Sentences with phrase «by making your case for»

So, if you wish for your position to be taken seriously, you should start by making your case for your imaginary friend.

«The left must avoid the trap of countering an argument about less state by making a case for more state,» he writes.

Maudie, a look at the life of Maud Lewis, who overcame rheumatoid arthritis, and pushed through a turbulent romantic relationship with her employer - turned - husband, to become one of Canada's premiere painters, avoids the pitfall by making a case for the human spirit without insisting upon greatness.

By making the case for Latin or history dependent on «transfer of training,» they lost the debate.

Critic Michael Newman responds to Graham Harman's essay on speculative realism in the September issue by making a case for the continuing relevance of human subjectivity.

The goal is to help inform the current policy debate by making the case for a rapid and significant increase in green infrastructure investment.

As such, while the panel will focus on the «implications and developments» of smart contracts, panelists including Solidity creator Dr Christian Reitweissner and ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin may be best served by making the case for the continued development of their open - source tools.

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

I make working out a priority or else I turn into a grumpy monster, but even if that weren't the case, some of Lopez's methods are accessible enough to be scaled back and done by someone who's pressed for time or unfamiliar with the more core - based styles.

By focusing on our health, understanding and planning for worst - case scenarios, cultivating trusted friends, and rewarding ourselves periodically, we're making an investment in the future of our business.

It's not so much a case of being instructed as it is one of needing to be regularly reminded that (a) nothing good happens by itself and (b) you are the person primarily responsible for making the right things happen.

By the company's name, you can probably guess iDoneThis might have a stake in advocating the idea, but the book makes a compelling case for why a done list beats a to - do list any day.

It suddenly dawns on employees that they don't understand the criteria by which they're evaluated, or how to make the case for their interpretations of their achievements.

By overreacting to rumours of higher taxes, Canada's millionaires and billionaires are blowing political capital they might have used to make the case for lower ones.

DDI research makes the business case for empathy by calling it the No. 1 driver of overall organizational performance.

Incase Sonic Made by a company that's famous for stylish iPhone cases and boasting the most fashion - forward design of any audiophile - grade headphones on the market, the unimaginatively named Sonics are easily dismissed as sacrificing function for form.

Investors typically categorize stocks by sector or investing style, but there's a strong case to be made for geographical targeting within Canada.

For instance, we were once in a proceeding in which the judge made a ruling on evidence presented at trial by opposing counsel that was going to fundamentally change the outcome of the case.

Brin's partner Larry Page once publicly made the case for setting aside «a part of the world» for technology experiments that would not be constrained by bureaucracy.

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An architect by training and the author of Design for Good, Cary delivered a presentation on Wednesday at the inaugural Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, making the case that the same principles of design fundamental to the private sector should be applied social sector to address some of the world's most urgent issues.

Case in point: Mobile e-mail manager Mailbox was acquired last spring by file - sharing service Dropbox for a reported $ 50 million - plus in cash and stock, a mere one month after the Mailbox app was made available to the public.

This is only made worse by the fact that people generally plan for best - case scenarios, ignoring the fact that things rarely go smoothly.

Externalities such as the consequences of business decisions for the environment have to be dealt with by the government, unless, of course, a business case can be made that shareholder value is increased by taking care of these externalities.

Some «recycled» fabric production has been exploiting the loopholes by buying unused water bottles to churn a higher profit, but Girlfriend Collective's center is carefully monitored by the Taiwanese government recycling authority to make sure that's not the case for this company.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

The Inc. + TOMS Pitch for Good is a program created by Inc. and TOMS to identify promising social businesses and invite a few of them to make their cases directly to a panel of judges, including Blake himself, at Inc.'s 2016 Growco Conference on May 17.

The submission makes a compelling case for why pay TV is most threatened by OTT services, as it offerings such as Netflix are far more price competitive and flexible.

By building two sets of revenue projections, you'll force yourself to make conservative assumptions and then relax some of these assumptions for your aggressive case.»

Cruz has arguably been making a Byrd case for his amendment in recent days, by describing it as direct taxpayer subsidization of people's high medical costs.

Because angel investors assume a great deal of risk by investing in early stage companies, applicants should be able to make a compelling case for a 10x or better return on investment within 5 years.

The memo, obtained by Bloomberg News, makes the case for a Labor Department regulation that would impose a fiduciary duty on brokers handling retirement accounts, requiring them to act in their clients» best interest.

I made the case for pruning the rule in my article Revitalizing SEC Rule 14a - 8's Ordinary Business Exemption: Preventing Shareholder Micromanagement by Proposal (March 29, 2016).

This is based on a simple economic model that states not all production (financial services in this case) will relocate to the large economy (the EU) as the small economy (UK) is able make up for its lack of competitiveness by having a weaker currency.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

That's one reason stocks fell sharply in September after a speech by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston president Eric Rosengren, in which he said «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates — a statement some investors took to mean that rates could rise in September.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

China and Singapore, by the way, are nondemocratic capitalistic societies, and so it's actually easier for those types of governments to make wholesale change than it is in our case, so they can make the types of systems that we've been talking about, or they could decide to mirror Singapore or whatever, and everybody just kind of has to take it.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

In a 2006 report, Death by a Thousand Cuts, the Pembina Institute makes the case for the importance of considering not just the mined disturbance, but also the disturbance from in situ production, pipelines, seismic exploration cut lines, etc..

«We won't be able to eliminate all spam, but we want to make the online environment more secure for Canadians by addressing the more severe cases,» said Manon Bombardier, the CRTC's chief compliance and enforcement officer.

The Canadians who have been affected by the oil shock deserve the government's attention, but their economic suffering does not alone make the case for a large national fiscal stimulus initiative.

That case, according to officials, stems from a referral made by Mr Mueller but has functioned as a stand - alone case in New York for months.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

At the very least, the Nielsen data makes a strong case for the theory that the time we allocate to consuming entertainment content is valuable in direct proportion to its finitude and therefore may be better spent by side - stepping the advertisements for all those things we've never had any interest in buying in the first place.

That rise is made worse by the depreciation of the US dollar (in contrast to the case for Australians, who at least have had the benefit of a high Australian dollar in dampening the rise in oil prices).

In the case for EmpireOption, the minimum initial deposit imposed by the company on its traders is $ 200, which makes it one of the renowned brokers with the lowest initial deposit requirement.

Going on cable news and making a preemptive, point - by - point case for Trump's innocence is the surest method of convincing the base that they needn't pay attention to investigation - related hysteria anymore.

Some of the hardships related to this damage might be eased by a property tax reduction — if the owner can make a solid case for a tax appeal.

In any case, the present move is a shock for the cryptographic money, made by means of a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain toward the beginning of August this year.