Sentences with phrase «practices issues as»

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While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to measure the impact of the policies and practices implemented.

In November 1998, he testified as one of three technical expert witnesses, along with computer science professors from Princeton and MIT, in the landmark U.S. vs. Microsoft antitrust trial, on issues of corporate computing practices and Web browser integration.

Members of the cluster specialize in environmental issues such as recycling old airplane parts, decreasing the weight of planes so that they require less fuel, and encouraging the military to adopt these «green» aviation practices.

Understanding the concepts behind Gantt charts, a critical path, as well as Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) diagrams has been extremely useful in untangling a wide range of complex business issues, processes, relationships and practices.

The FCC had issued a report in January saying AT&T's and Verizon's practices, known as «zero rating,» were likely anti-consumer, but that did not require them to change what they were doing.

At a more limited round of NAFTA talks in mid-December in Washington, Guajardo said it was important to agree on key issues in order to close some NAFTA chapters such as those on food safety, telecommunications, regulatory practices, and digital commerce.

There's also a resource page that offers answers to HR - related questions and discusses issues such as best practices in employee onboarding, keeping employees engaged and handling overtime.

«Given the significant consequences of acting as an unregistered broker - dealer and the increased attention being given to this issue by the SEC staff, private - fund advisers should consider reviewing their practices to determine whether any activities that may be approaching or crossing the line would require broker - dealer registration,» David Blass, the chief counsel of the SEC's division of trading and markets, suggested in a speech last April.

Mr. Hernandez has a law degree from Harvard Law School and practiced as a litigation attorney for four years with a large law firm in California, which provides him with additional insight on risk management issues.

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The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

This has taken the FSB into such areas as supervision, resolution regimes, derivatives markets, shadow banking, compensation practices, data and disclosure, and legal and accounting issues.

As an aside, in making his recent comments about the business practices of Valeant, Munger is not speaking as someone who does not understand the issues involved in drug distribution and pricinAs an aside, in making his recent comments about the business practices of Valeant, Munger is not speaking as someone who does not understand the issues involved in drug distribution and pricinas someone who does not understand the issues involved in drug distribution and pricing.

As head of Herbert Smith Freehills» private wealth practice in Asia, Richard acts for HNW individuals, their families, private banks and other advisors across Asia on a range of contentious and non-contentious trust and probate issues together with charitable and family company matters.

The team comprises regional specialists for the 100 + markets covered by Glass Lewis, as well as experts within Glass Lewis» issue - specific practices focused on the analysis of mergers and acquisitions, other financial transactions and contested meetings; compensation; and environmental, social and governance («ESG») issues.

I know some dividend bloggers are a little worried about HCP at current levels because of some some tenant occupancy issues they are facing as well as a DOJ investigation into questionable billing practices.

In its seventh edition, this state of the market report presents investors» perspectives on key issues important to the impact investing industry, as well as analysis of their investment activity, asset allocations by geography, sector, and investment instrument, impact measurement practice, and performance.

This paper identifies policy incoherence, selective reform practices, and limitations in local experiments as the three major issues that could potentially impede Beijing's reform agenda.

I don't mind people practicing their own religion but when it is pushed in my face and somewhat forced on me as a way I should think, I have issue with that.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

Why would he choose something so abhorrent as beating a slave and not even express distaste for the practice, unless he had no issue with the practice.

And in 1890, Woodruff, who the Utah History Encyclopedia says initially had supported the practice of polygamy, issued what became known as the 1890 Manifesto: «I publicly declare that my advice to the Latter - day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriages forbidden by the law of the land.»

Everyone has their myths, Xavier, including atheists and agnostics... smile I feel the article is a fair statement of many folks issues with Christianity particularly as practiced and perceived among Western protestant evangelical christians.

No Authority As a practicing general pediatrician, I appreciated Dr. Leonard Sax's article «Don't Ask the Kids» in the October issue of First Things.

Princeton historian Peter Brown takes up this issue of care for the poor as it was practiced in the fourth and fifth centuries of the Christian era.

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

In general, the goal is to immediately put into practice what is learned, and then immediately address any needs or issues that arose as a result of what was done.

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

I also would suggest the primary issue with the Pharisees was not «religion» as we see it practiced today but religion based on Nationalism — more Tea Party than Holy Rollers.

We may deeply respect the meditational practices of India and China and admire the results that issue from them, but they do not express the wisdom of Israel as transmitted to us in our Bible.

A long and engaged effort at Communion - wide consultation over the issue of women in the episcopacy gave rise to a report, endorsed by the Communion's archbishops, to maintain communion as far as possible even while various churches carried on with different practices.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

Here, for some, the issue will loom large as to whether there is also a collective legitimation of a religious practice.

I complained to HR about this and in a meeting with the executive director of the organisation was told what I had practiced was «self - appointed advocacy» which he regarded as a conduct issue and talked of the easiest solution being for me to resign.

Few issues are as important today as the protection of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the practice of religion.

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

Denied recognition as a minister by the Atlanta presbytery, Erin now works as «a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in gender - identity issues.»

The responder may begin with a phrase such as «Let's see if I understand how it looks to you...» and then he paraphrases what he thinks the other is expressing, (d) Switch roles and try to state each other's position and feelings on one issue on which you have obvious differences of viewpoint, (e) Practice nonverbal communication by attempting to get messages through to each other with the use of touch, facial expressions, body movements, gestures, eye communication.

The deeper issue is the genuine spiritual power recognizable in a pastor who, as the spiritual guide of a congregation, has faithfully practiced the traditional disciplines of Christian faith.

You want folks with you I want to be free to express what I find to help such as practicing forgiveness with your affirmation given this is a positive approach to the issue of abuse that frequently is a theme here.

In view of the current brouhaha over foundationalism, so - called, it seems advisable to address the issue of wherein what I have grudgingly called foundational analysis consists, at least as it is practiced by Ogden.26 Again, the point is a simple one.

Buddhists as Buddhists do not promote ethnic nationalism, but they do not understand their religious thought and practice to deal with issues of this sort.

My next comment on the issue of AIDS as punishment for homosexual practice may upset even more people than my previous point.

We can rebut Reagan's assumption that religious practice automatically guarantees moral virtue and justifies favoring the ethical views of conservative over liberal Christians, Jews or agnostics on such specific issues as school prayer.

Well, yes, but that rather misses the whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis of conscience among Catholics who on every other point of faith and morality are obedient servants of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»

As I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex practice as wrong, and less than God's best for my lifAs I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex practice as wrong, and less than God's best for my lifas wrong, and less than God's best for my life.

UPDATE: For those who think I mean «patriarchy» as an insult rather than a description of reality, consider this: In the current issue of The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Owen Strachan wrote, «For millennia, followers of God have practiced what used to be called patriarchy and is now called complementarianism.»

For example, are there ways in which such conventional contrasts as «theory / practice» or «academic / professional» or «objective / subjective» serve as much to obfuscate issues as to clarify them?

ES: It seems — as you mentioned with LGBT issues and same - sex marriage — that culture is moving in a different direction than most people of practicing faith.