Sentences with phrase «by the ad hoc»

The other five directors, Mr. Banerji, Mr. Reiner, Ms. Russo, Ms. Senequier and Ms. Whitman, were identified by an ad hoc committee of directors consisting of the Chief Executive Officer and three non-employee directors, which was formed in November 2010 to assist in the identification of new director candidates and to facilitate the process of evaluating those candidates as potential directors.

When one reviews the agenda items for the pan-Orthodox Council, one is puzzled by its ad hoc character.

But they can only use «unofficial» methods to persuade, pressure, threaten the U.K. by ad hoc sanctions etc. to act quickly, not any «standard» procedure.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

He wondered why the Ministry initially denied the allegation of some businessmen paying as much as $ 100,000 as it came up during the public hearing by the ad hoc committee.

The resolution, filed by a handful of House Republicans earlier this week, will be examined by an ad hoc committee of seven lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.

Pit bull advocates defame the Houston SPCA & Beaumont animal rescue center BEAUMONT, Texas ---- The foulest murky depths in Beaumont, Texas a week after Hurricane Harvey were not those left by the storm itself, but rather by an ad hoc coalition of pit bull advocates whetting old grudges against the Houston SPCA, possible dog thieves -LSB-...]

On September 22nd, the Board of Directors of the Animal Rescue League of Boston approved a Three Year Financial Plan that was developed over the summer by an ad hoc Budget Committee.

She coils the painted newsprint together to form colossal landmasses, supported by an ad hoc, makeshift ramp.

Trips are organized by the student organizations to visit special exhibitions relevant to the different programs, by instructors in support of classroom activities, and by ad hoc student groups simply because there is a lot to see and many ways to learn — and because looking at superb examples of art and design is inspirational.

He suggested that one example of possible tuning is that «reported values of climate sensitivity are anchored near the 3 ± 1.5 °C range initially suggested by the ad hoc study group on carbon dioxide and climate (1979) and that these were not changed because of a lack of compelling reason to do so».

Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, must have known that the data was a mess and hopelessly compromised by ad hoc fixes, yet presented the Hadley / CRU historical global temperature dataset as authoritative.

This problem is corrected by ad hoc adjustments.

You are saying there is structure in ICOADS and less structure (by some ad hoc measure) in HadSST3 therefore the HadSST3 bias estimates are wrong.

Should generalised retention measures be replaced by ad hoc location - based retention measures, the legality of the latter would itself be the subject of much controversy.

The nominations of Ontario Court of Appeal justices Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis will be subject to review by an ad hoc parliamentary committee on Wednesday, but it has no power to reject them.

These include: appointment of arbitrators, including the possible introduction of a code of conduct; challenges to arbitrators; third party funding; consolidation; preliminary objections and first session; witnesses; experts and other evidence; discontinuance of a case; awards and dissenting opinions; security for costs and security for stay of enforcement of awards ordered by the ad hoc committee; allocation of costs; annulment; publication of decisions and orders (compared to the current provisions referring to awards); as well as the modernization of the means of communication (apparently with a view to making the procedure «less paper - intensive and more environmentally friendly»).

Currently the resolution, which was proposed by a citizen's advisory board, is being reviewed by an ad hoc subcommittee that includes representatives of the citizen's board, the homebuilding, and the disabled communities, says City of Phoenix Deputy Director of Development Services Larry Litchfield.

The 18 - page village of Waterford Main Street photomorph reflects the decisions that were made by the ad hoc planning commission, but the proposals must still be approved by the planning commission and ultimately the seven member village board.

Specific recommendations made by the ad hoc committee include enlarging sidewalks and narrowing the traffic lanes to focus on pedestrians.

Not exact matches

Many of the contributions made by family members are ad hoc and not easily categorized.

Retail brands will follow suit by partnering with delivery companies or using the drone marketplace to fulfill seasonal and ad hoc demands.

The macroprudential measures that give Poloz and Schembri comfort were ad hoc, devised behind closed doors by an informal committee of senior technocrats led by the deputy minister of finance.

Some of the documents Cummings and the oversight committee want to see include an update on the ad hoc committee that was formed by Valeant to investigate its relationship with Philidor.

By all means, don't let employees save their own messages on an ad hoc basis on their PCs or printed out and stored in file cabinets, ePolicy Institute's Flynn says.

The main offering would be the fastest internet available, access to business printing, plotting and repro equipment, ad hoc meeting areas, reserved conference rooms, virtual conferencing (known as Halo by Nokia), delivery service, networking, tech support staff, snacks — in other words, the typical amenities of a corporate office without the corporation.

