Sentences with phrase «as a tool against»

Appropriated as a tool against one of many enemies.

Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.

NSAID use is an accepted practice to prevent cardiovascular disease, and their use as a tool against cancer merits similar consideration and study.»

The finding comes as DDT is getting a second look as a tool against malaria.

We use them as tools against the patriarchy.

Stross talks about how the publishing industry has allowed Amazon to use DRM as a tool against itself.

In the late 1990s, with the idea of feminism in constant motion, Williams» paintings mark her innovative approach to painting and abstraction as a tool against patriarchal notions of art making.

South Africa's historic divestment campaign — the one that helped topple Apartheid and enshrined divestment as a tool against oppression — was paired with a UN-sponsored boycott of South African goods.

His thesis examines the interaction between EU state aid rules and national tax measures, exploring, in particular, the extent to which EU state aid policy can serve as a tool against harmful tax competition between Member States.

Unfortunately, patent trolls abuse the court system, using it as a tool against their targets, and American businesses are paying the price - roughly $ 29 billion in 2011 alone, according to some estimates.

The parents often need reminders of how important it is not to use the children as a tool against the other parent.

Not exact matches

- them formula that McConnell had used against Democratic opponents, painting them as tools of East Coast elites.

Sophie Otiende a consultant with Awareness Against Human Trafficking (Haart), a non-profit organisation in Nairobi, says social media platforms like Facebook and messaging apps such as Whatsapp, Telegram and Line are effective tools for women.

The rationale was strength in numbers; its combined membership of 300,000 would be better poised to fight back against increasingly hostile employers, as well as governments that have neutered stoppages as a bargaining tool through back - to - work legislation.

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

On the one hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

The only way to know for certain that your content is holding up its end of the bargain is by agreeing on goals early on and using the right tools to measure your work against those goals as you go.

He would repeat the trick as a teenager, playing in a professional league against grown men; even when he made it to the NHL, his stature and physical tools were dwarfed by his opponents.

Social media can also pose a risk, but if your business depends on using it, at the very least make sure geolocation data is turned off in the app (there are online tools that can track a user based on this data) and be careful about oversharing, as sensitive information can be used against executives and employees in social engineering attacks.

Websites such as BizBuySell.com offer tools to enable you to conduct quick and easy business valuations by benchmarking the business you want to buy against businesses in the same industry.

The field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) evolved partly as a tool to build corporate reputation and safeguard against reputational damage.

Totem is billed as a tool to help photographers protect their work against unauthorized use and to connect clients in need of stock photos with images that suit their purposes.

As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»

«This is because institutions such as the Future Fund can now use tools that assess an active stock picker not just against the benchmark, but against factors that are easily and cheaply replicable.

Word of the announcement came as the Trump administration on Wednesday warned that it would vigorously defend U.S. national interests against «hostile» powers such as China and Russia, vowing to use «all available tools» to combat unfair practices - a sign that the president may be preparing to erect new trade barriers.

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

War was invoked as a righteous tool — whether jihad against the West, or the American jihad against gay marriage.

So when you use your post as a bashing tool against God's people, and mock Christ's resurection from the dead as a comparison to creepy, ungodly, demonic «Halloween» practices, you only show your immaturity in putting your foot in your mouth about things you know nothing about, and your words are of no more value then empty, silly ranting.

Just don't use your understanding of Scripture as a tool to persecute and perpetuate social injustice against others

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

In May, Steven Pinker published in the New Republic a jeremiad against dignity as a tool of thought in bioethics.

«Niebuhr does not use the conversionist or transformationist type as a polemical tool against the others.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Such exercises in presidential leadership would be a useful tool in the future, as the struggle for Iraq continues, the battle against al - Qaeda and similar terrorist networks unfolds, and the threats to world order posed by Iran and North Korea continue» and perhaps intensify.

Just as kingship symbolism functioned for 1,500 years both as a language of cultural engagement and as a critical tool against all earthly kings, so republican symbolism can provide us with a language of transcendence as well as immanence for our own time.

Using the Bloomberg BNA audit tool to measure our performance against federal, state and local regulations, as well as gap analyses conducted by our EHS team at each of our sites every two years, we've established a consistent approach to how we allocate resources, assign responsibilities and evaluate our practices, procedures and processes to reduce our environmental footprint.

What potential do manufacturers see in serialization as a tool to protect against counterfeiting?

At the end of June 2016, a number of Nobel laureates accused Greenpeace's campaign against Golden Rice as a «crime against humanity «and called upon governments around the world to «do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace's actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology ``.

So I have chosen a wide range of stats from the comparison tool on Squawka.com and put Monreal up against Baines of Everton, Rose of Spurs, Clichy and Azpilicueta, as Liverpool and Man United have been playing three at the back.

Maybe bench some top players against Everton simply as a motivational tool.

The way we played the UCL for the past five + years was shambolic, so I'm actually glad we're out of a competition that serves as a humiliation tool and costs us points in the league, due to morals being shattered by bad results against top sides.

Through The Action Network, we are partnered with Sports Insights, Bet Labs, and Sports Action, and with their tools we can see that before Week 13 the Bears were 0 - 6 against the spread as favorites with Fox.

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The biggest problem with custody is many custodial parents use the kids as a tool to be used against the other parent.

Yet, being able to laugh about it is a powerful tool against all of life's messy moments as a new mom.

And coming soon after a Foreign Policy piece that demolishes the idea of an Iranian «Twitter Revolution» last summer, it clearly demonstrates the ability of electronic tools to work FOR an authoritarian government as well as against one.

I'd caution against overstating the point, since broadcast media are going to be vital tools as far out as we can see right now, but it is an interesting conceptual framework.

In contrast with a free tool like Lyris, PV will check a message against the 60 most prevalent anti-spam systems, and produce a report on the full range of message attributes that can impact delivery, including whether the sending mail system complies with ISP standards or is listed on blocklists / whitelists, whether domains or URLs within the message are on blocklists, whether the message content triggers key word or probabilistic spam filters, and whether similar messages have been flagged as spam by distributed spam identification networks.