Sentences with phrase «stabilizing force for»

«Through our partnership with NAHREP we are committed to fostering diversity and driving homeownership for all clients and making the American Dream of homeownership — the cornerstone of wealth creation and a stabilizing force for working families — a reality for all who aspire to that goal.»

Height: 6» 10» Weight: 260 Age: 18 Last: 7 Stats: 13.5 PPG, 9.1 RPG, 2.1 BPG Carter was a productive, stabilizing force for Duke this season and is viewed as a safe bet to play in the NBA for a long time.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

Not exact matches

Some of Trump's allies say it would be a «lethal» mistake for the president to oust Kelly, who many feel is a stabilizing force within the White House and helped quell some of the backbiting that plagued the administration for much of its first year.

So if you find yourself forced to cut back on your compensation — or even to cash in some of your family's outside investments to raise capital for your venture — you'll need to delay diversification until conditions stabilize.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

Despite suppressing interest rates for many years to bolster its credibility on inflation, the Bank of Japan has been forced to pledge significant ongoing monetary stimulus until price rises stabilize above its 2 % target.

I think Arsene wants to keep Arteta as a stabilizing force in the dressing room, but we must let all the others go, specially Rosicky for his sake, so he can play some games in his twilight years.

Davis has outplayed Cousins, and Aldridge has been steadier — the stabilizing two - way force for an injury - riddled Spurs team that somehow keeps winning.

The United States has benefitted for several decades from the perception in large parts of the region that it has acted as a benign hegemon that has no territorial ambitions and can act as a stabilizing force allowing the serious business of economic development to continue without distraction (Goh, 2008).

The last point may not be as potent, given that Cuomo has become, for now, a stabilizing force in New York government.

The voters see clearly that the IDC is a strong, stabilizing, sensible force for governing in New York State whose only agenda is getting things done for the people of this great state.»

Klein said the IDC had served as a «strong, stabilizing force» during its partnership with the Senate Republicans, but the time has come to reassess that relationship in light of the fact that top progressive priorities like the DREAM Act, a statewide public campaign finance system and the Women's Equality Act aren't being allowed to the floor of the Senate for a vote due to the opposition of GOP Leader Dean Skelos.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson today announced that two Brooklyn landlords have been indicted on unlawful eviction and other charges for allegedly forcing or attempting to force rent - stabilized tenants out of their homes by allegedly destroying their apartments and making them uninhabitable in an effort to destabilize the apartments in order to collect significantly higher market - rate rents.

Another provision in the budget, this one on Page 77, would force de Blasio to do something he has thus far vehemently resisted: pay for half of the MTA's $ 836 million, short - term plan to stabilize the flailing subway system.

To support residents already living in Inwood, the City is taking action through the new Tenant Harassment Prevention Task Force, providing free legal representation for tenants, and working with the State to ensure rent - stabilized tenants are not charged unlawful rents.

Bronx Senator Jeff Klein, the leader of the IDC, which had been aligned with Republicans in the Senate to form a majority coalition over the past two years, said the past four years of the group's existence had resulted in «a strong, stabilizing, sensible force for governing in New York State.»

Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, started investigating this «architecture of life» over thirty - five years ago, and discovered that Nature uses an architectural principle known as «tensegrity» (short for «tensional integrity») to stabilize the shapes of living cells and to determine how they respond to mechanical forces.

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Rice University, both in Houston, had been talking for months about joining forces to create a research powerhouse and stabilize Baylor, which is in financial trouble.

Just for the sake of illustration, though, here's one scenario where higher Holocene variability could go along with lower climate sensitivity: Suppose that some unknown stabilizing mechanism makes the real world less sensitive to radiative forcing than our current models.

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

This translates to much less work for the chest, shoulder and triceps muscles when it comes to stabilizing the weight and they are free to exert more force upwards.

Needless to say, this type of effort does wonders for core strength and overall stability since it forces your core to stabilize the body and prevent it from falling or excessively leaning on one side.

