Sentences with phrase «as a force for good in»

Unsurprisingly, Dr. Krueger's report — which he said he was allowed to produce without interference from Uber — paints Uber as a force for good in the labor market.

The airline's dedication to providing extensive hurricane relief on the Caribbean island — and in the continental U.S. — underscores its commitment to leveraging its strengths as a business to rise up as a force for good in the community.

B Lab is a global non-profit organisation that sets and raises business standards to inspire and guide corporations to act as a force for good in the world, -LSB-...]

Amongst global healthcare systems, the NHS is almost uniquely well placed to deliver this transformation in the relationship between patients and clinicians: one of the most trusted organisations in British society, its doctors, nurses and staff recognised by everyone as a force for good in our country — and let me thank everyone who is working so hard to make these changes possible.

They are a certified B corporation which means that they really are taking every step possible to use their business as a force for good in the world.

They are a Certified B corporation, which basically means that they are using their business as a force for good in this world.

Batman Begins explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham.

A lineup of those three CEOs would call to mind the infamous tobacco hearings of 1994 — not a flattering look for companies that like to think of themselves as forces for good in the world.

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Ricky's NYC founder and chairman Todd Kenig says Halloween sales account for about 20 percent of the firm's annual $ 50 million revenue, but Sandy forced to shutter all of its stores, as well as its corporate office, in the two days leading up to the holiday.

Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

The Canadian government was forced to set aside C$ 173 million in its latest budget to pay for extra patrols at border crossings to cope with the influx, as well as security screening and processing of refugee applications.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» said Navarro, author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»

So there's a big cultural component of that and as well we have some forcing functions in the business that look for every year where can we drive efficiencies, where can we drive more effectiveness, where can we invest ahead of the curve?

As a way to shed some light on what I see coming down the pike in 2016, here are my six predictions on the kinds of macro forces that could disrupt your business if you're not doing your best to prepare for them.

«I have not felt an environment of positive optimism, where forces are converging to provide for better environment in quite a while,» Longhi was quoted as saying in the interview.

But the number of entrepreneurs who want to use commerce in ways great or small as a force not just for profit but also for good is growing.

The Goldman analysis accounts for the potential «impact of a decline in users or total time spent on Facebook in Europe, as well as the potential for declines in ad pricing based on lower effectiveness should the company be forced to leverage contextual vs. targeted advertising.»

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Disney ran through a list of Iger's accomplishments as CEO in 2015, including «record - breaking enthusiasm» for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other box office hits such as Pixar's Inside Out and Marvel's Avengers sequeIn a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Disney ran through a list of Iger's accomplishments as CEO in 2015, including «record - breaking enthusiasm» for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other box office hits such as Pixar's Inside Out and Marvel's Avengers sequein 2015, including «record - breaking enthusiasm» for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other box office hits such as Pixar's Inside Out and Marvel's Avengers sequel.

WASHINGTON / BEIJING, March 13 - U.S. Trump is targeting Chinese high technology companies to punish China for its investment policies that effectively force U.S. companies to give up their technology secrets in exchange for being allowed to operate in the country, as well as for other IP practices Washington considers unfair.

As a policy matter moreover, we reject the use of military force where well - established law enforcement authorities in this country provide the best means for incapacitating a terrorist threat.»

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

In his address, Mr. Barton will share McKinsey's perspectives on the forces changing the business landscape and their implications, as well as the opportunities they will create for British Columbia.

«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced technology transfer,» Peter Navarro, President Trump's trade adviser, said on CNBC on Monday.

As Nobel economist (and one of my dissertation advisors at Stanford) Joe Stiglitz noted on Friday, a good part of the reason for rising oil prices is because the producers are already awash in U.S. assets, and to supply significantly more oil will just force them to accumulate more low - return assets.

We invest in entrepreneurship that encompasses all walks of life, and believe in the democratization of innovation as a powerful force for global good.

The shift reflects cyclical (eg changes in risk appetite) as well as structural (eg tighter risk management or regulation) forces affecting both the supply of and demand for market - making services.

