Sentences with phrase «acting upon the impact»

This encourages all the company's employees to make a sustainable difference by considering and acting upon the impact of their home and working lives on the future of the planet and environment.

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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.

Once there, our impact can be significant — as we hope it will be when the Government digests and acts upon the Riots Commission's recommendations.

Mathis said that depending upon the final costs of training programs as they are developed, Workforce Development is projecting that roughly 500 people in Oneida County will be impacted by the Recovery Act funding.

He works by tweaking the chemical structures of the drugs, sometimes changing just a few molecules to see what impact this might have on the interaction between the drug and the brain receptors their parent compounds normally act upon.

Deng pointed out that the molecules his team used also act upon genes that determine neuronal fate (NeuroD1 and Ngn2), while the other team's recipe impacted a different set of genes.

Using our core during jumping and running can also protect our back and joints by acting as shock absorbers from the impact generated from these types of activities upon hitting the ground.

Information and training have real impact only if they're acted upon.

A close analysis of Act II Scene I: The Masquerade Ball, is included, to exemplify the impact of the dramatic devices upon Shakespearean audiences.

The report outlines key research findings from the study, recommendations for establishing quality ILP implementation, recommendations for assessing the impact of ILPs, and the people who should act upon these recommendations.

One or two clearly made points of a specific nature that are received and acted upon by a student will have a far greater impact that lengthy, multi-focal feedback that students are unlikely to be able to process.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

By directing our attention to the mighty middle, we act upon an understanding that even small shifts in teaching quality across the majority of teachers will have greater impacts on the majority of students than elimination of the lowest performing teachers possibly can.

Examples of policies that can raise disparate impact concerns include policies that impose mandatory suspension, expulsion, or citation (e.g., ticketing or other fines or summonses) upon any student who commits a specified offense — such as being tardy to class, being in possession of a cellular phone, being found insubordinate, acting out, or not wearing the proper school uniform; corporal punishment policies that allow schools to paddle, spank, or otherwise physically punish students; and discipline policies that prevent youth returning from involvement in the justice system from reenrolling in school.

Private Action with «Neutral» Intent The fourth area impacting residential segregation, and the one proving hardest to combat, is the exacerbation of spatial inequality by the choices of private citizens that are not motivated by race, but by other factors that are often correlated with race; these factors have racialized consequences when acted upon.

Policymakers and advocates increased their attention on the impact of heavy student debt burdens, and President Obama called upon Congress to act.

You can work with him to develop bite inhibition by essentially acting like a puppy might; letting out a sharp noise upon impact and halting play for a couple of minutes.

When we receive a notification that something has been introduced, we assess its potential impact using criteria including the scope of the proposal, its broader implications for the continued availability of companion animals, the likelihood that it will be acted upon and the political landscape.

The challenge now is to find a way to act that will make geologists of the future look upon this age as a remarkable time, a time in which a species began to take into account the long - term impact of its actions.

He is a co-founder of the Climate Outreach Information Network, a UK based charity committed to ensuring that climate change and its impacts are understood and acted upon.

A failure to understand and act upon the emerging risks can have a significant negative impact on profitability and undermine a company's social license to operate.

If a metric has no impact upon the ultimate income of a partner, it will never be attributed the level of importance it truly requires and will not be acted upon.

Some of the most common are wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Violations of the California Family Rights Act, privacy breaches (e.g. disclosure of a medical condition to someone who did not need to know), contract breaches, unfair bargaining and / or union and labor law disputes, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage for all hours worked, failure to provide proper pay stubs, failure to pay for unused vacation days upon resignation or termination, failure to pay for all hours worked within 72 hours of quitting, failure to pay for all hours worked immediately upon leaving when the employee gives fair notice or resignation to the employer, failure to keep adequate records, failure to produce employment records upon request, failure to provide wage and pay information upon hiring, misclassification of an hourly employee as an exempt employee, misclassification of an hourly employee as an independent contractor, work place bullying, sexual harassment, disparate impact, disparate treatment, class actions for failure to pay wages and over time, class actions for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and class actions for failure to reimburse employees for expenses.

Brain injuries are often among the most serious cases we act upon, as the damage caused can often have a severe, life - altering impact on the victim, It can be very distressing for victims and their families.

This, however, had no immediate impact upon Southwark's provision of accommodation because the support restrictions imposed upon failed asylum seekers by Sch 3 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (NIAA 2002) do not apply to children.

It starts from the bottom, with the phone's shock - absorbent aluminum chassis; then the AMOLED panel is flexible to a point, and can withstand sudden impact; then the touch layer has a redundant backup in case the primary one is damaged upon impact; then there's a polycarbonate (read: plastic) layer where a phone's glass cover normally rests; and then there's a secondary «lens» that acts as a redundant layer against impact while keeping the primary one free from scratches.

The federal government's acquisition of rights, titles and interests in land under Part 4 of the NTNER Act impacts upon, and is affected by, other federal and Northern Territory laws.

The family is not a closed system and is not only impacted by society, but acts upon it and shapes it through family members.

Further, the areas or sites of particular significance (section 237 (b) NTA) and the impact of the future act upon them must also be identified in some way.

Rather than the government party that applied the expedited procedure exception being called upon to establish that the proposed future act was sufficiently low impact to fit within the criteria set out in section 237 NTA, instead any independent consideration of this issue is dependent upon the native title parties» first providing evidence that it does not.

Whilst some differences remain between the New South Wales and Queensland schemes in relation to the «low - impact» exploration processes, Premier Beattie substantially complied with his undertaking to amend the Queensland alternative provisions upon the enactment of the Native Title Resolution Act 2000 (Qld).

The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 will expire a few days from now unless a miracle happens — we've been concerned about the impact this federal income tax exemption disappearing will have upon Florida home owners, those with underwater mortgages, and the Florida economy as a whole for a while now — and, unfortunately, it's -LSB-...]

The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 will expire a few days from now unless a miracle happens — we've been concerned about the impact this federal income tax exemption disappearing will have upon Florida home owners, those with underwater mortgages, and the Florida economy as a whole for a while now — and, unfortunately, it's just now getting the attention it deserves from a lot of people.