Sentences with phrase «condition than changing»

There is a lot more to keeping your car in great (and safe) condition than changing the oil.

Second, decreases in attachment insecurity are hypothesized to be significantly greater in the experimental condition than changes reported by a control group that engages in the online program without a secure attachment focus.

Not exact matches

A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

What was once an apparently invincible business is swept under by changing times and market conditions — and the dogged determination to keep doing what's worked in the past rather than find new opportunities for a different future.

Encourage team members to lay out specifics in the plan and bring up these details for review and revision in advance, as conditions change, rather than waiting.

But his next steps also carry risks as he seeks changes that could spawn more of a popular backlash than he has previously faced, including a proposed overhaul of unemployment benefits which aims to tighten conditions for these subsidies.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

But it's important to test and validate information in changing conditions rather than assuming that it is fact.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

But machine tool orders drop, the Aruoba - Diebold - Scotti Business Conditions Index continues to show worse - than - average conditions, and there were still 3.8 million job openings on the last business day of April (little changed from 3.9 million Conditions Index continues to show worse - than - average conditions, and there were still 3.8 million job openings on the last business day of April (little changed from 3.9 million conditions, and there were still 3.8 million job openings on the last business day of April (little changed from 3.9 million in March).

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

The new interest rate can be lower or higher than the weighted average of the old loans and can be fixed (the interest rate won't ever change) or variable (the rate changes based on the market conditions).

Smaller, mid-sized and relatively new or unseasoned companies can be particularly sensitive to changing economic conditions, and their prospects for growth are less certain than those of larger, more established companies.

Principal value and investment return will fluctuate with changes in market conditions, and an account in the pool may be worth more or less than the original amount contributed to the account.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

These successful day traders react more quickly than other investors to changing market conditions.

When conditions change, very quickly (and, more often than not, very unexpectedly) debt, hitherto unnoticed, takes centre stage.

A final demand target, Niskanen explained in a 1992 Cato Journal article, is better than a price level or inflation target «because of the different response to changes in supply conditions.»

In responding to changing conditions in the US, Canada should do more than simply find a single substitute market, but rather should make a strategic commitment to diversifying our exports and our export markets.

trackback This is not an attack on the wealthy, but a more subtle and illustrative way of challenging we who are more willing to change the conditions rather than ourselves.

He was speaking as junior doctors walked out for a second time in less than four weeks over the potential changes to pay and conditions.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

Rather than change every instance of actual entity in part III to actual occasion, Whitehead simply stipulates: «In the subsequent discussion, «actual entity» will be taken to mean a conditioned actual entity of the temporal world, unless God is expressly included in the discussion» (PR 88 / 135).

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

For it, the relation to its own past and future is more determinative than the relation to the changing condition of the body.

I just want to anticipate the result by telling this woman that such a condition — which is anything but pleasant — is always only a state of testing / preparation / changing before God is going to reveal Himself on a higher level than before.

The failure of traditionalism, moreover, is less in its lack of adjustment to changing conditions than in the confusion of the spirit with the letter and in blindness to the actual shift of attention from meaning to symbol that has taken place within the church.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

I hope, for my part, that more than one such lecturer will penetratingly discuss the conditions of our immortality, and tell us how much we may lose, and how much we may possibly gain, if its finiting outlines should be changed?

She claims her unborn baby «deserved better than a life of struggle and frustration due to a condition that he or she would never be able to change.»

Given the present condition of the U.S. economy, which is creating many more jobs than are lost due to changing technology and international competition, protectionist voices should be relatively weak.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

There isn't a visual impairment other than quickly noticing changes to the weather conditions.

The air conditioning was a bit poor in our room — to be honest we didn't really need it for the first 4 nights as there was a real strong wind on an evening which kept things nice and cool but half way through our stay the wind suddenly dropped and the room was stifling — Reception actioned this immediately and sent an engineer to our room — who couldn't get it fixed although it did get marginally better — reception offered to change our room but again this was more hassle than it was worth by this point during our stay so they provided us a fan instead which did the job.

Don't forget that for your experiment to be a fair test you need to change just one condition and keep the rest constant, for example if you're investigating whether a vitamin tablet works better than alka seltzer, you'll need to keep the amount of water in the canisters the same, and shake each the same amount (or not shake at all).

With insight and sensitivity, Dr. MacNamara guides parents to trust their intuition to provide the conditions for children to grow rather than offering tools for changing behavior.

Add to that all the postpartum changes your body is going through — along with your new round - the - clock parenting responsibilities — and you're bound to be in less - than - top condition for a while.

Some look toward shifts in demographics since the 1970s — especially with more moms being older than before and more likely to have conditions like obesity, diabetes or heart disease — to explain why things have changed since then.

Mr Brabeck refuses to change company marketing strategies, despite knowing that babies fed on formula are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.

Officials said the decision to change the plant's nuclear safety level was due to cumulative radiation releases since the earthquake wreaked serious damage to the reactors, rather than a sudden deterioration in conditions.

«Our results suggest, however, that climate change may constrain reproduction of early - flowering plants mostly through the direct impacts of extreme environmental conditions rather than disrupted plant - pollinator interactions.»

These night - time harmful conditions are changing about twice as fast as the daily average, the researchers say, meaning the negative impacts on shell - building animals, including oysters, clams and mussels, may manifest more quickly than expected from simply observing the daily average.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condiChange, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condichange in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

The data can also reveal when changes in human conditions — such as improved sanitation — influenced infection rates more than a pathogen's innate traits.

This suggests that the changes were caused by biological processes rather than by abiotic differences in, for example weather conditions.

But, as scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology, the mollusks might be more resilient to changing conditions than previously thought.

Although these changes are far less striking than those in young brains, the potential has inspired a burst of optimism about the human condition and launched a new era of neuroscience.