Sentences with phrase «such a long process for»

Such a long process for a product that has such a short average lifespan!

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«Buying a mattress is such an important process for people, and yet the mechanism of acquiring it, having to step in a mattress store has been so painful for so long,» says Krim.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

But so long as his confession is a kind of bid for favor, it will impede the reconciling process unless it is as recognized as such.

• thought - sequencing process, such as the instruction for parsing the grammar of a statement or performing long division or the extraction of a square root.

To such effect did he labor that he prepared the way for the long process of Christian nurture which enabled the Paravas in the twentieth century to remain bulwarks of the Roman Catholic Church.

You did great job baking this polish poppy cake, i do bake them too, and i know its such a long process to make the poppy seeds filling, so for the last few years im buying a can of poppy seed already mix with other good staff in polish store and its much easier.

According to DSM, Swiss cheese continues to grow in popularity worldwide, because of the increasing demand for flavorsome, conveniently - packaged processed cheese, with characteristics such as longer shelf life and improved sliceability.

The only way to prepare soy for human consumption is through a long, slow fermentation process as represented in traditional foods such as natto, tempeh, miso and tamari sauce.

It is highly heat - stable and so uniquely suitable for items such as grilled, raw - cured, and par - cooked vegetarian sausages and other foods undergoing a long cooking process.

Ultimately, though, the hope is for the scheme to be self sustaining — the dads to be from the training session have already agreed to be the «experts» in a future session and the hope is that, having been accessed at such an early and vital stage in the parenting process, the dads will maintain contact with the centre in the long term.

I will return to the detail of those legalities because that has occupied much of the afternoon's debate, but it is for that reason and in the interest of avoiding a long judicial process that we concluded that the quickest way to reduce and, we hoped, eliminate cruelty to wild animals in our circuses would be a robust licensing system, which might well result in circuses deciding to stop keeping such animals.»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has expressed support for such legislation, and both the Assembly and the Republican - led Senate were expected to approve the bill on Wednesday as the Legislature inched its way toward a settlement on a budget process that has run long.

In «Long - term Coarse PM Exposure Is Associated with Asthma Among Children in Medicaid,» researchers report that coarse particulate matter, the kind of air pollution created by physical processes such as tire and break wear, agricultural tilling, salt spray and dust created in manufacturing, appears to put children at greater risk for asthma, independent of exposure to fine particulate pollution.

The presence of such deep cuts in the landscape indicates that whatever process created them was active for a long time or eroded down much faster than other areas on Titan's surface.

One mission of the Facility is to establish user - friendly workflows ranging from sample preparation to image acquisition, image processing, and long - term data storage, especially for imaging modalities generating very big datasets or files, such as slide - scanning, high - content screening, and 3 - D scanning electron microscopy.

However, because high - temperature superconductors had problems such as being fragile and difficult to process, no party had achieved their practical use for a long run.

This process resembles what happens when boiling an egg, but now without heat: proteins that normally need to carry out essential functions for the bacteria — such as digesting their food — clump together and can no longer carry out their work.

In the splicing process, removal of an internal RNA segment causes the mature RNA product to refold such that it no longer will activate PKR, now allowing for unimpeded synthesis on this RNA of the essential globin protein chains at maximal rates, allowing for effective oxygen breathing.

A 2008 study led by James Hansen found that climate sensitivity to «fast feedback processes» is 3 °C, but when accounting for longer - term feedbacks (such as ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and greenhouse gas release from soils, tundra or ocean), if atmospheric CO2 remains at the doubled level, the sensitivity increases to 6 °C based on paleoclimatic (historical climate) data.

Labeling laws require that we have a disclosure on the ingredient panel for those who are extremely sensitive to certain allergens regardless of whether they are in the product as long as the factory where the product was made also processes these other allergens (such as soy, peanuts, milk, etc.).

«These findings add to our understanding of how childhood stress is a more important driver of long - term weight gain than adult stress, and how such processes differ for men and women,» said Hui Liu, MSU associate professor of sociology and an expert in statistics, population - based health and family science.

I have to be honest, it sounds and looks like a whole process but I've been doing this for such a long time that it doesn't take me a lot of time to do this.

* For items in stock, usually they can be shipped out within 2 - 3 days, no such long processing time.

Moving and remodeling is always such a long stressful process, was so nice to have a retreat that was safe and snug for the past two years.

Letting someone new into that close family circle is a hard thing to process after things have been one way for such a long time.

