Sentences with phrase «in poor use»

we all need to communicate with our MP's, cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister's office that government funds could be applied for programs that promote jobs for the public, NOT the useless pursuit of ulterior agenda of the bureau that results in poor use of resources.

Not exact matches

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

«We are seeing a lot of poor use of capital - too much in dividends and too much in buybacks.

Atwater — who actually wanted to use his work in the 1890s to help poor people get the most calories for their money — determined the average number of calories in four main energy sources: carbs, fats, protein, and alcohol.

Those with poor credit in a business - to - business environment that have receivables can use them as collateral.

dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

That's a poor showing compared to the 43 % of businesses in the United States who reported using it last year (the number has probably grown since then).

In a 2010 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett acknowledged some people had become «very rich through the use of borrowed money,» while others had also become very poor.

-- Methodology And Assumptions: Standard & Poor's Revises Key Ratios Used In Global Corporate Ratings Analysis, Dec. 28, 2011

We use this sort of decision making daily, but when we're anxious, we «often make poor decisions or no decision at all,» the researchers write in the study.

Desperately - poor farmers in Burkina Faso, it turns out, have been using their children (and the children of relatives and neighbours) in their cotton fields.

He says his own father, who owned a used car rental business and at times rented to Trump's business, eventually declined to rent to any casinos in the area because of their poor reputation for payment.

Following the negative response to the catalog ad, Bloomingdale's apologized in a statement to Tech Insider saying, «In recent reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor tastin a statement to Tech Insider saying, «In recent reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor tastIn recent reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor tastin our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor tastin poor taste.

He was the inventor of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others) as well as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional character to share his own views on topics like politics and philosophy.

Bad idea, says Alter, as «most companies are cash poor and equity rich in the first few years, so you'd be using your resources unproductively.»

I understand that your article is for housing market in the US in general, but for the use case highlighted above, buying a house is still a poor financial decision according to you?

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

As outlined in the annual letter, it is not a lack of assets or money, but rather the inability to use them due to a lack of banking that is keeping the impoverished poor.

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Factom is using the blockchain to build a permanent and secure land title record in Honduras, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, where land - grabbing and corruption are rife.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

In addition, the HRC has expanded the use of long - term Performance Share awards to a broader group of management and has added for 2012 an additional risk - balancing performance measure to reduce the awards in the event of poor absolute financial performancIn addition, the HRC has expanded the use of long - term Performance Share awards to a broader group of management and has added for 2012 an additional risk - balancing performance measure to reduce the awards in the event of poor absolute financial performancin the event of poor absolute financial performance.

In reality they're most likely to be used for playing music (albeit, audio quality can be very poor) or as very expensive egg timers.

Again, why does Summers say absent the housing bubble the economy would stagnate, when investing in mac mansions is such a poor and unproductive use of capital?

Because my poor dad was overly concerned with putting money in the bank, he missed many opportunities to use his money to make him richer.

That would open the Fund up to substantial «basis risk» and would, in my view, be a poor use for our risk budget.

For instance, one approach is to use gender diversity as a screen by minimizing exposure to companies with poor gender diversity records including weak policies, poor supply chain safety records or involvement in the adult entertainment industry.

Methodology: To find the wealthiest and poorest cities in the U.S., GOBankingRates used March 2017 ZHVI data from Zillow to first identify the cities with the highest and lowest home values.

Using home value data from Zillow and income information from Sperling's Best Places, a city - data aggregator, we identified these cities as the wealthiest and poorest in their state.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

What to spot: inconsistency in the type of fonts used, the use of a Gmail email address (instead of official company email address) and poor grammar including typographical errors in the headline.

Because of what I'm fundraising for, I think it would be in poor taste to use them as a calling card to say you need to hire me.

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In many cases, the end user does not have a choice; all the indexes that are associated with MSCI and Standard & Poor's use the GICS, while those associated with Dow Jones Indexes and FTSE Group (FTSE) use the ICB.

Also from the FHWA, we used the percentage of rural and urban interstate miles in poor condition.

The Judaic ethic that Jesus exemplified held that loans to the destitute poor among the Israelites should be made at no interest, but it allowed and approved such rental in commercial endeavor, due to the risk and loss of use involved.

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A liberal US Jew using his status as a Jew to sweep into Israel, bash the security measures while bemoaning the status of the poor Palestnians and then go back to his Ivory Tower in a large urban liberal city where his biggest concern is whether the Starbucks will get his latte order correct.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Wesley Trowel «signs for those who uses their intellectuals to accept» Yo, dude, no wonder your religious myth only dominates in third world countries with high birthrates and poor education.

When people do that, whether they're the doctors here in Philly who run a clinic around the corner or the landscapers who are coming and creating green space in poor neighborhoods, there are people who are using their gifts in ways that are building the Kingdom and embodying good news to the poor.

Some of the poor in America are mentally ill and truly can't help it, but I used to help Section 8 renters find apartments, and trust me, most could work if they bothered to try, and those who DO work wouldn't be so badly off if they didn't spend their money on stupid things.

They have used lies to enlist the poor as cannon fodder in their war.

Marriage vows, even secular ones, used to invoke the promise to remain united «for richer or poorer, in sicknes and health» until parted by death.

The money you get from other's through the government would do more good if used to provide food and clean water to poor children in undeveloped countries.

Phillips says it's true that the Bible teaches Christians to care for the poor, sick and needy, «but the Bible also teaches that God uses and permits suffering in the lives of people for His own ends and purposes.»

The quickest and easiest way to understand the second condition is to use its theological analog, the preferential option for the poor: the more disadvantaged and marginalized people are, the greater should be the assistance and solicitude extended to them by those in a position to help.

workers who get LARGE SALERIES & a small portion goes to the poor in the form of a hand out - much at times to be used on luxeries like cigarettes, candy, soft drinks & other things that they would be better off without.

But when used in the context of mission among the poor, it has the power to undermine our best efforts to serve.