Sentences with phrase «issue of the public nature»

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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 oupublic 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 ouPublic 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 oupublic 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.

Given the delicate nature of the issue, shareholders may consider the board adjusted payouts internally, deciding to withhold any further sensitive information from the public.

When the church addresses public economic issues from a revisionist perspective, it presses the biblical imperative for justice while simultaneously accepting modern economic insights into the nature of productivity and growth.

For the past ten years, three theological issues have concerned me most: the public nature of theology, the religious reality of fundamental trust, and the meaning of theological pluralism.

These studies make it clear that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war and, in particular, about three issues — the link between Iraq and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

Studies show that Americans are full of misperceptions about the war in Iraq and especially about three issues — the link between Iraqu and al - Qaeda, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the nature of world public opinion.

The readings offer four distinct perspectives on the nature and attainment of happiness, each of which will serve as the springboard for the discussion of a different set of issues in relation to the search for human ful llment: participation in public life, self - control and education, the longing for God, and the confrontation of death.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

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The nature of the threat has not been made public, but the district issued the following statement: Last night, the Superintendent received a phone call from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office...

Seminar Will Address Mold Issues in the Home The Oneida County Health Department, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), will hold a seminar to educate the public on the nature and causes of mold in the home, its impact on health, and the proper methods of remediation, Phyllis D. Ellis, Oneida County Director of Health, announced today.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

Fellows provide much - needed in - house expertise in the areas of science, technology and engineering, helping Congress to legislate more effectively on public policy issues of a scientific and technical nature.

The reasons for public relations for advocacy include: to promote a better understanding of the nature and needs of gifted children and youth, to gain positive support for appropriate programs, to keep all constituent groups informed on key issues, and to build a knowledge base for advocacy (Riley & Karnes, 1993a).

This landmark regulatory change took more than a decade of hard work to accomplish, from identifying and researching the issue, to educating and alerting lawmakers, agency officials and the public about the nature and scope of the problem, to adding the appropriate language to the 2008 Farm Bill, resulting in the publication of these regulations.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

And, the low level of public understanding reflects, to a substantial degree, the nature, volume, style, and placement of media coverage of the climate change issue, options to address it, and so forth.

Ferreira added, «As such, even if there is some ambiguity about whether or not you would belong to the «scientific community,» if your comment is «of substantial nature or of direct relevance to the issues raised in the discussion paper,» the editor in charge of the paper would, in principle, consider it relevant to the public peer review process, keeping it in the discussion.»

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

Through relentless pressure on the media to present the issue «objectively,» and by challenging the consensus on climate change science by misstating both the nature of what «consensus» means and what this particular consensus is, ExxonMobil and its allies have confused the public and given cover to a few senior elected and appointed government officials whose positions and opinions enable them to damage U.S. credibility abroad.

Reflecting their longtime commitment to both philanthropic endeavors and environmental concerns, our founders, Richard and Rhoda Goldman, envisioned the Goldman Environmental Prize as a way to demonstrate the international nature of environmental problems, draw public attention to global issues of critical importance, reward ordinary individuals for outstanding grassroots environmental achievements, and inspire others to emulate the examples set by the Prize recipients.

Just as the Occupy movement has changed the nature of the economic conversation in this country, we the people must change the nature of the political conversation in this country, and thus force the issue of climate change into public consciousness as not only urgent but of primary importance.

Part of the challenge in creating the incentives for policymakers to take action on climate change and to address the issue in a serious way is to accurately communicate about the nature of public opinion.

Regarding Nisbet and getting around skeptics, his closing line is «Part of the challenge in creating the incentives for policymakers to take action on climate change and to address the issue in a serious way is to accurately communicate about the nature of public opinion.»

However, the Committee believes that the nature of the IPCC's task (i.e., in presenting a series of expert judgments on issues of great societal relevance) demands that the IPCC pay special attention to issues of independence and bias to maintain the integrity of, and public confidence in, its results.

But I differed with them because they were extremists who confused the issues and the public about the nature of our environment and our place in it.

