Sentences with phrase «of standard materials»

Use of standard materials doesn't make it look like a $ 2,700 laptop either, though rest assured the hardware inside is impressive.

In recasting the functionality of standard materials, including light, the works in Between Spaces challenge the viewer's perception of domestic material conventions.

In other words, a car that could be made of standard materials and put into mass production.

«That shouldn't happen — according to physics of standard materials, going to the left or the right is the exact same thing.

Unlike some flexible packaging converters with a menu of standard materials or pouches, we'll provide customized materials and pouches based on your specific needs.

The old liberal education made use of a relatively fixed corpus of standard materials.

Then, when the RFP comes in, you have 80 percent of the standard materials all ready to go and can focus on the 20 percent that needs to be customized for that particular proposal.

This system will be on top of the standard material placement system that you can use to landscape the terrain.

Not exact matches

Jean Rogers is the founder and CEO of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a nonprofit startup based in San Francisco that develops and disseminates sustainability accounting standards to help publicly listed corporations disclose material factors in compliance with Security and Exchange Commission requirements.

He's even gone so far as to break down the standard 152 - pound bag of beans into 50 - pound boxes made from recycled materials so that growers and roasters alike will have an easier time lifting his merchandise.

«1) create a material positive impact on society and the environment, 2) expand fiduciary duty to require consideration of non-financial interests when making decisions, and 3) report on its overall social and environmental performance using recognized third party standards.»

The 11 billion pound merger triggered the right for Lloyds and Scottish Widows, which is part of the British bank, to review an agreement struck in 2014 for Aberdeen to manage pension assets on behalf of Lloyds» insurance and wealth units as Standard Life is a «material competitor» to both.

Part of the problem, Stack realized, was that the plant operated under a system that measured labor, overhead, and materials by their actual costs, rather than their standard costs.

It's made out of foam that Tuft & Needle engineered in - house to do away with tired standard materials like memory foam and latex.

Hampton Creek does not use the term «mayonnaise» on any of its products or any of its marketing materials... If FDA had intended to cover products that use the term «mayo» in its standard for mayonnaise, it could have done so, yet it did not.

«Endorsement or testimonials must disclose any material connection between the endorser, reviewer or influencer and the entity that makes a product or service available,» says Janet Feasby, vice-president of standards at ASC.

They would not be specifically required to meet other transition period requirements of these PTEs, such as to make specific written disclosures and representations of fiduciary status and of compliance with fiduciary standards in investor communications, designate a person or persons responsible for addressing material conflicts of interest and monitoring advisers» adherence to the Impartial Conduct Standards, and comply with new recordkeeping obligations.

They ranked low on the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Index: Energy shares sank 5.9 %, on average, while materials sector stocks collectively shed 5.5 % of their value; among the nine other equity sectors, only telecommunication services and consumer staples companies posted larger losses.1

The term sheet will also typically list the standard financial reports required by the institutional investor, including annual audited statements, monthly or quarterly prepared management statements, and immediate notice of certain material events (such as litigation).

Simultaneously, it was also able to avail itself of the broad benefits of the Rule 506 exemption, including the ability to raise an unlimited amount of money from an unlimited number of accredited investors, blue sky preemption and «relaxed» disclosure standards, as sales were only made to accredited investors (that said, the company did provide fulsome disclosure materials to prospective investors).

Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Raw materials such as coal, gold, zinc are all examples of commodities that are produced and graded according to uniform industry standards, making them easy to trade.

Further, and this gets to the heart of the strength of the fiduciary standard, the SEC notes there can be no «hard or fast rule» for addressing material conflicts, because the duty adjusts according to the needs of the particular client.

Earlier this year, CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health, committed to adopting such standards in its beauty materials to add more authenticity to its marketing.

Under NAFTA in its current form, 60 per cent of materials or components within a product must come from a signatory country in order to meet rules of origin standards.

