Sentences with phrase «by poor practices»

In large part, this can be caused by poor practices — either in the farmer's treatment of the animals or the manufacturer's processing of the protein source.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In a note to investors ISS wrote that «The current pay and performance misalignment driven by ongoing problematic pay practices indicates poor stewardship of the board's Compensation Committee.»

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.

Meanwhile, the financial sector was thoroughly compromised by the spread of unsound financial instruments and poor lending practices.

And to mention the phsycology of the time is just another poor defense — much like saying slavery was OK»cause that was the accepted practice (and supported by the christian book - of - silliness) at that time.

It is this conviction that Yahweh is recognized by his intervention on behalf of the poor that explains the denunciations in the Jeremiah traditions of the falsehood of Judaite faith.3 For prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.

This is repeated so frequently, by so many commentators, that it often seems that being green is a secondary good, something we should practice primarily because it helps the poor, with benefits to the earth being a kind of bonus.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

You are practicing guilt by association and it is a poor tactic at best.

The great problem with governments and economic systems that are built upon the wealthy supporting the poor is that they masquerade as being the biblical model, the form of taking care of the poor that was practiced by Jesus and in the early church.

The verse 2 Thessalonians 3:10 «For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat» is mostly used by conservatives as the explanation of their anti-Christian behavior, however this was common practice among communists, and the real sense was that the bourgeoisie should not exploit the poor.

Considered from this perspective, compulsory fasting and abstinence, practiced regularly, routinely, and in common, was a recognition by the Church that identification with the poor and hungry, with those who know themselves to be needy before God because they were needy among men, is not an option for Catholics, but a necessary and definitive sign of their redemption, as essential in its way as attendance at Mass..

The Cathedral attempted to rediscover the meaning and practice of mission by identifying themselves with the poor and the marginalized in the city.

Granted that present circumstances are different from those of World War I and the following decade, ministry today is also practiced in a time characterized by great unrest, by the specter of armed conflict, and by the tremendous problems of the poor, the aging, the emotionally disturbed.

Traditionally the practice of rich men with the land and money to support a large family, polygamy is now practiced by middle - class and poor men, said Isabel Phiri, a theology professor at the University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa.

For example, the Bible is frequently quoted in support of opposition to portrayals of sex and violence in the media but not often to challenge the practice of western media corporations destroying poorer indigenous cultures by selling cheap western entertainment that under - cuts local programming, even though protection of the poor is a strong biblical message.

(The mostly poor and Buddhist farmers wouldn't have considered raising cattle for meat, even if the practice hadn't been banned by Japanese emperors for more than a millennium.)

«I see a really bright future for organics but it saddens me that this bright future will only emerge due to the poor practices that non organic farming and food production have taken throughout history driven mostly by profits.»

You're the one implying that maternal mortality in the US is driven by poor obstetric practice.

What you end up with by practicing your «parenting style» is a statistic and MANY sleep less nights spent mourning your poor choices.

Employing wet nurses, which had been a common practice among wealthier women, became less common as wet nursing, most often performed by poor women, immigrants, and women of color, became more stigmatized, and as safer breast milk alternatives, such as sterilized condensed milk, became available.25 Instead, during this «chemical period» in infant feeding, medical authorities took charge, partially by devising complicated «percentage» formulas only they could administer as breast milk replacements.26 As Rima Apple and others have amply shown, the result was the «medicalization of motherhood,» or «scientific motherhood.»

«We shouldn't be blaming mothers that our rates were so low,» said Bartick, «because mothers are not supported well and their efforts to breastfeed are undermined by such things as poor hospital practices.»

Activities have been directed by three objectives; namely, generate new data on the distribution and determinants of healthy growth; communication and advocacy on the link between poor complementary feeding and growth, and supporting countries to set and implement stunting reduction agendas; and assisting countries to roll out the WHO Child Growth Standards while promoting best practices for growth assessment and infant and young child feeding.

Conference further notes with alarm the increased incidence of depression, anxiety and teacher suicide which is exacerbated by poor management practice and lack of support.

