Sentences with phrase «lead a state instead»

Not exact matches

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.

Instead, it reflects a tendency to respond to all economic data as if it is coincident (reflecting the current state of the economy) rather than carefully distinguishing leading data — primarily new orders and order backlogs, from coincident data — primarily income and production, from lagging data — employment figures, particularly payrolls and the unemployment rate, which are essentially the most lagging data series in economics.

If these institutions do not follow the bishops» lead, but comply with the government's mandate instead, they will send a very clear message: When threatened by the state, Catholic institutions fall in line.

Instead the church's extensive educational, medical and evangelistic endeavors led to a highly centralized system, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Indeed, the president of the General Conference has stated that the Adventist Church is...

The United States would not feel that it had to suppress revolutions such as the one in Nicaragua, and it is my opinion that if the Sandinistas has been assisted and encouraged, instead of forced to devote most of their resources to defending themselves militarily, their government would have led to a Nicaraguan economy that did much more for the masses of the people than had ever been done before.

Robert A. Raines has suggested that prayer, instead of leading God to intervene in a problematic state of affairs, helps persuade us to be open to all individuals as Christ incognito.

«Other states should follow the lead set by Queensland and instead embrace the far more efficient industry alternative that will not cost families a cent,» Mr Parker said.

A stellar Marcus Mariota - led Oregon team earned the No. 2 seed following the 2014 season and ensured that a Pac - 12 representative would play in Pasadena, only instead of the customary Big Ten opponent the Ducks faced (and beat) unbeaten Florida State.

Instead, after shooting an 8 - under 62 on Saturday to take a three - shot lead, the Florida State alum ejected in the final round with an ugly 4 - over 74 on a TPC River Highlands course that was not playing particularly hard.

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

But the city said it received less than state officials led it to believe it would get in its fall allocation — $ 90 million instead of $ 230 million, Been said.

Historically, weak state institutions have led not to the idealized world of anarchists and libertarians, but instead to extended family tribal - like institutions and clannishness that subordinate members desire to express individual choice and freedom in the absence of a strong state, to clan needs for mutual protection and more.

Now, instead of helping pass the spending plan and leading the state to sounder fiscal footing, Ravitch has described himself to associates as frustrated and annoyed.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

Romney, who has led in polls among New York Republicans, did not even show up for the state GOP dinner on April 19th and has campaigned in other states holding primaries Tuesday instead, like Pennsylvania.

The Common Council's resolution asks the state Department of Environmental Conservation to lead the review instead.

«There is a proposal on the table which we made to the Kufuor administration that instead of seeking public investment to be led by the state and its attendant procurement problems why won't you allow that whole cartage to be owned by different business groups so that you do a road show and allow mining companies and people who cart heavier goods to understand that they own a part of that whole railway sector because we've been at it for too long.»

Most public - sector unions in the state can not legally strike — instead, unresolved labor disputes go to binding arbitration, which often leads to decisions that cities can not afford.

Instead, he said, the APC led administration went ahead and procured Electronic Voting Machines, EVM, before the law backing the process by the State House of Assembly is debated and passed.

Lynn Johnson, a member of the city's Conservation Advisory Council, asked the Common Council's Public Safety Committee on Wednesday to adopt a memorializing resolution requesting the DEC act as lead agency of the review instead of the state Thruway Authority.

Instead, Grose has been chosen to lead a newly established organization called NY CREATES that will operate SUNY Poly's research labs and clean rooms, making them available to researchers from universities across the state and elsewhere.

According to Gerald Benjamin, the director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz and a leading expert on state constitutions, especially New York's, the Attorney General «was empowered without the constitution,» but instead in common law, to become what it is today.

Weeks after the primary, the state Democratic Party's central committee voted 89 - 2 to reject the Mallott - led Democratic gubernatorial ticket and instead supported an alternative «fusion» ticket pairing Mallott with independent gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker.

Former Head of State, Gen Yakubu Gowon, has urged Nigerians to pray for the Muhammadu Buhari - led federal government instead of condemning the leader.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to give up on $ 200 million in proposed income tax cuts and instead use the money to help pay for roads won approval from Assembly Republicans on Thursday, a breakthrough that could lead to the adoption of a state budget following a three - week impasse.