Sean Williams owns shares of Silver Wheaton and Silver Standard Resources, but has no material interest in any other companies mentioned in this article.

«For the uniform fiduciary standard to be effective, investors need to understand any material conflicts of interest» and «the staff believes it is the firm's responsibility — not the customers» to reasonably ensure such customer understanding.

designate someone to address material conflicts of interest and monitor advisors» adherence to impartial conduct standards

In making clear the continuation of the «Enlightenment project» through the Romantic generation and into the Victorian era, particularly its corrosive skepticism and criticism of institutions, Born inadvertently exposes the futility of moral and material progress in the absence of a transcendent standard.

This is, in effect, a commentary on the material generally ascribed to Q. By today's standards the author accepts material as authentic far too readily, and he conspicuously fails to take notice of form criticism, but this is nonetheless a great book.

The radical response to these facts is to restrict our own consumption of goods and services, our own material standard of living, either in order to share more of our wealth with those in need, or in order to serve God better by using our time to work for justice and peace or by sharing the lot of the poor.

Instead, it adopted the well - known definition of obscenity, «whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.»

Family standards are continually subject to erosion from the inflow of debased materials from the mass media — as in the brutality and immorality of many of the so - called «comic» books, the triviality, sensationalism, and distortion of most journalism, and the preoccupation with crime and violence in many television programs.

They are particularly essential in a society devoted to values, to keep before the public a clear vision of ideal ends to be served and to show explicitly in what respects materials offered for public reception do or do not measure up to these standards.

Economic security for all men means something about colonies, about tariffs, about the free access of goods to those people who must have raw materials and markets if they are to have in normal times a standard of living adequate to relieve hunger and permit the free development of body and spirit.

Such services would be seen as raising living standards today (albeit in ways whose benefits are not easily computed), and might even improve prospects for material progress by augmenting society's stock of «human capital.»

Is sustainable authentic development compatible with a high material standard of living as presently defined for all human population?

Crude and explicit materials, devoid of any reference to marriage or even to love, produced by groups with links to lobbyists promoting abortion and the «morning after» pill, have become the standard for sex education.

My critism is not at people working 9 to 5 jobs but at the whole system of 9 to 5 jobs.Having a 9 to 5 job also becomes a status symbol in South Africa cause a job means money, money immediately means a better standard of material living.Its very frustrating actually.There are many creative options as a way of earning a living.Again, to reitterate, its the system that gets me mad, institutionilisation of peoples lives for money...

The standard explanation recounts the existence of a material object, its reflection of light waves of a certain length, the transference of these light waves from the object to the perceptual organs of the observer (in this case, the eyes), the interaction of the light waves with the rods and cones of the retina, the transference of nerve impulses along the relevant nerves to the brain, and, finally, the production of the sensation of sight.

The American commercial republic was conceived as an institutional design that would stir the self - interest of individuals to produce not brutal competition but civilized emulation, uplifting the people's material and moral standards of life.

Growth in knowledge will lead to improvements in material standards of living.

Whiteheadian cosmology embraces the notion of a uniform metric structure for the space - time continuum that is independent of the material objects commonly said to be «in» space - time and also that is independent of the material objects appropriated as standards of spatio - temporal measurement.

The reason why Whitehead believes that it must be independent is that only if it is a system of relations independent of the changing, variable, physical characters of material objects can it serve as a frame of reference in terms of which the self - congruence of material objects under transport — which makes them suitable as measuring standards — can be determined.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

Perhaps a much simpler, material life, simpler, that is, compared to present middle - class American standards, would result, but it would not be accompanied by an abandonment of free inquiry or free speech.

Development is also often used in a normative sense as a multi-valued social goal covering such diverse spheres as better material well - being, living standards, education, health care, wider opportunities for work and leisure, and in essence the whole gamut of desirable social and material welfare.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attirbuted to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurae speed.

We have also not only new materials, new methods, and new machines, but new levels of education, new standards of living, and new ways of thinking as well.