Sentences with phrase «upon a decision in»

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Every day I reflect back on the effects of my decisions that day and how I can improve upon them in the future.»

As Sports Illustrated's Peter King noted, McDaniels is likely to be considered a villain in Indiana for some time, and many coaches will likely look down upon him for his decision.

«Upon hearing about your decision to hire 10000 refugees instead of Americans I will no longer spend any money at Starbucks,» one such Facebook user wrote on Starbucks» page in late January.

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«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

In fact, it is reasonable to infer that machine - generated decision makers assess and act upon perceived market instability using this metric.

In a decision dated July 7, 2016, the West Virginia attorney general concluded that: «West Virginia law does not prohibit the offering of or participation in fantasy sports games, as they are defined in Senate Bill 529, because state law prohibits only betting upon games decided predominantly by chance.&raquIn a decision dated July 7, 2016, the West Virginia attorney general concluded that: «West Virginia law does not prohibit the offering of or participation in fantasy sports games, as they are defined in Senate Bill 529, because state law prohibits only betting upon games decided predominantly by chance.&raquin fantasy sports games, as they are defined in Senate Bill 529, because state law prohibits only betting upon games decided predominantly by chance.&raquin Senate Bill 529, because state law prohibits only betting upon games decided predominantly by chance.»

«Because Congress did not have a «strong basis of evidence» upon which to conclude that DoD was a passive participant in pervasive, nationwide racial discrimination — at least not on the evidence produced by DoD and relied on by the district court in this case — the statute fails strict scrutiny,» the decision stated.

Like any other equity investor (depending upon the percentage of ownership they have), you may need to consult with them before making important decisions, so you'll want to make sure it's someone you trust and are willing to have as a shareholder in your business.

Although the Company's performance for 2007 was in the top quartile compared to its Peer Group and met one of the alternative goals under the Performance Policy, the HRC considered in making its incentive award decisions the fact that the Company did not meet its EPS goal of $ 2.49 (2006 EPS, as originally reported) under the Performance Policy and therefore did not improve upon the EPS results of the prior year.

This summary is based upon provisions of the Code, applicable U.S. Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, published rulings and judicial decisions, all as in effect as of the date hereof.

Businesses that don't understand the nature of ranking sometimes think that they can game the system and end up making bad decisions like dabbling in black hat SEO, which involves implementing tactics that are frowned upon by the search engines.

The Aussie Dollar moved from $ 0.75781 to $ 0.75706 upon release of the figures, as focus now shifts to the RBA's interest rate decision and release of the rate statement tomorrow, disappointing inflation figures for the 1st quarter likely to leave the RBA in a holding pattern for the foreseeable future.

But, in so doing, they encourage layers upon layers of bad decisions, including massive debt based malinvestment, to stack up across the landscape until the world is greatly at odds with itself.

For example, one might question whether employees have the resources to bring claims challenging an employer's systemic discriminatory decisions as being based upon customer preference or resulting in a disparate impact.

In making their decision, the BOJ is likely to consider its impact upon the market as well as price expectations; it will ask whether a boost to dollar - yen and the Nikkei that would accompany additional monetary stimulus would last long enough to justify the increasing costs and risks of easing; each of the above strategies is associated with both.

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The organization said it wants to ensure «that a reasoned decision is made with due process, in accordance with the manner in which research is conducted, and not a rash one based upon the emotions of the current environment.»

Upon returning to the workforce, Cheryl took the steps necessary to become a licensed financial services professional and quickly realized the vast majority of current and prospective retirees did not have access to the advice and resources required to make an educated decision on, what in most cases, will prove to be one of the most critical financial decisions they'll ever make; when and how to claim Social Security retirement benefits.

This also happens in financial markets as investors make decisions based only upon recent information compared to all of the available data, which can often lead to thinking current trends are the best predictors of what will happen next.

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

Thomas was looking for empirical data: facts, hard and sure evidence, measurable and quantifiable, upon which he could base his decision as to whether or not to believe in Jesus» resurrection.

Of his decision to join the military, the general gives a typically low - key account: «I looked upon it as a kind of temporary relief [from family pressures] but once I got in there, I kind of liked it.»

In a 4 - 3 split decision, all seven justices cited the state's efforts to end discrimination based upon sexual orientation against individuals to defend their decision to extend the equal....

