Sentences with phrase «based economic order»

Finally, efforts to strengthen and solidify the rules - based economic order should also be pursued.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

London - based Capital Economics, a think tank, has a proprietary indicator called China Activity Proxy that tries to track Chinese economic growth in order to provide an alternative to the government figures, which many observers distrust.

Rather than trying to draw China into the rules - based international economic order — a policy that dates back to Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger — the United States now regards China as a strategic competitor, bent on eroding American security and prosperity.

For instance, in its first years, liberation theology was conceived as (second - order) reflection and discourse based on a (first - order) praxis of liberation from oppression, especially from social, economic and political injustice.

For example, some (ethical or economic) theories based on the satisfaction of preferences assume that preferences can be nonmetrically ordered (e.g., Arrow 9 - 11).

On this basis these men called for the application of those teachings to the social and economic order and the reformation of all social life on a new basis.

In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

Hans Kung suggests that the Enlightenment led to the unprecedented progress of the sciences, a completely new social order and a revaluation of the individual.12 Today the Enlightenment approach is subject to strong criticism, especially from post-modernists, but it helped, for good or ill, to divorce political and economic thinking from a basis in a religious view of life.

But they have altered the fundamental fact that the economic system of late industrial America can not be reconciled with the fundamental American ideology of economic independence as the basis of political order.

The main reason that the present economic order is incompatible with the ecological model, or any other genuinely pluralistic one, is that it is based on homogenization.

On the basis of this discussion we can now list some of the changes of direction needed in the economic order of rich countries as follows:

In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rules - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

In «The Fusion of Civilizations: The Case for Global Optimism» (Foreign Affairs, May / June 2016), Kishore Mahbubani and Lawrence Summers champion «pragmatic problem - solving» in a «stable and sustainable rule - based order,» undergirded by a scientific, technological, and economic consensus that encourages a «fusion of civilizations.»

It is this which the contented churchmanship of the eighteenth century seemed to fail to realize — one thinks of such amusing illustrations as Adam Smith's discussion of the ministry in England and Scotland on the basis of its economic status 3 or the even more startling defense of diversity of orders in the Church by Archdeacon Paley on the ground that it «may be considered as the stationing of ministers of religion in the various ranks of civil life.»

Coles was ultimately seeking an ongoing ARC rebate in the form of a percentage of the price it paid for the Supplier's grocery products, which, for its smaller suppliers, was the sum of a percentage which Coles asserted was referable to the value to the supplier of being able to access the Coles supplier portal and, where applicable, a percentage based on the asserted value to the supplier for Coles having changed its ordering patterns to order products in «economic order quantities».

In particular, a massive overhang of debt from a decade - long boom when economic growth was based on unsustainable household borrowing, unrealistic house prices, dangerously high banking leverage, and a failure of governments to put their public finances in order.

Unite is among those unions that have consistently called for an economic alternative based around investment in jobs and communities in order to grow the nation back to financial health.

But it can perhaps provide a constructive basis for thinking about what we fundamentally want from an economic order and about some of the institutions or approaches that will promote these goals.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

Trump's «America First» agenda — typified by its economic protectionism and rejection of the established multilateral order — is entirely antithetical to the G20's previous commitments to reject protectionism and safeguard the liberal, rules - based, multilateral governance order.

The primary mission of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) is to offer economic incentives to Tompkins County businesses in order to create and retain quality employment opportunities and strengthen the local tax base.

I hope that resident leftie might share my view that out of the ashes of our present economic mess there could rise a Phoenix in the shape of a new order, based on fairness.

«This, therefore, underpins the BoG's decision to cut the policy rate by 200 basis points to 23.5 per cent in order to stimulate credit expansion and economic growth,» he added.

He said to this end, government is undertaking the necessary structural and economic reforms in order to create a solid base for the accelerated take off of the economy while maintaining macro stability.

Justice Rilwan Aikawa made the temporary forfeiture order on Wednesday based on an ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Over the course of Noam's service in New Rochelle City government, the biggest challenge has been attracting economic development and private investment to the downtown area in order to strengthen the regional economy, create jobs and strengthen the local tax base.

