Sentences with phrase «drive for power»

The timing of this drive for power by the private financial sector, cloaked in the rhetoric of fiscal prudence, could not come at a more inopportune time for the collective good of the current and future generations.

He's a comic thinker who views politics, past, present and scary future, as a drive for power with little thought for the people being governed.

And chances are slim, for the Fire nation, in its drive for power, has eliminated all airbenders.

These movies center on people whose conscience ultimately short - circuits their drive for power.

The coups did show Espada's drive for power... an obsession if you will.

In view of man's nearly insatiable drive for power, or as Joseph Haroutunian puts it, man's «Lust for Power,» it is easy to believe that this is man's central image.

Whatever the drive for power on the part of the institution and its academic leadership, the desire to be free of the church was usually motivated by the belief that the Christian context and spiritual nourishment they regarded as a blessing could and would continue after the removal of any authoritative link with the church.

The drive for power — individual or collective — emerges as the basic human tendency.

The drive for power is THE power behind organized religion.

In religious fanaticism the drive for power and for self - justification is bolstered by attachment to what is believed to be divine.

These ministers represent the kind of Christian that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentalism, cruelty, and, too often, drive for power and money.

Others discover that they have a deep drive for power or status.

Not exact matches

Companies like IBM and Microsoft are also helping business customers adapt deep - learning - powered applications — like speech - recognition interfaces and translation services — for their own businesses, while cloud services like Amazon Web Services provide cheap, GPU - driven deep - learning computation services for those who want to develop their own software.

Cryptocurrency mining operations in upstate New York have been driving up power bills for other customers.

As the nickel price continues its upward trajectory driven by the clean energy revolution for power storage and the rise of the electric vehicles, Poseidon remains poised to become a producer with its existing class 1 high grade nickel sulphide mine.

Personally, the highly capable torque - vectoring all - wheel - drive system gave me all the grip I needed when I needed it, while at the same time piping the power to the rear wheels often enough that I didn't want for more grunt.

After outlining what drives customers to the category of high - powered yet user - friendly computing, Jobs goes on to identify NeXT's key competitive strengths against Sun, namely: the customer need for a specific custom app, the high quality of productivity apps offered, and a superior capability to communicate and network.

In her new role, she is responsible for developing multi-channel communication strategies for DSC members, powered by data - driven insights to maximize relevance in each interaction.

Call it a win for the power of old - school customer service and immediate gratification, the kind that drove more than $ 1.2 trillion in sales during the second quarter of 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

NVIDIA»S NEW COMPUTER FOR LEVEL 5 AUTONOMOUS CARS: Nvidia, one of the leading players in the self - driving space, announced a new computing system, dubbed Pegasus, which the company says could power a a Level 5 autonomous car, The Verge reports.

These six statistics from Transparency Market Research and Aruba drive home its power and use for businesses.

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

The goal of deregulation was to promote competition in the utility sector and drive down power costs, but sea changes in the space have created challenges for merchant generators.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

That's a particularly useful option for smaller - scale problems, such as a single hard - drive failure or a power failure affecting just a few users.

And the chips that Nvidia designed for video games now power technologies like self - driving cars.

To drive down energy costs for businesses and families, we've focused on inexpensive and cleaner - burning natural gas, and last month, Calpine Corporation broke ground on a new power plant in Dover that is expected to serve about a quarter of a million homes.

According to analysts, demand is being driven by end users in the power generation market, which is urgently trying to secure supply into the future with demand forecast to outstrip supply for at least the next 10 years.

Nvidia has for years supplied GPU chips to power the 17 - inch digital dashboard in the Tesla cars, even before it struck a deal to replace Mobileye for the «autonomous driving» functions of future Teslas.

«Power is shifting, while investors are still driving, it's a better market for issuers.»

(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

The National Defense Strategy outlines a world where great power competition, not terrorism, is the driving factor for the Pentagon.

She covers: the ins and outs of signing up and getting started; building boards that get noticed, drive traffic, and convert fans into customers; creating a Pinterest community through power connections, contests, social media outreach, and smart pinning strategies; strategies for becoming a power Pinterest user and creating an enthusiastic following; best practices for pins that promote, including image optimization, consistent branding, social media integration, and high - value content; and Pinterest etiquette.

Meagan Cojocar, an analyst with the Perth - based company says Japan is the ideal location for the Power Ledger as the country's energy drive self sufficiently and its «crypto friendly» attitude.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

We simply won't be able to avoid dangerous climate change, as all our countries have pledged to do, unless we switch over time to using clean power for activities like driving our cars and heating our homes.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

«SMUD is a leader in driving adoption of large - scale solar power and should be commended for its sustained commitment.»

The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) requires utilities to buy power from independent power producers if they can generate below the cost that utilities expect to otherwise pay for power, and it has driven multiple gigawatts of solar deployment already in several states.

The demand of what we could be rendering is higher than what all of the centralized cloud computing parameters have... I've always assumed that the way to scale, and get people this unlimited rendering power, and drive this economy of rendering that I saw for the future, was to do it in a distributed way.

For 30 years, SVN has been the leading peer - to - peer network of mission - driven business leaders, social entrepreneurs, and impact investors who are leveraging the power of business to solve social, economic, and environmental problems.

The company plans to build vehicles with a Variable Platform Architecture (VPA), which allows for vehicles to be built with multiple motors, along with powertrain configurations that can be customized for specific power, range and driving dynamics.

Bloomberg reports that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation.

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Power grids had to be built, machines had to be replaced and new applications took years to develop.9 For similar reasons, it could take many years for self - driving vehicles to completely displace human - driven taxis, trucks and busFor similar reasons, it could take many years for self - driving vehicles to completely displace human - driven taxis, trucks and busfor self - driving vehicles to completely displace human - driven taxis, trucks and buses.

Are we at an inflection point where attractive economics — not policy — drive rapid growth of renewable energy for the U.S. power sector?

In Miami, however, the cars — powered by self - driving startup Argo.AI, in which Ford bought a majority stake — are still mostly mapping out the city's streets for now.

The coal industry is booming driven by growth in export demand for coal world wide and the large number of coal - fired power plants currently scheduled to come online.

Marketing research firm Mintel recently estimated that the China retail market for mother and baby products grew 256 percent from 2010 to 2015, reaching RMB 484 billion ($ 73.6 billion) last year, driven by increases in income and spending power.

Even taking into account coal power and pollution, driving a Tesla is already far better for the environment in most American states.