Sentences with phrase «used by the public as»

Until the price stabilises, it is unlikely that Bitcoin will be used by the public as a trusted medium for payments.

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Public attention is about to be grabbed by the rapid evolution of the auto dashboard, as carmakers and tech giants work out bringing to the car the Internet experience consumers have gotten used to on their smartphones.

Other studies by Kross suggest that, when people use their first names, they're more likely to see stressful situations (like public speaking) as challenging, rather than threatening.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

Instead, the winning group will have a public - private partnership contract with the government which will allow it use of some state infrastructure, such as sites to build towers on and a fiber optic network owned by the state electricity firm.

On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.

Schroll recommends that you encrypt your drives, leverage cloud backups, enclose any hardware ports exposed to the public, have old hardware disposed by professionals and use theft recovery software, such as Prey Project, on business devices.

Private clouds use many of the building blocks of public clouds, lots of automation, the ability to charge internal departments on a pay - as - they - go basis, but are otherwise wholly managed by the customer they serve.

Zuckerberg and his cohort have taken to employing tactics normally used by high - profile celebrities and movie stars, such as «purchasing houses through trusts or corporate entities so that the owners» names are not on public deeds,» in an effort to keep their identities secret while they construct megamansions throughout the Bay Area and Palo Alto in California.

Debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties, and other public entities that use the loans to fund public projects, such as the construction of schools, hospitals, highways, sewers, and universities

In contrast, spending on public infrastructure, such as transportation systems, that benefit not only the current generation but future ones as well, should also be paid for not just by current generation but also by future generations who will also use them.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

In Peru, this private offer does not constitute a public offer, and is not registered with the Securities Market Public Registry of the Peruvian Securities Market Commission, for use only with institutional investors as such term is defined by the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros public offer, and is not registered with the Securities Market Public Registry of the Peruvian Securities Market Commission, for use only with institutional investors as such term is defined by the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros Public Registry of the Peruvian Securities Market Commission, for use only with institutional investors as such term is defined by the Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros y AFP.

In its other form, as an open source software, the bitcoin blockchain platform, which serves as a public ledger of all bitcoin transactions, is being used by institutional traders and software developers to transform the operational and transactional sides of the financial industry.

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

An earlier filing might have been a telltale sign about the financial problems to come: Tesla disclosed that it had begun reimbursing Mr. Musk for his use of his private plane, justifying the cost by saying, «By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.&raquby saying, «By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.&raquBy paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.»

But by far the bulk of debt was used to buy rival companies, as occurred when MCI bought Sprint, and when European companies bought hitherto public monopolies.

Start - Up Chile (SUP) is a public startup accelerator created by the Chilean Government for high - potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups and use Chile as a foundation.

Immediately after this offering of shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the price range listed on the cover of this prospectus, after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us and the application of such net proceeds as described under «Use of Proceeds» elsewhere in this prospectus, Cyrus Capital and the Virgin Group will beneficially own approximately % and % of our outstanding voting common stock.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

There are many other tactics shareowners use as levers including, investor statements endorsed by a broad group of institutional investors; direct outreach to other shareholders; proxy voting services; and other investment advisors to gain support for specific shareholder proposals; and, outreach to consumers and the press as a way to draw public attention to an issue or a company.

The company, which recently airdropped a massive cache of XRP into US public school coffers is hoping to stimulate interest in the creation of applications that use its currency and blockchain, which has attracted a lot of interest as a back - end technology in the banking industry, but has only been adopted by one other Coin thus far — the somewhat mysterious Allvor.

ICOs are also known as Initial Coin Offering or Initial Public Coin Offering (IPCO) and are used by startups to avoid other painstaking and regulated ways of raising capital, which are required by banks or venture capitalists.

And it notes the European Central Bank's (ECB) report «Virtual Currency Schemes» (October 2012) worrying that «virtual currency schemes -LSB-...] could represent a challenge for public authorities, given the legal uncertainty surrounding these schemes, as they can be used by criminals, fraudsters and money launderers to perform their illegal activities.»

