Sentences with phrase «protecting economic interests»

If this trend accelerates and if Bitcoin Cash's price rises, it could create incentives for more miners to abandon the original bitcoin and migrate to the new version, or even create more offshoots.The battle has been as much about bitcoin's rightful identity as it's been about protecting economic interests.

The legal concept of the documentary record is only pragmatically useful; it serves only to protect economic interests.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle introduced state legislation last Thursday that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees «to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers and the service area» when proposing rate increases.

Two state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers when proposing rate increases.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, in contrast, ably represents her district, protects their economic interests, and delivers for them.

They are just protecting their economic interest.

That's why ThesisHelpers.com, in order to protect the economic interest of many, is offering aid in dissertation writing, editing, proposal drafting and macroeconomics topics.

This tactic must be understood to be not only greatly misleading given what is not in contention about climate change but also an attempt to manipulate people and governments to protect the economic interests of the members of the American Petroleum Institute..

Despite Donald Trump's threat to pull out of the Paris Agreement in June 2016, the United States negotiators will still be roaming the halls of COP 23, bringing an agenda where they plan to «protect their economic interests.»

There is nothing in the relevant statutory provisions to suggest there is any duty to protect the economic interests of third parties.

Since when is it the role of the LSUC to protect the economic interests of its members (or future members)?

Not exact matches

In that context, America's belated push to stop the trade free - loaders looks like a convenient pretext to argue that only a united Europe — around France and Germany, of course — can protect the continent's vital economic interests from what Paris and Berlin see as American protectionism and China's predatory trade practices.

It doesn't protect the interests of society and the environment, and it actually produces poorer economic outcomes.

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

A delicate balance has to be maintained when speaking about these places, for we can not overlook the huge global economic interests which, under the guise of protecting them, can undermine the sovereignty of individual nations.

In April 2011, JPMC agreed to settle claims that the bank over-charged active or recently active military service members on their mortgages by paying $ 27 million in cash to approximately 6,000 military personnel, by lowering interest rates and fees in excess of that permitted by the Service Members Civil Relief Act («SCRA») and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 («HERA») on soldiers» home loans, and by improperly foreclosing upon homes owned by borrowers protected by SCRA and HERA.

But as long as acting on perceived economic interest constantly impoverishes the future, society as a whole must do what it can to protect itself against market forces.

The goal of the state is to protect and advance its society — the kingdoms of the world are interested in power and economic gain.

Balance and protect the natural, social, cultural, historic, and economic interests of the marine ecosystem through integrated management.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

Appealing, for example, to those Senators who, while eager to withdraw from Afghanistan and avoid future such «entanglements,» nonetheless remain anxious about the future of American leadership and economic competitiveness, Kerry argued that «deploying diplomats today [to protect the national interest] is much cheaper than deploying troops tomorrow.»

«By requiring these additional measures of accountability, the State has signaled a stronger commitment to protecting its own fiscal interest in a time of economic uncertainty.

He insisted the free zone companies were not exempted from the application of the Labour Act thus workers in those sectors must be allowed to form unions to protect and defend their economic and social interests.

On Saturday night, Clegg told party activists that they could be proud of the party's record and «tell people how we took the right decisions in government to make sure interest rates were kept down and to protect people from the economic crises we have seen elsewhere in Europe».

The findings suggest that attitudes toward wealth distribution stem from more than just an economic motivation to protect one's self - interest or a fiscally conservative political ideology — the information provided by our surrounding environment also plays an important role.

Charities like Tusk and The Nature Conservancy work in conjunction with the local communities to help them see that it is in their economic interests to protect the wildlife and habitat around them.

• Common Interests: Most of the illegal African migrants take advantage of this to protect their socio - economic status, a thing that is felt more in the US than Europe.

One of the upshots of this revolutionary verve was the creation in June «68 of the French Directors Guild (Le SRF), designed to protect the artistic and economic interests of film directors.

