Sentences with phrase «narrowing the issues in»

HKMA stated that, under the scheme, the mediation process would be a confidential, voluntary, non-binding and private dispute resolution process «in which a neutral person (the mediator) helps the parties to reach a negotiated settlement or to narrow the issues in dispute.

The purpose of the Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) is to reduce the cost and duration of litigation by providing an early opportunity for realistic settlement negotiations or to narrow the issues in dispute.

Bill's clients value this approach because it allows for efficient trial preparation by narrowing the issues in dispute, reducing the scope and cost of discovery, and reducing the risks at trial.

JCCs are intended to allow family law litigants to clarify and narrow the issues in dispute, and it is because of this that JCCs are a very important part of the family court process.

If settlement is not reached, in Step Six the parties engage in a more formal process of case management that narrows the issues in dispute, establishes a strict framework for disclosure and discovery and concludes with trial.

A discussion between expert witnesses to narrow the issues in a dispute can be a little like the office Christmas party.

The CAFCASS officer will attend the first Court hearing to try and ascertain whether there are any areas of concern and to narrow the issues in dispute between the parties.

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But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

Narrower scope aside, the IRS indicated that it could ultimately seek more information on the users in question, writing that it may still «issue summonses in individual examinations of Coinbase users for the information that it no longer seeks in this proceeding».

Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.

Our goal is to narrow the discount and, in combination with the loyalty program, issue new shares through at the market offerings.

In 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealIn 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical deals.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

He is behind Democrat Hillary Clinton in the latest national polls, but he has a narrow path to potential victory if he can win a number of key states — including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where globalization and free trade are hot, contentious issues.

This sentence in the executive's clause appears to narrow cooperation to legal issues in a way that the severance agreement with IT employees does not.

Former communications director Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, was not interviewed by Mueller's team until December 2017; son - in - law Jared Kushner has been interviewed only on one narrow issue: his meeting with a Russian ambassador during the transition.

It is the necessity for having a means to narrow down risk levels in binary options trading that has brought about many apps showing lots of issues and concerns like this.

«This single digital ledger, in economists» jargon, describes a narrow banking model, much like Peel's 1844 Banking Act in the UK that legally split the Bank of England Issue Department from the Banking Department in order to more clearly identify the gold backing for the note iIssue Department from the Banking Department in order to more clearly identify the gold backing for the note issueissue.

Although Commerce normally investigates and applies punitive duties on narrow categories of products from specific locations, at public hearings conducted by Commerce in May, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross articulated the issue in sweeping terms.

As everyone's focus narrows to a single event or issue, risky assets tend to all behave in a similar fashion and benefits of international diversification are more muted.

In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 193In the hands of men who evaded the real moral issues and who were narrower in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 193in their comprehension than so many of the statesmen of the nineteenth century, it is a question whether the established form in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 193in internationalism produced a single new idea of any significance between 1919 and 1939.

The problem with these elders are a narrow minded view of scripture, but the issue is in their stubborness, not in the scriptures.

I am not interested in the narrow issue of who was to blame, but in suggesting to you that the present crisis of faith and life in the Church is not an incidental confusion, but the culmination of a long, slow crisis of truth and error in theology, perhaps the greatest since the rise of Arianism, and that we may no longer refuse to admit it, and to meet it.

At best, some reference may be made to the issue in a pastoral counseling course — usually within the narrow bounds of crisis counseling or therapeutic intervention.

The same issue of the Daily Telegraph concluded its comments in an editorial: «How refreshing to be able to report a possible breakthrough that narrows rather than widens the gulf between cutting - edge science and traditional morality.»

The big issue is indeed that when one is brought up in an environment that encourages the belief that there is one one horse in the race, ie the Christian god or at least the Judeo - Christian god, people can WRONGLY assume that the choice is between a narrow range of theist options and atheism.

The American preoccupation with «church and state» issues in some ways narrows our imagination of the range of possibilities.

Each of these matters was decided by margins that might be comfortable in politics but were disturbingly narrow when matters of the church's faith and order were at issue.

In general discussions of energy issues, we commonly find a very narrow definition of human concern.

But in the long run, as I've said, it's too novel an issue to be stuck in such a narrow hole.

In the least, they will more likely tend to focus on narrow issues critical to their view of the world as colored by their evangelical faith, rather than logically solving the problems that need to be solved.

This narrowing of the issue is apparent in St Thomas's only direct treatment of the subject in the Summa: Part III, question 83, article 1.

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This issue gets emotional when I read sensationalistic comments from other self - proclaimed «lactivists» who ARE judgmental, narrow and condemning in their views.

The Virginia Tech Helmet RatingsTM system approaches the very broad and complex issue of concussion protection from a narrow vantage point of linear accelerations only and does not address other biomechanical variables such as rotational accelerations, particularly where rotational accelerations precede the linear acceleration in a hit.

So I think that's a big issue, as well, this narrow definition of success stresses our most academically talented kids in very dangerous ways and, I think, marginalizes a whole bunch of other kids who have talents in other areas.

THEM: * recite SOGC guidelines for induction after 41 weeks, cite data showing an increase in the risk of stillbirth after 39 weeks, particularly amongst older mothers, me with a narrow pelvis, a first - timer carrying a posterior baby estimated at 9.2 lbs, BPP / NST only a snapshot of what's happening right at that moment and while a bad BPP / NST is unequivocally a poor sign, a good BPP / NST is not always indicative of zero issues * And then they played the dead baby card.

«This has resulted in key duties not being carried out, resources not properly allocated, organisations not working together as they should and focus being placed on narrow border control issues, specific to each agency and not the overall border security picture of the UK.»

Eurocentric visions dominate current discourses (as I have similarly argued in an introduction to a recent special issue that I collaboratively edited, see Vollmer et al. 2015), and this narrow sight reduces the understanding of migration as phenomenon and the intricate processes which are part of it.

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

A CC is unlikely to refound the British state if it is set up to function as, in effect, an advisory council to the UK Parliament on a relatively narrow range of issues.

Yet it is often seen wrongly as a niche, complex and particular issue which has little role in public debate and in recent years has increasingly, around the world, been conducted on narrow and introspective lines.

It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.

«we must not get drawn into a narrow debate about foreign ownership, which is not the issue» Here Mandelson is right... The issues are 1) investor - ownership and corporate structures which are geared towards profit - maximisation rather than mere profit - making 2) the exclusion of the general public and workforces from participation in decision - making in the economy.

All of those issues would face a tough time passing in the Senate, too, with a narrow Democratic majority.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

The candidates also discussed the rising tolls on the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge, something local leaders have said would be a major issue for voters in the borough.

The case was sent back to the district for further proceedings on that narrow issue, and did not involve any issue in the license renewal proceeding.»

In a ruling issued earlier this month, but was made known yesterday, a Livingston County court judge allowed a lawsuit against the state's same - sex marriage law to continue, writing in scathing opinion that New York's notoriously narrow Open Meetings Law could be reviewed in the casIn a ruling issued earlier this month, but was made known yesterday, a Livingston County court judge allowed a lawsuit against the state's same - sex marriage law to continue, writing in scathing opinion that New York's notoriously narrow Open Meetings Law could be reviewed in the casin scathing opinion that New York's notoriously narrow Open Meetings Law could be reviewed in the casin the case.

A senior Democratic aide tells CNN that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray met Wednesday afternoon and are narrowing down the issues in a potential spending deal.