Sentences with phrase «much an issue at»

Whether they actually became adverse was very much an issue at trial.»

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The issue at hand is how much control Uber exercises over its drivers, according to Aimee E. Delaney, leader of the Labor & Employment Practice Group at the Chicago headquarters of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.

These are very deep - seeded systemic issues that take a long time to resolve, but with authors and activists like Leader - Chivée at the helm, progress just might move forward that much quicker.

On Friday, Trump addressed the World Assembly for Women conference in Tokyo, touching on her trademark issues of female entrepreneurship and women's economic advancement, topics that align with Abe's much - touted «Womenomics» agenda aimed at adding women to Japan's workforce.

Even at work, where the issues are much less daunting, challenges and conflict can become motivators and blessings to help guide you to a positive outcome.

«These issues are going to weigh much more heavily on customers at the end of the day as far as how they would rate their overall experience with the airline.»

If anything has gotten easier for Barkan despite the physical and emotional challenges that comes with his illness, it's that the issues he is now advocating for are much simpler to explain to people than US interest rate policy, which has been his focus at the Center for Popular Democracy.

Bad location, a marginal niche, having no specific user in mind, raising too much or too little money — all of these issues can be prevented or at least mitigated with good planning.

«In our view, Verizon and Vodafone have much larger issues to contend with than Canada,» said Dvai Ghose, head of research at Canaccord Genuity.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

So, not only have we issued a lot more debt, we're doing so at much less standards.»

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

The issue here is not so much the technology itself, but rather the opportunity to think and imagine it is distracting us from — beginning at an early age.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

And when asked about the issue by reporters, Trump said, «Amazon has the money to pay the fair rate at the post office, which would be much more than they're paying right now.»

You could argue that McInerney inherited several problems at the company, but none of those issues has shown much sign of improvement since he took the reins.

The bigger issue, of course, is the barrier to entry for individual investors: Private equity firms typically have a minimum investment of $ 5 million or more, and at one point, the best firms were so popular, they were demanding as much as $ 250 million.

Ergonomists at Steelcase, the world's largest maker and supplier of office furniture, say some employers are already shifting to a more mobile workplace to address the too - much - sitting issue.

The legal issues that followed the initial 2014 contest meant the contest didn't happen that year, much to the disappointment of fans who had taken Buffet at his word that he wanted the contest to be easier to win in 2015.

While the agency spent much of 2017 focusing on the administration's efforts to repeal Obamacare, this past month CMS issued a series of new proposals aimed at promoting greater interoperability of digital health - care records.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

When I interviewed for my flight attendant position at Pinnacle Airlines in 2010, the hiring manager slid a piece of paper across the table and told me, as if issuing challenge, «That's how much you'll make in your first year» — a fairly cinematic way of telling someone their salary is $ 15,500, though at least she was candid.

Western Australia's Corruption and Crime Commission inquiry has become a much bigger issue than any observer would have predicted at the outset — or even at the start of last week.

At one point, Flaherty mentioned «we have been proposing to bring in federal legislation that would deal with the issue of systemic risk,» before adding politely, «This is much better.»

«All the data privacy issues, the congressional hearings, none of that will get as much scrutiny from investors as the bottom line,» said Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research.

so now the issue is whether the bond market (or macro hedge funds) eased too much thinking the Fed would choke off liquidity and now is staring at still a weaker dollar and high commodity prices indicating an elevated level of excess liquidity.

«Roaming is a very significant issue for Wind, and while much - needed regulation at the wholesale level is on the horizon, some interim relief from these practices is required.

Consumers and the media are looking much more holistically at issues of social and environmental responsibility — and social transformation

This issue is perhaps the thorniest of all, because at its core a publicly traded corporation exists to make as much money for execs and shareholders as possible.

Now, if a company takes its IPO proceeds and invests them in cash and marketable securities, then as long as it doesn't generate net losses or other liabilities, the company must be worth at least the value of those assets, regardless of how much money was raised by issuing stock.

Much, we suspect, will depend on the Federal Reserve's monetary decisions, which will be issued at the conclusion of its two - day FOMC meeting tomorrow afternoon.

When I wrote my piece on the residential housing bubble at RealMoney back in May of 2005, I did not focus on the high prices much; instead, I focused on the financing issues:

At the same time, CEX.IO pays much attention to the issues of security, and the strong anti-DDoS protection as well as level 2 PCI DSS evidence that the service ensures the security of customers» funds and personal data.

The issues at play here, such as some easing in concerns regarding the crisis in the eurozone and the prospects of slowing growth in emerging markets, look to be much more global in nature, relative to the natural - gas market.

Government regulators are going to want to get their hands on it, much of that is possible because at the end of the day the issue is there's too much debt.

The social issues were not as much of a concern at this forum.

The final issue is just how much oil is left in the Permian and other shale oil basins that can be produced at wherever oil prices go.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

In this fund administration special, we bring together five top tech experts to answer the big technology questions facing private equity firms; look at the administrative strain GPs are under; consider the implications of Brexit for UK fund managers; explain how the outsourcing model is changing; consider the challenges faced by CFOs; explore the issues involved in raising a first credit vehicle; plus much more.

NHC had not yet issued a storm surge watch for the coasts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina as of 5 pm EDT Friday, but I expect the surge will be at least 3 - 5 feet in much of this region, which is lower than the 4 - 8 foot levels observed last October during Hurricane Matthew.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall StreeAt issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Streeat the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

The issue at stake is not so much the independence of boards, but their legitimacy and credibility.

While timing is a key issue in today's market, if gold holds at these levels or even climbs slightly higher above 1700, I would anticipate gold stocks moving much higher.

He spent so much time at Purdue that he was issued a security pass.

Interesting Pope for sure — but BTW: None of his core beliefs differ AT ALL from the two previous Popes, it's just that his communication style is more focused on everyone's common ground — the other Popes had the same beliefs, it just that they were more outspoken on the controversial issues — so the media did not warm to them as much.

Here, loyal readers, is a glimpse behind the curtain at some of our also - ran titles for the pieces in this issue: headings that were suggested at our titles meeting but nixed for being too punny, too punchy, or simply too much.

After much discussion, study, and prayer over the course of a year, the statement «The Gift of Salvation» was agreed to at a meeting in New York City in October 1997, and published in the January 1998 issue of this journal.

The Bank's base rate dictates the amount of interest it charges to the high street banks for the money it issues, which in turn affects the rates at which ordinary customers can borrow money and how much interest they get on their savings.

Another controversy had exploded at the 1909 convention and began to occupy much space in the magazine: the issue of «open membership.»