«The interim order was made based on an ex-parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission; an ex-parte application has no respondent and the court is not expected to hear from the other party.

An Abuja High Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to pay a sum of N10m damages to an Abuja based foreigner and security expert Mr. Wolgang Reinl over his unlawful detention and seizure of his international Passport by the anti-graft agency.

The original AAAS analysis of the outyears in the President's budget, published on May 16, was based on a literal interpretation of the language contained in the President's budget that would have required a reduction of $ 40 billion in discretionary outlays in FY 2001 and $ 81 billion in FY 2002 in order to balance under CBO's economic assumptions.

However, the team has simulated new rankings based on how environmental, political and economic change to improve liveability might alter the order and shown that Singapore could rise to joint # 1 with Geneva while Chicago, Shanghai, Amman and Abu Dhabi could jump from relatively low - ranking positions to much higher up the team's urban league table.

«But it's critical that we move beyond making these comparisons solely based on national - level data in order to consider the role of confounding factors such as socio - economic status and segregated living environments.»

Elisabeth Mann Borgese was known worldwide as «The Mother of the Oceans» and dedicated all her life to the understanding of ocean matters, to the development of a constitution for the oceans and to the consideration of the oceans as a «great laboratory for the making of a new international order based on new forms of international cooperation and organisation, on a new economic theory, on a new philosophy».

In an economic system based on free commerce new ideas and technologies are quickly taken advantage of in order for individuals, organizations and companies to gain an economic advantage over their rivals.

We need to abandon our debt - based money system because if you have a debt - based monetary system you will have to generate constant economic growth in order to pay back your debts.

Socio - political, economic and personal choices must be based on the laws of physics (natural laws) in order to be in harmony with Earth and the human life.

Released June 21 by the Washington - based Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the report surveys measures that focus on such topics as global awareness; financial, economic, business, and civic literacy; higher - order thinking and problem - solving; interpersonal and self - directional skills; and information - and communications - technology literacy.

The responsibility of each citizen and community to ensure meaningful decision - making that is based on the twin principles of ecological integrity and socio - economic equity, conditioned in the interim by a «common but differentiated responsibility» in which those currently rich within the country take on a greater role and / or are incentivised or forced to to give up their excessively consumptive lifestyles in order for the poor to have adequate levels of human security.

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

Based on my research, it quickly became apparent that in addition to following expert advice on financial sustainability, Maui's small independent school leaders had to think like entrepreneurs in order to survive the challenging economic environment of those years.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

In order to meet future challenges, the authors argue that the East Bay must invest in its core economic assets, such as preparing an advanced manufacturing workforce and scaling up proven work - based learning models like Linked Learning.

Chinese newspaper the Economic Daily News is reporting that Massachusetts - based E Ink Corporation has landed an order from Amazon for an estimated three million color e-reader modules per month, with shipments expected to begin in March.

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If you accept management's argument that new orders lag an economic recovery, then any realistic uptick in new order won't occur until 2012 based on the current economic data.

An avid reader of science journals, the New York - based artist began closely following the upswing in facial recognition technology across the economic and security apparatus, from the first mugshots to Facebook's DeepFace, one of many commercial technologies that may one day be used to geo - locate people in order to advertise and sell things to them at a level of micro-triangulation that would make Orwell's 1984 seem tame.

The laws, regulations, and executive orders enacted by Congress or imposed by the president expand or limit people's freedom and affect their social and economic well - being on a daily basis.

Subtitle H: Energy and Efficiency Centers and Research -(Sec. 171) Requires the Secretary to implement a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs by: (1) leveraging the expertise and resources of the university and private research communities, industry, venture capital, national laboratories, and other participants in energy innovation to support cross-disciplinary research and development in areas not being served by the private sector in order to develop and transfer innovative clean energy technologies into the marketplace; (2) expanding the knowledge base and human capital necessary to transition to a low - carbon economy; and (3) promoting regional economic development by cultivating clusters of clean energy technology firms, private research organizations, suppliers, and other complementary groups and businesses.