Sentences with phrase «unprecedented step»

State officials are now taking unprecedented steps to weed out the worst of the schools.

This unprecedented situation requires unprecedented steps to save lives and safeguard peace and security.

We're seeing law firms take some pretty unprecedented steps to respond to economic conditions, and many of the things firms are doing to resolve their own financial woes are very creative.

And as a nation we were forced to take unprecedented steps to rescue the financial system and the broader economy.

Fortunately, current US technology leadership has recognized the crisis and taken unprecedented steps in modernizing US technology infrastructure.

As with many other pressing issues of the day, Vermont has once again taken unprecedented steps toward addressing problems that Washington has not been able to concern themselves with.

A congressional committee has taken the apparently unprecedented step of sending subpoenas to attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts over a multi-state probe of Exxon Mobil.

February's Bank of Japan (BOJ) meeting should be less action - packed than January's, which saw unprecedented steps to revive a weak economy.

In August of 2013, Doctors Without Borders took the nearly unprecedented step of shuttering its operations in the country, several years after the group's territorial high - water mark.

Weeks earlier, Tillerson took an entirely unprecedented step of personally deciding that three countries — Afghanistan, Burma and Iraq — should be left off of CSPA entirely, despite recommendations from State Department officials and intelligence gathered by the department itself.

The governor himself, on a handful of occasions first of all, took the rather unprecedented step of going and visiting with the majority conferences of both the Senate and the Assembly and having long conversations with them, number one.

As negotiations neared collapse, the United States refused to concede defeat and worked with global partners to take a meaningful and unprecedented step forward in international climate negotiations.

In what reporter Gina Passarella in The Legal Intelligencer calls an example of the current economic climate's «uncharted waters» and «choppy tides,» Fordham Law School yesterday took the highly unusual and perhaps even unprecedented step of banning the international law firm Reed Smith, the 16th - ranked firm on this year's Am Law 100, from interviewing on campus for five years.

Even though the issue of the EU's accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is almost as old as the Union itself, this book aptly brings the debate again to the spotlight and discusses the intricate nitty - gritties of this historically unprecedented step in a clear and precise manner.

At the University of Illinois, Chicago, the union representing tenure - track faculty took the apparently unprecedented step of staging a 2 - day strike on 18 and 19 February, in which they demanded substantial raises for contingent faculty.

A new proposal by the Obama Administration is taking unprecedented steps toward protecting people who are planning for retirement.

The Federal Reserve has thus rightly focused on getting the economy moving by taking unprecedented steps to ease the credit crisis.

President Raúl Castro has in recent years taken unprecedented steps to encourage international investment, including steep tax cuts, but while it is now legal for foreign companies to own 100 percent of Cuban - based companies, the market remains dominated by ventures that unite overseas firms with the Cuban government — and in virtually every case, the government seeks a 51 percent ownership stake.

Its ETF business has increased sixfold, partly because the company took the unprecedented step of putting in place a nationwide sales force to strengthen its business with financial advisers.

In another unprecedented step for the eurozone, the central bank will begin buying corporate bonds as part of the monthly asset purchases.

Back in those dark days, Carney took the unprecedented step of guaranteeing low interest rates for 15 months, a market - calming innovation copied this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The US and China have both recently changed course and are now taking unprecedented steps to reduce the amount of carbon their economies will emit.

Privately, Clinton took the unprecedented step of threatening to withdraw some US forces from the Japanese base at Okinawa.

Having already laid the groundwork with two interest rate hikes this year, the Federal Open Market Committee took an unprecedented step to tighten its monetary policy Wednesday.

VICTORIA — New Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of convening an Opposition Standing Committee on Agriculture and Food after well over a decade of B.C. Liberal neglect of the B.C. agriculture industry.

But Fed officials weren't ready for the unprecedented steps, such as bailing out the giant insurer, American International Group Inc., that they soon would be taking in a tumultuous year that transformed the central bank from obscure guardian of interest rates to aggressive fighter of financial crises.

Inspectors racing to verify the suspected chemical weapons attack on Douma last month are to take the unprecedented step of exhuming the bodies of...

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took the unprecedented step of using his F8 developers conference keynote to denounce a central part of Trump's stump speeches — building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

In a letter published on the Anglican Mainstream blog, the unprecedented step by St George's Becontree and St Elisabeth Becontree is said to have been made in response to what they describe as the «unbiblical leadership offered by Archbishops Welby and Sentamu».

Yesterday, La Repubblica newspaper in Italy received an unsolicited letter from a reader, and took the unprecedented step of running it in its entirety.

Otherwise you'd be writing (for the last couple of decades) similar articles about the massacred Christian families in Syria, Iraq, Mosul etc. etc. — except unlike the surgical strikes of the military attempting to protect it's own citizens and taking unprecedented steps and risks to minimise civilian casualties, you'd be reporting on Arab Muslims who first hand joyfully and deliberately hack these people to death.

The force will be allowed to offensively target and «neutralize» violent groups in the region, an unprecedented step for the UN.

So the city took the unprecedented step of removing us from its sphere.

In May, Gabriel took the unprecedented step of hiring a recruiting coordinator, former communications director Alex Martins, who was charged with overseeing the final details of Orlando's brave experiment in free agency.

However, Sean Dyche has taken the unprecedented step of responding to each one of Mourinho's qualms about the match saying he wanted to redress the balance following a sustained attack in the media from both Chelsea and Mourinho.

Now Dalglish has taken the unprecedented step of warning fans they should consider whether or not to buy tickets for the cup tie as he may field a youth team at Stamford Bridge.

Adams said he saw the broadcast angle only after the referees left the scorer's table, and considered taking an unprecedented step — calling the officials back over to the monitor — before deciding against it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are taking an unprecedented step toward protesting during the national anthem: The team isn't participating at all.

The FIA later took the unprecedented step of sending race director Charlie Whiting to a press conference to explain the reasoning for the decision.

With the exasperation deepening over missing cars and computers, incomplete financial records and uncollected police badges, a Cook County judge edged closer Thursday to taking the unprecedented step of handing over control of the troubled Dixmoor Park District to an outside party.

A town has taken the unprecedented step of banning plastic water bottles.

He realised that parliament's ability to hold the executive to account had «decayed» and, in 2009, took the unprecedented step of calling for Commons Speaker Michael Martin to resign.

In a remarkable message sent to readers, Evans said he was taking «the unprecedented step of sending you the Telegraph's leading article,» because he believed the election was a «watershed moment» for the the country.

In an interview for public radio and television, Enck explained why she took the unprecedented step of signing on to a letter, along with hundreds of former EPA staff, protesting Scott Pruitt.

Enck, in an interview with Karen DeWitt for public radio and tv, explains why she took the unprecedented step of signing on to a letter,

«We would take the unprecedented step to renationalise all our natural resources and national assets.