Sentences with phrase «as a contingency for»

It got to the point where I hired two people for every job opening, as a contingency for when one would leave.

To monitor every aspect of performance not only increases the cost of managing the project, but also require the supplier to build additional cost into its cost model as a contingency for having to pay service level credits.

Marital status as contingency for the effects of neighborhood disorder on older adults» mental health

If your seller did not offer a home warranty as part of the sale you may either negotiate that as a contingency for the sale, or purchase Home Warranty on your own for your new home.

Not exact matches

Budget 2015 left very little margin for error when it came to balancing the books, with a projected surplus of $ 1.4 billion plus an additional $ 1.0 billion as a contingency reserve, giving the federal government a $ 2.4 billion margin for error.

Meanwhile, the contingency plans being developed to deal with the expected surge in border crossers include redeploying police and border agents to overwhelmed areas and setting up accommodation such as tents and trailers at ports of entry, said a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency.

The budget also requests $ 12 billion in so - called Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO, funding for extraordinary costs, chiefly in war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

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.

Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan included insuring your company against flood and disruption, backing up your data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.

As early as last week, he and aides began making contingency plans for Flynn's dismissal, a senior administration official saiAs early as last week, he and aides began making contingency plans for Flynn's dismissal, a senior administration official saias last week, he and aides began making contingency plans for Flynn's dismissal, a senior administration official said.

Gawker has engaged bankers «for quite some time» as a contingency plan for the legal battle, and had reportedly been exploring a sale.

The F - 16s may have played a contingency SEAD role and / or may have delivered missiles for the initial strike as well.

While the UK economy has already shown signs of slowing and would probably feel the greater effect as businesses accelerate their contingency measures for such an outcome, the possible impact on the EU may be significant and remains somewhat underappreciated, in our view.

Taking into account recent private sector forecasts for economic growth for 2015, would, in fact, eliminate the $ 1.4 billion budget surplus, as well as the $ 1 billion Contingency Reserve.

Prior to 2006, budgets and budget updates explicitly presented the amount of the adjustment for risk (Contingency Reserve and Economic Prudence) as separate line items.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

Financial firms are particularly vulnerable, which is why the Bank of England in April called on hundreds of them, including insurers and fund managers, to submit Brexit contingency plans in July as the central bank plans for «all eventualities.»

Contingencies are basically things that need to happen in order for the sale to close, such as a home inspection to show you there are no significant problems with the home.

The policy amounts to forced saving on a huge scale — even as the officials who manage those savings say they already have more than enough for any contingency.

The central allegation of paradox seems to me to run roughly as follows: a nontemporal divine experience would include in itself all events in time (cf. CSPM 105); but to experience all temporal events simultaneously would dissolve any real distinction between past and future (cf. CSPM 66); so there could be no temporal transition, no change, no contingency, and no freedom (cf. CSPM 137); and since nothing could become, there could be no real permanent and unchanging reality either, «for then the contrast between the terms, and therewith their meaning, must vanish» (CSPM 166).

In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

While I would hesitate to engage in a full - out debate of theism vs. atheism on this forum for reasons that I have already stated, I would be interested in hearing your response to the traditional ontological and moral arguments in favor of the existence of God as well as the argument from contingency.

Second, the metaphysical depth dimension, which is meant to transcend essence, is for numerous neo-scholastics the principle of contingency as well as of final and formal causation.

Logically, he would discover God there, and he did not feel the need to make a transition from the ideal to the cosmological order, for the latter was seen as the region of sin, contingency and error, and hence quite irrelevant.

With the empirical evidence of the universe evolving, it is possible to accept the Thomistic argument from finitude and contingency as recast in evolutionary categories.5 Without the evolutionary category of birth, it would be impossible for us to argue that the universe had a Creator - Ground, for we would have to imagine process as a horizontal straight line that extends in either direction indefinitely and infinitely.

For is not to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time tantamount to saying that God is the fullness of contingency and of change, and to denying that God is the Immutable, the Unchanging?

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

The reason for our failure to see that time could evolve from contingency to non-contingency without being destroyed is perhaps due to the popular image we have of time as a straight line that goes on and on.

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

«Admit prescience of future contingencies, and you necessitate an immobile fixity for the whole history of the human race, past and future, so certain in every iota as to obliviate [sic.]

