Sentences with phrase «of a balancing act at»

«Quality and compliance can be a bit of a balancing act at times, but it's an art when they are balanced proportionately and something to be proud of when the results are clear.»

Not exact matches

So the balancing act of mastering your own emotional response to past achievements, so that you can take an objective look at the professional value of each of those achievements and its worth to future employers, is the sole «trick» to resume writing.

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.

A more realistic understanding of authenticity at work might not be simply «bring your whole self to the office» but a more nuanced balancing act.

She credits her children for their support when she was moving at «break - neck speed,» and she prefers to characterize the balancing act of business and family as a series of opportunities rather than challenges.

Look at the balancing act at Lee, as CEO Mary Junck and CFO Carl Schmidt have walked tightrope after tightrope of restructuring, in an amazing attempt to avoid falling into the net of bankruptcy.

If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.

This obvious principle of discontinuity, or discreteness, is balanced by the fact that all such elements are caught in the one ontic power of the superordinate entity and, where action is at issue, in the act - temporal power of one of his acts.

May they be remembered not only for their acts of cruelty in this camp... but balance against their cruelty the fruits we have reaped under the stress and in the pain; the comradeship, the courage, the greatness of heart, the humility and patience which have... become part of our lives because we have suffered at their hands.

As a thought, I have been trying a «leadership» practice which seems to me to go off at right angles to the balancing act / continuum of authority you describe.

It's a tricky balancing act, which is why so many of us fail at it so often, but also a necessary one.

Amanda Topper, Associate Director of Foodservice Research at Mintel, further explains the balancing act operators are tasked with when it comes to takeout and delivery — «Consumers care about quality, premium food, and affordability.

An Act of Balance between Business and Technology December 28, 2015: «At SugarCreek, we push our IT organization to actively understand the business, proactively look for solutions, and identify trends in the IT world that would put us in the forefront of technology in the food industry,» said Ed Rodden, CIO of SugarCreek.

In her first year at university she was a recipient of a TASS award and she continues to play a good balancing act with her studies, being a part of the England Performance programme and of course Hertfordshire Mavericks.

As Super Slav sat down to select his team and squad to face Romanian champions Astra Giurgiu, he was fully aware of the delicate balancing act needed to win the game and hence qualify for the Europa League group stage, whilst at the same time not compromising his team selection for the difficult away Premier League game at Manchester City on Sunday.

It is a balancing act at that level and on top of this Smith — Rowe is seriously injured so let's hope we get can beat Blackpool and get Emile and Reiss Nelson in for the final.

In the complicated balancing act that has become our daily lives, all too often we focus our attention on convenience at the expense of good health.

At the centre of this balancing act is the head of the household, who, in many societies is still the man.

This post is part of the delicate balance series, which chronicles the juggling act of work - at - home attachment parent Rita Brhel.

The Labour leader, who faces a near - impossible balancing act whenever trade union demonstrations take place, refused to go on the march but gave an address at the end of it in which he promised to tax bankers» bonuses, build 100,000 houses and end the privatisation of the NHS.

At the same time, McCain would not commit to appearing on the same campaign stage as Trump, a tacit acknowledgment of the balancing act the Arizona senator needs to perform as he faces re-election this fall.

A letter fired by the NCA to Glo management, and signed by its Acting Director — General, Mr. William Tervie, and intercepted by The Herald revealed that, Glo owes Microwave Link frequencies an outstanding balance of Ghc 4,955,123.64; made from 2013 to 2015, a net of Ghc 750,000, brings the outstanding balance as at December 2015 to Ghc 4,205,123.64.

It would be a balancing act, but Cameron has proved himself competent at navigating these sorts of issues before.

Members of the Criminal Justice department at Buffalo State College say it's a balancing act, protecting public freedom and safety while allowing police the right to protect themselves.

Reducing mandated spending though is a politically tricky balancing act for a state that doesn't have a lot of money and a governor who has gone to pains to not seek new tax increases while at the same time has a very active labor movement opposed to more provocative changes.

