The new consumer financial protection bureau established in the bill is a milestone, not only for its intent and power to rectify lending abuses, but because it will institutionalize the insight that the safety and soundness of banks cannot — and should not — be measured by profitability alone, but by the impact that bank practices ultimately may have on consumers.
The New York Times editorial board has called the bill "a considerable accomplishment," lauding its "intent and power to rectify lending abuses," as well as the legislation's ability to "institutionalize the insight that the safety and soundness of banks cannot -- and should not -- be measured by profitability alone".
Each instrument pulls with equal weight, debating, joking, with serious, joyful intent: Kraggerud and Power, almost rising from their chairs to achieve a particular phrase, Brendel responding with elegance and panache.
Meanwhile radical ideology becomes just another product for sale, voided of its context, intent, and – eventually – power.
These connected and strategic groups do this with the intent to build support and power behind particular political agendas and to influence how we view ourselves now, and shape who we will become as a society.
The engineering model accurately reflects the intent and design detail of the power core elements including accurate and adjustable 3D tokamak geometry and complete modeling of all the power core and ancillary systems.
Both computer architects and circuit designers intent to reduce power and energy (without a performance degradation) at all design levels, as it is currently the main obstacle to continue with further scaling according to Moore's law.
The military denied any intent to seize power, and, under the terms of the constitution, parliamentary leader Raimundo Perreira was sworn in to serve as interim president until elections could be held; they were eventually scheduled for June 28.
He was a 19th-century version of the "enlightened despot," a man intent upon power not so much for its own sake as in order to serve the welfare of his country as he saw it.
This decision has been long debated and will send a strong signal of intent to the power industry.
Books such as The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability and the 25th Amendment, by Herbert Abrams, and Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, argue President Reagan's intent to transfer power to Vice President Bush was clear.
