Sentences with phrase «acts as the structure»

Viewed through enormous floor to ceiling windows, their grid - like pattern acts as a structuring force.

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As FORTUNE wrote last summer, «that unusual structure looks a lot like an accountable - care organization as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act.&raquAs FORTUNE wrote last summer, «that unusual structure looks a lot like an accountable - care organization as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act.&raquas envisioned in the Affordable Care Act.»

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

The Statoil acquisition and new markets for ACT introduce some integration risks, which might be offset by the company's strong track record in this respect, its decentralized operating structure, as well as the retention of key Statoil personnel.

Go2 accepts text input only, but its menu - based structure acts as a filter that permits you to focus on restaurants, movies, news, and the like — or conduct a general search.

That said, products linked to the value of underlying digital assets, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, may be structured as securities products subject to registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Investment Company Act of 1940.

And frankly I feel he overstates the potential harm of convertible debt, which if properly structured acts mostly as an equity instrument anyways.

Without this confidence, our market structure can act as a headwind that will impede capital formation.

Although the home office acts as a supporting arm helping to facilitate Masterminds, the groups generally function on their own and independently determine structure, membership, agendas, and meetings.

The Carlyle Group («Carlyle») is one of the world's largest global alternative asset management firms that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management - led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, growth capital financings, real estate opportunities, bank loans, high - yield debt, distressed assets, mezzanine debt and other investment opportunities.

The most successful structure would likely include a trusted member of the community acting as a lead investor, negotiating terms and championing the deal.

Accordingly, as more hedge fund managers look to launch alternative mutual funds, it is important for them to understand the common structures under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (’40 Act).

Some are structured as open - end funds, also known as»40 Act Funds (much like most stock and bond ETFs).

You can do it in public, you just can't put up a permenant structure in a government building endorsing a religion or endorse it while acting in a capacity as a government official.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

To sum up, great as the structure of the interpretation of love is in St. Augustine, it exposes a discrepancy between the reality of the loving and acting God and the metaphysical vision of perfect completion and impassibility.

Prayer as practice of the presence of God; reloving of family, workmates, and church members; compassion for the oppressed and disadvantaged; unmasking of the world's claims of God's sanction for its unjust structures; integrity of mission interweaving witness, acts of mercy, and acts of justice: all are areas of continuing growth in grace as long as we live.

Hence the democratically organized structured society of three divine persons would be reductively three gods acting in close cooperation, not one God in three persons, as tradition maintains.

The Christian philosopher can not as a philosopher speak of the unique act of God in Jesus Christ, just as he can say nothing of particular events in any area, but he can and should so structure his ideas as to allow for such unique acts and particular events.

The belief that God acted became a part of the conscious, conceptual structure, but the action itself stood outside the sphere of conscious experience and was looked on as past and future rather than present.

Indeed, validity in interpretation can only occur when the otherness of the text, as it is conveyed by the textual structures of the implied author and the implied reader, is realized by the structured acts of the actual reader.

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.

Interdependence, intersubjectivity, and the peculiarities of consciousness are tools provided through process thought for developing a notion of original sin in which original sin can be interpreted as inherited structures of consciousness, acting as socially sanctioned norms, that assume the ill - being of earth or any of its inhabitants.

We hold that mass, in its preprojective sense, is an objectified form of certain physical societies, a form that acts as a universal leveler of relations in societies, and one that, in a distant echo of Averroës, completely ignores elements of internal structure.

It is with such considerations as these in mind that I would wish to speak of the act of God in Christ as objective, as something built into the structure of the world, even perhaps (as I think that Barth would argue) its very foundation.

In assessing the legal prospects for mediating structures, I have mentioned the technique employed by Congress in the Adolescent Family Life Act, the receptiveness of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices in Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstances.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

A newly professional breed of intellectuals and activists — the «new clerks» — arose, who understood Christianity not as a community sustained by ritual acts, but as a teaching enforced by institutional structures.

Whitehead in his turn, as Lewis Ford has pointed out, claimed that anything complex needs an explanation in a decision somewhere, and even the metaphysical structures of the world are the result of the divine primordial act giving order to the otherwise chaotic eternal objects (cf. 2).

«Specific places structure the questions, and as men and women cobble together responses, they act upon the spaces around them in transformative ways....

But one of the great problems of modern technology, as Hall himself would surely acknowledge, has been its repeated failure to act «in accordance with the natures of things,» its attempts to impose inappropriate structures in ignorance of or disregard for environmental constraints.

The factor which makes possible not only complexity of structure, but any structural relationship at all, is the mental acting which is ingredient in the physical existent — structural relationship, as the outcome of inter-acting, entails the factor of «end,» which necessitates mental acting.

It means so energizing these structures and institutions, within their own provinces and with the spirit appropriate to their own function, that they can act as the true creatures of God they are.

Nevertheless, these destructive forces may on occasion be acting in response to divine directives.18 They express the wrath of God, insofar as God judges existing orders and structures as worthy of destruction.19 Existing structures may be obstructing the realization of new relevant values, and to that extent be evil, deserving to be destroyed.

Thus, utilitarian moral principles most closely correspond to the basic structure of reality as posited by his metaphysical system Since ultimate value in Hartshorne's view is achieved in the divine experience, human beings are morally bound to contribute to that experience by acting according to utilitarian principles.

While it can be used to report subjective experience («I felt sublime in church today») it has no place in extrapolating this subjective experience to external assertions about the structure of the universe («I felt sublime in church today, THEREFORE there exists a supernatural agent who acted upon me in a such a way as to make me feel sublime»).

@Dunk, A good moral structure will lead to individuals that will act to benefit the society as a whole and lead to greater cooperation and survival.

Form for Leclerc is neither act taken as the static first act of the scholastics, nor even act taken as activity, the scholastic second act, but rather the specific character and structure of an activity — for example, the character of the activity which gives rise to the peculiar geometrical shapes characteristic of different molecules (PN 142 - 49).

He sees the structure of the free act as composed of twelve distinct moments, of which elective choice is only one.

If violence means the imposition of one's will upon another, it is not limited to acts like rape and murder but also embraces such deeds as boycotts, verbal threats and oppressive economic structures.

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Welsh Cycling is repsonsible for the overall structure of cycling in Wales, and act as the first point of contact for clubs, volunteers and members who are part of the cycling community in Wales.

That's because the tax reforms signed into law last December under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will most definitely affect your business taxes — and possibly your company's legal structure as well.

The frame of the str olle r seat has to be added to act as the basic structure.

The Topeak Baby Seat is designed with a cocoon - like structure which acts as a protective shell for a safe and secure ride.

The providers may be credentialed or certified professionals, paraprofessionals, or volunteers, but typically they have received some form of training in the methods and topical content of the program so that they are able to act as a source of expertise for caregivers.3 Finally, home visiting programs are attempting to achieve some change on the part of participating families — in their understanding (beliefs about child - rearing, knowledge of child development), and / or actions (their manner of interacting with their child or structuring the environment)-- or on the part of the child (change in rate of development, health status, etc.).

Cribs with storage are also known as multi-purpose cribs due to their ability to act as more than just a crib and encompass numerous furniture pieces into a single structure.

The tot area will be moved and will get four additional slides, for a total of five, as well as climbing structures and ramps complying with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.