Sentences with phrase «chief purpose in»

You'll get as much entertainment (and that is the films chief purpose in my eyes) as you are willing to let LVT do his thing.

He also rejected as inhuman King's command to love the enemy: «It is not possible to love a man whose chief purpose in life is to humiliate you and still be considered a normal human being.»

Not exact matches

«General Mills» decision to draw attention to the issue of declining bee populations marks the continuation of its commitment to purpose - based marketing, which means brands will go beyond traditional statements such as product benefit in order to align with what's really important to consumers,» Cossette chief creative officer Peter Ignazi told AdWeek.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

«When I stepped into the chief executive role in 2011, I was more connected to all facets of the company and saw for the first time how important it was to have a shared sense of purpose and identity that resonated across the entire organization.»

Section 162 (m) of the Internal Revenue Code imposes limitations on the deductibility for corporate federal income tax purposes of remuneration in excess of $ 1 million paid to the chief executive officer, chief financial officer and each of the three next most highly compensated executive officers of a public company.

But, as Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne reminded analysts in 2015 in perhaps the most interesting earnings call I've listened to, the sell - side has a purpose that goes beyond chucking numbers into a spreadsheet to forecast where the stock will be by year - end:

Under Section 162 (m), the amount of compensation earned by the Chief Executive Officer, and any executive whose compensation is required to be reported to stockholders by reason of such executive being among the three other most highly - paid executive officers of the Company (excluding the Chief Financial Officer) in the year for which a deduction is claimed by the Company (including its subsidiaries) is limited to $ 1 million per person, except that compensation that is performance - based will be excluded for purposes of calculating the amount of compensation subject to the $ 1 million limitation.

In a statement uploaded to the Uber Newsroom, the company's Chief Security Officer, Joe Sullivan, explained the intended purpose of the Greyball tool.

The Apple chief has also called for stronger data privacy regulations in light of the scandal, which saw the data of 50 million Facebook users improperly harvested and used for political purposes.

According to Schiller, Lycurgus» chief sin was to deny that «the state is never an end in itself (Der Staat selbst ist niemals Zweck); it is important only as a condition under which the purpose of mankind can be attained, and this purpose is none other than the development of all man's powers, his progress and improvement.»

The way he situates marriage alongside virginity is, to my modern eyes, certainly sobering; it's unromanticized, as it is made clear that the chief purpose of marriage is the begetting of children, and that is, in a certain sense, inferior to virginity.

All of us are interested in salvation, but all of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's chief purpose.

It is true, certainly, that the preservation of the faith in its full integrity is the chief function of the Voice of Peter; it is also true that it was precisely for that purpose that those who promoted Ratzinger's candidacy in Conclave 2005 did so.

It is also easy to lead children to sing simple songs for the chief purpose of having fun, to the extent that they get whipped up in a frenzy of enjoyable emotion, which we teach them (even if only inadvertently so) is the mark of true worship.

The chief meaning of his existence had lain in group relationships, group functions, and group purposes.

That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»

I suggested a like correspondence between the original Easter faith and the insight that the resurrection of Jesus is the chief exemplification of God's raising into himself of everything compatible with his loving purpose — an insight that is itself compatible with our experience of the risen Jesus as of God, and in God, yet also distinct from God.

The second thing we may note is that in the plot of each of this group of myths there is both a male and a female figure, and the love affair or marriage between them is closely associated with the renewal of growth, the chief purpose of the myth.

But it is, I have said, the chief instrumentality since it is the place where he is explicitly acknowledged as Lord, his purpose as sent from God recognized and accepted, even if not always (and this is our human sin) implemented in every respect.

Wang's own special emphasis is on the fact that if the good can be found functioning within one's own mind, there is no need to investigate things outside the mind for the purpose of abiding in the highest good; this is the chief point of his dispute with Chu Hsi.17

He was filled with ceaseless waiting for the hour of redemption and finally initiated and played the chief part in the secret rites which he and certain other zaddikim... performed with the purpose of converting the Napoleonic wars into the pre-Messianic final battle of Gog and Magog.

Virtually no one called for separation in the way that the Supreme Court understands it today: that legislation must evince secular purposes and effects, and foster no «excessive government entanglement with religion» (see Chief Justice Warren Burger's 1971 opinion in Lemon v. Kartzman).

It is the purpose of this volume to present certain studies of the gospel at the point where the oral tradition was being crystallized in writing; and for this reason we shall pay chief attention to the Gospel of Mark, though the other early source or cycle — Q, the «Sayings Source» — will also engage our attention now and then, But we can not deal with that source in detail at present; indeed, we shall not have the time to deal adequately with Mark, and can study only some of its leading features and the problems to which these give rise.

Indeed, it is usually taken in small bites along with rice and other foods, its chief purpose being to perk up something otherwise bland, and to cleanse the palate of fats and starch.

