Sentences with phrase «as a contingency in»

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Save the funds as a contingency plan in case something does go wrong or you experience a slow month and need the extra cash to cover operating expenses and payroll.

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.

In the alternative - energy business, as in so many turbulent growth markets, you always need a contingency plaIn the alternative - energy business, as in so many turbulent growth markets, you always need a contingency plain so many turbulent growth markets, you always need a contingency plan.

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.

But we have this in common: we've learned the harsh lesson that the people your business relies on frequently disappoint and that our job is to anticipate as many contingencies as possible.

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.

MOSCOW / LONDON, April 23 (Reuters)- In December, as news reports emerged about potential new U.S. sanctions against Russia, aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska instructed advisers to draw up contingency plans, according to people close to the businessman and his firms.

What - if plan: This is a contingency plan — in case your worst case scenario happens, such as market share loss, heavy price competition or defection of a key member of your team.

MOSCOW / LONDON, April 23 - In December, as news reports emerged about potential new U.S. sanctions against Russia, aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska instructed advisers to draw up contingency plans, according to people close to the businessman and his firms.

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.

Beyond setting up filters in their e-mail accounts so that messages are sorted and prioritized as they come in, they set up contingencies on their smart phones that alert them when something important happens.

Smith said she often talks to couples thinking about a summer destination wedding in Miami about avoiding an outdoor, afternoon ceremony, asking the venue about contingencies such as fans, and being flexible with photo timing to avoid midafternoon rain showers.

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.

In addition, the Contingency Reserve should have been shown as a separate line item rather than being buried in the revenue forecast, as recommended by the PCIn addition, the Contingency Reserve should have been shown as a separate line item rather than being buried in the revenue forecast, as recommended by the PCin the revenue forecast, as recommended by the PCO.

This sounds as if you might eliminate the contingency reserve in the future.

In particular, it became increasingly common to give preferred shares voting rights only in the event of certain contingencies (such as non-payment of dividendsIn particular, it became increasingly common to give preferred shares voting rights only in the event of certain contingencies (such as non-payment of dividendsin the event of certain contingencies (such as non-payment of dividends).

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.»

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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.

As humans we are caught in contingencies of all sorts.

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.

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.

Correlatively, understanding God involves growth in one's grasp of the concept «contingency,» the capacity to discern one's own, and everything else's, radical dependence on God's power; but that is inseparable from, though not the same thing as, growth in one's grasp of the concept «thanks,» a capacity to respond appropriately to that contingency.

On the other hand the human mind can not establish itself in its finitude and contingency as the ultimate judge of reality.

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.

When an autonomous nature and an infinite space dawned in the Renaissance, the world was no longer manifest as the creation, and with the subsequent triumph of modern science, contingency in the medieval sense has disappeared from view.

In fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growtIn fact, with a view of time as negative, as source of mutability and contingency, some other way has to be found to explain time's origin in order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growtin order to safeguard God's causality, by saying, e.g., that time is the measure of the degradation resulting from the fall, or that God created a metaphysical and finished universe through an instantaneous creation in which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growtin which every species, was present from the beginning, instead of a world of becoming and growth.

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.

So in other words, Russ, just because of naturechaplain's characterization of the Hebrew God, you assumed he was characterizing the Jews as naive to the point where you claim his opinion requires «two opposite contingencies».

«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.]

As being - itself, God transcends contingent being, but as «divine life» God experiences the realm of contingency in a panentheistic manneAs being - itself, God transcends contingent being, but as «divine life» God experiences the realm of contingency in a panentheistic manneas «divine life» God experiences the realm of contingency in a panentheistic manner.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

But whereas, with Aristotle and much of the tradition, I hold that contingency and change belong together, as do necessity and eternity, my critic wants to separate contingency and change sharply in application to God.

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.

Habermas regards this as a vital step that we must take in order better to master the contingencies we face.

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

As we now consider Jesus» resurrection, I would just add that there is contingency in the disciples» response to this.

The God of unlimited intelligence has a virtually infinite amount of contingency plans that will be enacted just in case things unfold a certain way, and each and every one of these contingency plans are just as perfect as they'd have been if God had foreknown as a certainty that things would unfolded this particular way.

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 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.

Those who do develop a conception of the final good, of the good to be achieved in a life as a whole, often avoid mistakes in practical reasoning and choice, but not even they are immune from disaster striking or from unforeseen future contingencies forcing them to radically alter their plans.

Second, looking simply at style and phrasing, «Conceptions of natural law» (D. IV) has as its single subhead (in the published version), «uniformity, causation, necessity and contingency.»

Quite simply, he fails to take full account of the origins of mind in nature, and thus is unable to recognize the significant role which those naturalistic qualities such as finitude, contingency, chance, and decay play in mind.

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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?