Sentences with phrase «obvious targets of»

My quarrel with philanthropies like Bill and Melinda Gates and governments is that they spend their money treating the SYMPTOMS of inferior education; supporting health care and food subsidies while ignoring the obvious targets of repressive government and misdirected social adaptation to sustainable lifestyle.

There's some chance that we'll find out if the lawyers are right, since Dan Loeb's Third Point Capital, which owns 9.62 percent of Sotheby's, is running a proxy fight to elect three directors and shake up management, and is the obvious target of Sotheby's 10 - percent - trigger poison pill, today filed a lawsuit to get rid of that pill.

Wal - Mart may be the most obvious target of anti-development activists.

Not exact matches

Of course no matter if it is NGDP targeting, the Taylor rule, or even a rule that would have the Fed tie itself to gold - the entire debate about rules - based monetary policy ignores the obvious: rules are meant to be broken.

«A lot of the low - hanging fruit, the obvious targets, have now been acquired,» says Brent Bieber, vice-president, investment banking at Paradigm Capital.

But HFCs are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide on a pound - per - pound basis, making them an obvious target for international efforts to combat climate change.

With this kind of track record, it might seem obvious what will happen with AIG and Xerox, Icahn's two most recent targets.

It may have to do with Addyi's high pricing (on par with Viagra at $ 26 per pill without an assistance program), its daily intake requirement (unlike Viagra, it adds up to $ 780 per month), its potentially deleterious side effects (low blood pressure and fainting), its restrictions on alcohol consumption (abstinence vs. large quantities not recommended for Viagra patients), a 10 % efficacy rate (whereas Viagra works 50 % of the time compared to a placebo, according to a recent study), and its subtle neurotransmitter - targeting mechanism (contrast that to the obvious hydraulics of Viagra).

That insight, as obvious as it may seem, conflicts with the Fed's policy of raising interest rates preemptively, even as inflation continues to undershoot its target, essentially on concerns that a 17 - year - low 4.1 % jobless rate may already be beyond what officials consider «full employment.»

Coal, the worst global warming villain of them all, was an obvious but overlooked target.

Asked whether he saw more rig acquisition targets in Norway, Swedbank's Olsvik said: «Odfjell Drilling (ODLL.OL) is an obvious (acquisition) target, but there are no such good matches as in the case of Transocean and Songa Offshore.»

When an institution holds a large amount of cryptocurrency, it becomes an obvious target.

If he didn't keep on buying the next target, then the fact that he was stripping all the assets out of companies he'd already bought would have become painfully obvious.

This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view) as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and cultural contexts.

Unfortunately, we don't yet know the extent of the harm, as is obvious from the news that Russians ads on Facebook targeted voters in Michigan and Wisconsin.

We might have wanted Arsene Wenger to give Francis Coquelin more of a chance in previous seasons, especially as the team's need for a defensive midfielder was often glaringly obvious and caused us to fall short of our targets.

let's face it, everyone and his brother has known what our deficiencies have been for several years, so why can't our management team seem to identify our weaknesses and aggressively target the necessary additions... the only plausible answer is we aren't willing to pay even close to market value for the players we clearly need and if we do actually get to the table we seem to make insulting bids that simple infuriate the team in question... for years Wenger has said he couldn't find any world class players to fill our voids, which seems to suggest that he thinks we currently have upwards of 40 world class players on our existing roster... if that is the case he should never be in charge of making personnel decisions... buying late in the window is so problematic, for obvious reasons, and especially since this year was supposed to be different (sarcasm)

In Arsenal's case, when we fans experienced the disappointment of failing to win the League (and the FA Cup) many fans protested with anger, or simply just called for a change of manager, and directed it all at the most obvious and softest target — Arsene Wenger.

To me that spells one big and obvious target available on 1st of july, Martin Hanzal.

If we get a disappointing result then everyone looks for the «obvious reason» why that happened — a player «out of position» is an easy target.

From drawing our attention to the ignored but obvious, to making attractive points and arguments, to drawing sensationalist targets — he has reopened a debate on the foreign nature of the Premier League and its consequences for the national team's future achievements.

Napoli's attacking plan revolved around them circulating the ball in a small area of the pitch to draw in Wolfsburg before spreading it to whoever's in space — with Hamsik given so much room, whoever got it had a big obvious target for moving the ball forward quickly so Napoli were able to break at speed.

