Sentences with phrase «accelerating a shift away»

LEIPZIG / FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move that could accelerate a shift away from the combustion engine and force manufacturers to pay to improve exhaust systems.

The company is «positioning itself as a partner with traditional retailers, where as Amazon is trying to accelerate that shift away from stores.»

«Some people had hoped — or dreaded — that pollution controls would accelerate a shift away from coal to gas.

Mix in incompatible but still HTML5 - y formats like KF8 and iBooks Author 1.0 that publishers are still expected to support, and we're looking at epic amounts of pain that will simply accelerate the shift away from packaged e-books.

Public support for accepting the costs attending an accelerated shift away from the fuels of convenience, particularly coal, remains weak, at best.

China and India are also emerging as leaders in building renewable energy, which is crucial to maintain and accelerate the shift away from coal both for the sake of domestic air quality and the global climate, Myllyvirta added.

Market upheaval, defining events, and recent policy changes have accelerated a shift away from coal toward renewables.

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We are connecting more deeply and more meaningfully with more customers across all day parts than ever before, and we are delivering quarter after quarter of record - breaking financial results, despite the accelerating shift in consumer behavior away from traditional bricks - and - mortar retailing, and despite difficult macroeconomic retail and consumer headwinds that continue to challenge traditional retailers.»

Mr Douglas said the consumer shift towards more healthy choices and away from sugar - laden products had been accelerating globally, but sourcing stevia hadn't been a problem because stevia producers had kept ahead of the trend.

As with the 1981 General Election, such a significant change in Dail representation levels will effectively prove a major «game changer» and could well shift the dynamics of electoral success decidedly towards / away certain political parties and political groups and could well act to accelerate the level of political change that may be associated with that election.

This seems like a bad deal on paper, yet we liked this 2.0 T engine's notably quicker, quieter response while accelerating away from stoplights in metro driving, and the engine made great use of the 2.0 T's six - speed automatic with its shift paddles on the steering wheel and a set up of shorter ratios in first through fourth gears for quicker acceleration.

[ANDY REVKIN says: As I said in my talk, the main benefits of local actions on energy and related issues (transportation, sprawl) would be economic or social, with the grand challenge of climate stability requiring generations of sustained effort to accelerate the inevitable eventual shift away from traditional uses of finite fossil fuels.

In the near term, it will unlock an accelerating multi-trillion-dollar shift in capital investment away from carbon - intensive coal and oil, which were the cornerstone of the first industrial revolution, into clean technologies like solar, wind, LED lighting, advanced batteries, and electric cars.