Sentences with phrase «years as a mechanism»

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And insofar as the government is about to «change the rules,» taking the five - year prohibition on license transfer and extending it a further five years... as you change the rules you effect the marketplace, and disrupt the balance that government strives to offer, so I see a refund as a valid mechanism and a cunning tactic for both sides.

In recent years, trusts have been favored as a common gifting mechanism and a potential tax shelter from creditors.

This means that six year vesting is really only effective as a retention mechanism for about four years.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

It's taken hundreds of years for whites to Put into place their mechanisms for obtaining and maintaining power over others... So I'd suspect that it would take just as ling for this evil to be reversed.

The only logical answer to the question as to who could have mentioned all these scientific facts 1400 years ago before they were discovered, is exactly the same answer initially given by the atheist or any person, to the question who will be the first person who will be able to tell the mechanism of the unknown object.

«If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came,» Lincoln continued, then what other sense can this war have, except that God has willed that the war should be a mechanism of justice, «until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword»?

I came to think of my surgeon, Mr. Barry Mc Guire, a man of half my years, not as some technician of the human mechanism but as a recently made friend with whom, in a short time, I developed a bond of trust that is at least as strong as any other forged in my lifetime.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

The Murray Darling Basin Plan's (the Basin Plan) Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) adjustment mechanism enables the Basin - wide SDL for surface water (10,873 GL per year) to be changed up or down by no more than 5 %, as long as environmental, social and economic outcomes are not compromised.

Ricki Sollinger recounts the many pressures on women pregnant out - of - wedlock to relinquish children for adoption in years gone by... «Ricki than describes expectant - mother homes which functioned as mechanisms to pry babies out of the reluctant arms of their mothers and into the hands of the adoption industry.

Mr Cameron, whose olive branch move has echoes of Tony Blair courting Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dems ten years ago, added: «We will never win the fight to make British poverty history as long as we rely on top - down, centralised state mechanisms,» he wrote.

(Remember: Cox has a year remaining in his tenure as chairman, and no formal mechanism exists for his mid-term removal).

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

Thus, Article 50 was created so that it would provide an official mechanism and rule, such as the 2 - year negotiation period, to withdraw from the bloc.

Additional revenues should be raised in the new year, through mechanisms such as closing corporate loopholes and needless expenditures or additional modifications to the personal income tax structure.

Within 5 years, quintupling the number of NIH individual research fellowship and career development awards, such as the NIH F and K grant mechanisms, awarded to young scientists to give them more autonomy in their training.

The bottom line is, I have asked a lot of people for help and advice over the years, and not one of them has tried to shoot me (yet)- so I highly recommend this approach as a job search mechanism.

That's exactly what Peter Higgs and François Englert were doing 50 years ago when they came up with what's now known as the Higgs mechanism, which imparts mass to fundamental particles.

Being able to «look» at 100 million - year - old genomes will now allow us to deepen our knowledge about genomes as well as about the evolutionary mechanisms that lead to diversifying and acquiring new function.

The second is more controversial, but has come to be accepted over the past 150 years as the principal mechanism of evolution.

During her final two years at the agency, she had directed the Lab of Antiviral Drug Mechanisms, where she studied therapies for AIDS as well as one of its associated cancers, Kaposi's sarcoma.

The repair mechanisms in the lotus would be very useful if they could be transferred to crops, such as rice, corn and wheat, whose seeds have lifespans of only a few years.»

For years, scientists have been trying to understand why these repair mechanisms are halted, as overcoming this obstacle holds great potential for treating disabling neurological diseases.

«The signals generated in the part of the motor cortex that controls and coordinates the lips, tongue, jaw and larynx as a person speaks are already intended to control an external device: the mouth,» says Keith Johnson, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics and a co-author with Chang on last year's Nature paper, which describes, for the first time, the neuronal mechanisms controlling speech.

