Sentences with phrase «lack of commitment by»

One of the biggest contributors to the plight of the pit bull is a lack of commitment by owners.

The Kogi State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has decried the apparent lack of commitment by Nigerians to collect about eight million permanent...

«The lack of commitment by management to safe staffing is disappointing to our bargaining unit,» said Mike Pattison, a registered nurse at Saint Elizabeth Medical Center.

He looked at this number and lamented the lack of a commitment by the government to eliminate the deficit.

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Coupled with a lack of distributions from their existing private equity and real assets portfolios, many of these investors were left with disproportionately outsized remaining commitments to, and invested capital in, a number of investment funds, which significantly limited their ability to make new commitments to third - party managed investment funds such as those advised by us.

Clients should be aware of the possibility that aggregate client gains, if hedged by the broker against a risky counterparty, could result in a lack of security of client funds if the broker were to fail as a result of a counterparty failing to honour the financial commitments of the hedge trade.

Even so, Schickel has been criticized in the past for abetting liberalism via relativism and lack of commitment, an argument he counters by appealing to the distinction between doctrine, which is permanent, and discipline (ritual, language, and arts), which changes with the times.

And yet the intent of the ceremony, in making the union of the couple part of a wider commitment involving family and the community, is often abandoned, as evidenced by the typical bridal couple's excuse for a lack of consideration for the wishes and comfort of relatives and other guests: «Well, it's our wedding, so we get to do whatever we want.»

This suggestion is «complicated not only by the lack of agreement in this country and abroad on what the common good is but also by our lack of commitment to serving the common good (however it may be defined).

My first year, however, was marked by my own lack of spiritual commitment and I found many distractions from following Christ.

This was viewed by the diocese as discriminating against practising families less able and inclined to get involved in group activities, perhaps because of other commitments or lack of appropriate skills.

However, to protest the death of civilians by killing civilians shows a lack of commitment to justice and only a desire for power.

However, their fulfillment is hindered by the lack of a credible, consistent, and widely - accepted framework for implementing these commitments and for monitoring, verifying, and reporting progress and outcomes.

The damage was done by the lack of commitment in the first game.

Deeney's words are not much better for Arsene Wenger either, because he suggested in an Evening Standard report that a strong manager would not allow their players to get away with the sort of lack of commitment shown by Ramsey in that goal.

it may not have been necessary for him to actually be in situ but by allowing himself to be distracted by something that has absolutely nothing to do with arsenal let alone arsenal transfers, he has shown a complete lack of commitment, profeesionalism and a dereliction of duty.

The Spanish striker was criticised by BT Sport pundits for the lack of commitment he displayed towards his warm - ups.

What if we lose by 2 - 3 goals to Tottenham and we don't have a referee or anything but ourselves to blame and in fact, the players show the same level / lack of commitment as against Bayern Munich — or even Liverpool earlier this season?

This singular statement underline the lack of the required extra commitment by some Gunners that could make them to be winning any game they will play.

Is this guy for real, he says he can't fault the commitment WHAT commitment, if he can't see that he is killing this club by his arrogence and his lack of judgement in buying players on the cheap and sticking with the ones who have nothing to add to the game, Walcott Oxy Gibbs earn huge money but give nowt in return.

Meanwhile, at Chelsea, Conte is frustrated by the lack of commitment to someone who has delivered the premier league title.In 2007, Mourinho had delivered back to back League titles, two League Cups and the FA Cup in three years but that wasn't enough to prevent Abramovich from pointing the «Alan Sugar» finger in his direction.

Disturbingly, fathers identified a lack of «real information», a lack of recognition for their role, lack of engagement during the antenatal education process, and lack of commitment to breastfeeding by hospital staff as barriers they needed to overcome in their role as advocates and supporters of breastfeeding.

The fact that some participants in this study experienced a lack of commitment to breastfeeding by some hospital staff may indicate that additional training is required in hospitals.

«The challenge for us is to set the record straight regarding Senator Sanders, which I think is something that young people should be concerned about, the fact that their parents and their relatives, especially Latinos and immigrants, have been impacted by the lack of commitment coming out of Senator Sanders throughout the years,» Velázquez said.

