Sentences with phrase «driven by business interests»

High Stakes Testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, Common Core etc. have never been about educational processes they are political processes driven by business interests.

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The IBM - VMware strategic hookup was driven by the mutual self - interest by two companies who see AWS, which appears to be en route to a $ 10 - billion - a-year cloud business, as an existential threat.

According to Andrea Gellert, chief marketing officer of OnDeck, the decision to collaborate with Ms. Corcoran was driven by her passionate interest in and respect for what it takes to be a successful small business owner.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Our view on the interest rate outlook in Canada versus the United States is not driven by a belief that the respective business cycles in both countries will diverge significantly, nor from a marked difference in the level of «neutral» rates between the two economies.

The recommendations of the Club of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and economic ideology is driven by self - interest.

According to a statement by Media Relations Officer of the institution, Abiodun Comer, the impressive performance, which reflects the strong momentum of UBA's business and its increasing share of customers» wallet, was driven by the 44.3 per cent and 16.0 per cent growth in interest income and non-funded income respectively.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said it was a «personal decision driven by privacy concerns and significant challenges (Bilden) faced in separating himself from his business interests.»

The growing restrictions drove the older industries in the chemical, petroleum and pharmaceutical fields to protect their business interests by opposing new regulations.

Driven by growing consumer interest in safety performance products, this expanding, high - margin market is opening doors for new product innovations and business opportunities.

However, when they do this, they frequently don't take the other sides» interests into account, and wind up injuring the client by driving away people who would otherwise be doing business with their client.

But lose interest they did, driven by the convenience and low prices of online booksellers; the convenience and low prices of supermarkets (for best - sellers); the convenience and negligible price of downloading content, legally or otherwise; and in 2008, the financial crash that made all but the most robust business models look very vulnerable indeed.

An increase in savings interest rates, by contrast, may encourage consumers to spend more because they're earning more, increasing the profits of sales - driven businesses.

While there has always been some big business advocacy for climate action it has, with a few exceptions, been largely driven by companies» sense of social responsibility rather than their immediate economic interest.

Take a law firm for instance... (T) here is a disincentive for lawyers to act in a way that assures the long - term interest of the firm, because acting in the long - term interests of the firm will reduce the amount of money that each lawyer makes in the short term... And success further compounds the problem... (E) ach successful year perpetuates a sense that this is the correct model... This gives law firms a distorted sense of reality... (where) greed rather than proper business practice, is driving pricing to clients... (and creates) a firm that (will) be blown apart by the greed of a new group of partners... years from now (pp. 115 - 16).

I find it interesting (and perhaps telling) that the initiatives I am aware of are driven by adjunct professors or business professors, as opposed to tenured law faculty members.

He has a particular interest in the reconfiguration of the legal world being driven by competition and the Legal Services Act 2007, while maintaining a firm belief in the need for professional ethics and integrity in business.

Developed by some of the best professional traffic safety instructors in the business, our online defensive driving program will keep you interested in the material while you are studying.

This will be «the year of merger mania» says PwC, driven by many companies» interest in diversifying their drug pipelines, competitive business interest rates and a loosening of the regulatory environment in the US.

Socialistic political dictums from on high masquerading as «competitively» driven responses to particular business interests, so - called in the public's best interests, are what slowly erodes a vibrant, well functioning economy until it ends up being directed from on - high by said puppet - masters.

Much of the interest in industrial properties has been driven by warehouse and distribution operations seeking space, as opposed to traditional manufacturing businesses, brokers said.