Sentences with phrase «changing global order»

In a changing global order, the European Union might not have the economic or military resources to ensure its geo - strategic importance long - term.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

There are myriad services, many of them free, specifically tailored to deepen Canadian companies» presence in emerging markets — something Todd Winterhalt, vice-president and managing director of global trade for Export Development Canada (EDC), feels is important in order to change the fact that 70 % of Canadian exporters sell primarily to the U.S. «Diversification of trade is a good thing,» he says.

There has been a sea change in the interim, with a majority of larger international companies now considering China to be a market where they must prevail in order to have sustainable success on a global basis.

It is clear that our global food industry will need to undergo a radical transformation in order to meet the changing needs of consumers in the coming decades.

Cunha credits Scott — whose administration famously prohibited references to climate change or global warming in state publications — with «the best of intentions» in issuing mandatory evacuation orders.

2015.09.18 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. announces changes to the RBC Private Pool Lineup RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM Inc.) announced today that in order to reduce duplication of fund offerings that have the same or substantially similar investment objectives across the RBC GAM Inc. fund families,...

My key questions then are: is the first - order benefit gained from applying McClung's drawdown and portfolio allocation strategy rather than annual rebalancing to fixed asset proportions; and is modifying a globally diversified market cap portfolio to a Triad (or similar) portfolio necessary to benefit from McClung's strategy or is the global cap portfolio likely to be adequate and the required changes only offer second - order benefits?

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

In chapter 1, «Redefining the Enemy,» I describe the present global economic order as one in need of fundamental restructuring, and how the United States through low - intensity conflict seeks to block or control any such changes.

This simply makes it easier to overlook the point that these factors are in turn linked to broader patterns of change in the global order and that taking these broader patterns into account may give a fuller understanding of what is happening.

In the quotation at the head of this chapter, Daly and Cobb write of the impending change to the present global order necessitated by the deteriorating environment resulting from the dominant economic and political order.

Jamie is calling on us all to join a global Food Revolution in order to provoke debate and inspire real, meaningful, positive change in the way -LSB-...]

However, the high profile China - Africa relationship also marks a trend that says as much about Africa's changing place in the global order as it does about the rise of China.

Mr Asiedu - Nketsia said the school would serve as a research centre for the changing global ideological perspective and realign itself with the global trends in social democracy in order to promote and strengthen the party's philosophy.

5) A new high level dialogue to discuss a joint vision for the global governance in the area of energy and climate change could be established within the «EU - China Strategic Partnership on Climate Change» in order to improve the EU's ability to conceive institutional frameworks that are likely to gather the necessary suchange could be established within the «EU - China Strategic Partnership on Climate Change» in order to improve the EU's ability to conceive institutional frameworks that are likely to gather the necessary suChange» in order to improve the EU's ability to conceive institutional frameworks that are likely to gather the necessary support.

Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.

This study, coordinated by researchers from the GET (IRD, OMP, CNRS, CNES, UPS) and EPOC laboratories (OASU, CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1) and published in the journal Nature, changes the order for global carbon footprints.

Japan is stepping up and making significant changes to its education system in order to develop a stronger global presence.

As climate change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

Indeed, simply reading an article that affirmed the power of scientific progress to successfully address global issues such as climate change (vs. reading an article which questioned its efficacy in doing so) was enough to significantly increase the degree to which participants saw order in the world.

Complex as they may be, the activities and effects of consumers should be incorporated into global vegetation models in order to accurately predict the likely consequences of global change.

We want our climate model to be representative of the processes going on, in order to be predictive of how carbon storage responds to global change.»

As for the paper's conclusion that removing atmospheric carbon is necessary in order to achieve the 2 ˚C target, climate scientist Richard Moss of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, says that's a nearly impossible goal «with what we know about today.»

Meanwhile, the Obama administration wants NASA to divert more money to Earth observation in order to provide data on global climate change.

And Brakenridge points out another less immediate application: «We have to know how big a flood event is and keep a global record of such events in order to determine if climate change is accompanied by changes in the frequency and magnitude of big floods.»

A lot of people even at professorial level still seem to confuse this old - time climatology with something rather different: global climate change research looking for an order of magnitude more accuracy.

The starting point is for researchers around the world to work together and focus on identifying common forms of genetic variation in the global population and then map the changes and movements in order to understand how it starts and how it spreads.

