Sentences with phrase «of years of conflict»

Much attention has been paid to the case of the three minor children in Oakland County Michigan who were removed to juvenile detention in the wake of years of conflict between their divorced parents.

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But 100 years later, the Christmas Truce remains a bright spot in an otherwise bleak conflict that ushered in many aspects of modern war.

Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven - year - long conflict.

«We think this is one of the most egregious [conflicts of interest] we've seen in recent years, and it seems to be more widely practiced... To me, it sounds like a commission, and clients approach the adviser operating under the banner of fiduciary expecting those biases to not exist.»

The event, staged on a U.S. bomber under a massive banner that screamed «Mission Accomplished,» overshadowed the years of conflict and bloodshed that followed.

After discussing the arms sales, Trump suggested that the United States could soon extricate itself from Middle East conflicts after years of involvement in Iraq and Syria.

As I've been mentoring and training some young adults lately at a college, suddenly I've seen conflicts up close and personal, a reminder of the time I worked in the corporate world for about a ten year period.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

This software can be old, bloated, and contain bits of code from features that publishers added over the years that can conflict with one another.

The conflict: On the campaign trail for Austria's upcoming election, 80 - year - old Frank Stronach doffed his shirt for a photo op, declaring that he needn't be ashamed of his body.

But the effects of nearly a year of conflict and sanctions are evident.

To understand the scope of the dispute, it's important to take a look at the years of conflict that have informed it.

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

This conflict has been rampant in companies for years, but with new advancements in technology, companies are beginning realize what the true impact of marketing is on sales.

According to a 2015 study from former President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, conflicted advice was costing consumers about $ 17 billion in retirement earnings each year.

When Lane was explaining the appointment of the new HP board members earlier this year, he offered several conflicting views of the board's role.

The decision comes as policy makers including IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warn of a global trade conflict that could undermine the broadest world recovery in years.

In recent years, investors have had to cope with plenty of uncertainty: three summers worth of the Greek default crises (2010, 2011, 2012); the US «fiscal cliff» in early 2013 and the government shutdown that October; the Ukraine - Russia conflicts; the collapse in oil prices; China's slowdown and currency devaluation; and now, Brexit.

Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five - year - long conflict: the future of President Bashar al - Assad.

Rule: The field of conflict resolution has grown rapidly over the last 30 years.

That insight, as obvious as it may seem, conflicts with the Fed's policy of raising interest rates preemptively, even as inflation continues to undershoot its target, essentially on concerns that a 17 - year - low 4.1 % jobless rate may already be beyond what officials consider «full employment.»

The Economic Policy Institute has constructed more comprehensive estimates and finds that the 60 - day delay would cost retirement savers» IRAs $ 181 million this year and $ 3.7 billion over the next 30 years — and this estimate is still an undercount because it does not include other subjects of potential conflicted advice, like 401 (k) s.

Last year, the Department of Labor finalized the «conflict of interest» rule requiring retirement advisers to put their clients» best interests before their own profits when advising clients.

The Labor Department's analysis of the rule suggested that retirement accounts with these kinds of conflicts could under - perform by $ 95 billion to $ 189 billion over the next 10 years, and by $ 202 billion to $ 404 billion over the next 20.

Odgers has been shifting in this direction for years — a strategy that became a growing source of conflict in Canada.

Scenes of Moon and Kim joking and walking together marked a striking contrast to last year's barrage of North Korean missile tests and its largest ever nuclear test that led to sweeping international sanctions and fears of a fresh conflict on the Korean peninsula.

Another way of looking at it is that the voters already have decided — they elected the provincial government that put into place the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act 20 or so years ago.

Last year Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, resigned from Kushner Cos and sold his stake to a family trust as part of an effort to avoid conflicts of interests in his White House role.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Icahn resigned from his post as special advisor on regulation last year, ahead of a critical New Yorker magazine article describing potential conflicts of interest.

Icahn resigned from his post as special advisor on regulation to Trump last year, ahead of a critical New Yorker magazine article describing his potential conflicts of interest.

The conflict between the mail carrier and its biggest union sparked another instance of federal back - to - work legislation, but it didn't end the more than year - long dispute.

Apart from the destruction and loss of life, Saudi Arabias oil reserves are bombed, the U.S. is poised to enter another Middle East conflict and, in the end, Irans nuclear capabilities are only set back by a couple of years.

A few years ago the publishers of the Myer - Briggs Assessment published a study on workplace conflict that attempted to quantify just how expensive conflict can be.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Many of these commenters stressed the Department's determination in the final rulemaking that, under the current regulatory structure, investors lose billions of dollars each year as a result of conflicts of interest, and argued that delay would compound these losses.

Conflicts of interest comprise financial interests, activities, and relationships within the past 3 years including but not limited to employment, affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria or payment, speaker's bureaus, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical equipment, or patents planned, pending, or issued.

EPI derived its estimate using the methodology the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) used in its 2015 report, which estimated that the aggregate annual cost of conflicted advice is about $ 17 billion each year).

The analysis estimated a portion of the potential gains for IRA investors at between $ 33 billion and $ 36 billion over the first 10 years for one segment of the market and category of conflicts of interest.

So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.

«Based on the extensive public comments and evidence garnered during that process, the department determined that such conflicts of interest are widespread and could cost investors in individual retirement accounts (in one segment of the market alone) between $ 95 billion and $ 189 billion over the next 10 years,» wrote the Justice Department lawyers.

Those stocks have enjoyed sustained growth in recent years, regularly reaching record highs despite the relative chaos of the daily news cycle dominated by the Russia investigation and fears of conflict in North Korea.

The suspected use of chemical weapons has drawn the West back into Syria's seven - year conflict.

By: Tho Bishop This weekend's historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea offered hope for a peaceful resolution to a conflict that has gone on for over 60 years.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

An investor receiving conflicted advice who expects to retire in 30 years loses at least 5 % to 10 % of his or her potential retirement savings due to conflicts, the memo states, or approximately one to three years» worth of withdrawals during retirement.

In a Jan. 13 internal memo to senior White House advisors that was obtained by ThinkAdvisor, Jason Furman, chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, states that the redraft «represents a middle ground,» and that he agrees with DOL that the current regulatory environment allows brokers to give «conflicted» advice, which costs retirement savers more than $ 6 billion a year.

Roper and other consumer advocates argue that conflicted advice is deeply engrained in the brokerage business model, echoing the concerns outlined in a recent leaked White House policy memo in which officials concluded that «the current regulatory environment creates perverse incentives that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars a year» in the form of unnecessary rollovers of 401 (k) plans into costly IRAs, and «excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets.»