Sentences with phrase «lack of capacity for»

The maritime Arctic is one of the last places to go to slake the country's petroleum thirst given the lack of capacity for oversight and cleanups, even though a lot has been learned.

This record demonstrates a lack of capacity for strategic planning by the governing board and organization's leadership, and raises concerns about successful implementation of expansion and further changes.»

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Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

«Our view is that General Electric's key challenge is in North America and it relates to the lack of robust demand for new gas - fired power capacity coupled with an installed fleet that is coming off Long Term Service Agreements that were put in place as far back as 2000,» Obin explained.

On Tuesday, facing rising political heat after the Parkland massacre, Trump, as he often does, blamed his predecessors for a lack of action and said he would be different, despite widespread skepticism among gun control activists about his sincerity and capacity to make the case for change.

It runs on a system set up after bitcoin to improve on it, with a network that rewards participants not just for mining and verifying blocks of transactions but also for providing and building network capacity, so improving on bitcoin's slow pace and lack of scalability.

This is a familiar dichotomy for organisations, with the capacity for cryptocurrency to be used for nefarious means or a lack of formal regulations offsetting its huge potential to overhaul the financial world.

There will be an immediate need to either provide them with some sort of IOU scrip to meet demand for funds or to resolve them in some way, as Greece lacks the capacity to create Euro.

The authors appear oblivious to the demonstrable behavioral effects of culturally inspired capacities for healthy levels of hypocrisy and a sense of joi de vivre clearly lacking in the «None / Not Religious.»

It is surely not that we lack theological minds of high scholarship, efficient capacity for work, or ability to find publishers.

What seems at first like an expansion of our compassion — for those who lack these capacities — very quickly becomes a restriction of the scope of human community as they become candidates for elimination.

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

She attributes the failure of these reforms to poor local capacities, to the resistance of African interest groups, and to donors» lack of savvy and backbone in negotiating aid - for - reform deals.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

An for it is so great the news, we are to see our smallness, our lack of capacity in approaching the Holy place of the Kingdom of God and to repent of this.

«The hardhearted person lacks the capacity for genuine compassion... He gives dollar to a worthwhile charity, but he gives not of his spirit.»

In actual fact, he lacks that capacity for communion with God and his own fulfillment — which are the same thing, seen from different angles — and in his concrete humanity he is frustrated and, what is more important, he is responsibly aware of having made himself, by accumulated decisions, incapable of right relationships with his brethren.

This soul (for lack of a better word) is what made mankind different as we have capacity to choose where we tether that soul.

Whoever lacks a capacity for friendship does not come out of self and will not find fulfilment.

Organisms like worms create channels in the soil that foster root growth and alongside the lack of tilling, contribute to a more stable internal structure that is resilient to environmental stressors and improves capacity for growth.

«Due to the perceived lack of public support for road pricing, any scheme must also provide significant improvements in the capacity and quality of viable alternative travel by public transport.»

«Finally, the PDP assures its numerous supporters across the country of the dividends of the on - going rebuilding and re-engineering process in the party to re-position the party for the electoral challenges ahead especially as it has become clear that APC lacks the capacity to handle governance and provide economic direction for the country, but has only succeeded in injecting bad blood and division among Nigerians resulting in the current threats to national cohesion and stability.

This invitation is to expose the lack of capacity of the persons behind the Press Statement, who are widely known as ex-convicts whose disrespect to the authorities have left a scar for which they seek to have their pound of flesh,» said Nii Ayi Adefio.

Impatient with the NTC's lack of capacity to efficiently seize and prosecute former Qadhafi loyalists for their crimes against the Libyan people, some militias have resorted to vigilante justice.

The lack of oversight, the lack of capacity within the governance structures and failure to deliver improvements are all issues we have been raising for months,» said Lucy Powell, the shadow education secretary.

Vice Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has urged Ghanaians not to make a mistake of voting for the largest opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, in the upcoming December 7 election because he lacks the strength and mental capacity to govern Ghana.

