Sentences with phrase «of existing efforts»

Despite competing economic agendas, we must as a nation find the resources to maintain the momentum of existing efforts and build on the successes.

(1) Economic studies show this to be, by far, the fastest way to phase down fossil fuel emissions, much superior to cap - and - trade or regulations on emissions, but fee - and - dividend can be applied effectively on top of any existing efforts to reduce emissions.

The challenge is making it work, a task that has suffered due to a lack of careful consideration of existing efforts.

Virtually all papers on determinations of G end in the same way — with a call for more work, either in the form of refinements of existing efforts, or of radical new approaches.

And those proposals come on top of existing efforts, such as the precision medicine initiative and the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.

This new state imposed mandate was burdensome and unnecessary — a duplication of existing efforts — however, we are grateful to our local and school district leaders who came together to develop this plan.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

Not exact matches

One example of this difference in outlook might be found at a tech company whose profits are lagging: A manager at such a company will likely be concerned with increasing marketing efforts for an existing product.

With a slightly higher price than Netflix and the requirement of having an existing connection, Shomi looks like a defensive effort for now, rather than an aggressive attempt to push back Netflix's encroachment.

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.

The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.

Instead of competing for attention in siloed communication and outreach efforts, disrupters use existing channels to engage their audience.

In Hoey's opinion, the federal government's efforts amount to little in trying to entice a foreign company to enter Canada's wireless market, mainly because a cap on foreign involvement still exists in the form of a 10 per cent limit on the market share of any wireless entity with international financial backing.

Kalanick approved the new program in an effort to protect existing shareholders from the value of their shares being diluted.

The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef's «ecological function» instead.

Usually this initial group of users is small, for the simple reason that if there were something that large numbers of people urgently needed and that could be built with the amount of effort a startup usually puts into a version one, it would probably already exist.

It has been noted that their investment in new content like Grand Theft Auto and its efforts to monetize existing content, as well as the new release of NBA 2K18, have contributed to the increase in revenue.

It helps you build up a fan base that you may have never known existed; and it does this without a lot of effort on your part.

Such an effort may seem counterintuitive to existing online advertising paradigms, given that businesses are expected to spend $ 141 million on online ads this year, per eMarketer — of which Google takes home an estimated 32.4 percent.

Touchco In an effort to compete with Apple's iPad, Amazon acquired this New York City - based startup whose touchscreen technology could power a more robust version of the existing Kindle with full color and multiple touch points.

Of course, challenges exist for banks in selecting and working successfully with AFCs, but it can be worth the effort.

The enhancement benefits to your content and SEO strategies alone make social media worth the effort — but add in the customer service angle and the community building power, and you'll calculate that even a few hours of work per day can be enough to earn you thousands of new visitors per month (and strengthened relationships with your existing subscriber base).

If all of this is true then it makes sense to put more effort into retaining your existing customers.

The amendments now in force, including the soon - to - be eliminated facilitation payments exception, reinforce a strong message from the Canadian government that it is «redoubling» its efforts to curb any existing foreign corrupt practices of Canadian businesses.

What gaps exist in your current content creation efforts — or the efforts of your competitors?

In its latest effort to reach first - time homebuyers, Freddie Mac is launching a new 3 % down payment program that casts aside a number of restrictions in its existing low down payment offerings.

I really don't believe in any kind of an organized «Plunge protection team», and certainly don't think that such an effort would be effective in halting a bear market even if it existed.

The moves come following Uber's acquisition of self - driving trucking company Otto in August, which put co-founder Anthony Levandowski in charge of the company's autonomous efforts above existing directors Raffi Krikorian — who was previously at Twitter and joined Uber in March 2015 — and John Bares — who was poached from Carnegie Robotics in January 2015.

Front - line workers know best where operational inefficiencies exist and how to fix them, and equity ownership lets them share in the fruits of their efforts.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.

AT&T and Verizon also invested a lot of effort to put unlimited data plans of their existing users to a stop.

Existing and new content created in conjunction with SEO efforts can give life to a wide assortment of related keywords and phrases.

We can serve as an outsourced sales team to take your organization's sales operation to new heights — or supplement the existing efforts of your current sales team.

Contract sales were also affected by fewer sales to new customers in the third and fourth quarters of 2010 as the sales force continued to focus on efforts to educate existing owners about the benefits of the new product.

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The increase in loan approvals in June may have partly reflected efforts by borrowers to take advantage of existing low interest rates, amidst widespread talk that intermediaries» interest rates might rise.

In general, carriers describe their moves as efforts to protect the interests of existing customers and to ensure that the companies will be able to continue in business — and to meet obligations to customers — for the long - term.

«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.

These ads seem to exist so that Republican campaign consultants can, with a minimum of effort, show Republican donors that ads are being produced and aired.

Although «structures of deceit» do exist in the church (if not as pervasively as Wills asserts), all efforts to expose them and reform the church will founder if they lack love.

The danger of believing that there is something more after death, an after - life for the soul is that you will put off being the best that you can be now in hopes of avoiding expending some effort and sliding in under the wire to a Heaven which no one can prove exists or does not exist.

Interestingly, even secular non-believing historians have debunked the «never existed» myth... Jesus is still under attack today as He was two thousand years ago... Efforts to rid human history of His existence, and reason for coming here have failed, and continue to fail.

He does not accept that the real greater good comes from the efforts of individuals exercising their freedom and that government exists principally to enable them to pursue their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It looks as if one religion is trying to claim love as its own even though loving human beings have always existed long before any of the «gods» were ever conceived by human beings and used by scamming human beings in their efforts to control others.

A short - circuited line of argument is implicit in the effort to conclude forthwith that such a realm exists.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

But in Scripture we confront a counter-reality-claim which demands that we reappropriate our «effort to exist and desire to be» in terms which propel us into a new world of «freedom in the light of hope.»

«Reflection is the appropriation of our effort to exist and our desire to be, through the works which bear witness to that effort and desire.

The second task, that of penetrating existing media with religious images and vocabulary, requires considerable organization, time and money, making national efforts more feasible than local ones.