Sentences with phrase «policy making under»

For an evaluation of the capacity for Indigenous engagement and participation in policy making under the «new arrangements», see Chapter 3 of the Social Justice Report 2006.

The only hope left, after more than a decade of policy making under a condition of almost unanimous cross-party consensus, and the exclusion of all criticism from public and political debate, was to burn forests, imported from America.

Policy making under uncertainty is the norm; those refusing to do so don't deserve to survive.

Not exact matches

Timely notice is especially crucial with so - called claims - made policies, under which coverage is based on when the claim was made rather than when the event took place, says Jay M. Levin, an insurance litigator at Reed Smith.

Such a shift would bring the central bank a step closer to making the purchase of longer - dated bonds a central part of policy and partly echoes Japan's five - year quantitative easing campaign that lasted until 2006, under which it aggressively pumped cash into the economy.

A «comprehensive review» is under way that has «accelerated» in recent days, Brittin said, adding the company had invested «millions» and has thousands of people who work on policies, controls, and enforcement to ensure bad ads — or bad ad placements — don't make it into the system.

In a letter made public Friday, Apple made a series of suggested changes to the policy that is under development and said it looks forward to working with California and others «so that rapid technology development may be realized while ensuring the safety of the traveling public.»

The top 1 percent of earners, who under the Tax Policy Center definition make $ 875,000 or more, would get an average tax cut of $ 45,000, or 2 percent of their income.

The change, which applies to all retailers that accept AmEx, comes in addition to similar policy changes the company has already made, such as the elimination of signature requirements for purchases under $ 50 in the United States, $ 100 in Canada and 30 euros in the United Kingdom.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

In Facebook's Data Use Policy, under a section called «Information we receive and how it is used,» it's made clear that the company collects information you choose to share or when you «view or otherwise interact with things.»

Although the Company's performance for 2007 was in the top quartile compared to its Peer Group and met one of the alternative goals under the Performance Policy, the HRC considered in making its incentive award decisions the fact that the Company did not meet its EPS goal of $ 2.49 (2006 EPS, as originally reported) under the Performance Policy and therefore did not improve upon the EPS results of the prior year.

Deferral of an incentive compensation award paid in cash under this Policy shall be made pursuant to the provisions of the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan.

Most of Houston's construction workers come from Mexico, and that has made matters even more difficult, as immigration policies tighten under the Trump administration.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Permit agents or brokers to make a recommendation only if they have a «reasonable basis to believe that the consumer can meet the financial obligations under the policy.»

Effective on June 16, 2015, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Code to, among other things, reflect the following amendments: (1) added a new Whistleblower Exception provision under the Confidentiality section; (2) modified the provision regarding Protection of Covered Persons to clarify that such protections apply to any Covered Person who provides information or makes other disclosures that are protected under whistleblower provisions; and (3) updated the policy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines Ppolicy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines PolicyPolicy.

This is the same criticism made in Stephen Gordon's comments about attributing all job growth over the past eight years to the Conservative government: Much of this growth would have happened under most alternative policy scenarios.

OTTAWA — Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent on Friday kicked off the country's flagship progressive policy conference with a call for progressives to make sure the next election is held under a proportional voting system.

Additional information about material risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and about material factors or assumptions applied in making forward - looking statements may be found under «Risk Factors» in our most recent Annual Information Form, under «Risk Management», «Risk Factors» and «Critical Accounting and Actuarial Policies» in our most recent Management's Discussion and Analysis, in the «Risk Management» note to our most recent consolidated financial statements and elsewhere in our filings with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

Financial Decision Making, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices Under Incomplete Information Principal Investigator: Alexander David $ 99,500

They can only be made consistent if Washington also unleashes an infrastructure building program, a policy initiative consistent with either of the other two, on a truly heroic scale — which, as an aside, I suspect would be a smart strategy under any circumstances as American infrastructure needs are so great that the consequent productivity increases would fully service the associated debt long before they stopped adding value to the economy.

But this does not make sense given that fixed incomes are under severe pressure by the Fed's ZIRP policy and income - producing vehicles such as MLPs have eliminated dividends because of the commodity crash.

