You can typically use Airline Y miles to fly
on other alliance airlines.
But there are many options
on other alliance members, including Air Berlin, Finnair, or Iberia.
Business class
on the other alliances would cost 115,000 MileagePlus miles or 125,000 SkyMiles.
Not exact matches
«I don't» think there's a strong need to cement something or cast it in stone,» he said, adding that the
alliance helps with coordination
on technology and
other issues.
One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new
alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and
others, and begin creating their own products in order to end their dependence
on the West.
NATO member Turkey is seeking to buy the S - 400 missile system from Russia, alarming Washington and
other members of the Western
alliance, and President Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara has already paid a deposit
on the deal.
OPEC is working
on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its
alliance with
other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq
on Wednesday.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and
other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and
other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and
other disasters and
other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic
alliances, divestitures, and
other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and
other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and
other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report
on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports
on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
These include actions by the People's Bank of China to further curtail digital asset trading, an
alliance between the central bank and
other agencies to target fraudulent virtual currency schemes, and an announcement from the Shenzhen stock exchange stating that companies speculating
on blockchain technology will face repercussions.
Around the same time, reports emerged that CCTV 2, a Chinese state - run television channel, aired a story describing a newly formed
alliance between the PBoC and four
other governmental departments to cooperate in cracking down
on cybercrime, ostensibly including fraudulent digital assets and cryptocurrency firms.
* The effectiveness of marketing messages depends
on relevance and quality (and not only
on frequency) * Think in terms of abundance (the pie is infinite and helping
others is helping yourself) * Build
alliances with competitors, customers, suppliers, non-profits, and businesses in different markets * Be the early movers in green marketing and make the message believable and genuine (avoid greenwashing)
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from
other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or
other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and
other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or
other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or
other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions,
alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments
on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and
other factors.
The German company has already inked
alliances with Cisco, IBM, and
others to work
on V2X communication systems, which many experts view as key in the development of autonomous vehicles.
Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees
on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic
alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance
on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and
other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;
Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees
on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic
alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance
on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and
other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance
on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance
on strategic
alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance
on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded
on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.
There has been movement
on the part of
other countries to create
alliances outside of the partnerships with the United States ever since the financial crisis.
Cultivating relationships with
other nonprofit organizations, including those focused
on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build
alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.
Most of the war death in the 20th century was caused by nationalism, with a few
other factors in the mix — greed, pride,
alliances, border disputes, racial prejudice and so
on.
By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old
alliances between the civil - rights movement,
on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry,
on the
other, had been put under severe strain.
Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great
alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed,
other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry
on their persons.
Unfortunately, efforts to push forward a careful
alliance of theology with evolutionary biology are often obscured by the more sensational spats going
on between IDT defenders and creationists
on the one side, and evolutionary materialists
on the
other.
In February 1998, long before the September 11 terrorist attacks
on America, Osama bin Laden and four
other leaders of radical Islamist groups in various countries issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, calling for jihad against «the crusader «Zionist
alliance» in the following....
Efforts to mobilize Christians for political ends may be unprecedentedly massive
on the right and are by no means lacking
on the left; but as is illustrated by antiabortion
alliances between Roman Catholics and conservative evangelicals and by antiwar protests gathering together both Christian pacifists and nonpacifists, these groupings are indifferent to ecumenism because, among
other things, it has no public influence.
In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending
on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the
alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and
other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.
The result is that the black
alliance within the Democratic party is not with
other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped
on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).
The tendency to unsurpastion
on one side or the
other, or to a corrupting coalition or
alliance between them, will be best guarded agst.
As the specificity of their Christianity became diluted, liberal Protestants» identity in the universities rested increasingly
on ethnic and class
alliances, or
on the
alliance with secularists against fundamentalism and
other perceived bigotries.
An authentic
alliance between faith and reason,
on the
other hand, holds the promise of producing real alternatives to the secular interpretation of reality, while also respecting what is true in the experience of secularity.
