Sentences with phrase «acts as an incentive»

Descriptions can even act as incentives for employees who want to pursue career development activities to earn a promotion.

The higher prices act as an incentive to boost supply, and companies act by, for example, investing in new capacity and finding methods to increase efficiency.

Its adaptive, fun and attractive design will act as an incentive for the baby to try standing up and push the walker around by him / her self.

They want authorities to stop unannounced inspections and instead give them a notice period because it will enable the inspections to act as an incentive to improve their working practices rather than something to be feared.

IDS and his team argue that they want to help these people return to work, apparently a cut in benefits will act as incentive for them to do so.

The Trust said in its evidence to the committee: «Where there are concerns about the lower benefit cap, it does not initially act as an incentive to find work.»

The tax we are proposing would not have to be large, in order to act as an incentive scheme for avoiding transactions that would be the most harmful for the system — banks would try to avoid transactions that generate that risk,» says Thurner.

Its progression system works remarkably well and acts as an incentive for the players to keep pushing themselves, making this a very involving game that acts as a perfect starter while waiting for the next Dragon Quest.

These spikes act as an incentive for teachers to stay in the classroom until their pension wealth reaches its peak and then push them into retirement shortly thereafter, as pension wealth accumulation turns negative.

This extra status on the platform also acts as an incentive for other learners.

Aside from acting as an incentive to complete a course, certifications have additional benefits.

They allow for budget allocation and charging to take place and can also act as an incentive for kitchen managers to reduce energy costs by providing rewards for doing so.

«In some cases,» Lownie says, «the structure of these provisions is such that an author could be forgiven for the opinion that they act as an incentive to the publisher increasing the discounts they offer to booksellers by 0.5 percent or 1 percent.

It was created in 1975 to help offset the heavy burden of Social Security taxes and act as an incentive for low - income taxpayers to continue working.

This forgiveness program acts as an incentive to work in public service since private sector jobs often have higher pay rates.

This will keep a lid on costs and act as an incentive for the contractor to move the job along faster.

Lower interest rates often help act as an incentive for buyers to splurge on the new car.

A financing concession is a payment or benefit that acts as an incentive and may artificially increase the sales price.

The dogs act as an incentive for the children to read more and to read better.

The main quests, for the moment, act as incentives to explore and create certain items, and as gating mechanics, preventing you from crafting better arms and armour or from accessing harder areas of the universe until you've beaten particular monsters.

Within economics modelling, attempts to model the feedback mechanisms that occur in the real economy are also really difficult — we know, for example, that investment in new technologies will act as an incentive for the existing technologies it hopes to substitute to become more efficient (the sailing ship effect — i.e. in the 50 years after the introduction of the steam ship, sailing ships made more efficiency improvements than they had in the previous 3 centuries) but how to quantify something even as simple as this is not easy BUT we have learnt a few ways to give sensible (order of magnitude) figures with time lags, the learning by doing effect and phased - in substitution effects based on massive amounts of data.

When a utility shifts from kWh to flat charges, this acts as a incentive to do nothing and flies in the face of the so - called smart grid.

A recent study on the training of Young Sportsmen and Women in Europe conducted at UEFA's instigation found that the «Homegrown Player» rule may improve competitive balance and, by requiring a certain number of players to be trained by the clubs themselves or clubs in that country, would act as an incentive for clubs to invest in their own youth development or buy homegrown players from other clubs, thereby encouraging them to develop their own talent.

And just as Dr. Samuel Johnson is supposed to have once said that the prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully, so, too, did the prospect of being put on the Socratic hot seat act as an incentive to engage actively with the material before class.

However, the review does not accept the argument that term extension acts as an incentive for new works.

He then went further, stating that there was «no reason» to suppose it would do anything other than act as an incentive to avoid egregious errors and eliminate the making of grievous mistakes [71].

The publication of information about sitting arbitrators should also act as an incentive to encourage greater diversity in appointments.

This token, the Storj Coin (SCJX), is used by clients to pay for storage and acts as an incentive for nodes that keep part of the client's files.

A report looking at whether providing more childcare support acts as an incentive for parents of disabled children to move into work.

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Insurers, once forbidden from supervising physician work, now act as managers, peering over the shoulders of doctors in a vain effort to counteract payment incentives that have created an oversupply of insured care.

