Sentences with phrase «on a contingency as»

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But we have this in common: we've learned the harsh lesson that the people your business relies on frequently disappoint and that our job is to anticipate as many contingencies as possible.

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.

Beyond setting up filters in their e-mail accounts so that messages are sorted and prioritized as they come in, they set up contingencies on their smart phones that alert them when something important happens.

While the UK economy has already shown signs of slowing and would probably feel the greater effect as businesses accelerate their contingency measures for such an outcome, the possible impact on the EU may be significant and remains somewhat underappreciated, in our view.

Last week, the E.U.'s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave 10 Downing Street a two - week deadline to provide clarity on withdrawal issues, including its financial settlement as it leaves the E.U. Barnier also said that contingency plans exist should the Brexit talks with the E.U. collapse.

Remain Patient: As an even larger market contingency focuses on timing investments exactly right to the next quarter, month or even minute, the ability to think long - term creates significant «time - arbitrage» opportunities.

Financial firms are particularly vulnerable, which is why the Bank of England in April called on hundreds of them, including insurers and fund managers, to submit Brexit contingency plans in July as the central bank plans for «all eventualities.»

The policy amounts to forced saving on a huge scale — even as the officials who manage those savings say they already have more than enough for any contingency.

While I would hesitate to engage in a full - out debate of theism vs. atheism on this forum for reasons that I have already stated, I would be interested in hearing your response to the traditional ontological and moral arguments in favor of the existence of God as well as the argument from contingency.

Correlatively, understanding God involves growth in one's grasp of the concept «contingency,» the capacity to discern one's own, and everything else's, radical dependence on God's power; but that is inseparable from, though not the same thing as, growth in one's grasp of the concept «thanks,» a capacity to respond appropriately to that contingency.

On the other hand the human mind can not establish itself in its finitude and contingency as the ultimate judge of reality.

Although you may see it as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas by God the Father, I see it as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.

The reason for our failure to see that time could evolve from contingency to non-contingency without being destroyed is perhaps due to the popular image we have of time as a straight line that goes on and on.

First he attempted to apply a logical argument, whose history extends back at least as far as Cicero's On Divination.4 According to this view, contingency (chance) and foreknowledge (fate) are contradictory assertions because a contingent event, being unnecessitated, can not be known until it occurs.

The classical Christian explanation of the foreknowledge of contingencies depended on the conceptualization of God as a being transcending all temporality.

His whole emphasis on irony and contingency is meant to protect us against what he calls «the dangers of over-philosophication,» the temptation to think of philosophy as providing anything more than a kind of therapeutic stance.

Nor, on the other hand, are we given a code of precise rules of observance, adapted, so far as possible, to cover all contingencies (which was the aim of Jewish Rabbinical teaching).

Indeed, to the best of my knowledge Hartshorne does not explicitly link his position on creation with his position on relativity, contingency, and potentiality, as he does link the latter with his position on temporality.13 On the other hand, he does present other arguments against the traditional position, none of which seem tome to have any substancon creation with his position on relativity, contingency, and potentiality, as he does link the latter with his position on temporality.13 On the other hand, he does present other arguments against the traditional position, none of which seem tome to have any substancon relativity, contingency, and potentiality, as he does link the latter with his position on temporality.13 On the other hand, he does present other arguments against the traditional position, none of which seem tome to have any substancon temporality.13 On the other hand, he does present other arguments against the traditional position, none of which seem tome to have any substancOn the other hand, he does present other arguments against the traditional position, none of which seem tome to have any substance.

Over against such a view, the biblical perspective stresses the contingency of natural order, as it is dependent on the free act of creation.

At the very same time that it has become clear that the theistic question can not possibly be discussed as a merely empirical question, it has also become clear, on secular philosophical grounds as well as religious, that contingency and relativity can be as readily predicated of ultimate reality as necessity and absoluteness.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

But he also says that «nothing can possibly happen other than as providence has determined from all eternity» and that the idea that there is contingency in the world «is based solely on our not knowing all the causes which contribute to each effect.

Thus, that we can distinguish humans as a type from other types depends on the contingencies of our world, in particular that it came to be characterized by certain individuals and not others.

Thus the concerns that continue to inspire deep religious discussion, such as the prospect of nuclear annihilation, the rights of the unborn, euthanasia, world hunger, Third World dependence, and so on, are clearly evidence of lingering contingencies in a technologized world.

Contingency is in what subjects, with their predicates, become or are created, not in what predicates get attached to what subjects — as though a subject were like a hook or wire on which predicates could be hung like garments or hoops.

A more inductive set of arguments (what might be termed «structural contingency» theories) focuses on the opportunities and constraints that may impinge on the activities of religious groups as a result of the organizational relations among state officials, elites, and established religious bodies.

