Sentences with phrase «as less controlling»

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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Adding higher - protein snacks such as Greek yogurt to your routine can also help you eat less throughout the day and keep hunger under control (12).

Canadians who view foreign control of the economy as a threat to national security are less willing to support trade agreements with Asian countries.

Craft beers, as defined by the Brewers Association, must be less than 25 % controlled by a big brewer.

Struggling iron ore miner Pluton Resources has fallen back into the hands of receivers and managers, less than six months after the board regained control of the company, as part of a new structuring proposal.

Not only does it help control marketing costs, as you're less dependent on constant customer acquisition, but there's a pleasure in dealing with regulars, as you build true relationships with people.

As a result, Ford has even less control of council than before.

More to the point, with a lame - duck, deeply unpopular Republican president and Democratic - controlled Congress, some say there's unlikely to even be a 2009 budget to serve as a vessel for pork stuffing, circumstances that make a moratorium much less punishing.

As a result, companies have less control over a customer's decision.

«There is less of an incentive to build strong brands as they're currently left vulnerable to infringement,» explains Killian Wells, CEO of Xyrena, whose Reefer Madness Collection (including Blue Dream & OG Kush fragrances) contain terpenes naturally found in cannabis but no controlled extracts.

They found that high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region responsible for empathy as well as cognitive and emotional control.

The paper finds that the share of total assets controlled by banks with less than $ 10 billion in assets has shrunk twice as fast since Dodd - Frank was put into effect.

As I will discuss, the risk of distortion and inaccuracy is amplified because start - up companies, even quite mature ones, often have far less robust internal controls and governance procedures than most public companies.

One possibility, he said, is that frequent traders laboring under the «illusion of control» believe that they can respond easily to information and events during the day but can't do so as easily after hours, when there are far fewer market participants and less money, or «liquidity,» involved in trading.

Research from the study proved that focusing on phosphate controls as opposed to nitrogen will end algal blooms at far less cost.

«We're at this critical point where if we don't understand where our money goes, we will feel less and less in control of our finances as the years go on,» says Pam Capalad, a certified financial planner (and millennial), who owns Brunch & Budget in New York.

More specifically, the brewer must produce no more than 6 million barrels of beer annually, less than one - quarter of the business can be owned or controlled by a company that's not a craft brewer, and the products must be made with traditional ingredients such as malted barley.

Initially is you must be watchful with online wallets and trades as you have less control over your bitcoins» security there.

Concerns over negative economic impacts, such as a widening trade deficit with China, increased control of certain sectors by Chinese state - owned enterprises (SOEs), and intensified competition in the labour market for mid-skilled and less educated Canadian workers in particular; [1]

(1) engage in the «Geographic Area» (as defined below) as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor, proprietor, partner, officer, director, or otherwise of a Competing Business (as defined below); (2) have any ownership interest (except for passive ownership of one percent (1 %) or less in any entity whose securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction of the United States) in a Competing Business; or (3) participate in the financing, operation, management, or control of a Competing Business.

It's because the two precious metals are not only money but, from the point of view of free individuals, the best sort of money, less susceptible to what governments see as the most desirable quality of money — the susceptibility to control by government and particularly its susceptibility to devaluation.

As this happens and markets gain knowledge of and confidence in the regime, exchange rates should become less vulnerable and less in need of defensive capital controls.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

People who are nervous about money backed by a central bank with unclear controls — such as China's — have become attracted to bitcoin, an open source currency that is less influenced by the state of the economy or any looming geopolitical risk.

You do realize that the president has very little control over the economy, and les and less as time goes on because it is more and more a global economy.

In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etc..

In the name of a higher morality, their argument went, birth control could be defended as the lesser of two evils (a position argued by the dissenter Charles Curran, among others).

However as my walk with God continues, that 3 headed snake has less control in my life.

Skinner declares: «As we learn more about the effects of the environment we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent.»

The polar caps are also responsible for helping to moderate the global temperatures as a whole, and the smaller they are the less impact and control they have.

As social relationships and boundaries are redefined due to social change, less attention is paid to lesser spirits, and the Supreme Being takes over as dominant reality which helps the converts to understand, predict and control eventAs social relationships and boundaries are redefined due to social change, less attention is paid to lesser spirits, and the Supreme Being takes over as dominant reality which helps the converts to understand, predict and control eventas dominant reality which helps the converts to understand, predict and control events.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

I choose not to drink mostly because I know my limits, and when I struggle with self - control when it comes to much less addicting things such as sugar, chocolate, snack, etc., I would prefer not to give myself an opportunity to abuse alcohol the way I do other foods since the physical consequences have potential to be very dangerous.

Jesus Christ, the head of the Christian Congregation, could care less who wins this election, because both of them are under the control of the ruler of this world as are all those who support either candidate.

«Away down in the bottom of my heart, I believe I was always more or less skeptical about «God;» skepticism grew as an undercurrent, all through my early youth, but it was controlled and covered by the emotional elements in my religious growth.

Seriously u guys should listen less to d media and use ur common sense.Al - quada is an essential tool for d u.s. To extract as much oil as it can in d middle east and osama bin laden should get a memorial for himself right at d heart of DC just for being a good and patriotic american.what does d U.S want more than chaos in d mid east to stay in control of dat region, and who's serving better than bin laden in fulfilling it????!!! You guys r really sleeping or perhaps just too lazy to crack ur brains and think!

As media structures are increasingly controlled by the laws of economics, they become larger and more monopolistic, and at the same time less and less related to any system of morality.

As a species we've had less than a century to explore the issues of quantum physics and let me remind you that what we know for sure is that you have a computing device based upon solid state electronics and the control of the flow of electrons.

It is significant that the Jewish controls on excessive drinking seem to be weakening as American Jews become less intensely identified with their ingroup and with the Orthodox religious position.

It's less a problem here as it is in parts of Africa — where Aids is spreading and birth control can help ease the growth (and namely condoms I speak of).

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

He sees her less and less as the «good mother» who gives and cares for him, and more and more as the «bad mother» who controls and deprives.

The plant is less coordinated as a subject than an animal and is more like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

I believe that when Bishop Niederauer and many others caution against thinking of homosexual orientation as the cause of sexual abuse, they are asserting that we, and the Vatican, would do better to focus less on the content of a person's sexual fantasies and more on his or her ability to control his or her sexual desires.

«Since man requires his proper nurture and determination unto fulfilment as much as lesser beings, the control and direction of man by God is a necessity that is of the nature of created being.

One thing I have to come to terms with as they're getting older is having less control over what they eat since they'll be eating lunch at camp every day.

Another way I like to control what goes into my baked goods to make them as healthy as I can without sacrificing taste is to eliminate the use of all - purpose flours as much as possible since they don't contain whole grains and are, therefore, less healthy since they're stripped of nutrients.

Harris Teeter has committed to sell nearly four times the amount of cage - free eggs as the grocery industry's national average, phase - in pork from suppliers that don't use gestation crates to confine breeding pigs and dramatically increase the amount of poultry it sells from producers that use a less - inhumane slaughter system called «controlled - atmosphere killing.»