Sentences with phrase «in political capacities»

It doesn't mean they are not protected, it just means they can't file suit under Title VII, which is meant to protect actual employees, not elected or appointed political officials who are acting in political capacities.

Though the vast majority of Americans and evangelicals are comfortable with women serving in leadership roles in businesses and in political capacities, opinions about ministry are very different.

Not exact matches

But Sandberg is also still adjusting to life as a single parent after the passing of her husband, Dave Goldberg, and, at 46, she has time to gain political experience in a more junior capacity before possibly building a political career.

The ability of Italian banks to access markets for funding «has become more difficult and expensive» in 2016 due to the country's political instability and a slower reform implementation, according to credit ratings agency Fitch, adding that such capacity could deteriorate further.

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.

«We have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.»

Do you have the imagination, capacity, and the policy independence, to put together a policy agenda that is better both in policy and political terms, than simply rubber - stamping some misguided and out of date 2011 election promises?

The resources they produce could be used to relieve capacity problems in the Northeast, but continued legal challenges and political opposition have stalled or slowed planned infrastructure projects such as the Constitution Pipeline and Access Northeast pipeline.

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

This was assumed by most people until quite recent times, but around 1980 a series of policies were put in place on a global basis, the purpose of which was to reduce the capacity of political bodies to control economic actors.

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

Sanders also appeals to the capacity of middle class voters to exercise their political freedom, calling for them to join him in fundamentally remaking our political economy: If we really want to, we can overthrow the moral limitations of capitalism and usher in a more just future.

As he goes on to say in Federalist Number 39, the republican form is also demanded by «that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self - government.»

Examples of these variables might include (1) the diffusion of markets and the integration of vocational groupings into market networks, (2) the technical capacity to produce and distribute printed materials, and (3) individuals» familiarity with styles of reasoning and engaging in rational theological or political argumentation.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

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A second observation is that it is precisely at the national headquarters levels of the typical western church that the Inertia of church organization and staff exerts Its most debilitating Influence on the capacity of the church to effect change in its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshein its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshein the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmesheIn which It Is enmeshed.

Humans are distinctive in their capacity to create, sustain, transform — and destroy — community, both interpersonal and political: Violence, whatever else it does, categorically repudiates mutuality and equal participation in decisions affecting intimate and family relations.

The importance of the power problem for Christian ethics derives both from the fact that power, whether economic, political, military, or spiritual, means capacity to determine life for good or ill, and from the fact that some fundamental redistribution of power is necessary as a condition of the freedom and dignity of men in their social relations.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

Countries that have been divided the way Germany and Korea have are of special interest to political analysts, since such key factors as religion, cultural history, geography, ethnicity and technological capacity are relatively constant in both regimes.

Members of these religious bodies today are children of the people who, coming to majority after World War II, finally lost the capacity as citizens to be genuine political actors in America.

Beyond that there were doubts about the leadership and capacity of the Scottish Nationalists and of the other Scottish political parties; and there was also a dislike of the idea of separating Scotland from the rest of the U.K.: As it was often put, «Why break up the most successful political union of nations in modern history?»

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

I trace the manner in which colonialism utilized religion to homogenize India, noting what emerges from the colonialists» encounter with India: the capacity to construct a unitary and grand geo - political entity with an essential Hindu core.

Luhmann's depiction of contemporary religion includes many of the themes already noted in Bellah and Habermas — privatization, differentiation of beliefs from organizations, special purpose organizations, and a declining capacity to legitimate political and economic action.

The way of life correlates with the type of person the society produces and the political capacities that inhere in that person.

... Since man enjoys the capacity for a free personal choice in truth... the right to religious freedom should be viewed as innate to the fundamental dignity of every human person... all people are «impelled by nature and also bound by our moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth» (Second Vatican Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 2)... let me express my sincere hope that your expertise in the fields of law, political science, sociology and economics will converge in these days to bring about fresh insights on this important question andthus bear much fruit now and into the future.

His study of the Bible particularly, and his capacity to interpret Scripture in the light of contemporary social movements and political and world events have sensitized him to the need and demands of persons very different from himself.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

This consensus confines the space for political dialectics to a discussion on the capacity or incapacity of the ruling government to deliver or not what they all agree, which conveniently diverts attention from the politician to the bureaucrat and in due course will bring to yet another restructuring of the Home Office's immigration sector.

It also requires them not to «attempt or support the functions, programmes and activities of political, social, ethic or gender interest group in a private capacity and name or in circumstances unrelated to the discharge of the project and tasks of the Civil and Local Government Services».

In a democracy, needless to say, that the philosophical disposition, values and political orientation of people brought in to serve in various capacities is keIn a democracy, needless to say, that the philosophical disposition, values and political orientation of people brought in to serve in various capacities is kein to serve in various capacities is kein various capacities is key.

(This answer is based mostly on experience serving in various capacities on political campaigns.)

The tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.

In addition to exposing the limits of state capacities to mediate the lives of their internal and external populations, the conference spotlighted the transnational and highly fragmented nature of migrants» political realities.

The exhaustion of political capital has lead to a systemic dimension: a growing mistrust in the democratic problem - solving capacity of the European Union and its member states.

The research will explain how diversity within political and military leadership in UN missions affects their effectiveness in protecting civilians, and how diversity between UN mission leadership and peacekeepers on the field influences a mission's capacity to protect civilians and stop fighting.

I am qualified for any political post and ready to serve in any capacity as it may please God... My people are now wiser and I guess they can feel and compared my reign and that of the present «Methuselah» a man of 72 whom they mistakenly voted for.

Secrecy jurisdictions (aka tax havens) may be characterised as jurisdictions that design regulations for use by people who do not reside within the jurisdiction in the full knowledge that these regulations undermine the capacity of other political authorities to regulate the conduct of their citizenry and support this process through the construction of a veil of secrecy.

But, and this will be the focus of this article, it is also possible for a state to adopt policies that undermine the capacity and, even, disposition of other states to engage in republican self - government without exercising political or economic domination over the states in question.

It might jeopardise Westminster's capacity to continue to govern England in the centralised, top - down fashion to which the British party political power elite have become accustomed.

No, I've decided that the reverse is true; I absorb apocalyptic visions as counterbalance to a fundamentally optimistic personal / political faith in humanity's capacity to find a better way to live.

«The spontaneous positive reaction of Nigerians was a clear indication of the love for, and faith in the President's capacity and political will to build a new Nigeria».

For that matter, who else from other political parties could be approached about serving a Conservative government in some capacity?

Nwoye started his political career as a medical student where he functioned in different capacities.

[3][7] In this capacity Cummings wrote a 240 - page essay, «Some thoughts on education and political priorities», [8] about transforming Britain into a «meritocratic technopolis», [5] described by Patrick Wintour as «either mad, bad or brilliant — and probably a bit of all three.»

«He has a political future of course... he has been an MP before, he has served in different capacities in the party and other levels, he has also served in government, he is still serving in government, so, he is still young, youthful, and active.

He said Akande has always been the brain behind the success of progressives and APC in Nigeria having served tremendously in various capacities to place the party to mainstream of political circle in Nigeria.

During a trip to Israel, former White House communications direction Anthony Scaramucci said that although he has not spoken to Trump in over a month, he talks to members of the president's inner circle «regularly» and sees himself working for Trump in the future — though likely in a political, not formal policy, capacity.