The Compensation Committee, consisting entirely of independent directors, is responsible for Apple's compensation and incentive plans and programs, approves all compensation for Apple's executive officers, and acts as the administrative committee for Apple's employee equity plans.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, which released a new state revenue report on Monday, said that «The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqAct (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqact fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.»

One of Chris Christie's last acts as governor was to approve tax incentives that could total about $ 7 billion if Amazon decides to put its second headquarters in Newark.

Incentives should be provided to large companies — Canadian or otherwise — to act as anchor companies for Canadian SMEs, and more Canadian SMEs should be encouraged to collaborate and cluster around anchor companies with good reach into global markets.

in the case of our directors, officers, and security holders, (i) the receipt by the locked - up party from us of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon (A) the exercise or settlement of stock options or RSUs granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan described in this prospectus or (B) the exercise of warrants outstanding and which are described in this prospectus, or (ii) the transfer of shares of Class A common stock, Class B common stock, or any securities convertible into Class A common stock or Class B common stock upon a vesting or settlement event of our securities or upon the exercise of options or warrants to purchase our securities on a «cashless» or «net exercise» basis to the extent permitted by the instruments representing such options or warrants (and any transfer to us necessary to generate such amount of cash needed for the payment of taxes, including estimated taxes, due as a result of such vesting or exercise whether by means of a «net settlement» or otherwise) so long as such «cashless exercise» or «net exercise» is effected solely by the surrender of outstanding stock options or warrants (or the Class A common stock or Class B common stock issuable upon the exercise thereof) to us and our cancellation of all or a portion thereof to pay the exercise price or withholding tax and remittance obligations, provided that in the case of (i), the shares received upon such exercise or settlement are subject to the restrictions set forth above, and provided further that in the case of (ii), any filings under Section 16 (a) of the Exchange Act, or any other public filing or disclosure of such transfer by or on behalf of the locked - up party, shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such transfer of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this bullet point;

the disposition of shares of common stock to us, or the withholding of shares of common stock by us, in a transaction exempt from Section 16 (b) of the Exchange Act solely in connection with the payment of taxes due with respect to the vesting or settlement of RSUs granted under our equity incentive plans or pursuant to a contractual employment arrangement described elsewhere in this prospectus, insofar as such RSU is outstanding as of the date of this prospectus; provided, that, if required, any public report or filing under Section 16 of the Exchange Act will clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto that such disposition to us or withholding by us of shares or securities was solely to us pursuant to the circumstances described in this clause;

We intend to file a registration statement on Form S - 8 under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the completion of this offering to register shares that may be issued pursuant to our equty incentive plans.

A few years ago the government there passed a number of tax incentive laws, the most famous of which are known as «Act 20» and «Act 22».

As discussed in our prior post, new regulations have been proposed to prohibit incentive - based pay arrangements that encourage inappropriate risk, in line with section 956 of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Additional prison space can even act as a perverse incentive to pass more statutes and lock up more minor offenders.

Although, as the report points out, just the act of producing coffee in a sustainable manner has positive impacts in growing communities, without the added benefits of enhanced income and / or access to markets, there is less incentive for farmers to utilize these methods.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

Of course I can't summarize a whole perspective on parenting in one comment, nor am I addressing the whole issue of abuse which seems to be an important thread above, but I hope I clarified that my understanding of Adler involves always loving the child and acting in his / her best interest and not withholding affection or using it as some kind of an incentive or prize.

In an act of astounding generosity, the McCreight Foundation has made a gift of $ 100,000 as a tile challenge incentive.

This amendment is necessary for the State to continue to receive a 10 percent share of False Claims actions that were originally authorized as a Federal incentive to states to implement their own False Claims Act statutes.

This is where the private companies come in, because setting a 2020 ambition will act as a big incentive for them to come up with an attractive solution.

In the NHS the dangers of perverse incentives are particularly grave, because privatising services atomises the health care system and acts as a barrier to joined - up care.

To address the critical shortfall of skilled young and beginning farmers and ranchers, the Young Farmer Success Act would provide incentives to those perusing careers in agriculture by adding farmers to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which currently includes professions such as government service, teaching and nursing.

It is particularly important that the experience of the self - employed claimant is tested sufficiently robustly to find out whether universal credit can indeed act as a work incentive for claimants choosing that route.

With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Cutler said, health care providers received new incentives to increase efficiency and reduce costly problems, such as readmitting patients soon after discharge and in - hospital infections.