Sentences with phrase «failing on its commitment»

In 2008, former McCarthys» lawyer Diane Lacalamita sued the firm for sex discrimination, claiming the firm «artificially restricted and isolated» her practice and failed on its commitment to advance her to equity partnership.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

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Here at home, Canada has failed to live up to even the relatively modest commitments on greenhouse gas emissions that it made in Copenhagen.

By failing to draw a clear line between the fundamental American commitment to Poland and targets of opportunity on the Russian periphery, Washington in effect invited Russia to deal with Poland as another wayward element in its sphere of influence, on par with Ukraine.

Well, That's ok if you invest and show ambition instead of charging the highest ticket price in the league but fail to show commitment and quality on the pitch..?

The report continues that the club are willing to give up on their long - term commitment to Brazilian players and offload Moura should he fail to significantly improve his game.

However, although he did the next three races, he didn't score in any of them (even failing to qualify at Monaco), at which point he put his focus back on his racing commitments in the USA.

After backing out of a commitment to Ohio State because Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer failed to recognize him on a visit to the school, four - star recruit Bruce Judson has committ... more

nice tribute andy and no doubts he has been the player of the year, although i cant understand him being criticised early on because hes been an international from an early age and a regular with cameroon and i distinctly remember him putting in strong performances when on loan at a struggling charlton a few seasons ago... i guess he has become the example of why we shud be patient with the younger players and give them the time that has no doubt benfited him i remember reading an article from him after the city game when adebayour had his little outburst and i cudnt believe how dedicated to the club and fans he was when questioned bout his «friend» adebayour saying arsenal and the fans are his priority and dat is all i cant understand people wanting cameroon to fail just so we can get him back early after the commitment he has shown to us but if he maintains his form we wont see anytime soon!goodluck song and cameroon

Folks on the verge of making those monogamous commitments, need to look at the wreckage around them — all those failed monogamous relationships out there (Schwarzenegger, Clinton, Vitter, whoever's on the cover of US magazine this week)-- and have a conversation about what it'll mean if one or the other partner should cheat.

The focus can not be on highlighting where plans failed, but on building long term trust and commitment.

Before lunch delegates loyally applauded shadow home secretary Alan Johnson saying: «You do not demonstrate your commitment to civil liberties by failing to protect the most important civil liberty of all; the right to be safe on our streets.»

State Commissioner John King suspended federal improvement grant funding for 10 districts — including NYC — that failed to live up to their commitment to reach agreements with their teacher and principal unions on new performance evaluations).

The NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate remarked that not only had John Mahama brought untold suffering on Northerners and failed to show the needed commitment to developing the North and all of Ghana, his leadership had also damaged the Northern brand with corruption and a bad record over all.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

His commitment to run a surplus on capital and current spending in the next parliament was challenged by Labour, who said Osborne had failed to meet his two fiscal targets in this parliament.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander has said that after Russia signed the Geneva accord earlier in the month, they have «since failed to act on its commitments within the agreement, and has taken no public steps to help de-escalate the situation in eastern Ukraine».

Jubrin expressed the BoT's commitment to follow all legal processes that will help redeem the party's image «as anything not built on truth will fail and falsehood will crush.

But while making modest progress on a scant few issues, on the major campaign promises made to our community, the President and the Democratic party have failed to keep their commitments.

Cuomo's veto message on Friday said the bill would create $ 57 million in «near - term commitments» for local governments by failing to establish a state funding stream for the added pension time.

Labour has dismissed the document as «misinformation and misrepresentation», saying the Tories have costed policies that Labour is not committed to and failed to give their own commitments on tax and spending.

Trust in the sense of the breach of promise implicit in failing on a major matter to honour their manifesto commitment; honesty in the sense that GB and the Junta can easily be demonstrated to be lying when they assert that the Constitution is dead;

It was being stressed that the Lib Dems had stuck to their guns and it was the first time that the Tories had failed to deliver on a commitment in the coalition agreement.

The wisdom required, the commitment required to salvage the situation may not be available to a single individual and I will be failing in my responsibilities if I sit on the fence and watch things either deteriorating or stagnated.