Only through becoming as creation of new presents, i.e., new items in a partly new total past which is adequately preserved for all the future, in God, can there be the mixture of contingency and conditional necessity (necessary conditions but no fully necessary consequences) which is reality.

It is a striking fact that Hartshorne considers the tie between relativity or contingency, and temporality or mutability, to be so obvious that he freely conjoins them, and treats them as equivalent, without seeming to feel any necessity for justifying the stance.

For not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whoFor not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whofor making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whole.

Thus whereas in the first case there is a general failing to give nature, as the realm of finitude, contingency, chance and decay, its due place as a condition of mind as well as a constitutive element in the general scheme of things, in the second case there is an equally important failure to account for the origins of the unity of rational mind in nature.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

This appears as a limitation of his thought, for doesn't a time of crisis demand an authoritative, certain response grounded in something more than the contingencies of a constantly changing tradition?

Struck by the contingency and organic relatedness of social institutions, practices, and actions, and dismayed by the Utopian ideologies to which so many modern minds are prone, paleoconservatives (as they now style themselves) such as Kirk are opposed to «ideological infatuation» or even to imagining social projects for the future at all.

Our shore casualties might have been a lot higher had he been as slow, stupid and lazy as various governors and presidents have been in the past about contingency planning for worst case scenarios.

For while what is taken to exist contingently and, therefore, as partially restrictive of existential possibilities can be shown to be excluded by other such contingencies, what is taken to exist necessarily and, therefore, as completely nonrestrictive of existential possibilities, can be shown only to be illustrated by any and every such contingency.

[2] For Scotus, the Incarnation of the Son of God is not to be seen as a contingency plan when the original creative process of God goes awry because of sin: It was the very reason for creatiFor Scotus, the Incarnation of the Son of God is not to be seen as a contingency plan when the original creative process of God goes awry because of sin: It was the very reason for creatifor creation.

The laws of nature are the most general of contingencies now prevailing, and for ordinary purposes possibilities excluded by those laws are regarded as «only logically possible,» while possibilities not excluded by them (or by historical circumstances) are regarded as «really possible.»

He replies to it by saying that in order for the freedom of the mind not to be pure, arbitrary contingency, as it is according to Sartre, it is enough that the mind be animated by a basic dynamism toward the One: the determinations of its thought as of its action would then not have to be supplied from without.

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

These little guys have a solid reputation as an «emergency dinner» contingency staple, but we're all for making full - fledged meals out of the several bags we keep in the freezer at all times.

Succession planning isn't a knee - jerk reaction... there's always been a «live list» for key positions... it's part of the contingency planning (risk management) as required for prudent corporate governance.

Football its a sport with sports you have injuries add to that its contact sport so the probability of getting injured is sure Ok I can understand luck and ball wobble has got something to do with it but as a soccer player you know you could get injured just like that two or more players are going for the ball you could be sandwiched you could instantly hit the same ball one gets injured both get injured what ever but injury is part of the game some go away pretty easy some do nt and can get aggravated because not all can wait in a in a heavy box for too long and if you do well you become weak so it will take some effort to get back to full strength praying that you do nt get a strain or muscular problem players mangers coaches and physician know that i know that because not long ago i had bad thigh injury all was fine with it then i got a knock just below my knee 3 weeks ago and there is still slight pain in it but will try and play on Thursday thats part of the game The manager has to account for it in his head i got 11 players 6 might go down my contingency if it were to happen is and you still got a fully balanced team well thats the essence and Arsenal all fall because that contingency plan always falls short

The club is being run like a pprivate Feifdom and when these things happen theres no contingency plan Im disgusted by the whole transfer window so far, Higuian goes as the third most expensive player in the world and theres a bloody good reason for that, we may not have had much chance of getting him this time but how the Fack did we miss him last time round?

The cash reserves are there as a contingency, maybe it causes a shake up and gets in a manager with higher ambitions than just to win the «wenger cup» every season, which as usual is all we can shoot for and no longer is this even guaranteed.

No official talks have taken place as noted in the report, but Ajax believe that their European counterparts are serious about a move for Overmars and so they are making contingency plans to appoint a replacement for the 44 - year - old if they have to.

That's according to The Mirror, who claim that United will face a battle with Manchester City for his signature as Jose Mourinho looks to put contingency plans in place in the event that David de Gea leaves Old Trafford at the end of the season.