Sentences with phrase «points of concern raised»

Not exact matches

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

Sullivan discussed this point in her column, by responding to concerns raised by a number of readers.

Oil prices fell as increased drilling in the United States pointed to more output, raising concerns about a return of oversupply.

So make a point of raising this the next business day, when your concerns are still fresh in your mind, and make sure you're prepared for the conversation.

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

A recent Delaware Court of Chancery decision raises two interesting points concerning the obligations of corporations that undertake mergers with subsidiaries

At one point, the province was left with just one geotechnical engineer and emails released through freedom of information requests showed that staff within the environment ministry had raised warnings that low staffing levels were leading to increased risks, citing tailings pond inspections as a particular area of concern.

The Bank of England raised short - term interest rates by 25 basis points in June to 7 1/2 per cent, citing mounting labour market pressures and an inflation rate above target as key concerns.

Similarly, questions about Christology can be raised from the point of view of a variety of contemporary concerns.

An interesting point was raised in a recent meeting I had for the need for both protest groups and concerned citizens such as ourselves be prepared at future demonstrations of this magnitude for both the police spin and that parts of the media who will just pick up police press releases as undisputed fact.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

The second point is that mutualism in the public sector raises issues concerning equity similar to those posed by localism: how can equal access and quality of service be maintained nationally if there is much greater variation in how services are delivered locally.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

A Republican woman won Arizona's 8th District special election Tuesday night, although Debbie Lesko's 6 - point margin of victory for a solidly GOP seat raised party concerns about the tough election cycle ahead.

Rodway, whose boss DeFrancisco had raised concerns about the overall structure of the Lighthouse Point deal four weeks earlier and whose conference was about to score a quiet but significant victory, said nothing other than «so moved» and then, a moment later, «aye.»

Indian Point, the Westchester County - based nuclear plant on the Hudson River, is running a series of 60 - second radio spots in the wake of the devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami that again raised concerns over safety at the aging facility.

Analysts have raised concerns with an over-saturated market and have pointed to the recent failures of major resort casinos in neighboring New Jersey.

Cuomo said the state learned yesterday that hundreds of faulty bolts were discovered within the reactor at the Indian Point Unit 2 Plant — «the latest in a long series of incidents that raise deep concerns about the management, maintenance and equipment standards» there.

Wilson is calling on DiNapoli, who was in Buffalo yesterday raising concerns about the state budget, not to sign off on the spending plan (once it's officially finished), insisting that the comptroller has the power to refuse to certify — an assertion DiNapoli insists is false (as did one of his predecessors, H. Carl McCall, who was needled on the same point by his then - primary opponent in 2002, Andrew Cuomo).

According to the NPP's Director of Elections, Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah «what we did was to raise concerns that we had about the composition of the panel and at no point in time did the NPP say we won't attend the forum».

Debbie Abrahams, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: «The increasing numbers of zero points assessments raise real concerns about the accuracy of the assessment process, as do the thousands upon thousands of wrong decisions that are overturned at mandatory reconsideration and in the courts.»

Government watchdogs say that Schwartz's appointment would have had an impact when concerns about the bidding process were initially raised, but at this point many believe Cuomo is simply trying to obscure the scope of the federal probe and claim high ground as state integrity is questioned.

Researchers from the United Kingdom and Brazil also said the pair of droughts have raised concerns that the forest could be approaching a point where it ceases to be a carbon «sink,» absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it produces, and flips to a carbon source.

The second point reflects whether or not you truly did satisfy all the concerns raised by the reviewers, and whether they really had a high level of enthusiasm for the project.

Releasing Natuna's carbon pollution would make it «the world's largest point source emitter of CO2 and raises concern for the possible incremental impact of Natuna on the CO2 greenhouse problem,» declared an October 1984 report from Exxon's top climate modeler, Brian Flannery, and his boss Andrew Callegari.

The question on whether leggings are a decent form of dressing or not raises a point of major concern among many in the present day century.

Elsewhere, the cast looks impressive boasting a wealth of former Oscar - winning and Oscar - nominated actors and while rightful concerns have been raised on the cast being too large, almost to the point of there being too many big name talents involved, Nolan's expert handling of ensembles may prove him right once again.

The new proposals look to set up a specific point of contact at local councils for parents and teachers in order to raise concerns about a child, as well as introduce new measures to discover how many children are being home - schooled beyond the reach of inspectors.

Update: As Eric Osberg pointed out on Flypaper yesterday, Jonathan Gyurko raised some of these same concerns too.

The National Children's Bureau has raised concerns over the welfare of children missing education in England as new research shows 49,187 children were missing education at some point in 2016 - 17.

The point is raised here, however, as a reminder that policy decisions concerning teacher training and certification can not assume that a fixed set of requirements will make all teachers perform the same.

We've also pointed out numerous times that many credible people have raised strong concerns about the rigor and soundness of the proposed national standards (here, here, here, and here).

The most significant point I found was that a «significant number of respondents» raised concern about selection.

The state Board of Regents, with support from Gov. John Bel Edwards, made the offer to district superintendents and later provided point - by - point rebuttals to concerns raised by wary educators and their lawyers.

«If you want to correct someone on something or object to a point, the best way to do that is usually to calmly raise a concern of yours and give them every opportunity to address it.

Either way, this raises two points of concern.

This raises concern whether relations sour to the point of Activision games disappearing from Steam.

Edwards replied, «the IGDA was created for sharing knowledge that is platform - agnostic — regarding how to do the craft, how to get better at what you do, crunch time issues... etc.» Finally, the moderator Gunnar Lott raised the concern of how project budgets are escalating, and how top - selling games are not consistent in terms of quality — «is the industry reaching a point where it's crashing?»

Some have also raised concerns about the amount of weapons and maps available in the game at this point compared to the original KF, but that's not really a fair complaint considering how most of Killing Floor's content was added post-launch.

A more difficult issue - raised by some of the public «word art» of Jenny Holzer - concerns the quantity of text - namely, at what point does the sheer number of words overwhelm the artistic setting?

While Isotopious and Jack Maloney are mainly concern trolling, they do raise an important point about the public's misunderstanding of the role of models in science.

Accuracy is essential if people concerned about this problem want to avoid ever more attacks from those on the other side, who are just waiting to raise doubts by pointing out any shred of hyperbole.

Last month, in an interview with James Kanter of The Times and International Herald Tribune, the new head of the energy agency, Maria van der Hoeven, discussed one point made in the report today — that concerns raised by the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi power plant could continue to dampen expansion of nuclear power and add to the challenge of avoiding a big accumulation of carbon dioxide, saying: «Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature to 2 degrees Centigrade.»

Margaret Hardman made some good points which raised the hackles of the WUWT concern trolls, who didn't discuss the points she raised but blasted her with nasty personal attacks.

I have discussed and rebutted many of the specific points raised by the contrarian blogs, for example McIntyre's fanciful «hide the decline» interpretation and M&M's false accusations concerning supposed unjustified and undocumented manipulation of temperature reconstructions.

However as Kundzewicz [10] points out «these are pragmatic concerns, raised by hydrologists and water management practitioners, about how useful the GCMs are for the much more detailed level of analysis (and predictability) required for site - specific water management decisions (infrastructure planning, design and operations).»

The Japanese Government raised concerns about both sentences, neither of which at that point were associated with any reference.

A consensus blogger such as Bart Verheggen, but he is not alone in this, would always refuse to see this point, attributing and equating any criticisms directed at the IPCC monolith as though they were directed at the very discipline of climate science, and thereby avoiding addressing the concerns raised.