Mr. Iddrisu, who spoke on transparency and accountability, said it is an erroneous impression for critics to say the government had failed to tackle corruption effectively, explaining that President Mahama had shown ample commitment in that regard.

«All the evidence indicates that governments have failed to deliver on their commitments, and we have failed to meet the 2010 target,» says Matthew Walpole, a co-author of the report from the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Jo wanted to do a postmortem on failed relationships so she could tell young lovers what to do (and what not to do) when approaching a long - term commitment.

But a key commission member still has doubts about the Administration's commitment, and commissioners failed to come to an immediate consensus on what the panel's priorities should be.

Murphy argues that leaders will inevitably fail to find the right strategies for every situation, make occasional public gaffes, renege on commitments in the face of competing demands, be caught off guard and flummoxed as they struggle in a turbulent world, be misunderstood and unable to respond because of confidential information, and be rejected in their efforts to promote change or adopt new approaches.

Many critics assert that voucher programs will undermine civic values, promote racial or socio - economic segregation, prompt schools to discriminate based on student ability, and undermine the public commitment to failing schools.

If we can not deliver on this commitment, we are failing in our public education responsibility, and no historical attachment to a particular delivery system should prevent our making the necessary structural changes.

Bronfenbrenner says that based on her 25 years of labor research, the AFT was right to conclude that the vote would fail given the drop in public commitments to vote in favor.

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The US and other governments demonstrated their commitment to prevent the collapse of those «too big to fail» and with that government backstop, coupled with a global equities rally, it's become more evident that the underlying holdings are that much less likely to default on their debt obligations.

They keep on making these commitments and (fortunately) failing to honor them.

Outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, meanwhile, continued his attacks on Abbott for allegedly failing to live up to «international commitments» on reducing carbon emissions.

Leaving the Paris accord and failing to meet our commitment — as Trump intends — puts the world on track for a «higher emissions» scenario that leads to unimaginable impacts.

The second is that the northern countries have, by and large, failed to honor their climate commitments; in particular, the financial and technological s that was promised in Rio, in Kyoto, and on many occasions since, has simply not arrived.

Countries have failed to deliver on pre-2020 commitments.»

Based on that estimate, the additional emissions caused by the U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about $ 100 billion of damage to the global economy — not an insignificant number, but small in comparison to the size of the global economy.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

(For a discussion of the merits of various equity frameworks see, Brown, 2014) However, it is not necessary to agree on an equity framework to conclude that some national commitments fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

Although reasonable disagreements exist about what equity and justice requires of nations in setting their INDCs as demonstrated by numerous proposed equity frameworks discussed by the recent IPCC chapter in the 5th Assessment Report on equity (IPCC, 2014, chapter 4), the national commitments that are based upon national economic interests alone clearly fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

As we have seen the Cancun agreements fail to modify the inadequate voluntary commitments on ghg emissions reductions made pursuant to the Copenhagen Accord.

One might be: Nations At Cancun Tragically Fail to Make Meaningful Commitments on Climate Change for the Twentieth Year In A Row Another might be: Cancun Surprises Many By Keeping Hope Alive for A Global Climate Change Deal.

Flanked by the 12 - foot - tall Cup Monster, people in trash and cup costumes, two 11 - year - olds from Canada who collected 300,000 + petition signatures, and green boxes filled with 973,000 + petition signatures — the coalition celebrated Starbucks» recent announcement on recyclable and compostable cups, while drawing attention to the company's failed commitments on increasing reusable cup usage and eliminating plastic straws and other plastic packaging.

Although the leadership in the United States and other nations that are failing to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations will no doubt claim that their position in the international climate negotiations is limited by what is politically feasible in their countries, the world needs national leaders who are prepared to urge their nations to make commitments congruent with their ethical obligations, not on national self - interest alone.

Because nations have failed to make commitments to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to levels that will limit future warming do 2 °C, there is an increasing sense of urgency among climate scientists around the world on the need for all nations to significantly increase their greenhouse gas emissions reductions commitments to their fair share of safe global emissions.

«But as long as the scientists continue to spread the message that we will be ok if we all make a few small changes, then climate change will never be on top of the policy agenda and we will fail to meet our international commitments to avoid a 2 °C rise.»