She indicated that lack of jobs for the youth, teenage pregnancy and adolescent marriages are some of the major concerns of the region therefore pleaded with government to ensure the Central region is fully considered in the implementation of these initiatives to facilitate job creation as well as provide soft loans to enable women especially build businesses and their capacity.

MEND, while reiterating its support for the use of the military against the militants in the region, said those who attended the meeting lacked the capacity to persuade the people of the Niger Delta to support the current efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to bring peace and development to the region

According to him, absence of a second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, meant lack of excess runway capacity to temporarily close down the only runway for repair.

Justice Abba - Bello Muhammad told a whistleblower and lawyer, George Uboh, and his organization, George Uboh Whistleblower Network, that they lack the legal capacity to decide for the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, who to prosecute.

The health committee's report, which was assessing the operation of the Mental Health Act 2007, said there was also «profoundly depressing» evidence for the poor operations of the «deprivation of liberty safeguards» (DOLS) used to protect patients who lack mental capacity.

As prisons are expensive and take a long time to build, the result of a lack of capacity has been overcrowding, which is when prisons have to house more inmates than they are designed for.

The NIMASA boss stated that the latest killings had once again exposed the lack of capacity and competence on the part of Governor Nyesom Wike to provide adequate security for Rivers people.

Kulpa said the lack of sanitary sewer capacity for the $ 250 million Westwood proposal is a «simple math problem» the developer would have to solve before the project could proceed.

Patrick McDaniel, a nuclear engineer and space expert based at the University of New Mexico, agrees, saying engineers have the technological capacity to build a 10 - megawatt nuclear reactor for space that's «reasonably light,» though the will to do so may be lacking.

The first is that the lack of nutrients and moisture on our skin creates a harsh environment for the cells, and they are not able to breathe and grow at full capacity, if at all, with this lack of nutrition.

These impacts can be particularly damaging in developing countries, which often lack the resources and technical capacity to effectively prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change.

Here, I show that overexpression of follistatin can also cause substantial muscle growth in mice lacking myostatin, demonstrating that other TGF - ß related ligands normally cooperate with myostatin to suppress muscle growth and that the capacity for enhancing muscle growth by targeting this signaling pathway is much larger than previously appreciated.

Rather, each tumor contains a small subset of cells with stem cell - like capacities that are responsible for initiating and sustaining tumor growth, while the bulk of the tumor cells lacks this ability.

If the first repository sited is done so on grossly inadequate standards, a terrible precedent will have been set for all future repository sites (which may very well be in the West despite the region's comparative lack of nuclear generating capacity).

«While working for an international NGO and operating the only Ebola treatment facility in Monrovia in July 2014, the lack of response by the international community left us in utter despair, as we lacked the capacity to contain a devastating epidemic that was increasingly out of control.

Südhof used genetic engineering to «knock - out» the synaptotagmin gene in mice, with the result that synapses from the forebrains of mice that lacked synaptotagmin lost their capacity for fast calcium - triggered release of neurotransmitter, thus confirming the importance of synaptotagmin in vivo.

Findings: Sequencing revealed a condensed 925938 bp genome with a lack of key biosynthetic pathways and a reduced capacity for energy metabolism.

«There's a popular meme in the Paleo community that says eating a very low - carb diet leads to a diminished capacity for T4 to be converted into T3 thyroid hormone because of the lack of glucose consumed by low - carb dieters.

Reasons are many for one they find it adventurous to have relations with younger people and the obvious lack of stamina issues and the «reboot» capacity of the young makes it even better.

Like the superb Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Metroid Prime starts you off in the thick of it and then gradually builds back up into action, both games allowing a great sense of a capacity for exploration, something generally lacking from Resident Evil 4's more cheap and gory thrills.

4 Still others see Marge as the moral center of the film, suggesting that it is her very morality that gives her the ability to love and empathise, but also the capacity for shame — something sorely lacking in most of characters.5 The thing that Marge «just can't understand,» in her brief conversation with Grimsrud, is this: «There's more to life than a little money.

There is a new criminal mastermind at large — Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)-- and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

There is a new criminal mastermind at large — Professor Moriarty — and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)- and not only is he Holmes» intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.