Sentences with phrase «alternative practices of»

Historically an alternative practice of issuance was for the borrowing government authority to issue bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.

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Americans have represented a big slice of business for Lesperance's Toronto - based practice, as they look for alternatives to a lifetime of tax obligations to the US, which are determined by nationality and not residency.

While a longer practice is a great eventual goal, if you're struggling to get started with one, there is an alternative — smaller bursts of mindfulness spread throughout your day.

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Because of the potential damage to legitimate attorney - client relationships caused by these mass seizures of records, U.S. attorneys are trained to explore alternatives to these warrants when evidence is sought from a practicing attorney.

In author and seasoned commodity trader Carley Garner's quest to guide traders through the process of commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management, «Higher Probability Commodity Trading» discusses several alternative market concepts and unconventional views such as option selling tactics, hedging futures positions with options, and combining the practice of fundamental, technical, seasonal, and sentiment analysis to gauge market price changes.

In practice, the microeconomic cost of regulation is determined by two factors: the size of the regulatory burden and the degree to which less - regulated alternatives are accessible.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Now here's a description of their investing style, which is fairly simple compared to the alternatives practiced today:

Alternative Money University will help 30 qualified students to develop such an understanding by participating in an intensive academic workshop about monetary history, the theory and practice of monetary policy, and the workings of unconventional monetary arrangements.

We have to show how our company provides a better solution than any of the alternatives (i.e. competitors, legacy practices, or doing nothing).

When considering alternative investments, you should consider the fact that some products may utilize leverage and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss and be illiquid, are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors, may involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information, are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds, often charge high fees including incentive fees, and in many cases have underlying investments that are not transparent and are known only to the investment manager.

The New York Hedge Fund Roundtable has rebranded into the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable as the organization seeks to more accurately represent ethics and best practices across the entire universe of alternative investments, not just within the hedge funAlternative Investment Roundtable as the organization seeks to more accurately represent ethics and best practices across the entire universe of alternative investments, not just within the hedge funalternative investments, not just within the hedge fund industry.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

The name change is part of an effort to more accurately represent the organization's focus on promoting ethics and best practices within the entire universe of alternative investments, not just...

The name change is part of an effort to more accurately represent the organization's focus on promoting ethics and best practices within the entire universe of alternative investments, not...

With investors, fund managers and prominent industry professionals coming together to promote education and best practices within the alternative investment industry, you get the opportunity to interact with some of the industry's most insightful leaders and experts — a group including Nobel prize winners, trendsetters, alternative investment fund managers, investment analysts, and philanthropists, among others.

The problem is not just that we have become consumers of our own lives, but that we can conceive of no alternative narrative since we lack any practices that could make such a narrative intelligible.

There also clearly is an alternative and christianity was also known for being radical for its ideas and practices, so why wouldn't a moral god also stipulate that slavery was wrong regardless of situation?

If it does refer to a particular sexual practices, there are a number of (and perhaps much more credible alternatives) than to viewing it as all anal sex between men (i.e. «sodomy»).

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

You're not even looking at alternative translations or concordances, or even anything about the same - gender sexual practices of ancient Greece / Rome, let alone the epistemologists and cultural anthropologists.

But, with the noble and notable exception of Rick Santorum, the 2012 candidates to Romney's right were too busy practicing their angry faces to provide a sustained critique of Obamacare or offer plausible alternatives.

Their turn towards alternative health practices is just one sign of this.

Even if this assessment is not the same as taking each act separately, each actor must still decide whether probable consequences authorize a given social practice or some alternative set of rules.

The aim of these recent suits (contrary to the claims of outraged separationists) is not to restore traditional religious teaching and practices, but to purge away a «counterreligion,» an alternative system of belief that the plaintiffs claim public schools are inculcating.

This is a collaborative view of marriage based on Christian theology and tradition that serves as a faithful and prophetic alternative to patriarchal practices within marriage.

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

The spiritual formation practices of the church before the Constantinian era suggest an alternative for today.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

Yet if Palmer is correct, as I think he is, in taking objectivism to be the epistemology that informs the practices of the modern university, and if I am correct in suggesting that James and others had already fashioned powerful alternative theories of knowledge as early as 1880, a vital historical question arises.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

He provides for the consciousness of better and worse alternatives when he describes the common practice of man.

Contemporary pastoral care theory and practice, by contrast, seem to bear the message of hope, liberation and the coming Kingdom of God only as alternatives to hopeless suffering rather than as a horizon of meaning within hopeless suffering.

In practice, as we have seen, they offer no real alternative but instead operate with many of the same assumptions and techniques as the psychological model.

The alternative is to think through the meaning of the challenges to past practices and doctrines to the point where a new vision arises.

Expansion of the immigration detention program would be a travesty when there are humane, fiscally responsible and proven alternatives to imprisonment that support President Bush's assertion that the vast majority of immigrants are «decent people who work hard, support their families, practice their faith and lead responsible lives.»

For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of living rather than merely on psychoses.

This should help to clarify the extent to which the application of shared convictions to political theory and practice is a development of their political theology and the extent to which through this development it offers an alternative view of how theology and political theory and practice are best related.

Therefore, one function of a university, whether in teaching or research, in classrooms or dormitories, is to assist all of its members, and indeed all of its constituencies, toward that achievement of moral clarity — toward the clarification of the moral issues and alternatives which are resident in the university itself and in the disciplines it practices — which surely is an essential ingredient in all responsible action.

Taking inspiration from a passage in the second - century Letter to Diognetus --- which says that Christians «have a common table, but not a common bed» --- Mitchell argues that «hospitality is a radical alternative to both the language and practice of culture wars.»

Some Christians and theologians, open to the world of cultural and religious pluralism, fascinated by it and eager to experiment alternative ways of practicing their faith, are willing to go a second mile, a third mile, even any number of miles, with their new found friends and neighbors of other faiths.

Each practice of ministry is to «improve our baptism,» wherein we live with increasing singularity in this alternative script.

Their explanation of their alternative implicitly depends on Donald Schoen's analysis of reflective practice.

With all its dubious aspects admitted, Deuteronomy is still a remarkable recovery of Yahwist order, when held against the practice of Judah under Manasseh; and when held against the alternative of a complete destruction of Yahwist order through the Exile and the dispersion of the upper class, it has proved to be its salvation in the form of the Jewish postexilic community).9

There was a reasonable point in there, but Romney was out of practice (and perhaps had never been in practice) at talking about alternatives to Obamacare and he was careless of how badly his line came off, coming as it did from a millionaire.

[4] European Pentecostalism is known for its unbounded religious experiences and the creation of alternatives to traditional religious practices.

«I feel this is the right way to go and it's a healthy alternative; also, the sustainable farms we buy from practice humane [animal] handling and are conscious of the well - being of their animals,» Hamilton continues.

Dr. Chad Rhoden, a busy practicing physician, nutrition expert, recognized media spokesperson and internationally published author of «Bringing Down High Blood Pressure,» decided to offer an alternative to sodium that is not only healthy but worthy of replacing the saltshaker all together.

«Right now, unless we realize we can be part of a broader food movement, trying to show you can eat and drink differently by supporting alternative agriculture and viticulture practices for the long run, for the future of the planet, and saying no to outrageous marketing, globalization, and industrialization of agriculture product.