Sentences with phrase «about government efforts»

No apprehension of bias arising from complainant and counsel statements to the media: The College submitted a reasonable apprehension arose from comments by the complainants and their legal counsel to the news media about government efforts to thwart the hearing of the complaint.

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.»

Not exact matches

Analysts said they weren't reading too much into what they described as a «backward - looking indicator» and were hopeful about the economic prospects given an upturn in recent indicators such as confidence and machinery orders, not to mention efforts by Japan's new government to revive growth.

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.

«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 the NSA for the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters «Cryptanalytic capabilities are now coming online.

«I'm concerned about our tax competitiveness first and foremost, and that's actually where I'd like to see the government concentrate efforts.»

Like Zuckerberg today, Murdoch was undeterred by the Chinese government's paranoia about Western media and personally led a determined effort to persuade Chinese leaders to allow News Corp to beam its television signals into China.

The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday that the government has withdrawn about $ 5 million in ads as part of an effort to cut costs.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

The Kremlin's increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook's most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.

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.

Although governments have proven they know very little about cryptocurrency, their efforts to police the market is simply a way to protect citizens from the so - called bubble.

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.

When the government awoke to the situation, there were the usual efforts at «appeasement», hasty feeling about for possible alliances, and then a belated and desperate resistance, which was finally broken.

In early January, the US government released new details about Putin's reported efforts to help Trump win the election through leaked information — news that raised far more concerns in the US than it did in Russia.

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.

He also talked about the need for the government to support efforts and technology that can save children around the world, reform the foster care system and help the most vulnerable.

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.

Cuomo in a question - and - answer session with reporters after his speech said he would commit about $ 500 million to the shared services effort and, without naming Astorino, said a hypothetical county executive hasn't convened local government leaders to take necessary stops to reduce costs.

It does not appear to be a good - faith effort to learn more about governments, policies and political processes as defined in the help center.»

«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.

«About six months into my race for Congress I decided if I do anything, if I spend any more time in government, my efforts would be best spent going to Congress and representing people in the 25th Congressional District, «Assini said

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.

New York's response efforts come as the federal government has faced questions about its response to the destruction and related issues.

«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.

Efforts to ensure more transparency in the mining sector have been given a boost by Britain's decision to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global organisation encouraging national governments to be more open about their dealings with the industry.

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.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's response to a woman reporter when asked about sexual harassment in state government and his subsequent effort to clarify those remarks turned into a fight between the Democratic and Republican committees by late Wednesday.

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.

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.