Sentences with phrase «issues committee exploring»

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Since its initial report in 2011, the committee has monitored global progress on food and nutrition security issues and explored three aspects in greater depth — the role of technology and innovation in agriculture, opportunities for advancing nutrition security, and the need for environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable agricultural systems.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R - Texas) issued a statement Tuesday calling the report «extremely concerning» and announcing that he will hold a hearing Thursday to explore the issue.

As president of New York State United Teachers — a union whose 600,000 - plus membership is more than 70 percent women — I am proud to be leading a steering committee that is exploring issues of particular importance to women in today's society — issues like the minimum wage, child care and paid family leave.

A committee of MPs and peers is already exploring some of the issues in draft form and is expected to report in the new year.

When council Speaker Corey Johnson and other members were asked for comment, council spokesperson Robin Levine offered a blanket statement: «The committee on for - hire vehicles will be exploring this and many other issues in the months ahead.»

At a June 17th hearing exploring our current bail system, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued these, among other findings, to the NYC Council Committee on Courts and Legal Services:

In Striking a Balance: National Security and Scientific Freedom, the committee explored the impact of national security controls on scientific research and communications, a science and society issue that AAAS has monitored from at least the 1940s to the present.

Film Review by Kam Williams Goofy Spoof of Fifties Sci - Fi Flicks Explores Issue of Race in America It is 1939, and we find a committee of African - American leaders seeking a solution for the «Negro problem.»

I, along with other colleagues representing the nation's principals, explored these issues as a part of the joint NAESP and NASSP Teacher Evaluation Committee.

Members of the committee work to explore issue of common interest and concern, increase their collective knowledge and elevate the overall image of the profession.

Lebouthillier also announced that a new advisory committee has been created to explore the issue of offshore tax evasion and aggressive tax planning.

In 2008, then Agriculture Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton formed a committee to explore the issue of the movement of companion animals as well as the stray and dangerous dog situations.

The contributions also consider such specific works as Kelly's Interim (1984 — 1989), the subject of a special issue of October; Gloria Patri (1992), an installation conceived in response to the first Gulf War; The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), an extensive project including a 200 - foot narrative executed in the medium of compressed lint and the performance of a musical score by Michael Nyman; and two recent works, Love Songs (2005 - 2007), which explores the role of memory in feminist politics, and Mimus (2012), a triptych that parodies the House Un-American Activities Committee's 1962 investigation of the pacifist group, Women Strike for Peace.

The prospects and pitfalls of «geoengineering» have also been explored in Issues, with authors offering such pragmatic advice as convening a government advisory committee to guide projects from research to implementation, and making sure that public interests dominate the decision - making process.

Both issues are ripe for the Committee to explore.

Thomas Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, spoke before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee specifically to the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet who are exploring issues related to judicial transparency and ethics.

The law society has been exploring alternative business structures since 2012 when the provincial regulator convened a committee to look into the issue.

But I consider the failure to explore with a potential Chief Justice of the United States issues relating to police practices, crime and punishment, to be a very serious failing by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

26 The Report of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Charge Screening, Disclosure and Resolution Discussions (the Martin Committee Report)(1993), at p. 369 (in a passage approved in R. v. Rajaeefard (1996), 27 O.R. (3d) 323 (C.A.) at 330 - 1), observed: Consequently, in the interest of encouraging the parties to fully explore their case at a pre-hearing conference without prejudice to their right to subsequently litigate fully all unresolved issues in open court, it is the Committee's view that the parties should, where either one thinks it appropriate, be able to insist on a trial before a different judge.

As Justice McIsaac quoted, the Committee's rationale for this recommendation insists... in the interests of encouraging the parties to fully explore their case at a pre-hearing conference without prejudice to their right to subsequently litigate fully all unresolved issues in open court, it is the Committee's view that the parties should, where either one thinks it appropriate, be able to insist on a trial before a different judge.

The Westborough Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee's mission is to explore ways Westborough can become safer for pedestrians and cyclists, work to develop a rail trail along an old trolley line in town and advise the Board of Selectmen on roadway safety issues and preventing bicycle accidents.

Just two days after it emerged a French consumer fraud group is investigating Apple over its handling of battery - related performance issues on iPhones, Apple is now facing questions from government officials in its own country over the controversy.The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Senator John Thune (R — S.D.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, has sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking a series of questions about how the company decided to throttle processing performance in iPhones with older batteries.In a letter to Chief Executive Tim Cook, a copy of which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, Thune asked how Apple has tracked customer complaints of processing performance, and if Apple has explored offering rebates to customers who paid full price for a

Strategies: Encourage specific educational courses like young mothers programs covering issues like hygiene, nutrition, cooking, etc; establish Women's Advisory Committee and Youth Forum; explore whether programs such as Outward Bound or Duke of Edinburgh's award can be utilised as a means of interesting youth.