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As with many changes arising
from technological advances and changes in attitudes to work, the law has not been able to keep apace.
CMA 1990 came about as a result of difficulties with the pre-existing law as it was stretched to encompass previously un-encountered mischief resulting
from technological advances.
You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (
from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).
Just as the announcing benefited
from technological advances, the gameplay can too.
From the technological advances of windsurfing, paragliding and wakeboarding has come a hot new water sport called KITESURFING, or KITEBOARDING.
From the technological advances of windsurfing, paragliding and wakeboarding comes a challenging water sport that some people call KITEBOARDING and others call KITESURFING.
Education has always benefitted
from technological advances.
These firms can benefit
from technological advances and operate on a short investment cycle.
Not exact matches
He astutely observed that our nation suffered
from a «poverty of the spirit,» noting that despite our
technological advances, «we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.»
That doesn't seem like a huge
technological advance, but
from a process perspective, that is a huge
advance for our industry.
What was missing
from the debate, Thiel argues, was the recognition that with
technological advances, «you could have more security with fewer privacy violations.»
Millennials also may be more likely to expect flexible scheduling and work -
from - home arrangements
from their employers since
technological advances have made working at different times and
from different locations practical for many companies.
Due to
technological advances in computing, working remotely is more widely accepted than it was 5 - 10 years ago; and it's not uncommon for entrepreneurs to start and manage entire empires
from the comfort of their homes.
As the
technological rate of change continues to
advance exponentially, more and more breakout technologies will emerge
from seemingly nowhere and follow bitcoin's rise to prominence in their own respective arenas.
The
technological advances since the mid-1990s have opened up multiple opportunities for working
from home.
Future generations are the biggest beneficiaries of the dynamic gains
from trade brought on by
technological advances.
Since when did people of the Bronze Age were ever less intelligent or developed than we are today other than certain
technological advancements, which by the way not even everything technologically speaking is necessarily more
advance today it was say two thousand, three thousand, or even four thousand years ago, so I have no idea where you get that reasoning
from.
A short - sighted selfishness can indeed lead business people to think that it is in their interest to exclude others
from the benefits of commercial, scientific, and
technological advance.
Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific,
technological, and secular
advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely
from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.
The religion faculty (many with degrees
from top - flight Western universities) combines an inflexible affirmation of the perfection of Qur» anic revelation (and solidarity with global Muslim political grievances) with a very sophisticated interpretive attempt to moderate any aspect of the tradition that stands in the way of economic and
technological advance.
Another problem we face
from the interweaving of
technological advance and human values has been called the «infinitely dangerous, negligible probability accident.»
Obama goes as far as to suggest that the political aggrandizement of America as a nation is inseparable
from its stewardship of
technological innovation — he not only wants to «
advance the cause of science in America» but also hopes for «America to lead the world in the discoveries it may one day yield».
It believes that
technological advance will handle any problems that arise
from natural shortages.
The loss of meaning to contemporary man of biblical and theological language, and the problems resulting
from the accelerated process of secularization and
technological advance, present special problems to contemporary preachers that make the recovery of our Lord's kind of preaching more than ever imperative.
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The two - day event will offer a unique opportunity for decision makers
from major brands, converters and retailers to discover the latest
technological advances in logistics and transit packaging, packaging machinery, robotics and automation.
But after the Intimidator's death in 2001, those old - timers didn't keep up with the
technological advances sweeping NASCAR, and RCR won only five races
from 2002 through» 05.
Thanks to new
technological advances new bottles made of glass only slightly resemble the ones
from decades ago.
The circular wheel with a long rod or axle protruding
from its center is the archetypal human invention: though its precise origins are lost in time, it has contributed to any number of
technological advances since being deployed more than 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamian potters» wheels.
It is critical that Nevada's rural areas benefit
from the same
technological advances that other parts of the country have enjoyed.
Today,
technological advances allow scientists to read billions of letters
from the genomes of ancient humans and other organisms, transforming our view of history and evolution.
From early, bizarre attempts at resuscitation to disturbing lab experiments and painful decisions about removing a loved one's ventilator, Casarett covers the gamut of
technological advances and their consequences.
R&D spending includes everything
from the Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and
technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and
advances in the understanding of the brain.
Physicist and software mogul Stephen Wolfram
advances a similar argument
from a more
technological angle.
«The lack of robust, automated sample handling techniques prevents crystallographers
from fully realizing the power of these
technological advances.
Dr Dinusha Mendis» research into the intellectual property issues around 3D printing stemmed
from a personal interest in the latest
technological advances.
The quest to understand the brain is complicated, too, by the profound ethical questions that will inevitably arise as the science moves forward,
from worries about the potential hacking of brain implants to the notion that
technological advances will ultimately make mind control possible.
The study, published this week in Applied Physics Letters,
from AIP Publishing, represents a valuable
technological advance for radiation biology.
But as devastating as such events can be, these recent great quakes have come with a silver lining: They coincide with unprecedented
advances in
technological and scientific capacity for learning
from them.
PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2017)-- A significant
technological advance from the Monell Center now allows scientists to identify the complete set of genes in any type of taste receptor cell.
However, recent
technological advances have led to improved ground - based observations: in 2000, high - resolution lucky imaging
from the Mount Wilson Observatory 60 - inch telescope provided the first detailed views of the parts of Mercury that were not imaged in the Mariner missions.
But if life does indeed exist outside of Earth, how could we tell
from a distance whether it is a primordial bacterial form or a highly
advanced technological civilization?
The BDGP was awarded a three year grant
from the NCHGR in December 1995 that allows for a four-fold increase over the next 18 months in funding devoted to production sequencing;
technological advances and economies of scale should allow a substantially greater relative increase in output.
As a comparison, a Type I civilization has evolved with the
technological ability to harness all the energy that reached their planet
from their star; a Type II civilization is much more
advanced, with the ability of harnessing all of the energy
from their star.
He says that GPCR structures in general and this structure in particular could not have been obtained without
technological advances from many labs.
In other words, while the construction of such transmitters is definitely a daunting task
from an engineering and
technological point of view, it is firmly within the realms of possibility that, say, an
advanced Type I or Type II extraterrestrial civilization could build one.
His goal is to help every patient get the best out of the integration of science - proven approaches to medicine, drawing
from both the
technological advances of the West and the ancient wisdom of the East.
Dr. Helen Driscoll, who is a sex psychologist
from UK, indicated that
technological advances may lead to regular love - making activities between humans appearing way too primitive.
Another important fact is that this dating site is the only dating site I have ever used, because at the time I started to use it,
from technological point of view, this site was more
advanced than other similar dating sites.