Benefits had risen to $ 75 per month through ad hoc increases made by governments from time to time.

CSR in the region is moving in many instances from ad hoc activities driven by individual company founders, to a strategically aligned, competency - based activity framed by the companys overall corporate responsibility strategy, according to Maria Sillanpaa, founding director of the Sustainability Advisory Group.

Asking her to marry him, Shane Bauer tied a shirt thread around Sarah Shourd's ring finger, an ad hoc measure made necessary by the fact they were in custody, along with friend Josh Fattal, in Iran.

The European Commission prizes deliberation and procedure, while the Trump administration shows a penchant for ad hoc decision - making, exemplified by its announcing the latest reprieve just hours before the deadline.

The federal government pays ALL its bills by creating new dollars, ad hoc.

Ad hoc actions were taken by Mr. Paulson and officials at the Federal Reserve, like letting Lehman fail and compensating the trading partners of the American International Group.

As previously disclosed, on February 22, 2016, based on the work of an ad hoc committee of the Board (the «Ad Hoc Committee») established to review allegations regarding the company's relationship with Philidor and related matters, as well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to Philidoad hoc committee of the Board (the «Ad Hoc Committee») established to review allegations regarding the company's relationship with Philidor and related matters, as well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to PhilidoAd Hoc Committee») established to review allegations regarding the company's relationship with Philidor and related matters, as well as additional work and analysis by the company, the company preliminarily determined that approximately $ 58 million in net revenue relating to sales to Philidor in the second half of 2014 should not have been recognized upon delivery of product to Philidor.

The Blockchain Terminal («BCT») delivers a powerful set of tools and services to the wealth management industry, making use of blockchain technology to deliver cutting edge applications that have been created by a diverse community of developers, while also enabling real - time compliance enforcement and ad hoc audits.

On February 29, 2016, Cecilia Malmstrom, European Commissioner for Trade, and Chrystia Freeland released a joint statement announcing that an agreement was reached to replace the «ad hoc» arbitral tribunals outlined in CETA, with a permanent tribunal whose members will be appointed in advance and will bound by strict ethics regulations.

Verbal praise is given by colleagues, generally in an ad - hoc fashion, in recognition of a staff member's valuable contribution.

Ad hoc is not the type of argument that is practiced by logical thinkers.

Although you may see it as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas by God the Father, I see it as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.

A Christian theologian, Frei explained, will therefore «do ethics to indicate that this narrated, narratable world is at the same time the ordinary world of our experience, and he will do ad hoc apologetics, in order to throw into relief particular features of this world by distancing them from or approximating them to other descriptions....

It is true, of course, that by appealing to the freedom of Satan and his cohorts to explain natural evil, Plantinga himself, has adopted a defensive, seemingly ad hoc manner of preserving the consistency of his position.

During the Second World War, the Third Reich was opposed by local partisans and ad hoc military and civilian organizations.

By 1972, most denominations had ad hoc organizations whose communiqués emphasized the «forgotten» side of religion, especially evangelism and missions.

They will show up (as they do now, for the most part) as exceptions: ad hoc ethical non sequiturs kept going by the enthusiasm of the few and the guilt of a somewhat larger cross-section of churchgoers.

Pressed by the moral demands of our age, a number of institutes, public advocacy groups, and ad hoc interdenominational committees have taken steps to reach across the divide by going back to the sources.

Moreover, and contrary to the prevailing portrait, the position slowly and meticulously developed by Russell can not be dismissed merely as the inconsistent or ad hoc view of an elderly philosophic statesman in his mental decline.

Much of Galatians consists of Paul's ad hoc arguments for the inadequacy of the Torah: the Galatians had received the Spirit by faith, not by works of the law (3:2); Abraham was justified by faith, not by works of tile law (3:6); the Mosaic covenant did not supplant the promise to Abraham (3:17 - 18); the law was only a temporary measure (3:23 - 25); and so on.

In this case, the tendency to do so was reinforced by a conviction that Whitehead's account was ad hoc, while Einstein's account had a beauty and a natural development which carried conviction.

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

Deans, department chairs and ad hoc committee chairs are by definition oriented to broader agendas and operate under broader criteria than those of one specialty field.

Referring to a statement as true might be considered meaningful in the case of empirically proven hypothesis, or of formal statements in some symbolic logic, but never regarding ad - hoc metaphysical propositions given to you by an old «holy» book, eyewitness accounts or personal anecdotes.