But the governor's absence in Indian Lake robbed the event of one of its intended purposes, which is for local lawmakers to mingle, network and lobby for Adirondack issues with officials from across the state — including its chief executive.

For the purposes of this section, any officer or employee or agent of the responsible department authorised in that behalf by the chief executive of that department may, at the request of the Electoral Commission, supply to the Electoral Commission any immigration information held by that department.

For the purpose of applying the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, in accordance with subclause (2), to a person who holds office as the chief executive or, as the case may be, is in the service of the Electoral Commission as an officer or employee and (in any such case) is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund, the term controlling authority, in relation to any such person, means the chief executive.

The report had claimed that Osinbajo was scheduled to visit Gbaramatu Kingdom where the embattled ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, hails from for the purpose of holding talks with leaders of Gbaramatu, which had become a hub of militants» activities in recent times.

Ms. Mark - Viverito's team was Brooklyn - infused for this purpose and included a paid operative, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's chief of staff John Paul Lupo, and an operative with the controversial Advance Group, Jonathan Yedin, who has been working in Brooklyn Democratic Party politics for more than a decade and belongs to Mr. Seddio's political club.

«The purpose of my visit is also to explain certain government policies and initiatives to very important stakeholders including the chiefs, religious leaders as well as civil society organisations whose contributions matter a lot in the implementation of such policies and initiatives,» she explained.

«The purpose of this information is to help show in some detail where hard choices will have to be made, and inform that debate locally,» HM chief inspector of constabulary Sir Denis O'Connor said.

In the New York State Assembly, the rules cede control over the committee process to the Speaker of the Assembly, which effectively strips committees of their chief legislative purpose.

«In the course of the late Malu's eventful tenure as the country's Chief of Army Staff from 1999 to 2001, he doggedly canvassed and undertook reforms aimed at establishing a truly national army with a deep sense of purpose.

A brainchild of Chief Dele Momodu, Chief Executive Officer of Ovation Group of Companies, The Ovation Carol 2016, was birthed in 2007 with the purpose of showing appreciation to God at the tail end of every year.

Proposed by Cuomo in his 2014 State of the State, the chief advertised purpose of the bond is for technology upgrades in school districts, which vary widely in terms of their resources.

Mary Tanner - Richter is Bureau Chief of the Albany County Vehicular Crimes Unit: «The whole purpose of that is dealing with people who clearly have made choices in the past to get behind the wheel when they shouldn't have, and since they aren't able to make those wise decisions themselves, the courts are now requiring them to put on Ignition Interlock devices.

14 December 2016 Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS Focus: General Purpose Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Business in the Future Featuring: Dr. Kazuo Yano, Corporate Officer and Corporate Chief Scientist, Director of the Hitachi Artificial - Intelligence Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., and discussant David Rejeski, Director, Technology, Innovation and the Environment Project, Environmental Law Institute.

Professor Peter Horton FRS, Chief Research Advisor to the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield and corresponding author of the paper, said: «Our findings bring into focus a key part of the food security challenge — resolving the major conflicts embedded in the agri - food system, whose primary purpose is to make money not to provide sustainable global food security.

«If our purpose was to save lives and avoid injury and illnesses, we did not have years, months, or even weeks to wait for corrective actions,» said former Occupational Safety and Health Administration chief John Henshaw in a recent House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing.

In addition, several key support units within the University report directly to the Chief Operations Officer for management purposes.

The chief purpose of hiring university scientists now is to make more financial profits for their employer (see my early article in the Scientists category on «What's the New Main Job of Faculty Scientists Today?»)

The chief purpose of the ideas in this section of our website is to stimulate your thinking about training.

Pettyfer is pretty and easygoing but lacks the sort of charisma that comes with a more focused sense of interior purpose, and the film basically feels, at its core, like a mash - up of carefully cross-tabbed teen movie trends, which is probably what happens when you set out in pre-production with the chief intent of manufacturing the next big «Twilight» - type cinematic franchise.

He later won a supporting part as the most trusted of Jack Nicholson's goons in The Departed, playing a man who never questions his role as chief enforcer, and who is, for all intents and purposes, a mass murderer.

Professor Geoff Masters AO, Chief Executive Officer of ACER, says the purpose of assessment is to establish and understand where learners are in their learning at the time of assessment.

Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC in Wales, said: We know that in a large number of cases, attacks are carried out on children by abusers who have first groomed them for this purpose.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

The chapter's purpose is to enhance the skill set for chief technology officers in Indiana school districts through professional development and effective use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.

«It's not clear what the formal accountability system will be going forward in the state of California, but from the get - go, the purpose of this more multimeasured, holistic system was about giving schools a more complete picture of how they are performing,» said Noah Bookman, chief accountability officer for CORE.