Sentences with phrase «serves as a present»

• U.S. military maneuvers and training exercises prepare U.S. troops for possible future invasions while serving as present instruments of psychological warfare.

Would not be a bad buy, but serves as a present for future demands.

Nissan TITAN served as the presenting sponsor of Blake Shelton's «Doing it to Country Songs» tour which headed out on the highways across the U.S. beginning February 16 in Bakersfield, California and finished up September 16 at the American Kickoff in Colorado Springs, making stops in places like North Lawrence, Ohio; Daytona, Florida and Lexington, Kentucky along the way.

ALTON, Va. — Pirelli World Challenge announced today that Audi Sport will serve as the presenting sponsor for the upcoming PWC Grand Prix of Virginia schedule for April 27 - 29 at the picturesque 3.27 - mile, 17 - turn VIRginia International Raceway permanent road circuit in south Virginia.

Dodge will serve as the presenting...

The Honourable Justice M. Deborah Gass of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Family Division was the Presiding Justice, with Society President Timothy G.J Daley QC and First Vice-President J. René Gallant serving as Presenting Officers for the proceedings.

The Honourable Justice Glen G. McDougall of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court was the Presiding Justice, with the Society's First Vice-President Tilly Pillay QC and Second Vice-President Jill Perry serving as Presenting Officers for the proceedings.

Not exact matches

Webinars: Reworking my talks to make them web - friendly and then presenting them to an almost limitless audience online serves both my love of speaking as well as our desire to increase the size of our audience.

Bitcoin does not present a threat to economic activity by disrupting traditional channels of commerce; rather, it could serve as a boon....

This shorter plan is not meant to be a substitute for a full - length plan, but serves as an option to present to potential partners or investors.

The following quotes serve as reminders to help consistently bring you back into the present moment — and ultimately improve your relationship with yourself, with others, and the world around you.

County and municipal officials presented two sites that they believe could serve as viable locations for the e-commerce giant: the sprawling Chester City waterfront and nearly 1 million square feet of open and redevelopable land in Middletown Township, seven miles away.

In many ways, the March 13, 1911 order continues to serve as the basis for the present day regulations found in part 231.

This table and the related tables that follow present the compensation paid for 2007 to Richard M. Kovacevich, Chairman (who also served as CEO until June 2007); John G. Stumpf, President and, since June 2007, CEO; Howard I. Atkins, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO); and the next three highest paid executive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, Community Banking.

These integrated audits serve as a basis for the auditors» opinions included in the annual report to stockholders addressing whether the financial statements fairly present the Company's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and whether the Company's internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2007.

He has been a director of Viskase Companies, a supplier of cellulose and fibrous casings, from October 2006 to the present, where he is currently chairman of the Audit Committee and previously served as chairman of the Compensation Committee.

The Bank of Korea's research report «Present Status and Key Issues of Distributed Ledger Technology» will serve as a reference manual for long - term strategy and research on distributed ledger technology.

The Rix Awards are an initiative of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, presented in honour of the late Dr. Don Rix, who served as Chair of the organization in 2008 - 09.

The Rix Awards are a special initiative of The Vancouver Board of Trade, presented in honour of the late Dr. Don Rix, who served as the 2008 - 09 Chair of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

The Rix Awards are a special initiative of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, presented in honour of the late Dr. Don Rix, who served as the 2008 - 09 Chair of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

These audits serve as a basis for the auditors» opinions included in the annual report to stockholders addressing whether the financial statements fairly present our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and whether our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2010.

From 2008 — 2012 he chaired the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management and from 2012 to present has served as vice chair of the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School.

He has presented at a wide variety of corporate law seminars and symposia around the country, including The Tulane Institute of Corporate Law (where he serves as Co-Chair of the Planning Committee), The Association of General Counsel, The Harvard School of Law, Columbia School of Law, The University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and The University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics (where he serves as a member of the Board of Advisors), The Annual Institute on Corporate Securities and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions, sponsored by the New York City Bar Association, as well as a variety of seminars sponsored by The Practicing Law Institute and the American and Delaware State Bar Associations.

Adams serves as PNC's spokesperson on international economic issues, and frequently presents to PNC clients on the economic outlook.

The Board believes that the most effective Board leadership structure for the Company at the present time is for the CEO to serve as Chairman of the Board in conjunction with the appointment of a Lead Independent Director as described below.

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

Without the latter, ideals do not stand out sufficiently beyond the ambiguities of the present, either to serve as a judgment on historical actuality or as a lure for future realization.

If sociologists have tended to center on the foregoing argument and to single out work as the basis of their assessment of our present inability to play authentically, theologians and philosophers have tended to: focus upon a second area: America's distorted value structure that has accepted as true the «mindscape» of technology 48 This is Theodore Roszak's phrase, and his discussion can perhaps serve as a helpful starting point.

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

We must, indeed, consider how the Church should act in the present as well as in the future, we must organize and interest ourselves in her social side; but all this must always serve only these ancient and ever - new truths.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

From deep ecology we learn both to affirm our kinship with fellow creatures and to allow evolutionary history — past, present, and future — to serve as a frame of reference through which we understand ourselves.

Secular politicians joined the fray when presenting themselves as crusaders against Haredi imposition served their interests, and the media was happy to sensationalize everything in order to sell newspapers and increase television ratings.

He has served as dean of the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology and at present is professor of ecumenics and world Christianity at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

It also served admirably as an opportunity for government - employed specialists in aging to meet one another, as well as those nongovernmental participants present.

At present, he also serves as Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also serves as Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics.

Religious traditions understand themselves as presenting a truth revealed by a holy and almighty God who calls human beings from a self - centered focus to a life of serving God and neighbor.

Education also serves to transform and refine desires, so that one does not simply seek immediate gratification of animal hungers, but gains the ability to postpone present satisfactions for the sake of more lasting benefits and to enjoy the «higher» pleasures as well as ordinary bodily delights.

As it becomes aware of the specific form in which ultimate human problems present themselves in our own time, the ministry, and therewith the schools that prepare men for it, begin to understand more sharply what the pastoral function is, in what language the gospel speaks to this need, and what form the Church must take in serving such men in such a time.

equally important is the fact that in addition to family physicians, the clergymen of the community,... and the other guardians of mental health can consult with the center's professional staff to aid in serving individual patients about whom they share concern, as well as to add to their own knowledge of mental health and mental illness through formal and informal classes and meetings presented by the center's staff.

These writings have their being, as they had their origin, within the life of a community which traces its descent from Abraham and Moses, from prophets and apostles, and plays its part in the history of our own time; and the Scriptures not only recall its past, but serve the needs of its day - to - day existence in the present.

All this is doing is presenting yourselves as obnoxious, petty, self - serving prigs that no one's going to empathize with.

As Ogden puts it, «religious assertions can serve to reassure us only because they themselves are the re-presentation of a confidence somehow already present prior to their being made.»

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

It carries greater ontological weight than either past or present, and because of this it can serve as the foundation for transcendence.

This gaffe further convinced many Hispanics present that Trump is either unprepared to serve as president (surely he would have developed some standard response for this kind of question) or simply uncaring about the Hispanic community.

Not only is present - day culture not serving as a binding force between nations, but it is being used to accentuate their mutual dissimilarities and animosities.

So far as we can tell today, there is no single pericope anywhere in the gospels, the present purpose of which is to preserve a historical reminiscence of the earthly Jesus, although there may be some which do in fact come near to doing so because a reminiscence, especially of an aspect of teaching such as a parable, could be used to serve the purpose of the Church or the evangelist.