Sentences with phrase «achieve our mandate of»

Of course this may change, but if it doesn't, then what is required to achieve the mandate of civilian protection and protection of civilian populated areas is that Gaddafi's forces must not be allowed to take the towns and cities he has lost.

We are an organization that is guided by international best practices in all our undertakings and no amount of blackmail will distract us from our resolve to achieve our mandate of defeating the menace of Boko Haram in the country.»

The law society was empowered under the Legal Profession Act to achieve its mandate of self - regulation and protecting the public interest.

Proceeds will go towards Toronto Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program in achieving its mandate of providing meals to those in need.

Not exact matches

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

The governor of the central bank plays a significant role in the drafting of the institution's mandate and he spends a good chunk of his research budget investigating whether there are better ways to achieve price stability.

Always have, always will.There seems to be an assumption, mostly by people who have never run a business, that corporate America can and should do more than achieve its primary mandate of maximizing its return.

«We will factor (any changes in economic policy) into the outlook and take account of their impact on what we need to do to achieve our dual mandate objectives,» she said.

Defense's practice of giving minority companies a 10 percent price credit meant that companies owned by certain socially and economically disadvantaged groups did not have to be the lowest bidder to win federal contracts, and helped the department achieve the congressionally mandated goal.

They are that MVNOs have «only» achieved 10 % of the market in the US, that MVNOs «that do offer data are operating on carriers» older, slower and even near - obsolete networks» and that mandated wholesale has failed in the fixed Internet access market in Canada with the implication clearly being why try it again.

But legislation that would mandate paid sick leave nationwide, notably the so - called Healthy Families Act, has stalled in Congress for years, prompting the administration to seek alternative ways of achieving the policy's goals.

Similarly, the Federal Reserve Act has a penumbra where the Federal Reserve derives its mandate to ensure financial stability, such that it may achieve the Section 2A dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment.

The Fed has a dual mandate to maximize employment and stabilize inflation, which it tries to achieve primarily by pushing up or down the federal funds rate, the benchmark short - term financing cost for banks that influences a wide range of borrowing rates for households and businesses.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

If matched properly, if properly regulated, there'd be no inflation / deflation problem while the dual mandate of maximum employment with a stable economy is achieved.

«This is not an mandate of rupture with Europe, but a mandate that bolsters our negotiating strength to achieve a viable deal,» he said.

The central bank has been given the dual mandate by Congress of achieving full employment in the economy (normally considered to be at about a 5 % unemployment rate) while maintaining price stability.

If the opioid epidemic prevents the participation rate from increasing, the Federal Reserve may not be able to fulfill the full employment part of its dual mandate for achieving a strong economy.

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

The care with which this part of the mandate has been achieved is everywhere evident.

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

In 1962, elections in North Korea achieved the democratic dream of a 100 % turnout, with each victorious candidates — they were limited to one per constituency — attaining a 100 % mandate.

In West Virginia, schools are launching their statewide «Feed to Achieve» school breakfast program well ahead of schedule; implementation is required by SY 2014 - 15, but many W. Va. schools are rolling out breakfast well ahead of the mandate.

Buhari said a key mandate of the National Food Security Council is to «continuously assess and enhance these infant, but impactful programs, thereby guaranteeing they achieve their full potential.»

Achieving that mandate does not require removing Gaddafi from control of the areas he currently controls.

and if New Labour believed in proportional mandate then they would not have been wrecking the country on a vote of a million less than David Cameron achieved and a smaller proportion.

If the US were to transfer arms to the UK or the French for use in Libya I fail to see how this would not be permitted by Res 1973 since it is within the mandate of using all necessary means to achieve the goals of the resolution.

* He miscalculated his influence in seeking major reforms of Medicaid costs and unfunded state mandates — though some progress such as the 2005 Medicaid cap was achieved.

«Our fiscal mandate is to achieve a cyclically - adjusted current balance by the end of the rolling five year forecast period — which is currently 2015 - 16.

«It's hard to argue we didn't win when we achieved that much of a mandate.»

As promised, the Motion was listed on the Order Paper and debated on the floor of plenary and the following resolutions were reached amongst which are; Mandate its Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics and health to investigate the growing menace of cough and other prescriptive drugs abuse; Urge the FG to partner with stakeholders, traditional rulers, Pharmacists councils, NGOs to create framework in fighting this category of drug abuse and urge NAFDAC to embark on a vigorous sensitization campaign on the dangers of drug abuse and steps on achieving a successful rehabilitation for people with the addiction.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

Responding, the South East Zonal Manager of NAN, Mr Vincent Okwor, said that the agency was open to collaborating with the commission in achieving its mandate.

I am proud to say that, together, we proved that we could achieve what some said was impossible under the burden of government mandates, high taxes, and a faltering economy.»

The way the mandated $ 10 million payment to reduce the deficit in this budget was covered was by raising the County property taxes by 2 % and $ 8 million was achieved by permanent cuts in the operations of the County.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu in his address said the University had made significant progress in achieving the core mandate of its strategic plan...

And there are many cases in which traditional tools — such as prohibitions and mandates — are essential for achieving specific policy objectives, and nudges might not be of value.

We can still curb global warming and achieve sustainability, but it will require hard work, ingenuity, and a strong public mandate, combined with personal change — perhaps, dare I say it, even some level of sacrifice.

For instance, the Water Reclamation District of Chicago estimates that achieving its governmentally mandated goals for nitrate removal from city sewage could cost $ 144 million a year in purchase and maintenance of bigger and more sophisticated wastewater treatment facilities.

Unfortunately, given the current realities of mandated courses and prescribed curricula, this is impossible to achieve.

Survey respondents say they average between 1 and 2 hours of mandated time to teach science each week, but it is clear from comments made that these times are not always achieved.

Rather than starting with a federal mandate, a consortium of states and private organizations (such as some combination of Achieve, the state school «chiefs,» and the governors) could develop the curricula and tests, ideally with initial support from major national foundations.

The popular mandate is very hard to achieve due to international events and the death of hundreds of Muslims in Afghanistan.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

A look at a forthcoming study by researchers at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center shows that only a third of K12's schools achieved adequate yearly progress, the measurement mandated by federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

On the unrelenting pressure to improve schools without corresponding improvement in teachers» skills: «In its least desirable face, educational reform can become a kind of conspiracy of ignorance: policymakers mandating results they do not themselves know how to achieve, and educators pretending they do know what to do but revealing through their actions that they don't.»

The requirements, which had been years in the making, caught many LEAs off guard beginning in 2009, when the state began enforcing a mandate that interpreters either have certification from a national registry or achieve a corresponding benchmark grade on one of three professional assessments.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, critics have questioned whether the law's mandate to bring students to «proficiency» has resulted in schools ignoring the needs of the nation's highest - and lowest - achieving students.

Fullan is a worldwide authority on educational reform with a mandate of helping to achieve the moral purpose of all children learning.