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As described in a recent report commissioned by the Puerto Rican government, Puerto Rico's fiscal shortcomings have been masked and ultimately worsened by poor fiscal and accounting practices.

«The threat of inspection is now becoming a convenient stick with which to beat teachers, with poor management practices being justified by claims they are required by inspection.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

And a recent joint report by the UK's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering concluded that most of the known instances of groundwater contamination, such as in Pavillion, Wyoming, and the cases of fracking - related earthquakes in Texas were due to poor practice, and that the risk of accidents is small if fracking is properly managed.

Optometrists always tell you (or at least they always tell me) that poor eyesight is not caused by straining the eyes, reading in dim light, and similar bad practices.

An unlucky atmospheric circulation pattern may have been made worse by poor farming practices.

Our research goes to show that we should be more prudent in labeling a species «invasive» or non-native when the evidence for anthropogenic introduction is poor», says Pfenninger and adds: «Perhaps the rapid increase in Spanish slugs we have seen in the last decades is caused by changes of land use practice.

By using our various services, companies and organizations can give employees with poor health practices and high risk factors the knowledge and support they need to adopt a healthier lifestyle, while encouraging those with good health habits to continue these practices.

Your date will be so impressed by your dedication to your practice that he won't notice your poor time management skills, the suffocating odor of damp overpriced spandex, or that you're sweating in his pale ale.

However, poor production practices by greedy palm oil industry leaders have also cast a negative shadow on this otherwise remarkable oil.

Following our science based, real world proven, fueling techniques will eliminate all concerns of excessive fatigue, cramping, GI distress, or any other symptoms caused by poor fueling practices.

And if that seems harsh by me, let me add yet another criticism of physicians that I've observed, and that another new study reminds me of: poor medical practice.

Even worse, poor security practices leave her vulnerable to having her entire account taken over by an attacker.

An unexpected event occurs, when the entire team decides to thoughtlessly torment a defenseless mentally disabled man (Gooding Jr., The Fighting Temptations), setting Coach Jones off against the team, and feeling compassion for this poor man who walks by the practice field every day, pushing his shopping cart of junk he finds.

It's hard to accomplish this, but it can be done by focusing your learning design to include interventions and activities successful at changing poor practices.

-- To prevent cheating by parents and poor practice in schools, the Schools Admissions Code must be properly enforced.

David Liben, who works for Student Achievement Partners, a non-profit set up by the authors of the Common Core to help teachers put the standards into practice, says the «text to self» technique often puts kids from poor families at a disadvantage in the classroom.

Rather than focusing on how to «fix» poor and working class youth, they challenge us to acknowledge the ways these youth and their families are disenfranchised by educational policies and practices that deny them the opportunities enjoyed by their wealthier peers.

Even students who can recite their notes off by heart may struggle to achieve the top grades because they have poor exam technique, but this workbook is the ideal resource to improve exam technique simply by practicing!

Around this time last year, Dropout Nation applauded Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's effort to expand the state's inter-district choice program — and end the practices of Zip Code Education that condemn poor and minority children to dropout factories — by requiring every district to open their doors to any student anywhere.

This is not to say there is not a problem with access that affects the economically poorest learners, but the respondents here missed the reality that they were using technology as practice — technologies that were free and shareable, came standard to most hardware purchases, or were widely purchased by school systems — replicating real - world experiences that crossed class lines.

Unfortunately bureaucrats in the state Office of Retirement Services have racked up $ 29 billion in debt despite these protections, whether by making consistently inaccurate assumptions or through a variety of other poor accounting and record - keeping practices.

Many of them have, of course, already practiced the easiest form of the selection bias they decry by moving to the lofty suburbs of privilege, even as they fight to ensure poor black and Hispanic families do not have the same opportunity.

«Given the reemergence of poor governance practices coupled with new evidence of troubling decisions made by the school's board of trustees, placing the school on probation signals my deep concerns about the viability of the school under its current governing board,» Wulfson wrote.