Sentences with phrase «government efforts at»

Tambuwal described the discovery as a major boost to Federal Government efforts at diversifying the country's economy.

Not exact matches

While there are now many virtual currencies, each with its own blockchain, there are also many government and corporate efforts looking at ways to use blockchain technology to securely record other kinds of data.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

This isn't the first time the government has tried this clever strategy, but the effort has never reached across so many states at once.

Earlier this year, Ottawa launched a five - year, $ 250 - million program geared at supporting the auto industry — Ford just received a $ 72 - million cash injection — but DesRosiers and other analysts say the federal government's efforts need to be less targeted at the assembly plants.

With the help of government bailouts and Federal Reserve liquidity efforts, nonfinancial companies have amassed $ 1.8 trillion in cash that at some point will need to be spent.

The federal government's 2013 budget unveiled Thursday contains a select few initiatives aimed at reducing costs at the household level including efforts to close the U.S. - Canada price gap for young families.

The state government has announced a $ 40 million package to reduce charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by up to $ 2.50 per tonne, in an effort to help junior miners continue to export iron ore.

If these efforts at refunds are tried, a) there will be public outrage and heat on the government, and b) others will sue.

Japan this year became the first country to regulate exchanges at the national level, part of a government effort to exploit financial technology as a means of stimulating the economy.

Japan will urge its G20 counterparts at a meeting next week to beef up efforts to prevent cryptocurrencies from being used for money laundering, a government official with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Speaking at the Dealbook conference aired on CNBC, Diller chided the government's efforts to put the squeeze on the largest U.S. bank.

My colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute, our firm's business and economics research arm, have analyzed previous downturns and found that when individuals and governments focus on paying down debt, these efforts curb economic growth for three to five years.

The labs of large, multinational companies and academic research efforts at major universities or governments are great at churning out innovations that become the basis for startups.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

«There is much effort all across the US government to ensure that Americans don't have to feel at risk,» Pompeo said.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Chinese phone maker ZTE hit back at U.S. government efforts to destroy its business in this country, saying a seven - year sales ban is «extremely unfair» and «unacceptable.»

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Outcomes from these forums often help shape and drive our advocacy efforts at all three levels of government.

While government efforts to come to grips with digital money have been fraught, the more important trend may be the growing number of money managers who are looking at cryptocurrencies as an asset class for investment.

Al Nowais operates at all levels of government and business in a continued effort to bring prosperity and growth to both economies as well as facilitate the development of commercial relationships between the two nations.

We do not know at this point what the new Quebec government's intentions are with the VRSP concept but we hope they will move forward as it was on the leading edge of efforts in this regard.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

By detailing the specifics of its efforts rather than dragging its feet or waiting for government inquiries, Facebook may be able convince people it's not asleep at the wheel of its social network.

A strong correlation with effort and reward is why entrepreneurship is so rewarding, and why working at a big corporation or the government may be less fulfilling.

At present, governments have made a concerted effort to put the world awash in base money.

At the same time, however, the enormous increase in government liabilities stemming from an ongoing budget deficit and huge financial rescue efforts is likely to result in normal if not elevated levels of inflation as the economy recovers.

«These ads are a concrete example of our stepped - up political engagement efforts,» American Bankers Association President Rob Nichols told hundreds of bankers at the association's government relations conference in Washington Wednesday.

«The government will spare no effort to make sure there are no big swings in the property market,» says Ni Pengfei, a housing expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

Here at home, the federal government's infrastructure investment plans should focus specifically on diversifying Canada's exports - aside from resource development and transport, investment in telecommunications, clean energy, and bio-tech infrastructure would be well worth the effort.

Evangelical church at heart of interfaith and government efforts to provide relief and shelter.

When the government awoke to the situation, there were the usual efforts at «appeasement», hasty feeling about for possible alliances, and then a belated and desperate resistance, which was finally broken.

In El Salvador repression and terror are central to U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in defense of an unpopular government at war against its own people.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

More determined efforts at collaboration between the UK and the Scottish government seem necessary to strengthen the bonds within a unified state, which is the option the Scottish electorate have chosen, albeit that democracy can never deliver the answer that everyone likes.

That didn't come to much: the Chippewa were resettled by the government shortly afterwards, and, in any case, it is difficult to imagine those theologically rigorous Lutheran immigrants» insistent at all times that the distinction between law and gospel be strictly maintained» having much success in proselytizing efforts among a people to whom the simplest expressions of Christian doctrine would have seemed quite esoteric.

Along with oppressive government laws, secret prisons and chronic food shortages, there are also groups of homeless, at - risk orphans in the country that Bae had photographed in an effort to bring attention to the issue.

Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has observed that in the 1970s and»80s most mainline Protestant denominations severely cut back their funding of family ministries programs while continuing to fund government lobbying efforts.

How difficult that will be is already evident from the fruits of the several efforts at establishing a center - left government.

The Chef Corps is a network of chefs from around the country who participate in a number of official government programs that use food as a foundation for public diplomacy efforts at home and abroad.

California winegrowers are at the forefront of habitat restoration and preservation efforts, working with government agencies to establish conservation easements and restore watersheds.

I'm heartened at the efforts to reduce food loss and waste that have gained traction in the past year, and with even greater action by governments and businesses we can accelerate global progress toward Target 12.3.»

Zero Waste Scotland leads on the delivery of the Scottish Government's Circular Economy strategy and other low carbon policy priorities, and is at the forefront of efforts to create a resource efficient, circular economy.

SUICIDE rates among young Australians are sitting at an alarming level despite efforts by mental health organisations and governments to develop prevention strategies.

Apparently, the government had been training chefs at its culinary training facilities to send abroad for the previous decade, but this project formalized and enhanced these efforts significantly.