Some of these people have had their credit cards frozen by their banks due to the suspicious
nature of the activity in their account.
As a matter of fact, threats of violence will almost always be made by persons engaged in a criminal activity; but... it is the risk of being subjected to compulsion by threats of violence that must be foreseen or foreseeable that is relevant, rather than
the nature of the activity in which the threatener is engaged» (Lord Justice Dyson at 12).
The nature of activities in such market defines these types.
Not exact matches
Examining the influence
of unconscious bias is by
nature a self - reflective
activity - something that has only recently caught fire
in boardroom efforts to address disparities, but which has been alive and well
in the hearts
of accelerators, especially those focused on women entrepreneurs.
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect
of economic conditions
in the industries and markets
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate
in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations
in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels
of end market demand
in construction and
in both the commercial and defense segments
of the aerospace industry, levels
of air travel, financial condition
of commercial airlines, the impact
of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition
of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges
in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization
of the anticipated benefits
of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope,
nature, impact or timing
of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring
activity, including the pending acquisition
of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration
of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization
of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels
of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability
of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope
of future repurchases
of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level
of other investing
activities and uses
of cash, including
in connection with the proposed acquisition
of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption
in delivery
of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits
of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits
of diversification and balance
of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome
of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact
of the negotiation
of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect
of changes
in political conditions
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect
of changes
in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates
in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect
of changes
in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result
in the imposition
of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits
of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing
of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence
of events that may give rise to a right
of one or both
of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including
in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee
of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million
of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects
of the announcement or the completion
of the merger on the market price
of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted
in their operation
of their businesses while the merger agreement is
in effect; (21) risks relating to the value
of the United Technologies» shares to be issued
in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
Statistics Canada recently released this report on the underground economy
in Canada — essentially an attempt to gauge the extent
of «market - based economic
activities, whether legal or illegal, that escape measurement because
of their hidden, illegal or informal
nature.»
It can be a challenge to get even the most enthusiastic
of employees to participate
in team - building
activities, and the announcement
of mandatory events
of this
nature often prompts further complaints.
Apple Computer Inc.'s rule
of thumb is that their little machine, depending on the software, typically can handle the general accounting for a business with up to $ 5 million
in sales annually, although the limit varies with the
nature and volume
of the company's financial
activity.
Finally, the changing
nature of total shareholder return (TSR) will likely impact deal
activity in 2018.
And as for the headline risks
of Trump's unpredictable
nature and,
of course, the tweets, he had said he'd reduce the Twitter
activity and act more presidential once
in the Oval Office.
We typically focus on initiatives and
activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific
nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point
in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.
If the authorities are willing to engage
in loss - making
activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics
of an economy like China's that change the
nature of the GDP measure: first, economic
activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is
in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.
[4] Forty - two
of these major rules were administrative or budgetary
in nature, such as Medicare payment rates or hunting limits on migratory birds; twenty - five were «prescriptive» regulations that imposed burdens on private - sector
activity.
We determine that you or your business is involved
in any conduct or any
activity (
of both a personal or business
nature) that:
Still, given the new
nature of the testnet, developers have been quick to suggest a range
of possible issues and fixes that could once again see a jumpstart
in activity.
Granted, therefore, that God's infinite conceptual valuation
of pure possibility may justly be termed «free» since it is «limited by no actuality which it presupposes (PR 524), yet the temporal integrative
activity of his consequent
nature, whereby he loves particular occasions
of the actual world, may also be called «free,» though
in a somewhat different sense.
The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology
of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence
of divine beings, divine
activity in history and
nature, the purpose and destiny
of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»
When we say that a social
activity, arrangement, or pattern is
in accord with or contrary to human
nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain
of nature.
What is required by the criterion
of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised
in clear relation to material necessities and
in the light
of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional
activities will be conducted with a vivid sense
of the realities
of nature and the canons
of reason.
As William Johnson suggests, «transcendence has little to do with the
nature and attributes
of God but has everything to do with the consequence
of God's
activity in history, that is, to introduce a transcendent dimension to human life.»
Even so, Schleiermacher surrendered very little, and his own consciousness's appropriation
of God's being, «
in relation to us»
of course, included and emphasized the traditional attributes
of omnipotence, eternity, omnipresence, and omniscience.5 And for him, «immutability» is already contained within the notion
of God's eternity.6 Causality within the entire system
of nature can be exhaustively accounted for by God's causal
activity.7 Following the lead
of Aquinas, Schleiermacher declared that there is no distinction between potential and actual
in God.8
In regard to the
nature of theological language, it would mean avoiding a position which limited meaningful or nonmythological theological statements to assertions about God's
activity which apply universally.
Leaving God unnamed does not make their argument any less theological, especially when they claim that the elements
of complex design they have observed
in nature are present because
of the
activity of their unnamed intelligent designer.
