Sentences with phrase «as structured providing»

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Northwest and Ethical Investments, a Toronto firm, may seek a proxy vote to prevent the co-CEOs from also serving as co-chairmen of the board of directors if RIM's board can't provide adequate justification for the governance structure by the end of January.

For someone who is always on the go, incorporating light physical activity into your commute will help offset the detrimental effects of sitting for long periods of time, as well as provide structure to your fitness routine.

«As a result of the rapid and significant evolution our business and the narrowing of our operational focus onto inclisiran, our board of directors determined to restructure the board, adding directors with relevant expertise and experience and reducing the board's overall size from twelve to seven members, providing a more agile and efficient structure,» the company said in its 10 - K filing.

The strategy is to deliver a wide array of financial solutions providing advice on capital structure, acquisition finance, ratings, debt issuance, structured finance, and the management of currency, as well as interest rate risk.

Effective delegation requires first determining all the tasks to be done and understanding the capabilities of the individuals involved and mentoring and coaching them through the tasks as needed or providing more structured training.

In her current role as head of new ventures at Sultan Ventures, a startup catalyst and boutique venture firm, James leads a team tasked with identifying and recruiting potential portfolio companies; provides mentoring and support to make portfolio companies investor - ready; and works with local companies to provide business - development and deal - structuring strategies.

Paid family and medical leave allows workers to take longer leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child, to care for a loved one, or to recover from a more serious personal injury or illness.15 Paid family and medical leave can be provided through a social insurance system, as it is in the three U.S. states that have active paid leave programs, or through another type of structure such as a government - business partnership.16

While these are positive steps, the feedback provided to the industry this summer after our review of the 2013 resolution plans for the largest firms suggested that quite a bit of work remains ahead on rationalizing legal entity structures, as well as in other areas, particularly:

You state that the Investment Vehicle will likely be structured as a limited liability company or limited partnership, and will be responsible for all organizational costs and expenses associated with its formation and the investment in the Portfolio Company.4 You also state that AngelList Advisors will provide the initial capital required to pay such organizational costs and expenses.

This package was provided to attract Mr. Drexler to the Company and align his interests with long - term stockholder value during a period when J. Crew, as a privately - held company, was experiencing significant underperformance and had a highly leveraged capital structure and limited equity value.

It provides assistance and structure to each of the committees, offering them guidance and support as they form policy and advocate on behalf of our Members and the Greater Vancouver business community.

This structure provides a layer of protection for investors, as it helps insulate each investment from financial issues related to other investments or the parent company.

We regard as fundamental that executive officer compensation be structured to provide competitive base salaries and benefits to attract and retain executive officers and to provide incentive compensation to motivate executive officers to attain, and to recognize executive officers for attaining, financial, operational, individual and other goals that are consistent with increasing stockholder value.

The Enterprise Compensation Committee discharges the board of directors» responsibilities relating to the compensation of our executives and directors; reviews and discusses with management the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and performs other reviews and analyses and makes additional disclosures as required of compensation committees by the rules of the SEC or applicable exchange listing requirements; provides general oversight of our compensation structure, including our equity compensation plans and benefits programs, and confirms that these plans and programs do not encourage risk taking that is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Hewlett Packard Enterprise; reviews and provides guidance on our human resources programs; and retains and approves the retention terms of the Enterprise Compensation Committee's independent compensation consultants and other independent compensation experts.

An investor who goes out and lets emotions or impulse drive his or her investing strategy is probably not going to have very good results, but the investing strategy provides that structure and that framework that will help keep any investor on track if things start to go off, and maybe the results aren't as great as what he or she expected originally.

Steven currently supports the firm's investment banking efforts, and has covered the origination, structuring, and execution of numerous transactions and served as strategic advisor to senior executives, providing advice on M&A, private equity, strategic relationships, and strategic positioning for capital - raising efforts and other corporate initiatives.

More than 25 years of capital markets experience as President and Managing Director of Carob Management Ltd, a private management consulting company specializing in providing due diligence services, developing business plans, and the structuring, financing, and management of emerging businesses, specializing in going public transactions in both Canada and the United States.

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

Both bills provide for similar changes in the corporate and international tax code but differ mostly in the structure of the individual tax code, including the tax treatment of pass - through businesses and individual income tax brackets as well as the status of the estate tax.

As Chief Underwriting Counsel, Gary reviews and evaluates transaction structure and provides feedback on the insurability and necessary due diligence required to underwrite major - market commercial finance, mezzanine loan transactions and purchases of equity interests in limited liability companies and limited partnerships.