Some global warming «skeptics» argue that the Earth's climate sensitivity is so low that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 will result in a surface temperature change on the order of 1 °C or less, and that therefore global warming is nothing to worry about.

To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these changes we compile various environmental records (and model - based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes on Earth's radiative budget and, thus, on global annual mean surface temperature over the last 800,000 years.

For example, the report summarizes recent research underpinning the scientific rationale for large and rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the likelihood of dangerous human - induced climate change.

The emission limit depends on climate sensitivity, but central estimates [12]--[13], including those in the upcoming Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [14], are that a 2 °C global warming limit implies a cumulative carbon emissions limit of the order of 1000 GtC.

Launched in February 2017 with start - up support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disruption.

The only way to continue would be to «rev yourself up» and change the global hormonal activity in your body in order to allow your liver to continue feeding sugar to your hand muscles (among other things).

In a future where global climate change has sapped the Earth's water supply, a paramilitary group called HUMNX (pronounced humanix) has risen to return order to a world spinning out of control.

In order to global awareness about Islam and change the habits of the global media we must educate the world about moderate, traditional, and spiritual Islam.

We need concrete steps towards achieving sustainability at the global scale, in order to curb the rate at which the climate is changing.

** CLIMATE CHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lCHANGE LESSON ** Included in the lesson package is: The teacher version of the PowerPoint The student version of the PowerPoint Three videos embedded in the PowerPoint Student lesson handout In order, the lesson covers: Weather vs. Climate Earth's energy supply The atmosphere Greenhouse gases The greenhouse effect Enhanced greenhouse effect The role of the carbon cycle Effects of global warming Historic climate change Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lchange Climate proxies What you can do The student version contains multiple blanks that need to be filled in throughout the lesson.

By Dr. Joanne Robinson, Director of Professional Learning, Education Leadership Canada CEO, International School Leadership ONTARIO PRINCIPALS» COUNCIL Universally, we are having a lot of discussion about the needs of our 21st Century graduates in order for them to survive and thrive in changing global societies.

Universally, we are having a lot of discussion about the needs of our 21st Century graduates in order for them to survive and thrive in changing global societies.

The global strategy becomes even riskier for families if Pearson overestimates its ability to change laws in order to create private school scholarships.

In order to help our students succeed in an global economy driven by dramatic, rapid and powerful changes in technology, we need to harness new approaches and new possibilities to provide students with innovative, project - based, experiential learning opportunities that better prepare them to be global citizens and lifelong learners.»

Kindezi Academy inspires students to inquire, analyze, and innovate in order to solve the problems of an ever - changing global community.

«In order to keep pace with our rapid growth and to provide a more global support model across many products, countries and languages, we recently made a number of changes to our customer support infrastructure.

In order to meet the ever - changing needs of its guest, IHG invested in the $ 1 billion Holiday Inn global brand relaunch, the largest in hospitality history.

However, in order to stay competitive in the accelerating global network environment, we will always carefully review and make structural changes, if necessary, in order to further expand and strengthen the PlayStation business around the world.»

Group exhibitions include: Global Imaginations, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, NL (2015); El Theatro del Mundo, Museo Tamayo Art Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX (2014); Ja Natuurlijk, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, NL (2013); On Geometry and Speculation, Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennial, MO (2012); Portscapes, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, NL (2010); Screaming and Hearing, 7th Mercosul Biennial Porto Alegre, BR (2009); The Order of Things, MuHKA, Antwerp, BE (2008); 8th Sharjah Biennial «Still life, Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change», UE (2007).

, 11th Shanghai Biennial, CN (2016 upcoming); Wanderlust, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL (2016); Third Nature, CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale - On - Hudson, US (2016); Global Imaginations, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, NL (2015); Fact & Fiction, Lehnbachhaus, Munich, DE (2015); Out There, Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam, NL (2015); El Theatro del Mundo, Museo Tamayo Art Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX (2014); Ja Natuurlijk, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, NL (2013); On Geometry and Speculation, Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennial, MO (2012); The Greater Cloud, NiMK, Amsterdam, NL (2011); Portscapes, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, NL (2010); Screaming and Hearing, 7th Mercosul Biennial Porto Alegre, BR (2009); Now JumP, Nam June Paik Museum, Yongin - si, KR (2008); The Order of Things, MuHKA, Antwerp, BE (2008); «Still life, Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change», 8th Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2007).