Specifically, benefits subject to the HP Severance Policy include: (a) separation payments based on a multiplier of salary plus target bonus, or cash amounts payable for the uncompleted portion of employment agreements; (b) any gross - up payments made in connection with severance, retirement or similar payments, including any gross - up payments with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code; (c) the value of any service period credited to a Section 16 officer in excess of the period of service actually provided by such Section 16 officer for purposes of any employee benefit plan; (d) the value of benefits and perquisites that are inconsistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to one or more groups of HP Co. employees in addition to, or other than, the Section 16 officers («Company Practices»); and (e) the value of any accelerated vesting of any stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or long - term cash incentives that is inconsistent with Company Practices.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

Under Yellen's tenure, there were on average 0.71 dissents per meeting of the policy - making Federal Open Market Committee, fewer than Bernanke had, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

90 % of respondents said their firms have been extremely diligent in efforts to make sure employees know what constitutes insider trading, compared with 89 % of respondents in 2016; 10 % of respondents said that even though their firms have no insider trading policies, they are uncertain that everyone understands all the actions that fall under the insider trading umbrella or where the lines are when it comes to sharing sensitive company information, compared with 11 % in 2016.

(The Fed in the United States publishes a monetary target, but this appears to be more an on - going obligation under a law passed in 1978 than an integral part of current policy making.)

«In short, under his leadership US IRF policy can advance human rights and, at the same time, make substantial contributions to the national security of the United States at very low cost.»

What makes it a non-starter is that the teen is a dependent living under a parent's roof, attending family functions, interacting with younger siblings, attending school, and sharing their health insurance policy.

The idea that moral sensitivity somehow bestows the competence to make policy recommendations on every subject under the sun is delusional.

In addition, under the Cable Communications Policy Act, cable operators are now required to make available by lease or sale a lock - box device which allows the subscriber to use a key to lock out the viewing of a particular cable service.

«The NFL found no credible evidence that Pittsburgh's James Harrison and Green Bay's Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers were provided with or used substances prohibited under the NFL - NFLPA Policy on Performance - Enhancing Substances following a comprehensive investigation into allegations made in a documentary by Al - Jazeera America, it was announced today,» the league's statement read.

Aroldis Chapman has made the wrong kind of history, as he is now the first player suspended under MLB's new domestic violence policy.

When announcing this policy, Labour made clear that «this would be underpinned by the right to obtain (under an obligation of confidentiality) financial and commercial information about the business and affairs of a football club,» though the board members wouldn't be able to block takeovers or change corporate strategy.

If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Diehardsport website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

The Superintendent will appoint a Concussion Policy Management Team including a school administrator to be responsible, under the administrative supervision of the Superintendent, to make recommendations related to the implementation of this pPolicy Management Team including a school administrator to be responsible, under the administrative supervision of the Superintendent, to make recommendations related to the implementation of this policypolicy.

But it wouldn't take much to make broad changes (these aren't big $ $ items) if a few key employers took it under the mantle of family friendly policy.

Moreover, as Dr. Joyce Slater, a guest blogger on Weighty Matters, later pointed out with respect to the Ritz crackers incident, daycare workers are often greatly overburdened and undereducated when it comes to making the decisions required of them under Manitoba's well - meaning nutrition policies.

We also make sure that every trainee is provided with equitable treatment under the guidelines of ACGME and Tufts Medical Center policies.

Gates today are made under much more stringent policies of safety and often are tested to make sure that your baby can't get into any imminent trouble.

Hon. PM, frantic efforts are being made for the establishment of industries in the District under the 1D - 1F policy.

A formal policy negotiating process is being established under the arrangements made by the Cabinet secretary.

I am just pointing out what the record IS - and that it almost certainly does include making our economy less unequal than it would be under the policies of the previous Conservative government.

Only way to do that is make comparisons between last Tory government (Poverty doubled under Thatcher etc) and to highlight how current Tory policies will negatively affect them.

«We made a bad political mistake in making that pledge... but actually the policy was perfectly sensible given the constraints we were operating under.

After roundly castigating fellow Democrats and Republicans alike during his announcement speech yesterday and proposing a host of policy positions that seemed tailor - made to get under the speaker's skin, Cuomo today dodged the question about Silver, (the longest - serving legislative leader in Albany), saying it's not his place to determine who leads either house.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

Again, Israel seems to have conducted this policy under a cover of darkness while all the time maintaining to the international community that its plans were to eventually return the lands to the Palestinian inhabitants, as well as making staple assurances that those who were leaving were doing so voluntarily (and temporarily).