Sentences with phrase «of global precedents»

Talking of Global precedents, Russia was the first to observe a «Crypto Hour» earlier this year to raise awareness around how cryptocurrency mining is a major source of energy consumption and about the need for a cleaner alternative to mining.

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- Recent precedent transactions — namely, PayPal's takeover of Xoom, the # 2 digital money transfer provider, and the bidding war for MoneyGram, the # 2 global retail C2C money transfer provider — highlight WU as substantially undervalued.

Such diversity attests to the rich local expression in Christianity, setting a precedent for the need to honor local culture in the celebration of a global inheritance.

The response by global tobacco companies to the prospect of a precedent that removes their brands has been a barrage of High Court lawsuits.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

The commitments made by the EU, US and the Global Alliance for Children (a grouping of public and private bodies) set an important precedent for other donors.

The evaporation of the global supply of short term credits within hours or days of the Lehman failure is, I believe, without historical precedent.

Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, Warren Buffet... they could all be setting precedent on global warming issues in a multitude of innovative ways.....

Don't let this discourage you and don't let it discourage us — stand tall, walk proudly, and lead us from these dense lowlands of ignorance and inaction to the high peaks of economic and environmental sustainability, where we, a world united, will be able to bask in the glory of our global human potential and pass down to our children a climatically stable world with a noble precedent of global unity.

By taking concrete measures to enact ample reform, emulating the precedent created by Brazil after the assassination of Chico Mendes, Peru and the global community can honor Edwin Chota and other martyrs, giving some meaning to this tragedy

Set a global precedent by becoming the first producer to announce a managed decline of existing production in line with climate safe limits, with a just and equitable transition that protects workers, communities, and economies.

«Forward thinking companies are setting a precedent for governments to agree a new global climate deal agreement in Paris later this year,» says Samantha Smith, leader of WWF's Global Climate and Energy Initiglobal climate deal agreement in Paris later this year,» says Samantha Smith, leader of WWF's Global Climate and Energy InitiGlobal Climate and Energy Initiative.

How the current dispute is resolved will set an important precedent, with implications for future international climate agreements, some of which could have substantive implications for global trade and competitiveness.

Redefine global climate leadership by setting a global precedent to manage the decline of existing production in line with climate safe limits while ensuring a just transition for affected workers and communities.

1) Diplomatic win: Set a precedent that global climate actions need to be based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and equity

«Discredited global warming scientist, Michael Mann, sees his last - ditch efforts to hide data fall apart as legal experts reveal a mountain of legal precedents against him.»

A study of observational data sets from the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) concluded that «rates of early 21st - century mass loss are without precedent on a global scale, at least for the time period observed and probably also for recorded history» (Zemp et al. 2015).

All I'm getting at here is that there is a track record for knee - jerk reactions to make specious attributions of both precedented and unprecedented phenomenon to global warming.

From the programmer's point of view, a system of laws, regulations and precedents is «a semi-infinite sequence of co-routines, all running concurrently, all sharing a few global variables, and all of the form: for all a, b where a is this and b is that, a must do or not do some particular thing to b»

While some submit that the order granted is consistent with standard rules and norms of private international law, others contend that such an order sets a dangerous precedent that will enable the global restriction of information impacting other countries, all without input from the courts of those affected countries.

Michael Watson acts as head of the global finance and projects group and has «broad sector expertise» from which «he can quote useful precedent».

While much attention was focused on the fact there is little precedent for global court orders to take down «content», the Court looked at a large body of decisions supporting the authority of Canadian courts to make orders with global effects.

At lunch today, I got a look at the Westbusinesslaw.com platform which offers a sophisticated set of templates to get at corporate documentation, both Edgar and Sedar filings, but also a massive storehouse of global corporate documentation, precedents and models.

The first is the fact that a precedent for global mergers has now been set, and precedent is both a reassuring and a galvanizing strategic force: nothing motivates a law firm more than removing the fear of going first while simultaneously creating the fear of going last.

Although we aren't particularly concerned about global attempts to ban or regulate cryptocurrencies, countries like China have taken extreme measures to do so and there is a wonder of which precedent will have the biggest impact moving forward.

But Japan may be one of the countries that could settle a global precedent for other states to follow.