Sentences with phrase «global scale of»

Multinationals may face «unmanageably onerous obligations» to prevent tax evasion due to the global scale of the Criminal Finances Act, say lawyers at QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers in an article in NLJ this week.

«Our goal from the very start was to find a clean energy generation solution that could address the global scale of the carbon problem.

Other difficult problems arise from the intrinsic global scale of climate change (EIA, 2005b).

But its findings could help quantify the immense global scale of the thawing, which will contribute to more accurate estimates of carbon emissions.

We know this is a global issue and the nature of the US government is pretty much irrelevant in the global scale of things.

Huntington notes that the long term and global scale of this study could accommodate significant variability, for example, the last two Atlantic hurricane seasons.

In essence, the authors have revisited a question posed earlier in a paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (2003: see our previous discussion here), investigating whether or not evidence from past proxy records of temperature support the existence of past intervals of warmth with the widespread global scale of 20th century warming.

The work evokes the global scale of the so - called «refugee crisis,» evolving out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum.

It was short and it wasn't sweet, but the episodic emotionally - charged missions that took players across the different conflicts of WW1 hammered home the tragedy and global scale of the conflict.

Edition is the first true luxury - lifestyle brand which combines the personal, intimate, individualised and unique hotel experience that Ian Schrager is known for, with the reach, operational expertise and global scale of Marriott International.

In the global scale of things, IDC says the tablet market saw a 10.1 percent decline year - on - year in 2015, with around 206.8 million units shipped.

You should provide exact numbers in your world hunger essays in order they to be informative, factual, and able to reveal the global scale of the problem.

These types of opportunities and efficiencies exist throughout the local food system but are almost completely impossible to realize on the industrially controlled, chemically dependent, national / global scale of our modern economy.

Now, scientists have assessed the global scale of food crop disasters for the first time — and the news is not good.

But using sophisticated Earth - watching satellites launched in the 1990s, scientists around the world have gained a new appreciation for the global scale of dust movement.

Now, consider the global scale of current saber rattling, from the Baltics to the Black Sea, to the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, Korea and more.

The scales are composed of three stand - alone global scales of 20 - 24 questions each and ten subscales:

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.

Building a global - scale order book was the first phase of AGT's expansion; the second is now focused on vertical integration, buying key infrastructure up and down the supply chain.

The global network of business leaders was supposed to help emerging - market entrepreneurs scale up, but now the organization is needed closer to home.

While some non-Chinese have heard of Lenovo and Haier, no Chinese companies have the recognition and global presence on the scale of South Korea's Samsung.

Nine - tenths of a degree on a global scale is huge.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

Global consulting giants like Accenture and PwC are staging a full - scale invasion of marketing.

She has built and scaled some of the most important global companies today,» said Katzenberg in a statement.

Fox Networks Group Chairman Peter Rice said at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week that Fox was looking to buy Tribune Media because «having more scale and more control of distribution is important.»

Effective altruism has been called «altruism for nerds,» and revolves around the idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.

To find out, researchers from the University of London zoomed in for a three - year look at the assumedly cutthroat global reinsurance industry — a $ 260 - billion dollar financial market that insures insurance companies against large - scale losses.

They also improved their scores on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults.

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

And WhatsApp is one of the biggest mobile messaging systems on the planet — with 19 billion messages sent over WhatsApp every day, it has nearly reached the scale of the entire global SMS, or text messaging, system.

Yes, but its status quo is too wedded to corruption, easy credit, coal and delusions of global grandeur to make the kind of commitment needed to develop clean energy on the scale China needs to continue industrializing.

Founded in 1980, Ashoka is home to the largest network of social entrepreneurs on a global scale.

Northern Star Resources Limited is a global - scale ASX 100 gold producer with world - class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

The accelerator will launch this September in partnership with Rainmaking, a global collective of serial entrepreneurs who bring together startups to scale new businesses.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

I've already mentioned some of the things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can scale as you grow.

«The enlarged group would be geographically diversified with a large portfolio of businesses across both regulated and developing markets, with the scale and resources to address the dynamics of a rapidly changing global industry.»

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The team of over 250 global employees works with consultancies, private equity firms and investment banks across the globe to help its clients — typically business professionals and leaders — scale.

«While carrier customers like the idea of buying infrastructure from large global suppliers, it's not obvious to us that amassing scale for the sake of it makes sense for the vendors,» analysts at Jefferies said in a note Wednesday before the deal was announced.

Business models with the scope to benefit the future prospects of everyone and everything on a global scale, warrant being given every opportunity to succeed and hopefully, this will yet be the case regardless of any existing hurdles, past and present.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

Following the closing of the transaction, Popeyes will continue to be managed independently in the U.S., while benefitting from the global scale and resources of RBI.

We harness the power and scale of our global operations to deeply connect with the cities, communities, drivers, and riders that we serve, every day.

Amazon Channels are just one piece of the company's ever - expanding portfolio of streaming video content, as Amazon looks to better compete with streaming rivals such as Netflix on a global scale.

«I did think that someone was going to build a global social platform, I just thought there was no chance it was going to be us,» says Zuckerberg on podcast «Masters of Scale.»

On Monday, the company announced a new vice president of operations and technology: Tina Bhatnager, who has spent the last five and a half years at Twitter, where she helped scale the company's customer service team from a basement operation to a global force.