Measures adopted include fitting 14 per cent thicker front door window glass, low - drag exterior mirror housings, new vibration - damping engine mounts, hollow drive shafts, stronger bodyshell joints between the sills and B - pillars, double - layer door seals, and increased foam - filling in the A -, B - and C - pillars.
Not exact matches
Other localities that have
adopted similar
measures during the past few years
include Philadelphia, San Francisco, its Bay - area neighbors of Berkeley, Oakland and Albany, California, Boulder, Colorado, and Cook County, Illinois, which
includes Chicago.
Local governments,
including the City of Vancouver, have
adopted — mostly symbolic — anti-coal
measures.
Our eight - point Summary *
includes a number of statements that have all materialized in those countries in Western Europe that have
adopted the full
measure of global warming mania.
HSBC fully welcomes and supports these reforms,
including the move to Common Reporting in 2016 - 2018, and is already in the process of
adopting all necessary
measures to fulfil its obligations.
Those will also
include economic stimulus
measures help for small businesses threatened by bankruptcy and
adopting a policy to combat unemployment, according to Tsipras.
The
adopted decree provides
measures for liberalization of conditions of conducting activities in the sphere of new and high technologies,
including the improvement of the legal status of residents of the Park of high technologies.
Examples
include the quantitative easing
measures adopted by the United States and the European Central Bank's «unlimited» bond - buying program.
Connecticut and its taxpayers would see some benefits and some challenges if Congress
adopted tax reform
measures —
including cuts for wealthy families, business owners and wage earners — that President Donald Trump is likely to propose Wednesday.
more detailed
measures of muscle - enhancing behaviors and body weight were not assessed,
including whether respondents who changed their eating
adopted healthy or unhealthy dietary changes, and the use of several other muscle - enhancing substances besides steroids, were assessed as a single item; and
Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome
measures included and random effect models
adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.
(1) to urge Member States to take effective
measures to implement the recommendations
included in resolution WHA39.28; (2) to continue to review regional and global trends in breastfeeding patterns,
including the relationship between breastfeeding and child - spacing; (3) to support Member States, on request, in
adopting measures to improve infant and young child nutrition, inter alia by collecting and disseminating information on relevant national action of interest to all Member States; and to mobilize technical and financial resources to this end.
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns,
including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or
adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable
measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;
Common Cause pointed to a list of
measures the state can
adopt to enhance transparency when it comes to campaign finance,
including requiring the full disclosure of donors to independent expenditure groups, have donors identify their occupation and employer, require the disclosure of campaign «bundlers» and maintain a «doing business» database at the state level that's tied to campaign donations.
The contract for the marketing campaign should be re-evaluated until the state government can
adopt a «corrective action plan» by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, Muprhy said, which
includes specific benchmarks for success, a regular schedule for program evaluations and specific performance
measures for which marketing has had a positive impact.
FIX NY: The Business Council 2014 Legislative & Regulatory Agenda highlights many
measures that New York should
adopt to improve the state's business climate
including:
«These discussions
include matters of non-compliance and the remedial
measures that may have to be
adopted to address this.
Mailey noted that Gov. Cuomo
included measures to strengthen the department's ability to discipline guards, as part of his proposed budget, «which we urge the legislature to swiftly
adopt.»
«By
adopting key tax reform
measures —
including modernizing and restructuring the corporate franchise tax, reforming bank taxation, reducing the corporate franchise tax rate to 6.5 percent,
adopting the 20 percent real property tax credit for manufacturers, and others — New York will provide employers with approximately $ 560 million in tax relief that can be reinvested in the economy.
The no - fault
measure makes New York the final state to
adopt the process, which streamlines the dissolution of a marriage as long as all related issues —
including separation of property, child support and custody issues — are resolved.
As with previous
measures adopted by the 51 - member Council to prohibit smoking in bars and to
include calorie information on restaurant menus, the impact of the bag bill, which would take effect in October, is likely to be immediate for millions of people.
Affordability
measures are
included in bids The City Council -
adopted resource plan, which also projects the construction of a 500 - MW natural gas plant, envisions that Austin Energy will acquire the solar energy by 2017 if the power is «available and affordable.»
Asst Prof Carrasco said, «Some of the potential
measures that can be
adopted include the introduction of an ecosystem services tax on international trade, price premiums for environmentally friendly agricultural produce, or agricultural intensification to spare land.»
An increasing number of journals,
including Nature and Science, have
adopted measures such as checklists for study design and reporting while improving statistical review and encouraging access to data and protocols.
(d) Except as otherwise stipulated in these Bylaws,
measures taken up at Division meetings,
including the annual business meeting, shall be
adopted by a simple majority of those present and voting.
