Sentences with phrase «on substantial contributions»

Not exact matches

On the second substantial issue facing the airline, the pension shortfall, Air Canada almost certainly needs to broker a compromise, likely involving contributions from both sides, and perhaps the federal government, to cover the gap.

«On behalf of everyone at MTS, I want to thank Alon for his service and substantial contributions to the Company since he joined us in 2007 and wish him great success in his new professional path,» said Mr. Haim Mer, the Company's Chairman of the Board.

In the 23rd Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (OCA, 2007), the Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) certified that, in spite of the substantial increase in CPP benefit payments that would result from the retirement of the baby boom generation, the current legislated contribution rate of 9.9 per cent for employers and employees combined would be more than enough to pay for benefits through 2075.

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

Some market participants have argued that housing's contribution to real GDP is but a shadow of its former self (2.6 % in 2015 vs. 3.3 % in 2005), but a substantial decline will still weigh on Federal Reserve's policy reaction function (especially given still - fresh memory of the housing downturn).

These actions, along with the board's assertion of «substantial liquidity» just months before the collapse and a progressive dividend policy (apparently at the expense of employees» pension fund contributions), have prompted questions on whether oversight failures relate to coziness with management, or simply competence.

We have made substantial contributions to political philosophy, technology, literature, music, the plastic and performing arts, cuisine, and so on.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's big chance to make a substantial contribution to the debate on the Bill's second reading: an extempore intervention (that it was unprepared is indicated by the barely coherent assertion that «any lack of clarity in this area seems fatally compromising and ambiguous») of 124 words.

Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

Future growth in the food and beverage industry will build on an already substantial contribution to the British economy.

I am not gonna come down on him too hard because he at least can point to a period of substantial contribution to the club, more so than some of the others.

Likewise, he poured through a substantial amount of work in protecting the Toffees» rearguard when Liverpool broke forward — an essential contribution on a day when midfield dynamo Idrissa Gana Gueye was fit enough only to appear as a second - half substitute following his hamstring problem.

On page 17, while mentioning that Skelos was soliciting substantial campaign contributions from that same company, the Erie County Republican Committee is referenced as an example.

The NEA has around 3 million members, spends quite a bit on lobbying, and makes substantial contributions directly to election funds and such (enough to rank as the third largest political donor in the US, according to opensecrets.org).

The installation of domestic rainwater harvesting systems leads to substantial savings for families on detergents and other additives used for laundry purposes, and also makes a valuable contribution to reducing this activity's environmental impact.

Despite her substantial contributions to enzymology, Hur felt an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with purely theoretical work, which relied on others» experimental data.

The International Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG) is a group of specialists on climate change detection and attribution, who have been collaborating since 1995 on assessing and reducing uncertainties in the estimates of climate change, and who have made substantial contributions to the IPCC process and the US CCSP activities.

The Allan Award, which recognizes a scientist for substantial and far - reaching scientific contributions to human genetics, was established in 1961 in memory of William Allan, MD (1881 - 1943), one of the first American physicians to conduct extensive research on human genetics and hereditary diseases.

Her current focus is on the effects of anthropogenic sound on the physiology and behavior of fish, substantial contributions to the field on barotrauma (tissue damage) response assessment of fish from pile driving, navy sonar, and tidal turbine noise.

The existing federal annual expenditure on childcare of $ 26 billion plus a portion of the federal tax expenditure for charitable contributions is more than sufficient to cover the $ 42 billion bill, while leaving a substantial charitable contribution deduction in place.

In 2006, the District chose to apply $ 138 million of surplus revenues as a down - payment on the accrued liability to date, and beginning in 2008, the District has made substantial annual contributions — at least $ 80 million per year — to cover new liabilities and also pay down a portion of the accrued liability.

Profit - sharing plans: Type of corporate retirement plan in which contributions are made out of net profits, either based on a precise formula or merely made in substantial and systematic way.

Employers who can make a tax - deductible contribution into an IRA for yourself and on behalf of your employees as a substantial tax - free fringe benefit.

Any interest payments should be sheltered inside the RRSP (substantial benefit), but if the person defaults on the second mortgage (which you should expect to be a significant possibility), you've lost your entire $ 100,000 contribution room (as well as, obviously, the $ 100,000 that you loaned out).

However, I concluded the difference was not substantial enough that it was worth continuing to take earned income into my personal hands and pay more CPP contributions on.

Reintroducing Zao's work to a North American audience, the authors make a substantial contribution to scholarship on transnational art movements in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

A hallmark of Hofmann's instruction was his substantial contribution to modern color theory, based on his experience with the School of Paris and the Fauves as well as his work in the design studio of Robert and Sonia Delaunay.

About the exhibition catalogue: Published on the occasion of the long overdue first retrospective of the Icelandic - born, Santa Fe - based New Media art pioneer, Steina, this monograph is one of the only substantial publications to recognize a female artist's contribution to the field.

Published on the occasion of the long overdue first retrospective of the Icelandic - born, Santa Fe - based New Media art pioneer, Steina, this monograph is one of the only substantial publications to recognize a female artist's contribution to the field.

Receiving this award recognizes the growth and substantial professional contributions PAC has made to the arts community on Long Island and in New York State.

Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

all the young authors that Laframboise picked on have made sustained and substantial contributions since their first efforts on the IPCC.

The panel reports that on every continent except Antarctica, manmade warming is likely to have made a substantial contribution to the surface temperature (6).

It presently is not possible to place exact probabilities on the added contribution of climate change to extinction, but the observations noted above indicate substantial risk that impacts from climate change could, within just a few decades, drop the populations in many species below sustainable levels, which in turn would commit the species to extinction.

This could be a substantial contribution, given that the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat projects that in 2030, global emissions will be 22 billion tons of CO2 equivalent higher than the level needed to stay on track towards the 1.5 - degree Paris Agreement target.

Far from having a substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.

Whatever else Clements means, it unquestionably holds that the but - for test is a test based on «necessity», not merely «substantial connection» beyond de minimus, and that «material contribution» is not a reference to some method of establishing factual causation on the balance of probability.

On the one hand, the objective elements of this mode of liability seem to be same under CIL and the Rome Statute: although a substantial or significant contribution is required, this broadly includes any contribution that is more than a de minimus.

For example, bringing up new problems, refusing to talk, or disputing the partner's suggestions in the cool down discussion earned a low conflict recovery score whereas making frequent and substantial positive contributions or building on the partner's positive comments earned a high conflict recovery score.

Parental social class had a relatively small effect on antisocial behaviour, and although substantial independent contributions came from being male, having a low reading age, and attending more than two primary schools, conduct disorder still predicted the greatest cost.

She won't disclose the terms of the loan on the Dallas project, but she says the equity contribution is «substantial.»