Sentences with phrase «general environment of»

Work as a secret shopper to observe and measure customer service, product quality and the general environment of their establishments.

Taken together, the impression of the entire show was that of a set or production studio, a general environment of image production and mediated forms of identity.

The political, social and economic footprints of the last thirty years have played an important role in defining the architectural but also general environment of the Athenian landscape.

They can go a long way in improving the general environment of the thigh and knee.

The stock has been punished for its inability to execute on profit margins, slowing sales growth, the threat of a trade war between the U.S. and China, a general environment of China slowing in early 2018, and general weakness in financials globally.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

Aidis looked at data in five key categories: general business environment, accessibility of resources, women's rights and the prevalence of women in leadership roles, potential for high - growth female - owned businesses, and the entrepreneurship pipeline — the category Canada scored lowest in.

«Whether that is because of what the company is doing, or what the Chinese regulators are doing, or the general Chinese business environment, that's something that is up for debate.»

Implement the ones that make sense, improve productivity, increase sales or add to a general sense of well - being in the work environment.

Pruitt is the somewhat embattled Oklahoma state attorney general whom Trump picked to lead the agency responsible for protecting the environment and the health of Americans through regulation.

It was really before there was a general awareness of sexual harassment, so it was a bit of an unkind environment for a young woman at the time.»

However, serving some kind of social mission can be empowering, and can demonstrate your business» level of commitment to your community, your environment and the general «greater good.»

«This fund provides financial institutions with the optimal response to cope with the fast - changing environment,» Daniel Tsiddon, founder and general partner of Viola FinTech, said in a statement Wednesday.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

In the days since Fowler's blog post went viral, Kalanick claimed he wasn't aware of Fowler's harassment allegations and pledged a full investigation into the environment, which will be lead by former US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Along with the specific ways the tech environment excludes certain underrepresented groups, the survey results show a general disagreement about the definition of a diverse workplace that extends beyond the tech sector.

As so often is the case, these gradual changes in the economic environment do not enter the consciousness of many of the professional observers, let alone the general public.

As a general rule, auditors general are a courteous bunch, so their report makes room for an official response to their critiques from the country's federal and provincial deputy ministers of the environment.

Still, even in an environment where the market trades in a range of high valuation, it is appropriate to hedge exposure to risk at points where conditions are overvalued, overbought, and overbullish, and to establish more constructive exposure when conditions are overvalued, but oversold on a short - term basis (provided that the broad tone of market action still indicates a general willingness of investors to speculate).

The threshold, target, and maximum percentage business line goals shown for the named executives listed in the table above were derived using certain assumptions for 2008 with respect to the general economic, interest rate, credit, and regulatory environment in which we operate and certain assumptions as to the outlook for the businesses each of them managed.

In Florida in general, we have a high technology emphasis that has become more and more important and valuable to a lot of people, like me, who are looking to move technology from the academic environment into the working environment.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

«British Columbia is taking steps within the law to protect the health of its people, its environment, its economy and its communities,» said Attorney General David Eby.

«We felt that given the importance of ESPN to the company and cable networks in general, it was important for us to be candid about what we see in the environment,» Iger said.

«We look forward to continuing to working with Alibaba and others to break the supply chain of counterfeit goods, and create an environment where counterfeiters can no longer hide,» said Scott Thompson, general counsel of Marketing Properties at Mars Inc..

In general, it is a good practice to keep only small amounts of bitcoins on your computer or mobile for everyday uses and to keep the remaining part of your funds in a safer environment.

Auditor General on Climate Change A July 2014 report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development properly monitored the performance of the PC Government's climate change strategy, which was first implemented in 2008.

The «search for yield» and the general underpricing of risk that was prevalent up until last August provided an environment which facilitated the rapid growth of sub-prime lending.

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), a member organization of the Trade Justice Network, released the following statement regarding the new NAFTA Advisory Council on the Environment:

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

In addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issues.

I do think there is merit in looking at general rates (we likely won't return to the rate environment of the early 1980's for example), but I wouldn't be getting excited about stock prices at these levels for the sole reason that bond yields are really low.

The general working environment of China and Canada is the largely the same.

Generally speaking, stocks have been in a staircase - like uptrend for most of the more than 9 - year bull rally, so this general theory suggests that moving averages may be particularly powerful tools in the current market environment — if the market is indeed trending.

«We have successfully increased our business volumes in both the areas of corporate financing and leasing,» says general manager Hans Pajoma, adding that thanks to the improved economic environment, the number of problematic loans decreased, which benefited the results.

Donors who want to shape the political environment would do more good running these kinds of advertizing campaigns than giving Karl Rove money to intervene against the ghost of Christine O'Donnell and run ineffective general election ads.

Belief in the existence of a personal God has declined as men have found the influence of mutually relative natural agencies, — environment, natural selection, organic composition, conditioned functional reaction etc., able to account for natural phenomena that before were related to more general causes or even to the First Cause.

Since there exist societies of societies and systems of systems, the general structure of environment takes the form of a hierarchy.

To say that the general backgrounds, the local color, the atmosphere of the environment, and even the existence of the patriarchs — to say that this is to the best of our knowledge true is not, on the other hand, to say that the stories are, in the usual sense of the word, history.

Strong is a Canadian businessman, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and Secretary - General both of the 1972 Stockholm Conference and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

For instance, we can ask: How did the social / philosophical / religious environment in which a person was raised affect the way in which that individual thinks about tyranny in general, and the problem of abortion in particular?

But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.

In my opinion, the general realization that policies justified by the dominant economic theory destroy human community and degrade the natural environment should be enough to persuade people of good will that they should look in other directions.

Irrespective of profound differences in general and special environment, cultural level and religious level, the rites conducted in the «homes» of the American Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese, or the German or Englishman of the sixteenth century have certain features in common, as compared with public, congregational ceremonies.

Policies oriented to economic growth in a general way aim to increase this over consumption and are inherently destructive of the environment.

The general atmosphere of indiscipline and disobedience, for example with regard to liturgical norms, made for a confusing environment, lacking in those safeguards of virtue that had been proved over time, such as the suspicion of particular friendships.

The difference between a subordinate society and a subordinate nexus is that the subordinate society is a group of occasions which can retain its»... dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.»

Finally, Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant has recently reported a study made for a Global Conference on Man's Environment in 1972.

Atheism is as justifiable a belief system and perhaps more so than the Abrahmaic religions in general and the rights of an individual to express themselves must not be allowed to be infringed upon by anyone lest their actions create the very environment they sought to escape.