What an insult to those of us who worked hard at the last election to now see former cabinet ministers acting to enhance their bank balances at the expense of those who need a united party to fight the coalition.

A car with just two wheels looked too terrifying to catch on, but the secret of its amazing balancing act is at the heart of today's guidance systems

When the team looked at the chromosomes of more than 1000 people from populations around the world, they concluded that the prevalence of two of these variations was due to an evolutionary balancing act that had kept them in the gene pool for as long as 500,000 years.

Negative frequency dependent selection acting at the locus responsible of self - incompatibility in Arabidopsis represents one of the strongest cases of balancing selection, and yet we have shown that its indirect effects on neighboring regions are restricted to a few kilobases [2].

Second, using laser ablation we are studying the balance of forces acting at the junctional region and how it changes during the repacking process and in different mutant backgrounds.

A 2011 study at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, found that changing the balance of gut bacteria in mice not only changed levels of these chemicals in their brains, but also caused obvious changes in behavior, making usually timid mice act more boldly and adventurously — suggesting a shift in anxiety levels.

These findings demonstrate that the adipocyte circadian clock acts at the interface between the central nervous system and the predominant peripheral energy storage tissue to coordinate the temporal organization of feeding behavior and maintain energy balance.

Lelio, who also directed the excellent «Gloria» and last year's Oscar winner for best foreign film, «A Fantastic Woman,» never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

Though there aren't many of these scenes until the third act, the balance is still impressive when it comes to the score as well, which is also eerily beautiful at times.

Verbinski's balancing act falls apart at the movie's end, in which — like a post-storm rainbow — all of David's complex problems are happily resolved, or at least suspended.

Beyond that, there's also a look at the game's gyroscope balancing acts, another glimpse of the skydiving sequence, and a logo that's not messing about.

Such a balancing act between polar opposites is the stuff of mythology, and critics have noted the mythological — at times even epic — dimensions of the Coen Brothers» ouvre.

It's a tremendous balancing act on the filmmakers» part — allowing us to laugh at the mentality that gave rise to this system without making light of its consequences.

Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in; the ridiculous gun fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.

Yet, the script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (veterans of four previous Marvel movies, including all three Captain America entries) manages to keep everything fairly well balanced, juggling all of the superheroes and their subplots while also giving significant screen time to Brolin's Thanos, who, as noted earlier, is not your typical super-villain even though he certainly looks and, at times, acts like one.

But then Hassan becomes a culinary superstar, the third act is devoted to the country mouse's seduction by the big city (and by molecular gastronomy, which this movie depicts as the devil's work), and the balance of «The Hundred - Foot Journey,» already at risk, goes completely kablooey.

Maybe it's this careful balancing act, this embrace of diametrically opposed visions of war, at a time when political passions were so polarized, that led to the film's quick drift into obscurity.

What Blazing Saddles does do well with regard to satire is a high wire balancing act, at once taking shots at racism and government politics, as well as satirizing and sending up the Western genre and the Hollywood industry, what would become a trademark of Brooks» work (Spaceballs, anyone?)

It's a deft balancing act that should assuage the worries of anyone still concerned that Franco doesn't actually get The Room, or at least convince them to leave their stupid comments in their pocket until the movie hits theaters in December.

And though she's managed to balance activism and acting, the former still occupies a lot of Gurira's time — from speaking out about violence against women at the United Nations to saying at an awards ceremony five days after the 2016 election that she's «felt a calling to do more.»

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

In January, we at Fordham will announce the results of a major study of PARCC, Smarter Balanced, ACT Aspire, and MCAS, which will provide more evidence as to whether the new tests are an improvement as promised.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 requires employers to ensure the health and safety of all employees and anyone affected by their work, so far as is reasonably practicable, which means balancing the level of risk against the measures needed to control the risk in terms of money, time or trouble.

Assessment of readiness includes scoring at the college - and career - ready level on Smarter Balanced, ACT or SAT, career readiness certificate or completion of a 12th grade transition course.