Sentences with phrase «of additional confidence»

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«This will come as an additional shock to Toshiba «s institutional investors that may further undermine confidence in company management, as well as significantly weakening its international nuclear credentials,» said Tom O'Sullivan, founder of energy consultancy Mathyos Japan.

With apologies in advance to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and online legal - advice company LegalZoom — both of which I have no doubt carry the best intentions and otherwise do good work — and, with an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestination.

By late August, the DJIA had gained 44 percent in a matter of seven months, stoking concerns of an asset bubble.4 In mid-October, a storm cloud of news reports undermined investor confidence and led to additional volatility in markets.

This theoretical and empirical examination gave the Federal Reserve confidence that it could effectively raise rates when the time came while limiting undesirable effects on financial market structure, and also ensured that additional term tool options were available if the combination of the overnight tools — IOR and ON RRP — was not sufficient to provide interest rate control.21

Since this case emerged, Hagens Berman has been on the forefront of this highly specialized realm of law, relying on our legal team's steadfast and intensive investigative skills to unearth additional emissions - cheating schemes by other automakers, staying one step ahead of government regulators in our pursuit of car manufacturers that have violated emissions standards, regulations and consumer confidence.

Deregulation and / or the awakening of «animal spirits» in the form of a sustained upsurge in consumer and business confidence could give an additional boost.

** The U.S. government has decided to take an additional 45 days to review a Chinese company's plan to purchase Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's largest pork producer said on Wednesday in a statement that expressed confidence the deal would close in the second half of 2013.

Our capital markets division — which is our largest U.S. business — was named as a primary dealer in the U.S. by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a significant vote of confidence in the health of our U.S. fixed income trading business and additional muscle to what is a leading global platform.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Additional research is required to have confidence in generalizations, but there are reasons to suspect that the broad findings are not unique to academic science,» said Ajay Agrawal, professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto and one of the paper's authors.

Confidence in control and manoeuvrability; the duet double buggy now features a hand operated control brake for slowing down, providing additional confidence and superior handling when pushing the extra weight of two, whilst jogging or going doConfidence in control and manoeuvrability; the duet double buggy now features a hand operated control brake for slowing down, providing additional confidence and superior handling when pushing the extra weight of two, whilst jogging or going doconfidence and superior handling when pushing the extra weight of two, whilst jogging or going down slopes.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

Though, there is room for universal appeal, where this could be an effort to unify the country, because 41 % of individuals surveyed have a great deal of confidence in the military, while an additional 32 % have quite a lot.

Ed expressed great confidence in his newly appointed Sherriff could handle that investigation without the additional expertise of the FBI being utilized.

He said the appeal, which will see the three - year freedom of information struggle culminate in the high court, was a «needless additional hammer blow» to public confidence in house of Commons.

«This pilot program, I think, is a sign of great hope and possibility that will not only give us additional information but really give people greater confidence.

What we do need from them is additional support, not additional activity that just basically, to our officers, indicates a lack of trust and confidence in them.»

«And, yes, they do take additional risks, attempting harder climbs when they have that kind of confidence in their abilities.»

To increase scientists» confidence, the result must be verified by other experiments and additional tests, says theoretical cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Several other efforts to detect the signal are already under way.

However, the prevalence of malaria at delivery was higher in the rapid screening and DP group, at 48.7 percent, compared to 40.8 percent in the SP group (relative risk = 1.19 [95 % confidence interval 1.07 - 1.33], p = 0.007), meaning an additional 8 out of every 100 pregnancies would be affected by malaria using this approach compared to broad prevention using SP..

Scientists in training neither need nor want pay - for - performance; instead, what they need is confidence that a record of consistent attainment will be rewarded with career advancement — with new opportunities, additional resources, and increasing independence.

The boot camp — which consists of approximately 50 hours of mandatory lectures, discussions, and exercises, with additional optional half - day sessions — aims to bring students over a knowledge and confidence threshold so that they can start applying quantitative and programming skills in their work.

Release 1.0 contains 15,419 high confidence protein - coding genes; alternatively spliced transcripts derived from 992 genes add an additional 1,370 proteins yielding a total of 16,789 predicted proteins.

In an accompanying editorial, José Esparza of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation notes that «The article by Robb et al is important, not only because it adds confidence to the original findings from the RV144 trial, but also because it identifies important variables to be considered when planning for and conducting additional trials to confirm and extend the results from RV144.»

Addressing this issue brings a number of additional benefits, such as having more confidence, as well as the ability to go for that 2nd round.

We found an inverse log - linear relationship between coffee consumption and subsequent risk of diabetes such that every additional cup of coffee consumed in a day was associated with a 7 % reduction in the excess risk of diabetes relative risk, 0.93 [95 % confidence interval, 0.91 - 0.95]-RRB- after adjustment for potential confounders.

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Norwich has been identified by the government as one of the areas in the country needing additional support to ensure all local children get a brilliant education and good start in life.Future First research shows alumni are crucial in inspiring current state students to greater motivation, confidence and success in the world of work.

I released an additional (sort of cranky) statement stating in part that I had no confidence in empty rhetoric, only work that supported children.

Since Ofsted is holding to account how schools spend their additional, ring - fenced funding, it is worth reviewing how your school meets the Premium's objectives: engaging pupils in regular physical activity — kick - starting healthy and active lifestyles; raising the profile of PE and sport in school as a means of whole school improvement; Increasing the confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport; offering a broad range of sports and activities to all pupils; and increasing participation in competitive sport.

Just to clarify, this point - of - need is not a lengthy one - day induction or a 20 - page long course about a topic, but it is determined by the employees as they face their work challenges to which they require additional confidence and competence to perform a specific action (or set of actions).

The finding that content area expertise impacted teacher leaders designing and / or facilitating professional development was supported through the use of multiple data sources (Coggins et al. 2003; Manno & Firestone, 2006; Yost et al., 2009) and the inclusion of detailed descriptions in support of the reliability of data analysis strategies and instrumentation (Coggins et al. 2003; Manno & Firestone, 2006; Yost et al., 2009), providing additional confidence in the validity of this finding.

Smaller classroom sizes and additional resources enable students to participate in a stable, stimulating, and supportive environment that instills confidence and eliminates the obstacles that might otherwise stand in the way of a quality education.

Ofqual announced last week additional changes will now be made to the review of marking and moderation system (formerly known as EARs), but will they be enough to restore confidence in the system?

The most striking result from this study was the increased participant self - reported confidence with using DLTs: from 33 % at the commencement of the project to 69 % reporting to be very confident or quite confident at the end of the semester, with an additional 29 % claiming to be somewhat confident.

In that same meeting, school board members discussed the need to make additional adjustments to the 2018 - 19 budget in order to build confidence that schools would not experience a third year of mid-year cuts.

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With all that said, this is still one hell of a fun car to drive, and one that builds confidence in the driver with additional seat time.

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