Sentences with phrase «expansion efforts by»

Outside GC plays a pivotal role in Revulytics ™ market expansion efforts by providing industry expertise on an as - needed basis in the absence of an in - house lawyer.

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Without comprehensive immigration reform, which President Barack Obama estimates could lead to an expansion of up to $ 250 billion in economic output, this effort marks the latest in a patchwork of initiatives proffered by the administration.

However, continued output expansion by Libya and Nigeria, the two OPEC members exempt from the efforts, as well as from U.S. drillers, means that the re-balancing will not play out for some time, the IEA suggested.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

Our general and administrative expenses increased sequentially in absolute dollars during 2009 and 2010, as we invested in our infrastructure to support our growth in operations by hiring employees and utilizing outside consultants on project initiatives, including international expansion efforts.

Both are efforts undertaken by the Commerce Department under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a law has only been used twice ever, most recently in 1981.

On Thursday, fellow prairie province Saskatchewan entered into the war, announcing it will consider limits on its out - of - province oil shipments if B.C. continues its efforts to delay the pipeline expansion project.While Saskatchewan likely would not be shipping oil on the proposed pipeline, the province has been negatively impacted by the projects continued delays.

What followed was one of the most aggressive, and costly, expansion efforts ever undertaken by a young startup.

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

They lost each time, but Hall of Famer Hall, whom they had chosen in the expansion draft even though he was 36 years old, put up a valiant, Smythe - winning effort that was reflected more by his GAA (2.43) than his won - loss mark (8 - 10).

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

The enemy, therefore must by now be painfully aware that a decision of the United Nations to depart from its tolerant effort to contain the war to the area of Korea, through an expansion of our military operations to its coastal areas and interior bases, would doom Red China to the risk of imminent military collapse.

The latest effort to bring the bright blue bikes to The Bronx comes in the form of an online petition launched by bike advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, demanding that city officials approve public funding to support the bike system's expansion into all five boroughs.

The plan, announced Sunday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is an expansion of an earlier effort to keep tenants in their homes and to keep them from becoming part of the city's affordable housing crisis.

The speech took place in a building owned by CGI Communications on Main Street, which is part of the company's expansion efforts... and that downtown location was a big reason why Warren held the event there, to tout the construction and activity that has been increasing downtown.

Sunday's rally is a part of a larger effort coordinated by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Community Action Alliance on NYU 2031 to push the university's expansion to the Financial District.

The trend also marks an expansion of efforts by electric companies to boost the market.

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

But the expansion of space security was itself hampered by the war effort, and «the costs of the war also meant that very expensive space systems were competing for funds to day - to - day operations,» she added.

The Stanceworks Track Expansion is now available for Project CARS in a continual effort by Slightly Mad Studios to keep the WMD - powered game feeling new with monthly content.

Republican House lawmakers successfully banded together Tuesday morning in an effort to block a proposal put forward by school voucher champion Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam that would have set up the state's new school voucher program for expansion.

ProgressNow, by the way, was one of the key players in ousting school reform - minded Michigan legislator Paul Scott from his statehouse seat earlier this month and has decried Gov. Rick Snyder's efforts to allow for the expansion of charter schools and school choice....»

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

Taylor emphasizes the crucial role played by the western expansion of settlers despite British efforts to restrict them.

All of this expansion serves to help libraries worldwide in their efforts to bring current digital content to their patrons, furthering the climate of digital publishing by enabling an ebook lending model that meets the publishers» and the consumers» needs.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

However, only a couple months after the expansion, Path of the Elect, was released, Chair Entertainment was purchased by Epic Games and its efforts were redirected toward a little Metroidvania title called Shadow Complex.

This is a review of Activision's Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, the latest cash crop and fourth standalone expansion in the series, so let's skip all of the efforts by Namco and Konami in this area for the sake of brevity.