While providing a response to the disaster, these efforts restored natural storm protection and developed resiliency for the next storm, further helping community members protect their heritage, economic interests, and families.

Finally, the ESCR Committee makes interesting comments on protecting the socio - economic rights of the most vulnerable groups in society.

Norwegian Authors Union Website: www.forfatterforeningen.no/english Association of Norwegian authors, protecting Norwegian authors» professional and economic interests.

As the author of a copyrighted work, UK copyright law protects some personal rights as well as economic interests.

On December 22, 2008, MediciNova, Inc. («MediciNova»), a company in which we have no economic interest, proposed to merge with Avigen with an innovative and, we believe, compelling downside - protected structure.

You'll benefit when the investments perform well; you earn a higher return on the investments, and can be protected if the policy has a guaranteed rate of interest when economic times are slower.

The best way to protect yourself from economic uncertainty, market anxiety and your own rash judgment — and still produce a good yield — is to assemble a portfolio of solid mutual funds that pay both good dividends and high interest.

Their excellent scientific work has continuously been sabotaged by countries working to protect narrow economic interests, such as the US, Canada, Australia, and Russia.

Overall, this year's report findings illustrate growing corporate interest in incentive payments to protect forests as a climate response, despite political and economic challenges to carbon price mechanisms more broadly.

[3] «The European Commission is paying lip - service to protecting the climate but puts neo-liberal economic policies and the interests of dirty industry above human well - being and environmental protection.

There was I, thinking the WSJ wasn't interested in scientific argument, and were intent on protecting the short term economic interests of large energy corporations at the longer term expense of the environment.

When not waxing eloquent about baseball, George Will has been protecting vested economic interests for many years now.

Proving harm to an economic interest would not be required for this cause of action, but the court noted that because of the intangible interest being protected here that any damages would be modest.

While some advanced a single principle or purpose — such as ending oppression, ensuring sufficiency, or protecting the interest of belonging and the benefits of full membership in social, economic and political lives — others took a more pluralistic approach.

Brexit Paper no. 25 looks at the legal and historic links between the EU, the internal market and customs union, and how the UK could negotiate a reduced role for the ECJ as well as tighter controls on EU worker migration while protecting key economic interests.

Secondly, the difficulty in having the courts understand business economic concepts and management realities that they are not normally familiar with; it is especially challenging (i) to encourage the members of the court to relinquish their original viewpoint, which is normally that of protecting the interest, and (ii) to have them understand concepts such as the corporate profitability, the necessary return on shareholders» investments and the company's necessary competitive position.

In place of these, the OEB's new objectives are to: (1) «protect the interests of consumers with respect to prices and the adequacy, reliability and quality of electricity service»; and (2) «Promote economic efficiency and cost effectiveness in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale and demand management of electricity and to facilitate the maintenance of a financially viable electricity industry».

The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) pledged in its 2016 - 2019 plan to work closely with the Department for Media, Culture and Sport to balance the interest of protecting the public and supporting economic growth.

The source of contention in all of these cases is that a number of third countries and seal hunters are not too happy with the EU's decision to damage their economic interests for reasons of protecting the health and life of animals not situated within the territory of the EU (granted, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but most EU law does not apply there, see article 198 - 204, 355 TFEU and Annex II of the Lisbon Treaty).

Employers and the economic interests of capitalism were protected by powerful common law defences: if a worker or co-worker could be shown to have contributed in any way (for example, slipping onto exposed machinery) the employer was not held at fault or liable.

However, in this appeal the only remaining issue is whether or not, as a quasi-employer, the Commissioner owed the officers a duty of care to protect their health, economic and reputational interests in: (i) the conduct of the Commissioner's defence; (ii) the decision to settle those proceedings; and (iii) the terms on which the settlement was reached.

This case concerns the power of the State of New York to deny additional facilities to acquire and ship milk in interstate commerce where the grounds of denial are that such limitation upon interstate business will protect and advance local economic interests.