It shall be unlawful for any broker, dealer, or exchange, directly or indirectly, to make use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce for the purpose of using any facility of an exchange within or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any transaction in a security, or to report any such transaction, unless such exchange (1) is registered as a national securities exchange under section 6 of this title, or (2) is exempted from such registration upon application by the exchange because, in the opinion of the Commission, by reason of the limited volume of transactions effected on such exchange, it is not practicable and not necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors to require such registration

Evidenced by a range of indicators such as; oversubscription, upsizing, as well as public commitments, green bond mandates and statements of expectation from investor groups, green bonds are also being used to successfully tap into the vast capital pool of institutional investors globally (US$ 88 trillion).

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Additionally, as a heart disease survivor and National Volunteer for the American Heart Association, Star uses her international public platform to positively impact the lives of all women by empowering them to take action, stand stronger and join the fight against heart disease.

We strongly support putting the Estimates on the same accounting basis as used in the Public Accounts / Budget by adopting the accounting standards recommended by PSAB.

For example, we have an atheist Prime Minister — and no one cares because this is personal (it is not about her politics)-- just as public schools are used for general education and religious education is served by your place of worship, associated community, family, etc..

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

They are made to act — and should want to act — as agents of the public fisc who can not rightfully use the tax funds paid under duress of law by all the people — of many faiths and no faith — for the imposition of the religious beliefs or for the institutional advantage or aggrandizement of the sponsoring church.

The growing use of the internet, especially in social networking, meant that through the debates of the US Bishops» Conference (commendably held in public session) the general Catholic public became increasingly aware of just what thinking was behind what was coming to be known by consensus as the «lame - duck translation», an expression popularised by Fr Zuhlsdorf who has spent many years analysing «What does the prayer really say?»

This «Fairness Doctrine» has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

In public statements Hindu nationalists tried to make their campaign against Muslims seem part of the US - led war on terror, and, as Nussbaum writes, «the current world atmosphere, and especially the indiscriminate use of the terrorism card by the United · States, have made it easier for them to use this ploy.»

This is commonly expressed by the use of special «Christian «names, which are frequently viewed positively as a public confession of one's faith.

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

Though some social commentators questioned the public's perception of the size of the evangelical movement and the validity of some of the measures used, few of them could match the status granted the movement by the general media as a whole.

Elsewhere he stresses the importance of public justification, and twice, using the Israeli Supreme Court as his reference, he offers that acts of «lesser evil» remain wrong but that the punishment properly entailed by them may be mitigated because of their good purpose.

The Ohio legislature responded by passing a statute known as the «Art Modell law,» named after the Browns / Ravens owner, forces an owner of a sports team that uses public resources to give six months notice of their intention to relocate and give local people and municipalities a chance to purchase the team.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

