Sentences with phrase «central functions of»

«I am concerned that the central functions of the Agency have been obfuscated by ideology, frustrated by a severe lack of transparency, undermined by science the Agency keeps hidden, and implemented without regard for economic consequences,» Vitter said.

These are central functions of the brain, around which many fundamental principles of brain function are built.

The central functions of the local councils are education and prevention, but their Information Centers also advise with alcoholics, relatives, and others concerning finding treatment in their community.

In any case, there can be no question of the central function of the Word in the succession of prophets beginning with Samuel and Nathan.

Even more disastrously, it may mean that the central function of ministry is felt to be a discourse on Sunday morning, containing a lead, three points, and a thought for next week, not to exceed twenty - five minutes in length, set forth in a tone any self - respecting human being would reject if approached privately.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

They are extensions of a central function of the church — the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments.

They are extensions of a central function of the church — the preaching of the Word and administration of the sacraments.

The second public meeting was held the following year in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, and since then it has been a central function of the HBA to hold these meetings to keep the idea of home birth in the public eye.

What will then suffer is the historically central function of the First Amendment, which is simply to ensure that those who wish to speak on matters of political and social controversy are free to do so.

Some examples of this include a circumstance where the client instructs a third party to direct a lawyer to act on the client's behalf or the client directs a third party to seek legal advice on his or her behalf, as these examples are a central function of the solicitor - client relationship.

Not exact matches

«Certainly, Mexico, the four BRIC countries and Korea» are «a critical part of the modern globalized economy, and they are just as central to its functioning as the current G7 is,» it wrote.

Business ethics is a number of things — an academic discipline, a field of practical expertise and, increasingly, a central business function.

One day, Reynolds says, a version of InVivo's implant, packed with stem cells or hormones, might help the six million Americans who are chronically paralyzed from SCI and other central nervous system disorders improve their level of functioning.

The entire interior of all Tesla's is organized around a large central touchscreen that controls almost all vehicle functions.

Many central banks, especially during the most acute phases of the crisis, also employed policies known as «credit easing,» which involves purchases of private sector assets in certain credit markets that are important to the functioning of the financial system but are temporarily impaired.

While a central bank sets its short - term interest rate, r - star is a function of the economy that is beyond its influence.

That is, both can affect perceptions of the central bank's reaction function.

Gross writes that, «Soaring debt / GDP ratios in previously sacrosanct AAA countries have made low - cost funding increasingly a function of central banks as opposed to private market investors.»

By conducting policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important in determining the central bank's reaction function, I think policymakers can strike the best balance between a monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity about how the FOMC is likely to respond to changing circumstances.

Rieder said money is flowing to stocks in part because there's not enough fixed income supply in the world, a function of central banks buying bonds and crowding out private investment.

At the core of his three - year plan for increasing returns to shareholders was splitting the company into three autonomous businesses and eliminating its central research function.

At that time, the central banking and trading functions of the (then) government - owned Commonwealth Bank were separated, with the Reserve Bank of Australia created to handle the former and the Commonwealth Bank continuing as a commercial bank.

Secondly, it needs to communicate a general understanding of the central bank's reaction function.

The other major source of information on the central bank's reaction function has been the quarterly inflation reports or their equivalent.

This is partly a function of very benign monetary conditions and a child - like faith in the ability of central banks to provide a backstop in the event of any selloff.

FRANKFURT (Reuters)- The European Central Bank has designed a new test simulating cyber attacks on banks, stock exchanges and other firms that are critical for the functioning of...

Users conduct transactions with other users without using a Central server, and does not have a Central authority that performs the functions of the supervisor or has a book of orders.

The primary function of central banks is to control the size and growth rate of the money supply.

Decentralization is the process of dispersing powers or functions away from a central point to a network of independent parts.

As Giancarlo notes, we're in the middle of «an extraordinary period of governmental and central bank intervention in the U.S. economy that is widely distorting the nature and functioning of global capital markets.»

The companies said 31 percent of the merger benefits would come from simplifying and harmonizing their operational platforms, 16 percent from eliminating overlaps in distribution and 12 percent from «a rationalization of central functions.»

In the same way that Bitcoin is a central bank of the internet that prints virtual currency and pays users in that currency for helping the network to function — these new players issue their own virtual currencies that also incentivize users to contribute to network functionality.

The host of CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer, played himself in a courtroom scene where he testifies that he doesn't consider bitcoin a true currency, saying «There's no central bank to regulate it; it's digital and functions completely peer to peer».

While the Commonwealth Bank did take on some central banking functions in the 1920s, including note issue and the provision of settlement accounts, the watershed was the 1936 Royal Commission.

Historically this role had important synergies with other central banking functions, and with other aspects of what we now call financial stability policy.

The convergence of Japan's P / E multiple to more global norms is therefore partly a function of convergence of global interest rates to similar extremely low levels through synchronized quantitative easing by central banks.

This put Synereo in the forefront of the race towards the much coveted «World Computer» - a global network of personal devices, functioning as a unitary virtual machine, rendering central servers and data centers redundant.

I have already made the point that one part of the instrument set — the management of financial system liquidity, or the last resort lending function — is inherently a function of the central bank.

International financial markets have generally continued to thaw, with most capital markets functioning again and the use by banks of exceptional support from central banks and government guarantees being wound down.

Some would argue that the market's normal functions of pricing for risk have been distorted or overwhelmed by central bank actions.

Remote Work — Performing the functions of a job, often from home, without the need to commute to a central place of employment, such as an office building.

In central Europe it sometimes seems that the deepest reason for preserving and developing the theological tradition in the university has been that a profession exists whose chief function is the proclamation of the Biblical message.

This focus on the social functions of language has drawn together literary and social criticism toward something of a convergence on what might be termed ideological criticism, an issue also central to the third methodological movement to be discussed, cultural hermeneutics.

The convention authorized the establishment of a «Central University» provided that no less than half the required million dollars were in hand, and named the members of its Board of Trust, who were to function under supervision of the bishops of the church.

Yet whenever there has been a clear conception of the office one of these functions has been regarded as central and the other functions have been ordered so as to serve, not indeed it, but, the chief purpose that it served directly.

Ely's more detailed analysis and discussion of the religious aspects of Whitehead's God pertain to three central problems as they function in Whitehead's thought: [1) the preservation of values (God's consequent or concrete nature); (2) the transmutation of evil into good (which includes the problems of evil and God's goodness); and (3) the problem of the relation of God's goodness and the preservation of the individual as such.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

Justice is central to the braiding together of ethics and epistemology in the formation of new meanings and functions of symbols.

Elsewhere in the world, religion functions primarily in its superstition modes (as in much of central Africa), or is used as a device for social or political control (as in Iran, India, and the Middle East).