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18 Jun 2007, 3:00 am
Those who kill, while keeping their hands free of blood and their bodies safe, are the people who control the levers of the state, those who revel in the will to power. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 10:01 am
Stated positively and more generally, the individual has the right to “exit” a collective attempt to resolve a civic problem through the democratic levers of civil society. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 6:30 am
I’ve generally found that choices about our diet are dependent on too many factors (individual metabolism, personal exercise patterns) to be manipulated by using crude tax policy levers. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 2:48 am
The guidance contains a lot of practical advice on prompt engagement and developing a strategy on integrated risk management – focussed on understanding what levers trustees may have to pull and taking action before it is too late. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 1:16 pm
Add several lever arch files and 2 reams of paper and stir. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 7:23 am
The more the owner of the failed business tries to lever the assets of the old business, the greater the risk that the debts of the old business follow the assets. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 10:07 am
They don't have access to the levers of power.They only thing they usually have are the personal injury attorneys that are helping them with their case. [read post]
30 Jul 2023, 3:06 pm
Accordingly, one suspects that Lipton’s goal is not to empower his CEO clients to be more prosocial, but to use stakeholder capitalism as a lever for restoring the CEO’s former imperial powers. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 8:02 am
Datum used for accident reconstruction measurements (a datum is an imaginary plane from which all measurements are taken), arm (the distance that a weight is located from the datum), moment (the product of weight x its lever arm). [read post]
1 Oct 2008, 5:16 pm
What ultimately divides them is a broader question: whether accounting should seek a modest role of pure and impartial reporting or be designed as a public policy lever that consciously seeks to influence market behavior. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 2:44 pm
Defendant uses what he contends is, and what I have determined to be, an unlawful search as the fulcrum for the lever of his argument that the marijuana was unlawfully seized and should therefore be suppressed. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 9:39 am
While bail bond enterprises may well be effective at buying cooperation from judges and county administrators, it is hard to understand why state legislatures, who control the ultimate statutory levers, would choose to leave millions on the table for benefit of local businesses. [read post]
24 Jan 2022, 6:30 am
Going forward, ESG will not simply be a tool for identifying and mitigating risks, but also a lever for value creation. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 7:25 am
In the lever-action voting booths of my youth, this symbol (along with the Republican log cabin) clearly marked the switch one flipped to vote the straight ticket. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 5:09 pm
These factors provide Congress with multiple levers to influence corporate decisions. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 8:30 am
As described by former State Department official Stephen Sestanovich, now a Columbia diplomacy professor and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations the 2 countries have detailed in New STARTcuts of hundreds of strategic nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles as the main lever of their so-called 'reset.'(photo credit; and see here) Also key, according to the White House, is a "verification regime" that "will provide the ability to monitor all aspects of… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 3:29 pm
Rather, they suggested that the problem could lie with the “drive by wire” system, which uses a computer rather than a lever to relate pressure on the accelerator pedal to the engine. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 8:51 am
In fact, such a plan, empowered to work with Medicare, is Congress's single most powerful lever for reforming the way care is paid for and delivered. [read post]
3 May 2023, 1:01 am
As Jacob Riis once said, “The power of fact is the mightiest lever of this or of any day. [read post]
26 Aug 2024, 9:05 pm
When airborne, he moved into the cockpit to pull levers to shut down the engines, a move that could have taken the lives of all 83 on board. [read post]
