Sentences with phrase «driven by regulations»

I think we're seeing more innovation, with some of them driven by regulations.

Such a change could come from within, or it could be driven by regulations on data retention and opaque, surveillance - based targeting — regulations that would make such practices less profitable or even forbidden.

The switch to wood is driven by regulations from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other international organizations.

Funding is always welcome, but energy efficiency in particular, can be strongly driven by regulation and standards, and because good energy efficiency innovations have such rapid payback times, would regulatory approaches, or state - federal partnerships in regulation and incentives not accomplish a great deal of what can be done in this area?

Since 2006, carbon - dioxide emissions have fallen more in the United States than in any other country, both because of the switch from coal to gas and because of increased energy efficiency driven by both regulation and market forces.

Not exact matches

«This is both a response to everything you are seeing in the world, this DOD regulation, but also an effort by not just the DOD, but by the administration to drive companies in the private sector generally towards greater cybersecurity and more disclosure with the government,» Lee said.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

We can drive out of neutral and align our rising optimism with action by cutting out government regulations, and giving owners more simplicity and certainty.

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

The top beneficiary of the Trump rally so far has been the banking industry, with bets driven by the potential for higher lending rates and stronger economic growth in the coming months, not to mention the president - elect's pledge to reject any new financial regulations.

NHTSA released guidelines for self - driving vehicles in September asking states to develop uniform policies for self - driving cars to avoid disparate state - by - state regulations.

In other cases, our assumptions seem driven by long - standing market practices, statutes, or regulations — suggesting that because it always has been a certain way, it must remain that way.

This is despite the efficiency gains have been realized for in situ oil sands operations and bitumen upgrading facilities, driven in part by Alberta's Specified Gas Emitters Regulation.

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.

Some of that is driven by laws and regulations, but certainly not all of it.

The better - than - month - long climb in the market since the election of Donald J. Trump as President - elect has been driven by optimism about domestic economic stimulus and the expectation that the incoming Administration will push for lower corporate taxes and less government regulation.

The news sent Facebook's FANG peers tumbling as well, perhaps on fears that their data - driven businesses could soon be threatened by harsher regulations.

Before late January injected a surge of volatility into equities, driven by investor fears over a handful of factors including rising rates, tightening monetary policy, more regulation on big tech and rising global trade tensions, investors were smooth sailing on the nine - year bull market.

Much of this optimism was driven by Trump's pledge to roll back regulations and lower corporate taxes, a point I've made several times already.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

The danger is not that religious institutions will be driven out of business by burdensome taxation and regulation.

Just as persons under a certain age are not allowed to drink, drive, or vote, the sale of X-rated videos to children should be forbidden, either by industry self - regulation or, if this does not work, by law.

For «law - abiding citizens» this does not generally require the penalties of the law to be invoked, though one need only to ask himself how far his driving is affected by known traffic regulations, or his income - tax filing by fear of penalties, to realize the degree to which the law is in the background as a restraint to his self - centeredness.

In the developed economies in particular, where low growth rates driven by macroeconomic issues, as well as the threat of increase regulation and taxation on sugared drinks and alcoholic beverage, means beverage manufacturers rely on partners to provide the innovations to facilitate growth.

«Reducing weight is driven in part by regulations, but also cost savings,» said Bernard Rioux, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers marketing and development manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Paddy Doherty (ex-OFC treasurer) was hired in 2003 by the Certified Organic Associations Board of British Columbia to help drive home the Canada Organic Products Regulations to make Canada more competitive in the export marketplace and boost consumer confidence in Canadian organic products.

As Bettina states, these choices are driven by such a complex history and tangled web of relationships and regulations.

But the stark truth is that the bill is not about regulation: it's crackdown on civil society, and it's driven partly by the National Assembly's obsession with control but also by self - protection.

They want to be able to choose people — perhaps on a «points - based system» — who will most benefit the economy: superstars of the future — unhindered by «backwards» cultural tradition and able to innovate and drive forward a new economy; cheap labour which — free from EU regulations — can be brought into work hard on construction projects and then sent packing afterwards.

