Sentences with phrase «acted upon at»

Each such notice shall include an agenda of the matters to be acted upon at the meeting.
Other than the nine items of business described in this proxy statement, we are not aware of any other business to be acted upon at the annual meeting.
Other than the six items of business described in this proxy statement, we are not aware of any other business to be acted upon at the annual meeting.
That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
After all, as Isaac Newton pointed out in his Principia, the notion «that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.»
By the end of this lesson students should be able to: - List at least 4 classroom instructions in English; - Recognise at least 6 classroom rules in French; - Recognise and act upon at least 6 classroom rules in French.
That's why everything we believe in and act upon at Northwood remains driven by our commitment to supporting our agents better than any other firm.

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Introverts prefer to think about the task at hand or the next project before acting upon an idea.
This means that managers also have to be good, not only at receiving feedback, but also acting upon it.
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To consider and act upon the shareholder proposals described in the Proxy Statement, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting; and
Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.
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Based upon on his recent public comments, Dimon seems to be interested: ««And you know at one point we all have to get our act together [so that] we will do what we're supposed to do [for] the average Americans.»
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I would tell someone just starting their career here at Franklin Templeton that they should not be afraid to contribute ideas, challenge the way that things are done, or speak up as I have found that colleagues and leaders are always open to hearing what you have to say and will act upon ideas if they feel as though it would be beneficial.
When you look at it on an emotional level it was a tragic act upon the Native Americans.
Only faith derived from Christian preaching is able to deduce the certainty of God acting upon us even from those fragments, which otherwise would remain only a small part of the history of ideas, and quite a problematic part at that.»
And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.
At least they would exclude the «activists»» those who are so impertinent as to act upon their convictions.
In verse 8, we read about how God told Abraham to go on a journey, and Abraham took God at His Word and acted upon it.
It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.
In verses 24 - 26, we are reminded about how Moses took God at His word and acted upon it.
Living by faith is taking God at His Word and acting upon it — even when it makes no sense to the rest of the world.
Given how brutally she was being treated at home, it's amazing how well Patty functioned outside it, when called upon to act.
Thus in this concept «action at a distance» is readily explicable, since the point acting and the point «being acted upon» can both share a common component, namely the line they have in common.
Your point seems more directed at practicing and acting upon what one believes as opposed to the belief itself.
At least, I don't think we do... But despite our sexual desires, we can learn to choose to act upon them or not.
The second important episode in the present arrangement of the narratives, following immediately upon the account of, Abraham's call, response and consequent journey to Canaan, shows the great Patriarch, who has just acted with exemplary faith, behaving as if the divine promise had never occurred at all.
In one of the more moving moments of the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton tapped the power behind the American wish to live in community when he told his audience at the University of Notre Dame, «Most of all we are in a crisis of community, a spiritual crisis that calls upon each of us to remember and to act upon our obligations to one another.
To science «a thing is where it immediately acts,» and our minds do act immediately, by all the evidence, and at definite places — upon parts of our bodies.
a man can not reasonably, and by himself he can not possibly, be regarded as merely a system of cells acting upon one another, for he is directly aware of «himself» as, at the given moment, a single unit of action, a single mind or will, exerting force upon his bodily parts and thence upon the world.
But the succeeding acts of the drama must take place on another level; they must occur in a new world into which, at this moment, we are being born: a world in which each thinking unit upon earth will only act (if he agrees to act) in the consciousness, become natural and instinctive to all, of furthering a work of total personalization.
The creation at large is not simply a stage upon which the one significant drama, namely human life, is acted out; on the contrary, it is all significant so that the very «stars in their courses» are important and have their place in what God is doing in the creation.
Asserting that we do not yet have either the facts or the methods to make forecasting a precise art, Michael argues that there are three basic reasons for continuing to make or act upon them: (1) some forecasts are likely to be close to the mark, (2) poor forecasts provide a better basis for planning than no prediction at all, and (3) well - done forecasts help to illuminate the many factors that interact to produce the future.
The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.
2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»
People act upon these beliefs without ever really understanding just why they're at best insulting, and at worst dangerous.
At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.
Thus «faith», the pattern of contemporary religious experience which is to relate us to God through Christ, can not by its very nature be built upon «the present evil aeon», with all that it provides of worldly security under man's control and invariably at his disposal; by definition «faith» is the life given in death, and consequently has its basis beyond our control, is lived out of the future, is «an act of faith».
Some look at this passage and see that Christ judges the sheep and goats based on their acts of kindness, or lack thereof, upon the Jewish people during the tribulation and say, «See?
As we have seen, physical acting must be fundamentally a relating, and relating can not be understood in terms of mere «impact,» for this can result at most in only change of place — and indeed, as was clear to thinkers like Descartes, Newton, Leibniz and Kant, on the conception of the physical as in itself passive «matter,» even change of place could not occur upon mere impact, there being necessary also an «act» setting the impacted body into motion.
Now, then, we come to the «information environment» which is at once the chief danger to conserving what is necessary for a humane survival and consequently that upon which the thermostatic activity of education is to act.
Charles Hartshorne says: «Love is the effort to act upon adequate awareness of others, awareness at least as adequate ideally as one has of oneself.»
Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.
Such an assumption blocks the road of inquiry, whereas the assumption that all particles of matter may be continuous leaves the road open to the possibility of eventually explaining action at a distance, starting with the hypothesis «that one portion of matter acts upon another because it is in a measure in the same place.»
Furthermore, if one keeps clearly in mind the all - important time factor of Hartshorne's societalism, it becomes clear that an actual whole can never act upon the actualities of which it is composed at any given moment but only upon subsequent actualities.
And with the cup, so clear a symbol of his blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter of the animals with one complete and final act, the sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.
But, «an intellect bent upon the act to be performed and the reaction to follow, feeling its object so as to get its mobile impression at every instant, is an intellect that touches something of the absolute» (CE xxi).
And thus it is eternity must act, because to have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession made to man, but at the same time it is eternity's demand upon him.
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