Sentences with phrase «on ordinary matter»

Not exact matches

At issue in many Rule 14a - 8 (i)(7) no - action requests is whether a proposal that addresses ordinary business matters nonetheless focuses on a policy issue that is sufficiently significant.

American's letter states that it is relying on the exemption under Rule 14a - 8 (i)(7) that allows exclusion of proposals that deal «with a matter relating to the company's ordinary business operations.»

A board acting in this capacity and with the knowledge of the company's business and the implications for a particular proposal on that company's business is well situated to analyze, determine and explain whether a particular issue is sufficiently significant because the matter transcends ordinary business and would be appropriate for a shareholder vote.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

In the words of the First Vatican Council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, the «divine deposit» includes «all those things are to be believed by divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the Word of God as founding Scripture or Tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as divinely revealed, whether by her solemn judgment or in her ordinary and universal magisterium.»

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

A month later, Archbishop Justin Rigali issued a statement reiterating the Church's position on such matters, citing several Church sources including Pope John Paul II's 1998 statement calling medically assisted food and water «an ordinary means of preserving life.»

At worst, this tyranny of unrealistic standards can cause the only child to be intolerant of ordinary performance, unforgiving of mistakes, being extremely hard on himself or herself when it comes to matters of achievement.

All that mattered to me was that on that very ordinary Sunday morning, I had come across something very special.

But on such matters as the importance of the family, the need to clean up Westminster - and, yes, until yesterday on Europe - his gut instincts have been far closer than New Labour's to the views of ordinary electors.

His performances at these big set - piece events matter, because they are rare opportunities for politicians to get direct cut - through to ordinary voters on economic issues.

The supreme Court (ordinary bench) sitting on the matter, presided over by His Lordship Samuel Date - Bah (JSC) in his judgment on the 14th June, 2013 made the following ruling:

Taking aim at Goldsmith's wallet, Sarah Olney told the Mail on Sunday: «The damaging impact of Brexit doesn't matter as much to him as to ordinary people.

But as all physicists know, the standard model doesn't explain everything — it accounts for less than 20 percent of the matter in the universe, for instance — the rest is invisible or «dark» and can not be made of the ordinary matter particles found on Earth.

In the early universe, astronomers believe, dark matter provided the gravitational scaffolding on which ordinary matter coalesced and grew into galaxies.

Nevertheless, neutrinos ought to interact with the universe's mass on the largest scales: as these particles careen through the universe at near light - speed, they interact with ordinary matter and tend to smooth out variations in density.

However, he cautions, it may be possible that, feeble as they may be, the interactions between dark and ordinary matter might smooth out the dark matter distribution on their own.

Adding up all the dark forms of ordinary matter (gas clouds, brown dwarfs, black holes, and so on) still leaves 95 percent of the mass in the universe unaccounted for.

Although we can see dark matter's gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, it does not otherwise interact with ordinary matter, and we know frustratingly little about its properties.

Astronomers hot on the trail of ordinary matter in the universe — the stuff of people, planets, and stars — have found where half of it was hiding.

No experiment has yet conclusively detected WIMPs, but CDMS has set the most stringent limits of any experiment on the strength of WIMP interactions with ordinary matter.

Reverberations in the very young universe imprinted onto that background a discernible pattern, which depends on the mix of ordinary matter to dark matter.

The conclusion is based on observations of a collision between two clusters of galaxies that separated dark matter from ordinary matter.

This and several other lines of evidence point to the existence of a mysterious form of invisible matter that exerts a gravitational influence on other matter and outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of about 6 to 1.

Antimatter annihilates on contact with ordinary matter, so the anti-atoms disappear in a shower of secondary particles, known as pions, when they hit the walls of the trap.

Dark matter's presence has for decades been inferred from its gravitational effects on large - scale structures such as galaxy clusters, but because it does not interact much with ordinary matter and does not emit or absorb light — hence the «dark» moniker — it has so far proved impossible to observe firsthand.

A dark - matter particle entering a piece of ordinary solid matter might, on rare occasion, hit an atom, make it vibrate, and create a faint sound.

The antiprotons tend to congregate several hundred kilometers above Earth, where ordinary matter is so scarce that they are unlikely to meet up with their particle counterparts — protons — and destroy each other on contact.

Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world - wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties.

The potential revelations include details about objects both ordinary, such as stars, and exotic, such as dark - matter particles, that CMB photons might encounter on their travels through space.

In a paper published May 2 in Nature Physics, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) at CERN presented new results on the properties of axions — hypothetical particles with minimal interactions with ordinary matter that therefore could constitute some or all of the mysterious dark matter, which is five times more abundant than normal matter.

It's known indirectly through its gravitational effects (based on these, scientists think dark matter outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of at least five).

Director William Oldroyd maintains the style of respectable period piece throughout — no matter the circumstances, whether they be cold - blooded murder, the build - up to that inevitable conclusion, or some ordinary, day - to - day happenings on the estate.

With the exceptions of school spending and teacher tenure, the divisions between ordinary Democrats and Republicans on education policy matters are quite minor.

Since you are old enough that RMDs must be taken, you should do this in consultation with a professional (don't rely completely on what the IRA custodian (or its call center employee) tells you), because even IRS Publication 590 throws up its hand in the matter of explaining this to ordinary mortals and simply says

Control of our currency rightfully belongs to Congress, and Congress should tighten controls on the Fed so that its degree of independence is limited to the ordinary matters pertaining to a central bank — preserving the soundness of the currency.

[1] Porter's deceptively straightforward, seemingly artless paintings attract us with the familiarity of their nominal subject matter: a dapple of sunlight on a field, two little girls sitting on a sofa, a corner of an aggressively ordinary bedroom, an unremarkable view of distant islands across water.

When confronting these works, the viewer is forced to reflect on ordinary and everyday matters from a new stance.

Porter's deceptively straightforward, seemingly artless paintings attract us with the familiar - ity of their nominal subject matter: a dapple of sunlight on a field, two little girls sitting on a sofa, a corner of an aggressively ordinary bed - room, an unremarkable view of distant islands across water.

Every scientist, no matter in what speciality, should have the humility of Sir Isaac Newton when he said, «I was like a boy playing on the sea - shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»

Although ordinary individuals may have no duty to go beyond their own personal opinion about the science of climate change, government officials who have the power to enact policies that could present catastrophic harm to millions of people around the world may not as a matter of ethics justify their refusal to support policies to reduce the threat of climate change on the basis of their uninformed opinions on climate science.

The two women shared their perspective on minimizing waste while living an ordinary, urban life with young children, and managing the ongoing challenges of «other people» who don't understand why it matters so much to them.

It was evident from the survey responses that the bulk of our respondents encounter foreign and international law occasionally and unexpectedly, in the course of representing fairly «ordinary» clients on apparently «ordinary» matters that primarily involve domestic United States law.

Also, make sure you have ordinary postal service mail on the matter.

It was argued on behalf of the landlords that the salvage principle was not restricted to sums falling due only after the date of the administrator's appointment and that the principle required that as a matter of common sense and ordinary justice, the landlords receive payment of the disputed rent and other sums due, in full, for the period in which the administrator occupied the premises for the purposes of the administration.

As the wearing of helmets may afford protection in some circumstances, it must follow that a cyclist of ordinary prudence would wear one, no matter whether on a long or a short trip or whether on quiet suburban roads or a busy main road.

The reason I am writing about this is that while ordinary litigants, who go to court to assert or defend their own legal rights and interests, are perfectly entitled not to care about what the public knows about their cases, it seems to me that public interest litigants, who ostensibly pursue matters not on their own behalf but on that of the public at large or at least of some section of the public, are, in my view, in a different position.

The key patent cases that I have to address and consider currently in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological cases (however, it should be appreciated there are several more) are the recent Alice (patent subject matter eligibility), Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (accused infringers can use AIA review procedures without undermining their case in later litigation), Merck & Cie (PTAB AIA review decisions must be reviewed with deference on appeal) and In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC, (broadest reasonable interpretation for IPR versus ordinary meaning for litigation is appropriate) decisions as well as the USPTO's ever developing guidelines as to patent subject matter eligibility and obviousness determinations.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) has had a major impact on employment law, with the received wisdom being that it was intended to go beyond ordinary notions of equality (the basis of the rest of discrimination law) and give greater rights to disabled employees, as a matter of social policy.