But it was also a curious alliance of a technocratic drive for government regulation, the supposed expression of «value - free science,» and the pietist religious impulse to save America — and the world — by state coercion.

BY CHERYL SLAVIN The bi-partisan state Senate Majority Coalition, seeking to identify and eliminate the most costly government regulations that inhibit business and job growth and drive up local taxes, hosted one of 10 public forums on regulatory reform at the Nanuet Public Library last Monday.

Speaking after his registration at Methodist E9 School, Ibadan, Eniade assured that he would abide by party's rules and regulations as he added that his venturing into politics was driven by concern for the welfare of the people and commitment to ensuring sustained development of the state.

«That this House notes that the Government regulation implementing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act contradicts previous Ministerial assurances that NHS commissioners should decide when and how competition should be used to serve patient interests; acknowledges that, although the last Labour Government rolled out the red carpet to private companies to make profits from NHS services, believes that patients come before profits in our NHS; and therefore calls on HM Government to withdraw SI 257, go back to the drawing board and draw up a policy which supports an integrated NHS which encourages collaboration in the interest of patient care rather than a fragmented service driven by profit.»

The Regents, under emergency regulation, imposed a four - year moratorium on the evaluation law in December 2015, driven by backlash from both educators and parents.

Economic pressures are fueling a drive by tenants» rights organizers at the state and city levels to let voters enact rent regulations.

Too - strict regulations might limit patient access to the drug by driving prices up, said Julie Netherland, deputy state director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

After the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island — a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania — stricter regulations driven by public fear prompted TVA to shut down its two nuclear reactors.

The following year, a paper by Ben Lehner's group at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, drove the point home: When a cell produces too many of these proteins, they found, it dies.

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

The green world hypothesis provided an alternative view of population regulation driven by top predators, via carnivory.

«The lack of baseline data for deep - sea ecosystems identified by the report has a direct bearing on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process... without continued efforts to produce basic underpinning science, regulation and governance of the deep sea will remain an exercise on paper rather than knowledge - driven decision making.

«There may be opportunities for a business to come in and solve an environmental problem and tap some profit potential as a way of driving a change, as opposed to having all the solutions funded by philanthropies or forced by government regulations,» Gaines says.

Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin, USA Neutrophils in the Tumor Microenvironment Neutrophils, Wounds, and Cancer Progression Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany Pathology and immune reactivity: understanding multidimensionality in pulmonary tuberculosis Constitutive BAK activation as a determinant of drug sensitivity in malignant lymphohematopoietic cells Kathryn Moore, New York University, USA MicroRNA -33-dependent regulation of macrophage metabolism directs immune cell polarization in atherosclerosis Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, UK Myeloid Growth Factors Promote Resistance to Mycobacterial Infection by Curtailing Granuloma Necrosis through Macrophage Replenishment Beth Stevens, Harvard University, USA Microglia: Dynamic Mediators of Synapse Development and Plasticity Do glia drive synaptic and cognitive impairment in disease?

«The fact that fossil energy and mining are viewed by political «elites» with disfavor, a view driven by acolytes of radical environmentalism, has resulted in damaging laws and regulation and general neglect»

«The Sensory Logic of the Gastronomic Brain» is the first activity driven by Brainy Tongue, an interdisciplinary collaboration project promoted by Mugaritz (Errenteria), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona), and the Basque Culinary Center (San Sebastian), that looks to delve into the mysteries that govern perception.

To clarify whether peripheral tissues are responsible for the CCHa2 - dependent regulation of dilps in the brain, CCHa2 was specifically knocked down in the fat body and gut using targeted RNAi driven by the ppl - GAL4 driver [8][30].

The naturally - driven down - regulation by singing observed here complements results from experimentally - induced constitutive down - regulation of FoxP2 during sensorimotor learning [47].

In young animals, immunological activation drives a conserved transcriptomic switch, resulting in tightly controlled gene expression characterized by a strong up - regulation of a core activation program, coupled with a decrease in cell - to - cell variability.

Regulation of growth, body temperature, metabolism, and physical development are all driven by the thyroid gland.

Dopamine is a powerful neural signal implicated in the regulation of food intake by stimulating reward - driven eating behavior [12 — 14].