Sentences with phrase «of more powers over»

Greater Manchester has negotiated these powers but has also agreed devolution of more powers over criminal justice and health and social care.

Not exact matches

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Generally, an entrepreneur can not own 50 percent or more of the business that his or her IRA is invested in, unless the company has a minority shareholder with complete veto power over all transactions — but in some cases, even that won't be allowed.

If enough customers don't pay, if the panels» performance degrades more quickly than expected over time, or if power prices go out of whack the investments could go south.

Horizon Power will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for electricity, with the aim of giving customers more control over their power uPower will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for electricity, with the aim of giving customers more control over their power upower usage.

Over 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy Council.

More and more, tenants are in a position of power over the landlords when negotiating their way into a dMore and more, tenants are in a position of power over the landlords when negotiating their way into a dmore, tenants are in a position of power over the landlords when negotiating their way into a deal.

At the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2 percent, inflation could erode more than $ 73,000 of a retiree's purchasing power over 20 years if that person were receiving the monthly average Social Security retirement payment of $ 1,341.

The handout came with strings attached: Salus had to sign off if RadioShack wanted to close more than 200 stores a year — essentially giving the firm power over one of the company's only ways to raise cash.

Next year she'll be student body Vice President (where she'll be more of the Dick Cheney power - behind - the - throne Vice President, rather than the Mike Pence step - aside - rather - than - get - mowed - over Vice President, or so she tells me).

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said on Friday the company would send more battery installers to Puerto Rico to help restore power after Hurricane Maria knocked out all power on the island over two weeks ago.

Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a «supposed «partner» whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions,» referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.

«At over 20 GW of installed solar electric capacity, we now have enough solar in the U.S. to power 4.6 million homes, reducing harmful carbon emissions by more than 25 million metric tons a year.

Thanks to scholars such as Raj Chetty, the power of using administrative data (such as IRS tax data) are now more clearly seen all over the world.

We explore the waning power of the KKK, the argument over whether a New Mexico school shooter was a racist finally seems settled and more.

Of the more than 300,000 solar power systems the company has installed, the majority are under leases and PPAs and are contracted to generate more than $ 8 billion in customer payments over the next 20 years, and up to $ 4.8 billion more with customer renewals after year 20.

More scale also gives more bargaining power over other parts of the healthcare chMore scale also gives more bargaining power over other parts of the healthcare chmore bargaining power over other parts of the healthcare chain.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Le Maire's call for G20 nations to join together in comprehensive talks over bitcoin, and cryptocurrency more broadly, echoed recent sentiments from Joachim Wuermeling, a board member at Bundesbank in Germany, who had previously stated, «Effective regulation of virtual currencies would therefore only be achievable through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory power of nation states is obviously limited.»

Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I've written a blog post titled «Do Calgary and Edmonton need more power and resources?»

The recent clarification of the powers of the federal Commissioner of Competition to assert privilege over documents is an opportunity for more efficient and fair proceedings in the future, say lawyers who practise in the competition field.

Outstanding analysis of how to make content more productive (generate more sales) by aligning it with the needs of the buyer in this digital information age when buyers are gaining more power over sellers (the rise of the buying cycle and the decline of the selling cycle).

For example, if over the next 10 years inflation continues to average 2.2 % (which it has for more than 25 years), the purchasing power of $ 100 would fall by 20 %, to just $ 80 by 2027.

More than 200 days since the Hurricane Maria's 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall knocked over 80 percent of the island's power lines, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still in the dark.

A large body of law and custom in the United States holds that because employers have far more power over their employees than businesses do over their customers, they must provide them with far greater protections — not least, a minimum wage and overtime pay.

And where others see little regard for Main Street, Obama sees a focus on how the government can do more to bolster the economic prospects of poor - and middle - class Americans, and someone who would carry those concerns to the Fed, which has vast powers over interest rates and the financial system.

And we need visible minority employees to take greater advantage of these opportunities so that they have more power over their own career development.

Doug's book challenges us to look at disruption more than by assuming that one form of retail will win over another - simply put, the book forces us to understand the power of personalization and customer engagement - the lifeblood of our new retail world.»

Mr Ward, dubbed «Chocfinger» due to his influence over the cocoa price, blamed the rising power of algorithmic and systems - based trading for making position - taking based on «fundamental» supply and demand factors more difficult.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Headquartered in San Francisco, with offices worldwide, Marin's technology powers marketing campaigns for over 1,500 customers managing more than $ 6 billion of annualized ad spend in more than 160 countries.

Just over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated more than 50 % of U.S. electricity.

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

After sweltering for more than a week without power, a group of sweaty Miami - area residents sued FPL last year over the widespread outages after the storm.

Mark Pincus, founder of the gaming company Zynga, is reducing his voting power over the company, going against a trend where entrepreneurs lobbied for more control.

Clearly, shareholders are interested in having more power over the direction of Alphabet and are not in agreement with top management.

In any event, even if one explains the fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply do not want to believe.

Due to potentially - large oscillations in the desire to hold cash and to the fact that changes in the money supply can take years to impact the cost of living, this theoretical rate of purchasing - power change will tend to be inaccurate over periods of two years or less but should approximate the actual rate of purchasing - power change over periods of five years or more.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

In April of this year, a resident of Regina paid over 50 per cent more for their power than a resident in Calgary.

More chilling still is the -4 % real loss p.a. that occurred over the worst 30 years of UK bond investing history or the 47 years it took to recover the real purchasing power of your bonds lost during the bear market of the 1940s to 1970s.

At the end of 2013 there were more U.S. wind power megawatts (MW) under construction than ever in history: Over 12,000 MW of new generating capacity was under construction, with a record - breaking 10,900 MW starting construction activity during the fourth quarter.

To replace the Treasury conducting its fiscal operations independently from the banking system, New York banks urged more power over public finances and to establish the Federal Reserve to increase the supply of money (a more «elastic» issue) in response to banking needs.

Where Bitcoin's transaction speeds average 7 transactions per second, new blockchain - based currencies are already approaching thousands of transactions per second; Bitshares claims they can process 100,000 per second.In fact, a newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada, has already begun to use a micropayment system to charge per article for its news content and projects earning over $ 100,000 in digital revenue.Blockchain could tilt the balance of power towards individuals, not publishing powerhouses.As mentioned previously, YouTube and Medium have dramatically increased content creators» access to audiences and established a more democratic, popularity - based promotional scheme.

Jonathan, whose earnings power is that of a «Playmaker,» needs his portfolio to support his lifestyle over a retirement that could last more than 50 years, given the Playmakers» generally shorter career and lower earnings potential compared with their Blue Chip teammates.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Notions of «power over» dynamics, hierarchical thinking, authoritarianism, success meaning «winning» over someone else who is a «loser», more money and more power and more authority is more successful... everything that causes so much trouble in a capitalist, patriarchal mindset.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Until then, I just assume that all these religious ideas are the creation of men who want power over others in the natural world - and every day I am more convinced this is the case.