Sentences with phrase «collective interested in»

Undocumentary is an artist collective interested in the uses and abuses of documentary as a tool for asserting reality.

This theme will allow all stakeholders to re-examine our collective interest in shaping a better future for our nation.

We must equally take collective interest in the annual national budget to ensure that states in the southwest are adequately taken care of as this must be done by using our technical people to study the budget on our behalf and brief us appropriately.

Worse, it can undermine our collective interest in inculcating in our students values (like conscientiousness, verve, and determination) that lead to individual, community, and national flourishing.

By looking at their individual approaches to making art, the exhibition reveals a shared tendency towards the obsessive and a collective interest in p...

Information session offered for artists and artist collectives interested in applying to Studio in the Park — a residency program that provides an artist or artist collective use of a 150 square foot mobile studio space, situated in an NYC public park, to carry out a community engaged art project over the course of 6 weeks.

Right now, there is a significant conflict of interest when government officials have an individual or collective interest in the continued profitability of the fossil fuel sector.

Research initiatives, whether developed directly through SFI or SFI Program Participants, advance our collective interests in clean water, biological diversity, climate change, forest health and sustainable forestry, making a real difference in practices implemented on the ground.

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He states that the collective strength areas of Finzy's in - house team coupled with the startup's approach to business got the investors interested in pumping equity.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

With the whole approach here, the vast majority of new funding is coming from folks like Mark and Priscilla Chan, and Emerson Collective, and John Doerr's Foundation, that not only have a very long timeline, but are explicitly interested in the impact side as well as the financial return.

Through our collective experiences in the executive compensation consulting and legal arenas, we can effectively work with companies to promote the attraction, motivation and retention of key management talent in a manner that is responsible and aligned with shareholder interests.

FLANNERY: I think, fundamentally, you know, my belief is over time, people are rational about what is in their collective best interest.

Worldwide interest surged, which boosted the collective market cap from $ 93.3 billion in August 2017 to just under $ 600 billion by mid-December 2017 — an increase of 543 percent in just four months.

Worldwide interest in the crypto space has surged and boosted the collective market cap from a mere USD93.3 billion in August year 2017 to a whopping USD600 billion in a matter of just three and a half months — that is a growth of 543 %!

Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

Texts need to be seen within their cultural settings in order to be revealed as they truly are, as one of the ways by which persons pursue their individual and collective interests.

In the great welter of urban and rural communes, political and religious collectives, sects, cults, and churches that have sprung up in recent years, there are many interesting developmentIn the great welter of urban and rural communes, political and religious collectives, sects, cults, and churches that have sprung up in recent years, there are many interesting developmentin recent years, there are many interesting developments.

In selling goods and services, yes, but when you cross over into selling access to a community — including selling other people's contributions to that community — you become the gatekeeper of a communal property, and I think it is proper that decisions then be made with the interests of the community itself, the collective, in minIn selling goods and services, yes, but when you cross over into selling access to a community — including selling other people's contributions to that community — you become the gatekeeper of a communal property, and I think it is proper that decisions then be made with the interests of the community itself, the collective, in minin mind.

But these explanations focus on psychological factors rather than providing insight into the institutional contexts in which ideas are actually produced, paid for, brought into contact with an interested audience, enacted in collective rituals, used to mobilize resources against competing ideologies, and embedded in social arrangements.

They must have this wisdom in order that they may beguile, deflect, harness and restrain self - interest, individual and collective, for the sake of the community.»

I've always considered Jung's idea of the «Collective Unconscious» and Plato's discussion of memory in Meno quite interesting, with the idea that we have access to information beyond what we've personally experienced and that we are not born completely tabula rasa, that education is not one person giving someone else some bit of information, but rather simply reminding them of something they already knew since before being born.

Descriptively, the public sphere refers to that aspect of social action, cultural institutions, and collective decision - making that affects all people in the society and engages the interests of all people in the national body....

But given their unification in this manner, along with the guiding interest in numbering the objects concerned, the totality of objects does in fact appear to us as one intuitive whole in which the unifying relations («collective combinations») may be seen to be exactly what they are.

At most, you might deem it well to keep a few chosen specimens alive to represent an interesting and peculiar variety of humanity; but as for the rest, what comes in such surpassing numbers, and what you can only imagine in this abstract summary collective manner, must be something of which the units, you are sure, can have no individual preciousness.

No «collective interest» is here in sight.

About SE Wine Collective Kate and Thomas Monroe, of Division Winemaking Company, founded the Southeast Wine Collective in 2012 in response to their personal interest in creating a unique multi-faceted urban winery, coupled with increasing public interest in the urban wine movement.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

A politics of fairness and equality is about both (i) making an argument across the whole of society that a fairer and more equal society is in our collective enlightened self - interest, using the arguments of Richard Wilkinson, etc on issues like crime, general well - being, and that there are benefits of fairness for those at the top too.

In the book, I encourage the Left to defend an alternative definition of the individual interest as a means of triggering collective transformations.

My forthcoming book, Oser la liberté: l'individu comme objectif, le collectif comme moyen («Daring Freedom: the individual as objective, the collective as a means»), further develops an original version of individual liberty as a key concept in articulating the interests of individual citizens from the perspective of progressive change.

The really interesting, and challenging, work, in my view, will be on how to combine the two, e.g., perhaps the design of individualised choice mechanisms could be a matter for local, collective deliberation.

She is interested in political sociology, with a focus on the determinants of prejudice and collective violence.

This is a significant moment in our constitutional history primarily because these changes reflect the acceptance of the need to institutionalise a collective English interest in the legislature, and the conviction that there is a growing and legitimate sense of grievance concerning England's position within the UK.

The states «have a substantial interest in avoiding the vast disruption in state and local labor relations that would occur if the Court were now to overrule Abood's approval of public sector collective bargaining arrangements utilizing agency - fee rules,» lawyers for the states argue.

As part of that collective bargaining, the association fights for public schools to remain central in the education system to protect the interests of its members.

What the term, in practice and in the particular case of Libya, has come to signify, in fact, is a collective of very particular state - related interests and alliances that are more aligned around shared fears and interests and less so, around principles.

While suggesting plethora of statistics and judicial decisions especially a 2014 English Court of Appeal judgment where it was stated that «cases take up to a generation to be resolved in Nigeria occasioned by catastrophic delays,» Osinbajo said stakeholders must now resolve to address the issue of delay once and for all in the collective interest of all.

«That number pales in comparison to the pension payments we give that Albany passes down, the other payments in terms of healthcare and collective binding interest arbitration.

But the idea is tremendously interesting, and its use in the Ohio campaign to restore collective bargaining rights is an early experiment.

«We all recognized and have strong interest in the potential future for Jamaica, and providing collective feedback for the Jamaica Now Action Plan ensures fulfilling its potential as a center for mixed - income housing, transit - oriented development, quality jobs, and much needed commercial opportunities while maintaining its diversity and character.»

He said: «going to the national convention in disunity will not serve the collective interest of the party in the Southwest zone.»

According to him, Americans are fighting their political battle without undermining the collective interests of their country and that is the kind of spirit we must operate if the Yoruba nation must regain its pride in the Nigerian nation.

The Ministry of the Interior announces that it is the collective responsibility and in the interest of all, both Ghanaians and foreigners, that the government eliminates the dangers associated with the possession of illicit weapons in this country.

This year, it is in our collective state interest to focus on the real threats to education — federal policy changes and looming fiscal problems nationally for state governments.