Sentences with phrase «by inefficient»

After moving from Silicon Valley to Santa Barbara, he was shocked by the inefficient paper - and - pencil process of managing the construction of his new home on the Central Coast.

The company intends to digitize all of the fiat currencies found in the Caribbean and place them on the blockchain so they can be easily traded among the islands, bringing modern solutions to a region historically limited by inefficient exchange and settlement systems.

Black carbon (sooty particles) and methane emitted by inefficient stove combustion are powerful climate change pollutants.

3.8 million people a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels and kerosene for cooking.

Yet on the basis of these models and predictions governments have been urged to spend billions, the countryside is raped for bio-fuel, and marred by inefficient and impractical wind farms and solar farms.

It's these ultra-fine particles that are produced by inefficient fires.

The business world is plagued by inefficient, overcrowded meetings, and making workers miserable.

NAC is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight the effects of free radicals formed by inefficient mitochondrial enzymes.

Don't worry though — proper carotenoderma is caused as much by inefficient metabolization of carotenoids as it is by eating too many.

However, the functionality of conventional semiconductor heterostructures is often limited by inefficient charge transfer across interfaces due to the interfacial imperfection caused by lattice mismatch.

But their commercialization has been hampered by inefficient manufacturing techniques.

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

As well as teams who are not liked by media are going to have a tough time with injuries caused by inefficient refs.

Those who are frustrated by inefficient government regulation, subsidies, and pork barrel politics may regard free trade as a way of transcending parochial interests.

Deadweight loss can be applied to any deficiency caused by an inefficient allocation of resources.

We seek out opportunities created by inefficient capital structures, event - driven distress and asset - level difficulties that can be acquired at a significant discount.

Local residents say the project has been snarled by inefficient use of the resources and cloying red tape, scourges that repeatedly trip up the euro zone's third largest economy.

Not exact matches

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

By itself, networking is ambiguous and inefficient, as the simple act of networking lacks a clear beginning and end goal.

If employees are forced to abide by workflows and protocols they know are inefficient, and nothing is done to improve processes, they may seek a more progressive employer.

«These new regulations will be in place by the end of this year and, within five years, all of those energy - inefficient lighting and bulbs, they're going to be gone.»

A survey by the Harvard Business Review found that 65 % of respondents said meetings kept them from getting work done, and 71 % said meetings were «unproductive and inefficient.»

Porter tells potential clients that he focuses on not guessing the market by buying index funds that buy broad swaths of the market; keeping costs as low as possible, such as fewer transaction costs and not paying analyst fees; and focusing on tax efficiency, by relocating assets from tax - inefficient types of investments to tax - advantaged accounts.

Delivering software that way is inefficient, however, because it requires a company maintain the capacity to handle peak usage of e-mail and other programs by its entire staff all the time, whether they need it or not.

But the problem is caused by a weak global economy wherein inefficient demand is causing slow economic growth.

Weak ties — or new connections — are «your ticket to a whole new social world,» says Menon, who encourages people to break their social habits by making life a little more inefficient and straying from their daily routines.

PREPA has been hampered by years of under - investment, frequent turnover in management and inefficient collections that forced it to go deeply into debt.

He's begun by shutting down anything that seems inefficient.

By tackling a range of problems, from obsolete sewing equipment to inefficient lighting and poorly trained management, he believes he can turn a healthy profit for his investors while improving working conditions, creating a cleaner environment and boosting pay for employees.

Asking for help by email is extremely inefficient.

Nye also made known his feelings about Alberta's oilsands as an inefficient source of energy, using the term «tar,» a label despised by the province's oil industry.

A single column of content is inefficient and less user - friendly by comparison.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

While this give - with - one - hand, take - away - with - the - other quality strikes some as inefficient, it is that structure that allows guaranteed - income plans to avoid the «welfare trap» caused by today's «conditional» welfare programs.

Lawyers attack phone system for immigrants By Ann M. Simmons Los Angeles Times A customer - service telephone system run by immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service scrappeBy Ann M. Simmons Los Angeles Times A customer - service telephone system run by immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service scrappeby immigration authorities is frustrating and inefficient and in some cases has provided such bad advice that clients have been detained or deported, according to immigration lawyers pressing to have the service scrapped.

I totally understand your view about Roth IRAs not being worth it either — but as inefficient as the government is, it does fund some worthwhile endeavors (as a former scientist supported by government funds) that private sectors will never do (as someone who works in in the industry).

By protecting inefficient producers, the current system makes the Canadian industry less competitive.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

I riffed on the first part of this phony claim by Rep Ryan the other day — «Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers» — promising to get to the second part — ``... their plan [Affordable Care Act] is to give government the power to deny care to seniors» — later.

It also caused further turmoil in an industry reeling from attempts by new players to attack a notoriously inefficient, intractable web of doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

Many small businesses have been able to scrape by with internal servers and an inefficient «break - fix» approach to IT.

So, if we assume that the room for capital appreciation is low, then it looks like I made a very inefficient investment by choosing capital appreciation vs cash flow.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

By countenancing these mergers and leaving inefficient operations intact, the Fed created enormous firms that are clearly too big to manage and generally do not generate positive risk - adjusted or even nominal returns.»

It's obtained only by long and inefficient study.

In effect, I was able to use my Roth space to shelter my (tax - inefficient) investments that I planned to use in the near - term, simply by shifting allocation between accounts as necessary.

My belief tells me that random chance is terribly inefficient and yes, unlikely, and we are a product of intelligent design and not by some accident that started in a puddle of goop.

Here is a concrete example of what economists mean by «efficiency» and what I am calling prudence: enriching the rich in Tanzania simply does not accomplish what its label claims; it is inefficient, inefficacious, imprudent.

They might be closely supervised by a craftsman who constantly reset them to make them agree, but surely this would be an inefficient and inelegant system — if it could be seen as a «system» at all.

As the economist Thomas Sowell writes, to try to feed the swallows by feeding the horses is an immensely inefficient way to get help to the swallows.