Sentences with phrase «powerful incentives»

The Supreme Court recognized that the Federal Circuit standard was wrong, in that it would create «powerful incentives to inject ambiguity» into claims.

Legal Project Management — Sweeping changes in today's legal marketplace have created powerful incentives for law firms to manage legal matters more efficiently and effectively.

Shifting the tax burden to pollution and pollution - generating activities will create powerful incentives to use less energy and emit less CO2 into the atmosphere while simultaneously promoting tax equity and minimizing the impact of the carbon tax on those with lower incomes.

Carl Pope, Chairman of The Sierra Club, spoke of coal and how utilities have powerful incentives to hold on to coal.

Now, to make sure we stay on this goal we're going to need to do more --- by offering more powerful incentives to consumers, and by rewarding the communities that pave the way for the adoption of these vehicles.

It just shows you how powerful incentives are.

Clearly, there are powerful incentives for schools to deny admission to students after the school year has begun.

There is an assumption that handing tax funded Education Savings Accounts over to parents will transform them into discerning consumers and thereby «providers will have powerful incentives to compete on the basis of both quality and cost.»

Instead of encouraging teachers to create their own unique but unproven teaching styles, teacher education programs will now have powerful incentives to equip teachers with proven teaching methodologies.

In fact, they are designed to give schools powerful incentives to reach an agreement with OCR — or better still, pressure schools not yet the target of a complaint to follow every element of OCR's lengthy guidance documents.

However, if greater economic dynamism, more powerful incentives for creativity, cultural innovation, greater opportunity for material comfort, greater acceptance of diversity, and greater personal liberty are taken as measures of societal well - being, then the United States might be better.

Given the powerful incentives that are in place, there is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators, like those found in nearly all other professional employment settings.

Once again, school districts, private firms, and even states face powerful incentives (as with «proficiency» under NCLB) to set their standards at levels that lots of young people will meet, whether or not that has anything to do with «mastery.»

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

They focused their search on expression levels of two sets of genes, those that remained largely unchanged across all four species, suggesting that there was little room — or need — for improvement, and those that changed most dramatically, usually in the human lineage — an indication of powerful incentives to adapt to a changing environment.

Consumption is one of the most powerful incentives of all.

The case presented by Next Wave illustrates the powerful incentives that work to undermine the practice of sharing in science.

The «most powerful incentives,» the only ones that count as the «true restraint belonging to virtue,» are «esteem and disgrace.»

The argument for a system in which some people get very rich has always been that the lure of wealth provides powerful incentives.

Consumer and activist responses to bad corporate behavior are some of the most powerful incentives for corporations to try to institutionalize good behavior.

As years went by the airline offered powerful incentives to gain attention from travelers, which further improved their visibility and reputation.

SHARE options are a common part of high - level remuneration packages intended to be powerful incentives for company executives - but they can quickly go «underwater» when markets tumble.

In the face of rising nationalism and authoritarianism worldwide, it is in America's best interest to maintain the rules - based free trade system that creates a powerful incentive for peace.

The share in the company's success is a powerful incentive at Davidson.

With employees» assuming more and more of the responsibility to save for their retirement, offering a retirement benefit is a powerful incentive that will help you retain and attract current and prospective employees.

That's a powerful incentive!

«Companies have a very powerful incentive to do everything they can to make an employee happy.»

A price on carbon works because it creates a powerful incentive to cut pollution, encouraging people and businesses to save money by making cleaner choices like better insulating their homes or upgrading to more efficient equipment.»

«They recognize that distributed ledger technology has the potential to improve the speed, transparency and efficiency with which payments are made, but the current market structure gives them a powerful incentive to stay the course.»

The fact that coal production was punctiform, that coal was bulky and heavy, and that its transport to market was often linear rather than dendritic in character, created a powerful incentive to invest in transport improvements.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Leo Strine of Chancery Court gave companies a powerful incentive to build both independent board review and minority shareholder approval into the going - private process, writing new law that should boost shareholder protections.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

They were 6.5 % during the height of the dot - com bubble, which is a powerful incentive to be in cash.

That creates a powerful incentive for firms to come forward with evidence of ethics breaches that might otherwise go unnoticed and unpunished.

Separation thus introduces a powerful incentive to abandon a religious practice.

By financing desalination plants, the U.S. could also greatly decrease the tensions in the area, turn barren land into rich farmland, some of which could be used for resettling those in refugee camps, and encourage economic cooperation between Israel and Palestine that would provide a powerful incentive for peace.

However, choosing to not do something because it reduces someone else's suffering makes you feel noble and can be an ever more powerful incentive.

But, knowing our natural fear of death, those who invented and developed the religions added this in as a powerful incentive for belief.

Many pastors from Smith's day down to our own time have questioned this conviction that the powerful incentive of self - interest is a servant of the public good.

Narrow self - interest, though a powerful incentive for the production of material wealth, does not cement communities.

The lack of a powerful incentive like Durant Rule eligibility may have cost Indiana and the Jazz their homegrown All - Stars.

It «s a powerful incentive for change.

It is true that the UK government could change its funding formulas in the future to ensure Scotland gets a smaller dividend, but I suspect the threat of independence is quite a powerful incentive against that happening.

The promise of cash, access to the rest of the Europe and - perhaps most importantly - legitimacy and good standing as a modern state - is a powerful incentive to want to join.

And, barring police state, only one reliable effective way, considering the fact that humans respond to incentives and cost / benefit ratios present a very powerful incentive.

This creates a powerful incentive (which corporate management likes but investors do not) to not pay dividends.

Trump's rhetoric and at - times incendiary language has given minority voters a powerful incentive to support Clinton's candidacy.

This will provide a very powerful incentive for them to stay in the Coalition.

The motivation and means to answer those unknowns was a powerful incentive, Otis says.

«Use it or lose it» clauses, as they are known, are common in state laws throughout the Colorado River basin and give the farmers, ranchers and governments holding water rights a powerful incentive to use more water than they need.