Sentences with phrase «substantial impact of the development»

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It adds that «approval or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.»

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Furthermore, since the impact of father absence on child development is often negative; since absent fathers can loom large in their children's imaginations, often unhelpfully as «heroes or villains» (Kraemer 2005); and, since father absence can cause their children substantial distress and self - doubt (Laumann - Billings and Emery 1998), current thinking is moving away from the idea of severance of unconstructive father - child relationships as a simple solution.

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

Through involvement in the development of the Legacy curricula, implementation and providing technical assistance to new implementers, theLegacy UM and UCLA Teams have made a substantial impact in the lives of families and children.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

This technical document argues that the 2010 Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) 6 decision to introduce the concept of standardized sectoral baselines into the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and extended at CMP 7 in 2011 (Durban, South Africa), could also have a substantial impact on the further evolution of the CDM and its regulation.

If Romney was elected and if his policies were enacted, there could be a substantial increase in the development of US fossil fuels and a substantial intermediate positive impact on domestic employment and the availability of domestic capital.

Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].

Because of the substantial risks to society and nature posed by abrupt changes, this report recommends the development of an Abrupt Change Early Warning System that would allow for the prediction and possible mitigation of such changes before their societal impacts are severe.

Particular forms of development likely to have a substantial native title impact attract additional procedural protections for native title parties.

Although significant progress has been made in what we know about the impact of trauma on early childhood development, there remains, as pediatrician Jack Shonkoff (National Research Council and Institute of medicine, 2000) has said, a substantial gap between what we know and what we do.

A critical step necessary to achieve substantial improvement in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is for governments, at all levels, to recognise, include and treat us as substantive players and major stakeholders in the development, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all policy and legislation that impacts us.