Sentences with phrase «change in this sector does»

As a close observer of Japanese nuclear policy decisions from both inside and outside of the government, I know that change in this sector does not happen quickly.

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Forte Oil did not give a reason for the change in direction but said the downstream sector in Nigeria had gone through changes in recent years and was expected to evolve further.

Fortune and Time gathered 100 global chief executives yesterday in lower Manhattan for a day of powerful conversations about how the private sector can do well by doing good — which, as Fortune subscribers know, is the theme of our annual Change the World issue.

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

Changes in the retail sector may also cause some HNWIs to do some shifting and reorganizing within their real estate portfolios over the next five years as they look to reduce exposure to some types of retail real estate, he adds.

But many in the technology sector have shied away from the industry after witnessing many high - profile failures and realizing that change doesn't happen quickly.

From our perspective, the financial sector side, in what sense does climate change pose new or different risks to the financial system, all the way from the obvious, such as the concept of stranded assets, which you've got lending all against those things?

It is impossible to make forecasts because we don't know the change in behaviour that this could cause in the manufacturing sector or in Canada, given that they could find other markets, other value chains elsewhere in the world that do not involve the United States.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare rechanges in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare reChanges in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare rechanges and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

And finally, Tim McMillan, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, who said: ``... the province's climate strategy may allow our sector to invest more aggressively in technologies to further reduce per barrel emissions in our sector and do our part to tackle climate change.

The growth of independent working in PR — as consultants, freelancers and remote workers — looks to change the industry as it has done in many sectors.

The flipside was that, unlike in later quantitative easing policies, the central bank did not much change the private sector's balance sheet.

The internet did change the world, but about nine out of 10 companies in the sector also ended up «valueless,» Marks said.

Cuomo said the Legislature didn't have an appetite for the proposed changes, which included constitutional amendments for term limits, limiting private - sector income and bills aimed at making it easier to vote in New York.

This would leave them unable to respond to changes in local communities - something that voluntary schools can do in the maintained sector.»

And it's because we are determined to do what's fair by people who work in the public sector that we are suggesting other changes.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

Ashade stated further that at the announcement of the company's change of name from Africa Prudential Plc to Africa Prudential Registrars Plc in 2017, it was emphasized that the name change does not imply its exit from registrar business but was rather to enable it extend service offerings to other sectors of the economy by leveraging technology, one of which is the just launched USSD code * 4018 #.

I did indeed pledge to oppose the fee rises under the current system but Lord Browne's report proposes many of the changes I campaigned for, - more support for students from poorer backgrounds, a proper Graduate starting salary before paying money back, and a duty on universities to provide much more information to students about what they get for their money and the likelihood of graduate employment in their chosen sectors.

I have said before that I thought it was right for short - term commitments to be in line with the coalition spending plans, as changes inevitably produce disturbance to business cycles, but that doesn't prevent Labour from saying that long - term they would seek to ameliorate the concerns of public sector - workers, e.g. future pay increases would be above inflation to restore the earning power that was lost through the recession.

Deputy Mayor Buery stressed that the city is committed to those fixes and is engaged in constant dialogue with the nonprofit sector, but change doesn't happen overnight.

Whereas the ETAN report «didn't find any outstanding universities getting things right,» and the Helsinki Group turned up «no individual countries that stood out» as being especially conducive to women's involvement in science and engineering, looking at the private sector, there are a number of companies that are «on the path of changing their organisation and culture,» notes Rees.

Therefore, BIOACID researchers interviewed stakeholders from the fishing, tourism and environmental protection sectors in Norway: Do they notice any effects of global change already?

If we cast our minds back to the world of 50 years ago the scale of the task that faces us is clear: the inexorable pace of change will see today's students working in roles and sectors that simply didn't exist when they were at school.

This same expansion of choice does not lead to major changes in the public sector.

Given the changes occurring in both sectors, how does an expansion of choice appear to affect the social gap between public and private?

He also gained experience working in various sectors of education, always thinking about what he could do to change the course of action in the present for kids.

«It was clear to me that if we were asking teachers to make huge [changes], we needed to do something at the sector level in terms of supporting staff wellbeing.»

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

In this country there are five things that we particular focus on in the DfE, firstly having the best schools that we possibly can do, and yes that has meant changing the school structures, we now have academies, we now have free schools, we have UTCs, we have studio schools and of course we have the state maintained sector and the independent sector as well.&raquIn this country there are five things that we particular focus on in the DfE, firstly having the best schools that we possibly can do, and yes that has meant changing the school structures, we now have academies, we now have free schools, we have UTCs, we have studio schools and of course we have the state maintained sector and the independent sector as well.&raquin the DfE, firstly having the best schools that we possibly can do, and yes that has meant changing the school structures, we now have academies, we now have free schools, we have UTCs, we have studio schools and of course we have the state maintained sector and the independent sector as well.»

«If you're investing in the tech sector where things change month - to - month and year - to - year, a concentrated portfolio probably doesn't make sense.

The flow of money into ETFs doesn't represent some mad rush to a specific asset class or sector; it's simply a change in formats to access the same thing.

Along these same «indexing» lines, what do you think of using ALL the sector ETFs (Vanguard has 11) to index each sector and then rebalance among them as they change in value?

Moran continued, «With our economy and housing sector in such a fragil state, it is imperative that we make industry changes that protect consumers yet do not hinder genuine home financing opportunities that will help people in our economy get back on their feet.

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«There should never be a hierarchy presented in the cultural sector which says «I privilege this thing over another» because that's not what we're doing... Without sounding cynical, I really hope it [the Turner prize] won't change my life and that things will continue as they are.»

Given that, looking at changes in frequency of events (or return times, as is sometimes done), is more general and allows different sectors / people to assess the effects based on their prior experience.

Probably the single most important thing that we can do is to organize around making fundamental changes in the building sector of our economy.

Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

«On top of this, you have voluntary markets doing something totally different involving the private sector, and California is doing something in another zone, also in the private sector,» says Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment & Climate Change and executive director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.

«We're concerned that — for example — the forthcoming rules on carbon pollution could get weakened to the point where they don't really produce the changes in the energy sector that can and should be made,» says David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The comparison is valid, because the point of the comparison is nothing to do with the causes of change in the business environment, it was that individual businesses, even individual economic sectors, are not the economy.

We believe that working together with such a wide range of sectors is something that we'll all need to be able to do in our climate - changing world....

Even seemingly «straightforward» applications like the assessment of the impact of changes in the mean annual cycle of temperature on shifting butterfly populations did find more climate variables than just temperature to be of importance (see e.g. WallisDeVries et al, 2011; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172409/), and this generally applies to many sectors and applications.

Repealing federal regulations that the new administration claims has restricted coal production does not change the fact that demand for coal in the power sector will continue to struggle in the face of other competitive pressures.

While we have found that, in general, there is a long way to go for before we see any real progressive change in the finance sector, there are a number of institutions that do offer sound ethical alternatives, and switching to these has never been easier.

UCS found in a 2014 report that «over half of the gap between what countries intend to do to reduce emissions and what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change could be closed by stronger actions in the land sector.»