Sentences with phrase «economic purposes as»

The human being is pictured for economic purposes as caring only for the consumption of goods and services.

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The economist who originally devised the measure of all the cash flowing through an economy, Simon Kuznets, warned the world not to use his invention for the very purpose it has served: as a guide to political and economic choices.

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

His entire political purpose, as he put it in coming out as an aspiring politician, is economic.

Because status as an «employee» for purposes of the FLSA depends on the totality of circumstances rather than on any technical label, courts must examine the «economic reality» of the working relationship.

Its sole purpose was to provide updated economic and fiscal projections, to be used as a starting point for a debate about the upcoming budget.

The choice of Freeland as co-chair of an economic advisory council serves a double purpose: bolstering the Liberal leader's relatively weak economic credentials as well as Freeland profile before she runs in the upcoming Toronto Centre byelection, which promises to be an epic struggle for supremacy between the Liberals and NDP.

But this is because capitalism has succeeded in its primary purpose as an economic system, that of production.

The experts gaze in dismay at this economic apparatus, their own creation, which instead of absorbing all the units of human energy with which they furnish it rejects an increasing number, as though the machine they devised were working to defeat their purpose.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

As C.T. Kurien has written, the State has to discipline capital both domestic and international if capital is not to discipline the state to serve its purposes; and for it the State needs not only political power but also some economic power derived from public corporations.

The university's liberal Protestant leaders supported this national economic purpose not only by virtue of their class location but also as an extension of their religious hopes.

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

For while the media, and particularly television, serve mainly as mediators of the culture, the political and economic interests of the media controllers pass the culture through discreet but generally well - defined filters which are effective in serving their own purposes, namely reinforcing the economic status quo and suppressing challenge in the form of specific critique or overall diversity.

I will argue that the primary purpose of economic governance in a republican economy should be to promote the independence of economic actors as a means of preventing the abuse of economic power and the corruption of public life.

The State and Municipalities Facilities Program is not to be confused with larger, catch - all category of bonded capital for «economic development» purposes, such as the Buffalo Billion and other largesse doled out by the Cuomo administration on a region - by - region basis.

Mutuals attempt to achieve social, as well as economic, purposes through the provision of a range of member benefits, which, in a producer cooperative, should include the benefit of meaningful work.

In the past he has advocated for federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth and he believes in providing tax incentives to businesses for the purpose of job creation.

Mr Brown told business leaders it was about, «taking government out of areas where it need not be and government guaranteeing economic decisions are made as they should be, for long - term economic purposes, not for short - term partisan gain».

«Atiku Abubakar urges all Nigerians to support the government at all levels noting that as a watershed year in the fight against terrorism, the attention of the nation would now focus on reconstruction and rehabilitation of the areas devastated by the insurgents as well as provision of critical socio - economic infrastructure in other parts of the country for development purposes.»

For the purposes of this initiative the social sciences are defined as inclusive of the subjects of economics, economic and social history, political science, socio - legal studies, education, psychology, cognitive studies, linguistics, management and business studies, human geography, environmental planning, international studies, area and development studies, social statistics, demography, social science computing, sociology, social anthropology, social policy and social work.

The Economic Development Corporation (EDC) was initially created in 2010 as a subsidiary of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to be the County's sub-recipient of Community Development Block Grant loan repayments for economic development pEconomic Development Corporation (EDC) was initially created in 2010 as a subsidiary of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to be the County's sub-recipient of Community Development Block Grant loan repayments for economic development peconomic development purposes.

«As a board member for the West Seneca Chamber, I appreciated the purpose of the business tour and discussing our area's current economic climate with a lawmaker who truly cares.»

Lawmakers approved $ 385 million for the program in the 2013 - 14 budget, offering support for capital projects — not one - time operating subsidies, as member items often were — for a broad variety of purposes like «preserving and protecting infrastructure» or to support «economic development projects... that will create or retain jobs in New York State.»

The Governor recalled that in the last one year, the State Government joined the Oodua Investment Group in addition to the acquisition of land in Ogun and Oyo States for agricultural purposes, saying that government would scale up the economic integration of the South West States as well as the cultural heritage of the region.

The purpose of the strategy was to turn Ireland into a knowledge economy as the best way forward for economic development.

We are here on Mother Earth as humans, and our purpose is to become truly humane, as we make our choices and decide the purpose of our existence, for we are already in Mars, in the universe, in the moon, but we are still looking for our soul... human rights, and the economic, social and cultural rights of peoples, and the practices for the care of the planet are the ways to be about the exercise of our full humanity.

Professor Alan Reid observes how the emphasis on democratic purposes has been trumped by individual, private purposes that result in such things as marketing of schools, residualisation of public education and the growth in disparity of resources between schools, and by an economic purpose that casts students as human capital to be enlisted in the cause of economic recovery and growth.

