Sentences with phrase «result of this balancing act»

As a result of this balancing act, drug and alcohol testing is most often restricted to employees in safety sensitive positions, and even then, tests are usually permissible only after an accident or a near - miss incident.

As a result of this balancing act, there are a number of decisions which offer guidelines for employers with respect to the implementation of drug and alcohol testing policies.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Nor would they be seeking to justify a «lie» by calculating the different consequences of their act and predicting that there will be a benign balance of the good results over the bad.

If one or two of the legs are taken away, the result is a precarious balancing act.

In this week setting out the cooperative's annual budget for 2009, Arla chief executive officer Peder Tuborgh said that expected difficulties as a result of the financial climate require a balancing act between producing added - value goods and cost efficiency.

It is a bit of a balancing act, but can Arsenal fully focus on this Barcelona game without letting a bad result get to us too much?

But the HRA has, nonetheless, had an important impact on the political discourse in our country — it has acted as a totemic reminder of the need to strike a balance between liberty and security, and to preserve the liberties that grew up naturally as a result of our common law.

Balancing Act In the hope of minimizing the number of people forced to cope with incidental findings, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) in 2013 proposed regularly returning results on 56 genes from comprehensive genetic tests.

Results: With the simple act of watering a plant, humans alter the balance of moisture in soil and the climate.

Blood sugar balance is one of the most important balancing acts in your body, and a trained functional medicine practitioner can spot these patterns both in your history and your lab results.

«Quality and compliance can be a bit of a balancing act at times, but it's an art when they are balanced proportionately and something to be proud of when the results are clear.»

In January, we at Fordham will announce the results of a major study of PARCC, Smarter Balanced, ACT Aspire, and MCAS, which will provide more evidence as to whether the new tests are an improvement as promised.

The Education Department has not yet disclosed the Smarter Balanced results, rejecting a request under the Freedom of Information Act submitted by the Journal Inquirer on the same day the state distributed the information to superintendents.

Congress, in passing the Every Student Succeeds Act in December, required that states build their school evaluation systems using three common metrics: high school graduation rates; progress of English learners in becoming proficient in English, and achievement in English language arts and math, for which California will use the results of the Smarter Balanced tests in grades 3 - 8 and 11.

This obviously makes intuitive sense because the presence of a very cheap company alone will not result in realization of value unless management is willing to act in the interests of shareholders either by liquidating a business that has no future prospects but a very liquid balance sheet or taking steps to improve the business.

As a result, there is a balance of forces acting on the Earth's surface.

However, such awards require a delicate balancing act, as they must remain anchored in both the conduct of the parties and the resulting harm suffered.

It was not about the use of the surplus that had accumulated in the Employment Insurance Account, but the effects of the Act eliminating the balance of the Employment Insurance Operating Account and the resulting accounting entries that flowed from the 2010 legislative amendment.

Subsection 25 (1.3), which came into force in 2012 as a result of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, provides in making such a decision, the Minister may not consider the same factors that are taken into account in determining whether a foreign national is a Convention refugee (s. 96) or a person in need of protection (s. 97).

``... the tort of civil fraud has four elements, which must be proven on a balance of probabilities: (1) a false representation by the defendant; (2) some level of knowledge of the falsehood of the representation on the part of the defendant (whether knowledge or recklessness); (3) the false representation caused the plaintiff to act; (4) the plaintiff's actions resulted in a loss.»

The leading case on civil fraud in Canada is the Supreme Court of Canada decision in 2014 in Hryniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7, and in that case civil fraud is defined this way ``... the tort of civil fraud has four elements, which must be proven on a balance of probabilities: (1) a false representation by the defendant; (2) some level of knowledge of the falsehood of the representation on the part of the defendant (whether knowledge or recklessness); (3) the false representation caused the plaintiff to act; and (4) the plaintiff's actions resulted in a loss.»

We have adopted the policy recommended by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in the Health Information Policy Model Act (1998) as this best reflects the balance of the appropriate level of regulation of the industry compared with the need to protect individuals from harm that may result from inadvertent disclosure of information.

The emphasis on results, while a must - have, is a balancing act that shouldn't overshadow the significance of situations.