Sentences with phrase «nations report calling»

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At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

In what many analysts are calling a move to further diminish Google's influence in China, Gmail access has now been blocked by the nation's uber - sophisticated censorship mechanism, The Great Firewall of China, Reuters reports.

The report is yet another call to action for Canada to work with First Nations as partners to realize our human rights, including our Aboriginal and Treaty rights.»

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's human rights record should be a wake - up call for all Canadians.

A rarely reported kind of borrowing by the US Government, called «off - budget expenditures» (OBE), could add a substantial amount of debt to the already enormous borrowing needs of the nation.

That declaration followed comments the previous day that suggested he was open to slowing down the process, following a Senate committee report calling for more consultation with First Nations on taxation, education materials and addictions treatment.

Treasurer Scott Morrison said he expects more resignations from the bank the said the report should serve as a wake - up call for executives and board members of other banks and called for it to be read by every board in the nation.

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

On the other hand, Third World nations regretted that the report provided no clear call for laws or international agreements to end the present economic domination by First World nations.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the nation's non-alcoholic beverage industry, has today called on Premiers to finally reject outright any further consideration of a container deposit scheme (CDS) following a COAG report that the program could cost consumers up to $ 8 billion.

An alliance of Australia's top business associations have called for a COAG report, the Packaging Impacts Decision Regulation Impact Statement (DRIS), prepared for the nation's environment ministers on a proposed national container deposit scheme, to be made public.

23 July 2014 Media Release An alliance of Australia's top business associations have called for a COAG report, the Packaging Impacts Decision Regulation Impact Statement (DRIS), prepared for the nation's environment ministers on a proposed national container deposit scheme, to be made public.

14 July 2014 Media Statement Container Deposit Tax to cost consumers $ 8 billion: COAG The Australian Beverages Council, representing the nation's non-alcoholic beverage industry, has today called on Premiers to finally reject outright any further consideration of a container deposit scheme (CDS) following a COAG report that the program could cost consumers up to $ 8 -LSB-...]

A new report released September 22 assesses the world's progress toward Target 12.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which calls on all nations to halve food waste and reduce food loss by 2030.

SB Nation's Matthew Fairburn compared Mingo to Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware in Mingo's scouting report, calling Mingo's upside «through the roof,» and says Mingo «more than warrants a top - ten pick.»

For copies call 0845 634 1328 or go to www.fatherhoodinstitute.org The report springs from a week - long conference at Oxford University of the world's experts on fatherhood from more than 20 nations.

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The British Pharmacological Society launched today a new report calling for an increase in the number of clinical pharmacologists across the four UK nations.

The Freedom House Nations in Transit 2011 report called this «an alarming concentration of political power over the media».

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

In the wake of the Japan crisis and an MSNBC report that one of the Indian Point reactors is more at risk for earthquake damage than any other in the nation — a claim refuted by the NRC — Cuomo called for a full safety review of the plant.

«He opened it with the key which he had kept on his chain, and its contents began to slide out - a Penguin on Mediaeval Customs, a collection of statistics for exports in 1946, a speech, carefully typed and tabulated, which he had failed to deliver because he hadn't been called, a library book on constitutional government, an unopened letter from an eccentric who used to write to him every day, a few newspaper cuttings, three copies of Hansard, a United Nations report, a grey tie, a clutter of invitations to Mr and Mrs Michael Erskine, and a powder - compact which Jane had once left in the House.»

The government has called for urgent international action to tackle climate change, after a new United Nations report found «unequivocal» evidence for global warming.

As first reported by the Associated Press and independently confirmed this morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will speak with his economic advisory team today in the aftermath of the expected failure of the so - called Congressional supercommittee to come to an agreement on reducing the nation's debt.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Amid reports of division between the G20 countries about how to achieve domestic economic recovery, however, the US treasury secretary shied away from calling on other nations to adopt the heavy spending approach adopted by Barack Obama's administration.

A group that includes representatives from the engineering, construction and highway industries has issued a new report on the nation's Interstate Highway System, calling it an aging and underfunded network of roads and bridges.

First up was New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who came armed with a new report that he says shows how he could enact universal access to pre-kindergarten at a «rapid pace,» in an expansion that he calls one of the largest in the nation's history.

Buffalo Niagara is being recognized nationwide on a growing list of accolades that demonstrate an important change in how Western New York is perceived: in 2010 Forbes Magazine called the region the 10th best place to raise a family; in 2011 Relocate America placed Buffalo Niagara among the top 100 best places to live and The Business Journals reported that Buffalo Niagara had the nation's 18th strongest private sector job growth; and in 2012 the National Association of Home Builders ranked our region among the most affordable major U.S. housing markets.

«The findings of this report are a wake - up call for the nation, as we are facing an already incredible financial burden that is going to rapidly worsen in the coming years,» said lead author Dr. Clifton Gooch.

A 2007 United Nations report noted that 20 percent of the globe's mangrove forests had vanished in the 25 years between 1980 and 2005, a rate that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's director called «alarming.»

A United Nations report released in 2006 calls the livestock sector «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.»

In a separate report released in September, EIA analysts predicted carbon emissions for 2016 will fall to their lowest level since 1992 — three years before the United Nations held the first of its 21 global summits on climate change, called the Conference of the Parties.

In addition, developed nations are making mistakes when reporting emissions of the gases, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the study finds.

In their report, the MPs called for the UK government to use its observer status at the Arctic Council, a federation of the eight Arctic nations, to push for a ban on offshore oil exploitation — at least until we have the technology and institutions in place to contain oil spills in the Arctic, and a liability scheme so companies can prove they can bear clean - up costs.

U.S. and China called out on global warming United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon urged the U.S. and China to play «a more constructive role» in combating climate change, punctuating release of this year's fourth and final report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The report calls for upgrading oil spill response infrastructure, additional studies, and more coordination between agencies, industry, academia, and other Arctic nations.

The report, «Promoting Value, Affordability, and Innovation in Cancer Drug Treatment,» is the latest released by the advisory group, called the President's Cancer Panel, which since 1971 has regularly provided U.S. presidents a report on high - priority issues in the nation's anti-cancer efforts.

As reported by Rolling Stone, the six directors released the statement last night, calling for «this award to stand as a symbol of the unity between nations and the freedom of the arts.»

Before moving into reporting, Allen served as the executive producer of NPR's national daily live call - in show, Talk of the Nation.

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

To compare these active parental choices to the forced segregation of our nation's past (the authors of the report actually call some charter schools «apartheid» schools) trivializes the true oppression that was imposed on the grandparents and great - grandparents of many of the students seeking charter options today.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk called out comprehensive American high schools for their «smorgasbord» curricula that were «homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose.»

NAEP, often called the «nation's report card,» is the only standardized test regularly administered to a nationally representative sample of U.S. students.

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

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Choosing this test as a basis for considering the impact of high - stakes tests on students in the 4th and 8th grades (ages 9 and 13, respectively) is a sensible idea, because the validity and reliability of NAEP, often called the «nation's report card,» are well accepted.

Results of NAEP, often called «the nation's report card,» show that between 2005 and 2009, the two most recent administrations...

Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of tests in selected subjects to a representative sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»

After A Nation At Risk and myriad other studies and reports called for sweeping K — 12 reforms, he tried again with a 1988 treatise called Education by Charter: Restructuring School Districts.