Football its a sport with sports you have injuries add to that its contact sport so the probability of getting injured is sure Ok I can understand luck and ball wobble has got something to do with it but as a soccer player you know you could get injured just like that two or more players are going for the ball you could be sandwiched you could instantly hit the same ball one gets injured both get injured what ever but injury is part of the game some go away pretty easy some do nt and can get aggravated because not all can wait in a in a heavy box for too long and if you do well you become weak so it will take some effort to get back to full strength praying that you do nt get a strain or muscular problem players mangers coaches and physician know that i know that because not long ago i had bad thigh injury all was fine with it then i got a knock just below my knee 3 weeks ago and there is still slight pain in it but will try and play on Thursday thats part of the game The manager has to account for it in his head i got 11 players 6 might go down my contingency if it were to happen is and you still got a fully balanced team well thats the essence and Arsenal all fall because that contingency plan always falls short

Then we see an Evening Standard report in which our former player Martin Keown, who still has good links to the club and so is probably well informed on the matter, reveals that Wenger is likely to be offered and to accept a new deal as the club has no contingency plan in place and the Frenchman himself is the one who will decide when he goes.

«Against the underlying balance of available funds we have, as mentioned above, invested strongly in player acquisitions during the summer at a total transfer in cost of more than # 90 million with additional significant commitments to player wages, agent's fees and performance related contingencies on top of that.»

As Windhorst and ESPN's Dave McMenamin write in Return of the King, general manager David Griffin had to focus on the James pursuit while hanging on to Hayward and Chandler Parsons merely as contingencieAs Windhorst and ESPN's Dave McMenamin write in Return of the King, general manager David Griffin had to focus on the James pursuit while hanging on to Hayward and Chandler Parsons merely as contingencieas contingencies.

Liverpool are eyeing the signing of highly rated Espanyol goalkeeper Kiko Casilla from struggling La Liga outfit Espanyol, report fichajes, as Brendan Rodgers ensures that he has a contingency plan in case their prospective deal for former Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes on a free transfer falls through.

If the UFC isn't organized enough to set up these kinds of contingency plans BEFORE a fight falls through, that's on them, not the commission (as ridiculous as they may be at times).

While Barcelona have still not given up on their hopes of signing either Coutinho or Dembele, they are said to be making contingency plans as well at the moment and it was revealed on Friday that the... [Read more...]

Come up with a plan as to how you will handle any contingency, perhaps including a web cam or video chat on your phone so your wife has visual contact with the baby at all times.

The bigger question on the Libyan crisis, and Egypt and Tunisia as well, is whether the FCO was well enough prepared for this contingency.

As proposed by Cuomo, that contingency fund would filled with proceeds from converting non-profit healthcare companies to for - profit status, along with new taxes on health insurers and opioid manufacturers.

According to a resolution passed by the town board on Dec. 21, Mintz and Gold will represent the town in the lawsuit on a contingency basis, with no fees due from the town unless an award is made as a result of the litigation.

At the time, Cuomo did not include any contingency plans for action on the federal level, such as a repeal of the Affordable Care Act or cuts in spending that would impact the state, save for a desire to have expanded powers over the budget without the consent of the Legislature — a non-starter with lawmakers.

Seismologists installed more earthquake - monitoring devices in the Dallas suburb of Irving on Thursday as officials examined contingency plans after a series of temblors raised concerns for the area near the former Dallas Cowboys football stadium.

This result — that later mutations were dependent on the earlier ones — demonstrates a feature known as contingency.

Underserved and minority populations are being lost as the economy shifts to one based largely on shared and contingency labor.

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today assessed a civil penalty of $ 80,000 against Air India for failing to post customer service and tarmac delay contingency plans on its website as well as failing to adequately inform passengers about its optional fees.

Beginning Aug. 23, 2011, foreign carriers operating to the United States with at least one aircraft of 30 or more seats have been required to adopt contingency plans for lengthy tarmac delays as well as customer service plans, and to post these plans on their websites.

You also need to watch the expiration date on contingencies, as it can impact the return of funds.

As an example, if you are a buyer that is buying with a contingency on your home closing and there are multiple offers then take the contingency out but leave the financial contingency in the contract.

At the end of the day though, a buyer may have several value added considerations such as seller paid closing costs and repairs after an inspection contingency but the seller will (or at least should) always negotiate on the basis of what their net proceeds after all concessions will be.

If nothing unexpected occurs, the unused contingency money will be credited back to you as principal reduction on the amount of your loan.

It's important to ask your lender about other contingencies as well, so that you can be clear on the terms of your loan.

A.M. Best arrives at this rating by examining data such as policyholder reserve funds, other investment or operating contingency funds, and miscellaneous reserves reported as liabilities on the balance sheet.