Sentences with phrase «as systems of power»

I viewed the source material as the system of power.

Not exact matches

But the situation also gave Sonnen the chance to showcase the potential of renewable energy systems as a way to provide immediate power to people in need.

«We appreciate the Secretary reinforcing the resilience of the bulk power system as an important issue that warrants further attention,» the agency said in the order.

The U.K. takes it so seriously that it invested the Bank of England with the power to deflate any asset - price bubbles that it identifies as threats to the financial system.

The answer to that concern came in the form of the technology that now underpins crucial parts of Estonia's system, as well as some of its most successful startups, and that, in the years ahead, could help power the country's future growth: the blockchain.

I read the funniest thing the other day courtesy of The Wall Street Journal: «Google Inc. is developing a video game console and wrist watch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.»

Although this arrangement makes sense in many cases, as it can be more efficient, there are many networks where a centralized source of power poses significant threats to the health and fairness of the system.

Known as Mr. Fix - It by some of his cabinet colleagues, Kenney has pledged to bring in major reforms to the system, including beefing up the auditing powers of federal inspectors who are hunting down abusers.

As well, this particular model was fitted with the $ 4,000 option of a roof - integrated solar panel that powers the car's cabin ventilation system, obviously conceived to allow you to quiet any hostile and righteous Prius drivers hurling abuse your way at red lights.

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

What to consider: As flat - out effective as the MP180 is as an ad hoc sales tool, it is still a low - power projector that lacks the image quality of a first - quality business display systeAs flat - out effective as the MP180 is as an ad hoc sales tool, it is still a low - power projector that lacks the image quality of a first - quality business display systeas the MP180 is as an ad hoc sales tool, it is still a low - power projector that lacks the image quality of a first - quality business display systeas an ad hoc sales tool, it is still a low - power projector that lacks the image quality of a first - quality business display system.

In his role as Ethereum's chief scientist, Buterin looks to Linus Torvalds, the firebrand inventor of Linux, an open - source computing system that powers many operating systems today, as inspiration.

Now, Matthews's wildly ambitious goal is to «democratize on - demand power for everyone» by rebranding her company as M.O.R.E. (motion - based, off - grid, renewable energy), an energy company that's creating a microgenerating system that can harness the kinetic energy of just about anything that moves.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

«As soon as the storm passed, Tesla began sending hundreds of Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to the devastated island in an effort to restore electric power there,» reports Fortune, «and the shipments of Powerwall battery systems are continuing.&raquAs soon as the storm passed, Tesla began sending hundreds of Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to the devastated island in an effort to restore electric power there,» reports Fortune, «and the shipments of Powerwall battery systems are continuing.&raquas the storm passed, Tesla began sending hundreds of Powerwall battery systems that can be paired with solar panels to the devastated island in an effort to restore electric power there,» reports Fortune, «and the shipments of Powerwall battery systems are continuing.»

Lafley had installed a complex «matrix» organizational system that shared power among executives in charge of functions such as HR, marketing, and finance; executives overseeing geographic regions; and executives for product categories such as beauty care.

Capable of powering 15,000 homes, the system was conceived as part of a backup against projected energy shortages following a huge methane leak at a natural gas facility near Los Angeles.

Operated by a team of fewer than 30 employees, the Kapolei, Hawaii - based company has fueled growth through major deals inked within the last year alone: the building of a $ 260 million plant in Idaho, a $ 370 million contract with Sanyo Electric Co. and a $ 678 million contract with Suntech Power to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in HaPower to deliver polysilicon, as well as an agreement to provide the second - largest photovoltaic power system in Hapower system in Hawaii.

The research suggests video games could become a kind of hippocampus training gym: they might some day help older people restore lost memory power and «keep that [memory] system in top form,» as Stark says.

While Kobo will exist as a store in its own right, its system will also power the e-book concerns of an array of other partners worldwide, from other retailers to computer and cellphone makers.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

NASA's prototype power system uses a uranium - 235 reactor core described as roughly the size of a paper towel roll.

«As a leader and trusted partner in the bitcoin system, BitFury has decided to transfer some of its hashing power away from Ghash to help reduce these concerns.»

Under the 2010 Dodd - Frank Act, which toughened financial regulations in an effort to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisis, the oversight panel had the power to designate non-bank institutions such as AIG as systemically important financial institutions, meaning that their failure could pose a risk to the entire financial system.

The cloud business competes against major information technology companies such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to rent data storage space and computing power that have become the building blocks of Internet - based systems.

Prior to her roles at Pfizer, she held various leadership positions at Texas Instruments, GSE Systems, Warner Lambert and as a co-owner of women - run RMR Associates, a consulting company where she advised major organizations such as Warner Lambert and Illinois Power.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

Amazon is, as Brian Ferguson writes in The Atlantic, exploiting an «advantage of the American system,» the division of power between states and the federal government.

That was Christensen, a full four years before the iPhone, explaining why it was that Intel was doomed in mobile even as ARM would become ascendent.2 When the basis of competition changed away from pure processor performance to a low - power system the chip architecture needed to switch from being integrated (Intel) to being modular (ARM), the latter enabling an integrated BlackBerry then, and an integrated iPhone four years later.3

In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

Moneyball was used as a metaphor to illustrate the power of analytics in health care and targeted hospitals, health systems and large physician groups.

In light of the above analysis, Bitcoin's power usage per transaction isn't remotely sustainable as a wholesale replacement for the conventional financial system.

There shouldn't be any power outages, but engineers for utilities such as Duke Energy (DUK) have been running war games to prepare, which reflects the growing importance of solar to the U.S. energy system.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics «were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.»

By: Dylan Slater 23rd February 2018 Of all the trends impacting on the mining industry, none will be as critical as digitalisation, says power management and automation systems Schneider Electric South Africa mining, minerals and metals (MMM) Africa business VP Wilhelm Swart.

With offices spread across all states and territories in Australia, Hitachi offers a wide range of products and services in the region, including but not restricted to; information & telecommunication systems and services, mining technologies and solutions, social infrastructure solutions such as power and rail systems, industrial products and solutions, and consulting services.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

The past 12 months have been an active period for Yaletown, with liquidity events via the sales of Indicee and Partnerpedia, as well as the closing of new financings for Endurance Wind Power, Elastic Path and Bit Stew Systems, among others.

It essentially acts as an «electronic nose», and gives machines the power of smell by mimicking the human olfactory system.

This book examines the nature, structure, and anthroplogical function of the primitive systems of meaning, «power», and «magic» known collectively as «totemism.»

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

As one who came to upend and reorient the power structures around a system of love and selfless sacrifice, it's hard to imagine Jesus entrusting the hope of His Kingdom agenda to the agenda of Rome's political systems and power players.

Yes, all higher - ed signs of «That's Just The Way It Is,» such as the brand - power of the old Ivies» mere names, presently suggest that system will continue as per usual.

Transnational corporation penetrates as the mighty economic power, and the military of the powerful nations penetrate politically through inter-locking systems alliances and their strategic and tactical coordinations in the name of peace and security.

Following my lead, Pike's diagrams naturally lead one to think of God as a power plant, upon which many autonomous systems draw their current.

How would he see his role as chief of the most awesome system of clandestine power in the world?

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.

American power was said to be in the service of Western democracy, which was understood as inseparable from free enterprise, or the capitalist, system.