When performing the Z press, throwers and other overhead athletes (as well as all athletes, regardless of sport) are forced to stabilize with the rhomboids and posterior shoulder to allow for smooth repetitions vertically.

And you're going to set that decline bench in front of a wall so you can put your feet up on the WALL instead of on the floor, which immediately solidifies and stabilizes the core, allowing for strong transference of force from the lower body.

Her Tereza is the film's stabilizing force, whereas Lena Olin's Sabina is an icon of bowler - hatted libertinage; in one epochal scene, Tereza gets Sabina to pose for some nude photographs, and something subterranean stirs between these two very different women.

Although teacher support for Common Core tumbled in 2014 and 2015, in the past year it has stabilized, with nearly half the teaching force continuing to support Common Core.

Sears says schools like Lakewood need a «full - force attack» on poverty, meaning additional state funding for social services, child care, health care, pre-K and smaller class sizes, as well as a stabilized teacher pipeline.

The only way to address this issue is for every force in education — politicians, unions, philanthropists, reformers, parents, community activists — to make difficult compromises and commitments necessary to stabilize school districts in the face of charter growth.

Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time, the Committee anticipates that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will support a strengthening of economic growth and a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability.

Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time, the Committee continues to anticipate that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will contribute to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth in a context of price stability.

• Rescue / Volunteer Coordinator • Community Outreach Coordinator • Facilities Maintenance Lead • Began utilizing Inmate labor to clean both Shelters • Crew Leaders to more effectively manage and supervise inmate crews • Foster Coordinator / Intake mitigation counselor • Second Full Time Veterinarian • Extended hours of Shelter operation to 7 days a week • Stabilized our work force • Increased staff training • Created a Call Center in the Viera Office to free up shelter staff using existing personnel in the Viera office • Makeover of the South Shelter with the help of Habitat for Humanity and the Pet Posse • Created Community Cat Rooms • Created outside runs for the dogs • Built Fisher and Mollies Place and the Rainbow Bridge • New Paint and Landscaping • Mini Makeover of the North Shelter using inmate labor • Re purposed two (2) existing vehicles for mobile adoption partnering with Community Champions and Jacks Wrecker Service • Increased adoption events throughout the community • Partnered with Supermodel Kate Upton and the Washington Nationals to roll out the mobile adoption program • Recruited and hired an proven leader in shelter medicine, Dr. Sarah Boyd • Addressed a back log of over 600 spay / neuter surgeries, by bringing surgeries up to date

The challenge I've posed for myself is to find a way to bring together the particular humor of funny shapes with the eternal shapes of geometry, thereby letting the world of geometry bring a classicizing, stabilizing force to my comic elements.

Natural variations could turn around and counteract the greenhouse - gas - forced change, perhaps stabilizing the ice for a bit.

Just for the sake of illustration, though, here's one scenario where higher Holocene variability could go along with lower climate sensitivity: Suppose that some unknown stabilizing mechanism makes the real world less sensitive to radiative forcing than our current models.

Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC): An agreement opened for signature at the «Earth Summit» in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate change.

If the overall cap for any year is set below the level of emissions last year, on a downward trajectory compatible with stabilizing concentrations at a safe level, reserving some credits for new entrants would force other firms to bid for fewer permits, raising prices and increasing the number of mitigation activities that are worth undertaking.

It is a stabilization scenario in which total radiative forcing is stabilized shortly after 2100, without overshoot, by the application of a range of technologies and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Fujino et al. 2006; Hijioka et al. 2008).

The core post-2100 extension of RCP6 (Representative Concentration Pathway to 6 W / m2), known as ECP6 (Extended Concentration Pathway to 2300 for RCP6), reaches 6 W / m2 and stabilizes at that level of radiative forcing.

It informs us about the global temperature change «in the pipeline» without further change of climate forcings and it defines how much greenhouse gases must be reduced to restore Earth's energy balance, which, at least to a good approximation, must be the requirement for stabilizing global climate.

«The [FHA] served as a stabilizing force during [the] crisis by providing access to mortgage credit for underserved borrowers, and preserving a path to the middle class that can be passed on from one generation to another.»