Sentences with phrase «including aggressive use»

I've been particularly taken, though, with the Bloomberg - Giuliani approach to crime fighting, including the aggressive use of stop,, and frisk.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

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As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

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.

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They employ aggressive investment techniques, including, among others, the use of arbitrage, short sales, leverage and derivatives.

Such intention in the classic just war tradition, as we have seen, includes the avoidance of wrong intentions, which easily translate from Augustine's list into familiar contemporary evils: aggressive war for the aggressor's sole benefit; wars for reasons based on religious, ethnic, or ideological difference; use of force aimed at terrorizing or oppressing those on whom it falls for the benefit of the wielder of power.

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

Nestlé is already included in FTSE4Good and uses this to divert criticism of its aggressive marketing practices in the UK and around the world.

To halt this trend, Governor Cuomo has implemented aggressive efforts, including changes in insurance to ensure coverage of substance use disorder treatment, increased access to treatment, additional treatment capacity in regions across the state, and comprehensive public awareness efforts.

The pace, however, slowed as the county took aggressive steps, including promotion of the widespread use of the opiate antidote Naloxone.

Overly aggressive policing, including the repeated use of prohibited choke holds, continue with a minimal reprimand or no fault findings at all.

During the general election and EU referendum, Fallon was used by the leadership to voice aggressive messages, including the claim that Ed Miliband could not be trusted with the economy because he stabbed his brother in the back for the job of Labour leader.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

These measures included an aggressive program to curtail pollutions by implementing strict restrictions on automobile and truck use, closing factories, halting construction projects, and seeding clouds to induce rainfall.

The researchers are now further investigating the possibility of using this approach on other cancers, including prostate cancer, where it could be used to distinguish more aggressive tumors from those that grow much more slowly, Bhatia says.

Using detailed questionnaires and a homophobia scale, researchers including Jannini found that men who ranked as more homophobic also were more prone to hostile and aggressive behaviors.

The study's findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, are the first to use these combined agents as an immune stimulator and may have the potential to kill cancerous cells in solid tumors, including some of the most aggressive cancers that form in the lung and pancreas.

«It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule, such as saccharin — something many people put in their coffee everyday — may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers,» says Robert McKenna, Ph.D., who is at the University of Florida.

In addition to pricing carbon, aggressive policies are needed in three key areas: energy efficiency, low carbon energy, and land - use, which includes forest conservation and agriculture.

Language: Approximately 140 instances of coarse language including: - Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, sometimes in a sexual or aggressive context.

The images will then be used in an aggressive social media campaign, including Twitter and Facebook posts.

The more aggressive members of this group use their money not only to promote business interests, but also to promote their own personal solutions to the larger social issues facing our nation, including education.

Vazquez: So beginning with 2008 model - year cars, the EPA is including results from three additional test cycles in their calculations: One that includes more aggressive acceleration and highway speeds up to 80 miles - per - hour, another with the use of air conditioning, and finally a 20 - degree cold start.

So the cost of giving the RS the big haunches it used to have would have been much greater this time round — and less appealing in some markets — so the Focus RS looks pretty much like the ST down the flanks, although the front and back have come in for some aggressive RS treatments, including a big wing at the back.

The Ford transmission team made several specific modifications to the 6F35 - Mid to optimize its performance for Fusion, including using unique final drive ratios for the 2.5 - liter and 3.0 - liter, developing an improved converter lock - up for lower operating temperatures and efficiency, recalibrating the converter clutch to accommodate a fuel - saving aggressive deceleration fuel shut - off system as well as other tweaks to diminish parasitic losses.

Replete with countless design highlights, including the largest and most aggressive use of the iconic spindle grille to date, it also comes with a high - performance V6 engine and hybrid power trains.

Styling Freedom - Compared to the previous steel and plastic combination, the new construction technique allowed using a more aggressive and unified tailgate design, including an «all one piece» appearance, and freedom to use more varied creases and shapes.

What is truly impressive about the iPad 2 is that Apple has included a first rate IPS LCD panel at a very aggressive price point and not used a cheaper second or third tier LCD, which is what most manufacturers do under these circumstances.

The IRS can and will use aggressive collection methods to collect back taxes, including the use of liens and levies on your wages or property.

Short ProShares and ProFunds should lose value when their market indexes rise, and they entail certain risks, including, in some or all cases: aggressive investment techniques, including the use of futures contracts, options, forward contracts, swap agreements and similar instruments; inverse correlation; and market price variance risks, all of which can increase volatility and decrease performance.