, Lewandowsky et al's question and concept of testing raises deep and pertinent issues regarding the nature of public skepticism.

Durkin previously made the anti-environmental film «Against Nature,» which Britain's Channel 4 had to issue a public apology for, «because it misled interviewees and distorted the editing of their contributions.»

The ensuing discussion was a simple proxy of some of the issues I was beginning to see raised in the discussions surrounding climate engineering proposals: controversy around the legality of intentionally changing the atmosphere (on any scale), suspicion of private interest in the name of the public good, confusion regarding the science behind it, unpredictability of the outcomes, or questionable logic of nature conservancy rules, to name a few.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

In holding otherwise, the court below failed to appreciate that hyperbolic criticisms are a legitimate part of the «rough and tumble» nature of heated debate on important issues of public concern.

In Krohn v Director of Public Prosecutions [1997] EWHC 286 (Admin), where the lawfulness of a s 18 search was in issue after a senior officer had failed to make a record in writing of the grounds of the search and the nature of the evidence sought as required by s 18 (7), Brooke LJ stated:

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Department of Economic Policy and Development of the City of Moscow and another v Bankers Trust and another [2004] EWCA Civ 314, [2004] 4 All ER 746 raises issues of potentially far - reaching significance vis - à - vis the public nature of judgments and orders pronounced by the English courts in the context of arbitration applications.

Challenges are often legal in nature — piercing the corporate veil, a statute of limitations, conflict of laws, finding a forum in which to be heard — but increasingly public governance issues and lack of robust regulatory oversight are also on the playing field.

While the public deal broke ground as the country's largest public bond issue, the private placement presented a number of challenges from a legal perspective given the nature of the deal, which was purchased by Egypt's central bank and used as collateral on a series of loans with international financial institutions.

Publicness Assuming for the moment that the proportionality defence may not have the «Heineken effect» to reach the private sector, the key issue will be whether, in seeking possession, provider associations are exercising functions of a public nature, as opposed to private acts, for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998, s 6.

In conjunction with Georgia State's Sociology, and Criminal Justice and Criminology departments, the center will work with public defender offices in Fulton and Dekalb counties to assess the nature and pervasiveness of civil legal issues facing those who enter the criminal justice system.

Her practice is of an advisory, regulatory litigious nature and has included judicial review, actions for damages before UK courts, the superior courts of Ireland, specialized tribunals, the European Court of Justice and General Court in cases concerning a wide range internal market issues, ranging from public procurement to goods and services, energy, agriculture competition and social and employment law.

On the issue of confidentiality, while the Court was mindful of the important reasons underlying the principle of open court, it felt that the privacy interests of the applicant (given the sensitive nature of the proceedings and the evidence) outweighed the interests of the public, and felt that the issuance of written reasons (with identities concealed) would satisfy any public need.

To obtain leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada from a sentence imposed, varied or affirmed by a provincial or territorial court of appeal, an applicant must demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the court, that the question raised, by reason of its public importance or the importance of any issue of law or of mixed law and fact involved in that question, is one that ought to be decided by that court or that it is, for any other reason, of such a nature or significance as to warrant a decision by that court.

One possible way of doing so is to recreate CLIC, or more realistically, create a «CLIC - like» body for our time to identify issues that are both national in scope and of a public policy nature, to gather information, and to provide a forum to give direction to the future delivery of legal information in Canada, in the same fashion as CLIC in the 1980's.

Such claims, by their nature, not only require a solid understanding of environmental legal issues relating to personal injuries, but sensitivity to managing public relations risks as well.

In subsequent proceedings the issue arose about whether the provider had «functions of a public nature» and was therefore a public authority, under HRA 1998, s 6 (3)(b).

More than ever, with recent events in the news focusing on the essential nature of background checks as well as other issues around screening, our commitment to educating members, lawmakers, consumers, and the public at large is absolutely critical.

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The Media and Indigenous Policy research team has identified that «managing the policy optics» — that is, how an issue is perceived and represented in public debate — is increasingly influencing both the nature and outcome of Indigenous health policy.