Sentences with phrase «goal of this act»

American Eagle launched a category management program in mid-2009 with the goal of acting as a collaborator with its retail base while eliminating the sometimes adversarial nature of relationships that currently exist.

The goal of this act was to help consumers make better food choices while reducing confusion about labels.

As for Delevingne, she recently told Entertainment Weekly that the ultimate goal of her acting career is to «f — ing Meryl Streep it!»

Gov. Schwarzenegger, in announcing his decision to call for a special session with the goal of acting by October, said that, given California's yawning $ 26 billion deficit, he doesn't want to leave any federal funding on the table.

Despite the anti-union goals of Act 10, the MEA has forged a strong partnership with the Milton School Board and administration.

The goals of the Act include reducing poverty in the province by half over 10 years, and achieving one of the lowest levels of poverty in the industrialized world by 2013.

I envision that the Act will lead professionals who work with families to achieve the goals of this Act which include: • to encourage parties to a family law dispute to resolve the dispute through agreements and appropriate family dispute resolution before making an application to a court; and

The goal of the act is to protect Canadians from discrimination based on membership to unique or marginalized groups.

The goal of ACT is to help people create a full and meaningful life even and especially when the stress and pain of life is a challenge.

The general goal of ACT is to increase psychological flexibility — the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious human being, and to change or persist in behavior when doing so serves valued ends.

The goal of ACT is to move towards psychological flexibility do being present, open, and doing what matter.

Not exact matches

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

The bill is called the American Health Care Act and it would fulfill a long - running Republican goal — repealing and replacing much of former President Barack Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.

By itself, networking is ambiguous and inefficient, as the simple act of networking lacks a clear beginning and end goal.

During this process you would appoint a licensed insolvency practitioner to act as the administrator (temporary chief executive officer) of your company, operating with the goal of facilitating a recovery when possible, or mitigating the effects of winding up if a recovery is not feasible.

Two important goals of the U.S. Customs Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Reauthorization Act of 2009 were enhancement of supply chain security and enhancement of trade facilitation.

Republican leaders have set Friday as the goal for working out changes to Senate legislation that would repeal extensive parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the law dubbed Obamacare that expanded health insurance coverage to 20 million people.

However, I realized when acting like that, I'm wasting a lot of time and lessening my chances of actually succeeding with my goal.

The goal is to get everyone as worked up as possible, to act in haste, to focus on the individual rather than the success of the team or what everyone is trying accomplish.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

For those who set goals and sometimes fail to achieve them, the act of goal setting can lead to a sense of, not only failing, but of being a failure.

Additionally, rewards programs provide praise, thanks, and recognition for «work anniversaries, developmental goals, and acts of service for helping others,» and even allow employees to reward colleagues for «living company values» — with $ 5 coupons for prepared foods at the store.

Noting that an important goal of the Affordable Care Act is enrolling the uninsured in insurance plans — which will theoretically put more money in doctors» pockets — Jackson said, «As major stakeholders and advocates in this effort, physicians should be educated about how these changes will impact them, their patients and their prospective patients.»

The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to happiness for the giver than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.

Your goal isn't to eliminate the emotions, rather brainstorm alternative ways of acting that better serve you.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

The very act of giving your emotional brain a detailed portrait of your end goal also ensures that, even inadvertently, you will take the steps needed to steer yourself toward it.

Then came the task of assigning people to act on those goals, committing the company's director of business development, for example, to drum up at least one new international business partner within 90 days.

«We continue to strive toward three main goals: bringing controls in context where you share, helping you understand what appears where as you use Facebook, and providing tools to help you act on content you don't like,» Sam Lessin, Facebook's director of product, wrote in a post.

It is our company - wide goal to act as an extension of our customers» businesses, providing resourceful and proficient single - source transportation solutions to solve specific needs.

The project is to take place under the auspices of the Center for Supply Chain Studies, with the goal of bringing pharmaceutical firms into compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, passed in 2013.

This Statement on the Conduct of Monetary Policy reiterated the Reserve Bank's broad goals stipulated in the Reserve Bank Act, and endorsed the inflation target as the practical interpretation of the medium - term goal of price stability.

But legislation that would mandate paid sick leave nationwide, notably the so - called Healthy Families Act, has stalled in Congress for years, prompting the administration to seek alternative ways of achieving the policy's goals.

An earlier version of the column included a paragraph on some of the company's acts of good corporate behavior, including Starbucks» recent announcement that it had achieved 100 percent pay equity across gender and race for all of its U.S. employees and its goal of opening more stores in under - served neighborhoods.

In order to meet this goal and to comply with the requirements under the Integrated Accessibility Standard (Ontario Regulation 191/11 of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005)(the «IASR»), Franklin Templeton has developed the following multi-year accessibility plan.

One of the goals of Holacracy is to encourage employees to act more like entrepreneurs instead doing exactly what their manager tells them to do.

The 2008 and 2009 tax acts provided large temporary tax cuts to most households, with the goal of helping the economy recover from the Great Recession.

Kent Mason, a partner with Davis & Harman in Washington, a law firm serving banks and large corporations, says that while the administration's goal «is to require advisors to act in the best interest of their customers, the industry has no concerns with such a requirement, as evidenced by the industry's longstanding support» for an SEC best - interest standard.

In 1953 the Small Business Administration was created when President Eisenhower signed the Small Business Act with the goal of strengthening the economy by enabling the establishment and viability of small businesses.

But I also believe that there are, or soon will be, a number of attractive alternatives out there — the JOBS Act modernized tried - and - true Regulation D and is intent on reviving Regulation A — that may provide a more efficient way of funding with your specific goals and prospects in mind.

This goal appeared to be within reach after Title III of the JOBS Act prompted the SEC to draft a new exemption making it easier for small businesses to raise money from non-accredited investors via online portals.

To date ICOs have evolved into the most efficient way to accomplish the goals of The Jobs Act.

So, it's really great to use the scalable techniques of Indiegogo, as well as the curation capabilities of MicroVentures to bring this all to bear and to First Democracy VC, which is a constant balancing act because we only want to present the deals that we think have been filtered well to be presented, but we also want it to be as scalable as possible, and to have as many deals as possible, because the goal is to democratize the opportunities.

One constant, research in the social sciences have proven, is the acts of buying and selling are by and large goal - directed activities and behaviors.

This is the goal of content marketing — to tell good stories compelling a buyer to act.

«If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal,» said Musk.

The monetary measures serve as free - standing counterparts to similar provisions and goals of the comprehensive Financial CHOICE Act passed by the House earlier this year.

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.

Although these threads often degenerate, the simple act of engagement in the discussion provides a means to examine one's position and how it relates to what we might agree is a shared goal in mitigating suffering and improving the human condition.