Sentences with phrase «lack of political will for»

The lack of political will for tackling core problems will, as always, put far more pressure than is deserved on relatively small, and often highly effective, programs aimed at fostering global progress.

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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.

If the theology of the Hartford Appeal — with its conventional theism, careful political neutrality and total lack of christological content — represents the trend of the «70s, then I'll be glad to swim against the tide for a while.

One of the main reasons for such poor breastfeeding rates in the UK is lack of political will from the very top to protect, promote and support it, and fear of engendering maternal guilt.

I disagree only in that there is no lack of ideas for job creation, simply a lack of political will.

Perhaps, as some of its ideas become grounded in such movements, they will find the political traction they lacked for much of the twentieth century.

In Egypt, the military council simply lacks that political will, and has presided over a year and counting of military trials for civilians, repression of demonstrations, and media censorship.

Inspite of the fact that virtually every African leader on the assumption of office pledges zero tolerance for coruption, the canker still persists in almost all African countries at varying degress, Ghana being no exception, due to lack of political will - power and unbriddled greed on the part of the leaders.

As in the very different circumstances of Bradford West, where George Galloway stunned the political class, the lack of enthusiasm for Labour is such that it can not assume that it will automatically pick up anti-government voters in the way that oppositions always used to.

«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says this is not an ideal year for a public vote due to a lack of statewide political races that will bring voters to the polls.

It will be difficult to convince Upstaters (regardless of their political preferece, or lack thereof) to vote for a Downstater to oust Kirsten Gillibrand.

While Latvala must close out his campaign account, he won't have to do the same for his affiliated political action committees, which can continue to be active despite the lack of an ongoing campaign.

As discontent and disapproval of state government grows, so does a lack of interest and involvement in the political system - less voting by those who are eligible; fewer aspirants willing to run for office.

As an organisation CAT believes that the technology and resources for a sustainable future exist, and that it is only the lack of political will and distribution of these resources that prevents achieving it.

In addition to the obvious need for increased teacher resources and teacher support in order to implement new programs, Reimers cited three additional factors: the lack of political will on the part of national and state governments; the resulting insufficient knowledge base to support effective citizenship and human rights education; and the limited ability of international institutions to implement educational change.

Whatever the merit of these policies, foundations lack the political resources to achieve them without genuine constituents who will fight for them independent of foundation funding.

Blaming a lack of improvement in the worst - performing areas of the country on a «lack of political will», Sir Michael will say there is «urgent need» for a London challenge - style approach by MPs, council bosses and headteachers «to raise secondary school standards in towns across the north and midlands».

We need to truly professionalize the teaching profession, from the academic and personal qualifications to the preparation and professional development to the compensation to the evaluation, and for all the talk about this we have not really made any serious substantive progress primarily because of the lack of political will.

The former education minister said that for successive governments there had been a «lack of political will to show that some academies are not doing well».

Yet I've seen firsthand how the state's education law and a lack of political will from Sacramento make it almost impossible for public schools to place an effective teacher in every classroom.

Another factor was the distinct lack of enthusiasm — and in some cases, of political will — among district officials for the school choice provision.

The policy will prohibit use of PayPal for the sale of e-books that contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of rape, bestiality or incest (as defined by the U.S. legal standard for obscenity: material that appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value),» said Anuj Nayar, director of communications for the eBay - owned payment site.

Your primary objection for a mass eradication campaign is predicated on lack of political will among Americans.

Too often, those pressing the case for action to blunt climate change downplay this gap, perhaps out of fear that it undercuts the longstanding, and wishful, assertion that all we lack is political will.

However, the effort to push toward such an energy revolution has been stymied for decades by a lack of political will and finger pointing.

The reasons for this are mainly inertia, plus a lack of political will.

But in the end, all these boil down to the lack of political will to commit for binding domestic mitigation targets, in the developed countries.

All the same, 350 has become a rallying cry, especially for the younger generation which will bear the brunt of global warming but as yet lacks the political clout to do much about it.

Claire O'Rourke, national director of campaign group Solar Citizens, said: «We have the technology without gas for a reliable, stable and affordable energy supply system, what we lack, as always, is the political will.»

I think such cuts are difficult to achieve due to a lack of political will, not for any other reason.

The law societies do not give sufficient importance to the interactions among: (1) the problem and its consequences — the thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of affordable legal services provided by competent lawyers; (2) the power of the internet, the social media, and the news media together, to make those consequences into a public and political issue so quickly that there will not be time for the law societies to publish a persuasive response, and which issue will compel government intervention by way of programs on the way to socialized law; (3) the fact that self - regulation of the legal profession has been lost by the law societies in several jurisdictions of the common law world and the U.S; [7] and, (4) the fact that the consequences of the unavailability of legal services at reasonable cost will motivate the many non-lawyer legal service providers to offer legal services that should be provided by lawyers, to people desperate for a lawyer's services that they can not afford.

These possible objections to the Bill and the apparent lack of political will to enact it — the Bill was not included in the 2007 Queen's Speech — may mean the law of forfeiture remains on the to - do list for some time yet.

Social / political engineering achievements, or lack thereof, will not look good on Ms Aitken's resume ten years down the rocky road of prescribed hoped - for positive change for the worse, oxymoronically speaking.