Sentences with phrase «as economic units»

Animals on factory farms are treated not as living creatures, but as economic units in a mechanized production system.

Economists recognize this, and often speak of households as the economic units instead of individuals.

(Canadian women economists Shelley Phipps and Frances Woolley have contibuted to our understanding of the complex reality of families considered as economic units.)

After you're married, you take up life as an economic unit, and a number of important things will change.

Courts now view the marriage as an economic unit, and in general courts are more concerned about economic misconduct — such as the dissipation of marital assets — than they are about marital misconduct — such as infidelity.

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In addition, increased promotional activity across the West as well as a difficult economic environment mainly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, resulted in sales erosion in our Safeway banner and West business unit,» Poulin said in the earnings release

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Commerce Department unit that tracks G.D.P., said the full effect of the government closure «can not be quantified,» but estimated that the hours lost as government employees stayed home shaved off 0.3 of a percentage point.

As economic momentum in China declines, The Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that India will be Asia's fastest - growing economy between 2018 and 2022, carving out more influence in and importance to the global...

The trading prices of the Franklin LibertyShares ETF units in the secondary market generally differ from the ETF's daily NAV and are affected by market forces such as supply and demand, economic conditions and other factors.

This mistaken belief that American savings are wholly a function of American household preferences arises because most economists — and, it seems, policymakers — can only imagine American households as autonomous economic units, and are seemingly incapable of imaging them as units within a system in which there are certain inflexible constraints.

The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

The structure of that world centered around the pater familias [father of the family] as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit — the household, which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

It views individuals or households as the units of economic action and those whose insatiable desires for economic goods should be satisfied as much as possible.

It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».

It should be recognized as socially desirable for persons to live on the land and care for the land, and subsidies should be provided to those who do until the economic system can be readjusted to make small units reasonably profitable again.

The experts gaze in dismay at this economic apparatus, their own creation, which instead of absorbing all the units of human energy with which they furnish it rejects an increasing number, as though the machine they devised were working to defeat their purpose.

The answer is that economic units, such as firms, are free to do what is in their interest, and that they are free from governmental restrictions.

Like so many others, the Augustinian cloister had in fact taken on a life of its own as a social and economic unit in a society devoted to the maintenance of the policy and economy of the Church with all its complicated and expensive structures.

Unit cost estimation involved a combination of bottom - up and top - down costing methods and followed guidance on costing healthcare services as part of an economic evaluation.15 17 Detailed unit costs, derived from the finance departments of participating trusts and information provided by senior midwives, were estimated for resource inputs into the following components of intrapartum and after birth care for all settings: homebirth delivery packs; NHS reimbursement for midwifery travel; some forms of pain relief; alternative modes of delivery; active management of the third stage of labour; suturing for episiotomy; suturing third and fourth degree perineal tears; manual removal of the placenta; blood transfusions; and care after a stillbirth or neonatal deUnit cost estimation involved a combination of bottom - up and top - down costing methods and followed guidance on costing healthcare services as part of an economic evaluation.15 17 Detailed unit costs, derived from the finance departments of participating trusts and information provided by senior midwives, were estimated for resource inputs into the following components of intrapartum and after birth care for all settings: homebirth delivery packs; NHS reimbursement for midwifery travel; some forms of pain relief; alternative modes of delivery; active management of the third stage of labour; suturing for episiotomy; suturing third and fourth degree perineal tears; manual removal of the placenta; blood transfusions; and care after a stillbirth or neonatal deunit costs, derived from the finance departments of participating trusts and information provided by senior midwives, were estimated for resource inputs into the following components of intrapartum and after birth care for all settings: homebirth delivery packs; NHS reimbursement for midwifery travel; some forms of pain relief; alternative modes of delivery; active management of the third stage of labour; suturing for episiotomy; suturing third and fourth degree perineal tears; manual removal of the placenta; blood transfusions; and care after a stillbirth or neonatal death.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has hinted on the readiness of the World Bank to release more information on the spending of recovered loot by late General Sani Abacha as «it has referred portion of appeal by its Archives Unit for processing for public access.

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

Frost added: «The Manhattan DA's pioneering Sex Crimes Unit has an unparalleled record of success on behalf of survivors, and has served for decades as a national leader in the investigation and prosecution of sex crimes committed by perpetrators of all economic backgrounds.»

