Sentences with phrase «control efforts by»

Trade Credit plays a critical role in a firm's quality control efforts by allowing them to verify product quality before paying.

Precarious progress The sharp drop in the overall number of Ebola cases is a testament to the control efforts by the governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone; the belated arrival of massive international assistance last autumn; and local populations who changed behaviours and practices to better control infection and spread (see «Cases by country»).

Not exact matches

In a statement, Viacom lead director Salerno, among the directors targeted for removal, called Thursday's action a «brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt» by Shari Redstone «to gain control of Viacom and its management in disregard of Sumner Redstone's wishes,» at odds with the board's efforts «to represent the best interests of all of the shareholders of Viacom.»

He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government bond yield near 0 percent in an effort to control the yield curve and stepping up the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.

Viacom announced new rebranding efforts on Thursday morning that will see the struggling company focus its efforts on six flagship brands — which include Paramount, the studio acquired more than two decades ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, whose family owns the controlling stake in Viacom and CBS.

Rather, the time, effort, and resources put into the startup scene show an aggressive effort by a community to take control of its destiny and begin building a new economy from the ground up by supporting local innovators.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Dauman called the move «a shameful effort by Shari Redstone to seize control.»

If you rely on a destination controlled by another person, company, or entity as your core branded online destination or as the focal point of your marketing efforts, then you run the risk of flourishing today and dying tomorrow.

A plan by Freedom Communications insiders to buy the assets of the bankrupt newspaper company is in danger of losing a key backer, jeopardizing their effort to retain control of the Orange County Register.Santa Ana real estate developer Mike Harrah said...

The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS» FINGERPRINTS all over it.

By uniting all licensed exchanges in the country, the association said it will make efforts to develop comprehensive rules regarding customer protection and internal controls, and will seek compliance from member companies.

Precisely where God comes out for the building of Israeli settlements on land formerly controlled by Palestinians is not clear to me, but the Republican parade to the Holy Land seems united in its view that Obama's efforts to curtail those settlements are wrongheaded at best and sinful at worst.

Another surprise event at this year's convention was the decision to reject the effort by some to change the auxiliary status of the Woman's Missionary Union, a missions - support group, and bring it under the direct control of the convention.

Natural causes had long kept the population growth within sustainable limits; if these were removed, special efforts would be required to reduce the birthrate, either by self - restraint or by compulsory birth control.

57 The consequence of this understanding is the adopting of a position that I have termed «hard determinism,» controlling every element in creation, in contrast to «soft determinism,» in which God's final victory gives definitive shape to all that we have provisionally worked out by our own exercise of freedom along the way.58 It is what finally renders Pannenberg's attempt to defend Augustine by shifting God from Eternal Present to Ultimate Future an unsuccessful effort to resolve the issue of theodicy.

Even reconstruction efforts, when handled by the IMF / WB, wind up being subcontracted to (mostly) American businesses, cutting out the locals not only from wages but also from any sense of control over teh reconstructions of their devasted nations.

It looks as if one religion is trying to claim love as its own even though loving human beings have always existed long before any of the «gods» were ever conceived by human beings and used by scamming human beings in their efforts to control others.

A paid pastorate with all of the demands, unrealistic expectations and efforts at control exerted by those who really run most churches (usually led by those who give the most money) has destroyed many, many a pastor and often his marriage and family.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

If the majority of society put half of the effort into developing their intellect and forming their own beliefs that many put into living a life controlled by what any random man who claims they are spreading God's message, perhaps people would actually come to their own conclusions rather than simply accepting the ones presented to them as the one and only truth.

Maintained without conscious effort but still entirely controlled by brain function.

At the midrange level, control is achieved by moving the tyrant inside the individual — Maggie Scarf refers to the «Invisible Referee,» Efforts to control thoughts and feelings as well as behavior refer to rules for behavior and cultural stereotypes, especially regarding gender.

Life control, birth control, death control — there is a controlling logic here, a gnostic «worldly» wisdom that does not like the world we have been given and by supreme effort seeks to construct a world that can be controlled.