When considering alternative investments, you should consider the fact that some products may utilize leverage and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss and be illiquid, are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors, may involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information, are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds, often charge high fees including incentive fees, and in many cases have underlying investments that are not transparent and are known only to the investment manager.

We may even see an acceleration of MLPs transitioning to C - corps as this structure can provide the flexibility to diversify business operations, and it gives access to larger investment pools.

That's because these tax subsidies are structured as deductions and exclusions, which provide bigger subsidies to households in higher tax brackets.

And he has provided many elaborations and applications: the moral architectures of economic development, of escape from the welfare trap, of nuclear deterrence, of the corporation and business - as - a-calling, of the income tax, intellectual property, mediating structures, ethnic politics, and even sports (the last however limited to Notre Dame football).

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

That which ultimately makes a theological school theological and provides the criteria of its excellence as a school is not the structure of its curriculum, nor the types of pedagogical methods it employs, nor the dynamics of its common life, nor the structure of its polity, nor even the «sacred» subject matters it studies; rather it is the nature of its overarching end and the degree to which that end governs all that comprises its common life.

Here I introduce that exploration with a brief characterization of the metaphysical position especially as it is stated by Alfred North Whitehead; Whitehead's is the seminal mind which provided the main structure of thought which is process philosophy.47 Whitehead has a close affinity to the classical metaphysical tradition.

«A structured society as a whole provides a favourable environment for the subordinate societies which it harbours within itself.

We believe that we have found a set of structures that allows descriptions of prehensions as well as providing a symbolic understanding of Whiteheadian eternal objects and propositions.

The authors believe structures allowing descriptions of prehensions as well as providing symbolic understanding of Whitheadian eternal objects and propositions have been found.

Participation in these calls as structures and in and though particular locations provides a sense of identity for selves, enables each to have meaning in relation to their and others» lives, and to be a location for satisfying engagements not always pleasing or delightful or fun.

William H. Whyte's 1956 The Organization Man, for example, provides some insight into the corporations of its own time, but not into corporate environments it could never have anticipated, such as today's flat organizational structures, with their fluid job descriptions, telecommuting, extensive outsourcing, and the like.

Peoplehood is the societal structure which through government, economy, culture, and religion provides for personal self - fulfillment, a well as for «a kind of continuing radiation or anonymous immortality» after death (GJM 479 - 80).

Whitehead speaks of a structured society as one that «provides a favorable environment for the subordinate societies which it harbors within itself» (PR 99).

Interdependence, intersubjectivity, and the peculiarities of consciousness are tools provided through process thought for developing a notion of original sin in which original sin can be interpreted as inherited structures of consciousness, acting as socially sanctioned norms, that assume the ill - being of earth or any of its inhabitants.

Thus (provided always that we accept the organic nature of the social phenomenon) we see being woven around us, beyond any unity hitherto acknowledged or even foreseen by biology, the network and consciousness of a Noosphere (It should be noted here that by its nature as a centrated, «reflective» collectivity, the Noosphere, while occupying the same spatial dimensions as the Biosphere, differs from it profoundly in its structure and quality of vital completion.

The point is that the much - maligned structures of authority in the Church are as necessary to transmitting our faith as herdsmen are necessary to providing lamb chops.

As a structured society, the body is so ordered that it provides the conditions converting incompatibilities into contrasts.

Peyré therefore feels that «bringing an adopted child into a society in which he or she will have the same rights and the same place as other children» as the Hague Convention provides» requires that the child be received into pre-existing family structures, already recognized as such, and not serve as an instrument for obtaining recognition of new family structures.»

Moreover, the pattern of movement, the plot, as it were, of the stories about Jesus provides the basic structure of the movement of all Christian celebrations or enactments of the practice of worship.

He proposed that many structures, such as bridges and dams could have multiple uses, such as providing housing without taking up additional space.

Professional schools would then be structured to socialize students into the ethos and the responsibilities of the profession as well as to provide the information and experience that are required for carrying out the expected social role.

The repetitive, ritualistic patterns of viewing provide a structure to life which may be considered as fulfilling a similar function to cultic / religious affirmations of a theistic divine order.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.

The institutions which provide the structure for such have either vanished, been marginalized, been overwhelmed, or been transformed beyond recognition into mere agencies of the amoral tastes and preferences of the present as decided and then enforced by the Unholy Trinity.

Indeed, even among players who have only good will toward one another, the game often can not be played at all without the structure that the rules provide: what are the game's boundaries, what «counts» as a turn or as a goal?

Law was, beyond that, a positive reality which provided structure and order for life so that humanity could realize its full potential in mutual service as well as the fulfillment of its responsibilities to God.