From June 2010 — December 2015, I was the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty
Alliance, (AFSA) which is Australia's first national
alliance of producers, local food businesses, community gardeners, farmers market coordinators, food social enterprises, local governments, health professionals and many
others who share a vision of a food system based
on the values of fairness to all, health and well - being, and ecosystem integrity.
Nevertheless, programs vary in their criteria for defining a satisfactory relationship: some focus
on a constructed friendship,
others on a teacher — learner relationship, and still
others on a therapeutic
alliance.
The populist leaders rely not so much
on political
alliances,
other influential people or the political institutions but rather
on elections and plebiscites.
On the
other hand, it has also invested in successively asserting itself and building strength by organising referenda, protests, creating an
alliance, and holding a ground breaking plebiscite, among many
other forms of «everyday resistance.»
Although the US has cooperated with
other states in space
on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA tends to develop deep space explorations in a spirit of leadership, where the US is the natural leader of international
alliances around goals chosen by the US.
In recent months the question of whether Labour ought to consider a «progressive
alliance» with
other anti-Tory parties has become a major talking point
on the left.
And should we not form
alliances with
others who are willing to oppose austerity, the privatisation of CalMac ferries or the replacement of Trident even if they have a different view
on the national question?
Kristian Dhal, the party leader, sent a message to «
other moderate euroskeptic parties like the British Conservatives» to form an
alliance to «steer back the EU» to focus
on trade and energy and to be less interfering in national legislation.
I met different kinds of political warriors
on my 12 yrs journey, some became friends while
others became foes, foes became friends while friends became foes, political
alliance were formed with various fighters from the political parties» base
on common interest.
For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % —
on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and
other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an
alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.
Now, with the endorsement of the Working Families Party, people are saying that now the Governor will put pressure
on Senator Jeff Klein and the
other four run away Democratic members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) to break their
alliance with the Republicans and to come back to join the Democratic Conference and in order to be able to take control of the Senate.
Elsewhere, Mr Corbyn also stamped down
on calls from senior figures — including Labour frontbencher Clive Owen - to enter into a so - called «progressive
alliance» with the Liberal Democrats and
other parties to take
on the Conservatives.
Speaking in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP had a «clear and unequivocal» mandate and would govern
on its own rather than in
alliance with
other parties.
The
alliance of anti-Glen groups includes New York Communities for Change, the Met Council
on Housing, the Black Institute, Tenants PAC and six
others.
On 4 December 2017, Franck Riester announced that his newly founded party Agir, consisting of various «Macron - compatible» elected officials of The Republicans (including a number expelled from the party) supportive of the government, a majority of which support the line of Alain Juppé, would present candidates in the 2019 European elections, not ruling out an
alliance with the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) and
other pro-European reformist parties.
Murphy said he is forming an
alliance with
other governors to put pressure
on the federal government to pass stricter gun laws.
Countries such as the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany
on the
other hand were voicing criticism about Greece's human rights record but supported the country's continued membership in the Council of Europe and NATO because of the country's strategic value for the western
alliance.
FBI agents caught former GOP State Senate Leader Dean Skelos
on tape discussing plans to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and to keep the Senate Democrats «at each
other's throats» by maintaining an
alliance with the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference — and those tapes were played today at the ongoing corruption trial of Mr. Skelos and his son, Adam.
Cuomo has been criticized by his Democratic primary challenger Cynthia Nixon — and
others on the left — for condoning, if not supporting, the
alliance of rogue Democrats with Republicans.
Today's votes
on tuition fees will see a strange
alliance of such people - MPs
on the Lib Dem left, and
on the Conservative right, but also
other Coal - sceptics too.
And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and
others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's
alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone
other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.
Despite the current problems of the Coalition it is certainly true that the PM's
alliance with the Liberal Democrats has meant the Cameroonians at the head of the Conservative Party have been able to pursue their policies
on tax, renewable energy, Europe and crime that would have been much harder if Brady, Carswell, Davis, Redwood and
other members of the Conservative mainstream had held the balance of power.