Sentences with phrase «of the political nature of»

It also heightened awareness of the political nature of environmental science.

Cod modelling of the merits and demerits of one technique vs others is a distraction from the fact of the political nature of the CCC's enclosure of the market in the same way that the enclosure of the huge abundance of land in the UK ensures high prices for the dubious benefit of «protecting the environment» — the Green Belt.

Please note: Donations made to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Gifts to the Action Fund are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Gifts to the PAC are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Not exact matches

When I have teams that don't want to build Prof Services or don't want to really interact daily with customers helping them solve problems — which are often political in nature such as functional stovepipes in the customers organization — I then advise them to build a different kind of companies.

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 political standoff in Canberra will put a spotlight on the value of the $ A, and the uncompetitive nature of large segments of Australia's economy.

Given the sensitive political and economic nature of the topic, the complexity of the problem and the current tenuousness of the housing market, we imagine that Treasury's contribution will be not so much a shout, more like a polite throat - clearing.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

The trouble is a vast amount of the recipients of DonorsTrust dark money are, by their very nature, political.

The nature of the FBI, and the nature of its work, requires that it not be the subject of political consideration.»

WikiLeaks said it was refraining from disclosing usable code from CIA's cyber arsenal «until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the C.I.A.'s program and how such «weapons» should be analyzed, disarmed and published.»

As molecular biologist Rana Dajani explains in a 2011 Nature editorial, the political and religious environment in most Arab states currently «fails to sustain creativity, curiosity and striking out into the unknown — all of which are essential for science to flourish.»

Recalling his frustrations with the political nature of the Bitcoin community, of which he was once a member, Thomas advises that protocols remain flexible enough to be incrementally improved upon, much like the Web itself.

Given the political nature of a first budget, the Prime Minister's Office is quite naturally very involved in its preparation.

Some would say, of course, that O'Leary's religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.

But due to the predictable nature of political campaign positions — win or lose, campaigns end after the election — every job came with an expiration date, he explained to Farnoosh Torabi on an episode of her So Money podcast.

An announcement made today (April 6) by Rob Goldman, VP, ads, and Alex Himel, VP, local pages, states that it will now only allow verified advertisers to run «issue ads» — ie those of a political nature — on the social network, including picture - sharing service Instagram.

Find articles on current and past elections in Canada, as well as on the nature and issues of Canada's electoral and political party systems.

«To the extent that Japan devalues, the nature of its trade with its neighbors is one in which Japan is selling lots of capital equipment that they need, and capital equipment becomes that much cheaper, that would be a gift to its trading partners,» says Richard Samuels, Ford International professor of political science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In it, he described a virtual currency that, by its very nature, transcends political boundaries and shackles financial growth not within the confines of the hands of banks that feed us our daily bread, but within reach of Average Janes and Joes.

We study political economy because this is the politics of nature..

«Unprofessionalism has had a very negative effect, and it will certainly reflect on the nature of the deal they are going to sign,» said Stathis Kalyvas, a professor of political science at Yale University.

Kevin writes: «[Staying quiet on matters of a political nature has] become extremely hard to do in the post-crisis era.

I guess I've started to see political, religious, economic, and social aspects of our world in very evolutionary terms - it works, but nature is cruel.

Before accepting Hart's statement that «Rand was definitely on the side of barbarism,» make sure you've read Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and her two political essays, «Man's Rights» and «The Nature of Government.»

That is exactly what the book deals with, the «nature» of Christ and the religious wars, both political and physical, that shaped their doctrine of faith.

The nature of the insults have changed, but insults have been around forever and bad as they are, they sure beat people killing each other over political and religious differences, practices frequent in the past and common around the globe today.

They concluded that she committed the crime «in a state of insanity influenced by her growing nervous excitement of a religious - political nature.»

Their refusal of religious oaths was a specific denial of the Christian nature of the political order.

Hmmm... One might conclude, given the religious nature of this gentleman, that quite often... «religious» can and does (but not always) goes hand - in - hand with «conservative» political views... or the GOP (republicans).

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

And just so you know, I haven't yet tackled your important «Locke's Law of Nature» essay in that great Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy essay volume that came out last year.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

Questions about the nature and mission of the Church as it relates to political responsibility are shunted aside as energies are consumed in the contest to capture the Church for partisan advantage.

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

Their presence is a factor that immensely increases the demonstrative nature of any political act.

On the other hand, political theologians are sometimes prone to the opposite danger, so historicizing their conceptualization of reality that nature comes to be treated, as it generally was in 19th century continental Protestant thought and on into the 20th century, as a mere stage for history.

The second and perhaps most fundamental area requiring joint attention by ecological and political theologians is the problem of properly conceptualizing and expressing the relationship between nature and history.

A more thoroughgoing awareness of the nature of imperial ideology in the New Testament world should also lead us to think again about the political character of the early Christian communities.

The epigraph from Whitehead suggests that our views of the divine nature are a reflection of our social and political systems.

In this way the oppressive political order, unjust exploitation, war for security and survival, and harmony with the nature will be expelled from the created order of God, and justice, peace, and integrity of creation will be fulfilled in the Garden of God.

It was formed at a time of stress (great wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise of everlasting life given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world god).

However - and here I will use examples from my own country, the U.S.A., which are easily applicable to Great Britain - the founding documents of the U.S. appeal to the natural law as the cornerstone of our political order («nature and nature's God;» «We hold these truths to be self - evident...»).

What ties together Shenk's different arguments is what I call the divine inversion — the many ways in which God acts contrary not merely to physical nature, but to what humans take to be the natural order of things in the social and political world.

The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.

The remainder of this chapter will be concerned with three other kinds of human relations — economic, political, and familial — and with what the sciences centrally concerned with them tell about human nature and its transformations.

And those eschatological statements are, in fact, more realistic about the nature of the present darkness than is any political solution.

The political use of Hindutva has survived several court cases, most notably a major one in 1995 brought by those who felt that its allure was primarily religious in nature and hence violated India's constitution, which prohibits candidates from appealing to voters exclusively on religious grounds.