Some of these differences include: the ability to search from a deep pool of potential partners outside of one's existing social networks; the ability to communicate online or via email prior to arranging for a face - to - face interaction; and matching algorithms that allow users to filter potential partners based on pre-existing criteria.3 Other research has indicated that the efficiency of online dating and the size of the potential dating pool compared with traditional methods make the process especially useful for people (such as gays and lesbians, or middle aged heterosexuals) who may have limited options for meeting people within their immediate geographic area or social circle.4 Still others have speculated that the rise of online dating has encouraged young adults, especially men, to forego marriage because they can always find women to date and that lowers their interest in committing to long term relationships.5

slight negatives were that i still find at full throttle live action pace fights between transformers such as prime vs. sentinal and megatron vs. sentinal at the end are just too hard to follow, there is Too many moving parts for the 3D to work fast enough and my eyes to process it but luckily there weren't too many of these moments during the not too long but satisfying 154 minutes.

4.3.3) In order to link the long term expatriate Bangladeshi with the country's development process appropriate research is necessary to identity avenues for such linkage.

This would be for «longer lasting» savings (such as automation of paper processing or filing, for instance)

In addition to utilizing strategies such as backward design, goal setting, and implementing an effective process, project - planning skills develop character and fortitude in our students who know that they are in it for the long haul.

For industries that can't have long learning processes - such as sales, hospitality, and retail - microlearning is ideal for employees who need rapid training on the jFor industries that can't have long learning processes - such as sales, hospitality, and retail - microlearning is ideal for employees who need rapid training on the jfor employees who need rapid training on the job.

Training could also include the key elements of the budget and the longer term financial forecast for the institution, particularly the institution's main grant from the funding body; the financial accounts and reporting processes; course costing information; and other key financial functions such as purchasing and insurance.

There is a need for a regional transportation - planning process with authority, and the organizational structure for such already exists in the federally mandated long - range transportation - planning process called the Metropolitan Planning Organizations.

Its Books Content Update Form — for years the standard way of submitting such info — has been subject to longer and longer processing times, until it seems to have stopped working at all.

Though such legal processes would take a longer period of time than the simple action of repossession for which secured loan lenders are entitled, someone taking an unsecured loan is still risking his assets if he fails to repay his debt.

To do that, you'll want to go through a rigorous retirement - income planning process that starts with thinking seriously about how you'll live in retirement and then moves on to such tasks as making a retirement budget; assessing different strategies for claiming Social Security benefits; considering whether you want more guaranteed income than Social Security alone offers (which is where an annuity might play a role); and, settling on a withdrawal rate that has a reasonable shot at making your savings last as long as you do.

A tangible long - term asset such as land, building or machinery, held for use rather than for processing or resale.

While brokerages and industry safe guards such as the SIPC usually help customers recover their money or reimburse them for their losses, the process can be long, hard, and time consuming.

Given that all other lending services such as bank loans for example require a far longer processing time and the production of private documentation as well as credit checks there is no safe and reliable alternative to a payday loan when you need cash quickly.

The loans are also processed slowly because it takes long for the lender to determine your trustworthiness through methods such as student loans, credit cards and payday loans.

A long process such as this usually involves a large challenge and something to aim for; however, if you lose out on the scratch card stage, you can keep the wasted ones and trade a handful in for an outfit anyway.

Though not as well - known as figures such as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, or Dan Flavin, Ryman is nonetheless one of the pioneers of Minimalist painting, whose works attempt to empty the painting of content — and color — in order to focus almost entirely on form and process, an idiom in which he has continued to work for some sixty years, long past the demise of Minimalism as a cutting - edge movement.

These works are no longer processes or experimentations, but finished works that achieve the same height of experience as his large - scale works, such as the Roseseries (2001 - 8), or the Lepanto series (2001) for which he received the Golden Lion prize at the 49th Venice Biennial.

This means that such fights, which are at the core of the delays over energy legislation, are a distraction from the simpler process of building the first stages of a sustained energy quest after a long comfortable nap facilitated by cheap abundant fossil fuels for which longer - term and indirect costs are finally being gauged.

Charney sensitivity can be expressed for such forcings as CO2 changes; longer term processes involve CO2 as a feedback (ice ages).

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

All that being said, it does not change the fact that a simple feedback - gain model for sections of the complex amplifier circuitry is still a useful mental model for the process at some level of abstraction, as long as one understands the shortcomings that come from any such simplification.

As long as the processes such as reactions with amines that convert H2SO4 and MSA to new particles are similar for these two acids, their respective concentrations should provide an estimate of their potential relative contributions to new particle formation under different scenarios.

We depend, for example, on the earth's climate system for an environment hospitable to agriculture, on the hydrological cycle to provide us with fresh water, and on long - term geological processes to convert rocks into the soil that has made the earth such a biologically productive planet.