[276] This purpose, and the Head Start program itself is based upon decades of scientific research that documents the strong and lasting impact of children's experiences in their first five years of life on brain development, learning, and health, [277278279] and the significant economic impact of such benefits on children individually and on society as a whole.

After up to three years of funding as a lighthouse school, the school must open as an interdistrict magnet school whose purpose is to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic isolation.

Our experience extends to the areas of economic development corporations and municipal law, and in the representation of special purpose districts, cooperatives, shared service arrangements, utility districts, head start agencies, private schools, public and private colleges and universities, chambers of commerce, and education foundations as well as other nonprofit organizations.

Most district and school goal statements include such familiar purposes as preparing students for economic self - sufficiency, fostering civic engagement in the community, and promoting equal opportunity and individual well - being.

Public interest work is defined as employment where the primary purpose of the work is the representation of the interests of an individual or group of individuals who, for various economic political or social reasons, are not adequately represented.

State policies on retirement income exclusions vary greatly, but have one or both of two purposes: to protect the income of taxpayers who are no longer in the workforce, and to serve as an economic development tool by attracting retired people to, or retaining them in, a state.

Its purpose is to make everyday life easier for the individual designer, and to highlight the power of design as a builder of cultural and economic value.

[16] NEMS is used by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Department of Energy as well as various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energy policy changes on a plethora of leading economic indicators.

Thus (for example) goals to enhance economic growth and reduce poverty should sit alongside environmental considerations in any research funding strategy, and as I've noted emphasis should be given to reducing the uncertainty rather than simply projecting the extremes of it forward for little useful purpose (a high volume of current research in climate science).

TransitCenter, a New York - based foundation dedicated to transit reform, identifies growth in the number of people who ride transit often and for multiple purposes as an important indicator of whether transit is serving its function of helping a city meet its «triple bottom line» of economic growth, environmental stability, and social equity,» Binns reports.

The myth that until very recently we used to think that the climate was constant is also propagated by the CRU climate scientists, who write on their history page:» Hubert Lamb's determination and vision can only be appreciated in the context of the view, generally prevailing within the scientific establishment in the 1960s, that the climate for all practical purposes could be treated as constant on timescales that are of relevance to humanity and its social and economic systems.»

They see economic growth as an all - purpose cure for environmental problems.

No environmental or economic purpose is served by limiting banking to two years, as current Senate legislation would do.

Strengthen their commitment to the free and unrestricted exchange of meteorological and related data and products; Increase the volume of data and products exchanged to meet the needs of WMO Programs; Assist other Members, to the extent possible, and as agreed, by providing additional data and products in support of time - sensitive operations regarding severe weather warnings; Strengthen their commitments to the WMO and ICSU WDCs in their collection and supply of meteorological and related data and products on a free and unrestricted basis; Implement the practice on the international exchange of meteorological and related data and products, as described in Adopts (1) to (3) above; Make known to all Members, through the WMO Secretariat, those meteorological and related data and products which have conditions related to their re-export for commercial purposes outside of the receiving country or group of countries forming a single economic group; Make their best efforts to ensure that the conditions which have been applied by the originator of additional data and products are made known to initial and subsequent recipients; *» Free and unrestricted» means non-discriminatory and without charge.

While increasing the volume of data and products available to all Members by providing these additional data and products, it is understood that WMO Members may be justified in placing conditions on their re-export for commercial purposes outside of the receiving country or group of countries forming a single economic group, for reasons such as national laws or costs of production; Members should provide to the research and education communities, for their noncommercial activities, free and unrestricted access to all data and products exchanged under the auspices of WMO with the understanding that their commercial activities are subject to the same conditions identified in Adopts (2) above; Urges Members to:

Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic digesters, are captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).

For the purpose of this report, we assumed that economy - wide CO2 tax revenue was fully returned to U.S. consumers as reduced income taxes, an assumption that certainly contributes to the low economic impacts.

The Advocate General had opined that a controller should be treated as a single economic unit for these purposes if free processing services provided are cross-subsidised by revenues generated by advertising which link the two limbs of the business [Opinion, 66 and 67].

Cembre S.p.A. informs to have signed, assisted by «Studio Tributario e Societario Deloitte» as tax advisor, the agreement with the Tax Authority defining methods and criteria in order to calculate the economic contribution to the production of intangible property income for the purposes of the so - called Patent Box regime, with reference to fiscal years 2015 - 2019.

(3) the population's consent to the use of that monopoly for the economic purpose of shielding the legal profession from having to change its method of delivering services so as to be compatible with the economic ability of the population to afford the profession's legal services; and,

By contrast, for the purposes of showing that, before or at the same time as conferring the advantage, the Member State took that decision as a shareholder, it is not enough to rely on economic evaluations made after the advantage was conferred, on a retrospective finding that the investment made by the Member State concerned was actually profitable, or on subsequent justifications of the course of action actually chosen -LRB-...).»