Sentences with phrase «for political alliances»

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

They have seen daughters as a burden and as only having value for breeding purposes or in higher circles for forging political alliances.

For all our sakes, these skeptics deserve respectful answers from our political class, or else our alliances might be smashed by someone with wider appeal than The Donald.

Her charge is that — for political reasons — Neuhaus was more interested in forging alliances with....

Continual pressure to join various (and at times unsavory) political alliances with outside forces for self - defense purposes.

Beyond the issue of civil liberties lies a more prosaic political point: the possibility for a greater alliance between African - American Christians and white evangelicals.

Even I, who am not one of Darby's followers, was surprised to learn that the word «rapture» never occurs in the Bible, but at least one curious side effect of his scenario has been the political alliance between Christian evangelicals in this country and the Likud Party in Israel, both of whom — for their own reasons — want to see Israel, not Palestine, in charge of the Holy Land.

An alternative proposed is for CD members to look, rather, to a closer alliance with Poles, Czechs, and others in Central Europe who, it is hoped, will offer a more promising model of religiously inspired political action.

Efforts to mobilize Christians for political ends may be unprecedentedly massive on the right and are by no means lacking on the left; but as is illustrated by antiabortion alliances between Roman Catholics and conservative evangelicals and by antiwar protests gathering together both Christian pacifists and nonpacifists, these groupings are indifferent to ecumenism because, among other things, it has no public influence.

As all three of these books remind us, the relationship between faith and political power shapes the church's witness in the world, its alliances and its legacy for Christians and non-Christians alike.

It can best serve the cause of world democracy by helping supply the means for the less developed nations to fulfill their own unique aspirations, without attaching to the aid any conditions of military, economic, or political alliance, conformity, or dependency.

Castro for his part clearly recognized the political gain in an alliance between liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «From a strictly political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»

Who would have imagined, fifty years ago, that much of American liberalism, rather than making the moral and political case for deposing a genocidal maniac, would find itself in de facto alliance with the status - quo forces in world politics?

On the one hand Iran has supported the Assad regime for many years by providing development funds (hospitals, infrastructures, etc.), technical support (communication and information technologies) and political backing (diplomatic alliance).

For example, if Labour is serious about radical economic change then it needs to consider how it can build an alliance of social and political forces to support it.

Along with its increasing political importance, the M5S has attracted considerable criticism for refusing alliances with the traditional political parties and for the command and control centralised management of its parliamentary group.

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

His proposal for a «patriotic alliance» with Paddy Ashdown and the Heseltine wing of the Tories, to campaign for British entry into the European single currency, is the long term political cutting edge of this project.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electiFor more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electifor any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

This (CLP / branch / trade union branch etc) notes that the Labour Party was founded as an alliance between trade unions and socialist organisations to provide a political voice for working people.

«From place to place, the labor movement has been under immense pressure,» says Matt Morrison, the political director for Working America, an AFL - CIO ally organization that builds alliances among nonunion workers.

With a Red - Green alliance, Greens will have the political platform to argue for their more radical ideas about building an emancipated post-growth society and strengthening local economies.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

As Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson would not expect to enjoy the highest of media profiles, but he deserves this accolade in recognition of all the work he has put in this year towards creating a new political force in Northern Ireland through an alliance between the Conservative Party and the Ulster Unionists.

2012 December - Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta and former minister William Ruto - bitter political rivals facing trial at the International Criminal Court over the 2007 post-election violence - confirm that are forming an alliance for the 2013 election.

Based on a set of interviews with current and former state chiefs, we provide examples of how chiefs can increase their effectiveness and overcome political roadblocks by forming alliances with groups interested in economic development and higher education, and build and capitalize on a reputation for having clear goals and knowing how to achieve them.

The second task is for baby boomer parents and their millennial children to form a natural political alliance going forward.»

Each card also boosts two optional side - quests that earn you extra victory points, and so I headed to Brokilon to ask Dryads for support, and then spent two purple tokens to explain the political benefits of an alliance to the elves.

Armed with an arsenal of weapons (and his Marine allies in tow) Master Chief battles the Covenant, a radical alliance of aliens hell - bent on wiping out humankind for political and religious gain...

Much of the recent work of GCC — the group of artists whose eight members hail from various Persian Gulf countries, and whose name references the acronym for a regional political and economic alliance known as the Gulf Cooperation Council — has focused on the growing popularity in the area, among both governments and the wider populace, of the «positive energy» movement.

Some climate scientists made a fateful decision several decades ago when they decided to create a nexus that combined their views of climate science; their personal political agendas; alliances with politicians, journalists, and NGOs that shared those agendas; and a prodigious funding stream for government - sponsored research.

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

For example, the rules and regulations around actions or political alliances.

He came up in Oklahoma conservative politics, where alliance with fossil fuel industries and hostility toward federal regulators are taken for granted and the only serious political threat is from the right.

The conference made clear that the alliance of law librarians with technologists, political activists, and the community of scholars who seek a place for free access to information, is upon us.

This theoretical and political distance gives the report credibility, and it means that the report does not have an alliance of insiders pushing for its reforms.