Sentences with phrase «about efforts of government»

Speaking to journalists over the issue on Thursday, November 10, Mr Buah said the letter has been orchestrated by the opposition after being «dumbfounded» about efforts of government within a short period to solve the energy crisis.

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But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

China's government has been evasive about economic matters from this summer's stock bailout to its efforts propping up the value of the yuan.

The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday that the government has withdrawn about $ 5 million in ads as part of an effort to cut costs.

Symantec 2010 Critical Infrastructure Protection Study Symantec conducted a survey in August 2010 to find out how aware critical infrastructure companies were of government efforts in this area and how engaged and enthusiastic private enterprise was about working with government.

Asked about the North Korea talks, Tillerson said he was in the midst of helping to coordinate US government efforts ahead of the high - level talks and working to prepare the President.

Efforts to require a nationwide registry have also faced resistance over concerns about potential threats to Second Amendment rights — a central repository of data could eventually lead to firearms being confiscated by the government, critics have said.

«For the past decade, N.S.A. has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies,» said a 2010 memo describing a briefing about N.S.A. accomplishments for employees of its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.

While these Silicon Valley tech companies set about fixing Puerto Rico's problems, nurses working with the American Federation of Teachers have accused Trump's administration of «neglect,» while Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut last week called for an investigation into the relief efforts by the government.

The U.S. dollar rose slightly against a basket of major currencies helped by optimism about progress on tax reform legislation and lawmakers» efforts to avert a U.S. government shutdown on Saturday.

It is widely believed that Bae angered government officials by taking photos of severely malnourished children and orphans in North Korea, in an effort to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

If any Christians are currently promoting a «gnostic split of soul and body,» it is those on the left who seem satisfied with social programs that feed the body but starve the soul and, even worse, turn a blind eye to growing efforts by the government to discriminate against faith - based charities that are serious about ministering to the whole person.

In Washington, members of Congress are pressing forward with efforts to defund the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), which receives about $ 540 million per year from the federal government to provide contraception and health services to women.

And the fact is that even within Orthodoxy there are sharp and deep disagreements about the wisdom of these efforts, of which only Lubavitch's really represents a desire to increase government involvement with religion.

Whilst most parents do whatever they can to warn their children about the dangers of smoking, there's no denying the statistics — almost one in every four high school seniors today are smokers, despite all the efforts by parents, the government, and healthcare services to warn them of the consequences of taking up this habit.

The CIA agreed to help, «not because they cared about Tibetan independence, but as part of their worldwide efforts to destabilize all Communist governments,» the Dalai Lama wrote.

«It tells you all you need to know about Theresa May that she would call a snap Westminster election in the middle of intense efforts to restore power sharing government to Northern Ireland.

Additional concerns about the fourth premise were also raised (i.e. «is the federal government really more efficient at managing such efforts»), but arguments about the effectiveness of the department are really ancillary to the justification for its existence in the first place.

The concern about the neglect of the English issue was echoed by Jamie Reed, the shadow health minister who wrote in Progress magazine: «It is in the peripheral areas outside of our major conurbations all over England where the next Labour government must concentrate its efforts.»

He also lambasted the Moderator for complaining about the state of the Kotoka International Airport describing it as a village Airport but failed to commend government's efforts after the facility was refurbished.

Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin - connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father's candidacy.

Leslie, who is leading the fight against Nicholson from the government backbenches, is now focusing her efforts on the apparent cover - up of three reports into the state of the NHS which Nicholson claims he knew nothing about.

A city - government blogger conjectured that Mateo's interest in courting the mayor was tied to the efforts of Mateo's wife, Stella, to establish a women - only livery service — and the couple sought information about licensing in March, according to the Taxi & Limousine Commission.

«The BMA acknowledges the efforts of government to listen to and address some of the concerns that have been expressed about the bill to date,» Dr Meldrum wrote in the letter released today.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with school and government leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies in the Rensselaer County community

Governor Akeredolu said the State Government was deeply concerned about the development and assured that efforts were being coordinated at ensuring early reunion of Dr Ikuomola with his family members.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, on Wednesday, said regardless of the federal government's effort to end the ongoing fuel scarcity across the country, queues might not disappear from filling stations until about two months.

