Sentences with phrase «in value destruction»

We find a number of structural limitations to these strategies that could result in value destruction over time.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

One of Buffett's most controversial bets — a bubble - era wager on the long - term value of stock market indexes, using tools he once scorned as «weapons of financial mass destruction» — started to pay off in the fourth quarter.

This week, however, compensation committees land in the Danger Zone because of the role they play in creating the problems that lead to shareholder value destruction.

Notwithstanding the value destruction that has resulted from the carpet - bombing of investors by equity issuance to finance ill - conceived capital programs, we find many reasons to consider investing selectively in gold - mining equities.

We are witness of a savage destruction of historic human values and experiences at our base - level communities in the villages, in the localities and towns.

The decline of a moral conscience grounded in absolute values is still our problem, and left untreated, it can lead to the self - destruction of the European conscience, which we must begin to consider as a real danger — above and beyond the decline predicted by Spengler.

The advantages for the individual which may be derived from compromises with atheistic organizations do not compare in any way with the consequences which are visible in the destruction of our common religious and ethical values.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

I see plenty of reason to revisit the loss of God in our society, the destruction of the family and family values, and the general decay of morality.

We constantly argue as though in each case the terms varied inversely, a gain on the one side being ipso facto the other side's loss; and this in turn leads to the widespread idea that any destiny on «monist» lines would exact the sacrifice and bring about the destruction of all personal values in the Universe.

This principle has been applied in Jewish ethics to the unnecessary destruction of anything living or otherwise of value.

This conflict of values in attempted actualization is experienced as discord, and engenders destruction.

Given the pervasiveness of this moral theory and its impact upon the common person, it is no accident that our own century is replete with political movements that require or threaten the destruction of known values in order to create a future of unlimited happiness.

The question is one I posed in my book The War Machine: «Exactly what human values,... what national interests, are worth defending with weapons of genocidal destruction?

Nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

The first is that nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

Nevertheless, these destructive forces may on occasion be acting in response to divine directives.18 They express the wrath of God, insofar as God judges existing orders and structures as worthy of destruction.19 Existing structures may be obstructing the realization of new relevant values, and to that extent be evil, deserving to be destroyed.

But the judgment of destruction is always ambiguous; many values only possible in terms of the old order will never be realized, even though the destruction of that order permits other kinds of value to emerge.

He argues that terrorists in our age threaten the destruction of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.

Yet, how much to invest in policies — like setting an appropriate carbon tax — to protect future generations from environmental destruction depends on how society chooses to value human population, according to a new study published Oct. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

Due to the value and rate of the destruction of the town, and the almost ideal maintenance of the structure and frescos on the surface, we can get a very outstanding and actual perspective of Roman sex tonight as unveiled in Pompeii.

At a time when sufficient information destruction is of the utmost importance, according to a BBC report earlier this year, identity fraud more than doubled in value to # 26.3 million last year, with counterfeit goods» fraud coming in at a five - year high.

There is also a definition of traumatized society, in which destruction of systems and values are evident together with high number of trauma - affected and dysfunctional individuals, resulting in a dysfunctional, traumatized society.

(1) Accidents or fires resulting in a death, hospitalization of five or more persons, or destruction of Government - owned or leased property (either real or personal), the total value of which is estimated at $ 100,000 or more, shall be reported immediately by telephone to the Contracting Officer or his / her authorized representative and shall be confirmed by telegram or facsimile transmission within 24 hours to the Contracting Officer.

Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value.

Thus, we can only conclude that Avigen is likely to gamble stockholders» remaining capital that, precedent warns, could result in a near total destruction of stockholder value.

If you had a property loss, due to destruction or theft, you can deduct some of what you paid for repairs, and even for the decrease in value to your home.

In my opinion, however, ADGF's share underperformance is due primarily to the ongoing dilution described above as well as shareholder value destruction caused by generating returns below the company's cost of capital.

Adios, been fun bantering with you guys and sorry the votes were cast for the «reckless in not knowing» or intentionally fraudulent ballot slate — again, thanks for focusing in on the victim of the fallout and not the real perpetrators of value destruction — value investors are suppossed to stick together!

Believing the fundamental conditions of the country are sound and that there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks.

Your reduction of expenses slows value destruction but does not permit the recovery of shareholder value reflected in the Company's cash balance.

The uncertainty associated with this overhang combined with the bad taste left by the destruction of value in 2008/9 should keep a lid on the share price for the near future; I don't anticipate the share price returning to levels of early 2011 ($ 60) until the Treasury is able to do another secondary offering, and that won't happen until the price returns above its cost basis of around $ 27 / share.

This method of dissuasion demonstrates the economic value of violence and destruction, even of one's own property, in order to control space.

The participating artists — which include Chloe Seibert, Hanne Lippard, Amel Ibrahimovic, Ester Fleckner, Rachel Maclean, Imran Perretta, and Louise Haugaard Jørgensen — draw attention to the flawed historical paradigms and dogmatic values that have caused, in recurrent waves, social and economic collapses and destruction.

An expert in ancient Chinese ceramics, Ai's continued desecration of individual vases can be seen as political comment on the organized destruction of cultural and historical values that took place during the Cultural Revolution, when everything old was replaced by the new.

The work presents narratives dealing with the destruction and preservation of heritage sites in the Middle East, and encourages us to consider the value of rebuilding communities.

, all one has to do is look at how much destruction is going on in the name of progress, of increasing productivity, of «efficiency», of free, unhindered enterprise, as if those are the only values to be considered.

I guess I come down on the values and policy side: we have excellent technology but can't seem to make even the simplest behavioral changes, either as individuals or societies, that would go a long way towards mitigating the many facets of habitat destruction in which we humans are engaged.

Some days, it is a challenge to remain hopeful, attempting to live those values in my day - to - day life, while so much destruction is being done to Earth, to each other and to the species we share this planet with.

These millions in losses exclude an economic valuation of the loss of water, the conservation value of the forests, or recreation amenity due to forest destruction.

«(5) include as reductions in greenhouse gases reductions achieved through the destruction of methane and its conversion to carbon dioxide, and reductions achieved through destruction of chlorofluorocarbons or other ozone depleting substances, if permitted by the Administrator under section 619 (b)(9) and subject to the conditions specified in section 619 (b)(9), based on the carbon dioxide equivalent value of the substance destroyed.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

The value destruction and fuel cost changes in India's power sector highlights how quickly the tide has turned for coal power.

Having already been whacked with costly lawsuits from wind farm neighbours — in one case a court awarding Dkr 500,000 (A$ 93,439) in compensation for the substantial reduction in the value of the plaintiffs» home, caused by incessant turbine noise (see our post here)-- the Danish wind industry has resorted to the wholesale destruction of homes in order to carpet the country in even more of the things.

However, since the cost of destruction was a tiny fraction of the value of the credits, HFC - 23 destruction led to billions of dollars in profits for a handful of plants mostly located in China and India.

By phasing - out coal the UK is not only acting in the best interests of their citizens through improved air quality, but also the financial interests of utility shareholders through avoided value destruction.

In light of these inexplicable new values, some ecological thinkers have resigned themselves to the continued destruction of nature by old and new technologies.

Looking at Katrina, I would suppose the largest chunk of economic loss is the destruction of homes, yet much of that property value can probably be traced to the US housing boom (see this spooky article) which was in turn fueled primarily by the booming — and polluting — Chinese economy.