Sentences with phrase «us engineering schemes»

Greebel was found to have helped engineer the scheme while acting as outside counsel to Retrophin, and Retrophin leadership testified that he put Shkreli's interests ahead of the company's.

Various geo - engineering schemes are being discussed for scrubbing CO2 from the air and cleansing the atmosphere of the «pollutant.»

In a Washington Times op - ed last year, Carson sharply criticized HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program, designed to incentivize desegregation - based planning in the nation's cities, calling it a «mandated social - engineering scheme.»

Silver was convicted late last year on multiple felony charges for engineering schemes involving a real estate company, tax firm, and even a Columbia University doctor who recommended cancer cases to Silver's law firm, and that netted the former speaker $ 4 million.

The probe marks Bharara's latest anti-corruption blitz on City Hall, which was subpoenaed in April following a state Board of Elections report that said de Blasio engineered a scheme to evade fund - raising limits in a failed bid to help Democrats seize control of the state Senate.

Embryonic plans exist, both to erect massive flood barriers and for «soft» engineering schemes that would redesign waterfronts to incorporate wetlands, oyster beds and other natural features that could slow storm surges.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

Modern physics is incomprehensible, and cowboy engineering schemes — private companies racing to get to the moon or to sequence our genomes cheaply — are commonplace and may be our salvation.

With help from Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), the pie shop owner downstairs, he engineers a scheme to lure the judge into his chair for a very close shave.

Please forgive the digression, but in today's NYTimes, John Tierny claims that AGW can be mitigated by «geo engineering schemes to cool the planet by blocking sulight.»

Big engineering schemes like the ones from Los Alamos may indeed have potential, and should, as Professor Hoffert says, be explored.

The beneficial effects of some geo - engineering schemes have been over-estimated and mis - calculated in previous calculations

The IPCC is expected to strongly dismiss geo - engineering schemes and ocean fertilization in particular in the Working group III report on mitigation this week.

So, a region experiencing increased drought from climate change might become even drier through a solar engineering scheme.

This is certainly true of three major ethical dilemmas now complicating the climate change debate: how to balance the rights and responsibilities of the developed and developing world; how to evaluate geo - engineering schemes designed to reverse or slow climate change; and how to assess our responsibility to future generations who must live with a climate we are shaping today.

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

This method of «cloud brightening» was one of the geo - engineering schemes for intentionally intervening in climate to counteract global warming.

The BIG difference between hare - brained geo - engineering schemes, such as those you mentioned and burning fossil fuels to provide accessible low - cost energy and transportation to drive the world economy, is that the geo - engineering schemes are costly but DO NOT ADD INHERENT VALUE.

Those few that have been proposed (carbon capture and sequestration for all new coal - fired power plants, geo - engineering schemes, switch to renewables such as wind and solar, etc.) would be extremely costly, could result in unknown and unintended negative consequences and would not bring any significant reduction of theoretical greenhouse warming by 2100.

Of course the biggest harebrained geo - engineering scheme that has already started is the scheme of pumping a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to lift CO2 levels to highs not seen for 20 million years.

Now if adapting to the current rate of warming is indeed a great task for many species, how do you suppose nature will react if we would deploy a geo - engineering scheme that would drop the temperature in Earth by 3K (for instance, what is unacceptable warming?

I see great difficulty in practice in deploying geo engineering schemes only when things get out of hand, because the perception of what is «out of hand» is clearly different among scientists as compared to the general public and most politicians....

There are many geo - engineering schemes proposed in the literature (and beyond).

Perhaps the «scientists» might consider the consequences of just another crazy geo - engineering scheme in a little more detail.

Both of these are often referred to as geo - engineering schemes.

I mean, assuming there will be no global geo - engineering scheme that removes CO2 from the atmosphere on a massive scale, if I were to take the IPCC's middle - of - the - road ECS estimate of 3º Celsius per doubling of atmospheric CO2eq and combine it with a rather weak climate mitigation emissions scenario (e.g., RCP 6.5, which peaks around 850 CO2eq ppm)... we are talking about 120º Fahrenheit days being a common occurrence in the summers of Houston far into the future, right?

Interestingly, in other countries starting salaries for technical roles are often far higher — some US engineering schemes pay up to $ 95,000 a year.

In one case I came across, the first stage of selection for an employer's electrical engineering scheme was to screen out people with poor grammar.

Not exact matches

Tesla has pulled off plenty of impressive engineering feats, but its skilled hype - based marketing schemes are also changing the way cars are sold

Mining - focused private equity firm Resource Capital Funds is seeking to privatise engineering and construction contractor Ausenco by way of a scheme of arrangement.

Jurors in Manhattan federal court on Friday prepared to weigh charges against a Florida software engineer and a New Jersey pastor accused of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange escape scrutiny.

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned for life from bicycle racing in 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after it accused him in a report of engineering one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in sports.

Genius Conseil president Michel Lalonde said a number of major engineering firms — including global giant SNC - Lavalin — participated in a collusion scheme to raise the price of construction projects in Quebec.

Paul Diggle, property economist at Capital Economics, said that PRIMARQ's scheme seems to represent a «great investment» and is similar to one engineered by the United Kingdom that has helped support growth.

To be considered both high - quality and effective, these webinjections have to seamlessly integrate with the malware's injection mechanism, display social engineering that corresponds with the target bank's authentication and transaction authorization schemes and have the perfect look and feel to fool even the keenest customer eye.

High efficiency fine screening technology engineered to deliver low maintenance performance with reduced OHS hazards for municipal and industrial waste water schemes is demonstrating immediate results in one of its new applications CST -LSB-...]

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

«Properly accredited and approved engineering apprenticeship schemes provide a high - quality alternative to traditional academic routes.

Today, as hundreds of redundancy notices are issued to Armed Forces personnel, Europe's largest engineers» organisation is launching a scheme to help them gain new qualifications, access training and find alternative jobs.

According to Lord Foster, the Mayor of London has expressed his support for the Thames Hub vision, as have civil engineer Douglas Oakervee and economist Bridget Rosewell who developed the «Boris Island» proposal and are now part of the Thames Hub scheme.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Damian Williams told jurors that Silver engineered a bribery scheme that made him $ 4 million in legal fees.

Percoco, along with three businessmen, is accused of engineering two bribery schemes.

Percoco and three co-defendants, all businessmen, are charged with engineering two bribery schemes.

The decision means Martoma, who engineered the most lucrative single insider - trading scheme ever, will...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) today announces the launch of a new scheme helping engineers during the early stages of their career.

Cuomo's former closest aide, Joe Percoco, is currently on trial in federal court, accused of engineering two bribery schemes involving donors to Cuomo's campaign.

Lacewell says Percoco, who is charged, along with three others in engineering two bribery schemes, was one of Cuomo's four most senior aides and that the two were very close.

Percoco and three codefendants, all businessmen, are charged with engineering two bribery schemes.

A Mayor Bill de Blasio fundraiser — whose engineering firms have been awarded millions of dollars in city contracts — has been charged with enlisting his employees to donate to the 2013 mayoral election and reimbursing them through end - of - the - year bonuses in a bribery - filled corruption scheme, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday.

Two of engineering's most respected names have finalised an agreement to improve commercial vehicle industry standards by developing the technician - licensing scheme, irtec.