Sentences with phrase «leading on this issue in»

«I am pleased that Kirsty Williams and William Powell have been leading on this issue in the National Assembly.

So, if he were to lead on this issue in New York, he would also lead on this issue on the federal level.

Not exact matches

Both the European - led Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh and the U.S. Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety have made significant advances toward addressing issues of building integrity and fire safety systems in that country.

Last fall, the MDA announced it would cut back the telethon to a six - hour prime time special in 2011, leading to speculation that Lewis, who has been forced to cut back his airtime considerably in recent years due to mounting heath issues, was on his way out.

Senator Max Baucus and Representative David Camp, who lead their respective congressional committees on taxation issues, have been working on a bill that they say would be fairer to small businesses, but both men will be leaving those posts in early 2015, so it's unclear how much success they will have.

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.

He will be responsible for advising Trump on a wide spectrum of national security issues, from the U.S. - led coalition against the Islamic State to China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea to North Korea's growing nuclear threat.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

President Jacob Zuma issued a brief statement on Wednesday calling for calm and expressing «hope that developments in Zimbabwe would not lead to unconstitutional changes of government.»

And as NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has argued, the attempt to be evenly balanced on every issue can lead to a problem he calls the «view from nowhere,» in which there is so much balance it arguably distorts the issue.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

He is a leading authority on cyber security, cyber conflict and the application of technology in national security and writes regularly on cyber issues in the Financial Times and elsewhere.

«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media, technology and health said in a statement.

In his current position he leads the tax modeling team, oversees the center's research, and researches and writes on a variety of federal tax issues.

Most notably, Pam has taken the lead on humanitarian issues as the founder and «guiding visionary» of Humanity United, which fights conflict and injustice in some of the most troubled places in the world — South Sudan, for example.

Under Bruce's direction Newground, in conjunction with sister firm Investor Voice, has led hundreds of successful shareholder engagements with corporations on a wide range of ESG and sustainability issues.

Mr. Smith joined Walden in 2000 to lead Walden's ongoing shareholder engagement program to promote greater corporate leadership on ESG issues.

ILRC actively advocates on transportation issues and is a lead plaintiff in a case against BART for failing to ensure that people with disabilities can access the regional mass transit system.

In this issue's Spotlight we examine how a focus on maximizing shareholder value — which leads to short - termism for management and boards — can threaten...

On hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public financOn hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public financon pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public finance.

Additionally, because Imagine works with companies on demand generation and lead generation, as well as new sales, I'm arms - deep in the issues around alignment and reality every day.

The CFPB issued a consumer advisory in April 2014 warning borrowers of provisions that may lead to default even if the borrower is current on payments.

But veterinarian Dr. Elisa Katz from Feline-Nutrition.org points out that cats on dry food diets are already prone to dehydration, which in turn can lead to issues like kidney stones and urinary crystals.

Dumitru Vasilescu, the UNDP's lead on Moldovan private sector engagement for sustainable development goals, told ETHNews that «solar cell owners in this project will always receive SolarCoin, [which the Sun Exchange issues] in addition to their chosen Bitcoin or Fiat lease rental income.»

Transport Canada told Postmedia News that it identified the transportation of flammable liquids, such as crude oil, as an «emerging» issue in 2011, and that it is now reviewing new safety recommendations received in recent weeks from three industry - led committees «on an urgent basis.»

Chinese buyers are extremely demanding in terms of their service requirements on issues as diverse as lead time, availability after hours and technical service.

APEC's founding coincided with the sudden burst on the global scene of the Asian growth miracle, led by the «tigers» — Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore — and just as Deng Xioping issued his remarkable call for economic reform in China.

Although speculative thoughts about Iraqi dinar Investments have been going around for a long time, there were developments based on reports which led to spike in speculation in IQD - US $ trading (like the statement issued by IMF around mid-2007, in the post-Saddam Hussein era).

Advancing issues led declining stocks on the Big Board by a comfortable margin, while the differential was even more in the favor of the bulls on the NASDAQ.

The two most relevant regulations were: 1) the prohibition on interstate banking, which created overly small and undiversified banks that were highly prone to failure; and 2) the requirement that federally chartered banks back their currency with purchases of US government bonds, which made it prohibitively expensive to issue more currency when the demand rose, leading to the currency shortages and resulting panics that culminated in the Panic of 1907.

Kirsten Hillman, the lead negotiator for the TPP talks and a senior official on softwood lumber issues, will act as MacNaughton's deputy in Washington and will also play a significant role.

I am very interested in getting your thoughts and perspectives on the issue of lead optimization today.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

Her resourcefulness as an advocate has been significant on many issues, most recently in the long process leading to the fiduciary rule adopted by the Department of Labor.

Most marketers and developers don't pay much attention to this little detail but as Ann Smarty points out in her post on this issue, failing to include a trailing slash can potentially lead to 302 redirects, a 404 page not found messages or even a duplicate content penalty.

My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary financial events of September and October 2008 — several large financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.

In this role he advises on bilateral and trilateral issues with the United States and Mexico, manages CEO engagement with India, Japan, Brazil and China and leads the Council's tax policy advisory network.

In 2016, as Chipotle was busy trying to recover from the foodborne illness issues that led to steep declines in its sales and stock price, Crumpacker was arrested on cocaine possession chargeIn 2016, as Chipotle was busy trying to recover from the foodborne illness issues that led to steep declines in its sales and stock price, Crumpacker was arrested on cocaine possession chargein its sales and stock price, Crumpacker was arrested on cocaine possession charges.

We believe that only if the investigation into intellectual property issues leads to material increases in the tariffs the U.S. imposes on telecommunication and semi-conductor imports could this potentially translate into a more meaningful dent in China's exports of around 0.8 pp.

One suspects that some conservatives supported Rubio not only because they thought they agreed with him on the issues, but also in the hopes that nominating Rubio would lead to Republican gains among Hispanic and young voters.

In the short term we need some way to hold off precipitous actions on the homosexual issue that will lead to the division of the church.

The U.S. must more robustly lead a coalition that includes our natural allies on these issues, including Latin American and sub-Saharan African nations, in identifying and sanctioning gross religious liberty abusers worldwide.

@Kingnpriest, So in theory, if a person lead a good life, and never sinned (unlikely but possible), but never said a word about Jesus, good or bad (they'd heard about him but never addressed the issue, they just focused on living a good life), what would happen to them?

The Republicans have positioned themselves so that religious people vote for them on social issues, while they pursue an economic agenda that disadvantages me, and probably you, and leads to a nation in which prosperity is reserved for the very few.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

It is fascinating in itself; it throws light on every portion of the Bible; it clears up obscurities, explaining what is else inexplicable; it distinguishes the minor detours from the major highways of Biblical thought; it gives their true value to primitive concepts, the early, blazed trails leading out to great issues; and, in the end, it makes of the Bible a coherent whole, understood, as everything has to be understood, in terms of its origins and growth.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.