Sentences with phrase «acted as a system»

«We've had numerous conversations about low - performing schools, but we haven't acted as a system yet,» she said.

Acting as a system cleanser and purifier, it is essential for treating a sluggish liver and for pets who suffer from heartburn and belching.

Firstly, there's the Grid Gauge, which acts as a system to reward more aggressive players.

1993 - 1997: Acted as the systems analyst for the Tipton Data Processing Unit, Philadelphia with following responsibilities

Acted as systems analyst / project manager for a XCOM to TIBCO MFT conversion project.

Not exact matches

Massoumi says he's found that a critical hiring strategy is subjecting new hires to a role - playing scenario, in which someone applying for an enterprise - sales role, for instance, might have to pitch ZocDoc to another employee acting as a member of a hospital system.

A great example are Freelancer Management Systems (FMS)-- not only assisting companies in engaging freelancers but for serving as a repository of company knowledge about the freelance workforce that acts as a company's ongoing source of freelance talent.

Such Constitutional protections have ensured that federal programs such as Medicare, the Veteran Administration's TRICARE system (which provides benefits for active duty members of the military and their families), and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) apply the same rules to everyone they cover.

But frankly, we're also told to act as if we need to not put information that is sensitive on that system.

Veritas CEO Bill Coleman, who sits on Sapho's advisory board, called Sapho's product «an operating system for work» that acts as «the connective tissue between systems of record and the end user.»

Since opioid painkillers slow breathing and act on the same brain systems as heroin, they carry serious risks of overdose and, in rarer cases, addiction.

One year earlier, in 1961, Clarke also published Dial F for Frankenstein, a short story of an interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a newborn baby and leads to global chaos as it takes over financial, transportation, and military systems.

DNS stands for Domain Name System, which acts as a sort of phone book or directory for Internet sites.

Plus, she felt that My Stewards could introduce added convenience to the mix: the My Stewards desktop and mobile web app acts as an online request system for its services.

Instead, a virtual machine acts as an intermediary between the software and the system.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Croatian police said that a 19 - year - old Croat, whom they described as the owner of webstresser.org, was detained on charges of «serious criminal acts against computer systems, programs and data» that carry a possible sentence of one to eight years in prison.

1999 - Marine Life Protection Act Today, California's system of marine protected areas function as a network for conservation, sustainable fisheries, recreation, and education.

In theory, the fee is supposed to act as both carrot and stick — smokers who want health insurance would either pay the higher premiums to help insurers cover their historically higher health care costs or quit smoking so they can save both themselves (and the broader medical system) money.

It not only acts as a therapeutic de-stresser, but the bed can activate the vestibular system, boosting balance and coordination.

When the financial system comes under stress, a central bank may need to calm financial markets through open market operations or act as the lender of last resort to financial institutions to forestall bank runs.

What makes Cisco Systems worth considering as a purchase right now is the fact that its backwards - looking accounting earnings have been suppressed by a one - time hit from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Under the 2010 Dodd - Frank Act, which toughened financial regulations in an effort to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisis, the oversight panel had the power to designate non-bank institutions such as AIG as systemically important financial institutions, meaning that their failure could pose a risk to the entire financial system.

Rather than doing away with the need for a CCP like The Clearinghouse or Euroclear, this blockchain essentially acts as an uber - CCP with all the collateral, margin and regulatory capital requirements associated with the current transaction clearing system.

For merchants, the service is designed to act as an inventory - management system, allowing them to offer deals to fill up empty seats during slow periods or use up inventory toward the end of a night.

The Bitcoin Deutschland AG is acting as tied agent of the FIDOR Bank AG within the meaning of § 2 Section 10 of the Banking Act and provides the system or the completion of financial instruments in accordance with § 1 Section 1a Sentence 2 No. 1 of the Banking Act exclusively in the name and for the account of the FIDOR Bank AG.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The banks have been acting almost as a financial gang in pressing not only to support the Federal Reserve chairman who is a deregulator (and the Federal Reserve is supposed to essentially represent the interests of the commercial banking system), but the banks also now have supplied the Treasury Secretary and the Treasury Secretary is not supposed to represent the banks.

In addition to having a consumer - car - like driving experience, Tesla Semi's four drivetrains is designed with efficiency in mind and acts as a redundant system.

To jog your memory, Bitcoin is considered the world's first cryptocurrency, launched in 2009 to decentralize the financial sector and act as a universal payment system absent a central bank or administrator.

The filing further talks about using a specially configured blockchain that would act as the software pendant to the nodes to increase efficiencies in the system.

When the timing system first enters into a new «sell» mode, it primarily acts as a «no nonsense,» objective way to keep us out of -LSB-...]

Helping manage water infrastructure, Gregory Quist, CEO of SmartCover Systems explains to Anthony Lacavera how the company's sensors act as an EKG for sewers to identify and detect faults in wastewater delivery.

«With the Radius Platform acting as a backbone system of insight, we can target prospects that match our ideal customer profile.»

In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging growth company» as defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.

Parent is involved in several lawsuits in which the plaintiffs are seeking unpaid overtime compensation and other damages based on allegations that various employees of Electronic Data Systems Corporation («EDS») or Parent have been misclassified as exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act and / or in violation of the California Labor Code or other state laws.

Mayor Landrieu's predecessors both attempted to privatize the city's water, arguing it would keep rates down as the city undertook costly repairs to bring the system in line with the Clean Water Act standards.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

Kali Digital Ecosystems, the company behind upcoming cryptocurrency exchange CoinRecoil had filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court, calling this move by the government as «unconstitutional», as it violates various articles and acts in the Indian legal system.

«[The] Monetary Authority of Macau reiterates that any institution providing regulated financial services such as currency exchange, cross-border fund transfer, and financial exchange platforms without permission violates relevant provisions of the Financial System Act.»

The 1970's saw a rise in the price of commodities generally, and gold acted as a barometer for how little people trusted the new financial system that replaced one of the rarest metals on earth with «made up money».

In the future, Abra may open up the system so that others can act as counterparties to these contracts once a full smart contract implementation is in place.

The right values and culture were not sufficiently embedded in JPMorgan's G10 spot FX trading business, which resulted in it acting in JPMorgan's own interests as described in this Notice, without proper regard for the interests of its clients, other market participants or the wider UK financial system.

Most investing beginners see investing as the act of putting in money in a system for a return on investment.

Not as an act of kindness from the administration but because the pace of removals is limited by the court system, which can only process so many cases per year.

As students walked out of the classrooms, the House passed the bipartisan STOP School Violence Act, a school safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

Money and banking textbooks typically portray the Act as modernizing the financial system «to correct certain serious shortcomings in the National Bank Act: to provide an elastic currency, efficient clearing, centralized reserves, readily available credit for banks, and unified control of the banking system.»

connection with its entry into arrangements with the Russian Central Bank and its newly created subsidiary JSC National Payment Cards System (NSPK) to migrate the processing of transactions made on Visa cards in Russia to NSPK, with the Central Bank acting as the settlement agent.

But even more importantly, aside from being a long - term store of value, gold is a hedge — a form of money that acts as an insurance policy against a dangerously overleveraged financial system.

Europe has also taken note of the US financial system's relatively swift recovery from the brink of disaster and concluded that deeper, more liquid and diverse capital markets can act as a source of stability and support.