The second reason to include the index fund base in the blended approach is that our Upgrading component uses only a single fund at a time, and that single fund can sometimes be relatively aggressive.

If you end up in default, the entire unpaid balance of your loan and any interest would become immediately due and the federal government will take aggressive action to reclaim what you owe, including using a collection agency, garnishing wages, and withholding tax rebates.

These rules are designed to stop traders acting unfairly, including the use of what the rules call «aggressive commercial practices».

A fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, which is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including selling short, leverage, program trading, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives.

Besides using deligent anesthesia, we use aggressive analgesia to control post op pain including epidural and constant rate infusion.

Constant rate infusion pain medications during and after surgery, ketamine drips for chronic pain, widespread use of local anesthesia, including soaker catheters after large surgeries, testicular blocks, line blocks and more aggressive opioid and gabapentin use are all things Gwen helped bring to the table.

a.) a considerable amount of exercise, including the use of treadmills and backpacks, as a way of relaxing dogs to prepare them for counter-conditioning exercises; b.) packs of dogs to rehabilitate unstable, fearful or aggressive dogs; c.) Leashes and chain collars to block jumping, whining, possessiveness, biting, aggressiveness, excessive barking, mounting, fighting, active dominance challenges; d.) Redirection to get dogs doing alternative behaviors in play areas, obstacle courses, a pool, a feeding area, a sleeping area, and an eating / drinking area; e.) calming techniques using hand feeding; f.) a limited amount of obedience training, such as teaching the dogs to heel on a loose lead at the handler's side; g.) a «claw» technique, his own version of the «alpha rollover», and a pursuit technique to deal with dogs that don't show submission to other dogs or people; h.) «flooding» for phobias; i.) «calm / assertive» handler techniques; j.) touch and sound techniques to interrupt, correct and / or redirect behaviors; k.) a variety of traditional manners rules, which are implemented with the «no free lunch» type of approach; l.) a variety of games and other «mental challenges»; m.) human intervention; and n.) electric collars (not mentioned, as I recall, in the book)

«Some are mistreated and taught aggressive behaviour so they can be used as «status» dogs and as an alternative to weapons including knives and guns.

In another more recent study, 25 % of dog owners using confrontational training techniques including commands, shock collars, and verbal reprimands reported aggressive responses from their dogs.

a.) a considerable amount of exercise, including the use of treadmills and backpacks, as a way of relaxing dogs to prepare them for counter-conditioning exercises b.) packs of dogs to rehabilitate unstable, fearful or aggressive dogs; c.) Leashes and chain collars to block jumping, whining, possessiveness, biting, aggressiveness, excessive barking, mounting, fighting, active dominance challenges; d.) Redirection to get dogs doing alternative behaviors in play areas, obstacle courses, a pool, a feeding area, a sleeping area, and an eating / drinking area; e.) calming techniques using hand feeding; f.) a limited amount of obedience training, such as teaching the dogs to heel on a loose lead at the handler's side; g.) a «claw» technique, his own version of the «alpha rollover», and a pursuit technique to deal with dogs that don't show submission to other dogs or people; h.) «flooding» for phobias; i.) «calm / assertive» handler techniques; j.) touch and sound techniques to interrupt, correct and / or redirect behaviors; k.) a variety of traditional manners rules, which are implemented with the «no free lunch» type of approach; l.) a variety of games and other «mental challenges»; m.) human intervention; and n.) electric collars (usually not mentioned in their marketing materials or websites)

Dogs have to be trained to attack each other through the use of «bait» dogs, reverse - socialization techniques, including keeping dogs in isolation, and the administration of drugs, such as anabolic steroids, to increase aggressive behavior.

This does not include the dogs who are used as «bait» dogs to teach the fighting dogs to be aggressive.

Use restraint in breeding dogs or bitches with temperament defects, including overly shy or aggressive dogs.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

This is helped by the introduction of the game's open world, which allows players to tackle missions in a large variety of ways including either going aggressive with assault rifles or machine guns or going stealth and sticking to using melee or close - range assassination attacks.

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

Another problem with Weitzman's approach — as Nordhaus, among other critics, has pointed out — is that it could be used to justify aggressive actions against several catastrophic risks, including asteroids, rogue artificial intelligence developments, and bio ‐ weapons.

After several years of rapid growth, with several of the larger solar companies using fairly aggressive sales techniques, including telemarketing and door to door, consumers are more frequently now taking their time, jumping on the web, and getting multiple bids before pulling the trigger.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72