It was nice to place the latest standalone expansion pack for Company of Heroes 2 in context, with our gaggle of assembled European writers given a tour of the Bastogne barracks — the operational heart of the Allied war effort during the Battle of the Bulge — before checking out the game inspired by that bloody piece of history.

The severe content drought Diablo III has experienced over the past few months has been interpreted by many as a sign the game is being put on maintenance mode, but it could also be a sign that the team has decided to put all their efforts toward a new expansion.

However, the NYT, to their credit, did cover the current efforts by the BLM to sabotage the expansion of solar thermal electricity generation in the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html — that would be the same BLM that has been working overtime to transfer public lands to fossil fuel interests for the past 8 years or so.

APP's reputation hasn't been helped by its financial record — in 2001 it defaulted on $ 13.9 billion in debt, complicating efforts to raise money for expansion.

And since, by «surface», I mean surface of mostly lifeless ocean far from any human habitation, that will imply a major expansion of environmentalist efforts.

They simply think that science has utterly failed to produce the correct answer on everything from basic thermodynamics to analysis of temperature station data, that scientists chase research grant money by producing answers useful for the expansion of government power, that every single mechanism intended to prevent corruption and fraud has failed and of course that scientists are individually and collectively involved in a conscious effort to lie to the public.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

But maintenance and expansion of this effort are threatened, especially by possible loss of satellite observing capabilities (NRC, 2012d).

Our work supplemented and supported a massive and effective effort by a local grass - roots organization opposing the oversized project on roughly a dozen other grounds — traffic, cost of school expansion, visual impacts, among others.

Fortunately, the FTC has had two recent successes in trying to roll back overzealous efforts by lawyers to expand their cartel through expansion of Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) regulations, to try expand the definition of the «practice of law.»

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and the Criminal Finances Act 2017, coupled with the continued expansion of information sharing efforts with and by professional body supervisors, have tightened up the supervisory regime and created closer collaborative working between law enforcement agencies and professional service firms and supervisors.

While the Mi A1 is by no means Xiaomi's most powerful or greatest overall smartphone, the 5.5 - inch mid-ranger's launch back in September represented a big milestone in the Chinese OEM's international evolution and Western expansion efforts.

Xiaomi will fill the gap left by Barra by putting Xiang Wang in charge of the company's global expansion efforts.

• Successful territory expansion efforts and contract closure expertise by cold calling and meeting in person to facilitate complete sales of quality talent at affordable rates for major staffing company.

Key Highlights: • Successful territory expansion efforts and contract closure expertise by cold calling and meeting in person to facilitate complete sales of quality talent at affordable rates.

Senior Vice President of Sales Americas (2009 — 2011) Generated positive growth in sales revenue and market share and effectively rebuilt the region by territory expansion efforts and sales strategies that significantly turned around and developed business momentum.

Windex Hearing Aid Company (Long Island City, NY) 1998 — 2005 Senior Marketing Coordinator / Sales • Built product awareness through varied marketing efforts including trade show events and advertising initiatives • Served as liaison to healthcare professionals and collaborated with the creative department and sales representatives • Achieved triple digit sales growth and 140 % increase in hearing healthcare market share • Recognized for accomplishments with rating of «outstanding» for seven consecutive years • Secured product placement on «Extreme Makeover» television show and acquired product spokesperson • Featured on Larry King and Wayne Brady television programs as a result of successful marketing initiatives • Designed and implemented continuing education programs for healthcare professionals boosting company reputation • Initiated use of Geographic Information System database to detect critical hearing healthcare and sales trends • Located areas of non-production leading to expansion of company revenues • Distributed new product mailings to over 3500 accounts building brand awareness and enhancing overall sales • Automated advertising program reducing processing time by 65 % while expanding program and sales

The legislature in Washington directed the state to raise eligibility under the program from 200 % to 250 % of the federal poverty level, reversing an earlier attempt by the state agency, as part of a larger effort to cut state expenditures, to discontinue its existing Medicaid family planning expansion.