Famous Quotes & Sayings

Employers will not need to give reasons for refusing to allow someone to continue to work beyond 65 and may adopt blanket policies of no work beyond 65 in order to try and avoid the risk of unfair dismissal claims.

J. J. Johnson

Each company will be able to adopt a capital structure and dividend policy that suits its business and strategic objectives and make acquisitions of appropriately valued assets.

John Prendergast

Early adopters of digital cameras most often printed at home, if they printed at all - there weren't many options yet available or convenient. Now the infrastructure to get digital prints at retail is in place and consumers are adopting this behavior more quickly, ... As the quality, functionality and ease-of-use of camera phones improve, we see users gravitating to the service, quality and cost-effectiveness of the retail destination.

Five years ago, money was so tight. Five years ago, the Berlin Lions stepped in with the blues festival. They really have adopted it.

FDA's recommendation to adopt RFID technology by 2007 has been an everyday conversation with brand owners. In some cases, the term RFID has become the umbrella name to loosely describe initiatives to meet local government requirements in electronic pedigree, track and trace, and brand authentication, all of which may work in tandem with RFID, but equally can be implemented and referred to as a stand-alone application or solution.

There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.

Seems like about two months ago military people who came to adopt from us were telling us they couldn't adopt certain breeds of dogs.

Jessica Fox

Right now we can't technically adopt anyone out, but starting tomorrow our supervisor is doing home visits for possible foster families.

Quite a lot of what we do before we adopt a building ordinance is to consider the way the building looks. City staff and the Planning and Zoning Board also pay attention.

Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,

Rather than starting from an approach which focused on particular/specific types of transactions and provides views on whether revenue arises from that transaction, and when and how much revenue, the exposure draft establishes broad principles and then explains how those principles are applied to particular transactions. This means that the principles are in place to provide broad guidance. They can be applied to transactions that may be of particular importance to some jurisdictions, but not in other jurisdictions. The problem with adopting an approach which focuses on specific transactions, is that some types of transactions may be missed. This is particularly significant for international standards intended to encompass many different jurisdictions, with different resource flows and administrative arrangements.

Prominent problems include too quick growth in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country will adopt measures to tackle to ensure a steady and relatively fast economic expansion.

Prominent problems include a too prompt growth rate in fixed-asset investments and bank loans, which the country plans to adopt measures to tackle, as well as measures to ensure it keeps its steady economic growth.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

Our third quarter results demonstrated the ongoing strength of our business model. We also delivered on the growth strategies that are enabling us to expand our industry leadership position, including advancements focused on accelerating the adoption of Internet media and the viable business models to support it.

Iris Chang

As the Chinese grew in numbers, the immigrant population grew to the extent that it became a huge economic threat, there were efforts among white workers to organize among themselves politically, and what was unfortunate was that both major parties adopted anti-Chinese platforms.

Mohamed ElBaradei

As things stand, I do not expect the board to adopt a resolution on the Iranian issue unless there is a breakthrough and unless there is a positive agreement.

Content developers and value-added services providers may have better revenue prospects if they work closely with broadband service providers which lead the adoption of fiber-to-the-home in those markets.

Consumers weren't adopting a technology that the government thought they should be adopting quickly, so government stepped in and said, you're going to adopt, and we're going to force you to adopt by basically making your television sets go blank if you don't either buy a digital TV or buy a converter box.

Consumers show more likelihood to adopt a device recognition solution, and therefore the implementation bodes well for positive ROI and continued use of the online channel.

Council and staff have been optimistic since the beginning of the budget adoption process that our revenue for this year would be able to fund some of these items.

Customers are very happy when the vendors they deal with adopt Eclipse because it reduces training costs.

Currently, the economic environment is not the critical factor affecting PC adoption cycles. What we're seeing now is a combination of PC replacements and new users responding to low-price milestones.

And they also will be granted a period of transition time after we adopt the new taxation systems,

And you can even adopt a pet, not this one though.

An investor who was long the market from November to April, but then adopted a defensive approach by rotating into either the S&P Consumer Staples or Health Care sectors during May through October, would have found ... that the returns were well worth the effort.

John Bolton

The United States is very pleased at the council's unanimous adoption

This curriculum has been 14 years in the making. It has been adopted by a number of states as their P.E. curriculum.

This discrepancy is likely due to the fact that we are in the early stages of an evolution in mobility. With single-purpose products disappearing as functionality converges, consumers are resisting making a choice. But our research shows that in time, mobility will be adopted widely. The mobility evolution has begun.

This contract augments our reputation as a leading safety training provider. We will be working with the apprentices at the start of their career providing the necessary support to ensure that they are fully capable of working in their chosen field offshore, and will adopt safe practices whilst doing so.

This alternative vision is offered as a concept for interested parties to consider, evaluate, discuss and, we hope, adopt as a better way to move forward.

This album was really my way to say thank you to France for having opened its arms and adopted me, calling me one of their own.

This administration, like that of President Nixon, has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the executive branch's power that is unbounded.