Sentences with phrase «other committees less»

Other committees less frequently engage in this way, but a very interesting example comes from the House of Commons Health Committee, which expressed concerns about limitations on Labour's ban on smoking in public places, and helped to force a vote which toughened these provisions.

Not exact matches

Notwithstanding the authority of the committee under the Plan, except in connection with any corporate transaction involving Walmart, the terms of outstanding plan awards may not be amended to reduce the exercise price of outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights or cancel outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights in exchange for cash, other plan awards or stock options or stock appreciation rights with an exercise price that is less than the exercise price of the original stock options or stock appreciation rights without the prior approval of Walmart stockholders.

I know a young woman seminarian whose approval for ordination was postponed for a year with the explanation by the examining committee that they knew she could stand the postponement better than other, less mature candidates.

(From what Allen has learned, the Nobel committee selected Tutu because he was «less controversial» than some other South African candidates.

Some Queens lawmakers who did not originally support the speaker were appointed to head committees, but others found themselves in lesser roles.

One other statement I've seen from someone in the government - a letter from a Home Office minister to the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee - was much less encouraging.

McLaughlin said she knew from the beginning she would have less money than other candidates, remarking that during her time as Albany County Democratic Committee chairwoman she focused her efforts on raising funds for the party, but now those she helped haven't returned the favor.

The Education Select Committee recently concluded that there is no basis for telling whether free schools are more or less effective than other similar schools.

The second set of proceedings in less than a week come after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, called on the ethics panel to investigate a sexual harassment scandal that centered on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was censured by an assembly committee over alleged sexual harassment charges.

Based on these findings, any shortage in America's scientific labor market is «most likely a demand - side problem of STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] career opportunities that are less attractive than career opportunities in other fields» rather than a supply - side problem of too few Americans with scientific training, asserted Salzman in congressional testimony presented on 6 November before the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

While cautioning that the quantity of evidence was less - than - optimal and that the studies were qualitatively limited by the methods used to measure sodium intake, the small number of patients with health outcomes of interest in some of the studies, and other methodological constraints, the committee concluded that:

But perhaps the other report, the one issued by a committee of the prestigious National Research Council, makes a more persuasive case that Rhee's performance is less than it seems.

; terminate implementation of the Common Core standards; direct the State Board to replace these standards with the Math and English courses in use immediately prior to Common Core; convene Course of Study committees to update these standards and improve upon them using the pre-common core standards from states whose national scores ranked no less than the top 10 %; implement these proven, improved standards and aligned assessments; prohibit imposition on Alabama of other such national standards or assessments that cede control away from Alabamians.

Soon the committee leaders were pulling in their colleagues, who had been shut out of the negotiations, to discuss the other — for the most part, less divisive — parts of the bill.

... [I] t seems especially pertinent for this committee to consider the water budget of energy from shale gas compared with other sources... Natural gas, from both shale gas and conventional reservoirs requires less water per MMBtu of energy generated from combustion than any other common fuel.

The national Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters notes in its final report that only about 6.5 % of legal problems ever make it to court, but it is unlikely in the extreme that so many of the people with high school diplomas or less are bundled into the 93.5 % who manage to resolve their legal issues outside of court, especially when we know that for people with low incomes, legal issues tend not come one at a time but cluster and multiply into other areas of the law.

These include: appointment of arbitrators, including the possible introduction of a code of conduct; challenges to arbitrators; third party funding; consolidation; preliminary objections and first session; witnesses; experts and other evidence; discontinuance of a case; awards and dissenting opinions; security for costs and security for stay of enforcement of awards ordered by the ad hoc committee; allocation of costs; annulment; publication of decisions and orders (compared to the current provisions referring to awards); as well as the modernization of the means of communication (apparently with a view to making the procedure «less paper - intensive and more environmentally friendly»).

In 2014, the Indiana Early Learning Advisory Committee commissioned a workforce study to collect data to inform early childhood workforce initiatives.49 The workforce study found that earnings remain low, despite higher degree attainment, and that even though wages are tied to degree attainment, the early childhood workforce is paid less than comparably educated workers in other fields.50