Do they spend from day one, or can we influence their spending, spend in reaction to our actions?
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The job of the auditors is to evaluate our actions and controls to see if they meet certain standards of action.
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We plan to keep this momentum in 2010 to ensure our enforcement actions continue to support our aim of credible deterrence.
The entire debate over the terminology might look to a marketing practitioner like an Ivory Tower nitpicking but it is an important one because metaphor-based terms rely on our understanding of the underlying concepts to guide our actions.
And I reiterated in my meeting with President Karzai that the United States will continue to work with our Afghan and international partners to do everything in our power to avoid actions that harm the Afghan people.
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It also means being acutely aware of how others process and respond to our own actions and behaviors.
Yet most of us give little thought to our nonverbal actions while these verbal activities are going on.
We must reject the institutions of liberty and choose instead to bind our actions together through the coercive power of government.
We are reviewing the lawsuit and expect to defend our actions vigorously.
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To maximize those options we need to ground our actions and assessments in clear-headed analyses and judgments of the people we are faced with.
To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate (p. 4).
"Lasting and justified satisfaction with life as a whole" is produced by a relatively small set of important achievements that we can rightly attribute to our own actions.
And that's where we agreed to list our national actions and commitments, to provide information on the implementation of these actions through national communications, with international consultations and analysis under clearly defined guidelines.
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And if we want to tweak our business model to boost margins or cut churn, we can easily check to see if our actions are having any effect.
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Our contribution to our own crisis as marketing and communications experts can also be manifested through our actions to help rekindle the feelings of people who want to reconnect with their humanity.
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Or, do we honor the victims by refusing to let the violence dictate our actions, beliefs, resources, and our commitment to believe in the integrity of others.
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And we will continue to work with our international partners to take actions that will increase pressure on Syria, to allow the Syrian people -- the Syrian regime, rather -- to allow the Syrian people to determine their own future.
Such statements suggest not only a proclivity to see in our actions the cause of our troubles.
There's a core principle that we will apply to all of our actions.
"We only take his opinion and legal advice to make sure our actions do not harm Mubarak's case, " Saleh said.
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"Let this serve as a message to everyone, our actions and words, big or small, can have a serious impact, " he added, also saying that he has now lost the job he liked and has three children to support.
Our goal is to return 60 to 80 percent of our earnings each year to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks, and our planned capital actions will allow us to, once again, achieve that goal in 2013.
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"All that is being offered to our community by such actions is fear and lawlessness, and we refuse to accept this, " they said.
Not irrelevant to our woes because the actions that have been done and are being considered to be done have certainly increased the woes and will most likely increase our woes dramatically.
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It is also the case that we have a certain amount of experience in making the hard decisions and mustering the political will to take the actions necessary to save our financial system and, in fact, the global financial system, which is what happened in 2008 and 2009.
We have to take responsibility for our actions, and then seek out other women and men who we can work collaboratively with to overcome the bigger challenges that exist for us all.
In 2013, we will continue to take additional actions at our SANYO Semiconductor Products Group to reduce the break-even level and return this operating segment to profitability.
We will endeavour to stop you protecting yourselves against our actions by making it difficult to collect on insurance in the credit-default-swaps market.
"Going into 2013, our team is moving ahead with new plans and actions to sharpen our approach to localized merchandise assortments and marketing, " CEO Terry Lundgren said in a statement.
But should we, as a matter of policy, and moral decency, learn to think and comprehend that our actions in one part of the world could very well come back to hurt us, or, as Paul would say, blow back in our face?
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