Sentences with phrase «than changing political»

Sometimes, it seems like our analysis reflects little more than the changing political alignment of the judiciary.

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«The challenge for an incoming administration is always to make those policy changes without making law enforcement look like a purely political undertaking,» said William Yeomans, who worked in the division for more than two decades.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

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.com.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

International markets entail different risks than those typically associated with domestic markets, including foreign currency fluctuation, political and economic instability, accounting changes and foreign taxation.

Despite all the uproar surrounding our presidential candidates, changing your investment strategy based on your political beliefs is likely to do more harm than good.

With increasing political uncertainty all over the western world, changing global power structures, continued sluggish growth, and record low interest rates, precious metals are today more relevant than ever.

Inspired by Obama and undeterred by parliamentary scandals, as yet uncommitted to any particular party, but increasingly aware that few arenas have the opportunity to create greater positive change for large numbers of people than the righteous use of political power, he wants to study politics, philosophy and economics.

To break down the boundaries: that was our hope, and with the great political changes of 1989 and 1990 the possibilities seem greater than we had imagined.

The practice constituted by rights to private liberties may not be violated and, further, rebellion is bound by something like the following principle: Extra-legal attempts to establish what one takes to be the substantive conditions of a full and free discourse are not permitted unless the changes are more likely to occur or to occur more quickly in this manner than through legal activity, and the democratic political process is likely to sustain the changes once they are made.

The institutions and values of the modern world that the Anglo - Americans mastered so quickly emerged from changes at the end of the Middle Ages that came earlier to continental Europe than they did to Britain, and although the Anglo - Americans successfully resolved the conflicts set in motion by the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation, the European changes provided the political and theological resources for the Anglo - American solutions.

They don't find political crusades appealing, and don't want change to be any bigger than is necessary.

People who fear social, political, and technological change more than anything would literally rather be dead than go through it.

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

In a TED talk a few years ago, political scientist Erica Chenoweth talked about her research comparing nonviolent and violent campaigns, and she said that while she used to believe that violent resistance was more successful than nonviolent resistance, the data she collected blew her away and changed her mind forever.

The state rather than addressing itself to the creation of civil society, has become largely a mediator of ethnic political equation; whereas what we really need is a dynamic re-interpretation of the past, taking seriously into consideration, the new elements of change.

The ambiguities of this role are less than the ambiguities that surround the political silence of the minister in a homogeneous church that resists change, who allows the people to think that he agrees with them when he doesn't.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The basic implications of the changes are a greater freedom of the church from party and state on the one hand and a wider range of political options for Catholics than support of the Christian Democratic party, options that include support of more vigorously reformist or radical parties of the left.

If such a solution to the civil religion problem does eventually emerge, a solution based on the common acceptance of certain political values rather than a struggle to the death between different religiopolitical ideologies, it will depend on changes in both the church and the socialist left.

The loss of theological intelligibility since the beginning of the Giffords has more to do with social and political changes than with the development of science.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

This profound change from our previous order of government is often hidden by political and judicial rhetoric that gives honor to and even cites the written Constitution; yet, in contemporary theory and in practice, the document is really an authoritative occasion for, rather than a norm of, judicial interpretation.

By almost every indicator - economic, political, cultural, educational, medical - Africa is, all in all, worse off today than when the anti-colonial «winds of change» began to sweep the continent half a century ago.

However, if the vulgar incomes of the richest Americans result from relaxed social norms rather than from productive forces inherent in the market economy, as Krugman surmises, then social and political changes, such as those advocated by Hollenbach and Hicks, can extend the structure of accountability to these upper echelons of the income scale.

And I completely agree that while the mean - spirited aspects of the debate were disheartening, the * education * and political consciousness - raising were fantastic — and probably more likely to succeed in effecting political - social change than the other forms of debate seen yesterday (and today).

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a less - than enthusiastic response to the independent redistricting commission idea this afternoon, insisting that merely changing the manner in which districts are drawn isn't necessarily going to bring political balance to the Legislature, Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports.

Obama's platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history:

The shift in client expectations and changes to the political and regulatory landscape mean that UK investment managers will be under the spotlight more than ever before.

Astute observers of the digital political world will remember the furor over Change's pivot a year ago toward working with groups across the political spectrum (rather than just liberal / progressive or politically neutral campaigns), and here we see the new strategy in action.

The range of events now in the spotlight of international relations — such as the Arab Spring — has further emphasized that the bid for leadership change, be it highly authoritarian, might in fact be premised on a quest for something more wholesome than just political freedom.

Part Five of a six - part series Obama's platform may have envisioned a grand reform of the political system, but the primary change he brought to political fundraising was to do more of it than anyone in history: 3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations online adding up to more...

Faced with this pressure, the sudden change in the government's stance on a referendum seems more understandable from a political perspective than a legal one.

Individuals are far more effective at executing political change than any government, which appear to excel at doing nothing and overreacting.

For political campaigns, this change means making room in television budgets for additional creative, so that media consultants could run a different ad aimed at persuadable swing voters than they send to likely base voters.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

A coalition of more than 100 groups from across the political spectrum has formed to oppose a convention to develop possible changes to the state Constitution.

The internet, though, is a different KIND of medium — back - and - forth rather than broadcast — and the rise of such a participatory public space has completely changed the political media ecology, opening new niches to be exploited in turn by new kinds of organizing entities.

Never fear, politics abhors a vacuum and Tony Blair's Global Institute for Change has stepped in to fill in the detail, leading Alistair Campbell to chide Theresa May that a former PM has done more detailed economic research than the current one on the most important political decision for a generation.

For example, if your political program foresees exterminating some social group, for example people taller than 1.90 m, you would be forbidden in (almost) any democratic country, even if you say, they will be exterminated only after you take the power and change the consitution.

«The political shape of our country has changed radically in little more than a decade.

-- Political columnist Errol Louis reviews Sheldon Silver's «other offenses» — Advocates want changes in the city's proposed e-bike rules; «In case it isn't obvious by now: Mayor de Blasio should have talked with delivery workers about electric bikes rather than declaring war on them.»

liberalism a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

We portrayed ourselves as a political prophylactic, rather than an agent of change.»

ALBANY — More than five years into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenure, some legislators, lobbyists and political players said his tendency to change positions has left them unsure where he stands on issues and uncertain of his core beliefs.

Is Change is Gon na Come more or less political than Anarchy in the UK?

A coalition of more than 100 groups from across the political spectrum has formed a coalition to oppose a convention to develop possible changes to the state Constitution.

However, the fractured political landscape (in particular relating to the likely level of Fine Gael and Labour seat losses) and the favourable impact of the boundary changes associated with the 2012 Constituency Commission report means that Fianna Fail would achieve more success in translating these support levels into Dail seat numbers than they had at the 2011 contest.

Too many Labour councillors are passive administrators, rather than agents of radical political change.