Patrick Brennan replies: Upon reading Joseph Viviano's charges against me, I had to ask myself: Who is this Brennan that «proposes a mode of judicial interpretation that would, in its practical application, be indistinguishable from judges who make decisions based on preferences?»

Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...

Call upon politicians and decision makers to take the political and legal steps necessary to establish a constitutional contractual relationship among its citizens, and to support all formulations and initiatives that aim to fortify relations and understanding among the various religious groups in the Muslim World;

Neither of them is depended upon for decisions in legislative matters, and they are not immune from committing mistakes.

It is the main source of agreed - upon facts we can use in public decisions.»

People in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be called upon to help people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a crisis.

John Deighan FAITH Magazine March - April 2010 John Deighan, the Parliamentary Advisor to the Scottish Bishops, builds upon his previous pieces in this magazine to draw out the anti-Christian contradictions involved in some recent judicial decisions.

Facts will never render decisions between ill - conceived alternatives; and the meaning of such terms as omnipotence or goodness depends in second - type theism upon a number of conceptions which have not been clearly considered in the classic discussions (such as the marvelous one in Hume's Dialogues) of the relations of such terms to the facts of evil.

51 In his discussion of how both God and world operate upon a becoming occasion, God always is working with the «given,» that is, the actuality of past decisions for good or for ill and all qualities inbetween.

... The consequences, positive or negative, of decisions of a principally cultural or political nature in relation to the family touch upon the various areas of the life of a society and a country» (Pope Francis, Message to participants in the 47th Social Week for Italian Catholics, 13 September 2013).

The liberation that love engenders and the claim that it lays upon us are absolutely binding; they are kerygmatic address, which, as Bultmann interprets Paul, «accosts each individual, throwing the person himself into question by rendering his self - understanding problematic, and demanding a decision of hint» The kerygma can be defined as «absolute» in two respects.

There is no doubt that the Second Vatican Council, its proceedings and debates, the differences of opinion that became apparent, the press reports that retailed and exaggerated them, the existence of tendencies and parties thus reveals, the struggle for decisions this way and that the alterations in liturgy and law decided upon — all these experiences caused profound astonishment, disquiet and consternation in many Catholic circles, even to a considerable extent among the clergy.

Most of us live in such a way that our most important relationships, lifestyle decisions, and assumptions are dependent upon certain ideologies.

I do agree with you that in order for multiverses to exist, based upon decision trees and expanding entropy, a supreme being or sentient creator is absolutely not necessary, which suggests that such a «being» probably does not exist.

Even if it is misconceived, though, the question is still pressed upon us: Is it permissible in our political community for public decisions to be based on moral values informed by religion?

Personally, I don't see how intelligence could operate without time in which to process information, or act upon any decision it could have made.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

Leaving aside for the moment the prochoice arguments in favor of the abortion liberty, it is clear that great science - based industries, trajectories of medical experimentation, and perhaps the profession of bioethics itself rest in large part upon the settlement articulated in Roe v. Wade and related decisions.

In good Aristotelian fashion, therefore, Lewis thinks of all the ordinary decisions of life as forming our character, as turning us into people who either do or do not wish to gaze forever upon the face of God.

The intuition that I, with my conscious experience, am an actual individual with the power of self - determination, to make decisions and to cause my body to do my bidding, is reconciled with the equally strong sense that my body is real, and that it exerts powerful causation upon me, in terms of the speculative hypothesis that all actual occasions are occasions of experience, so that interaction of body and mind is not the unintelligible interaction of unlikes (the unintelligibility of which has led philosophers to deny the distinct actuality either of the mind or of the body).

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

That doesn't mean it isn't your choice, and it's not my job to make your choices, if you believe you can make the best decisions for yourself, and you don't need God, that is your God given right after all, God gave you that right, to make your own decisions with a free will, for you to decide upon what is good or bad as laid out in Biblical principles (as a matter of fact historicly).

I would not have you make any decision on insufficient evidence, but the fact remains that life in this regard presses necessities upon us which we can not avoid.

Of it Perry Miller has written,»... in relation to the principal theme of the American mind, the necessity laid upon it for decision, Winthrop stands at the beginning of our consciousness.»

For it is not decision to do the one and leave the other a lifeless mass, deposited layer upon layer as dross in my soul.