These mechanisms allow societal norms to emerge in online communities where none were before, just as juries have for hundreds of years, says Cliff Lampe at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The most important advancement in medicine in the last 25 years was the development of genetic modeling in animals, enabling us to figure out how fundamental mechanisms of physiology and disease work, such as in bone loss.

His lab has spent several years working out the mechanism for how presynaptic cells release neurotransmitter in response to spikes of electrical activity known as action potentials.

In the first 7 years of its existence, the ERC has become popular among European scientists because, in contrast to other E.U. funding mechanisms, it uses excellence as the only criterion, while its application process is relatively straightforward.

During his years as an assistant professor of chemistry at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Dietze asked fundamental questions about mechanisms of basic organic chemical reactions, questions he recounted in a recent telephone interview: «How does A go to B?

As a mechanism for achieving this, the duration of the postgraduate period is limited to 6 years for a doctorate and 6 years of postdoctoral research.

Last year, Full co-founded the Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education & Research (CiBER) at U.C. Berkeley to foster mutualism between biologists and engineers: The former provide mechanisms that the latter can use on their devices, which then may serve as models to advance biology.

For more than 200 years, scientists have speculated about the specific forces at work when electricity passes through water — a process known as the Grotthuss mechanism.

For years, attempts have been made to understand the mechanism behind the proliferation of cancer cells: they need metabolites to grow and proliferate as much as a vehicle needs gasoline or electricity to move.

During the past 60 years, while numerous laboratory studies have documented bubble - bursting drops» properties such as their ejection speed, maximum height or size, a comprehensive picture of the mechanisms at play is still lacking.

The researchers say they now understand the mechanism of action of amphotericin, an antifungal drug that has been in use for more than 50 years — even though it is nearly as toxic to human cells as it is to the microbes it attacks.

In recent years, cellular senescence has been proposed as a mechanism that may be involved in lung fibrosis.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

After a two - year stint as a postdoctoral research fellow in Pharmacology in the laboratory of Dawn Quelle at the University of Iowa, where I studied the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis, I made the switch to industry.

All of these quasars formed just over a billion years after the universe's birth, but have still — through an as - of - yet inexplicable mechanism — managed to accumulate the mass of about a billion sons.

Rhodiola was said to be used by Russian cosmonauts, athletes, and military personnel, and years of study have begun to uncover the very mechanisms by which it acts as an adaptogen.

TSH will go high as the thyroid gets depleted, but in the initial attacks, in the first year or so, you may feel more hyper - symptoms even though it is a hypo — Hashimoto thyroid mechanism that's happening.

There are far too many in my 18 years of being a PT / sports coach, but I've helped a few clients who have had severe medical issues, guiding them to overcome them or assisting them with finding a coping mechanism that enables them to stay strong and to be able to deal with lifelong health struggles and vastly improve their health - this has been my favourite as it makes my job so much more satisfying, rewarding and enjoyable.

However, in the ensuing years, many of the mechanisms first proposed by Logan and colleagues (as listed, adapted from [73, 74]-RRB- whereby beneficial microbes could influence mood or fatigue, have been examined experimentally.

I haven't seen any good studies on the actual mechanism of how the beta cells «wear out» after years of over production of insulin... but stay tuned to NutritionFacts.org as the science keeps coming!

During the last 9 years, the ACSM Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends has been established as the primary mechanism by which the fitness industry has set its standard for the coming year.

This sequel, which begins after Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, «American Hustle»), in a dangerous fit of protest, has destroyed the mechanism that controls the «games» as they have played out in Panem for years.

The same can be said, but to a greater degree, about Montenegro (who has been named Best Actress of the year by both the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association); she rightfully sees Dora's bitter anger as less a weariness with the world than with herself, a desperate, self - destructive mechanism to keep the world even more distant than it already is.

Much like Sally Hawkins» Poppy in last year's «Happy - Go - Lucky,» Ashley uses good cheer as a coping mechanism.