Sentences with phrase «adverse effects of the law»

I thank Michael Knower for his insightful «on - the - ground» report as a palliative care physician in Oregon, which affords him firsthand experience with the adverse effects of the law permitting assisted suicide.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

As cannabis legalization rapidly evolves, in both medical and recreational usage, understanding the laws» effect on young people is crucial because this group is particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of marijuana and possesses an inherent elevated risk of developing a cannabis disorder.

This adverse effect is especially pronounced in five areas: oversight of federal education law; enforcement of federal guarantees of educational equity; budget and tax policy; the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy; and Trump's embrace of bigoted rhetoric and action that challenges the identities of students who are racial, ethnic, or religious minorities.

This adverse effect is especially pronounced in five areas: oversight of federal education law; enforcement of federal guarantees of educational equity; budget and -LSB-...]

Considering the potential adverse effects and lack of evidence - based research on ESA programs, state policy makers need to take a step back on ESA programs, and ensure the implications of such programs are fully considered before enacting them into law.

Debt settlement is a process used by both creditors as well as the debtor to negotiate a resolution of existing money owed by law in order to avoid bankruptcy and the additional adverse effects on the debtor's credit rating it can bring.

On May 30, the commission unanimously adopted a policy, not a law, but a policy, to protect Florida's native wildlife from adverse effects of feral cats.

However it is probably not a substantial effect (ie, producing benefits that offset the adverse effects of rising co2) because of Liebig's Law of the Minimum (Wikipedia).

It is now increasingly evident that efforts to reduce CO2 emissions by governmental coercion will have important non-environmental adverse effects in terms of loss of freedom of scientific inquiry, economic growth and development, and the rule of law.»

Because laws which are facially neutral may «unintentionally have a disproportionate or adverse effect on a group or individual» (at para 36), the Federal Court of Appeal proceeded, where the trial judge did not, to consider «whether the provisions of the ITA, while not directly discriminating on the basis of gender and family status, did so indirectly and unintentionally» (at para 36).

The Court started its analysis by reciting previous case - law that the German authorities could not agree to the construction of the power - plant until they have ascertained that «there is no reasonable doubt from a scientific point of view as to the absence of -LSB-...] adverse effects to the integrity of the site.»

Although this research doesn't necessarily label it as such, I've noticed that there's a bit of a slippery slope effect to litigating without counsel, in which the the decision to self - represent, whether a choice was involved or not, seems to trigger a cascade of adverse effects that ultimately result in litigants without counsel achieving worse results in every major area of family law than would have been achieved with counsel.

While I agree that the Presiding Officer's decision was correct in law and within a range of reasonable outcomes, this case raises concern that the Court's broad application of the self - incrimination immunity exception to one class may have adverse effects on the public.

Investment arbitration under intra-EU BITs can have an adverse effect on autonomy, as investment tribunals a) can decide matters of EU law and b) are not subject to the CJEU's control.

In a rather brief judgment, the Court found the ISDS provision under the Netherlands - Slovakia BIT has an adverse effect on the autonomy of EU law, as the latter in enshrined in Articles 344 and 267 TFEU.

He described... «the general power of the judge (which existed at common law and is enshrined in section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) to exclude any evidence relied on by the Crown... if its admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial that it ought not to be admitted».»

In the aforementioned decision, the ECJ found that the Italian criminal law provisions establishing narrow limitation periods were liable to have an adverse effect on the fulfilment of the Member States» obligations under Article 325 TFEU to protect the financial interests of the European Union by adopting effective and dissuasive penalties.

Given the massive nature of the litigation hitting the council at the time, the fact that there was very little chance of settlement (particularly in the light of the conditional fee arrangements agreed with the solicitor, which drew some adverse comment) and the possible effects on council business of arranging so many meetings, the tribunal had operated the Employment Act 2002, s 31 (4) to award only a 5 % uplift, but the court agreed with the EAT that the sheer pointlessness of grievance meetings in these circumstances meant that even 5 % was an error of law and so the zero uplift in the EAT was approved.

The Law Society of Upper Canada's Rules of Professional Conduct outline that where «[a] n action or policy [or the application of a seemingly «neutral rule»] that is not intended to be discriminatory [results] in an adverse effect that is discriminatory... on a group protected by rule 5.04, there is a duty to accommodate.»