Sentences with phrase «as a diversion of»

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL ROME â $» In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so - called second - generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy.

Washington, D.C. — «Patent Trolls» cost the American economy $ 29 billion in 2011, not including the indirect costs to the defendant's business such as diversion of resources, delays in new products and loss of market share, according to a study released today by James Bessen and Michael Meurer of the Boston University School of Law.

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As a result of that administrative agreement, McKesson agreed to design and operate a new company - wide system to prevent diversion.

Analysts have been wary of Google's move into hardware manufacturing, as it's a major diversion from the company's core strengths.

They see the efforts of big business to get Congress to reform the tax code and cut corporate income - tax rates as a diversion from the Tea Party's fight to lower personal income - tax rates.

They're proposing to get rid of Waste Diversion Ontario — which was created in legislation by the previous Tory government — as well as controversial eco fees on hazardous waste and electronics that are passed on to consumers.

American Airlines reported only a handful of diversions and cancellations because the carrier does not use Atlanta as a hub, the airline spokeswoman Alexis Aran Coello said.

As a result of that diversion from export markets, food price increases in those countries lagged well behind the ascent in world prices.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

A byproduct is to increase real estate and stock market prices — but this is a reflection of capital investment and progress, not a diversion of investment to fuel financial asset stripping as has occurred in the United States with increasingly arrogant greed over the past 30 years.

The hope one might have once placed in comparative advantage global capitalism and the internet / cell - phone wiring of all, began to look increasingly hollow, as Walmarts filled with cheap Chinese goods, real jobs went missing, real skills became rare, and the internet became known not so much for an Army of Davids shoring up our common commitment to liberty, but for mobbish comment swarms, porn, The Social Network, diversion all - the - more addictive for being personally tailored (see: the fictional fat - slobs of Wall - E, or the perpetually downward phone - gaze of our «dumb» millennials), and unprecedented possibilities for spying, defamation, and demagogic manipulation for those with access to big data.

There was a brief diversion over Francis's brilliant environmental encyclical, Laudato si», in 2015 — but that didn't last, as the fall Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops convened in October 2015.

Fighting Halloween, trying to put Christ back into Christmas, get the Easter bunny out of Easter and so on are an exercise in silliness, a diversion from what we should really be doing as followers of Jesus.

It's easy to wrongly assign it to the category of pleasant childhood diversions that will pass in time as their children grow into young adulthood.

Perhaps it was as a diversion from writing books on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky that the author, a professor of Slavic languages at Northwestern, decided to write on the shortest of literary genres, the quotation.

These (most) People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their shoe.

As Strauss says, from the point of view of this pure philosopher, nonphilosophic lives seem deformed or mutilated or full of desperation imperfectly calmed by diversion.

Seeking to cloak their fear of reprisals for naming real root causes, progressives trumpet phony diversions depicted as earth shattering crises (namely, global warming), missile defense, homophobia, protecting our borders, the religious right, abstinence education, prayer in schools, animal rights, biblical creation, etc..

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

As pointed out at the time, this was in contradiction to statements he had made previously, inwhich he had repudiated the idea of human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in 2002.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

After recounting the «evils» which accompanied the industrial revolution, evils resulting from the diversion of attention towards «things as opposed to values,» Whitehead writes, «it may be that civilization will never recover from the bad climate which enveloped the introduction of machinery» (SMW 291f).

Our calling now and always is not to sugarcoat the gospel as entertaining diversion from a writhing world but as the power from God for sharing in its convulsions as people of indestructible hope.

As I see it, what it «really comes down to» is the fact that, for most of us, this blog is just a diversion; however, for Chad, this is serious business because deep - down he knows his superstitions are untenable.

Augustine never quite brings his view of sexual love within the range of his deepest insight as to what loving another in God means: turning the whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would be diminished».19 To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is another.

This argument is essentially a diversion from the evidence we have today such as the rate of expansion.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

The current level of industry waste diversion exceeds the 90 percent rate of waste diversion that some environmental organizations view as meeting the definition of «zero waste.»

This session will feature an inside look at the role of animal feeding as a key strategy in the diversion of food from disposal.

Our renewed focus on food waste diversion began when I came into the role of sustainability manager in 2007; as a fourth generation farmer, I, personally, am really passionate about not letting this resource go to waste by putting it to better use.

I feel like there is a trend of mixing veggies into sweetened baked goods as of late, although this is a delicious diversion from the normal chocolate zucchini bread that I've seen everywhere.

We are very proud of this accomplishment as this was an overall waste reduction goal versus a recycling improvement or landfill diversion goal.

The value of football here is that it is a diversion as much as anything else, a reason to not get in trouble.

As NFL video games have evolved, they've become more than just a diversion — they've become a way to learn the strengths and weaknesses of players.

My position on statistics is that they are an interesting diversion and a perfect destination for the procrastinator but are ultimately meaningless as a means of analysing games, providing no further insight over and above what the eyes can tell the average supporter.

If Weigl was available, there would be many clubs interested in the player, which would cause an auction - like bidding system for the player, which I am sure Mourinho and United would be keen to avoid, so the mere suggestion of United's interest in the play could cause another diversion with United having a clear run at whoever they see as the player to solve the midfield problem.

Try heading off a toddler's diversion tactics by taking care of her needs before bedtime so she won't use them as an excuse to get out of bed.

That means lots of easy - to - handle snacks (like dry cereal, fig bars, or crackers), milk, water, plenty of diapers and wipes, a sweater in cool weather, two changes of clothes (in case of diaper blowouts, carsickness, or other spills), extra clothes for you (you never know when you'll become part of the mess), comfort objects (bear, blankie), and multiple diversions (such as board books, small toys, and finger puppets).

«The Presidency has also failed to offer explanations on the alleged involvement of its officials in various sneaky oil subsidy deals as well as reported diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude last year to service APC interests.

Democrats, meanwhile, shrugged off the Republican complaints as a diversion from the overarching issue of LLC giving.

EFCC, Dasuki Oppose Application A major twist has crept into the prosecution of the alleged $ 2.1 b arms fund diversion charges as former Sokoto State...

Clearly, airports can do much to encourage airline choices through terminal and other infrastructure improvements (such as Birmingham's runway extension that has necessitated the diversion of a major road artery).

While working for Schneiderman, Berhaupt, who is also a former Assembly staffer and Senate counsel, was the strategist behind I - STOP — the real - time database of controlled substance prescriptions as a means to reduce addiction and diversion — and the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013, which reformed and modernized the Not - for - Profit Corporation Law for the first time since the 1970's.

The Mahama administration did not abandoned the programme when the Dutch government stopped sponsoring the programme as a result of funds diversion under President Kufour.

A major twist has crept into the prosecution of the alleged $ 2.1 b arms fund diversion charges as former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, his son Sagir Attahiru and their family company, Dalhatu Investment Ltd have applied for a separate trial from former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki.

In the amended charges coming barely one year to the general elections, names of prominent politicians from the opposition party were listed as beneficiaries of the alleged diversions

SERAP's Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, in a letter, which read in part, said: «SERAP is sending you this open letter to seek explanations from you, as former President and Commander - in - Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, on what you knew, or had reason to know on the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion meant to purchase arms to empower Nigerian soldiers to fight Boko Haram.

The Senate on Monday said it won't probe the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, over alleged diversion of N1 trillion belonging to the Commission on Tuesday as initially scheduled, hence, suspending the ongoing probe indefinitely.

«I, therefore, urge my well - wishers and other Nigerians who have expressed concern over the publication to be rest assured that I was not a party to any unwholesome act or diversion of public funds as alleged.