Sentences with phrase «global power which»

The US population may be the last potential counterbalancing force that could have a chance at stopping the runaway juggernaut of global power which is responsible for the ongoing climate engineering insanity and so much more.

Not exact matches

Trump also downplayed the significance of rising global temperatures, which is likely to increase overall demand to power grids through increased use of air conditioning.

In March 2018, Eisen was named co-anchor of CNBC's «Power Lunch» (M - F, 1PM - 3PM ET), which broadcasts from CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

It is a carrier group which projects power, and that requires an enormous infrastructure: a small fleet of other vessels, satellite communications, anti-submarine capabilities, global bases to refuel / reprovision, and so on.

OTS shifted some power from local buyers to Whole Foods» corporate headquarters in Austin, which the company calls its global office, employees said.

«It's really frightening to me to think of all the wasted brain power, talent and leadership these young people represent around the world,» says Barbara Bush, the 31 - year - old daughter of George W. Bush and CEO of Global Health Corps, which pairs young fellows and leaders to different organizations.

The term «G - Zero world,» coined by Bremmer and political scientist David F. Gordon, refers to a power - vacuum world in which «major powers set aside aspirations for global leadership — alone, coordinated, or otherwise — and look primarily inward for their policy priorities.»

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.

Combined with renewables — which Macaulay expects are unlikely to generate more than 20 or 30 percent of global power supply — he thinks gas will continue to gain share as the use of oil declines.

But it's also becoming increasing clear China can no longer be counted on to power the economies of other countries, which, in today's low - growth global environment, is increasingly a threat in its own right.

During the leadership conclave, Xi also declared a «new era» for his country, which entails the idea that China is moving closer to the center of the global stage as an influential power.

President Xi's view that China should put its power into practice and take an active role in regional and global affairs, which was solidified at the 19th Party Congress with his consolidation of power, creates greater uncertainty in Russia about China's long - term ambitions.

For this to take place, many entrenched and centralized institutions, which have become the single points of failure in the global economy accruing an embarrassment of power and riches, will need to be transformed.

As the USD is the largest component in the basket of global currencies against which other currencies» purchasing power are measured, and the ruble lost 58 % in valuation versus the USD just from June 2014 to January 2016, I would dare claim that a 58 % devaluation qualifies as a crash.

The story does not end with EV subsidies either as Tesla has provided very generous residual buyback programs in key global markets like Hong Kong, which has very generous government incentives at the front end (fully detailed in the legacy post below) putting a Tesla Model S pricing nearly on top of a gas powered Honda Civic and well below a Mercedes entry model.

Press Release — MIAMI, Florida — September 26, 2017 — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands, today announced a partnership with All Hands Volunteers, the world's leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, and set a goal to raise $ 2.5 million for the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program.

Discussion of this tends to concentrate on the media and the power of the mass media, which as it becomes increasingly global in its coverage, is becoming immense.

Richard J. Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer jobs.

Faced with the power of the social forces which dominate the global capitalist archipelago, appropriation of the future of the planet by its inhabitants will not be easy and neither will it happen overnight.

Let us suppose that liberation from the global capitalist system and resistance to American imperialism leads to a world of large regional blocks within which nations have recovered a good deal of the power of self - government.

«Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.»

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

My concern, which is not based on detailed knowledge, is that the pressures of the global market are now moving toward centralization of economic power in the European Community rather than its decentralization to local communities.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

The particular context of global market about which we want to speak is the field of «cultural war» between power and people, waged through political propaganda, commercial advertisements, the educational process, the public media, and information technology.

One of these is the Direct Print Powered by KHS ™ direct printing system — also in cooperation with NMP Systems which is responsible for the global marketing of the packaging systems developed by KHS.

Watlow announced that Cummins Inc., a global power and technology leader and one of Watlow's key customers, elevated the company's status to «Category Partner,» which recognizes an elite level of supplier performance.

The prominence of coffeehouse - style coffee from the West, especially among younger generations in Asia — crowd which includes 60 % of the global youth population — indicates the demand for Arabica coffee could grow exponentially along with the purchasing power of this demographic.

The Teenage Survey Highlights They told us about the big global issues which matter most to them and that if they had the power they'd like to change.

Manchester United have beaten Bayern Munich and Real Madrid to reclaim their position as the biggest brand in world football, becoming the first club to pass the $ 1billion mark.The brand Finance, which measures a team's «brand power» and its ability to monetise its global recognition, shows United as top of the pile despite two trophyless seasons at Old Trafford.I mean how is that even possible?

Uneven consumer power along racial, class and gender lines, which drives the global market in a particular direction, suited to particular tastes.

With a global Extractive Industries Program which now operates in more than 30 countries, Oxfam is working to address negative power dynamics in resource - dependent countries and has commissioned political economy research in several cases.

Changing global configurations of power also suggest that it is increasingly difficult to pin down agents, such as a particular state or a particular government within a state, that could be held responsible for the conditions within which people attempt to craft their lives or which people try to change by moving.

That doesn't just mean the Arab world but the global power players like Russia and China which monitor western resolve with the closest of attention.

In the next few days, Mr Brown will set out recommendations for a framework for a global deal which will assist non-nuclear states to develop civil atomic power provided they commit to non-proliferation.

The government has explained that Ghana's poor performance in the 2017 Global Corruption Perception Index also took into account corruption cases recorded under the John Mahama administration, which left power in January 2017.

API, which recently merged with ThermaSys, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of a wide range of heat transfer technologies for virtually every market, as well as the food and beverage, power generation and pharmaceutical industries.

Mr. Terkper said this was achieved despite the significant challenges that confronted the economy in the form of the power crisis and the rough global economic terrain, which affected interest rate, gold and cocoa prices, which are two of Ghana's major export commodities.

Along with phosphorus accumulation came a global chemical chain reaction, which included other nutrients, that powered organisms to pump oxygen into the atmosphere and oceans.

The $ 23.7 million solar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Ummel said he spent the past year and a half bringing the site up to speed with new global data and a new online interface on which users can do everything from mapping the world's dirtiest and cleanest power plants to digging deep on utilities in places as far - flung as Juliette, Ga., and Changshu City, China.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Indeed, simply reading an article that affirmed the power of scientific progress to successfully address global issues such as climate change (vs. reading an article which questioned its efficacy in doing so) was enough to significantly increase the degree to which participants saw order in the world.

The previous unmanned endurance record was set in 2001 by a jet - powered U.S. Air Force Global Hawk surveillance aircraft, which flew for more than 30 hours.

Diesel combustion in vehicles or coal in power plants creates soot particles, which also contribute to global warming, albeit only briefly as they disappear quickly from the atmosphere.

EUROPE»S plans for tackling global warming by driving down emissions of carbon dioxide may have backfired in Germany, where they have encouraged energy companies to build coal - fired power stations instead of gas - fired stations, which emit less CO2.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Wind power is the renewable energy which has seen the widest and most successful deployment over the last two decades, increasing the global cumulative capacity from 3 GW to 370 GW.

A declaration by the panel of a global crisis would give the WHO power to issue temporary recommendations on travel restrictions or other ways to control the spread of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which has infected 79 people and killed 42 of them.