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By taking substantive voluntary steps, they can persuade governments and the wider public that they are taking issues such as health and safety, diversity, or the environment seriously as good corporate citizens with respect to labour standards and impacts on the environment.
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By taking up on the bow cable the stern anchor can be set.
By using the palette to mask the top area of the display and taking care about when it changes mode it can shift the continuous graphics at the bottom of the display down in two pixel increments because the internal display counter is not incremented on blank scanlines during non-continuous graphics modes.
By 2000, all full-time, undergraduate Acadia students were taking part in the initiative.
By stripping it of its powers over temples, Augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function.
By the middle of the dry season, the intertropical convergence zone moves south of Chad, taking the rain with it.
By March 1963 however, after the visit of Colonel Michael Greene of the United States Army, and the resulting ' Greene Plan ,' the pattern of bilaterally agreed military assistance to various Congolese military components, instead of a single unified effort, was already taking shape.
By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.
By May 1949, the initial orders provided a primitive relocating assembler taking advantage of the mnemonic design described above, all in 31 words.
By taking on this practice, which is a woman's domain, it actually empowers them.
By 4 July, the Australian 9th Division had entered the line in the north, and on 9 July Indian 5th Infantry Brigade also returned taking over the Ruweisat position.
By taking the intersection of p ( 1 ), p ( 2 ), p ( 3 ),... he formed p ( ω ), and then he noticed that p ( ω ) had a set of limit points p ( ω + 1 ), and so on.
By taking off like the scissors, but extending his back and flattening out over the bar, Sweeney achieved a more economic clearance and raised the world record to in 1895.
By taking both in-role and extra-role performance into account, industrial – organizational psychologists are able to assess employees ' effectiveness ( how well they do what they were hired to do ), efficiency ( their relative outputs to relative inputs ), and their productivity ( how much they help the organization reach its goals ).
By this time, the Mamluks under Baibars were taking advantage of the kingdom's constant disputes, and began conquering the remaining crusader cities along the coast.
Michael A. Levine composed Divination By Mirrors for musical saw soloist and two string ensembles tuned a quarter tone apart, taking advantage of the saws ability to play in both tunings.
By, age was taking its toll on the Vikings, but they still made the playoffs with an 8 – 7 – 1 record.
By taking 19 wickets in the series and delivering a historic 2 – 1 victory, the off-spinner silenced the doubters.
By 2000, taking into account penalties and accrued interest, North Korea's debt was estimated at USD 10 – 12 billion.
# Law Courts: By taking some general rule which seemed to be common to all the communities and ignoring the differences, English common law was modeled after such a practice so that the law became common in all the districts of the kingdom.
By 1983, St. Paul's Hüsker Dü, Willful Neglect, Chicago's Naked Raygun and D. C .' s The Faith were taking the hardcore sound in experimental and ultimately more melodic directions.
By defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he had the misfortune of taking office during the Great Depression.
By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30 % to just below 10 %, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press ( most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate ).
By taking Kolmogorov quotients, one sees that the subcategory of Tychonoff spaces is also reflective.
By 1945, roughly 33 % of all children ate at school compared with one in thirty in 1940, while those taking milk increased from about 50 % to roughly 75 %.
By taking pieces of the enemy material to edit together and placing his own narration over the results, Capra gave meaning and purpose to the war with added narrative.
By and substantive
By May, Alexander was briefly acting Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion, as an acting lieutenant-colonel, while still only a substantive captain.
By the 1960s, the Court had extended its interpretation of substantive due process to include rights and freedoms that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution but that, according to the Court, extend or derive from existing rights.
By the time the full NPC or NPCSC meets to consider the legislation, the major substantive elements of the draft legislation have largely been agreed to.
By June, he was in command of the Canadian Corps and was promoted when, for distinguished service, the King made substantive Byng's rank of lieutenant-general.
By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive conditions that must be met for a patent to be held valid.
By any measure, this legislative record is substantive and valuable to central Ohio and the state.
By contrast, many states, such as Kentucky, have been less willing to allow their agencies to promulgate rules with the effect of substantive law.
By that time, the change was purely procedural, but it also freed the substantive law from the old medieval forms of action.
By and voluntary
By the devotio of a voluntary oath, a slave might achieve the quality of a Roman ( Romanitas ), become the embodiment of true virtus ( manliness, or manly virtue ), and paradoxically, be granted missio while remaining a slave.
By voluntary agreement, archaeologists respect the decisions of the Pan-African Congress of Prehistory, which meets every four years to resolve archaeological business brought before it.
By definition, peering is the voluntary and free exchange of traffic between two networks, for mutual benefit.
By the Catholic position that one's attitudes are acts of will, sinful attitudes are voluntary.
By this it is manifest, that not only actions that have their beginning from covetousness, ambition, lust, or other appetites to the thing propounded ; but also those that have their beginning from aversion, or fear of those consequences that follow the omission, are voluntary actions.
By his voluntary suffering, he will save sinners from the just punishment of God.
By definition, the difference between a confederation and a federation is that the membership of the member states in a confederation is voluntary, while the membership in a federation is not.
By 1939, it had over 7, 000 paid employees and 135, 000 voluntary workers, organized into divisions covering such areas as sport, education, and tourism, with wardens in every factory and workshop employing more than 20 people.
By this law he sought to explain, not only the phenomena of memory, which others had similarly explained before him, but also the phenomena of emotion, of reasoning, and of voluntary and involuntary action ( see Association of Ideas ).
By contrast, enterprises that are part of the state are part of the public sector ; private, non-profit organizations are regarded as part of the voluntary sector.
By 1944 it included 242, 000 volunteers, the largest voluntary auxiliary organisation in the world, while the total population of Finland was less than four million.
By the 2000s, the positive-sex position had driven various international human rights NGOs to actively pressure the Chinese government to abandon its official policy of banning prostitution in post-reform China and recognise ' voluntary ' prostitution as legitimate work ( Jeffreys 2009 ).
By August 1944, 92. 2 percent of all Richmond shipyard employees had joined the plan, the first voluntary group plan in the country to feature group medical practice, prepayment and substantial medical facilities on such a large scale.
By 1956, the system of voluntary unions of states was dismantled and the position of Rajpramukh abolished.
Certification is a voluntary process and ensures that a nurse has proper qualifications and knowledge of a speciality area and has kept up-to-date in his or her education. By keeping up-to-date you can improve your level of knowledge and will later help you throughout the job.
By the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, No 4083, of 23 December 1947, from 100 000 up to 150 000 Azerbaijanis in Armenian SSR became subject to a " voluntary resettlement " to Azerbaijan.
: By his distinguished gallantry, and voluntary exposure to the enemy's fire at a critical moment, when the Union line had been broken, encouraged his men to stand to their guns, checked the advance of the enemy, and brought off most of his pieces.
By purchasing the allowances that power plants, oil refineries, and industrial facilities need to hold to comply with a cap, voluntary purchases tighten the cap and force additional emissions reductions.
By the end of 2011, the ' new ' NCC Ltd once again faced financial difficulties and in 2012 it sought voluntary arrangements with its creditors to step away from its debts.
By the 1960s, advocacy for a right-to-die approach to voluntary euthanasia increased.
By 1980 most pre-packaged goods were sold using the prescribed units, the conversion having been either theoretically voluntary or made under United Kingdom-initiated legislation.
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