A healthy life involves much more than just eating healthy, it involves
adopting healthy lifestyle
measures including regular relaxation, exercising to control weight and to optimise overall fitness levels, as well as getting a great night's sleep.
The requirements set out by the GDPR depend on the size of the organisation, but even small and medium - sized businesses,
including schools, are expected to
adopt measures enforced on larger businesses and implement them appropriately.
President Barack Obama's announcement last week of a wide - ranging anti-violence plan in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shootings comes as many districts are
adopting new and sometimes dramatic
measures —
including arming teachers and volunteers — intended to prevent similar tragedies in their own schools.
In 2013, Alabama
adopted the Alabama Accountability Act, an education reform
measure that
includes two new school choice programs that extend a lifeline to Alabama students trapped in failing public schools.
But they may also provide more specific guidance about what is expected of the teachers in the classroom if new experiments with other
measures are
adopted —
including tests that gauge teachers» mastery of their subjects, surveys that ask students about the learning environments in their classes and digital videos of teachers» lessons, scored by experts.
The law requires districts to
adopt «multiple objective academic
measures,» which could
include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.
We need to leave behind standardized testing as the sole
measure to determine whether students and schools are succeeding or failing, and
adopt new models that
include rich, curriculum - embedded performance assessments and multiple
measures of assessing school quality.
Humphries supports several
measures backed by Republicans —
including school vouchers and the creation of new academic standards to replace the Common Core State Standards that Evers
adopted in 2010.
Two - thirds of states are in the process of
adopting new evaluations, and many will
include student achievement — usually as
measured by standardized tests — along with intensive classroom observations.
Three states, Alabama, Hawaii, Nevada
adopted the threshold of missing a set number of days, while Indiana, Montana
included other attendance
measures.
The finally
adopted rules require that, under both the state - recommended system and locally - developed and
adopted appraisal systems, beginning with the 2017 - 2018 school year, each teacher appraisal shall
include the performance of teachers» students, which the rules define as «how the individual teacher's students progress academically in response to the teacher's pedagogical practice as
measured at the individual teacher level by one or more of the following student growth
measures:
Clovis and Sweetwater are the only two districts with evaluation forms that «appear to meet all the pupil progress requirements of the Stull Act,
including both progress of pupils toward district -
adopted and, if applicable, state -
adopted academic content standards as
measured by state -
adopted criterion referenced tests,» the report states.
California's newly
adopted school accountability system
includes attendance rates as one of the performance
measures that schools will be evaluated on.
This
includes adopting and effectively implementing student standards and assessments to
measure — and help educators, students and their families truly understand the specific elements and importance of — the knowledge and skills our students need to be on track for success in college and careers.
As part of this drive, the State Board of Education
adopted a model framework (Arizona Framework for
Measuring Educator Effectiveness) for teacher and principal evaluation that
includes quantitative data on student achievement.
Hoosiers for Economic Growth chairman Fred Klipsch explained recently how his organization and several affiliated groups spent $ 4.4 million to push through the education policies that Indiana
adopted in 2011,
including a huge voucher program, expansion of charter schools and anti-union
measures.
In New Mexico, she's working to keep up the pressure on schools to improve,
including deciding that the state would not suspend its accountability
measures even as the state
adopted new tests.
Along with the various mechanical and aerodynamic changes, the MP4 - 12C 650S is also claimed to
adopt a lightened carbon fiber body and other weight - saving
measures,
including carbon fiber seats from McLaren's recently launched gas - electric hybrid powered flagship supercar, the P1.
Measures adopted to reduce road noise in the new model
include fitting a dynamic damper to the rear suspension cross member, improving the vehicle «s sound - proofing and fitting stronger alloy wheels.
NVH - reducing
measures adopted for the new Sorento
include new soundproofing material for the transmission tunnel, a 29 percent thicker dashboard soundproofing panel (increased from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm), larger engine and transmission mounts for greater powertrain refinement and, for diesel models, a new DPF cover and an acoustic shield integrated into the engine's timing chain cover.
If we
adopt the working definition that a filler is used to fill or make full, then in the world of formulation, a filler could help us achieve a full
measure - 100 % - once the targeted ingredients are
included to meet the required nutrient parameters.
Similar
measures have been
adopted in Los Angeles and a number of other Southern California cities
including Chula Vista.
Other artists looking at economic matters
include Irena Haiduk, who has created a digital apparatus for museumgoers to purchase public land in Serbia, after a privatization
measure recently
adopted in that country.
And as WWF points out, they and many others are calling for «urgent and strong
measures,
including fishing bans, to be
adopted and enforced at the United Nations level in order to protect these areas from fishing activities.»
Provide an action plan to address the capacity enhancement needs of vulnerable groups
including indigenous and Dalit community and ensure that they will be able to know real time information of climate related hazards and
adopt mitigation
measures.