I / WE HEREBY RELEASE, WAIVE, DISCHARGE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE the CHICAGO SPORT & SOCIAL CLUB, INC. («CSSC») and its affiliates (CSSC and its affiliates are referred to collectively as the «CLUB»), the sufficiency of which consideration is expressly acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, do hereby, for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, insurers, assigns, attorneys, representatives, agents, beneficiaries, legatees, representatives, successors, assigns and any other persons who may make claims on my behalf (collectively the «RELEASORS») OR ALL SPORTS SERIES / PARK DISTRICT OF HIGHLAND PARK / WINDY CITY FIELD HOUSE / CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT / FITNESS FORMULA CLUBS (FFC — UNION STATION) / URBANA PARK DISTRICT / MADISON PARKS ORGANIZATION / ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL / LANSING PARKS / CITY OF BLOOMINGTON / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN / CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS — LAKE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL / CAMP OJIBWA / AUSTIN PARKS AND RECREATION facilities used by the participant, including its owners, managers, promoters, lessees of premises used to conduct the event or program, premises and event inspectors, underwriters, consultants and others who give recommendations, directions, or instructions to engage in risk evaluation or loss control activities regarding the CHICAGO SPORT & SOCIAL CLUB, INC. («CSSC») and its affiliates (CSSC and its affiliates are referred to collectively as the «CLUB»), the sufficiency of which consideration is expressly acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, do hereby, for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, insurers, assigns, attorneys, representatives, agents, beneficiaries, legatees, representatives, successors, assigns and any other persons who may make claims on my behalf (collectively the «RELEASORS») OR ALL SPORTS SERIES / PARK DISTRICT OF HIGHLAND PARK / WINDY CITY FIELD HOUSE / CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT / FITNESS FORMULA CLUBS (FFC — UNION STATION) / URBANA PARK DISTRICT / MADISON PARKS ORGANIZATION / ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL / LANSING PARKS / CITY OF BLOOMINGTON / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN / CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS — LAKE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL / CAMP OJIBWA / AUSTIN PARKS AND RECREATION facilities or events held at such facility and each of them, their directors, officers, agents, employees, all for the purposes herein referred to as «Releasee»... FROM ALL LIABILITY TO THE UNDERSIGNED, my / our personal representatives, assigns, executors, heirs and next to kin FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, LOSSES OR DAMAGES AND ANY CLAIMS OR DEMANDS THEREFORE ON ACCOUNT OF ANY INJURY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DEATH OF THE PARTICIPANT OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE EVENT (S) CAUSED OR ALLEGED TO BE CAUSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEE OR OTHERWISby the participant, including its owners, managers, promoters, lessees of premises used to conduct the event or program, premises and event inspectors, underwriters, consultants and others who give recommendations, directions, or instructions to engage in risk evaluation or loss control activities regarding the CHICAGO SPORT & SOCIAL CLUB, INC. («CSSC») and its affiliates (CSSC and its affiliates are referred to collectively as the «CLUB»), the sufficiency of which consideration is expressly acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, do hereby, for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, insurers, assigns, attorneys, representatives, agents, beneficiaries, legatees, representatives, successors, assigns and any other persons who may make claims on my behalf (collectively the «RELEASORS») OR ALL SPORTS SERIES / PARK DISTRICT OF HIGHLAND PARK / WINDY CITY FIELD HOUSE / CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT / FITNESS FORMULA CLUBS (FFC — UNION STATION) / URBANA PARK DISTRICT / MADISON PARKS ORGANIZATION / ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL / LANSING PARKS / CITY OF BLOOMINGTON / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN / CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS — LAKE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL / CAMP OJIBWA / AUSTIN PARKS AND RECREATION facilities or events held at such facility and each of them, their directors, officers, agents, employees, all for the purposes herein referred to as «Releasee»... FROM ALL LIABILITY TO THE UNDERSIGNED, my / our personal representatives, assigns, executors, heirs and next to kin FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, LOSSES OR DAMAGES AND ANY CLAIMS OR DEMANDS THEREFORE ON ACCOUNT OF ANY INJURY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DEATH OF THE PARTICIPANT OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE EVENT (S) CAUSED OR ALLEGED TO BE CAUSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEE OR OTHERWISBY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEE OR OTHERWISE.

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Thus, lacking body mass, women made a virtue out of delicacy (often a rather steely delicacy); stuck with not just bearing but also raising the children, women promoted the sanctity of motherhood; deprived of upper - body strength, women made men carry things; afflicted by capricious hormonal fluctuations, women used crying as a form of interpersonal leverage; restricted from the public sphere, women commandeered domestic life; shut out of decent employment, gals adopted a «pay - to - play» strategy - men had to pay for sex, with dinners, rings, and homes.

I personally loved him as a President, but did he abuse me as an American citizen by using a public space for his own personal benefit??

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

After the discussion, Naperville Park District Executive Director Ray McGury said he believes the project is a cultural amenity as it is on land donated to the city by Caroline Martin Mitchell for public use.