Lekic, lead author Max Rudolph (Portland State University) and another colleague took a different approach, starting instead with whole - Earth satellite measurements.

In the disease state, the blood cells are sickle - shaped instead of round, leading to stabs of pain and eventual organ damage.

«Job loss was not simply a proxy for other aspects of the state's economic climate, but instead represented a meaningful economic shock, which led to changes in girls» and black adolescents» suicide - related behaviors,» Gassman - Pines writes.

«Instead of requiring Medicaid patients to pay for a portion of their ED care, some states are trying to provide them with better alternatives to the ED,» writes lead author Ari B. Friedman, MS, a fellow in Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and his coauthors.

«Instead of invoking large, complicated scenarios to explain the majors shifts in molar evolution during the course of hominin origins, we found that simple adjustments and alterations to this one developmental rule can account for most of those changes,» says Alejandra Ortiz, a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins and lead author of the study.

Instead, the government's self - righteous attitude leads the United States into perpetual conflict, first with the Soviet Union and now moving onto Iran and North Korea.

To take advantage of this opportunity, states must abandon the thinking that led to the failure of previous reforms such as No Child Left Behind and instead embrace a new mindset about the most promising strategies for improving schools.

This led federal and state agencies to focus on procedural compliance instead of on the Court's equally important holding that «opportunity to benefit» is an indispensable component of an appropriate education.

The U.S. Department of Education is embracing an approach to spending that rewards states and districts for innovating instead of simply disbursing funds by formula to schools and districts with disadvantaged students, but this is leading to debates within the Democratic party, reports Nick Anderson of the Washington Post.

Instead of breakthrough that would lead to overcoming the global economic crisis, the scenario of the global economic collapse was predicted by the great thinker and French economist Jacques Attali (2010) who predicts the occurrence of four steps to the unfolding economic crisis that erupted in 2008 in United States and that spilled over the world: 1) the public debts become heavier; 2) the failure of the euro and the global depression; 3) the failure of the Dollar and the return of global inflation; and, 4) the depression and ruin of Asia.

Again, the studies discussed above do not offer much explanation, but two theories come to mind: perhaps universities look to exploit their pricing power in the market leading them to raise tuition whether appropriations rise or fall; or maybe when faced with a reduction in state funding, universities cut spending instead of raising tuition dollar for dollar.

That's led to some concern that parents who would otherwise pay to send their kids to private school will instead apply for tuition credits from the state.

Instead, state authorities, along with several nonprofit entities, led the way.

Instead of opting for state tests, Nebraska has developed its own statewide system of local assessments: the School - based, Teacher - led Assessment and Reporting System (STARS).

This would essentially create a Parent Trigger law of a sort for the Bayou State, allowing families to take control of the schools within their communities and lead their overhaul instead of waiting on dysfunctional districts (which often perpetuate systemic failure) to improve themselves.

Instead, the state board chose a lesser intervention — assigning a New York - based company called Amplify as a «lead partner» to help guide reform efforts at Washington.

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

Instead, uniform teacher licensure systems and meaningful exams can be one part of ensuring that every teacher feels prepared to teach in any city or state, which will ultimately lead to an increase in student success across the country.

Instead, state control and grossly inadequate state funding have led to dozens of neighborhood school closures, deep cuts in programs and services in District schools, and the disenfranchisement of families, whose concerns about their children's education were ignored by the SRC.

The court's ruling «leads us instead to a place where separation of church and state is a constitutional slogan.»

Conceivably, the new requirement caused these top students to consider attending the leading research universities at Chapel Hill or NC State instead of one of the branches closer to their homes.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

While less prevalent, approximately 30 % of low cost candles imported into the United States may have wicks that have a wire (lead containing) core instead of a 100 % cotton or paper wick (as required when being manufactured in the United States).

On top of that, a study last year put out by by Arizona State University found that identifying a dog as a pit bull leads to that dog staying at the shelter three times longer than dogs who look the same but are called Labs or border collies instead.