Sentences with phrase «not as a preference»

If, however, it is proposed not as a preference but as a principle, it gravely distorts moral deliberation about the use of force in the service of justice.

From cloth diapers to attachment parenting to vaccinations to sleep schedules, the fundamentalist sees parenting decisions not as preferences but as absolutes.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Amidst the preference for social media and texting as a primary means of communication, it seems communication styles end up being more functional and less formal and often don't follow traditional etiquette rules.

It therefore doesn't come as a shock to hear what the company's global chairman, Irwin Gotlieb, had to say with regard to his preferences for how his own data should be managed.

As the U.S. population continues to shift toward diversity and a multicultural majority, brands can not afford to ignore the unique preferences of African - Americans.

It is not always that Google's algorithm updates extend far beyond the digital marketing blogosphere and start making waves in mainstream media, but as we saw with their preference for SSL certificates, and now with their mobile - focused algorithm updates, some changes to the search engine's best practices deserve more attention than digital marketing bloggers and search marketers can provide.

Trading preferences could not be any simpler as users only have to decide in which path to maneuver their fundamental equity (ie: up or down).

Her preference is to position the hybrid as a «complement» to the main investments, not the centerpiece.

RDR defines «user information» as any information that identifies a user's activities, including (but not limited to) personal correspondence, user - generated content, account preferences and settings, log and access data, data about a user's activities or preferences collected from third parties, and all forms of metadata.

It is not always that Google's algorithm updates extend far beyond the digital marketing blogosphere and start making waves in mainstream media, but as we saw with their preference for SSL certificates, and now with their mobile - focused algorithm updates, some changes to the search engine's best...

As Zen Master Huineng wrote, «The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.»

Your friends will not see your profile, friends won't come up as dating options, and you'll only see suggestions of people who fit your preferences For WhatsApp, Facebook's popular encrypted messaging app, Facebook will add Group Video calling features and it will expand WhatsApp

As my research shows, there are always competing voices lobbying for and against trade protection, and those preferences alone aren't enough to push a protective measure into law.

The most common «preference» items, however, are for state and local tax deductions, personal exemptions, and miscellaneous itemized deductions — not items normally thought of as preferences or shelters.

SEO ramifications were not entirely flushed out, even as moderator Danny Sullivan and the eager audience asked penetrating questions to delve deeper, but just consider a simple brand preference scenario.

If the markets say a share in Apple is worth $ 125 and a share in Microsoft is worth $ 40, then we as rational investors don't have a preference for owning one of those shares over the other, at those prices.

President Williams made his «Monetary Policy — It's Data Dependent» T - shirt as a statement that monetary policy reacts to changing economic conditions (referring to his preference to not state when the Federal Reserve will raise rates)

As I emphasized last week, «While we're already observing cracks in market internals in the form of breakdowns in small cap stocks, high yield bond prices, market breadth, and other areas, it's not clear yet whether the risk preferences of investors have shifted durably.

We may collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites using log files that are not associated with your name or other personal information.

Yes, 6 % is a large savings but, not, when the Code required that 7 % of the amount excluded from gross income be treated as a «preference» item and subject to AMT.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

«Your Facebook won't be as good while it relearns your preferences,» he said, before conceding that it was something users have been asking for and saying the company was working with privacy advocates on.

I'm not saying you need to go as far as customizing your website visitors» experiences through «likes», preference menus, cookies, or any other tracking information that you can get from various website analytics.

I'm not convinced going back to school for a master's degree would be a great idea due to expense as well as personal preference.

«All organisational cultures are different, and therefore all workplace design initiatives should be treated as unique projects with unique stakeholders that are built on facts and insight, rather than just relying on generalised preferences that may not be wholly applicable,» the report reads.

My over arching point is and has been twofold: First, as ghastly as priestly abuse is, it is a statistically moot point in the big picture and two, seexual orientation is not related to age preference.

Well I sometimes use the Christian label so as not to be oppressed by people like you — for example, when filling out religious preferences for organizations like the Boy Scouts.

I did not bring up agency with intelligent intent as my preference but it is the prevalent preference as to causation.

Claims made for the path of rigorous discipleship do not always carefully distinguish ego needs from the Word of God, Those who take this path are often predisposed to it by a preference for self - denial or asceticism, and this preference can be just as self - centered as gluttony.

«I guess it's just not my thing,» she said, as if it was a matter of consumer preference.

As a vegetarian myself, I was delighted, but had not wanted to impose my preference on the rest of the party.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

The preference utilitarian is concerned not so much with pain and pleasure as with allowing people to satisfy as many of their preferences as possible.

You can't change a partner's personal preference, especially with something as sensitive as money, but you can work to establish financial goals that respect both of your values, account for your differences and compromise.

This determination to live with nature so far as possible rather than rule over it is not just an aesthetic preference, a taste for wilderness instead of gardens.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

First of all, in their attitudes toward legalized abortion, beliefs about abortion, and policy preferences pertaining to abortion, the members of those two groups, not surprisingly, are almost as different as they possibly could be.

If «happiness» is purely relative to the chance interests and preferences of people, selecting it as the basis for comparative evaluation does not give us any guidance.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

If they did not declare their religious preference as being Christian, many of them would not be elected because the public thinks that it is important.

His view is that Paul basically gave himself free reign here at the start of his teachings to the gentiles (see also 1:1 a: «Paulos, apostolos ouk ap anthroopoon, oude di anthroopon, alla dia Iesou Christou, kia Theou patros...») and then started preaching his own theology heavily influenced by his own biases and preferences — not that any of the writers were ever completely exempt from it of course, but still the writer felt Paul was quite fundamentalistic at times about certain things he had some clear opinions about, e.g. about relationships and women's position in the church etc, which he then propagated as part of the gospel.

This is not a matter of personal preference, but of professional necessity, for the historian's task, as I said at the beginning, is to calculate the most probable explanation of the preserved evidence.

Sam, it is not a personal preference, it is what God has clearly commanded in his Word as the order for His local congregations on earth.

At every level, leadership slots are filled according to gender, race, language, and ethnicity (the push for including «sexual preference» has not gotten very far, as yet).

While Ogden argues to the existence of an ontic whole as the condition of the possibility of our valuing, it not only can be, but also has been argued with similar care that such a reality, understood as the supreme instance» of that «comprehensive moral principle» required to account fully for human evaluation is thereby likewise necessarily presupposed by such evaluation (Franklin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984], chap.

There will always be times when we would prefer other modes of expression but we need to bear in mind that the liturgy is a duty laid on us by the Church, and not some individual devotion; we owe it to the Church to carry it out as obediently as we can, and put our own preferences to one side, as Newman did.

What we can do is accept that church is not about our exact preferences and pray that God would give our pastors insight into Scripture, that our worship leaders lead us into passionate worship from their connection to the Holy Spirit and that all of our feet would get a little more dirty as we care for the poor together.

Metaphors, I said, may momentarily encourage us to see patterns which we might not have noticed (the process which Black termed «construing as»), but models systematically suggest distinctive ways of looking at things (for which I proposed the term «interpreting as» in preference to Hick's phrase, «experiencing as»).

Is it not rather the case, as Teilhard pointed out, that «what we call evolution develops only in virtue of a certain internal preference for survival?»