Sentences with phrase «consumed by the demands»

Your job is to focus on the profitable 20 percent while not getting consumed by the demands of the costly few.

Not exact matches

A vast majority of us, in other words, kick off our day by consuming and reacting to other people's thoughts and demands.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

The 104 - page OPEC report finds that there will be greater demand for the group's oil in 2016, with customers consuming an average of 31.65 million barrels a day throughout the year because the market will be «supply - driven» as competitors, beset by low prices, continue to cut back severely on capital expenditures ranging from exploration to new drilling.

Reflecting this, there has been weak demand for a range of tourism services consumed by international visitors.

Under the current monetary regime, major upward trends in interest rates are not driven by the desire to consume more in the present (the desire to save less) or by rapidly - increasing demand for borrowed money to invest in productive enterprises.

Some 70 percent of the financial resources are eaten up by the bureaucrats, and 70 percent of the 30 percent frontline staff's time is consumed catering to the demands of the 70 percent penpushing cohort.

With all the scrutiny the food industry has been under with consumers demanding more transparency on the food they consume, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added to the industry's responsibilities last month by finalizing its menu labeling requirements for food establishments.

Concern created by recent food scares, means consumers are demanding total transparency around all the food and beverage products they consume, so Food Trust must be at the heart of everything we do.

Slowly consuming the iron in a single grain, these bacteria could get by for a million years before exhausting their food supply; at colder temperatures, where metabolic demands are lower, they might survive hundreds of millions of years.

At the Lightfair convention in Las Vegas earlier this month, Cavet Technologies, based in Toronto, Canada, launched its own lighting control system that can respond to requests from utilities to reduce demand by cutting the energy consumed by lights.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

It's even more egregious in agriculture and food, you know, where almost all of the world's, the country's cropland is now diverted to growing corn and soybeans — not because there's this unbelievable demand to eat corn and soybeans but because there's a federal subsidy for growing them, a subsidy basically written into the law by a few huge corn and soybean consuming companies, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, whatever, who control the senators of the corn states, you know, and have enough power to enact [egregious] policy [into] law.

Greenpeace estimated that cloud computing worldwide demanded 662 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, more power than consumed by the entire country of India, or of Germany.

It works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity — when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood flow increases to the active area.

If you don't have the time to cook your own food or consume a full meal consisting of whole foods, make sure to meet your body's demand of protein by supplementing with protein powders.

Given a report like the New England Food Vision, which sets a goal for the region to produce 50 % of the food it consumes by 2050, local demand must align with foods especially suited for local production.

Although Reynolds rises above the rest as a father consumed by sadness and anger, «The Captive» quickly devolves into scenes that feel like stilted dramatic re-creations demanding a noirish voice - over by «Cold Case Files» host Bill Kurtis.

Aside from hammering home the idea that Jobs was a demanding ass consumed by his work (also not news), jOBS doesn't provide us with any deeper insight into one of the most enigmatic entrepreneurs in the 20th century.

Engaging students in more time - consuming, cognitively demanding activities that nurture deep understanding tends to fall by the wayside.

By alternating between banks of cylinders during low demand periods, less fuel is consumed.

Intelligent energy management is further enhanced by the ancillary units, such as the on - demand coolant pump, the electronically controlled oil pump and the Electric Power Steering system (EPS), which only consumes power when steering assistance is actually required.

A top - down mix of almost all the things that make a hardcore experience so worthwhile and, uhm, hardcore, FTL, Faster Than Light to call it by its full name, is a terrific rogue - like - like that demands some serious strategic and tactical skills and can easily consume ones life.

The text demands attention, representing Ligon's aim to «slow down reading, to present a difficulty, to present something that is not so easily consumed and clear» (G. Ligon, quoted by C. Berwick, «Stranger in America: Glenn Ligon», Art in America, May 2011, n.p.).

An initiative of this scale would also send a signal to other oil - consuming countries that the United States no longer intends to support cheap - by - any - means - necessary gasoline and is moving toward containing demand through market measures.

By enabling the linking, monitoring, aggregation and control of large numbers of individual pieces of electricity consuming equipment, connectivity allows for matching demand to the needs of the overall system in real time (Digitalization & Energy, 2017).

That requires efficient markets, which are best achieved by introducing prices that reflect supply and demand conditions as often as possible and as close as possible to locations where the energy is generated or consumed.

All this consumes more fuel and emits more CO2 than would be the case if the fossil fuels were operating at their optimum efficiency, or just responding to demand without the added inefficiency caused by the intermittent renewable energy generators.

Figure 36 Electricity Demand by Consuming Sector, 1973 to 2010 Source: Energy Balances of OECD Countries, IEA / OECD Paris, 1998, and country submission.

The method is designed to estimate human demand for biocapacity, defined as: «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystems goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon wastes.»

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)- The amount of dissolved oxygen consumed by micro-organisms (bacteria) in the bio-chemical oxidation of organic and inorganic matter in waste water.

Compiled by Gary Munkhoff As the demand for wood and products made from wood increases, the world's forests will, at some point, no longer be able to sustainably grow all the fiber consumed.

: it consumes nearly 70 % more energy than the United States by 2035, even though, by then, per capita demand in China is still less than half the level in the United States.

Thanks to increased energy demand and the growing popularity of freshwater - recirculating plants, which consume the most water of any thermal plant, freshwater consumption from Indian thermal utilities grew by 43 percent from 2011 - 2016, from 1.5 to 2.1 billion cubic meters a year.

A colder winter will boost heating demand and the amount of gas consumed by households.

Even if problems caused by climate change turn out to be modest, global populations are expected to increase to 10 billion people by 2050, and the demand for food will likely go up by 50 percent or more as people in the developing world increase their income and consume foods that require more resources to produce.

It is less costly and more effective to consume radically less energy and emit less CO2 by design, rather than to meet higher energy demand with building mounted «Zero - Carbon» renewable generation.

Despite the desire to move away from fossil fuels, oil and gas will remain dominant in the global energy mix — and the energy world will continue to be consumed by the need to find oil and gas to meet growing global demand.

Monalisa: In the Philippine context, the type of contract or target customer would matter: end - users belonging to the contestable market (i.e. consuming a monthly average peak demand of 750kW) are free to negotiate PPAs directly from registered Retail Electricity Suppliers (RES) and these contracts are not subject to any price regulation or review by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).

In the same way that consumers today demand device driven Apps to consume goods, in time professional services will be demanded similarly by businesses.

P2P is a form of market pressure which pushes the cost of content down, and forces industries to recognize the level of convenience expected by consumers... make all movies and TV shows available on - demand and without copy protection which makes them harder to consume.

If the demand for electricity caused by mining continues keeps at its current rate — mining will consume all of the world's electricity supply by 2020.