Sentences with phrase «term economic purposes»

They will be wondering why public opinion on a important scientific issue was manipulated for political and short term economic purposes.

But it points out the dangers of reforms which only take short - term economic purposes into consideration.

Mr Brown told business leaders it was about, «taking government out of areas where it need not be and government guaranteeing economic decisions are made as they should be, for long - term economic purposes, not for short - term partisan gain».

Independent economists say it's a mystifying piece of tax policy that has no clear, long - term economic purpose and few — if any — recent comparable examples.

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Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

«Meanwhile, other jurisdictions are ahead of B.C. in terms of encouraging farming and food processing to support, expand, and sustain their agriculture sector for environmental, health and economic purposes,» said Dix.

The purpose of the Bernanke - Yellen monetary policy has been to lower longer - term rates and pump up asset prices creating a wealth effect to spur spending and real economic growth.

The United Nations is a more promising institution in terms of its nature and purposes, but the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, has been systematically weakened by the United States with regard to economic matters.

«1) If when determining the liability of a person to taxation, duty or similar charge due under statute in the UK it shall be established that a step or steps have been included in a transaction giving rise to that liability or to any claim for an allowance, deduction or relief, with such steps having been included for the sole or one of the main purposes of securing a reduction in that liability to taxation, duty or similar charge with no other material economic purpose for the inclusion of such a step being capable of demonstration by the taxpayer, then subject to the sole exception that the step or steps in question are specifically permitted under the term of any legislation promoted for the specific purpose of permitting such use, such step or steps shall be ignored when calculating the resulting liability to taxation, duty or similar charge.

He called for a «shared national economic purpose», saying he wanted to work with business to meet «all long - term challenges by making the reforms you need and the modernisation you require and the country requires for economic success».

Our political and governmental institutions are not representative — either in terms of ethnicity, religion, socio - economic grouping, or, crucially for our purposes here, gender.

In terms of decision - making, the description of System 2 bears a close resemblance to the rational, general - purpose processor presupposed by standard economic theory.

For temporary defensive purposes during unusual economic or market conditions or for liquidity purposes, each fund may invest up to 100 % of its assets directly in cash, money market instruments, repurchase agreements and other short - term obligations.

The practical purpose of the Index is to evaluate and compare the potential of Russia's most dynamic cities in terms of their prospects for economic modernisation and their investment appeal.

The term land use is also used in the sense of the social and economic purposes for which land is managed (e.g., grazing, timber extraction and conservation).

Lets consider what needs happen for Bitcoin to become a success in terms of its claimed intended purpose of enabling economic transactions to be performed over the internet with no additional costs which we would expect when using the more conventional banking options of direct transfer, Paypal, Credit card etc..

Within the parameters of these rules, as a form of National Promotional Bank (NPB), the MDB will step in when the private market fails to provide adequate financing to certain lines of business, categories of clients or types of enterprises that meet the Bank's social and economic mission, or, if such financing is available, it is not offered at normal market terms and is not appropriate to reach the Bank's purpose.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

Articulating the underlying purpose of the negotiation process at a policy level in terms of the economic and social development of the traditional owner group would also clarify the relationship between negotiations at the three levels discussed above (negotiating consent determinations, negotiating agreements ancillary to a determination, and negotiating agreements which do not include a native title determination).

The Administrator's Interpretation 2015 - 1 expanded the «economic realities» test used to define the term «employee» for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act («FLSA»), jeopardizing the ability of employers to classify workers as independent contractors.