Sentences with phrase «form of a long period»

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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.

Assuming he earned an 8 % return annually by investing in a low cost index fund or other forms of passive income, which is a modest assumption over a long period of time, his new car purchase would have cost him over $ 240,000 (see table below).

The HRC has reaffirmed the policy of deferring a portion of annual incentive compensation for the Company's highest earners in the form of long - term awards whose vesting terms take into account longer risk - emergence periods, and has overseen the implementation of standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff to further prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

Many investors find that their most appreciated assets come in the form of real estate — a piece of raw land, an investment property or a vacation home — that has been held for a long period of time and could create significant capital gains taxes when sold.

«In order to get a perfect gradation between two forms in the upper and lower parts of the same formation, the deposit must have gone on continuously acc.umulating during a long period, sufficient for the slow process of modification; hence the deposit must be a very thick one; and the species, undergoing change must have lived in the same district throughout the whole time.

Darwin's theories showed that complex forms of life, including the human, had come into existence by a gradual process over very long periods of time.

When one realizes that these concepts were brought forward by Whitehead at the peak of his «mathematical» period, one sees how long these ideas were gestating before reaching their mature form in Process and Reality some twenty - five years later.

As microorganisms in the soil break down the organic material into an inorganic soluble form, a slow release of nutrients is provided over a longer period of time.

For early Christianity was in its origin a Jewish movement, and the records of the lives and teachings of Jewish religious leaders in that period were invariably preserved in the form of scattered sayings, parables, and anecdotes, handed down by their disciples, quoted and requoted in the schools, and not committed to writing until long after.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

What we know of biological evolution suggests that modern human subjectivity emerged very gradually over a long period of time out of simpler forms of subjectivity.

After a long period of literary, historical, and form - critical study of the New Testament, along with more recent work on the «redaction» of its several books in the light of the motives that led their authors to select and arrange the material then available to them, it is clear that any claim to «simple historicity» is false.

The latter theory suggests that biological forms are surprisingly stable over long periods of time, and mutate suddenly and quite rapidly in response to equally sudden and dramatic environmental changes.

Yet the period which has witnessed the development of men, long as it may appear to us, is short when compared with the vaster period over which other forms of life appeared.

The fossil record tells us that God has created all of life as we see it now (the fossil record shows extremely long periods of stable species, then new fully formed species appear.

B. # 2 (atheistic evolutionism) has a severe problem in that it needs to contend with a fossil record that is acknowledged by the paleontology community as reflecting extremely long periods of stasis, followed by extremely short periods of explosive change, the result of which is «new species appearing fully formed in the fossil record».

X's period on the water wagon ends in a humpty - dumpty act in the form of a long spree.

And true bone broth that's been simmered over a long period of time contains a bioavailable form of collagen, just like in collagen peptides.

Our other games before the festive period are at home to Huddersfield and Newcastle and away to West Ham and Southampton, so as long our form does not collapse there should be a lot of points coming our way.

His form left Dimitar Berbatov consigned to the bench for long period and Ferguson appears to value a combination of Hernandez and Wayne Rooney when he fields two up front.

Moroccan Marouane Chamakh has been frozen out of first team affairs due to an 18 month long period of woeful form.

EVERY other alternative mentioned has proven their ability over a longer period of time and some in higher forms of competition, there's nothing illogical about that.

Aaron Lennon has been in fine form of late and after a long period of poor form under Ramos the winger seems likely to be brought back into the England fold so will surely not be thinking of leaving the resurgent Spurs outfit anytime soon.

Rooney's consistent failures to live up to his stunning club form in international matches has underscored a long period of frustration for England fans.

Granted their record against them last season was atrocious, but back then they were a club under enormous strain − domestically they were out of sorts for an alarmingly long period, there was disharmony in the ranks, confusion before each and every game as to who would start, and constant media attention surrounding Fernando Torres» woeful scoring form since his # 50 - million switch from Liverpool.

Most sports organizations tell you what type of medical professionals are authorized to complete the forms, and they tell you how long the form is good for (usually a year, but there are some places that provide for a longer period).

Research shows that when developing brain tissue is exposed to such hormones for long periods of time, nerves won't form proper connections to other nerves and will even degenerate.

An insecure attachment relationship is formed over a long period of time, due to long standing patterns of neglect.

Six weeks long, with an emphasis on finding out what you need to be able to thrive through this period of intense pressure and maintaining your own boundaries and getting the help and support you need so you can be as present as you can be in the form that's right for you.

While this is undefined, it looks to retain some form of access to the Single Market and to exit with a long transition period.

«It is a process and it wouldn't take too long because we want to believe as at yesterday [Monday], all the constituencies were getting ready and so we expect that in due course within this period, the regions will be submitting the names of those whose forms have been accepted to the Head Office.»

And then when that happens, CO2 becomes a way to store renewable energy, in chemical form, over long periods of time, in a stable way.

The people with autism who form successful long - term relationships are the ones who have learned to negotiate arrangements that respect their needs — whether a prolonged period of quiet time after work, a relationship with cuddling but no sex, or even a sparsely decorated home that forestalls sensory overload.

Added up over centuries, millennia, and longer periods of time, natural selection — the competition that takes place in nature between variant forms — is powerful enough to forge all the changes that we've seen on the face of the earth.

«On the other hand, this increased activity can transform carbon compounds into forms more easily locked onto soil particles, allowing them to stay in the soil for longer periods of time.»

The authors suggest future research in the form of longitudinal studies that measure eating decisions over a longer period of time would be useful in addressing this issue.

The authors suggest that the unique pattern of vertebral maturation and longer period of brain growth might reflect the larger and broader body form typical of Neandertals.

But the researchers speculate that long periods of elevated testosterone, as might be the case during a market bubble, can turn risk - taking into a form of addiction, thus exaggerating the market's upward turn — until it deflates under the exhausting pressure of impulsivity.

«Both forms of exercise improved the whole body's insulin sensitivity equally efficiently and most likely, we would have seen a change also in the brain's metabolism after moderate training if the exercise period would have been longer.

Clots formed from the synthetic particles also contract, but over a longer period of time, Brown noted.

Work done so far suggests that the technique — a modified form of IVF — is safe enough to try in clinical trials, the HFEA panel said, as long as several extra experiments are carried out first and children born as a result of the technique are followed up for an extensive period.

There's also a long period of environmental review required, largely because subglacial lakes have the potential to harbor life — and the life down there could very well be rare and exotic forms.

Once these results are validated in other patients and over longer periods of time, we will be able to say with confidence which people with the benign form can be spared unnecessary endoscopy and worry.

But these new neurons helped to form long - term memories and bonds, as the mouse fathers easily recognized their offspring by smell even after they had been separated for a long period of time.

This form of social group interaction over long distances very likely offered a means of mitigating periods of environmental risk, uncertainty and scarcity,» said Potts.

«Once planets form, they can survive for long periods of time, even longer than the current age of the universe,» explains DiStefano.

Genetic deficiencies can cause lowered plasma clotting factor activity so as to compromise blood - clotting; when a blood vessel is injured, a scab will not form and the vessel can continue to bleed excessively for a very long period of time.

«Typically, when you get very strong storms like Harvey, Maria and Irma, they form in the tropical Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean Sea in an area of weak wind shear» — conditions which crank out storms that are not fast - moving and stay together for longer periods of time — Bell explains.

They are cool, red giants with large mass loss in the form of strong stellar winds, and are typically long - period variables.

Cycling between moist and dry conditions, and avoiding long periods at either extreme, promotes chemical transformations to more recalcitrant forms of carbon.