Sentences with phrase «independent judgment of»

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Some commenters felt that the sanctioning requirement is nebulous and requires independent judgment of compliance; as a result it is hard to enforce.

the arbitral award is the result of the independent judgment of the arbitration tribunal.

(c) Committee reviews shall be conducted with objectivity and in a manner to ensure the exercise of independent judgment of the members.

Reception involves an active assent that signifies an independent judgment of the recipient and is not simply an act of obedience to a higher authority.

The researchers also showed the raters tended to agree in their independent judgments of chimpanzees» personalities, suggesting the raters were not merely projecting traits onto the chimpanzees.

A rating is a way for these agencies to express their independent judgments of a life insurance company's financial soundness and creditworthiness.

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Such a person no doubt loses something in the way of geniality and light - heartedness; on the other hand, he is largely independent of the opinions, habits and judgments of his fellow and avoids the temptation to take his stand on such insecure foundations.»

This review included a discussion with management and the independent auditor of the quality (not merely the acceptability) of the Company's accounting principles, the reasonableness of significant estimates and judgments, and the disclosures in the Company's consolidated financial statements, including the disclosures related to critical accounting policies.

Executive Management Bonus Plan, (4) «For» ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2010, and (5) in accordance with the best judgment of the persons named in the proxy card on any other matters that should properly be brought before the Annual Meeting.

This included a discussion of the independent registered public accounting firm's judgments as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of AMD's accounting principles and such other matters that generally accepted auditing standards require to be discussed with the Audit and Finance Committee.

For a director to be deemed «independent» within the meaning of the Nasdaq rules, the Board must affirmatively determine, based upon information provided by the director or otherwise known to the Board, that the director has no relationship with the Company that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, the firm's judgments as to the acceptability and quality of FedEx's accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the Audit Committee under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)(the «PCAOB»), including those matters required to be discussed by Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees.

Our board of directors has undertaken a review of the independence of each director and considered whether any director has a material relationship with us that could compromise his or her ability to exercise independent judgment in carrying out his or her responsibilities.

Except as otherwise noted, the Compensation Committee's executive compensation determinations are subjective and the result of the Compensation Committee's business judgment, which is informed by the experiences of the members of the Compensation Committee as well as the input from, and peer group data provided by, the Compensation Committee's independent executive compensation consultant.

Fiduciaries are solely responsible for exercising independent judgment in evaluating any transaction (s) and are assumed to be capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to particular transactions and investment strategies.

The Board has determined that nine of our 11 current Directors (or 82 %) are «independent directors» within the meaning of applicable regulatory and stock exchange requirements in Canada and the United States, as none of them have a material relationship with the Company that could interfere with their exercise of independent judgment.

If Hogan wins his case against Gawker and the jury awards him even a part of the $ 100 million judgment, Gawker could face near financial ruin — or be forced to sell itself, which founder Nick Denton and the site's independent - minded editors have long said they would fight to avoid.

Yes, we do reject the idea of «right» and «wrong» having an existence independent of the perspective of the person making the relevant judgment.

I would question whether we need to bring the hypothesis of formative causation before the court of scientific judgment, even if it does somehow find independent authentication there.

In this complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint about rendering judgments on people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.

In addition to connoting a measure of independent judgment or decision as well as flexibility, it means, in this context, freedom to have relations, freedom to avail one's self of the grace and power which relationships can bestow.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

Fazlur Rahman, who is sometimes labeled a Muslim modernist, insists that «The Muslim modernists say exactly the same thing as the so - called Muslim fundamentalists say: that Muslims must go back to the original and definitive sources of Islam and perform ijithad (independent judgment) on that basis.»

In business, in the entertainment field, in journalism, young men will tell you that their exercise of independent judgment and their advocacy of «democracy» must fall within prescribed channels, it must be associated with «safe» political and economic doctrine — or else.

Yet how can faith in the dignity of man be expressed by choking the growth of critical intelligence and independent judgment?

Moral maturity, at the human level, arises when one can emotionally sympathize, perhaps even suffer, with another and still make an independent moral judgment of him.

When judgment falls, it will be only a matter of academic debate whether it was the disunity of professing Christians, as ecumenists think, that frustrated the emergence of «the great world church,» or whether it was the doctrinal compromises of ecumenical pluralists or the shortsighted squabbling of evangelical independents that spurred the breakdown of Western technological civilization.

As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.

Ages 14 to 21 marks the development of the independent intellect and, along with it, the ability to examine the world abstractly and exercise discernment, judgment, and critical thinking.

It is not intended to substitute for the independent professional judgment of the treating clinician.

Justice Sadiq Umar led tribunal in its judgment delivered on October 21, nullified elections in 18 out of the 31 local government areas of the state and ordered a re-run to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Classically, it was not just that one needed to own property to be considered adequately independent to exercise one's own political judgment, but there was a hierarchy of occupations.

Justice Okon Abang, in a judgment on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately issue a certificate of return to the plaintiff, Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the primary.

The editorial board called Wu an «independent voice» with «fresh ideas,» and said of Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul: «Her willingness to shift politically does not suggest she would offer any kind of independent judgment.»

A NEC Member of NLC, Comrade Issa Aremu has lauded the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which on Wednesday 25 April 2018 reaffirms the right of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make rules guiding the election timetable.

In the lead judgment of a five - man panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, the apex court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the certificates of return issued to them.

This is best achieved by bringing together experienced politicians put forward by their parties with politically independent but experienced individuals to work together to form a judgment on all matters brought to them by the lower chamber, without undue pressures of formal party political allegiance.

In a sign that the government acknowledges the damage from another row over expenses, Duncan Smith said he was open to a proposal by Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), to end the right of MPs to sit in judgment on their peers.

Duncan Smith said it may be right to end the way in which MPs have the sole right — apart from the non-voting lay members of the standards committee — to sit in judgment on the findings by the independent standards watchdog.

«(H) er willingness to shift politically does not suggest she would offer any kind of independent judgment.

«Mr Malami informed us that President Buhari has directed the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, and other relevant agencies involved in the recovery of looted funds to promptly put the documents together with a view to fully and promptly enforcing the judgment by Justice Shagari.»

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen to address the spate of conflicting judgments on electoral cases in the country.

Soon thereafter, a judgment by a federal district court nullified New York's aggregate contribution limit of $ 150,000 as applied to independent expenditure groups, such as super PACs.

The opposition noted that in spite of a High Court judgment directing the State Independent Electoral Commission to conduct local government election within 90 days since November 2016, the directive had not been complied.

In a unanimous judgment delivered by the Justice Ibrahim Saulawa - led panel, the appeal court nullified the Certificate of Return issued to Miller by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Jansson says that being compensated for his time «does not in any way cloud my judgment as an independent investigator of scientific discoveries.»

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