Sentences with phrase «against limited resources»

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They perform heroic feats with scarce time, limited resources and against all odds.

The custom target - date funds allocated «a wildly excessive percentage of assets to speculative asset classes such as natural resources, emerging market stocks, emerging market bonds, and real estate limited partnerships,» the complaint against Fujitsu stated.

Even now when the limits of resources and problems of pollution have forced themselves on the attention of everyone, our inheritance from modernity counts heavily against an adequate response.

Mr. Donovan, rather than expending the severely limited resources of the State on partisan, politically motivated litigation against the law of the land which, however flawed, did address some notorious abuses by the insurance industry, why don't you tell us what your priority is with respect to corruption and misuse of public funbds and resources by politicians right here in New York State?

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

For their part, Republicans have campaigned against the legislation over the years, saying a state with limited resources should help those who come to the country through legal channels first.

Under «strict» rules, limited resources, and an «intense» six - week time limit, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team brand, «hone» teamwork skills, and build and program industrial - size robots to play a difficult field game against like - minded competitors.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

With limited resources pitted against a seemingly limitless number of ways to produce terror, we will probably always be chasing a moving target.

Limiting a much - needed resource could pit pathogens against one another and prevent the emergence of drug resistance.

Production of glycoconjugate vaccines, for example against the bacterial meningitis agent Neisseria meningitidis, is challenging in resource - limited settings due to the biohazards and industrial - scale processes involve in purifying bacterial capsular polysaccharides.

They may participate in sexist practices and maintain unjust gender relations by perpetrating violence against women, controlling women's reproductive and familial decision making, limiting women's access to community resources and political power, or espousing patriarchal beliefs and norms that allow other men to engage in such actions.

As more schools compete for limited educational resources, a takeover school at North Division will divide communities against themselves.

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out - compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects.

In a vacuum, I believe in them (ownership of presence, future - proofed against changing publishers / markets, etc.) but, because we occupy a space of limited resources and clear hierarchies, only if and when they are the next best thing that can be done.

Eli Neiburger, deputy director of AADL, warns against dedicating disproportionate resources to ebooks when the adoption curve for them has flattened so quickly: The restrictive licenses offered elsewhere further limit their usefulness to all patrons in a given library system.

Coverage is usually limited to $ 25,000 or less, but it does protect against having to tap other financial resources when a person passes away.

The situation we want to avoid is where you settle with one or two accounts only to have the other accounts bring a lawsuit against you forcing you into litigation or bankruptcy after having expended your limited resources on settling with some creditors.

Paying attention to design reflects a well - thought out, user - focused experience however against limited time and finite resources there's inevitably things still to do.

«This will be a true David and Goliath case,» says Maryland Dog Federation Executive Director Adrianne Lefkowitz, as she explains the difficulties of a local grassroots organization with limited resources going up against a large county.

Granted, vaccines are available to protect against FeLV and some strains of FIV, but their cost and corresponding administration can be a significant burden on organizations that are often already struggling with limited resources.

They give it their all, against cultural norms and with limited resources, to help the most helpless of all creatures.

In an effort to meet these needs with limited resources, Mississippi Spay and Neuter has started a pilot partnership with a human services organization — Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty (MADCAAP).

As technically innovative as Elite was, it existed against a backdrop of games that already achieved what it is remembered for — Braben and Bell's accomplishment was in finding ways to make the immense agency of tabletop RPGs function in the immensely limited resources of 1980s computers.

The antidote to modern - day nerfing and handholding such as auto - regenerating health, easy difficulty levels, unlimited ammo and constant checkpoints, these games scrape away all the condescension and pit you alone against unforgiving elements with limited resources at your disposal.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

Assuming a need for nuclear is also something of an argument against civilization, as is assuming a need for any limited resource.

The National Mining Association has argued against limiting mercury emissions by stating (34) «Regulations designed to further reduce mercury emissions must not jeopardize the nation's ability to utilize this domestic strategic energy resource and must not disadvantage any specific coal rank in the marketplace.»

Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.

Since the references you provided all needed to be Googled and are all still behind the paywall, for which both my principles and level of resources rule against my providing support, I'll have to limit my comments to what is available in the abstracts.

We're pushing up against quite a few resource limits right now with our current population — food, energy, raw materials.

But over the past three years, as they have devoted tremendous resources to the fight against TransCanada Corp.'s proposed oil pipeline, they potentially have diverted vast resources from other goals many environmentalists consider more important, such as limiting power plant pollution and taxing carbon emissions.

A recent SEC decision allowing EOG Resources, one of the largest U.S. independent oil & gas companies, to exclude a shareholder resolution on GHG emissions reduction targets goes against past precedent, and may be a harbinger of further limits on shareholder engagement.

For example, a doctor who may have limited resources and experience can submit an image of a patient's tumour to an AI system which then compares it against millions of other tumour images and suggests possible outcomes and courses of action.

In a landmark decision in Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc [1] the Court of Appeal has ruled that a number of claimants can pursue their claim against a Zambian mining company and its English parent in the English courts despite the claim's limited connection to England.

As with any decision a law firm makes when investing its limited resources, the firm should compare the total cost associated with the system against the economic return that the system brings the firm.

The point is that consolidated sourcing arrangements in law, unless very carefully engineered, invite the firm to define both service quality and price against a backdrop of limited resources and an internal war for talent.

According to Sobol, «Resistance against the censorship of data can not be achieved because we have limited resources and there is an unlimited amount of data.»

Investigations and Law Enforcement — Selected Duties & Responsibilities Build and implement investigations programs and security solutions to enable effective organizational administration, threat detection / elimination, conflict / issue resolution, and other critical discovery functions Utilize various technical applications, including cameras, A / V equipment, transmitters, recorders, and bugs, to generate valuable information and isolate parties responsible for criminal and civil malfeasance Create issue and security reports to enable development of new policies and procedures aimed at preventing further wrongdoing and protect valuable resources team Integrate investigative principles into corporate strategic mission, ensuring management and program accountability, proactive prevention of discrimination, case efficiency, and legal analysis Perform security and crime analyses of firm infrastructure against related compliance requirements as well as on - going vulnerability assessments to continuously mitigate risk Develop investigatory standard documents to serve as guide and rules resources to promote fair and legal probes Supervise related departmental staff, including performance plan development and assessment, technical oversight, personnel recruitment and training, staff discipline, and other pertinent functions Work as a member of the corporate incident response team in the execution of all related tasks, including incident response plan development, damage minimization, resource restoration, and firm integrity protection Communicate all issues and user feedback to members of management, law enforcement professionals, and other interested parties, generating situational reports and follow - up recommendations based on investigatory results Maintain a strong working knowledge of all software, hardware, applications, techniques, trends and other critical tools which aid in effective investigation React quickly based upon limited and confidential information, drawing upon extensive police and military experience in tense, complicated situations Collaborate in the preparation of necessary legal documents, including search and arrest warrants Assist management with various other duties as assigned

improve indigenous technologies to fully utilise limited water resources and to safeguard those resources against pollution