December 20 — A second - tier unheralded club in the industrial north of England with a relatively small but loyal and passionate fan base surrounded by larger rivals may not seem the most obvious target for a foreign takeover.

Many children develop diabetes and other health issues, to say nothing of the emotional and psychological impact of going through childhood and adolescence with an obvious target for peers to pick on.

With contextual ads targeted primarily to sign up new supporters, the core of the campaign's strategy was the obvious «Barack Obama» search, though they did use some issue - and news - cycle - targeted keywords.

Based on all of that, it was quickly recognized, both in comments and in that email group, that the obvious choice to target for a «hold» was Dodd, who had made constitutional and oversight issues the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

The most obvious of the DCCC targets are the 23 GOP districts that Clinton won.

It may not be an obvious target market for him, but Jeremy Corbyn has received a surprise endorsement from the heart of Hollywood.

The factional PDP spokesman added, «It is obvious that the anti-corruption war is targeted at members of the PDP alone.

«It's quite apparent, quite obvious that the targeting of these two...

We do not want to overstate the obvious by cataloguing names of former new PDP stalwarts that are targets of this political pogrom.

The April Royal wedding and the general election are among the «obvious and enormous targets» for a terror attack by Osama bin Laden's al - Qaeda network, the head of the Met has warned.

Unfortunately, by slowing the proliferation of LCV technology (until the point where the price of oil means consumers literally can not afford not to have a low carbon vehicle) could have obvious repercussions for carbon reduction targets.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

Some early targets are obvious: Despite all of former Chancellor Joel Klein's best efforts, city middle schools remain an academic black hole; our high schools have a higher graduation rate, but too few graduates are ready for the academic rigors of college.

With a mayor, governor and president of his own party and a well - known and liked opponent he's deprived of some obvious targets.

Those reasons were obvious in last month's local elections when (1) we made decent progress in councils that overlapped target seats - including in the north west; (2) Labour was completely ousted from large sections of the country - particularly in the south east; and (3) Conservatives made solid net gains from the LibDems.

The potential strategy — which targets metabolic pathways that are active only during intestinal inflammation — prevented or reduced inflammation in a mouse model of colitis while exerting no obvious effect in control animals with healthy, balanced bacterial populations, said Dr. Sebastian Winter, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and co-corresponding author of the study published online today in Nature.

China is an obvious target for this action and it is hoped that this will move the level of contact to those who are at an early stage in their careers in deciding where to pursue their postdoctoral studies.

Alzheimer's disease, however, is a less obvious target for such a treatment, because what causes this form of dementia is unknown.

Drug companies had long ago given up on targeting RAS, however, because it doesn't have an obvious pocket, or binding site, that a drug could fit into to block its activity, says Frank McCormick, who recently stepped down as director of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, to spend half his time directing NCI's RAS project.

Hunting has an obvious — and direct — effect on the population of the targeted species.

MCR offers an obvious solution to this problem since the incorporation of an anti-malarial gene cassette into an MCR element should result in the rapid spread of the gene cassette through the target population.

So while biotechnology has advanced by leaps and bounds on every side, every individual along the way made a rational short - term decision not to touch this area of research - and this despite the fact that it is a big, obvious target for the development of therapies that could help to extend healthy life and treat or prevent a wide range of age - related conditions that cause a great deal of suffering and death.

It's quite obvious, with a quick stroll down the perilous middle aisles of any grocery store, that a lot of food marketing targets children.

The negative effect of stretching the muscle group targeted with the workout goes beyond the obvious risk of injury.

As a privately held company founded on the principles of the circular economy, Patagonia is not an obvious acquisition target, and convincing its owners to sell wouldn't be an easy task.

Military LoveLinks is part of a large network of online dating sites and there is an obvious niche clientele that they should target but the profile process is no different than any other traditional mainstream online dating service.

There was no more perfect movie for this year than Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» with its uncanny mix of horror and comedy, and the way it eviscerated the complicit (white liberals) rather than more obvious targets.

Since Doctor Strange revealed the Eye of Agamotto is actually an Infinity Stone, it's pretty obvious that the Sorcerer Supreme will be a target in Infinity War.