Sentences with phrase «imposes costs»

The commenter stated that the application of the regulation to a covered entity's use of individually identifiable health information offers little benefit in terms of protecting protected health information, yet imposes costs and may hamper many legitimate activities, that fall outside the definition of treatment, payment or health care operations.

As Dyson J noted in CPAG, «where an unsuccessful claim is brought against a public body, it imposes costs on that body which have to be met out of public funds diverted from the funds available to fulfil its primary functions».

But what if a deal between consenting adults imposes costs on people who are not part of the exchange?

A pollution tax is, well, a tax, which imposes costs on the private sector while generating revenue for the government.

«If there's a single central insight in economics, it's this: There are mutual gains from transactions between consenting adults... but what if a deal between consenting adults imposes costs on people who are not part of the exchange?»

The uncertainty of an unknown future imposes costs and risks on us in many areas of life.

Any action taken may have benefits, but also imposes costs, even if those costs are imposed upon...

Any action taken may have benefits, but also imposes costs, even if those costs are imposed upon others.

The study, published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that focusing on CSR strategies imposes costs on firms in the form of foregone investment opportunities that in the long run leads to losses for their shareholders.

All of this certainly has major impacts on human society, and it imposes costs.

Between 2000 and 2013, the number of Lower Manhattan residents increased by 77 percent — and by 240 percent specifically in the Financial District — but all that development imposes costs on -LSB-...]

It imposes costs on others, especially women (lesbian and straight).

«Despite its successes, the regulatory model for ESCAS is complex and imposes costs of over $ 17.6 million a year on government and the industry.

Yet an unimaginative approach that seeks to regulate the Internet imposes costs that would make Internet access less affordable and create a regulatory environment that runs counter to fundamental principles of freedom of speech and access to information.

A falling dollar certainly imposes costs, such as pricier cauliflower, but it also brings benefits.

OMB's interim guidance, issued on February 2, 2017, explains that for Fiscal Year 2017 the above requirements only apply to each new «significant regulatory action that imposes costs,» and that «costs should be measured as the opportunity cost to society.»

But when self - service is simply fobbing work onto customers, it imposes a burden on customers that amounts to a hidden price increase — and imposes costs on sellers, too.

Accordingly, OMB has determined that this final rule extending the Start Printed Page 16916applicability date does not impose costs that would trigger the above requirements of Executive Order 13771.

Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received up to 10 % of the vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant voting impact of an ISS recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.

«This is why the energy companies are for it — it doesn't add significantly to their bottom line; it imposes the cost downstream.»

But this neglects that our emissions impose costs on others at the margin.

But imposing costs on others is hardly appealing.

It is like a letter, but how often would a student in the past have sent a letter, which imposed the costs of paper, thought, envelope, a stamp, and a trip to the mailbox?

Occupying one end of the spectrum is an extreme version of «America First»: Only American lives should count for Americans; foreign lives count only when improving those lives impose no costs on Americans.

«Simplistically, this imposes a cost increase of at least $ 100 million for Coca - Cola Amatil — which is made of 10 cents per container in deposition and between 1 cents and 4 cents per container in handling costs,» Errington says in a report.

It's cheaper to bear the costs of warehousing miscreants than to impose the costs of a non-functional educational system on society.

The threshold for creating regions is appositely high to avoid opportunistic creation of regions that ultimately confers benefits to a few and imposes cost on the many.

These include the «renewables obligation», which is effectively a quota mechanism imposing costs on generators who fail to generate a set proportion of their electricity from renewables and more recently, courtesy of the energy bill, a most peculiar mechanism, otherwise known as «contracts for difference».

The latter bill is a revision of legislation vetoed by Governor Paterson last year, because it would have created monetary penalties for localities that violate the law, and thereby imposed costs on taxpayers.

The letter added that if the Legislature wants to pass a bill that imposes a cost on municipalities, «the bill should include state funding to offset the cost.»

«My plan would amend federal law to eliminate Albany's ability to impose this cost on county taxpayers and would force the state to finally reform its program.»

She said the governor was «scapegoating local governments» by keeping state aid to localities flat without reducing state - imposed costs.

Academics point out that traffic imposes a cost and so congestion pricing plans, by reducing traffic, balance out some of that cost for drivers.

«Interacting with students on social media imposes a cost in terms of devoting critical manpower, but if universities develop strategies for managing various social platforms for different types of incidents, they can better prepare students during emergencies,» says co-author Raj Sharman, PhD, associate professor of management science and systems in the School of Management.

Australia's CCS adherents press ahead on the belief that the government will eventually impose a cost on carbon emissions through a tax or emissions trading scheme.

But it does impose costs.

Charter schools «may expand choice for some students while imposing costs on taxpayers and students that remain in district schools,» according to the study.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

In their attempts to cope, her women do impose costs.

And you can't achieve that by imposing costs that the American economy can not sustain.

Ours on the other hand seeks the most efficient means to protect the public interest in the biosphere by making these values transparent in the market, discouraging wasteful resort to this most valuable resource, ensuring that the funds for remedies are raised from those who imposed costs and so forth.

To impose those costs on the most vulnerable because «the world can not get its act together» would be a gross injustice.

For increases in global average temperature of less than 1 to 3 °C above 1980 - 1999 levels, some impacts are projected to produce market benefits in some places and sectors while, at the same time, imposing costs in other places and sectors.

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So important that it needs lobbies like CCL to keep harrassing politicians to do more... The truth is that CCL is just another semi-useless political organization lobbying for its own biased view, not telling us anything new or useful and peddling economic policies that would cause disruption, achieve little, but impose costs on industry and low income earners.

[6] As a result, back - up power must be maintained on the system, which results in the imposed cost noted earlier.

Such costs include an imposed cost due to solar power's intermittency of over 3 cents per kilowatt hour and other hidden costs that can add an additional 2.5 to 5 cents per kilowatt to the cost of solar power, making central - station solar radically uneconomic compared to readily available alternatives, including natural - gas - fired generation.

The fact that the governments which imposed those costs (at federal and state level) were clearly incompetent in many other areas helped to turn the tide.

He pointed to the cost of renewables as imposing a cost on households of around $ 130 / year, which he described as «unbearable» burden on households.