Sentences with phrase «for substantial time»

There is the potential for substantial time savings and reduced court appearances which should translate into reduced legal fees for clients mired in the system.

«I would think here would be a deep imperative to ensure that that was renewed for a substantial time frame, and it's telling to me that that became fodder for more of the political deal - making,» Mr. de Blasio said.

In such a case, the temperature differences between hot and cold regions are less likely to induce good convective flow, and so the hotspots can persist for a substantial time.

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Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

ESPN has already been shedding subscribers at a fairly substantial rate for some time.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The bureau says it has reason to believe the stores «failed to offer certain sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time [and]... did not sell a substantial volume of some sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time.»

, fitness breaks legitimized in the work schedule, requiring all employees to take a substantial part of their vacation time off, turning off email while on vacation, providing paid parental leave for new parents and encouraging both mothers and fathers to take advantage with no adverse career impact, paid time off for volunteer activities, and more.

Starting his own Twitter campaign, #nuggsforcarter, Wilkerson has gained a substantial following and he's on track to set a new record for most retweeted post of all time, with 2.7 million retweets (as of this article's publication).

In a recent fireside chat, Dennis Chookaszian, the long - time CEO of CNA Insurance and more recently a substantial angel and early - stage investor and advisor to numerous companies, departed from the usual plethora of pompous pieties that seem to pass for content at technology panel discussions of late.

«It's much more likely that one spouse is going to live for a substantial amount of time without the other,» Jones said.

This positive cycle allows them to justify large capital investments in their facilities and provide substantial returns for their shareholders, as share prices for these global companies are at all - time highs.

But over time, even smaller love - fueled purchases like a pricier birthday cake or extra toys for a child can put a substantial dent in your budget.

The BoE also said it was not clear if the banking system could cope easily with a disorderly Brexit if it came at the same time as a severe global recession and further substantial fines for financial misconduct.

SUPERSTORE Harvey Norman, who has had a presence in the South West for some time, is expanding.Growth in the region has spurred it on to create a more substantial site for its Bunbury operation.

Investors who have been withholding their cash from the market or those who have recently had a liquidity event and are seeking to make substantial investments for the first time may have some things in common regarding investing readiness — or lack thereof.

The Department does not have any basis for predicting such changes at this time, before it has received substantial new data or evidence in response to the President's Memorandum.

Since the performance of individual leading growth stocks is one of the most important indicators of our market timing system, we are continuously on alert for any red flags that could hint at a substantial stock market correction.

The money that doesn't go to the employee's take - home pay gradually accumulates, the balance earns interest from investments, and by the time retirement rolls around, it's grown into a substantial nest egg for the retiree.

It really does cost us substantial time and resources to process and refund a payment, to refund the promoter or affiliate from which the Attendee signed up, to communicate all this with Mark Lack and the Attendee and the promoter and the event planner for the Seminar, and to gear up the marketing machine to fill spots, which includes craft marketing messages, creating emails, postcards, mailings, involving Mark's time, etc..

There is also a view that the exchange rate arrangements that exist in the present context — the substantial share of the world economy that shadows the dollar — should increase our confidence that this pattern of imbalances could be financed without stress for some time.

At the same time, the current level of the exchange rate represents a big shift in relative prices, which should provide substantial ongoing assistance for the export sector (and the import - competing sector).

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

All of this suggests the need for substantial humility about what the Fed's capacities will be the next time the economy encounters difficult times.

For fiscal 2015, the substantial majority of adjustments to operating income pursuant to the terms of our annual cash incentive plan consisted of the following items, the first three of which are required by the terms of our incentive plans, and the fourth of which was established by the CNGC at the time goals were set in early fiscal 2015.

The prior three corporate convictions under the CFPOA have been achieved by the entering of guilty pleas.2 The Court also for the first time interpreted the meaning of key provisions in the statute, including clarifying that an inchoate offence of conspiracy exists under the CFPOA and in what circumstances a real and substantial connection will be required and found.

Mishkin noted «I am less optimistic about the prospects for core PCE inflation to move much below 2 % in the absence of a determined effort by monetary policy,» adding that «a substantial further decline in inflation would require a shift in expectations, and such a shift could be difficult and time - consuming to bring about.»

For a long time it was widely accepted that reserve currency status granted the provider of the currency substantial economic benefits.

He told the New York Times in February, «Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,» which suggests that he conducted substantial business on Trump's behalf without Trump's knowledge.

The New York Times quoted one of them, Maurice A. Pollak, warning that «very substantial redevelopment projects... simply can not be financed if we must compete for risk capital under these conditions.»

Respondents are now, for some time last past have, engaged in the advertising, offering for sale, sale and distribution of cosmetics, toiletries and associated items and distributorships and franchises to the public, and are inducing, and have induced, persons to invest substantial sums of money in respondents» multilevel marketing program as hereinafter more fully described.

Since there has been no purchase of shares subject to substantial risk of forfeiture to this point, I don't believe we are under any time restriction for an 83 (b) election.

Requirements for a substantial down payment can be a significant barrier for first - time homebuyers.

This selling pressure formed by the overhead supply is what makes it difficult for a confirmed down trending market to fully reverse into a new uptrend, at least without a substantial period of correction by time («back and fill» price action).

The result for the month of June, a fall of 0.8 per cent, incorporates a substantial decline in spending in department stores; this may partly reflect recent changes to the timing of mid-year sales, as there was a similar fall recorded the previous June, followed by a strong bounce - back the next month (Graph 13).

The $ 234 billion in announcements for the month included several multibillion dollar M&A moves, most notably the $ 78.4 billion bid by Charter Communications to acquire Time Warner Cable (a deal that likely will face substantial regulatory scrutiny).

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

If you've had an Internet connection for any substantial amount of time, then it's likely you've seen the incredible live - performance video for Sonseed's «Jesus Is My Friend.»

A great merit of Norris» compilation is that it provides not just snippets but substantial excerpts from these early commentaries, some of them translated into English for the first time.

For the interested but uninitiated, the place to enter the conversation is Oakes» The Pattern of Redemption, followed by a substantial investment of time in the Balthasar writings highlighted by Oakes, then the Cambridge Companion to see what others make of it all, leading into Hart's The Beauty to get an idea of what might be «the future of Balthasarian theology.»

The time when it can be most effective, it should be emphasized, is after the alcoholic is sober for a substantial period of time.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

Here we meet good and evil as primal moving spirits set in real opposition to one another, and here, for the first time, evil assumes a substantial and independent nature.

For the first time, philosophers had available to them a substantial selection of Peirce's writings, making them aware of the «range and depth of Peirce's work» (Peirce, xi).

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

But since also they are agreed that the later Vedic literature is also pre-Buddhist, and that these presuppose the existence of the Rig - Veda and indeed depend upon it, it would seem to this writer that a substantial lapse of time must be allowed for the very considerable development of religious thought to take place.

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.

They provide resources for thinking again, and in a way appropriate to our time and place, about how to sustain a free society capable of real and substantial unity for the sake of the common good.

Thus he pictures a future in which the maintenance of distinctions between male and female has largely given way to the cultivation of androgynous personality aided by surgical and biochemical manipulation (UP 371 - 84); in which the notion of a substantial self enduring through time (and responsible for its actions) is superceded and «one is freed to be a career of selves strung out in time» (UP 390; cf. 384 - 97); in which the worship of a single all - powerful God has given way to the experiencing of a pantheon of «momentary deities» (UP 397 - 411) 4 Morality in our sense will no longer have a place in Hall's «anarchic» world.