Betekenis van:
sense of purpose
sense of purpose
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- the quality of having a definite purpose
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
- For the purpose of illustrating the different approaches, it makes sense to differentiate between two components: a risk-free return and a project-specific risk premium:
- For the purpose of Directive 2008/56/EC, the term habitat addresses both the abiotic characteristics and the associated biological community, treating both elements together in the sense of the term biotope.
- Cultural Change The objective of this training is to instil a sense of common purpose and collective responsibility in the workforce and to create a team culture based on excellence in production;
- In this sense, the parallel drawn by the Commission with social security contributions is valid, regardless of the fact, as the United Kingdom observes, that their purpose is different from a tax measure.
- Therefore, although no restructuring plan in the strict sense was available when the sale took place in June 1998 (and a fortiori in 1996), it is clear that the forecasts made by GE for its own purpose and the restructuring measures foreseen in this context were such as to ensure the viability of AGB in the long run.
- For the purpose of this Decision, allowances reserved for new entrants that have not been allocated to a new entrant before 30 April 2010, should only be considered to represent allowances in the sense of Article 9 of Directive 2003/87/EC, if they will be allocated to new entrants or alternatively sold or auctioned before the end of the period from 2008 to 2012, as the corresponding amount of allowances will only be issued at the time of allocation.
- In order to benefit from the exemption scheme in question, any undertaking wishing to maximise the value of its investments must set up a separate entity in Luxembourg for the purpose of carrying on exclusively the activities authorised by the 1929 legislation. The establishment of such a structure therefore entails investments on top of the normal costs of an investment activity. Only undertakings with a group structure and significant financial resources of sufficient amount to establish in Luxembourg a structure devoted to the activities of managing and financing participations are able to benefit from the scheme. Such undertakings include, for example, exempt billionaire holding companies. State resources (84) With regard to the state origin of the advantages resulting from the application of the scheme in question, it should be pointed out that the concept of aid is more general than that of subsidy because it embraces not only positive benefits, such as subsidies themselves, but also measures which, in various forms, mitigate the charges which are normally included in the budget of an undertaking and which, therefore, without being subsidies in the strict sense of the word, are similar in character and have the same effect.
- It is also necessary to examine whether the public authorities must be regarded as having been involved, in one way or another, in the adoption of those measures.’For this purpose, the judgment mentions a number of ‘indicators’ that can be used to show that an aid measure taken by a public undertaking is imputable to the State, such as requirements on the part of the public authorities, ‘its integration into the structures of the public administration, the nature of its activities and the exercise of the latter on the market in normal conditions of competition with private operators, the legal status of the undertaking (in the sense of its being subject to public law or ordinary company law), the intensity of the supervision exercised by the public authorities over the management of the undertaking, or any other indicator showing, in the particular case, an involvement by the public authorities in the adoption of a measure or the unlikelihood of their not being involved, having regard also to the compass of the measure, its content or the conditions which it contains.’