Sentences with phrase «general control over»

Controlled Cash flow, approved payments, spoke with bank representatives about credits, credit lines, overdrafts, and other finance related activities and had general control over a budget of $ 520M.

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However, she said it was likely these privacy upgrades were already underway in preparation for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect in May and forces companies to offer E.U. users of such platforms more control over their data.

But after the shocking result of the presidential vote, the fact that the GOP maintained control over the chamber inspires little surprise, or reaction in general.

«Corporations that exercise sufficient control over their franchisees can not claim ignorance,» said Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel and program director for the National Employment Law Project, in a Tuesday conference call held by the organizations supporting the lawsuits.

The 43 - member Board of Governors is the seat of power at AMPAS, with ultimate authority over corporate management, control and general policies, including Oscar rules and the invitation of new members.

The General Data Protection Regulation, a new legal regime intended to give EU citizens more control over their data, could create still more heartburn for U.S. general counsels when it goes into effect nexGeneral Data Protection Regulation, a new legal regime intended to give EU citizens more control over their data, could create still more heartburn for U.S. general counsels when it goes into effect nexgeneral counsels when it goes into effect next year.

Others voiced frustration with the complicated application process required to receive money from a crime victims compensation fund administered by Attorney General Pam Bondi's office — even though the steering committee has no control over the state fund.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Your objective as an entrepreneur should be: — to reduce the sense of insecurity and lack of control over the company's use of funds and general financial direction that your VC might feel (they wont accept it but its always there)-- to reduce to a minimum the amount of time and effort used to collect the needed information

All of the partners in a general partnership act as active business managers and have control over what happens to the business from day to day.

After 10 years at the helm of China's Communist Party, Hu Jintao is scheduled to step down this week as the party's general secretary and hand over China's control to his designated successor, Xi Jinping.

There is no globalisation of political regulation, state or democratic institutions which provide guarantees and exert control over decisions affecting the various regions and populations of the world, in the general interest of the world at large.

In its more general sense, then, mysticism refers to that disclosure and experience of a higher, purer reality which one gratefully accepts without exercising control over it.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

The overwhelming focus on negative aspects of life and conflict in the news colors our perception as well and can either numb or desensitize us or increase our general anxiety load, or leave us feeling helpless over events outside our control.

Due in large part to a lack of control over bodily functions, babies tend to get dirty quickly and, in general, require a good deal of help with hygiene.

The emotions will never go away, but the better we feel about ourselves, our parenting, and our lives in general, the more control we have over our emotions.

Little losses of control that remind us how motherhood is made up of a thousand little losses of control over our lives in general.

Cesarean births account for over 31 % of all births in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007), but general anesthesia is only used in the 10 % of cesarean births that are characterized as urgent (McDonald & Yornell, 2006, p. 442).

This is most likely the option you'll want if you seek a massage over general tense areas, but don't need precise control over specific spots.

This is due to intense changes in hormones, the body physically changing, and a general sense of lack of control over eating, toileting, and exercising practices thanks to the growing baby.

In general, most adoptive parents choose open adoption because it gives them more control over the matching process, offers them the chance to parent a child from birth, and allows them to have more detailed information about their child's family and medical history.

She said it's likely that he feels like he doesn't have control over life in general, so his instincts are to lash out.

«Because you don't want to be in a situation where you no longer have a majority, you can't control confidence in the House of Commons and the other party can take over... The prime minister might then call a general election in order to avoid being in a situation in which she's potentially yielding power without a general election to a coalition of Tory opponents.»

And over that more recent period (again in contrast to earlier episodes) there were no other forms of austerity imposed alongside fiscal squeeze, in the form of general wage caps, exchange controls or tight money policies.

Though he attended the gala in 2010 when he was the state attorney general preparing to run for governor — an awkward moment that saw him sharing a table with Paterson, who looked to be on a political collision course with Cuomo until he decided not to follow through with his plans to seek a full four - year term — Cuomo generally avoids the public portions of caucus weekend in favor of private events at the mansion where he has more control — both over the guest list and media access.

The attorney general said the hostility he and Giffords experienced at the show reflect New Yorkers» unrest over a new gun control law, the SAFE Act, «which doesn't have anything to do with what we're doing,» he said.

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

Former Yonkers Inspector General Dan Schorr on Thursday announced his bid for the 37th Senate district in Westchester County, a seat that is at the center of a fight over control for the chamber.

According to the same poll, just over half (51 %) of those who voted Conservative in last year's general election think the UK government should have control over these areas of policy, while only one in three (33 %) think that the Scottish Parliament should.

The voting age for the UK general election in May will remain at 18 and over, as this is controlled by Westminster.

While a President Trump would be able to appoint an Attorney General and fire that person if they failed to convict Hillary Clinton, just as Nixon sought to fire the special investigator investigating him, no President has direct control over the Court system or criminal proceedings.

Cuomo has proposed new administrative controls over the non-profit entities at the State University of New York that oversee economic development efforts, as well as the creation of a chief procurement officer to monitor state contracts, as well as enhanced powers for the inspector general.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pointed to the trove of assault weapons confiscated this week in suburban Rochester and offered his own advice to a federal government embroiled in controversy over gun - control laws.

After all, the 2010 Constitutional Reform and Governance Act codifies a degree of parliamentary control over treaty - making in general.

Enck also called Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a «legal firewall» for spearheading several multi-state legal challenges to Trump, including threats to sue the President over his attempted roll - back of the Obama'administration's Clean Power Plan aimed at controlling power plant emissions in the U.S.

He is the State Attorney General, his party has complete control and power over the entire state, and his father was governor multiple times, yet in typical DEMOCRAT ethics fashion, he calls himself an outsider.

Its director - general, John Cridland, has previously been critical of Labour, saying the business community had been left «scratching its head» over a perceived swing to the left, towards «wage controls, price controls, land controls, tax increasing, and dividing large and small companies».

The state's District Attorney's association has threatened legal action over the appointment of the Attorney General as special prosecutor, and Senate Democrats have contemplated suing over the gun control law changes.

Asked about the controversy over the UK party's control over the Scottish party — which included the sacking last week of Scottish party general secretary, Ian Price, without Lamont's agreement — Murphy said: «I am going to go to into this in a lot more detail during the contest.

UPDATE: Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has pledged to give to charity over $ 100,000 donated to his campaign coffers in 2010 by Mark Stern - controlled donors Esther and Joseph Markowtiz of Monsey.

She said incumbents in general, and those in the majority in particular, control too much power over state resources, which they use to ensure their ability to be reelected.

«We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time as assessed by the Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology (QIDS), as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group,» said Dr. Uebelacker.

This is due to lack of a general method to access multi-substituted asymmetric benzenes with complete control over the position of installation.

Nebula's creators also envisage giving senders more control over the path their packets take, just as offline businesses can opt to hire safe couriers for a particularly important package, rather than entrusting it to the general mail.

Compared with the general population, and after controlling for confounding factors (such as disease duration, other co-existing diseases and socio - economic factors), patients with RA actively on TNF inhibitor treatment were 50 percent more likely to have ACS, while those who had never taken these medications were over twice as likely to have ACS.

In an audit released Thursday (Dec. 8), NASA's Office of Inspector General states that the agency «lacks sufficient controls over its loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials, which increases the risk that these unique resources may be lost.»

«We agree with the recommendations contained in the recently released Inspector General report examining NASA's controls over loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials to researchers and educators.

Says coauthor Leigh Hochberg, a Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist: «We may be able to get finer control over an external device than was previously possible.»

In general, people have little control over their data online, says Tom Symons, at innovation charity Nesta, who is leading the work on DECODE.