Sentences with phrase «heads of government in»

The initial Closing the Gap target, agreed to by the heads of government in 2009, aimed for complete access to preschool for Indigenous children in remote communities.

It was signed by 32 ministers and 3 Heads of government in Asia, expressing the body's official position on global warming.

The event which begins April 16, 2018 and ends April 20, 2018 under the theme «Towards a Common Future» will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to «address the shared global challenges we face, and agree on actions on how to create a better future for all».

A statement signed by Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, indicates the weeklong meeting will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to «address the shared global challenges we face, and agree actions on how to create a better future for all».

The theme «Towards a Common Future» will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to address the shared global challenges we face and agree on actions on how to create a better future for all.

Today, far more leaders are appointed through contested elections, not least thanks to the adoption of the Harare Principles by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1990 when John Major was prime minister.

The ultra-nationalist Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) emerged from this group as the head of the government in 1913, led by a powerful triumvirate known as the Three Pashas: Ismail Enver, Minister of War; Mehmed Talaat, Minister of the Interior; and Ahmed Djemal, Minister of the Navy.

Not exact matches

In the aftermath of the referendum, Tsipras decided to present the head of his finance minister as a symbol that the Greek government was serious about negotiating in good faitIn the aftermath of the referendum, Tsipras decided to present the head of his finance minister as a symbol that the Greek government was serious about negotiating in good faitin good faith.

«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

The U.K. government unveiled the plans at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting government unveiled the plans at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Government Meeting in London.

The four parties in the center - right coalition agreed during the campaign that the leader of the party that won the most votes would head a government.

It's basically just the federal government of the United States that seems to have its head in the sand.

Stephen Gallo, head of forex strategy at Bank of Montreal, who also foresees a $ 1.30 for the euro in the next 12 months, told CNBC that the Italian election poses a potential short - term drag on the currency, but that will evaporate once a government is in place.

«If you have a bank employee who is in connivance with creating these nonexistent people in the first place, it's easy to launder,» says Vencent Salido, head of investigations at the Philippine government's Anti-Money Laundering Council, which is leading the local investigation into the theft.

The U.K. government's proposed «snooper's charter» is already scaring tech firms around the world with its threat of forcing them to help break encryption in their communications services, but here's a wrinkle that's received little attention until now: It would also force them to give the country's spies a heads - up about upcoming product launches and upgrades.

American sanctions on heads of state are rare, largely reserved for instances where the U.S. is seeking a change in government leadership.

The U.S. threatened to block the takeover of oil giant Unocal by the China National Offshore Oil Corp. in 2005; and when a merger created mega-miner BHP Billiton in 2001, the Australia government made sure the head office was located in Australia, not Britain.

Christian Estrosi, regional government head in the greater Nice area, said policing was lighter than Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed, and that concrete blocks were not deployed to seal roads off during the national holiday festivities of July 14.

Her rivals in the center - left Social Democratic Party (SPD) overcame their recent pattern of bumbling by nominating a candidate, Martin Schulz, widely considered a plausible head of government.

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

When Karen Mills announced in February that she would not stay on for a second term as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, she still planned to remain in her post until the government agency named a replacement.

This sentiment was reflected elsewhere; a Nanos research survey showed 48 % of Canadians felt the country was headed in the right direction and a healthy majority believed Harper's government was doing an average job, at least.

While the ramifications of this dramatic move lay chiefly in the political realm, the business side of this drama is inspiring; when was the last time you witnessed one of the largest companies in the world going head - to - head with such A large foreign government?

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame speaks during closing session of the 30th African Union Heads of State and Government Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 29, 2018.

Nanos polling now shows that 55 % of Canadians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and 56 % said federal government was doing a «poor» or «very poor» job.

Nicolas Shea, who heads innovation initiatives for the Chilean Ministry of Economy and founded Start - Up Chile, says the government's $ 40 million investment in the program will be worthwhile if it can build ties with interesting new companies, even if they don't stay in the country over the long term.

«I'm really concerned that we're going to have a real collapse in Venezuela in oil production over the course of the next year,» which would in turn affect the government's ability to pay its debt, Rodriguez — who was head of the Venezuelan Congressional Budget Office from 2000 to 2004 — said at the AS / COA event.