American actor Mark Hamill became famous for his role as Luke Skywalker in the epic film «Star Wars,» as well as its sequels «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Return of the Jedi» and «The Force Awakens.»

The second was that of launching in 2002 (as well as joining forces with the brillant thinker Angela Quail) the transformation of the user persona concept into the buyer persona concept we use today for gaining insight into primarily B2B buyers.

Modifications and foreclosures force a restatement of the asset on the balance sheet, and in the current environment, the ability to obscure valuations appears to be a primary reason for the growing gap between delinquencies and foreclosures, as well as the reluctance of banks to modify mortgages.

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Business as a force for good, capitalism as the roots of inequity in our society stemming from slavery, the wealth gap and intentionally helping underserved communities.

Continued bearish momentum in the US dollar ETF would likely force the 10 - week moving average to cross below the 40 - week moving average as well, which would produce another bearish trend reversal signal — and that's good news for Gold bulls.

President Trump's team is targeting Chinese technology companies to punish China for its investment policies that effectively force U.S. companies to give up their technological secrets in exchange for being allowed to operate in the country, as well as for other intellectual property practices which Trump and his advisors consider unfair.

This is about as condescending and arrogant as Mitt Romney at Liberty University saying: «there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.»

We believe the emphasis on capability may bode well for industry revenue, as manufacturers have been forced to deliver efficiency gains, and defend or increase margins in the leaner years.

> I know this may hit a nerve but i will pray for you whether you believe in God or not and just know there are things that go bump in the night and there is a force of evil just as there is a force of good out there.

@ El Flaco... the Protestant secretary needs to realize that her employer is a Catholic organization which does not believe in contraceptives, and they (as well as ANY employer) should not be forced into paying for services, as this is what it is, a service, not a medical necessity... yes, even for those women that use it to regulate periods, get rid of cramps heavy bleeding, etc..

There are many passionate people who use religion as a powerful force for good in the world where everyone benefits.

The likelihood of bringing about a higher good, i.e., eudemonia, by rudely expressing one's concern for others» health, voicing unflattering criticism, and forcing confrontational consideration of moral issues is small (and, in some cases, such as the friend who sings off - key, nil).

Ok but can god take away a person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any person says just like him and Jesus i want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also want to know that if a person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin

In spite of the fact that Hartshorne universally posits a strong sense of relativity to account for omniscience (as well as for other reasons), I will argue that even Hartshorne is forced in important specific cases to attenuate his claims for a strong interpretation of divine relativity; one that says God feels in exactitude the experience of otherIn spite of the fact that Hartshorne universally posits a strong sense of relativity to account for omniscience (as well as for other reasons), I will argue that even Hartshorne is forced in important specific cases to attenuate his claims for a strong interpretation of divine relativity; one that says God feels in exactitude the experience of otherin important specific cases to attenuate his claims for a strong interpretation of divine relativity; one that says God feels in exactitude the experience of otherin exactitude the experience of others.

In this view, classroom space becomes the place for a creative interplay of forces, where ideas, as well as teachers and students, come alive.

The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «s creative arts, a forum of public debate — advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.

There are upwards of 27 million people trapped in slavery today, and an estimated 100,000 children are in the sex trade in the U.S., as well as countless others trafficked into the country for forced labor.

As the healthy - minded enthusiast succeeds in ignoring evil's very existence, so the subject of melancholy is forced in spite of himself to ignore that of all good whatever: for him it may no longer have the least reality.

«At least some of the food being sent to the incinerator should be used as a force for good to help [the poor] out of the rut in which they find themselves,» he said.

And the Incentive as well as the technical capacity will be present for private commercial «pirate» operations (analogous to sea - borne pirate broadcast stations off European shores which currently are forcing commercial radio onto the United Kingdom) to be undertaken anywhere in the world.

And there is good reason for this, apocalypticism is inevitably subversive, and perhaps the most purely subversive force in history, all of the great political revolutions in modernity have been apocalyptic revolutions, and even the advent of both Christianity and Islam can be understood as the consequence of apocalypticism.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

illicitly to justify vast military establishments and their use in international war, there is justification for an international as well as a domestic police force, provided this is used with due restraint.