Sentences with phrase «delay action on the issue»

Despite the political grandstanding that delayed action on this issue until the fourth quarter — the Assembly and Senate had compiled a list of proposals long before the governor convened a last - minute executive panel — lawmakers approved a comprehensive series of bills designed to address the state's insidious opiate crisis.

The group hopes to convince the Montana Land Board to reject development of coal in eastern Montana's Otter Creek, or at a minimum delay action on the issue while more studies are undertaken.

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue.

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Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Some temporary restraining orders were sought against the action to allow judicial review based on issues such as the inconvenience it would cause to the travelers and «irreparable harm» the delay would cause to various constituents.

Long - awaited FDA action: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acted on several long - delayed issues but still faces more, particularly related to bisphenol A. 2013 stories: farm antibiotics, bisphenol A in baby formula packaging, triclosan in antibacterial soap and food safety.

Decisions made today are made in the context of confident projections of future warming with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on climate change and how to frame these issues in the context of other concerns.

We are disappointed in the actions of the NJMVC and the Christie Administration, which come on the heels of more than nine months of unexplained delays in the issuing of a new sales license for Tesla, despite our numerous requests, calls, and letters.

On the horizon, though there have been successful concerted delaying actions by the fossil fuel industry to address it to date, is the issue of mandating limited Mercury (Hg) emissions largely released from coal - fired power plants.

But it remains to be seen what action Congress might take to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for delaying policy solutions and confusing the public on this critical issue.

And in the process, they greatly misrepresented the facts about climate science, they confused the American people, and they delayed political action on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

By questioning the science on global warming, these environmentalists say, groups like the Global Climate Coalition were able to sow enough doubt to blunt public concern about a consequential issue and delay government action.

Under Raymond, Exxon led a coalition of fossil fuel companies called the Global Climate Coalition, which sought to delay action on climate change and cloud public understanding of the issue.

The issue whether a President can be cited for contempt could itself engender protracted litigation, and would further delay both review on the merits of his claim of privilege and the ultimate termination of the underlying criminal action for which his evidence is sought.

An unquantified liability has also been established which remains to be determined by the Tribunal in September 2017, subject to issues of causation, but which the Claimants assess at a figure between USD 26.5 bn and USD 39.8 bn, depending on what payments are made by the KRG before then and various assumptions in relation to the extent of delay and disruption allegedly caused by the KRG's actions.

A green paper, issued in November 2008 (Green Paper on Collective Consumer Redress) stated that individual consumers and small businesses were often deterred from bringing actions for damages because of the costs, delays, uncertainties, risks, and burdens involved.

In June, those in charge of ensuring compliance around Canada's Anti-Spam law drew a collective deep breath and exhaled hard on June 7 as the federal government issued an order - in - council delaying the coming into force date of CASL's proposed private right of action until completion of a parliamentary review.

The Court cited a number of reasons, including that it is not appropriate for an appellate court, twice removed from the parties» initiating motion, to grant this relief; the appellants have not had the opportunity to make full submissions on this new issue; the «irregularity» that State Farm seeks to correct was intentional; the delay in seeking the alternate relief was significant; the pleadings would be deficient and unable to support an ongoing action by the Trustee without further amendments; and State Farm is a sophisticated party.