Sentences with phrase «of competing claims»

Determination of Competing Claims to Deposits.

Mediation is often the perfect forum for resolution of competing claims among family members.

With hundreds upon hundreds of background screening firms to choose from, employers faced a bewildering landscape of competing claims that touted any number of bells and whistles that made it hard to distinguish one background screening provider form another.

By 1855, there were more than 70 patents covering various innovations, and the industry was snarled in a tangle of competing claims known as the Sewing Machine Wars.

I am not talking about a court disposing of competing claims to legal rights; I am talking about someone resolving competing claims to represent the client in the first place.

Fast forward to 2009 and there's a plethora of competing claims made by companies and much more awareness that simply dumping your old gear is a bad idea.Clearly there's now demand for greener gadgets, a fact confirmed by recent research from the US Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on demand for green products.

Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role.

Speed kills; a handoff to the bankruptcy court with the US Treasury backstopping the firm in the short run would be the best minimalist solution, stopping contagion, and allowing for an orderly resolution of competing claims under conditions transparent to the US taxpayer.

In the digital age, information is more plentiful than ever, but parsing truth from the abundance of competing claims can be daunting.

To frame everything in terms of acts of worship, as Barmen does, places the situation squarely in terms of competing claims to lordship.

The appeal is to principles of right that transcend intergroup rivalries and provide an objective standard of reference for the disinterested adjudication of competing claims.

As I'll discuss at the end of my presentation, political science only does this by dint of a systematic abstraction of our lived political experience, that is, by singularly emphasizing politics as the management of a conflict of interests rather than the prudential navigation of conflicts between competing claims to honor, or of competing claims to the good.

The general secularization of our society with its multitude of competing claims crowds religion to the wall.

Whatever the truth of the competing claims, it's perfectly clear that there is no scientific consensus.

In this case, what rights does the support recipient have to the policy's proceeds in the face of a competing claim for dependant support?

In particular, the question was where a support payor owns a life insurance policy and is required to name the support recipient as irrevocable beneficiary of the policy, what rights does the support recipient have to the policy proceeds in the face of a competing claim of another dependant of the deceased payor brought under the Succession Law Reform Act («SLRA»).

Not exact matches

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

The reality of the current TV landscape, of course, is that virtually everyone is competing with everyone else in some way or another as all the major players scramble to stake a claim in the new digital, streaming marketplace.

It would mean that a 37 - year - old, drug - free Lance came in third in the Tour de France ahead of «at least a handful of other elite cyclists who themselves were later found to have doped — an alleged accomplishment that would raise further questions about his claim that he needed to use PEDs in his prime in order to compete in a culture of doping.»

Nothing did more damage to Kalanick's reputation than Uber's response to a reported rape in India; an underling of Kalanick's obtained the victim's medical records in hope of proving she was faking her claim to hurt Uber and help a competing service.

This drug has already staked its claim in the world of next - gen «checkpoint inhibitor» cancer treatments by besting rival Bristol - Myers Squibb's competing treatment Opdivo in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Although 64 % of Bombardier Aerospace's employees are unionized, López claims that international companies have a «gentleman's agreement» to compete on perks such as food and transportation rather than wages.

«While we haven't substantiated all the claims in this letter — and, importantly, any related to Waymo — our new leadership has made clear that going forward we will compete honestly and fairly, on the strength of our ideas and technology,» Uber spokesman Matt Kallman said in an email.

(For example, Optiva ads that ran in national consumer magazines claimed that using the competing Braun product wouldn't prevent the growth of bacteria that might contribute to heart disease, stroke, low birth weight, and other life - threatening conditions.)

And the footballs spiral tightly because the thick butyl - rubber bladders inside the ball make for a heavier center of gravity than the polyurethane «sandwich bags» in competing pigskins, Oister claims.

Democrats later released a competing memo that sought to debunk many of the other's claims.

Though BCE claimed it desperately needed the deal for its Bell Media division to compete in an ever - changing and increasingly international market (not to mention to bulk up its presence in Quebec), and altruistically promised to undertake a variety of tangible benefits for the greater good of Canadian society, Blais was having none of it.

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts dismissed the claim, saying the law was intended to prevent a car manufacturer from opening a dealership that would compete unfairly with a franchise that sells the same cars.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Instead, they claim that such requirements would impair their ability to compete and lend — and that claim carries a lot of weight because less lending would very likely translate to slower economic growth.

The distinction between the competing claims is that Gannett highlighted percentages of unaffiliated shareholders while Tribune Publishing included votes of management as well.

There are two competing narratives out there, each claiming to explain the future of the labor market.

For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics.

There are hundreds of competing gods that have been claimed to be behind natural events, not just God.

Beneath the technocratic jargon and competing claims that obscure so many of today's foreign policy debates, there remains a familiar philosophical divide.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Based on passages from the Gospel of Matthew, this book considers what it means to be «called» in a time when Christians have so many competing claims for their time, love, and commitment.

The benefactor is being called to give neither too much nor too little but to discover due proportion in giving a fit and equitable amount, responsive to the competing claims of ever - changing human needs.17 If beneficence is accompanied by a moroseness that silently signals the recipient that it is a very heavy task indeed for the giver to provide, the touchstone of pastoral counsel is «God loves a cheerful giver» (2 Cor.

There were competing claims of old denominations and a host of new ones.

They also claim that the rhetorical perspective provides a way to «balance and integrate» the competing concerns of critical analysis and persuasive religious reading.

Part of the picture is the familiar Tocquevillian claim that liberal egalitarianism generates pervasive suspicion and distrust of competing associations and institutions, which come to be perceived as breeding grounds of special privilege.

Given the tension and consequent ambiguity built into the fabric of Whitehead's portrayal, it only extenuates the competing claims between organ / cells, cell / molecules, molecule / nuclei / electrons, and also crystal / atoms, metal / electrons, quarks / universe.

The clash is the locus of individuality; it is in decisions made among competing claims to one's loyalty and energies that the individual emerges as a center of value and accomplishment in the midst of his environment.

I still think a reasonable American goal might be a kind of Socratic openness to taking competing claims for truth — even or especially about the fundamental human issues — seriously as claims for truth.

Max Weber saw how the claims and counter-claims of competing private religions, private moralities, and private businesses would be at best only adjudicated by bureaucratic techniques.

Another excerpt from some recent work: The basic political premise of techno - politics is that the classic question regarding competing claims to rule has been decisively answered: instead of Plato's philosopher king we get its emasculated modern descendant, the rational bureaucrat.

The language of vocation is problematic not just in its churchly usage (where the distinctions and congruities of «inner» and «outer» calls can trip us up) but in the more common reality of a multiplicity of calls with competing claims upon the stewardship of our lives.

For others the competing claims of science and religion led to profound inner conflict.

During the college years a student's religion must fight its way against the high - pressured tempo of the modern campus, the welter of competing social claims, the campus gods of football or fraternity or romance that leave little time or energy to think about religion and the Church.

These two competing strands of orthodox Christian tradition (the ontological - difference strand and the gender - as - compromise strand) both claim the Genesis creation stories for themselves.

In personal life, choices of right and wrong come down to balancing the competing moral claims of self and family, personal security and professional interests, short - term and long - run good.