Sentences with phrase «upon the goals of»

The bad news is that despite many countries pledging to cut carbon emissions in the coming decades, the current commitments may not be enough to limit warming to the world's agreed upon goal of 2 °C (3.6 °F).

Although all the early breeders agreed upon the goal of an all - purpose hunting dog, not all agreed upon how to achieve it.

That means the world's nations will start meeting regularly at the United Nations to discuss how to strengthen their individual climate pledges over time and claw toward their agreed - upon goal of keeping global warming below 2 °C.

A report released in April by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that avoiding the internationally agreed upon goal of 2 °C of global warming will likely require the global deployment of «carbon dioxide removal» strategies like air capture.

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It's not uncommon for very successful people to read their goals list at the beginning of each and every day upon awakening in the morning.

But employees wouldn't get anything unless they also hit a series of individual goals, agreed upon with company managers.

I reached my goal today of drinking 1 liter immediately upon waking.

The basis of choice should definitely be based upon a business» sector, goals and size.

This is especially true at work, where so many of our goals are imposed upon us.

Your goals should be quantifiable in order to set up time lines, directed so they relate to the success of the business, consequential so they have impact upon the company, and feasible so that they aren't beyond the bounds of actual completion.

Three pilot projects are now under way, and the goal is to have the division fully up and running by late 2016 — creating a whole new department and crop of employees for Klick to monitor, analyze and improve upon.

The world of politics provides a great example of the need for identified and agreed - upon organizational goals in order for leaders to effectively lead.

The plan administrator may award stock grants with time - based vesting or vesting upon satisfaction of performance goals and / or other conditions.

The plan administrator may grant stock appreciation rights with time - based vesting or vesting upon satisfaction of performance goals and / or other conditions.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

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.

Our Bonus Plan allows our compensation committee to provide incentive awards (payable in cash or grants of equity awards) to selected employees, including our named executive officers, based upon performance goals established by our compensation committee.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Before the end of the first quarter of the relevant fiscal year, the Committee establishes financial and performance targets and opportunities for such year, which are based upon the Company's goals for Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) and are linked to our budget and plan for long - term success.

Upon leaving office, Bush made no secret of his desire to make money and embarked on a whirlwind of deals, partnerships, and advisory positions in aggressive pursuit of that goal.

With respect to Awards granted to an Outside Director that are assumed or substituted for, if on the date of or following such assumption or substitution the Participant's status as a Director or a director of the successor corporation, as applicable, is terminated other than upon a voluntary resignation by the Participant (unless such resignation is at the request of the acquirer), then the Participant will fully vest in and have the right to exercise Options and / or Stock Appreciation Rights as to all of the Shares underlying such Award, including those Shares which would not otherwise be vested or exercisable, all restrictions on Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units will lapse, and, with respect to Awards with performance - based vesting, all performance goals or other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at one hundred percent (100 %) of target levels and all other terms and conditions met.

Upon the closing of the transaction, John S. Chen will be appointed Executive Chair of BlackBerry's Board of Directors and, in that role, will be responsible for the strategic direction, strategic relationships and organizational goals of BlackBerry.

The following table describes the levels of cash EBITDA required to be achieved in 2013 by us, and the corresponding multipliers applied to the portion of the eligible bonus (33 % of the 2013 bonus) for our NEOs upon achievement of this performance goal:

The following table describes the levels of cash revenue required to be achieved in 2013 by us and the corresponding multipliers applied to the portion of the eligible bonus (34 % of the 2013 bonus) upon achievement of this performance goal:

In particular, AIC payments, LTI payments and stock options represent a significant portion of our executive compensation program, as shown by the chart below, and this variable compensation is «at risk» and directly dependent upon the achievement of pre-established corporate goals and stock price appreciation:

Although the majority of compensation for HP Co.'s executives is performance - based and largely contingent upon achievement of financial goals, the HRC Committee continues to believe that the SPEO provides important protection to our Section 16 officers and is appropriate for the attraction and retention of executive talent.

The goal of keyword research in search engine marketing (SEM) is to find the keywords your target audience is searching upon to find you, your products, your services, or your solutions.

Your financial goal could be based upon the average income generated by each rental unit you own for a month, year, or longer period of time, but it has to be based on the average income per unit.

When goals are not met, future incremental funding temporarily ceases until further discussion and alternate courses of action are decided upon.

The one important recognition that needs to take place though is knowledge of whether a buyer persona development effort was based upon goal - directed principles and methodology.

Our paramount goal is to provide our students with a working knowledge of the myriad of factors that play a role in determining how retirees can achieve the maximum benefit available to them from Social Security and, in so doing, provide a solid foundation upon which an overall retirement income plan can be built.

Upon reaching a milestone or mini goal of 500,000 SGD, you want to show your appreciation to people who have contributed.

Faith in yourself and expectation of «do upon your neigbnors» is the goal.!

It was really eye opening for me — simple insights like the fact that the first wound most men receive in being circumcised is an intentional act of violence commanded by God — the goal of which is to place his mark upon us, reminding us that we are set apart and specially chosen by him.

The fourth pillar of Islam is the fast -LCB- sawn) of Ramadan as a reflection upon the human dependence on God and on spiritual goals.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

Upon the backs of the hordes do the rich clamour and they will not reach their goals!

In my opening statement, I told the audience that a debate requires a common frame of reference, a core agreement about ultimate values — with the conflict about how to achieve an agreed upon goal.

By bringing blame upon a scapegoat, two warring enemies are able to put aside their differences and unite in the common goal of destroying the scapegoat.

The latter asserts at best a cyclical return of history upon itself, it is claimed, while for the former there is a goal, «a good time coming,» in which the purpose of creation will be accomplished.

But Professor Ogden's criticisms of Bultmann rest upon so substantial an agreement with the alternative he presents that one must view this final maneuver at the goal line, not as that of negating Bultmann, but of carrying his theological method to a surer victory in establishing a basis for a postliberal theology.

Its logic rests upon supreme disproportion not only between virtually limitless power and any hope of protection but also between its goal (averting cataclysm) and its means (the threat of that very cataclysm) Such incongruity goes beyond the immoral; it approaches blasphemy — it idolatrously confuses what is relative with what is absolute.

The logical necessity of mathematics rests upon the basic «laws of thought,» which define not how people actually do think, but how they ought to think, if the goal of universal understanding and agreement is to be achieved.

Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages, $ 40 The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a....

Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing of rights against rights on the other.

Common enterprises, shared concerns, pursuit of agreed upon goals, and the like provide for us the means through which giving - and - receiving may be attained.

It seems incumbent upon the Catholic intellectual community to engage materialism in a fundamental way, in order to find ways of achieving this goal.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

In all of the religious orders the goal is to please and satisfy the Prophet (the Peace and Mercy of Allah be upon him) and to win God's approval of one's conduct.

The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a pioneering socialist ethos and rooted in the Bible and the love of the homeland.