At its base, Pannenberg's compatibility (
of divine all - determination with human responsibility) stems from the unique
nature of a determining
activity that has its locus
in the future.
Based on the Western medieval theology that describe the
activities within the Trinity, the missio Dei concept suggests that mission should be understood as being derived from the very
nature of the Triune God, that is,
in the sending
of the Son by God the Father, and God the Father («and the Son») sending the Spirit, and the Triune God sending the Church into the world.
The composition
of the stories into a structure now reflecting profound meditation on the meaning
of history and the
nature and
activity of God
in history has not obscured a zestful appreciation
of the life that produced the stories.
Consequently, though he does not include the
activity of experience
in unconscious
nature, as does Whitehead, he does include the
activity of unconscious
nature in experience.
Thus, because God's prehension and harmonization
of the world necessarily involves functions attributed to the primordial
nature, we can not distinguish the
activities of the two
natures and treat them as separate agents
in this respect.
For my part, when I look at the way events unfold
in the world, I do not see any evidence there
of the kind
of divine
activity called for by the Whiteheadian notion
of God's consequent
nature weaving itself across his primordial
nature and then returning the «superjective» vision back to the world
in an operative, effective manner through the shaping
of subjective aims.
Thus it conceives the world
of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world
of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world
of mental
activities or
of things depending on mental
activity although it is an intelligible world or a world
in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.
That is to say, sociology
of religion shares with the sociology
of other
activities of man certain problems and,
in addition, has its own due to the peculiar
nature of religious experience and its expression.
I once cite «Realism and Idealism,» the passage about objective idealism
in which Collingwood clearly states his conception
of the world
of nature: «Thus it conceives the world
of nature as something derived from and dependent upon something logical prior to itself, a world
of immaterial ideas; but this is not a mental world or a world
of mental
activities or
of things depending on mental
activity although it is an intelligible world or a world
in which mind, when mind comes into existence, finds itself completely at home.
The divine
nature, like the divine
activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which
in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling
of human life has been made possible.
God remains always faithful to the divine
nature and mode
of activity, is always Love -
in - action.
As far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount
of variableness
in the
nature, intensity, and color
of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences
in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship,
activities) expression.
Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned,
in the affirmation that
in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative
Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being&
Activity which is divine
in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while
in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that
in him there is a genuine union
of divine
Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being&
Activity («true God») and human
activity like our own («true human being&
activity like our own («true human being»).
«Love's
nature... conquers all powers... Love's
nature is... powerful
in its activity... In it is all the power of God.&raqu
in its
activity...
In it is all the power of God.&raqu
In it is all the power
of God.»
He provides us with a clue to the
nature of God disclosed
in the divine
activity; he gives us a clue to our own humanity
in its proper functioning; and he re-presents the right relationship between those two.
The parables
in Mark 4, based as they are
in the context
of agriculture, make use
of several images derived from
nature and the divine
activity in the process
of nature, to speak
of the concept
of the Kingdom
of God.
They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors
in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom
of God, to an audience predominantly consisting
of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from
nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were
in constant relationship with
nature in their daily
activities on the farm, with its experience
of pathos and joy.
The regularity
of nature not only ensures a proper harvest at the end
of the season, but also is a witness to the divine grace manifested
in nature's
activity.
And he had no interest
in saving the «utterly superfluous, unnecessary God,» whose
activity adds nothing to the law - governed processes
of nature.
It brings to their perception
in down - to - earth fashion the close connection between the work
of nature and divine
activity.
Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception
of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to
nature — created its distinctive and new understanding
of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion
of the human sphere
of autonomous
activity in the service
of the fulfillment
of the self.
The Biblical writers do not understand social ethics
in terms
of one or the other
of these human values, but
in terms
of the
nature and
activity of God who demonstrated their interconnectedness and indissolubility.
Thus the two «
natures»
of Jesus Christ are affirmed, whilst Jesus remains — as logic insists — the one subject
of his own decisions: Jesus the subject, yet God objectively present
in such high degree that Jesus» decisions and actions supremely reveal, through the self
of the historical Jesus, the «Self - Expressive
Activity of God.»
And this higher and liberating orientation by grace
of man's transcendence as spirit, changing as it does
in good Thomistic doctrine the very horizon
of spiritual
activity (the «formal object»), constitutes by the
nature of the case a «revelation», even if it presents no new conceptual object to the mind, and therefore, if accepted, is faith.
To develop and engage
in activities that cooperate with the laws
of nature allowing the earth to return to its natural state
of being.
Naturalistic evolution is consistent with the existence
of «God» only if by that term we mean no more than a first cause which retires from further
activity after establishing the laws
of nature and setting the natural mechanism
in motion.
The embodied
nature of human existence requires that both our awareness (intake) and our
activity (output) be anchored
in social interaction and public performance.