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

This lack of commitment is further evidenced by the withdrawal of all Treasury funding for energy efficiency programmes from next year in contrast to the Devolved Administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which will continue to support fuel - poor households through their own Government - funded programmes.»

This generous view is not shared by many civil society groups and business leaders, who find the lack of vision, clear commitments and targets a big disappointment and a huge missed opportunity.

The immediate President, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, has blamed the Federal Government's unseriousness and lack of commitment to address the Niger Delta problems for the renewed threats by the Niger Delta Avengers.

Mainly, I was not prepared for the lack of a real commitment by universities to recruit faculty members of color in the fields of science and engineering.

Among the best qualities of such services are staff with a commitment to ensuring the lack of any fake profiles run by scammers as well as maintaining quality search features to make finding a serious relationship as stress - free as possible.

But the lack of dating sites is absence of commitment that is simple to use were afraid and taboo by a word, to commitment.

As with all modern dating in Canada, Vietnamese dating can be hampered by work commitments, familial obligations, and a lack of good places to meet smart, commitment - minded singles.

Others inspired by Brashear include the unbelievably loyal Jo (who is initially impressed by his stubbornness, then dismayed by his lack of commitment to her and their child, and at last, proud of his accomplishments, trotted out for a public embrace in a Navy courtroom) and Billy Sunday's pretty wife, Gwen (Charlize Theron), whose brief appearances reveal precious little about her own boozy despair, as their central function appears to be assuring you that Sunday must have occasional non-asshole moments, since he's married to glamorous and self - assured cover - girl - of - the - moment Charlize Theron.

If it lacks commitment to anything beyond what's absolutely required by its meagre premise, that's part of what charm it retains.

Woody is often sharp with character study and Jasmine is something else, but his portrait of San Francisco working class folk is less convincing and carried only by the strength of a typically excellent cast (it also co-stars Louis C. K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg) and an honesty and commitment that the socially poised rich of the film lack.

He winds up faulting constructivists not for their ideas, with which he is generally sympathetic, but for their lack of radical fervor, as «their work is marked by a flirtation with but never full commitment to» the cause of revolution.

Whether a dog is considered a nuisance or not is dependent on the owner's commitment level, living arrangement, and the dog's level of training or lack of training, not by the number of pets an individual owns.

My collectors, seeming to sense my lack of commitment, weren't excited by these new pieces.

Ultimately Barbara Kruger's works are characterized by a high level of social commitment, advocating women's rights, freedom of opinion, a critical awareness of the se - ductions of consumer culture, and of how power, or the lack of it, determines the feel of our days and nights.

I said «lack of motivation and commitment by individuals to make voluntary change.»

'' and lack of motivation and commitment by individuals to make voluntary change.»

The focus of a string of stories by me and Matt Wald has been the lack of concrete commitments to see that large - scale demonstration (let alone deployment) of this technology takes place.]

A larger group of opponents in Congress worried about the proper role of government and the costs of combating climate change, particularly given the lack of commitments for action by the large emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Korea, South Africa, and Mexico.

Most importantly, «global warming» entails a directional prediction of rising temperatures that is easily discredited by any cold spell, whereas «climate change» lacks a directional commitment and easily accommodates unusual weather of any kind.

Enough members from both sides have to recognize the lack of integrity between a commitment to avoid «sensationalizing or politicizing the associated impacts» and claiming that «our net annual emissions of CO2 MUST [emphasis added] be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century.»

The Clean Air Act lacks any other mechanism for economy - wide CO2 regulation, and the Administration will say it is legally and politically justified by both the inability of existing policy to meet either the specific U.S. commitment at Paris, an 80 percent emissions reduction, or the longer - term, 2 - degree goal to which the world is collectively committed.

The concern is that due to a lack of meaningful commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, progress on REDD + may be held hostage to other key financial decisions, like where money for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will come from.

Among those issues is the lack of solid commitments by Developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a second Kyoto commitment period with comparable efforts by non-party Developed countries such as the US under the Convention.

As one individual observer, I am appalled at the lack of commitment to sound scientists by the «climate scientists» and their apologists gavin (sigh), Eli, Dano et al..