Town Supervisor Neil Bettez said there has been growing support for the law among New Paltz residents who contend the federal government, led by President Donald Trump, is not concerned about the impact on families of deportation efforts.

Topics during the Q&A portion of his press conference included the looming discontinuance of the Rockaway ferry, a broad consideration of his earlier statement about «righting greater wrongs,» what happened to government funding for a ferry obtained by Anthony Weiner and Joe Addabbo, whether there is any City effort to «track down scammers» in the Build it Back program, how satisfied de Blasio is with the pace of Build it Back, whether an updated evacuation plan is contemplated in conjunction with increasing the housing supply in Rockaway and a government memo reported by The Wave which stated that more money was available from FEMA than publicly acknowledged and that such additional funding could be a political liability.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

But the most severe blow to the post was the revelation that, after considerable government effort to keep it a secret, Lord Goldsmith had changed his legal advice to the government about the legality of the impending war with Iraq.

Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro continues the County's efforts to connect and engage residents with the launch of «Dutchess Dialogue» — a series of online webcasts at dutchessny.gov designed to inform and educate residents about the issues and opportunities impacting Dutchess County government and its taxpayers.

About 200 protesters, under the aegis of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups, in Abuja on Thursday, warned those they called fifth columnists, sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government to address the current economic recession, to desist in their own interest.

Last week, New York's chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaints.

Before then, this same member and another articulate colleague at a forum on corruption organized in Abuja by the Pyrates Confraternity, separately pronounced doubts about the commitment of the AGF to the anti-corruption efforts of the government on account of serial embarrassing defeats handed the government in key cases prosecuted by his office.

Now the president has to sell his budget at a time when many lawmakers are worried about the effectiveness of the government's expensive efforts to stem the economic and financial crises so far.

This seemed apt for a pre-election effort that was largely about continuity and lauding the work of the government over the past four - and - a-half years.

Cornelius Murphy, Jr., co-founder of Consensus and former president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said Consensus reviewed 12 different governance models, studied past government consolidation efforts and collected public input from about 6,000 people before making its recommendations.

We would welcome your suggestions about what we at home and in the Diaspora can do to assist your valuable efforts, and look forward to hearing about the progress of the Government's efforts in tackling the issues raised in this letter.

If you fail to act which I doubt you will, our children born and unborn will read about your negative government forgetting all the toils and efforts you had put in to become our most favored gentleman of the land.

Institutions and government officials leading these efforts have been optimistic about the impact that bilateral scientific collaboration can have in creating more positive exchanges and areas of agreement between the two countries.

Rather the locals took aim at the lackluster efforts made by Oxitec and the Malayan government to consult and notify the public about the trials (see «GM mosquitoes wipe out dengue fever in trial» and «Letting the bugs out of the bag»).

Over the past year, governments have been making pledges about how they will cut emissions, and one of the main outcomes from Paris will be a new agreement that codifies all those national efforts into international law.

«The evidence before the committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming,» the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in its report on the matter in December 2007.

But with lawmakers and government agencies ratcheting up the rhetoric about dirty bombs in their lobbying for more funding, the average citizen can hardly be blamed for considering dirty bombs a grave threat — a perfect example of well - intentioned efforts that would amplify, not dampen, the impact of a terrorist attack.

My journey to this lonely precipice of modern thought began last week, with an article in the paper about government efforts to «reverse the long - term decline in the number of children studying science.»

They have even vowed to stop ongoing government efforts to protect grouse on federal lands, which hold about 65 % of its key remaining habitat.

Initially, my efforts were focused on learning about the medical writing industry; defining the parameters of the company and developing a business plan; identifying government regulations and legal considerations; locating sources of professional, financial, and emotional support; finding other individuals with complementary skills and expertise (graphic designers, photographers, translators) that could work under the umbrella of my company as needed; and learning new skills or improving existing ones.