Jung Ki - joon, head of economic policy coordination at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was found dead in Seoul on Sunday, Yonhap said.

Vladislav Reznik, now the deputy head of the finance committee in Russia's lower house of parliament and a member of the Putin - aligned United Russia Party, faces charges accusing him of giving allies of the criminal organization's alleged leader, Gennady Petrov, positions in the Russian government in exchange for a share of the organization's assets.

In 2005 - 2006, he headed an Ontario government panel of corporate leaders that recommended that Canada adopt a single, national securities regulator — an idea that was later supported by the late Jim Flaherty while he was federal finance minister.

As she announced the decision in April, she underlined the independence of the judiciary and said her government intends to repeal Germany's law criminalizing insults of a foreign head of state, effective in 2018.

In effect, he turned the patriotic poster on its head, making it serve in his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizenIn effect, he turned the patriotic poster on its head, making it serve in his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizenin his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizens.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (2nd L) poses for a photograph before talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Sibusiso Moyo (C) and other delegations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, U.K., on April 20, 2018.

The biggest threat to cybersecurity in corporate IT departments isn't the Chinese government or hackers in Eastern Europe, says the head of one of Silicon Valley's hottest security - software startups.

Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.

For instance, Glaxo officials suggested Shi, who headed government affairs in China, had sent a video of Mark Reilly, who was the Glaxo chief executive in China at the time, having sex with his girlfriend to company officials in the UK.

On April 8, business leaders and government officials from around the world will head to the scenic island of Hainan in southern China for the four - day Boao Forum.

In this Monday, March 5, 2018 photo, provided by the North Korean government on March 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, his sister Kim Yo Jong, and Vice Chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers» Party Central Committee Kim Yong Chol meet members of South Korean delegation headed by National Security Director Chung Eui - yong in Pyongyang, North KoreIn this Monday, March 5, 2018 photo, provided by the North Korean government on March 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, his sister Kim Yo Jong, and Vice Chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers» Party Central Committee Kim Yong Chol meet members of South Korean delegation headed by National Security Director Chung Eui - yong in Pyongyang, North Korein Pyongyang, North Korea.

Phil Masters is head of the Ontario government's Advanced Traffic Management Section, and he oversees one of the most technologically advanced highway systems in the world.

As announced in the 2013 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review, the government has been exploring opportunities to unlock economic value from Liquor Control Board of Ontario's (LCBO) headquarters and Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) head office.

«The government intervened on the way up; they tried to avoid a bubble when the market was rallying quite quickly,» Herald van der Linde, head of Asia equity strategy in Hong Kong for HSBC, said Tuesday in a telephone interview.

«The country is in a social crisis,» said José Ángel Álvarez, the head of a national association, Asonacrip, that has been working with the government on the Petro.

I don't like when people are told to hire women — not because the world doesn't need more of them heading corporate boardrooms and government cabinets — but because such pressure, in my experience, has a good chance of getting the wrong women hired.

In a panel hosted by Technode in December, Twitter's head of Online Sales, Alan Lan, said that the company's biggest client was in fact Xinhua News, the official state media outlet of the Chinese GovernmenIn a panel hosted by Technode in December, Twitter's head of Online Sales, Alan Lan, said that the company's biggest client was in fact Xinhua News, the official state media outlet of the Chinese Governmenin December, Twitter's head of Online Sales, Alan Lan, said that the company's biggest client was in fact Xinhua News, the official state media outlet of the Chinese Governmenin fact Xinhua News, the official state media outlet of the Chinese Government.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

Yesterday Trump's pick to head the Veterans Affairs Administration withdrew his name from consideration after allegations of drinking on the job and wrecking a government car while drunk surfaced in statements made by two dozen of his current and former colleagues.

Based on these and other serious risks to the economic benefits of the Fraser River, every chamber of commerce in the Lower Mainland — from the mouth of the river around Richmond, to the entrance to the Fraser canyon at Hope, are calling on senior levels of government to act now to commit funding to head off potential disaster.

For more than thirty years he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy, in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

On Dec. 3, researchers, business leaders, and government officials from all over the world will head to the scenic town of Wuzhen in east China for the three - day World Internet Conference.