for PET Bottles and a New Crushable Design Contribute to Reduced Weight and Volume at End of Life, The Coca - Cola Company — Japan

The tomatoes I used reduced quite a bit with cooking, so I didn't have nearly as much sauce in the end as I would have liked.

If you can find it, yellow corn masa has better flavor; the coarser version used for tamales is fine for this, but long cooking greatly reduces it's thickening power - I find it best to add it toward the end.

These kinds of findings have prompted environmental activists pushing to reduce or end the use of disposable plastics.

But this can be helped by considering the use of post-consumer recycled content, redesigning and reducing packaging used, and recycling at the end of life.

When a community attempts to reduce their waste through recycling and composting initiatives, there is a residual waste component that still remains - a large portion of which (15 - 20 %) ends up being single - use plastic diapers.

Babies that end up having formula turn out just fine, but hearing that from moms who have used it on their own babies can help reduce the mom guilt.

Labour's press office takes the same line: «Labour will use our # 10 billion pot [over five years] to reduce the impact on households with the lowest incomes by ending the benefits freeze.»

«We will end the testing of household products on animals and work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research.»

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

«Raising the stakes on tax avoidance», a consultation document published by HM Revenue and Customs, sets out a number of proposals relating to the promotion and use of so - called high - risk avoidance schemes, aimed at reducing the use of such schemes.1 Commenting, CIOT President Stephen Coleclough said: «Those members of the public who become end users of high risk avoidance schemes are sometimes misled by the promoters of such schemes and are not fully made aware of the risks or consequences of their decisions.

«So we will develop diversionary programmes to take users out of the criminal justice system altogether, ensure that those who need treatment get it, and find more effective ways to reduce or end their drug use.

The AfDB Vice President stated that it was eager to see improvement in energy efficiency and conservation along the energy value chain to reduce losses - production, transmission, distribution, and end - use inefficiencies.

To this end, the declaration calls on the European Commission and member states to give young researchers more employment stability, notably by reducing the use of short - term contracts and clarifying the criteria for academic career progression.

This will help to reduce the amount of resources used to make microwave appliances and waste generated at the end of their lifetime.

Feedback on several surveys has demonstrated the need to use multiple - choice instead of open - ended questions to reduce the number of questions yielding no response.

Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near - surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic Alaska would be reduced by 16 to 24 percent by the end of the 21st century under widely accepted climate scenarios.

«There is still time to avoid most of this warming and get to a stable climate by the end of this century, but in order to do that, we have to aggressively reduce our fossil fuel use and emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants.»

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

Also, a high - end salmon feed and selective breeding has helped minimize fishmeal use, reducing the ratio of pounds of wild feed fish to produce pounds of farmed fish to 1.1 to one — a number AquaSeed owner Per Heggelund says he expects to whittle further.

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.

Finally, some researchers worry that even though these registries are supposed to reduce the number of animals in biomedical research, their labs may end up using more animals because they feel they need larger sample sizes to conduct more robust research as part of these registries.

«Our conversion process can potentially reduce jet fuel cost to end users by using lignin waste from refineries and less expensive catalytic upgrading to jet fuel.»

The tooth whitener end is discreet and easy to use, plus it's clinically proven to reduce stains by 38 % after six uses.

Brahmi (also known as Gotu Kola) is one of the most commonly used rejuvenating oils in Ayurveda to reduce dandruff and split ends while helping to nourish hair, help aid concentration and calm the mind.

The HASK Bamboo Oil Strengthening Shine Hair Oil uses bamboo oil to tame hair and reduce split ends.

I like to use a little of this on the ends of my hair to reduce any flyaways or static.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

There's also a checklist for use when leaving the house at the beginning of the day and the classroom at the end, so you don't end up losing your favourite hat / water bottle / etc... I have this laminated on the back of my DBS folder, and on the back of my phone, which you might want to consider too - you can always reduce the typeface?

Equipment for each experiment is delivered at the beginning of term and collected at the end, enabling schools to reduce capital expenditure and make best use of limited storage space.

Efforts to reduce the number of end - of - course exams were rebuffed, but there were minor changes made to the process used to determine if a student has performed at sufficiently high levels on the collection of mandated end - of - course exams required to meet graduation requirements.