For award tickets, you can book award seats on alliance members at the low level
with other alliance member's miles.
The devaluation of the AAdvantage program in March 2016 will bring the cost of American's award tickets more in line
with the other alliances.
Not exact matches
«I don't» think there's a strong need to cement something or cast it in stone,» he said, adding that the
alliance helps
with coordination on technology and
other issues.
One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new
alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and
others, and begin creating their own products in order to end their dependence on the West.
Gooderich expects Putin to rapidly expand the economic partnerships Russia has in place
with Kazakhstan and Belarus to include
other members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the military
alliance between these nations signed in 1992.
OPEC is working on a «very long - term» deal to try to extend its
alliance with other oil producers, Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said at an energy conference in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday.
THE LOW ROAD: If you can't bring top talent in - house right away, forge strategic
alliances with others and then link their management
with your concept.
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»).
Indeed, since the 1980s, China has eschewed formal
alliances with other nations as a matter of policy; the only two countries that come close to qualifying as China's strategic allies are Pakistan and North Korea.
Likewise, the center - right
alliance could also renegotiate
with other parties.
ANACONDA Nickel Limited has formed a strategic
alliance with three
other nickel producers to give the company the world's largest nickel resource.
The big picture vision for Women Who Cowork is to have a global
alliance of women - owned coworking spaces, and women coworking managers who are connecting
with each
other, providing support, gaining access to resources, services, funding and community in a way that promotes their business, helps them run a better business and provides visibility to them in both the press and the people in coworking.
* The effectiveness of marketing messages depends on relevance and quality (and not only on frequency) * Think in terms of abundance (the pie is infinite and helping
others is helping yourself) * Build
alliances with competitors, customers, suppliers, non-profits, and businesses in different markets * Be the early movers in green marketing and make the message believable and genuine (avoid greenwashing)
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from
other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or
other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and
other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or
other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships
with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or
other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions,
alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and
other factors.
The German company has already inked
alliances with Cisco, IBM, and
others to work on V2X communication systems, which many experts view as key in the development of autonomous vehicles.
Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic
alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated
with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and
other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated
with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or
other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and
other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or
other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships
with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or
other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions,
alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various
other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated
with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and
other factors.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from
other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or
other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and
other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or
other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships
with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or
other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the business and operations of the Company in the expected time frame; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions,
alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated
with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; tax law changes or interpretations; and
other factors.
Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic
alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated
with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and
other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated
with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic
alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated
with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.
There has been movement on the part of
other countries to create
alliances outside of the partnerships
with the United States ever since the financial crisis.
A rare exception is their current
alliance to secure Congressional passage of what is known as «fast track authority» for the President to create,
with eleven
other countries including Canada, the Trans - Pacific Partnership («TPP»).
Cultivating relationships
with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build
alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.
I chat
with Jasper Welch, of Durango Space, about the
alliance and how the collaboration
with other coworking spaces helps his own.
I chat
with Jasper Welch, of Durango Space, about the
alliance and how the collaboration
with other coworking spaces...
Most of the war death in the 20th century was caused by nationalism,
with a few
other factors in the mix — greed, pride,
alliances, border disputes, racial prejudice and so on.
It can seem to a person that he or she is really quite a bit better than
other sinners and has a special moral
alliance with God.
In
alliance with liberation theologians and
other concerned Christians, they have had some success.
To achieve such convergence, we have to take into account the plurality of the preoccupations in the different countries, the verification that the initiatives do not compete
with each
other and the need for very large
alliances, for numerous networks and movements developing around related themes.
Those who are already experiencing these catastrophes, along
with others who see them coming in more massive forms, are forming
alliances not only to protest but also to push for change before it is truly too late.
Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great
alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not
with nuclear weapons (or, indeed,
other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead
with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.
Unfortunately, efforts to push forward a careful
alliance of theology
with evolutionary biology are often obscured by the more sensational spats going on between IDT defenders and creationists on the one side, and evolutionary materialists on the
other.
It was this, over and above reasoned objections to certain features of his teaching, that drove the Pharisees into an unnatural (and strictly temporary)
alliance with the worldly hierarchy, whose motives for pursuing Jesus to death were quite
other.
And though Stalin executed priests and
other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an
alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.
This credo and strategy must be developed in
alliance with secular futurists and
other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace
with nature and
with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.
Another result has been the attempt to form ideological
alliances across religious communities, as traditionalists in different religious groups find that they have more in common
with each
other than they do
with their modernist coreligionists, while modernists discover similar congruities.
About 38 percent of responses fall into the association category, including Turkish Christians seeking ties
with the Greek Orthodox Church, Indian Christians attempting to build
alliances with Hindu and Muslim leaders, and Sri Lankan evangelicals collaborating
with other faiths to provide social services.
The blessed
alliance is what happens when men and women are both walking in the fullness of their unique gifts and callings, in wholeness and in right relationship
with God and each
other, it's what happens when we are restored in God's Kingdom.
An alternative proposed is for CD members to look, rather, to a closer
alliance with Poles, Czechs, and
others in Central Europe who, it is hoped, will offer a more promising model of religiously inspired political action.
The meeting was interrupted by clergy from a local black Baptist
alliance, who were angered by my claim that black churches, along
with many
other groups, were having trouble writing effective grant proposals or administering and evaluating social programs.
In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers
with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the
alliances that can be worked out
with blacks, the poor, and
other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.
The result is that the black
alliance within the Democratic party is not
with other racial minorities but
with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).
The fact that, in spite of its early association
with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming
alliance, Christianity won some adherents from
other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.
As the specificity of their Christianity became diluted, liberal Protestants» identity in the universities rested increasingly on ethnic and class
alliances, or on the
alliance with secularists against fundamentalism and
other perceived bigotries.
Fears of the future form a vicious
alliance with terrible remorse (usually hidden from
others) about the past.
He saw the futility of trying to solve Judah's problem by violence and the resort to
alliances with other powers against Babylon.
The CIP includes action areas for Member States, WHO and
other actors and recommends «to create a supportive environment for the implementation of comprehensive food and nutrition policies» and calls for Member States to «establish a dialogue
with relevant national and international parties and form
alliances and partnerships to expand nutrition actions
with the establishment of adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest».
If we do not work
with them, they will buy weapons from
other countries (like Russia), and possibly form strategic
alliances with them instead
This notwithstanding, he indicated that Ghana has formed
alliances with other West African countries to help prevent any possible terrorist attack in the country.
The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning
alliances with other parties.
It needs to become more like a typical European social democratic party, which recognises that nothing can be achieved without forging
alliances with others.