Sentences with phrase «calling this strategy into»

Some investors are reacting to this slump by focusing on domestic consumer stocks, but sluggish retail sales over the past few months are calling this strategy into question.

Gotthardt and her colleagues now call this strategy into question.

Not exact matches

While Apple has been able to justify its move in the past, increasing scrutiny on softness in the smartwatch market and on Apple Watch sales, in general, might call into question Cook's strategy.

On the calls, which took place Monday, Amazon didn't offer many clues into its longer - term strategy for the Whole Foods acquisition, which Brill said is a bit unusual given that the company is using debt to fund it.

Retail industry analysts also suggest that profitability is difficult to achieve as an online - only business, which necessitates branching out into a so - called omni - channel strategy that includes a physical presence.

When Gavet was hired, «I was offered to join the CEO [Huston] to actually help him implement a new strategy, where we would transform Priceline into what we would call the «experience marketplace»... and that's an amazing, amazing job,» Gavet said at the conference, «Unfortunately our CEO, the person who hired me, had to leave.»

But Mnuchin extends that argument about transparency into something more like a rap sheet: take Beijing's money, he warns, and risk being trapped in a debilitating cycle of debt — something that has led to asset - stripping by Chinese practitioners of what the National Defense Strategy calls «predatory economics.»

This calls into question the reliability of industry asset allocation and diversification strategies and the prediction capability of conventional portfolio risk modelling techniques.

On a call with investors and journalists this morning, Google's legal team would not divulge how Motorola's patents would factor into its legal strategy.

«Centene's entrance into the state of New York marks a significant step in our strategy to continue to be the national leader in government - sponsored healthcare,» Centene CEO Michael Neidorff said on a call with investors.

I call this strategy the «domino effect» because of what happens when you knock one domino into the next: it causes a predictable reaction.

My investing strategy is divided into two segments: the core portfolio built with strong & stable stocks meeting all our requirements, and the second part called the «dividend growth stock addition» where I may ignore one of the metrics mentioned in principles # 1 to # 5 for a greater upside potential (e.g. riskier pick as well).

In recent years, investors have poured billions of dollars into so - called «smart beta» investment strategies.

Why is it that the financial markets are constantly forcing people to call into question their own process and strategy?

All of them shared a remarkable experience in their youth: As they were being formed into mature Christian adults by Wojtyla, they helped form an intellectually, athletically, and mystically gifted young clergyman into one of the most dynamic priests of his generation, a pioneer in the pastoral strategy he called «accompaniment.»

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

On the backdrop of blanket calls for elimination of plastics, major packaging industry stakeholders have reacted positively to the European Commission's holistic strategy, released yesterday, for integration of polymers into the Circular Economy.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

Their defeats in the election call into question their strategies and as is usually the case these days, when that happens, the person at the top pays the price.

In one episode of the satirical TV series, it is announced that the prime minister has called an inquiry into the culture of leaking, prompting strategy chief Stewart Pearson (aka Steve Hilton) to brand politician Peter Mannion «leak zero» because he is where the leaking started.

With that incident calling the reliability of the National Transitional Council (NTC) into question and continued criticism of its haphazard military strategy, many observers are starting to ask searching questions of the body ready to take over from Gaddafi.

Striking Royal Mail workers are continuing industrial action into a second day, as Gordon Brown calls for negotiations to end the union's «self - defeating» strategy.

As pro-EU campaigners seek to highlight the risks of Brexit with a «Better The Devil You Know» strategy, David Cameron has led from the front by calling an Out vote a «step into the dark» and the «gamble of the century».

Ministers have repeatedly rejected calls to launch an investigation into the conduct of the war and its future strategy, and MPs voted narrowly in favour of the government's position during a Commons debate in November.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

The defeat also calls into question Labour's entire election strategy, as the party made the NHS, and in particular the threat to maternity and A&E services at West Cumberland Hospital, the central theme of its campaign.

A 2009 audit report revealed that up to 60 billion Cedis of the tax payer's money taken from the TOR debt recovery levy, the HIPC etc. was used to fund a so called communication strategy which was only a euphemism for a conduit used to siphon state funds into the NPP campaign.

Nick Herbert also calls into question May's strategy, saying another prime minister might have renegotiated with the EU after the referendum

«David Cameron reiterates call for inquiry into the Iraq War as Brown announces British troop withdrawals Main Lessons from the Damian Green affair for Tory strategy»

The researchers call this newly - discovered ACS - mediated mechanism a «lipid sensor» and believe it could be a widespread strategy by which animals translate cues from the environment into physiological responses.

The second step of EPRI's new analysis inserts the technology conclusions of the PRISM model into a computer model of the U.S. economy called MERGE to determine how much different carbon reduction strategies would cost.

However, rapidly aging infrastructure, population growth, and increasing urbanization call into question current urban water management strategies, especially in the fast - growing urban areas in Asia and Africa.

McBeath, Shaffer and Kaiser call this strategy the linear optical trajectory model of ball catching, and note that it can explain one of baseball's stranger phenomena: fielders occasionally run into the boundary walls, even if the shortest path towards where the ball will land would have allowed them to avoid a collision.

This report isn't the first to call for further investigation into the potential of geoengineering strategies, which encompass techniques to cool the Earth or absorb existing greenhouse gases using technology or ecosystem - based methods.

His strategy was to first cluster the voxels (essentially three - dimensional pixels) that make up each image into larger units called supervoxels.

Dubbed the «Republican climate jailbreak strategy,» the plan calls for taxes to be collected at the source — on oil at the refinery, for instance — then built into the prices for products made from that material.

These strategies are: (1) physical separation by temporarily converting the two enantiomers into two diastereomers (called resolution); (2) physical separation in a chiral chromatographic environment; (3) chemical discrimination in a chiral environment (using enzymes or other chiral platforms as chemical reagents); and (4) asymmetric synthesis of one enantiomer in preference to the other.

While we haven't had a Metal Gear Soccer game (yet), Konami converted the classic stealth series into a turn - based strategy / collectable card game called Metal Gear Acid for the launch of the PSP.

The majority of the film finds Will trying to adjust to a life in a new environment, where he tries to impress Clio and Colette (real life twin sisters Aundrea and Gia Gadsby) with his laid - back parenting, a strategy that soon breaks down and calls into question his ability to do all that is necessary to be a truly responsible parent.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

The focus of algorithmic thinking is the algorithm or problem - solving strategy, whereas, the focus of coding is the translation of the algorithm into a language that a computer can execute, a process called implementation.

The second phase is making those strategies into what we call a tool box.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

Demands: 1) Call on the School District to advance sustainable community schools strategies to turn PPS schools into community schools

After years of her own research, Anderson can spot red flags that call into question the claim of «alignment»: Too many shortcuts or tricks like the «invert and multiply» strategy of dividing fractions (part of the point of Common Core is to move away from shortcuts in math instruction); a dumbing down of the material (the new standards encourage students to wrestle with complex material on their own); or a focus on closed - ended questions.

Instead, the new strategy called for the integration of refugees into national school systems.

Teachers have a better sense of what is entailed in those experiences, what obstacles need to be overcome, and what teaching or learning strategies will be called into play.

Schools are being mandated to use programs like Teaching Strategies Gold, into which teachers spend inordinate amounts of time entering up to ten «domains» of information, even submitting photos and videos to provide what they call evidence, to ensure toddlers are on the track to success.

(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638: Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know About Inclusion?