One organisation that does analysis of different democratic states is the Economic Intelligence Unit (within the Economist Newspaper group), as described by the wikipeida overview

Data recorded from the foreign exchange market by IES Economic Unit suggests a fairly stable local currency, as the Ghana Cedi closed trading at Ghs 4.55 to a U.S. Dollar, with a depreciation of 0.89 %.

Magu who is also an Assistant Commissioner of Police served as head of the EFCC's Economic Governance Unit (EGU) during the tenure of Nuhu Ribadu.

He said: «Already, in little over 160 days, we have delivered major policies such as restoring free education by abolishing the graduate endowment, scrapping tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges, saving vital A&E units, and establishing the Council of Economic Advisers to help boost growth in Scotland.

Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, has been relieved of his position as the head of the anti-graft agency hence replaced by Ibrahim Magu, a top level official of the Economic and Governance Unit of the EFCC.

«The mistake with Africa is that we are seen as homogenous unit and treated as such not taking cognizance that we are a whole continent with different aspirations, different cultures, democracies and even economic development.

We say it all the time, but it doesn't exist as a viable economic unit.

The utility will make up that capacity with three new natural gas units that recently came online, as well as through energy efficiency, new solar investments and slower economic growth.

But the target submitted as part of a pending U.N. deal in Paris in December — to reduce emissions 36 percent per unit of economic output by 2030 compared with 2005 levels as well as peak emissions around 2030 — has not stemmed the criticism.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

Which considering the current economic climate is looking like a safe bet, as Trenched has sold rather well pushing an impressive 60k units in its first few weeks on XBLA.

Unit covers key concepts such as scarcity, allocation, trade, money, inflation, and economic standards.

He has served as GA PTA's District 10 Male Involvement Committee, GaDOE Region 5 Parent Coordinator, completed Board Certification through the GA Charter Schools Commission, GA Leadership Academy Economic & Leadership Development Certification and currently is the Neighborhood Planning Unit K Chair to build economic and community deveEconomic & Leadership Development Certification and currently is the Neighborhood Planning Unit K Chair to build economic and community deveeconomic and community development.

With positive economic sentiments brought in by GST, prevalent low interest rates, improving GDP, good monsoon, and improving infrastructure as well, Tata Motors is hopeful of repeating a success story with the Nexon, as it did with the launch of the Tiago hatchback in early 2016, which has gone on to cross sales of 75,000 units in the market.

«Although media tablet sales were not as high as expected in the first quarter of 2011 due to slower consumer demand, overall economic conditions and supply - chain constraints, we believe with the entrance of competitive new devices in the second half of 2011, the market will sell close to 53 million units for the year and continue to grow long - term,» said IDC research analyst Jennifer Song.

It includes the study of economic behavior of particular units such as a person, firm, household, or industry.

«Although media tablet sales were not as high as expected in the first quarter of 2011, due to slower consumer demand, overall economic conditions and supply - chain constraints, we believe with the entrance of competitive new devices in the second half of 2011, the market will sell close to 53 million units for the year and continue to grow long - term,» said Jennifer Song.

In some scenarios, the household economic unit as a whole must be taken into account.

An economic principle whereby the per unit cost of producing each unit of output falls as the volume of production increases.

Instead of requiring the player to build and direct units to continually harvest resources, Kohan uses an economic model which represents the economy of the kingdom as a whole.

This is more than a bit of an over-simplification, but I think it serves as an interesting visualization into how this genre can weigh the importance of economic management against the importance of unit management.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

Build green enabling institutions — Green Investment Units and Banks are needed; Give tax incentives for climate bonds — very little treasury loss can be a big boost to investment; Build an economic recovery narrative — the transition to a green economy revamps our economy across every sector and addresses the climate change threat; Use Climate Bond Standards as a screening and preferencing tool — a tool that helps investors monitor and verify the climate effectiveness of their investments; Make it easy for politicians — bond investors and business issuers have to get better at packaging politically sellable solutions, help politicians see how they can successfully sell those plans to voters - See more at: http://www.climatebonds.net/#sthash.djXU6k6I.dpuf

In the United States, the Bush administration's «Clear Skies» proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions.

Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.

China has said it will try to voluntarily reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide per unit of economic growth — a measure known as «carbon intensity» — by 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.

Dematerialization - The process by which economic activity is decoupled from matter - energy throughput, through processes such as eco-efficient production or industrial ecology, allowing environmental impact to fall per unit of economic activity.

The Alliance to Save Energy advocates a bold but achievable goal of doubling energy productivity in the U.S. by 2030 (getting twice as much economic output from each unit of energy).