It falls under our cognitional control and can be disposed of by our intellectual or technological efforts.

By physical efforts, I mean clearing brush enmass, setting control burns, and training to quickly control new wild fires.

You prepare for them by YEAR ROUND sending out teams, evaluating the environment and weather trends, comparing past trends (firestorms in Cali come about every 3 to 4 years on average), future projections, and physical efforts to stop new burns from going out of control.

In Stage 2, the effort will be to hide the problem from the outside world, coupled with desperate efforts on the part of the family to control the alcoholic's drinking by any and all means.

After they have settled as traders or agriculturists they try to control by force and persuasion the neighboring Bedouin tribes in an effort to maintain some measure of peace and order.

The universe is not a dark, inert set of atoms governed by physical laws that are mere projections of human effort but show that science itself indicates that the universe, indeed all things, are governed by a Unity - Law of Control and Direction, an intrinsic relationality, that God is «the sunshine of the soul» and His Son, Jesus, is our Saviour and Redeemer.

It should be remarked that the repeated efforts to control and eventually to suppress the chorepiscopate were prompted in part by the recurrent involvement of the rural bishops, because of insufficient stipends, in part - time economic activities inconsonant with the episcopal dignity.

Despite dealing with market factors that are beyond its control, the company has added to its capabilities and customer base by focusing its efforts and concentrating on service first.

U.S. and European wine regions step up campaign to protect online wine names American winemakers were joined by their counterparts from Champagne at a conference on deregulating internet domain names in an effort to boost awareness of how weaker controls would negatively impact the wine business...

«Organic graziers don't take the easy way out when it comes to controlling pests and diseases or looking after the land, so it's great to see their efforts increasingly being supported by consumers who realise it's worth paying a little bit more,» says Alister.

«We apply strict quality control measures in an effort to prevent contamination by undeclared food allergens.

And yet Wallace is still atop the Rookie of the Year standings, has run better most weeks than he's finished — he had top - 20 efforts going at Atlanta Motor Speedway and ISM Raceway ruined by circumstances beyond his control — and has injected much energy into an organization that badly needed it.

Town's performance had improved significantly in the second period, and, after the 69 and 70th minute introductions of Aaron Mooy and Dean Whitehead respectively, Scott Malone danced his way into the area until his tantalising cross was hacked away; all coming after Rajiv van La Parra's effort had been safely brought under control by Speroni.

• Two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo — the second a stunning overhead effort — were added to by Marcelo at the Juventus Stadium on 3 April to put Zinédine Zidane's side in control of the tie.

West Brom could have pulled one back when Marc - Antoine Fortune had a shot tipped away by Almunia, but we always looked in control of the match and had the last effort of the game as Arshavin had another shot saved on 90 minutes.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

By focusing on the effort they put into their performance instead of the outcome, you can help your athlete learn from failure and give them a sense of control over how they perform.

Patty Rundall, of the British Baby Milk Action, a group that advocates for breastfeeding, and who also represents the Baby Feeding Law Group, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formulas.

Additionally, BabyCenter is currently participating in a number of maternal health projects around the globe including text4baby in the United States, collaboration with the Grameen Foundation in rural Ghana, and a new mobile program in India in an effort to reach underserved women and empower them to take control over their own health by implementing positive behavior changes.

But the revisions appear not to have mollified critics of the proposal, who oppose what they say is an «ill - conceived» effort by the county and the Park District to change the essential nature of the park for flood - control purposes.

Babies are able to control rate of flow and amount by their suckling effort.

Mass Audubon's efforts to control common reed at Rough Meadows complement similar efforts by others to control and prevent the spread of common reed and other non-native invasive plant species throughout the Great Marsh ecosystem.

The Senate GOP will block any effort by the Democrats to end mayoral control of the NYC public school system.

A third party country that uses force in territory controlled by another sovereign state, without the express or implied consent of a sovereign state with a legitimate claim to that territory, is an illegal aggressor under international law, rather than a participant in a collective security effort which international law recognizes as a legitimate reason to use military force.